CBS Sunday Morning Features Civil War Trust

CBS Sunday Morning will feature the Civil War Trust on November 30, 2014. Area residents, “spurred to action watching the expanding suburbs of Washington, D.C. destroy Northern Virginia battlefield,” founded the non-profit in Fredericksburg in 1987.

During Sunday’s segment, CBS correspondent Martha Teichner visits Gen. Robert E. Lee’s headquarters on the Gettysburg battlefield with Civil War Trust President James Lighthizer. The trust is raising funds to buy the historic site, which adjoins Gettysburg’s national park. She also speaks with preservation advocates about battlefield protection efforts at Gettysburg, Franklin and Princeton.

In the Fredericksburg area, CBS Sunday Morning airs at 9 a.m. The Smithsonian Channel rebroadcasts the show at 2 p.m. each Sunday, and repeats it up to four times throughout the week, according to deadline.com.

Since 1999, the Civil War Trust has been the leading entity saving battlefield land in America, “protecting land at a rate four times that of the National Park Service.” In 2014, the Civil War Trust saved its milestone 40,000th acre.