Civil War Field Fortifications
Links
A Select List of Websites Relevant to the Study
of Fortifications
Permanent Fortifications
| Interesting Places
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Artillery
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Organizations
Relevant Reading
| Commercial Sites
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Awards
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Links
Links to Field Fortification Sites
| "The
Civil War Defenses of Washington, D. C." from the National Park
Service:
http://www.nps.gov/cwdw/index.htm
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"Fort
Stevens" from the NPS, one of the forts in the defenses of Washington,
D. C.:
http://www.nps.gov/rocr/ftcircle/stevens.htm |
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"Fort
DeRussy" from the NPS, another fort in the defenses of Washington, D.
C.:
http://www.nps.gov/rocr/ftcircle/derussy.htm |
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"Welcome
to Fort Ward" From the Office of Historic Alexandria
http://ci.alexandria.va.us/oha/fortward/index.html |
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"The Blue
and Gray Trail" through Civil War sites in North Georgia with plenty
of links to specific sites such as Kennesaw Mountain and Fort Norton
at Rome:
http://www.ngeorgia.com/travel/bgtrail.html |
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"Rivers Bridge State Park" in South Carolina has Confederate
earthworks:
http://www.sccsi.com/sc/Parks/riversbridge.html |
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"Port
Hudson Civil War Battlesite" from the Louisiana Office of State Parks:
http://www.crt.state.la.us/crt/parks/pthudson.html |
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"Charleston,
SC Civil War Forts & Military Installations" Battery #5, Fort Lamar,
that fort in the harbor....
http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/forts.html |
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"Pamplin Park Civil War
Site" A private park that preserves and interprets a section of
the Confederate line of field works south of Petersburg, Virginia.
http://www.pamplinpark.org/home.htm |
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"Petersburg National Battlefield" from the NPS:
http://www.nps.gov/pete/index.htm |
| "Stones
River National Battlefield" from the NPS:
http://www.nps.gov/stri/index.htm |
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"Vicksburg National Military Park" from the NPS:
http://www.nps.gov/vick/index.htm |
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"Richmond National Battlefield Park" from the NPS:
http://www.nps.gov/rich/index.htm |
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"Fort Branch" Its got a nice image of fort's plan.
http://www.albemarle-nc.com/martin/fortbranch/ |
"Fort Branch
Web Page" Another website on Fort Branch, North Carolina. Includes a
brief history of the fort.
http://geocities.com/Athens/3644/Fbranch.html |
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"The
Fortresses of Savannah" From the Savannah Images Project. Several very
nice fortification plans and images of the forts around Savannag, Georgia.
http://www.sip.armstrong.edu/Forts/Fortindex.html |
| "Camp
Nelson: Union Army Supply
Depot" from the Camp
Nelson Preservation and Restoration Foundation. Take a virtual tour
of Camp Nelson in Kentucky....
http://www.campnelson.org/home.htm |
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"Siege of Fort
Blakeley, Alabama"
5
1/2 miles of breastworks, history of the siege, 1865 map, list (by
state origin) of regiments and batteries that fought there.....
http://www.siteone.com/tourist/blakeley/index.html
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"Fort
Duffield"
at West Point, Kentucky. See an image of walls 20 to 30 feet high!
http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/khc/ftduff.htm |
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"Staunton River Battlefield State Park" near Clover, Virginia has
well preserved earthworks. The website has a battlefield map and a few
nice images.
http://www.halifax.com/county/staunt1.htm |
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"Fort
Pillow State Historic Park"
Put
your hiking boots on and watch out for copperheads.
http://www.state.tn.us/environment/parks/pillow/fpshp.htm
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"Fort Fisher Historic Site" from the North Carolina Encyclopedia.
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/ncsites/fisher.htm |
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"Fort Pocahontas" On
the James River, Virginia, right next to Sherwood Forest Plantation. Go see
for yourself.
http://www.fortpocahontas.org |
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Permanent Fortifications
More Links to Interesting and Helpful
Places
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"Making of America"
at the University of Michigan, a digital library of scanned images of
books where the industrious searcher will find the 1861 printing of Henry
L. Scott's Military Dictionary, Hardee's Tactics with Mr. Hardee
discreetly edited out by J. B. Lippincott in an 1862 printing, and an
1863 printing of the 1861 Revised Regulations for the Army of the United
States among a large number of other interesting works....
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/index.html
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"U. S. Army Engineer Museum," what field fortification website
would be complete without real live engineers doing real live engineering
things? (Notice how they quietly shouted in the museum....) This leads to
the Reference Library:
http://www.wood.army.mil/MUSEUM/library.htm |
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"U.
S. Corps of Topographical Engineers" A living history organization
based in Colorado, includes several very informative articles.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pderickson/Homepage.htm |
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"Working
Bibliographies" from the Military History Institute. Read these and know
all.
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/RefBibs/fortify |
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"American Memory" at the Library of Congress, see breathtaking
panoramic views of the battlefield at Vicksburg....without all those obscurantist
trees; Nashville from Fort Negley, Knoxville, more pan-o-rama than your hard
drive can stand...(An essential image resource).
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pnhtml/pnhome.html |
| "American
Memory Selected Civil War Photographs" is a most wonderful site full
of images of fortifications. (An essential image resource)
http://rs6.loc.gov/cwphome.html |
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"American
Memory Panoramic Maps 1847 - 1929" can be useful for some cities that
were fortified during the Civil War. The 1871 map of Little Rock, Arkansas
accurately places and depicts Fort Steele.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html |
| National
Archives (NARA) NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL). Search the NAIL
for a variety of period Civil War maps using the term "maps" and digitized
items only (An essential image resource):
http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html |
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"Northwestern University Library -- Special Collections: The Siege and Commune
of Paris, 1870 - 1871." That's right, its not a Civil War site,
but those French could sure shovel dirt. See field fortifications on
the streets of Paris!
http://www.library.nwu.edu/spec/siege |
|
"Historical
Maps and
Charts"
from the Coast Survey offers a variety of very useful nautical charts and
maps.
http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/ocs/text/map-coll.htm |
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Artillery Websites
Organizations
Organizations can be an excellent conduit for the transmission of information.
One of the conditions for presenting this website specifies that the author
will not encumber himself with organizational associations. Nevertheless,
the following organizations are devoted to the study of fortifications and
it is highly suggested that anyone who entertains more than a passing interest
in any type of fortifications visit the following websites and seriously
consider supporting their own interest by joining with other individuals
who share a similar interest.
Relevant Reading
Commercial Sites
Although it has not been my practice to link to commercial websites, there
are a few companies that actually do provide useful and helpful services
that deserve mention. These links are to companies that I have personally
found to provide a good product and good, reliable service.
| Military/Info
Military/Info offers a very extensive selection of booklets
and photocopies of military manuals including D. H. Mahan's post-Civil War
textbooks on field and permanent fortifications. This service beats the heck
out of standing for hours at a photocopier or waiting endless weeks for that
interlibrary loan request to show up.
http://www.military-info.com |
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Links, Page Two
Links to a variety of useful and interesting
websites
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