Civil War Group Formed

[+showbizkid]

I have opened a Civil War Group and I am seeking recruits. I would like to get 10 other waymarkers to join.

 

Here is the group's proposed mission:

 

This group will manage categories related to the American Civil War of 1861-1865. In the South, this conflict is sometimes referred to as "The War Between the States", "The War for Southern Independence" or "The Late Unpleasantness."

 

There are numerous potential waymark categories for this group to manage. These might include Civil War Battlefields, Civil War Monuments, Graves of Civil War Officers, etc. (Exceptions are those categories already proposed - Civil War Discovery Trails and Statues of Civil War Generals.)

 

Waymarks need not be limited to areas where the war was actually fought (primarily the South). Many cities and states in the North have erected monument to fallen soldiers. The remains of a number of Union soldiers originally buried in the South were disinterred and relocated to the North after the war and buried there.

 

The group’s mission is to keep the memories of this important conflict alive and give other waymarkers an opportunity to do the same.

 

Please post if you are interested and give me a bit of background on why you'd like to participate.

 

Thanks.

 

-showbizkid

Edited April 5, 2006 by showbizkid

[+BruceS]

Not that is one is a conflict but the Civil War Discovery Trail category is nearing the end of peer review and will be a category sometime tomorrow. Depending on the categories this group selects many of the Waymarks could be in both categories.

[+TheBeanTeam]

I would be interested in this group and would love to take part in it.

 

My paternal great grandfather was a union soldier under General Thomas in the western theater of the War Between the States.

 

I have long been very interested in this subject and involve myself in study of the topic.

 

Even here in Oregon there are entire sections of cemetaries that are dedicated to Civil War dead that include monuments like this one.

 

 

.....so the ideas that come from a group of this nature will have national and perhaps even international appeal. There are so many facets to this conflict that several categories could spring from the ideas generated in this group.