HMDB Updates – 15 September
This week some sixty-seven Civil War related markers added to the database. Here’s some of the highlights:
- From the “Ghost Town” of Volcano, California, a marker discussing actions taken to secure the gold supplies which supported the war effort. Read the storyline – the “Volcano Blues” smuggled “Old Abe” into town to intimidate those who might consider rebellion. “Old Abe” being a 6-pounder Model 1835.
- A marker at Fort McAllister, Georgia points to the remains of the CSS Nashville. The sinking of the ship effectively shut the coastal waterways of Georgia to blockade runners.
- Further inland in Georgia, a marker stands outside the Cook and Brothers Armory. The factory produced 30,000 weapons for the Confederacy, according to the marker. AND it was not touched by Uncle Billy in his tour of the Peach State. Imagine that!
- On the other hand, Sherman did visit Scarboro, Georgia to wreck the railroads in December 1864. Oddly, the marker was removed by the State during highway maintenance. At some point in the 1990s the marker was placed on a “swing” out by the road.
- A great set of photos accompanying the Western & Atlanta Railroad Tunnel marker from Tunnel Hill, Georgia.
- From North Carolina’s Outer Banks comes a group of markers covering the 1861-62 Barrier Islands Campaigns and the sinking of the U.S.S. Monitor in December 1862.
- Union Mills, in Fairfax County, Virginia, is today sandwiched between residential areas, but was part of the defensive line for the Confederate Army following the First Manassas.
- Three markers detail little known actions in West Virginia. These markers are from the Blue and Gray Trail.
- A completed set covering CWPT’s First Day of Chancellorsville Battlefield. (list) (map)
- And finally, some 22 items entered in the long list of Gettysburg markers, tablets and monuments. These completed the XI Corps sector at Barlow’s Knoll and a few in General Hill’s sector in the McMillan Woods.
