From these honored dead : historical archaeology of the American Civil War /

From these honored dead : historical archaeology of the American Civil War / edited by Clarence R. Geier, Douglas D. Scott, and Lawrence E. Babits. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (viii, 322 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Part I: The flow of battle and battlefield landscapes -- Civil War archaeology in the Trans-Mississippi west / Archaeology of the first battle of Boonville, Missouri, June 17, 1861 / Massacre and battle at Centralia, Missouri, September 27, 1864: historical and archaeological perspectives / An archaeological study of the battlefield of Palmito Ranch: "the last conflict of the great rebellion" / Archaeological survey of two Civil War battlefields in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia / "The sensation of this week": archaeology and the Battle of Fort Stevens / South Carolina in the Civil War: a historical-archaeological perspective / Part II: Military support and the life of the common soldier -- With Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley: Wesley Merritt at Cedar Creek, October 1864 / Home is where the woods are: an analysis of a Civil War camp complex in Virginia / The fall 1863 bivouac of the 14th Connecticut Infantry: archaeological investigations of troops on active campaign / Issues of horse and mule logistics in the Civil War / 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 / The application of magnetic prospecting methods on the 1863 bivouacs of the 2nd Corps, 3rd Division 2nd Brigade / Confederate river defenses during the American Civil War: a case study from the Hammock Landing Battery on the Apalachicola River, Florida / The tale of a gun?: ix-inch Dahlgren #FP573: it's not just a cannon, it's a story / Addressing the myths: recent Civil War studies at the Blountville, Tennessee, and Resaca, Georgia Battlefields / Appendix. METT-T, KOCOA, and the principles of war: a template guiding a better understanding of battlefield behavior and detritus / Clarence R. Geier, Lawrence E. Babits, and Douglas D. Scott -- Douglas D. Scott -- Douglas D. Scott, Steven J. Dasovich, and Thomas D. Thiessen -- Thomas D. Thiessen, Steven J. Dasovich, and Douglas D. Scott -- Charles M. Haecker -- Robert L. Jolley -- John Bedell and Stephen Potter -- Steven D. Smith -- Clarence R. Geier and Alyson L. Wood -- Matthew Reeves -- Joseph F. Balicki -- Joseph W.A. Whitehorne -- W. Stephen McBride, Kim A. McBride, and J. David McBride -- Peter Leach, Kerri Holland, and Joseph F. Balicki -- C. Brian Mabelitini -- Lawrence E. Babits, Christopher F. Amer, Lynn Harris, and Joe Beatty -- Christopher T. Espenshade -- Lawrence E. Babits.

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



9780813048925


Military archaeology--United States.
Historic sites--United States.


Electronic Books.

E646 / .F766 2014