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2010-12-06 13:57:00

GETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough, President Eisenhower's granddaughter Susan Eisenhower and Medal of Honor recipient Paul W.

2010-11-18 17:40:00

Celebrities and public figures provide moving recitation of Lincoln's address for Remembrance Day commemoration GETTYSBURG, Pa., Nov.

2010-09-22 07:06:00

SPRING HILL, Tenn., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Friday, September 24, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander will join the national Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) to announce a fundraising campaign to save a key portion of the Spring Hill Battlefield.

2010-05-27 11:38:00

PERRYVILLE, Ky., May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Secretary Marcheta Sparrow will be the keynote speaker at a ceremony marking the transfer of 54 acres of the Perryville Battlefield from the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) to the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

2009-07-16 14:45:00

Wal-Mart to sell "green" products from store built atop of major Civil War battlefieldWASHINGTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National retailer Wal-Mart today announced its intention to implement a system that rates the environmental and social sustainability of the products it sells -- the green equivalent of nutrition labels -- while, ironically, continuing to pursue plans to pave over more than 50 acres of historic woodlands at the Civil War-era Wilderness Battlefield, in Orange County, Virginia."Perhaps we should call this the Wal-Mart Paradox," noted Jim Campi of the Civil War Preservation Trust.

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