What threats do Civil War battlefields face today?
You’ve got people who buy up these properties to subdivide for houses, or to build an apartment complex or a strip mall. Just like everything else in the world that threatens our precious resources or history, it’s all about money. Use your imagination. It’s anything that someone could make money off of, especially if the property is in an ideal location. Why are these places worth preserving? We’re at a time in this world when things like that are really going fast, so it’s important for someone to take notice and say, “Hey, wake up, you’re tearing up something you can’t replace.” They’re such a huge part of our history. The Civil War has defined us. You have to almost not care at all about our heritage to want to destroy that. Give an example of a battlefield that has been lost. They’re all over. The Battle of Nashville site is a good example. [Developers] bought much of the property and subdivided it into lots and sold it off to people, and now it’s a residential area with big beaut
