CVBT Acquirers 81 Acres at Wilderness Tavern

General Thomas "Stonewall" Jacksons Amputation Site

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Map of New Acquisition

CVBT Executive Director Jerry Brent Interviewed About Difficulties of Preservation

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CVBT acquires 'flank' parcel  12/2/2012

Another piece of the puzzle that is Spotsylvania County's Chancellorsville battlefield just fell into place.

The Central Virginia Battlefields Trust has signed a contract to buy 10 acres on the south side of State Route 3, the first land preserved there from Wilderness Church east to the National Park Service visitor center. The tract is just to the east of 85 acres known as the Wagner Tract, north of Route 3, that Virginia and the Civil War Trust purchased for $2.1 million in 2009. It includes the site of the Union army's Buschbeck Line.

The land, on the wartime Orange Turnpike, figured in the fighting when Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's troops burst out of the Wilderness against the Federal right flank on May 2, 1863........Click Here for Full Story.

CVBT Board Greets Congressman Rob Wittman on the Battlefields

Monday August 20th members of the CVBT Board of Directors hosted Congressman Rob Wittman and his aide for a short tour of battlefields in the Congressman's district which CVBT and the CWT preserved with assistance from the Civil War Battlefield Protection Program, (CWBPP). CVBT currently has an application into ABPP for a CWBPP grant to preserve the 14-acre Rodes-Doles Tract on the Chancellorsville Battlefield. Congressman Wittman has been a supporter of this program in the past. He signed letters of support for the program in FY2009 and FY2010, and he was a cosponsor to the program’s reauthorization legislation in 2007 (the program needs to be reauthorized every five years). Currently the House Natural Resources Committee reported out the reauthorization (H.R. 2489, introduced by Rep. Rush Holt) on April 25.  The full House may still take up the bill as a non-controversial suspension before the 112^th Congress adjourns. 

Left: Congressman Wittman (center) Views McLaws Wedge on the Chancellorsville Battlefield as Board member and historian Robert Krick explains it's importance in the conflict as well as one of CVBT's first and largest acquisitions using the CWBPP.

Right: Congressman Wittman second from left reviews map while at Grant's Knoll properties in the Wilderness Battlefield also preserved by CVBT with use of the CWBPP.

CVBT Completes $1 Million Pledge to CWT

At the June conference of the CWT held in Richmond, members of the CVBT board of directors presented a $100,000.00 check to the CWT denoting the last installment of CVBT's pledge of $1 Million towards the purchase of the Slaughter Pen Farm in Fredericksburg. "It's taken us over six years to fulfill our pledge, but CVBT always keeps its promises" stated Dr. Mike Stevens President of the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust.

CVBT Board members from left of CWT President James Lighthizer. Ex. Director Jerry Brent, CVBT VP Harriett Condon, Director of Lands Management Mike Greenfield and Communications Director Tom Van Winkle.

CVBT President Dr. Mike Stevens addresses the large CWT group and explains the importance of this large donation and CVBT's continued commitment to saving our Civil War battlefields in Central Virginia.

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The Central Virginia Battlefields Trust (CVBT) has just closed on the purchase of 13 acres that were part of Stonewall Jackson's famed flank attack at Chancellorsville!.....CVBT Board Member Robert K. Krick has called this acquisition: "a spectacular preservation achievement--the most important CVBT accomplishment in many years.  Click here for Full Story

Civil War News November Preservation Article -  Small Group, Large Impact

Virginia land trust, property owner strike deal to save Civil War site next to national park . - Like a jeweler stringing another pearl onto a fine necklace, the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust has added a new property to its collection of Fredericksburg-area hallowed ground.... Click here for Full Story
 

The Central Virginia Battlefields Trust (CVBT) has acquired approximately 93 acres of historic ground on the Wilderness battlefield.  As Walmart continues to plan a new store at the intersection of State Routes 3 and 20, in Orange County, the CVBT has moved to protect nearby terrain in Spotsylvania County..... Click here for Full Story

Author Donates Proceeds from New Book to CVBT: Author Johnnie Perry Pearson will donate all the proceeds from his new book "Lee and Jacksons Bloody Twelfth". The book contains the story and letters of Irby Goodwin Scott, First Lieutenant, Company G, Putnam Light Infantry, Twelfth Georgia Volunteer Infantry. This is a fascinating story......Click Here for Full Story

"By preserving the hallowed ground of a Civil War battlefield we don’t just preserve land; we also preserve the memories and the meaning, the sacrifices and the stories, of the men who fought and fell there, men whose bond to cause and comrade and country was so strong that they were willing to die rather than to deny it."

Subdivisions, parking lots, massive store fronts are being constructed and forever erasing the historic battlefields and dampening the stories of those who fought and helped mold our nation. Over 750,000 died in America’s Civil War and we at Central Virginia Battlefields Trust are dedicated to protecting the memories and stories of those brave souls by saving the hallowed grounds upon which they gave so much.