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The American Battlefield Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved more than 114 acres (0.46 km 2) of the Wyse Fork battlefield. [3] The battlefield is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Lenoir County, North Carolina. The battlefield is now under threat by an NCDOT project to create a bypass around Kinston.
The Save Wyse Fork Battlefield Commission says the future Interstate 42 exit near Kinston would destroy the place where the outcome of the four-day battle in 1865 was decided.
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On May 31, 2018, the Trust announced that with the acquisition of 13 acres (5.3 ha) at the Cedar Creek battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, it had reached the milestone of 50,000 acres (200 km 2) of battlefield land acquired and preserved. Since 1987, the Trust and its federal, state, and local partners have preserved land in 25 ...
Views in and Around Martinsburg, Virginia by A. R. Waud (Harper's Weekly, December 3, 1864). The U.S. state of West Virginia was formed out of western Virginia and added to the Union as a direct result of the American Civil War (see History of West Virginia), in which it became the only modern state to have declared its independence from the Confederacy.
The following is the organization of the Union forces engaged at the Battle of Wyse Fork, during the American Civil War in 1865.
The park currently comprises 263 acres (106 ha), but will grow to over 2,200 acres (890 ha) over the next few years through a series of planned acquisitions from American Battlefield Trust, Brandy Station Foundation and the Cedar Mountain Battlefield to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. [6]
The Battle of Cheat Mountain, also known as the Battle of Cheat Summit Fort, took place from September 12 to 15, 1861, in Pocahontas County and Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of the Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led troops into ...