Modern Military Theory and the Camden Expedition of 1864: Assessing Benefits and Limitations
Author(s): Carl Drexler
Year: 2018
Summary
The final military action of the American Civil War in the state of Arkansas was the campaign known as the Camden Expedition of 1864. Responding to local and state efforts to increase heritage tourism to many of the associated sites, archeologists in the state are now working to locate, delineate, and characterize the battlefields, camps, and civilian sites associated with the campaign. This multi-site effort requires conceptual tools that facilitate interpreting all sites together, not just in series. This paper explores how the application of modern military theory, something currently en vogue in Conflict Archaeology, would assist this effort, and what kinds of silences and misinterpretations might result.
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Modern Military Theory and the Camden Expedition of 1864: Assessing Benefits and Limitations. Carl Drexler. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441817)
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Keywords
General
conflict archaeology
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Epistemology
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Theory
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
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): 840