Urge Your Elected Officials to Support Preservation of America’s Battlefields

America’s battlefields tell the stories of pivotal moments in our nation’s history, and the preservation of their hallowed grounds ensures that the stories that unfolded in these landscapes may continue to educate current and future generations.

Congress has an opportunity to pass bipartisan legislation this year that would reauthorize the American Battlefield Protection Program’s (ABPP) Battlefield Land Acquisition Grant Program (BLAG) and continue this critical investment for battlefield preservation through 2035.

In addition to reauthorizing this program, the American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act (H.R. 7618/S. 3524) would create efficiencies in grant programs to rehabilitate and improve interpretation at battlefield parks, and direct the NPS to study expansion of grant eligibility to include sites from the French and Indian War and Mexican-American War.

The BLAG program has successfully protected more than 40,000 acres of America’s battlefields from the Revolution, War of 1812, and Civil War by leveraging more than $250 million through a public-private partnership model that combines private dollars with government matching grants to extend their impact.

This includes a recent grant to acquire one of the critical properties at Hanging Rock Battlefield in South Carolina, which was named to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list in 2026 due to significant ongoing threats to the battlefield landscape.

Congressional action is needed to reauthorize the popular grant program that enables critical preservation work at America’s battlefields nationwide.

The bipartisan and bicameral legislation is an opportunity to enact legislation during this semiquincentennial year that will preserve America’s battlefields beyond the 250th anniversary commemoration of the Revolutionary War.

Congress needs to hear from you. Please use this form to send a letter to your Members of Congress asking that they support America’s battlefields by cosponsoring H.R. 7618/S. 3524.

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