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[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I don't know why Franklin TN is on the list. The main battlefield is now part of the town...houses, stores, warehouses etc. Only a couple of houses from the battle site are preserved, most notably, the Carter House.

[Rodney King]

Can we really save every battlefiedld? How many is too many? If we were Germany, Belgium, or France, would we stop and and all development everywhere?

[stainlessbanner]

preservation ping

[vetvetdoug]

I worked hard getting a piece of land in Corinth identified as a historically significant area only to have one of the rich Realtors buy it for $12K, divvy it up, and sell it to the American Civil War Preservation Trust for $120K.

[XRdsRev]

I have hunted for Civil War relics for about 20 years and have dug at Franklin Tn., Manassas Va., Bermuda Hundred Va. and Spotsylvania County Va. The development in those place is quickly running right over the Civil War battlefields, camp sites and fortifications. It really is a shame that such painful and important history is bulldozed into oblivion for the sake of shopping malls, condos and houses. Several years ago, some Union soldier burials were discovered by a relic hunter during construction of a McDonalds in Northern Virginia. If it hadn't been for this man seeing the graves turned up by the dozers, those soldier's remains would have been churned into parking lot fill. The picture is of some Civil War artifacts I personally recovered from circa 1862-63 hut sites of the Union 5th Army Corps in Stafford County, Va., many of which are now under new housing developments.

[KC_Conspirator]

I am surprised that Manassas has not been bulldozed already.

[Magnolia]

Raymond, MS? I didn't know it was a battlefield.

[PAR35]

The inclusion of Kennesaw Mountain on the list is misleading. Virtually all of the property outside the park boundries has been developed, mostly as residential. I can't think of anyplace where there is much to preserve. Based on my knowledge of that site, I would question their credibility.

Add in to that NCLA's comments on Franklin in post 4, and the whole report begins to smell.

[SuziQ]

All those so-called Black Leaders ought to use their considerable power to get the money together to buy the Morris Island property if their history is important to them. Sounds like a better cause than the perceived grievances on which they expend their energies right now.