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Show Major Historical Sites to Be Vastly Improved A hides trenches, earthworks, gun emplacements and other military devices, de-vices, and lu laying out trails to points of special Interest. Where practiced at all, restoration restora-tion will be limited to only what la needed In each particular park to moke Its story clear. For example, ex-ample, a fort will not be. completely reconstructed, but bombproofs. am munition dumps, soldier huts, dummy dum-my guns and similar objects of military mil-itary Interest difllcult for the average aver-age person to visualize may be reconstructed re-constructed at points of major interest Members of C. C. C. Work on Battlefield Shrines. Washington. More than 3.500 men enrolled In the Civilian Conservation Con-servation corps are being assigned to effect vast Improvement In ma Jo historical landmarks In New Jersey, Virginia,, Tennessee. Georgia Geor-gia and Mississippi, It was announced an-nounced here, at the office of director direc-tor of Emergency Conservation Work- A complete restoration of the historic shrines Included In the project Is not contemplated, but the government proposes to restore them to such a condition that the average visitor will come away with a clear understanding of their relation to the growth of the nation the announcement said. Among the sites included In the rehabilitation project are four camps established at Yorktown, Va., where American troops under the leadership leader-ship of George Washington won the final battle of the Revolution In 17S1. Two more are at Morristown, N. J., an area used by the American Amer-ican armies every winter during the crucial years between 1775 and 17S1. Fix Up Gettysburg. Four hundred men have been assigned as-signed to work In Gettysburg National Na-tional Military park In Pennsyl vanla, where President Lincoln delivered de-livered his famous dedication address ad-dress In 1SG3. Another COO are at work at Chlckamauga and Chattanooga Chatta-nooga National Military park In Georgia and Tennessee, which com memorates the scene of a number of Civil war maneuvers. A camp located at Shlloh, Tenn., which marks the site of a memorable mem-orable battle fought by the soldiers sol-diers of the Southwest during the Civil war, also Is being policed. Another An-other group of 400 Is working on a project to preserve and develop the area In which the siege and defense of Vlcksburg, Miss., was carried on. In Virginia, more than 400 men have been assigned to work at Fredericksburg Fred-ericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefield memorial, established to commemorate the engagements of Fredericksburg, ' Spotsylvania Courthouse, - the Wilderness and Chancellorsvllle, where some of the most active fighting of the conflict occurred. Busy at Petersburg. A similar number of men are at work In Petersburg National Military Mili-tary park, which was created to pre-" serve the breastworks and other defenses de-fenses or shelters used in the siege and defense of Petersburg. Another encampment Is busy at Fort Harrison Har-rison battlefield, a state park created cre-ated to preserve the remains of fort Ificallons occupied by both Confed crate and Union troops In the fighting fight-ing near Richmond. The men are engaged In clearing away fire hazards in woodland areas, removing vegetation that |