National Park Service awards $4.3 transferred to Perryville Battlefield State million to protect more than 782 Historic Site acres of battlefield land across Project Partner: American Battlefield Trust and Commonwealth of Kentucky seven states Department of Parks Amount: $520,261.50 WASHINGTON - The National Park Service today announced $4,313,407.02 in The Battle of Perryville (also known as the grants from the American Battlefield Battle of Chaplin Hills) was fought on Protection Program (ABPP) to help protect October 8, 1862, in the Chaplin Hills west of 782.86 acres of significant battlefields in Perryville, Kentucky, as the culmination of Kentucky, North Carolina, New York, the Confederate Heartland Offensive Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, (Kentucky Campaign) during the American and Virginia threatened with damage or Civil War. The battle is considered a destruction by suburban development. strategic Union victory, sometimes called the Battle for Kentucky, since Confederate “Through public-private partnerships, local Gen. Braxton Bragg withdrew to Tennessee communities are able to permanently protect soon thereafter. The Union retained control and preserve historic battlefield lands,” of the critical border state of Kentucky for National Park Service Deputy Director the remainder of the war. Considering the David Vela said. “Future generations will be casualties relative to the engaged strengths able to visit and learn about the events that of the armies, the Battle of Perryville was helped shape this country.” one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. It was the largest battle fought in the The American Battlefield Protection Commonwealth of Kentucky. Program’s Battlefield Land Acquisition Grant program provides up to 50 percent in matching funds for state and local New York governments to acquire and preserve Grantee: Town of Fort Ann, New York threatened Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Land Acquired: Fort Ann Battlefield, and Civil War Battlefield land through the Caprood Tract, 40.85 acres (Fee Simple) purchase of land in fee simple and Project Partner: American Battlefield permanent, protective interests in land. Trust and Agricultural Stewardship Eligible battlefields are listed in the Civil Association War Sites Advisory Commission’s 1993 Amount: $49,473 “Report on the Nation’s Civil War Battlefields” and the 2007 “Report to The Battle of Fort Ann was a battle in the Congress on the Historic Preservation of American Revolutionary War that occurred Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Sites in between the American Patriots and the the United States.” British. The battle was part of the decisive Saratoga Campaign. In June 1777, a British Kentucky army led by Maj. Gen. John “Gentleman Johnny” Burgoyne invaded New York from Grantee: Boyle County Fiscal Court Canada. By the first week of July, Burgoyne Land Acquired: Perryville Battlefield, had captured Fort Ticonderoga. With the White Tract, 128.5 acres (Fee Simple) to be Americans in full retreat, Burgoyne dispatched a contingent to pursue a column under Col. Pierse Long. On July 7, 1777, Project Partner: American Battlefield Long attacked the British at Fort Ann. Trust and Land Conservancy of Adams Long’s actions held up Burgoyne’s advance County for two days. Continued delays in the Amount: $168,550 coming months eventually contributed to the final British defeat and surrender at Saratoga The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1– in October. The victory prompted France to 3, 1863, in and around the town of enter the war as an ally of the United States. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American North Carolina Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is Grantee: North Carolina Department of often described as the war's turning point. Natural and Cultural Resources Land Acquired: Bentonville Battlefield, Denning Tract, 143 acres (Fee Simple) South Carolina Project Partner: American Battlefield Grantee: South Carolina Department of Trust Archives and History Amount: $355,675 Land Acquired: Eutaw Springs Battlefield, Daniels Tract, 10.4 acres (Fee Simple) The Battle of Bentonville, the last battle Project Partner: American Battlefield between the armies of Sherman and Trust Johnston, occurred from March 19-21, 1865 Amount: $31,499.03 and resulted in Johnston’s surrender almost a month later on April 26 at Bennett Place Grantee: Lancaster County, South Carolina near present day Durham, NC. Land Acquired: Hanging Rock Battlefield, Horton IV Tract, 30.84 acres (Fee Simple) Pennsylvania Project Partner: American Battlefield Trust and Katawba Valley Land Trust Grantee: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania/ Amount: $162,153 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission The Battle of Hanging Rock (August 6, Land Acquired: Gettysburg Battlefield, 1780) was a battle in the American Lutheran Theological Seminary Tract, 7.32 Revolutionary War that occurred between acres (Easement) the American Patriots and the British. It was Project Partner: American Battlefield part of a campaign by militia General Trust and Land Conservancy of Adams Thomas Sumter to harass or destroy British County outposts in the South Carolina back-country Amount: $241,425 that had been established after the fall of Charleston in May 1780. Future President Grantee: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania/ Andrew Jackson partook in the battle. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Battle of Eutaw Springs (September 8, 1781) Commission was a battle of the American Revolutionary Land Acquired: Gettysburg Battlefield, War, and was the last major engagement of United Lutheran Seminary Tract, .28 acres the war in the Carolinas. Both sides claimed (Fee Simple) victory. Tennessee Confederate assault was repelled by overwhelming Union artillery fire, forcing Grantee: Tennessee Historical Commission Bragg to order a Southern retreat. With Land Acquired: Shiloh Battlefield, Cotner Tract, 40.773 acres (Fee Simple) approximately 23,000 total casualties, Stones River was one of the deadliest battles Project Partner: American Battlefield Trust of the war. Rosecrans claimed victory and the battle provided a much-needed boost to Amount: $50,812.57 Union morale following their defeat at Fredericksburg, Virginia. Grantee: Tennessee Historical Commission Land Acquired: Stones River Battlefield, O’Reilly Tract, 42 acres (Fee Simple) The Battle of Shiloh took place April 6 - 7, 1862 and was one of the major early Project Partner: American Battlefield Trust engagements of the American Civil War (1861-65). The battle began when the Amount: $2,075,000 Confederates launched a surprise attack on Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grantee: Tennessee Historical Commission Grant (1822-85) in southwestern Tennessee. Land Acquired: Jackson Battlefield, Yarbro Farms Tract, 120 acres (Fee Simple) After initial successes, the Confederates were unable to hold their positions and were Project Partner: American Battlefield Trust forced back, resulting in a Union victory. Both sides suffered heavy losses, with more Amount: $345,336.95 than 23,000 total casualties, and the level of The December 19, 1862 Battle of Jackson, violence shocked North and South alike. also known as the Battle of Salem Cemetery, was a small but locally significant Civil War Virginia engagement. Cotton Grove Road, a pioneer- Grantee: Virginia Department of era road, runs alongside the cemetery and Conservation and Recreation remains largely unchanged since the Civil Land Acquired: First Battle of War, giving the area a high degree of Rappahannock Station Battlefield, Engh historic integrity. The area is an example of Tract, 219.26 acres (Easement) how the Civil War’s military strategists used Project Partner: American Battlefield topography and existing landscape features Trust to their advantage when time was scarce and Amount: $311,075 earthwork construction was not an option. The First Battle of Rappahannock Station, At the Battle of Stones River in December also known as Waterloo Bridge, White 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed Sulphur Springs, Lee Springs, or Freeman's near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. On Ford, took place from August 22 to August December 31, Confederate General Braxton 25, 1862, in Culpeper County and Fauquier Bragg’s 35,000 troops successfully attacked County, Virginia, as part of the Northern the 42,000-strong Union force commanded Virginia Campaign. by Major General William Rosecrans. Union troops withstood the assault, but retreated to For more information about ABPP, a defensive position, which they would hold including these grants, please visit: against repeated attacks over the next two https://www.nps.gov/orgs/2287/index.htm. days. On January 2, 1863, another 0-0 Marines Were on the Front Lines the Night Lincoln Was Shot !865 engraving depicts the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. In the presidential box at Ford's Theatre, from left, are Major Henry Rathbone, his fiancee Clara Harris, and Marine Corps historian Richard S. Collum, Mary Todd Lincoln. (Library of Congress) at the time a first lieutenant, witnessed the assassination from the first level of Ford’s Theatre. (Library of Congress) By Dick Camp and Suzanne Pool-Camp. History.net Collum, 27, had been a Marine since 1861. During the war he served in the Atlantic and Leathernecks witnessed the assassination participated in the attacks on Fort Fisher, and played a role in the roundup of the near Wilmington, N.C. After commanding conspirators the Marine guards at the Washington Navy Yard in1865, he served at Mound City, Ill., MARINE FIRST LIEUTENANT Richard and Boston. In Washington after General S. Collum was reading the April 14, 1865, Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox morning paper after a quiet breakfast in Court House, Va., Collum thought it would his quarters at the Marine Barracks when be a good opportunity to see the two men he spotted an announcement about a live who had led the Union to victory. A relaxing performance at Ford’s Theatre, evening at the theatre also offered him a Washington, D.C.’s “magnificent welcome respite from the hectic duties of thespian temple.” The play, Our American the past few days.