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December 10, 2019 By Bob Henderson 2 Comments

3D Battlefield

Battle of Nashville Defensive Positions in 3D

These are several defensive positions of the Confederate and Union Armies during the Battle of Nashville in 3D. Google Maps imagery was used to visualize the landscape in three dimensions. The terrain should be within 6 feet of the actual surface. Note: the Cumberland River was much lower in 1864 due to the absence of dam’s downstream.

The portions are accurate locations, but the earthworks are of an unknown type, so this is just an approximation.

Redoubts #1, 2 & 3

Redoubt #1 by belmontguy on Sketchfab

Redoubts #4 & 5

Redoubt #5 by belmontguy on Sketchfab

Shy’s Hill

Shy’s Hill by belmontguy on Sketchfab

Kelley’s Point at Bell’s Mill

Naval Battle of Nashville by belmontguy on Sketchfab

Union Fort Negley

Fort Negley St. Cloud Hill by belmontguy on Sketchfab

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Filed Under: 3D, Hood, Tennessee, The American Civil War, Virtual Tour Tagged With: 3d, nashville

February 12, 2019 By Bob Henderson 3 Comments

Shy’s Hill Pano

Shy’s Hill 360° Panorama Virtual Tour

4615 Benton Smith Road, Nashville, TN

Revised: 12 Feb 2019

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Painting by Howard Pyle | Oil on Canvas, 1906, Minnesota Historical Society Collections

Battle of Nashville: Day 2

“At about 3:30 p.m. he sent a message to Thomas and XVI Corps commander Gen. Andrew Smith that unless he were given orders to the contrary in the next five minutes, his division was going to attack Compton’s Hill and the Confederate line immediately to its east”… read more

Minnesota lost more men in this action than any other in its participation of the war. Shy’s Hill Park is open all year long from sun-up to sundown. It requires a steep 10 minute hike to the top from Benton Smith Road off Harding Place. The tour has links to other expanded tours of the Battle of Nashville and the Nashville National Cemetery as noted by the small white floating globe icons in the panorama.

There are links in the virtual reality tour to others, including:

  • the grave site of Colonel William M. Shy.
  • the Minnesota State Capitol
  • expanded tour of The Battle of Nashville

Note: get the full screen experience by clicking the icon in the lower left of the video frame. A zoom option is available also for reading the historical signage. Some markers are embedded in the floating icons.

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Filed Under: Hood, Nashville, Tennessee, Virtual Tour

November 11, 2018 By Bob Henderson Leave a Comment

Battle of Atlanta

McPherson Memorial Park

1400 McPherson Ave SE (Monument Ave)
Atlanta, GA 30316

Like many pivotal American Civil War battlefields in the South, there is not much left. Kennesaw Mountain is part of The Atlanta Champaign, but the Battle of Atlanta proper, has this small slice in honor of one of the U.S. Armies most popular leaders: Major General James Birdseye McPherson (November 14, 1828 – July 22, 1864). In fact, he was popular with many officers in the Confederate command, for his fair treatment of the vanquished of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

The park is so obscure I passed it twice without noticing the tiny partial. It is possibly the smallest Civil War Park in the nation.

The 35 year old West Pointer was the second highest ranking solider killed in the war and was mourned by advisories Generals John B. Hood and Joseph E. Johnston. It is located near East Atlanta Village.

More about the monument…

 

Filed Under: Atlanta Champaign, Georgia, Parks, Virtual Tour

September 17, 2018 By Bob Henderson Leave a Comment

Johnson’s Island Prison

Confederate P.O.W. Camp in Ohio

From 1862 to 1865 Johnson’s Island Prison, near Sandusky, Ohio was a P.O.W. camp for Confederate prisoners. After 1862, the camp separated the enlisted prisoners to Camp Chase Prison in Columbus, Ohio. For the duration of the war, Johnson’s Island housed primarily Confederate officers, including General Officers: Isaac R. Trimble and James J. Archer (both captured at the Battle of Gettysburg), Thomas Benton Smith, Edward “Allegheny” Johnson, M. Jeff Thompson, John S. Marmaduke, William Lewis Cabell and William Beall.

drawing“The 16.5-acre prison opened in April 1862. A 15-foot-high wooden stockade surrounded 12 two-story prisoner housing barracks, a hospital, latrines, sutler’s stand, three wells, a pest house, and two large mess halls (added in August 1864).” …read more on Wikipedia

Johnson’s Island is a residential community now, but the stockade cemetery remains, and is very well maintained. It has 206 headstones (a little over 20 men were taken back south after the war). The grounds are patrolled by private security, and the local community is very protective of this historical landmark. The site includes a Confederate monument, the only remaining one in Ohio (the Camp Chase monument was destroyed in 2017 by activist).

A three point 360º virtual reality tour of the stockade cemetery:

Johnson’s Island Causeway, Marblehead, OH 43440

By Bob Henderson

This authors GGGF, 2nd Lt. Walter Scott Bearden and twin brother 3rd Lt. Edwin Ryall Bearden 41st Tennessee Infantry, were sent here after their capture at Fort Donelson, TN. They were exchanged in 1862 and resumed duty at Vicksburg.

Filed Under: Cemetery, Prisons, Virtual Tour Tagged With: oh

February 15, 2018 By Bob Henderson Leave a Comment

Pea Ridge

The Battle That Saved Missouri for the Union: 

Virtual Reality 360º TOUR

“Keeping Missouri in the Union was a prime objective of the Federal government dur­ing the first year of the Civil War. It was the reason that the Battle of Wilson’s Creek was fought near Springfield, Mo., in August 1861, and it was one of the reasons for the battle at Pea Ridge in March 1862. The Pea Ridge Campaign began on Christ­mas Day, 1861, with the appointment of Brig. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis to command the Federal Southwestern District of Missouri. Curtis’s main objective was to drive the Confederate and pro-Confederate forces from the state.

By mid-February 1862 he and his troops had chased their main opponents, Maj. Gen. Sterling Price and the pro-Confed­erate Missouri State Guard, into Arkansas. In the Boston Mountains south of Fayette­ville, Price joined forces with Brig. Gen. Ben McCulloch’s Confederates. There on March 4 Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn took command of this combined 16,000-man army and led it north, intending to strike into Missouri and capture St. Louis. But Curtis’s 10,500 Federals were dug in across his path on the bluffs above Little Sugar Creek, not far from Elkhorn Tavern and nearby Elkhorn Mountain (part of the larger Pea Ridge plateau).

Van Dorn knew that a frontal assault against Curtis’s troops would be suicidal, so he swung north to come in behind them. He planned to strike at dawn on March 7, but his troops, hungry, cold, and weary from a difficult three-day march, arrived hours behind schedule. McCulloch’s troops fell so far behind that Van Dorn decided to temporarily divide his army. He ordered McCulloch around the west end of Elkhorn Mountain, then to turn east along Ford Road to rejoin Price’s troops near Elkhorn Tavern.

These delays gave Curtis time to face about and prepare for the attack. As McCulloch’s troops, including two regi­ments of Cherokee Indians under Brig. Gen. Albert Pike, were engaged in this maneuver, they ran into intensive fire near Leetown that killed McCulloch and Brig. Gen. James McIntosh and led to the capture of the ranking colonel. With their command struc­ture practically destroyed, McCulloch’s men scattered from the field. Attacking east of Elkhorn Mountain, Van Dorn and Price fared better.

Price’s Missouri­ans slowly but steadily pushed the Federals back until, at nightfall, they held Elkhorn Tavern and the crucial Telegraph and Hunts­ville roads. During the night the survivors of McCulloch’s Leetown fight joined them. On the morning of March 8, Curtis counter­attacked in the tavern area.

A two-hour ar­tillery barrage crippled the Confederate line and a concerted infantry attack broke their defenses. Realizing that his ammunition was running low, Van Dorn ordered his troops to withdraw. The battle of Pea Ridge was over, and most of the Union and Confederate troops moved east of the Mississippi to fight in other campaigns. Missouri remained in the Union and politically neutral through­out the war, although it provided men and supplies to both sides.” – National Park Service Brochure

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