Description: The homepage for the Petersburg Battlefields Foundation
petersburg (147) civil war battlefields (6)
VISITING THE AREA? CHECK OUT Petersburg Area Regional Tourism FOR MORE INFO.
Go to the ABOUT PAGE for: brief histories of several local forts - Bross, Clarke, Dushane, Emory, McMahon, and Siebert; an 1889 speech by Confederate veteran Simon Seward about his escape from a Union prison; coordinates to several historical markers that PBF has erected.
The Petersburg Battlefields Foundation's vision is to inspire and educate the public about the Petersburg Campaign of the Civil War. Our mission is to lead a regional initiative to preserve, interpret, and promote the Campaign's diverse cultural, natural, and historic resources.