America's Hidden Battlefields Protecting the Archeological Story
Credits
This web site is based upon a brochure entitled America's Hidden Battlefields: Protecting the Archeological Story, prepared by the National Park Service, American Battlefield Protection Program & The Society for Historical Archaeology. Published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, it was released in Summer, 1999.
The Confederate army won important victories in 1861 and 1862 near Manassas, Virginia, during the Civil War.The e-version was designed by Kay Weeks, Office of the Chief, HPS, in cooperation with Sue Henry-Renaud, Historic Preservation Planning Program, and Tanya Gossett, American Battlefield Protection Program, HPS. Appreciation is extended to our NPS Park partners and State partners who provided images for use in the printed brochure and online.
Photo & Illustration CreditsListed in the sequence in which they appear in the site:
1. Brandy Station. Photo: Eric Long. American Battlefield Protection Program, NPS.
2. Storming of the Alamo, 1836. Denver Public Library Western Collection.
3. Alamo in the 1930s. Photo: Arthur W. Stewart, April 1936. Historic American Buildings Survey, NPS.
4. Molly Pitcher at Monmouth. National Archives and Records Administration.
5. Topographic readout map. Photo: Daniel M. Sivilich. Monmouth Battlefield State Park.
An archeologist uses a remote sensing device at Manasses National Battlefield Park to clarify the location of firing lines.6. Archeologists at Fort McHenry. Fort McHenry National Monument, NPS.
7. Fort McHenry cannons. Photo: Chris Heisey. American Battlefield Protection Program, NPS.
8. Antietam battlefield, morning of September 17, 1862. Library of Congress.
9. Confederate dead at Antietam. Library of Congress.
10. Archeologist at Antietam. Photo: Eric Long. American Battlefield Protection Program, NPS.
11. Underwater archeologists. Southeast Archeological Center, NPS.
12. Tatanka-Iyotanka (Sitting Bull). National Archives and Records Administration.
13. Archeologists surveying. Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument, NPS.
14. Brandy Station detail. Photo: Eric Long. American Battlefield Protection Program, NPS.
15. Two men posing at Brandy Station, Winter Camp, 1863. Photo: Library of Congress.
16. Section of Fort Ticonderoga ruins. Plate from The Bulletin of The Fort Ticonderoga Museum, Vol. VIII, No. 6, 1950.
17. Fort Ticonderoga reconstructed. Photo: Charles W. Snell. National Historic Landmarks Program, NPS.
18. Confederate fortifications with soldiers. National Archives and Records Administration.
19. Archeologist using remote sensing device. Manassas National Battlefield Park, NPS.
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