AP: WVU to study contested Civil War site

The Associated Press is reporting that a West Virginia University class will be studying a Civil War site in the Eastern Panhandle.

WVU to study contested Civil War site

By the Associated Press
January 12, 2009
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. – A West Virginia University history professor will produce a study on a Civil War battlefield that he hopes will help preserve it from commercial development.

Professor Peter Carmichael and a graduate school class will produce a historic resource study of the site where the Battle of Shepherdstown took place in September 1862.

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