Archaeologist finds map of Knox from Civil War

[Adsos Letter]

Source: Knoxnews.com
Fred Brown

Put a fedora hat and worn leather jacket on Joan Markel, place her in the dusty rows of Frank H. McClung Museum's skulls, bones, books and spooky artifacts, and you have the makings of a George Lucas-like blockbuster movie sequel.

Call the first one "Tennessee Markel and the Treasure of the Lost Map."

Well, maybe that's a little over the top. But you get the notion. Markel is a librarian and an archaeologist with a furious heart for finding the Civil War history of Knoxville.

She has uncovered a doozie.

Capt. Orlando Poe, architect of Union fortifications in Knoxville during the fall 1863 siege, constructed a reconnaissance map that played a major role in the federal victory that slammed the door on Confederate hopes in East Tennessee.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/hearts-for-history/

video at the link

[SharonAnn]

1. Yes, and it's kind of neat. But what bothers me is how "recent" the Civil War is here.

It was just yesterday. And it's not really over.

And I'm near Knoxville, in the heart of East Tennessee which was heavily Union and not Confederate.

I'll bet it's more Confederate now than it was during the Civil War.