Excellent idea Randy !.....thank you for sharing your insights. Where will
your website be ?

malinda




Randy Cabell wrote:

> As a long-time Virginian AND long-time user of the wonderful on-line
> resources of Virginia History brought to us by the Library of Virginia,
> I must call your attention to an outstanding history site that is NOT
> Virginia.  The saving grace is that it is at least in the right part of
> the country -- Georgia.
>
> If you are interested in Civil War History, and love to wallow in maps,
> go to:
>        www.civilwar.gatech.edu
>
> First you will find color maps of the US with a gaggle of different
> plots.... %Population Change 1860-1870, Number of Slaves per Square
> Mile, Manufacturing, Farming, etc.
>
> But the Battlefield part is what grabbed me.  Bill Drummond has produced
> three-D maps of a few battles, including Virginia's own
> Chancellorsville.  He is working on animated battle development for the
> web.  Simply Awesome!!!
>
> Much of his on-the-ground work is done with GPS, and pictures of Atlanta
> during The Battle Thereof and Today (The Georgia Tech Campus) really
> make for living history.  I have used an inxpensive GPS from STAPLES
> ($89) to do some local mapping (not really history, since I was looking
> for land boundary markers) here in Clarke County, and foundd it an
> excellent tool.  I projected the location of the marker, walked through
> the woods, and after a minute or two, found a stake within the +-
> 30-foot circle where my calculations said it should be.
>
> I think Drummond's use of technology to bring history alive is something
> woefully lacking here in the Old Dominion.  Ed Ayers at UVA did some
> excellent work some years ago, but I don't think it was recognized nor
> the ideas picked up as they should have been.  In my own area, the
> Valley of Virginia, my perception of Civil War Battlefield Preservation
> efforts is best described by Crock's Lost Patrol, which used to wander
> through the pages of the comics.  "Outdated Solutions to Yesterday's
> Problems" comes to mind all to often in what we do to teach and share
> (Virginia) history.
>
> If this sounds like a challenge, well maybe it is.  I would LOVE to
> build a list of Bookmarks to some outstanding sites which present
> Virginia History well.  I'll start the list with Bill Drummond's.
>
> Randy Cabell
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