HMDB Civil War Updates
About ninety Civil War related markers and monuments added to the database this week. Some entries of note:
- More from the Atlanta area and some from Augusta, Georgia. The marker for Kilpatrick’s Raid, near Hampton, Georgia stands outside the Nash Farm Battlefield. Please take a moment to look at the various links to maps, supporting documentation, battle reports, and other information. This is a great resource site!
- A frequent contributor, Al Wolf, from Indiana, submitted this set of markers and monuments covering the Battle of Corydon, an action during Morgan’s 1863 raid.
- And then we have this marker from Lancaster, Ohio, pointing out the birth place of (hats off gentlemen) General William T. Sherman. Does anyone else find it humorous that Sherman shares the same birth town as the creator of the of the first successful comic strip? I just see Uncle Billy rifling past the main sections of the paper, muttering something about reporters and by-lines from hades, in order to get to the “funnies.”
Yours truly has focused mostly on entering markers from Manassas battlefield. The fruits of this labor of love are these “geographically” related sets:
I prefaced these as geographical, as these are strictly based on the loop trails or tour routes around the battlefield. The pleasant problem with Manassas, with two battles fought over the same ground, is the chronological groupings. Take Chinn Ridge for example. While walking the trail, most everything refers to the 2nd Manassas, and follows the crisis on the Federal flank as the battle passed from McLean’s to Tower’s to Stiles’ Brigades. So one might assume “Retreat from Chinn Ridge” would fall in line with those…. But no, this marker refers to the OTHER retreat from Chinn Ridge during the First Battle of Manassas! As I continue to flesh out the markers, monuments, and such for Manassas, I plan to provide separate 1st and 2nd Manassas marker pages as was done with the Antietam Markers. My tact is to include markers pertaining to the lead up campaigns. So in the case of 2nd Manassas, perhaps cover the movements from Cedar Mountain to Chantilly.
Also worked a group of markers around Emmitsburg. Most of these center around activities at the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph and the Mount St. Mary’s College during the Gettysburg Campaign. Emmitsburg suffered considerably during the summer of 1863. Not only from the passing of the armies to and from Gettysburg, but the town was also devastated from a fire on June 15, 1863.
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Over the last few months the Historical Marker Database site was subjected to numerous malicious attacks. In one case a particularly nasty attack was placed that exploited a vulnerabilities which both corrupted data and advertised inappropriate links in the site’s text. At the time, I was reluctant to openly mention anything, as that tends to simply exacerbate the problem (since the hackers then know how “well” their stuff is working). I do apologize to those who were using links off my blog, or were being referred to content on the web site. The web master and site owner has spent much time, effort, and money since then to secure the site. Over the last few weeks, the site has been continually probed, but not compromised. Please feel confident now when either accessing or linking to entries on HMDB.
And to the web master/editor/owner of HMDB, let me pass along a big “Bravo Zulu.”
