Walmart Drops Wilderness Battlefield Development Plan

Walmart Drops Wilderness Plan

Good News in Battlefield Preservation From The Civil War Trust:

"In an unexpected development on the day that a trial was scheduled to begin in the case, Walmart announced that it has abandoned plans to pursue a special use permit previously awarded to the retail giant for construction of a super center on the Wilderness Battlefield.

“We are pleased with Walmart’s decision to abandon plans to build a super center on the Wilderness battlefield,” remarked James Lighthizer, president of the Civil War Trust. “We have long believed that Walmart would ultimately recognize that it is in the best interests of all concerned to move their intended store away from the battlefield. We applaud Walmart officials for putting the interests of historic preservation first. Sam Walton would be proud of this decision.”

For more information: CWT website

LCWRT Announces 2010 - 2011 Preservation Grant

The Louisville Civil War Round Table is pleased in this 50th Anniversary Year to announce the award of our 2010 - 2011 Preservation Grant. This years $1450 grant will go to the Civil War Preservation Trust for their 2010 Kentucky Campaign. The CWPT’s aim is to protect 327 acres of Perryville Battlefield through a matching grant campaign at a 4 to 1 return. The total goal is $169,059. This $1450 grant will help protect almost three acres of battlefield land in the northeastern part of the field, where the right wing of Gen. Braxton Bragg’s army formed up and jumped off on their attack. This is a grand opportunity to directly save battlefield land in Kentucky.
With this gift, the LCWRT has now awarded over $13,000 in grants to protect and enhance Kentucky’s Civil War sites since the Preservation Grant was established in 2000. Past recipients include the Camp Wildcat Preservation Foundation, the Middle Creek National Battlefield Foundation, the Tebbs Bend Battlefield Association, the Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association, the Rolling Fork Historic Preservation Association, the Friends of Fort Duffield, the Shelby County, KY Historical Society and Columbus-Belmont State Park.

We a re very proud to be part of the Civil War Preservation Trust’s ongoing effort to preserve this honored ground.

For more on the Battle of Perryville, the efforts to save land and the CWPT, please click here: CWPT

CWPT: 2010 Battle in the Bluegrass – The Fight for Kentucky

The Civil War Preservation Trust Conference in Lexington, KY

The nation’s leading Civil War battlefield preservation group, the Civil War Preservation Trust, will be in Lexington this June for their annual conference. You can join CWPT members and staff along with some of the nation’s best known historians for four days of fellowship and Civil War touring at the 2010 Battle in the Bluegrass – The Fight for Kentucky conference in Lexington, Kentucky on June 3 – 6, 2010.

Tours will include the: Battle of Mill Springs; Battle of Perryville; Battle of Richmond; Historic Homes…and more. Invited speakers and scholars include Edwin C. Bearss, Kent Masterson Brown, LCWRT' s Chris Kolakowski, Richard McMurray and Richard Sommers. Conference Registration Fee is $585 - a small discount is available for on-line registration. Conference fees include tours, tour guides, coaches, conference welcome packet, name tags, etc. Fee does not include hotel accommodations; you must make your own reservation. A special conference room rate of $129 is available at the Lexington Downtown Hotel and Conference Center - the conference location - until Tuesday, May 11, 2010. For the full ad and schedule or to register on-line visit their web site at:

www.civilwar.org/annualconference.