Perryville, three others receive grants
totaling $525,878 from land-water fund

Some $91,000 in grants has been provided to the Perryville battlefield by the Land and Water Conservation Fund, part of an overall funding of $525,878 to help preserve more than 180 acres at three American Civil War battlefields.

In addition to Perryville, grants were awarded to Corinth, Miss, and Brandy Station in Virginia. Corinth received $170,820 for 88 acres and 51.2 acres at $109,836. Brandy Station was awarded $154,210 for 29 acres.

Each of the battlefields has been threatened with damage or destruction by urban and suburban development.

The grants are administered by the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP), one of more than a dozen programs administered by the National Park Service that provide states and local communities technical assistance, recognition and funding to help preserve their own history and create close-to-home recreation opportunities.

Consideration for the battlefield land acquisition grants is given to battlefields listed in the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission’s 1993 Report on the Nation’s Civil War Battlefields and the ABPP’s 2007 Report to Congress on the Historic Preservation of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Sites in the United States.

Grants are awarded to units of state and local governments for the fee simple acquisition of land, or for the non-federal acquisition of permanent, protective interests in land (easements). Private non-profit groups may apply in partnership with state or local government sponsors.

In the case of these four newly awarded grants, the Civil War Trust partnered with the government sponsor grantees listed below. Other partnership organizations involved in the grant projects include the Kentucky Heritage Council and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.