1.   Battlefield sites should be untended fields of hay, and overgrown rifle trenches, and museums of musty uniforms and swords and muskets.

2.   One actress, a Civil War buff, has a second home in Virginia so she can visit cemeteries and battlefield sites.

3.   The land deal could not have come at a better time, Douglas Lindsay, superintendent of the battlefield site, said.

4.   Unlike Gettysburg or Fredericksburg or Shiloh, Third Winchester is not a federally protected battlefield site, and until recently it faced the threat of development.

5.   For years, Civil War battlefield sites carefully listed and diagramed troop movements, military strategies and death tolls.

6.   Historians say the absence of information about slavery at Civil War battlefield sites over the years was probably due to debates over what actually caused the war.