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Summer 1996 Issue No. 62 BATTLEFIELD UPDATE newsletter of the AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD PROTECTION PROGRAM U.S. Department of the Interior • National Park Service • Heritage Preservation Services ABPP AWARDS PARTNERSHIP KENTUCKY BATTLEFIELDS AND THE FUNDING Mill Springs Battlefield Interpretation / Mill WORLD WIDE WEB Springs Battlefield Association The American Battlefield Protection MARYLAND The World Wide Web is perhaps the most profound technological tool for Program is pleased to announce its 1996 Tour Brochure and Information Repository for Partnership Funding award-winners. South Mountain Battlefield / Central Maryland disseminating information since Eighty applicants requested a total of Heritage League, Inc. Gutenberg's movable type. Battlefield enthusiasts, historians, and preserva approximately $2 million, more than MISSISSIPPI double the amount available in tionists have jumped at the opportunity to partnership funds. A National Park Brices Cross Roads Battlefield Conceptual post information on the Web, a network of Interpretive Site Plan and Signage / Brices Service committee reviewed the Crossroads National Battlefield Commission computer servers that allows users to applications and awarded nearly quickly access Internet information. Web $700,000 in partnership funding for Presen'ation Action Plan for Raymond "browsers" such as Netscape and Mosaic Battlefield/ Mississippi Department of display that information in an aesthetically thirty-two projects (see below). While Archives and History most projects concern Priority I Civil pleasing way. The Web has been War battlefields (the fifty battlefields Siege and Battle of Corinth Battlefield available for public consumption for only most needing preservation according to Stabilization Assessment / City of Corinth a few years, but already hundreds of the Civil War Sites Advisory MISSOURI cybersites pertaining to American wars Commission), several of this year's (especially the Civil War), military Newtonia Battlefield Archaeological Survey / winners focus on Revolutionary War, Newtonia Battlefields Protection Association history, battlefields and related sites, and Indian War, and Civil War (other than research sources exist. Priority I) sites. MONTANA To help both novice and veteran Web Archaeological Collections Assessment of Bear surfers, the ABPP has compiled an Paw Battlefield /Nez Perce National Historic annotated list of Web sites that provide Battlefield important information about the above ARKANSAS NEW MEXICO subjects. The annotations are based on the editor's opinion of each site's content, Arkansas Civil War Heritage Trail Mapping of the Glorieta Battle and Santa Fe organization, ease of use, and design. Interpretation / Arkansas Historic Preservation Trail / Pecos National Historic Park Program This list should not be construed as NORTH CAROLINA the ABPP's or the National Park GEORGIA Bentonville Battlefield Comprehensive Service's endorsement of any public Allatoona Battlefield Comprehensive Historical Resources Preservation Plan / institution, private company, or Presen'ation Plan / Etowah Valley Historical Bentonville Battleground Historical Association Society, Inc. individual, nor does the ABPP vouch for PENNSYLVANIA the accuracy of information in any site McLemore Cove Battlefield Site Assessment listed below. Report / McLemore Cove Preservation Society Brandywine Battlefield National Historic Landmark Protection Implementation Project / The following Web sites were culled Resaca Battlefield Interpretive Strategy Report / Delaware County Planning Department from Universal Resource Locators Georgia Civil War Commission (URLs), or Web "addresses," compiled by Gettysburg Exhibit Design and Economic Ringgold Gap Battlefield Survey / Catoosa Impact Study/Main Street Gettysburg Brian Keith McCutchen at Shiloh County Historical Society, Inc. National Battlefield. The ABPP reviewed See AWARDS, page 2 See WEB, page 4 AWARDS, from page 1 NEW COIMMEMORATIVE each; one other is currently being reviewed. Most recently, the Secretary COIN PROJECTS APPROVED approved the use of coin revenues for TENNESSEE land purchases at the battlefields of As of June 6, 1996, the Secretary Spring Hill Battlefield Interpretive Plan / Maury Perryville, Kentucky; Brices Cross County Convention and Visitors Bureau of the Interior had approved seventeen Roads, Mississippi; Glorieta Pass, New requests for revenue from the sale of Mexico; and South Mountain, Stones River Transportation Mitigation Alternative Study / Rutherford County Civil War Commemorative Coins for Maryland. (For a list of previously the acquisition of historic battlefield funded projects, see Battlefield Update, VIRGINIA lands. To date, coin sales have Spring 1996.) Battlefield Preservation and Implementation generated roughly $6 million. The The sum of the seventeen approved Plan for Hanover County / Hanover County Civil War Trust, the organization expenditures is slightly more than Board of Supervisors responsible for processing requests for $3,500,000, leaving available nearly Community Outreach at Petersburg National coin monies, received forty-five project $2,500,000 in coin revenues. Of the Battlefield / Partners in Parks proposals requesting $10,032,455. remaining twenty-seven applications The Civil War Trust has reviewed A Civil War Guide to the City of Petersburg / received by the Civil War Trust, the City of Petersburg and forwarded eighteen applications to Secretary anticipates approving five to the ABPP for comment. The ABPP seven requests. North Anna Battlefield Interpretation / Blue and recommended seventeen to the Gray Education Society Secretary, who approved funding for Resources Inventory of the Rappahannock River MUSEUM AND TRAIL TELL Valley / City of Fredericksburg STORY OF PORT REPUBLIC Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Heritage BATTLEFIELD UPDATE Organization / Lord Fairfax Planning District Published by the National Park Service Commission Shenandoah Valley Civil War buffs The Wilderness: Building Community Support Roger G. Kennedy can now visit two new interpretive sites and Consensus / Civil War Trust Director associated with the Battle of Port Republic: the Frank Kemper House Spotsylvania Court House Architectural Guidelines / Spotsylvania County Katherinc H. Stevenson Museum and an interpretive trail at the Associate Director Coaling, the battle's most hotly contested WEST VIRGINIA hill. The conflict at Port Republic de Teel Patterson Tiller Rich Mountain Battlefield Education for Acting Chief, Heritage Preservation marked the end of Stonewall Jackson's Preservation Project / Rich Mountain Services 1862 Valley Campaign. Battlefield Foundation, Inc. The Frank Kemper House Museum's OTHERS Jan E. Townsend exhibits focus on the death of Confed Chief, American Battlefield Protection erate cavalry commander Turner Ashby, Continuing Development of the Civil War Discovery System / Civil War Tmst Program the battle, and the history of the town of Port Republic, Virginia. The Society of Driving-tour Brochures for Second Manassas Tanya M. Gossctt Port Republic Preservationists, Inc., Campaign, Peninsula Campaign, and Editor Gettysburg Campaign / Association for the operates the museum, which is open Preservation of Civil War Sites weekends. Jerry Buckbinder The Association for the Preservation Interpretation and Planning for Hatcher's Run, Production Manager Harris Farm, and Spring Hill (APCWS Parcel) of Civil War Sites (APCWS) dedicated Battlefields / Association for the Preservation of Battlefield Update is published quarterly an interpretive trail during the recent Civil War Sites and is available free of charge. Send anniversary of the battle on June 8 and 9. McDowell Battlefield/Staunton-to-Parkersburg articles, news items, and correspondence Visitors to the steep but short trail Pike Project / Valley Conservation Council to the Editor. Battlefield Update, leading up the Coaling will find an National Park Service. American informational brochure and three PARTNERS Student/Teacher Video on Preservation / Shepherd College Foundation Battlefield Protection Program, P.O. Box interpretive signs. 37127, Suite 250. Washington. DC The ABPP provided funding for the 20013-7127; (202) 343-3449; FAX (202) museum's interpretive plan and APCWS's 343-1836; [email protected]. trail signs. 2 THE ART OF BATTLEFIELD PRESERVATION JJhe Mliird I falionat Conference on Many Civil War enthusiasts are familiar with artists who depict historical scenes of epic battles, famous commanders, and camp life in a romantic light. JSaltLcficla preservation James Lancel McElhinney takes a different approach to his work, capturing contemporary landscapes of historic battlefields and sites that reflect the worsening condition of today's Civil War legacy. McElhinney's artwork comes complete with Strategies for Preservation strip malls, multi-lane highways, jumbo jets, telephone wires, and parking lots. His and Partnerships is a realistic view of the American landscape that juxtaposes history and the late- twentieth century. September 18-21, 1996 In the April 1996 issue of American Arts Quarterly, interviewer and noted The Radissson Read House Hotel author James Howard Kunstler asked McElhinney to explain his artistic interest in Chattanooga, Tennessee modern views of historic battlegrounds. "If I was going to represent the American landscape it occurred to me to begin with what it represents. Civil War battlefields in their present condition provide both subject and metaphor. A lot is revealed • 6 educational sessions about battlefield