Richard Dreyfuss Comes to Battlefields' Defense
Group seeks preservation of area Civil War battlefields
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2009 | Updated 3:28 PM EDT
AP
Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss comes to Washington to prevent the deterioration of Civil War battlefields.
WASHINGTON -- Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss is visiting Washington to draw attention to the condition of the nation's Civil War battlefields.
Dreyfuss joined the Civil War Preservation Trust on Wednesday as the group released its annual report on 10 battlefields that it says are deteriorating due to neglect, land development and other threats.
Among the sites on the list are Gettysburg, Pa.; South Mountain and Monocacy in Maryland; and Cedar Creek, New Market Heights and Wilderness in Virginia.
The Civil War is the most defining event in our history and that preserving its memory will "remind us of, us at our best and us at our worst," Dreyfus said.
The sites on the list are nominated by the members of the preservation group. Since 1987, the group has saved about 25,000 acres of historic land.
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