Research Catalog

Title

Archaeological perspectives on the American Civil War / edited by Clarence R. Geier and Stephen R. Potter.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Geier, Clarence R.
• Potter, Stephen R.

Description

xxxiii, 412 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Subjects

• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Battlefields
• Excavations (Archaeology) > United States
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-399) and index.

Contents

"No maneuvering and very little tactics": archaeology and the Battle of Brawner Farm / Stephen R. Potter ... [et al] -- The submarine H. L. Hunley: confederate innovation and southern icon / Steven D. Smith -- Fortifying the landscape: an archaeological study of military engineering and the Atlanta campaign / Robert J. Fryman -- An Irishman dies at Antietam: an archaeology of the individual / Stephen R. Potter and Douglas W. Owsley -- The Battle of Cool Spring, July 16-20, 1864 / Joseph W. A. Whitehorne and Clarence R. Geier -- "For the convenience and comforts of the soldiers and employees at the depot": archaeology of the Owens' house/post office complex, Camp Nelson, Kentucky / W. Stephen McBride, Susan C. Andrews, and Sean P. Coughlin -- Defending the Capital: the Civil War Garrison at Fort C.F. Smith / Joseph Balicki -- The Sheridan Field hospital, Winchester, Virginia, 1864 / Joseph W.A. Whitehorne, Clarence R. Geier, and Warren R. Hofstra -- Far from the battlefield: archeology at Andersonville prison / Guy Prentice and Marie C. Prentice -- Antietam: the cultural impact of battle on an agrarian landscape / Elise Manning-Sterling -- "Four years of hell": domestic life in Harpers Ferry during the Civil War / Paul A. Shackel -- "The colored laborers work as well as when slaves": African Americans in the breadbasket of the Confederacy, 1850-1880 / Kenneth E. Koons -- "Free within ourselves": African American landscapes at Manassas National Battlefield Park / Laura J. Galke -- Battling beyond first and second Manassas: perseverance on a free African American farm site / Erika K. Martin Seibert and Mia T. Parsons -- The archaeology of retreat: systematic metal detector survey and information system analysis at the battlefield of Chickamauga, September 1863 / John E. Cornelison, Jr. -- Surveying the Civil War: methodological approaches at Antietam battlefield / Bruce Sterling and Bernard W. Slaughter -- Archeological interpretations of the Battle of Antietam through analysis of small arms projectiles / Bruce B. Sterling -- "Double the cannister and give 'em hell": artillery at Antietam / Jeffrey Harbison.

Call Number

IK 01-8675

ISBN

081301834X (alk. paper)

LCCN

00047971

OCLC

45066169

Title

Archaeological perspectives on the American Civil War / edited by Clarence R. Geier and Stephen R. Potter.

Imprint

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-399) and index.

Added Author

Geier, Clarence R.

Potter, Stephen R.

Research Call Number

IK 01-8675