Civil War buffs will have a new online tool to use thanks to a grant
the Tennessee State Library and Archives has received.
The $40,750 grant from the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program will allow the state to develop an online database of the state’s Civil War battlefields.
The database will be available for federal, state and local planning agencies as well as the general public.
This project will use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to create the database.
The database will link information from the Civil War Sourcebook for Tennessee to Civil War maps and documents archived at library. This enhanced resource will be available on TSLA’s section of the Tennessee Department of State web site.
Read the full article in the July 27, 2010 edition of the tennessean.com.
So cool! We are dedicating my great-great-grandfather’s grave in Nashville on Aug 14 (just had a new marker placed, courtesy of the VA . . . I suspect the original was destroyed many years ago). Anyway, always looking for CW and Tennessee research helps (I got more info on g-g-grandpa from historical documents and accounts than from family info). Thanks for sharing. See you in Knoxville.
Extra cool. It just so happens that Confederate Gen John Hunt Morgan was recaptured on a TN battlefield and somehow killed. It will be interesting to see what the researchers turn up about him. His nephew Thomas Hunt Morgan was a world famous biologist (embryologist) who went to California and taught at Caltech in Pasadena, CA for many years, dying in 1945.