You may know the story at Cedar Mountain...
As it appeared that Stonewall Jackson’s troops were on the verge of defeat, the General rode into the thick of the fight, waving his sword — rusted into its scabbard from disuse — and turned the tide of the battle.
Then, less than a year later and only about 15 miles away at Brandy Station, leaders like Union Generals Alfred Pleasonton, John Buford, and David M. Gregg charged and countercharged Confederate horsemen under Generals J.E.B. Stuart, Wade Hampton, and W.H.F. “Rooney” Lee in the largest cavalry battle ever fought on the North American continent.
Today, we have the opportunity to lead 104 acres of pristine battlefield land at Cedar Mountain and Brandy Station into preservation forever...
Tapping the state funds requested by Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin and appropriated by the legislature to help save the land at Brandy Station, and applying for additional federal and state matching grants, we hope to cover fully a whopping $5,244,382 million (92%!) of what we need through those sources.
With the various grants we are applying for, and with a generous match of all gifts up to $225,000 from a donor who loves this battlefield, the value of your gift today is multiplied $25-to-$1!
Receive the latest in our collector’s Battlefield Challenge Coins, this one for Brandy Station, with your gift of $50 or more.
The land we have a chance to save today is essential to any future preservation work to be done at Brandy Station...
It would connect — forever — the land that you have helped preserve, from the western edge of Fleetwood Hill extending northward for nearly four miles!
This will be our only chance to protect these 97 acres at Brandy Station and 7 acres at Cedar Mountain, and we urgently need your help to close these transactions soon.
If we don’t save the Brandy Station property now, it will certainly be lost to the development of warehouse distribution centers!
Paul, will you be the leader we need to help secure this land at these two battlefields — as well as at endangered battlefields all across our nation — with your generous support?
Very sincerely yours,
David N. Duncan, President
American Battlefield Trust
P.S. Your gift today to preserve 104 acres at Brandy Station and Cedar Mountain is multiplied $25-to-$1! That means a $50 gift helps save $1,250 worth of this land; $100 is increased to $2,500, and a $1,000 gift helps save a whopping $25,000 worth of hallowed ground! But we must move quickly. Please make a gift now.