Battlefield

Farming a Civil War Battleground

By Peter Svenson

Publisher: Burford Books

Imprint: Burford Books

With a new Introduction by the AuthorA finalist for the  National Book Award, Battlefield chronicles the author’s experiences building a farmhouse on a forty-acre site near Harrisonburg, Virginia, which years before had been the site of the Civil War “Battle of Cross Keys."  While reviving his long-neglected farmland, he unearths spent cartridges and artillery shells, and meditates on how best to commemorate the men who fell in battle on his forty acres.  

$18.95