National Park Service Announces Battlefield Preservation Project Grants for 2009

Today, the National Park Service announced the award of 33 grants totaling $1,360,000 to assist in the preservation and protection of America's significant battlefield lands. This year's grants provide funding at endangered battlefields from the King Philip's War (1675-1676), Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Second Seminole War, Mexican-American War, Civil War, World War II and various Indian Wars.