Civil War Preservation Trust Marker Links

Over the last few weeks I’ve been working a side project to support the Civil War Preservation Trust’s new Battlefield pages.  The Trust has been referring links over to the Historical Marker Database since last fall, but this arrangement is a bit more direct in some ways.  Our goal was to present a listing of what markers, monuments, and memorials stand at the battlefields – just a small supporting bit of information for readers in addition to the wealth of materials and maps already offered on the pages.   So with some crafting of links to HMDB, and help from friends Bernie Fisher and Robert Moore to get the right arrangements, we submitted the list of links to the Trust earlier today.

Just as with the “virtual tours by markers” or related sets mentioned here on the blog, these are lists of marker entries, usually arranged in some logical sequence.  The reader might browse through these, and if we marker hunters have done our jobs properly, see the item in question, a view of the ground around it, photos of the events related to the marker or monument, and lastly links to additional resources.   Some of the Trust’s links point directly to HMDB, particularly where the number of markers are small.  Others point to the battlefield pages on this blog.

Of the 94 battles currently listed by the Trust, sixty are paired to related sets.  Many of these are already listed on my “Battlefields by Markers” page (in need of some update now!).    We’re working on some additional groupings of markers already in the database.  But at the same time looking for more input, particularly from the Western Theater!

Feel free, if you run across a correction or update that should be made to the listings, to contact me here about those lists.  In many cases, the maintenance will fall on me anyway, feel free to go directly to the chef.  I’ll be working through the entries over time to ensure there’s plenty of links back to CWPT’s battlefield pages also.  Feels good to help out with the preservation efforts, if even in such a small way.

Preserve the battlefields for future generations, yes!  And also interpret them so future generations understand why we preserved it!