From These Honored Dead: Historical Archaeology of the American Civil War

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Figures 1.1. Referenced sites in trans-Mississippi area 12 1.2. Battlefield of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri 16 1.3. Battlefield of Pea Ridge, Arkansas 19 2.1. Sketch of Battle of Boonville 27 2.2. Map of Battle of Boonville archaeological inventory areas 33 2.3. Interpretative map of Union and Missouri State Guard positions during Battle of Boonville 37 3.1. Map of Young’s Creek battle site in Centralia, Missouri 43 3.2. Surgeon’s sketch of Frank Barnes’s wound locations 47 3.3. Artifacts found during archaeological investigations 49 4.1. Setting of Battle of Palmito Ranch 58 4.2. Confederate and Union troop movements, Battle of Palmito Ranch 62 4.3. Distribution of artifacts recovered in metal-detecting program 65 4.4. Conoidal bullets 66 4.5. Round balls 68 5.1. 1873 military map of Third Battle of Winchester 73 5.2. 1862 military map of Battle of Front Royal 74 5.3. Civil War woodcut illustration of firing line 75 5.4. Third Battle of Winchester, showing distribution of artifacts identified in Area C 80 5.5. Selected artifacts recovered from Third Battle of Winchester 81 5.6. Spencer casings from skirmish at Nineveh 84 6.1. Fort Stevens, Fort DeRussy, and Rock Creek valley in 1865 89 6.2. Ranges targeted by artillery fire from Fort DeRussy 94 6.3. Locations of military artifacts at Site 51NW163 96 6.4. Civil War artifacts from Site 51NW163 97 6.5. Fragment of 100-pounder Parrott shell 100 7.1. Location of Civil War archaeological sites in South Carolina 105 7.2. Civil War archaeological sites around Charleston, South Carolina 106 8.1. Major General Sheridan’s commanders 125 8.2. Setting of Merritt’s encampment and local military actions 127 8.3. Cultural landscape of Merritt’s camp 135 8.4. Distributions of encampment debris along Middle Marsh Run 136 8.5. Areas of artifact density with associated distribution of Sharps and Spencer bullets 137 8.6. Camp of a regiment of five squadrons of cavalry 139 9.1. Confederate artifacts recovered from late summer regimental camp at Montpelier 147 9.2. Overhead view of Gilmore Farm site 150 9.3. Artifact assemblage recovered from late antebellum slave quarters 153 9.4. Photograph of Gilmore Farm (ca. 1910), showing family’s first home 155 10.1. Location of 14th Connecticut bivouac on 1863 map 160 10.2. Field of operations in Virginia and Battle of Mine Run, November 1863 162 10.3. Distribution of artifacts recovered by metal detection 168 10.4. Distribution of melted lead 174 10.5. Distribution of Sharps and Minié ball ammunition 175 12.1. Defenses of Camp Nelson, Kentucky 195 12.2. Overlay of excavations on engineer plan of Fort Putnam 199 12.3. Rectangular revetment post molds in plan view 202 12.4. Rectangular revetment post mold in profile 203 12.5. Reconstructed Fort Putnam in use by 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery reenactors 205 13.1. Project area map showing metal-detection objects, bivouac sites, and magnetometer survey areas 208 13.2. Results of magnetometer survey, Bivouac One and Bivouac Two 215 13.3. Results of mechanical excavation at Bivouac One 216 13.4. Results of test unit excavation at Bivouac Two 218 14.1. Overlay of 1936 and 2010 maps of earthworks on Neal’s Bluff in Torreya State Park, Florida 223 14.2. Defining features of Hammock Landing locale 228 14.3. Archaeological features associated with platform in Gun Emplacement 2 230 14.4. Northern and eastern extent of powder magazine 233 15.1. Pee Dee River system showing location of cannon recovery 239 15.2. Dahlgren gun crew on USS Miami 241 15.3. Left hammer lock, IX-inch Dahlgren, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 241 15.4. Left trunnion, IX-inch Dahlgren, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 242 16.1. Defining features, Battle of Blountville, Tennessee 251 16.2. Core battlefield and Confederate dead space, Battle of Blountville 253 16.3. Reconstruction of Federal charge, Battle of Blountville 253 16.4. Resaca, Georgia, 1864 256 16.5. Distribution of fired Confederate small arms munitions, Resaca Battlefield 258 Figures viii ...