Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss visited the U.S. capital on Wednesday to call attention to the most endangered Civil War battlefields.
The actor joined the Civil War Preservation Trust as the group released its annual report on 10 battlefields that it says are deteriorating due to neglect, land development and other threats.
At a news conference, Dreyfuss said his interest in preserving U.S. Civil War battlefields grew out of his love for history and the significance of the mid-19th-century war that threatened to split America in two over slavery.
"We are the consequences of that war and the more we know about our past, the better," said Dreyfuss, who won an Academy Award for "The Goodbye Girl" and also portrayed Vice President Dick Cheney in Oliver Stone's "W".
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