PETERSBURG, Va. (WRIC) — A national campaign is underway to permanently protect one of the Civil War’s most pivotal battlefields — the site of the Union army’s final charge that helped end the war.

Shiloh National Military Park preserves the American Civil War Shiloh and Corinth battlefields. The main section of the park is in the unincorporated town of Shiloh, about nine miles south of Savannah ...

The American Battlefield Trust is trying to preserve two more Civil War battlefield properties that are connected to the May 5, 1862, Battle of Williamsburg. A 2.2-acre site containing two abandoned ...