"Since the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association's establishment some 18 years ago, with our partners, we've raised more than $1.4 million and helped save 107 acres of the original battlefield. And soon will be added another 122 acres, with the purchase of the Far Away Farm, where the core of the battle took place," Mike Nickerson said.
According to Nickerson, while the grant money was awarded through the National Park Service (NPS), it will also inadvertantly be returned in the form of the entire battlefield to the NPS, after all the battlefield is acquired.
The NPS is firmly in agreement withn this decision, after completing a Special Resources Study in 2015, which recommended the Shepherdstown Battlefield, in particular, become a part of the NPS. Currently the NPS is leaning toward incorporating the Shepherdstown Battlefield into the Antietam Battlefield, due to the two events being interconnected (Shepherdstown Battle took place following Antietam as Lee's Army retreated back to Virginia).
--Old Secesh
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