"It was not war,
it was murder" 

Confederate General D.H. Hill would utter these now famous words about the savage destruction at the Battle of Malvern Hill.

“The Guns of Malvern Hill” is a phrase that every student of the war knows, as well as the history of how Robert E. Lee’s Confederates launched a series of uncoordinated frontal attacks against massed Union artillery… and how the result was a horrible slaughter. 

Now we have the opportunity to save an additional 178 acres of this important Civil War battlefield.  Battlefield land that would have been filled with newly developed homes will now remain virutally unchanged from its 1862 state, with your help.

Key 11-Acre Parcel to Save

The savage fighting at Glendale marked the fifth day of the 1862 Seven Days Campaign. As the Army of the Potomac withdrew toward the James River, Confederates under General Robert E. Lee attempted to defeat it in detail. Fighting was intense, with approximately 6,500 casualties, including five generals wounded and one captured.

In addition to the 566 acres that we have already saved, we now have an opportunity to save an 11 acre section of the battlefield at the key Darbytown/Long Bridge Road intersection - where some of the fiercest fighting occured.

Robert E.L. Krick, Chief Historian at the Richmond Battlefields Park, stated that "the recent preservation success at Glendale defies comparison... There has been nothing like it before in Virginia... Never before in modern times has anyone preserved a major battlefield virtually from scratch."

Let's save Glendale.  Let's make history.

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