From these honored dead : historical archaeology of the American Civil War / edited by Clarence R. Geier, Douglas D. Scott, and Lawrence E. Babits.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geier, Clarence R., editor.

Scott, Douglas D., editor.

Babits, Lawrence Edward, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military archaeology--United States.

Military archaeology.

Historic sites--United States.

Historic sites.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Antiquities.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book contains sixteen original essays that highlight the role of historical archaeology in our understanding of the American Civil War.

Contents:

Introduction / Clarence R. Geier, Lawrence E. Babits, and Douglas D. Scott

Part I: The flow of battle and battlefield landscapes

Civil War archaeology in the Trans-Mississippi west / Douglas D. Scott

Archaeology of the first battle of Boonville, Missouri, June 17, 1861 / Douglas D. Scott, Steven J. Dasovich, and Thomas D. Thiessen

Massacre and battle at Centralia, Missouri, September 27, 1864: historical and archaeological perspectives / Thomas D. Thiessen, Steven J. Dasovich, and Douglas D. Scott

An archaeological study of the battlefield of Palmito Ranch: "the last conflict of the great rebellion" / Charles M. Haecker

Archaeological survey of two Civil War battlefields in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia / Robert L. Jolley

"The sensation of this week": archaeology and the Battle of Fort Stevens / John Bedell and Stephen Potter

South Carolina in the Civil War: a historical-archaeological perspective / Steven D. Smith

Part II: Military support and the life of the common soldier

With Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley: Wesley Merritt at Cedar Creek, October 1864 / Clarence R. Geier and Alyson L. Wood

Home is where the woods are: an analysis of a Civil War camp complex in Virginia / Matthew Reeves

The fall 1863 bivouac of the 14th Connecticut Infantry: archaeological investigations of troops on active campaign / Joseph F. Balicki

Issues of horse and mule logistics in the Civil War / Joseph W. A. Whitehorne

Part III: Miscellaneous studies: military earthwork construction and the conservation and care of military artifacts

Archaeology and reconstruction of Fort Putnam, Camp Nelson: a Civil War heritage park in Jessamine County, Kentucky / W. Stephen McBride, Kim A. McBride, and J. David McBride

The application of magnetic prospecting methods on the 1863 bivouacs of the 2nd Corps, 3rd Division 2nd Brigade / Peter Leach, Kerri Holland, and Joseph F. Balicki

Confederate river defenses during the American Civil War: a case study from the Hammock Landing Battery on the Apalachicola River, Florida / C. Brian Mabelitini

The tale of a gun?: ix-inch Dahlgren #FP573: it's not just a cannon, it's a story / Lawrence E. Babits, Christopher F. Amer, Lynn Harris, and Joe Beatty

Addressing the myths: recent Civil War studies at the Blountville, Tennessee, and Resaca, Georgia Battlefields / Christopher T. Espenshade

Appendix. METT-T, KOCOA, and the principles of war: a template guiding a better understanding of battlefield behavior and detritus / Lawrence E. Babits.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813050195

0813050197

9780813048925

0813048923

OCLC:

874029323