Save the Slaughter Pen

Five years ago the Civil War Trust embarked upon its most ambitious and costly battlefield preservation effort in its history - the preservation of the 208 acre Slaughter Pen Farm.

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we have now raised $7m of the $12m needed for this historic land. Our next scheduled payment would normally be $200,000, but through a generous gift from the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust, we will now need to raise just $150,000 this year.

Why bother with this Slaughter Pen Farm? Well, as historian Frank O’Reilly puts it, this is the “very heart and soul of the Fredericksburg battlefield.”  Put frankly, it is for places like the Slaughter Pen Farm that the Civil War Trust exists.