Investigating The Fortifications At Beech Grove
Author(s): J David McBride
Year: 2018
Summary
The Beech Grove Confederate encampment, December 5, 1861 to January 19, 1862, was positioned so that it took advance of the natural defenses provided by White Oak Creek and the Cumberland River. But an exposed area to the north and west had to be fortified with entrenchments and numerous earthworks. These earthworks were recently better identified with the use of LiDAR mapping. Archaeological trenching into an earthwork provided even more information about their construction.
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Investigating The Fortifications At Beech Grove. J David McBride. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441156)
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Keywords
General
Civil War
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Confederate encampment
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Civil War, 19th century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 274