Become a member of PBF and support our mission!

Click for a PBF MEMBERSHIP FORM.

  

CLICK HERE for our 2025 Annual Report from our 3/14/26 Annual Meeting.

 

PBF is helping Petersburg National Battlefield raise funds to conserve a kepi worn by an officer from

the 199th PA Infantry who fought at Petersburg.  CLICK HERE for more details and donation information.

       

Click for a LIST OF BOOKS about the Petersburg Campaign.

  

Go to the ABOUT PAGE for:  brief histories of the Beefsteak Raid and 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. 

PBF VISION:  To inspire and educate the public about the Petersburg Campaign of the Civil War, other local military battlefields and campaigns, and commemorations that shape the Petersburg region and contribute to the American story.

PBF MISSION:  Leading a regional initiative to preserve, interpret, and promote the Campaign's diverse cultural, historic, and natural resources in order to place them within the broader historical context connecting events and places, thus enabling current and future generations to better understand the relationships between military conflict and important social and political changes occurring in American history.