We didn’t get the $450,000 in government grants that we were counting on... 42 battlefield acres in Chancellorsville are at URGENT risk!
Last May I wrote you about a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to save 42 acres at Chancellorsville, including Jackson’s Flank Attack and the site of Dowdall’s Tavern. The American Battlefield Trust raised the funds that we thought were needed.
We hoped for $450,000 in government grants to seal the deal. Unfortunately, there were more applications than the available funding this year. In Civil War terms, the reinforcements we were counting on never arrived.
We need you to step up to help preserve this hallowed ground at Chancellorsville!
This crisis is happening at the worst possible time. The 42-acre site is located in one of the fastest growing areas in the nation — one where developers are chomping at the bit to get their hands on every acre of land they can.
These developers have never met a battlefield they won’t bulldoze. We can’t let that happen here.
Not on the site of Robert E. Lee’s greatest military victory ... near the place where Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was mortally wounded ... and the site of a battle that is still studied today by military personnel all over the world.
The clock is ticking. If we don’t raise $450,000, the whole deal could crumble. This year the government funding may not have been enough to go around... but I believe you are up to the task and will step into the breach!
Please make an emergency gift to help permanently protect this 42-acre site at Chancellorsville.
Very sincerely yours,
David N. Duncan, President
American Battlefield Trust
P.S. Over the years, the Trust and our partners have saved 1,322 acres of the Chancellorsville Battlefield in the surrounding area. But this extraordinary tract has remained out of our grasp. Please respond just as generously and urgently as you can, and help save this battlefield!