Group raising money to save piece of battlefield land

(YDR) America's largest preservation group has launched a campaign to raise $75,000 in hopes of permanently saving a 2-acre piece of land on the Gettysburg Battlefield.
When its goal is met, the Civil War Preservation Trust plans to sell the land to the National Park Service -- which has already allocated $300,000 toward the purchase. In the meantime, the Trust has the land under contract.
Acquiring the property -- which lies directly along Emmitsburg Road and was originally part of the historic Philip Snyder farm -- has long been considered a top priority by Gettysburg National Military Park officials, spokeswoman Katie Lawhon said. Continued

Image: "Pursuit of Lee's army" (Edwin Forbes/Library of Congress).