Mission & Vision Statements

The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District’s mission is to preserve, conserve, protect and interpret the Shenandoah Valley’s Civil War Legacy – the places, the events, and the people, both military and civilian, before, during and after the war, by working with a network of supportive partners to educate the public while enhancing Heritage Tourism in the Valley.

The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District’s vision is to be recognized as the most extensively protected, well-preserved, and accurately interpreted collection of Civil War sites in the United States, centered in the Shenandoah Valley, and as a place of unmatched beauty where generations can gather to understand, commemorate, and draw meaning from our Nation’s heritage.