WPLN Story Explores the Obstacles in BONT’s Path Toward Gaining More Battlefield Ground for Preservation
As development pressure intensifies across Middle Tennessee, the Battle of Nashville Trust faces an increasingly urgent and expensive challenge: identifying, acquiring, and preserving what remains of the city’s Civil War battlefield before it disappears forever. These challenges — including the rising cost of land and growing uncertainty surrounding a key state preservation funding source — […]
Whitson Explains Battle of Nashville Trust’s “Call to Action” as Property Values Underscore the Immediacy of Securing Battlefield Ground
To view Bobby Whitson video, click on above photo of field pieces at Confederate Redoubt No. 1 The ground on which the Battle of Nashville was fought over two days in December, 1864, is becoming increasingly difficult to preserve. In the Spring of 2025, BONT President Bobby Whitson sat down with noted film producer and […]