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Parks Preserve Battle Memories
War department studies propose a general plan to commemorate Civil War and earlier battles through national military parks or marked field lines. Historic sites like Chickamauga Chattanooga Gettysburg Vicksburg and Shiloh would be highlighted with limited markers or extended park areas to aid military study and memorialize Union and Confederate forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
United States
War Department
First National Military Park
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Wauhatchie Valley
Lookout Mountain
Missionary Ridge
Gettysburg
Secretary of War
Gettysburg Memorial Association
Shiloh
Tennessee
Virginia
Vicksburg Military Park
Vicksburg
Vicksburg National Miliary Park
Carolina
Mississippi River
Kentucky
Army of the Ohio
Guilford Courthouse
Nathaniel Greene
Antietam
Army of the Potomac
Northern Virginia
Antetam
Pennsylvania
Yorktown
Guillford Courthouse
Kings Mountain Battle Monument
Point Pleasant
Fort Recovery
Horseshoe
Fort Phil Kearny
Army War College
Saratoga
Burgoyne
Stillwater
Freeman's Farm
Bemts Heights
Cornwallis
France
Creasy
Hianes
Parke