skirmish

I have been using Civil War Diaries, regiment and brigade journals and books and Civil War era newspapers for my research. I find a wealth of information that gets me "near" the location of camps and skirmishes. But that is just the problem. Near covers a wide area of many acres to even...

I finally found my first actual skirmish site. After much research and leg work I now know some of those historical marker signs aren't as precise as you might think. Anyway while hoping to get lucky and find a few drops which I did out in the pasture, but once I got near the base of a big hill...