October 3, 2006
I added maps to my Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville essays. The maps are by Hal Jespersen, a big name in the development of Sun Java. He created a number of maps for the American Civil War battle entries on Wikipedia. As such, the maps are in the public domain. You can see an entire list of his maps at this site: http://www.posix.com/CWmaps/
October 1, 2006
Almost two years ago I said I was working on a Gettysburg campaign essay. I still am, though I have finished about 40% of it. I was side tracked this year for a number of reasons. First, I decided to write an essay about the cause of the Civil War. This will eventually lead into a Fist Manassas campaign essay, but for now it will stand on its own. I was also working on getting my Vicksburg pictures online. However, I had a hard drive crash that caused me to lose much of my progress. I did get to visit the Chickamauga and Chattanooga battlefields this past summer, so they will (eventually) wind up on the site.
The Cause of the Civil War essay is now online and can be seen here.
August 14, 2005
I added a better description of the battle of Kelly's Ford to the Chancellorsville essay.
I also corrected a caption and rewrote the description of the Iron Brigade's fight on the Herbst Woods page of my Gettysburg Day 1 photographs.
Special thanks to Ron Hollingsworth for pointing out that what I had labelled as the 19th Indiana monument was actually the 2nd Wisconsin monument, and to Jim Sumerduck for suggesting changes to my description of the battle of Kelly's Ford.
January 7, 2005
I made significant changes to the HyperBear ACW Battlefield Photography pages. Most visitors will notice little more than some cosmetic changes. In fact, all of the HTML code has been rewritten to do away with tables. Page formatting is now done exclusively with <div> and <span> tags, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
This change allowed me to create a "printer friendly" version of the site with two lines of HTML code. If you print any of the essays, you won't see the left and right columns. This saves a lot of paper and makes the site more useful.
November 1, 2004
After almost 19 months I finally added more pictures. This site now includes pictures I took of the Harpers Ferry, Manassas and Shiloh battlefield parks (Shiloh has the most pictures of any on my site except for Gettysburg).
I'm currently working on an essay about Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg campaign, and photographs of the Vicksburg National Military Park. I promise that it will not take 19 months before these show up on the site.
August 5, 2004
I added order of battle information for each of my essays. This is something I always thought was badly lacking from my essays. (The other thing missing is maps, but I'm not much of a map maker and I can't post maps from books without breaking copyright laws.)
July 16, 2004
I updated the Army Organization essay, including more information and cross-linking the various terms. I also went through the other essays and changed the Roman numeral corps designations. Now instead of seeing "XII Corps" you will see it written out as "Twelfth Corps".
I have begun work on the Gettysburg essay, though the first part has not been posted yet. I may also post the Manassas/Bull Run and Harpers Ferry pictures before the Shiloh pictures, which should — hopefully — follow soon after.
January 19, 2004
I made substantial changes to the essay section. The history essays have been subdivided into multiple parts in order to make them easier to read. They were just too long as single web pages.
Also, I have completely rewritten the Antietam essay. The old essay, written quite a while ago, was based on some erroneous sources and was fairly superficial. This essay goes into much more detail and has the errors corrected.
