U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. – certainly no stranger to combat himself – is asking the Senate Appropriations Committee for $10 million in federal funding to preserve Civil War battlefield grounds.

Webb, along with Sens. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.., and Jeff Bingham, D-N.M, is requesting $10 million included in President Obama’s fiscal 2012 budget request for the Civil War Battlefield Preservation Program — a matching grants program that has been used to preserve more than 16,500 acres in 14 states over the past decade.