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We are
out of the trenches and a good way across the field but haven't taken
the high ground yet. CVBT needs your help to complete this campaign!
We
need your continued help to meet this goal and preserve this land so
we may move on to other critical battlefields in jeopardy of being
lost forever.
"The Slaughter Pen
is the very heart and soul of the Fredericksburg Battlefield. Without
it, nothing makes sense.
This is the point where the battle was won and lost
on December 13, 1862.”
One
Million Dollars!
The Central Virginia
Battlefields Trust has pledged to raise $1 million dollars to aid in the
total purchase price of $12 million to save 205 acres of America's
most hallowed ground.
December 10th, 2007
Another $100,000.00
Raised Towards Our
Goal!
Total Raised to Date
We are Getting Close!
Learn more about the Slaughter Pen.
View
Aerial
Photo's of Slaughter Pen Farm
Donate today
Central Virginia
Battlefields Trust's mission is
preserving endangered hallowed ground.
Becoming a valued
member of the Trust is all
about
supporting the mission.
Members will receive a
quarterly issue of our Skirmish line newsletter keeping you
abreast of CVBT activities and battlefield concerns. Members also
receive a vehicle window decal to show your support for CVBT.
You will also be added to our "E-Mail Alert System" which will
inform you of breaking preservation news in the area.
As you are
visiting this web site
major portions of Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Chancellorsville and
Fredericksburg battlefields are being offered for sale to
development. The CVBT is working now on multiple
projects to save these sites.
Membership support is crucial!
Please join us in this quest to save our History!
BECOME A MEMBER or RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP!
 CVBT
Historical Article Series
Mass Graves in Desolate Fredericksburg
by Robert K.
Krick
Check back for more in this series!
“Exhausted and bloodied
from the day’s battle the Fifth Corps assembled at the fast food
restaurant. The wounded were taken and attended to by the parking
lot and gas station”.
When touring what is left of our
Civil War battlefields descriptions such as this are fast becoming
normal. Urban sprawl has already enveloped over twenty percent of the
historic and hallowed ground where so many have fought and given their
lives.
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 600,000 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.
We at Central Virginia
Battlefields Trust realize the immense responsibility that is
entrusted in those of us who are aware that time is quickly running out
to save these battlefields. We must protect these grounds for future
generations so they may walk the fields, hear the stories of those who
fought and learn the importance of saving our history.
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members/caregivers of Military Service Men and
Women who have either been wounded in Combat Operations or
injured as the result of Line-Of-Duty activities in support of
Combat Operations.