Trace Adkins Fights To Save Battlefields

3/11/2008 staff Platinum-selling country music artist Trace Adkins is also a big history buff and supporter of preserving America’s remaining Civil War battlefields.  Adkins steps up the fight tomorrow, March 12, as keynote speaker at a news conference about endangered battlefields. Adkins will be joining Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) President James Lighthizer at the news conference for the release of History Under Siege, the organization’s annual report on endangered battlefields. The report identifies the ten most threatened Civil War sites in the country and what is being done to rescue them. Following the news conference, Adkins and Lighthizer will visit Arlington National Cemetery for a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of Civil War Unknowns (located next to Arlington House). Taps will be played by a military trumpeter, and a Civil War color guard will be present.   CWPT is America’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving our nation’s remaining Civil War battlefields. CWPT’s website is located at http://www.civilwar.org.