| Vol.
I, No. 8 | Gardening
/ Memorial Day | May
18th, 2001 |
Living
Together
Links to Living Together On-Line
. Links
to Living Together On-Line The
amount of info on the web is enormous, as anyone who's ever tried to run a
search can attest to. And, to put it all in context, best estimates say
that only a fraction, maybe 20 - 40 % of what's out there is actually making its
way to the search engines.
Well ...
Here at DownStreet, we'd like to try to help. So each issue, we
post a few links in Living Together to sites that might interest you.
Sometimes the links will be related to one another ... sometimes
we'll just offer up a somewhat random sampling. In either case, we think
we might be able to help you find the kind of site you've been looking for.
Of course, while we can't vouch for the fact that every link we provide will be
of interest to everyone, we do our best to filter out the noise and the
bustle. ... In
Memoriam
Lists of the War Dead ...
Links to On-Line Resources
In
conjunction with our Memorial Day theme, this month's Links to Living Together
On-Line focuses on web resources which list or help to find information about
those who have died in service to their country. ... Of course, we
will not follow our usual approach of ranking these sites. But know that
they seemed to be the most comprehensive ones out there.  |
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The Dead in this War -- there they lie, strewing the fields and woods and
valleys and battle-fields of the South -- Virginia, the Peninsula -- Malvern
Hill and Fair Oaks -- the banks of the Chickahominy -- the terraces of
Fredericksburgh -- Antietam bridge -- the grisly ravines of Manassas -- the
bloody promenade of the Wilderness -- the varieties of the strayed dead,
(the estimate of the War Department is 25,000 National soldiers kill'd in battle
and never buried at all, 5,000 drown'd -- 15,000 inhumed strangers or on the
march in haste, in hitherto unfound localities -- 2,000 graves cover'd by sand
and mud, by Mississippi freshets, 3,000 carried away by caving-in of banks,
&c.,) -- Gettysburgh, the West, Southwest -- Vicksburg -- Chattanooga -- the
trenches of Petersburgh -- the numberless battles, camps, Hospitals everywhere
pass'd away since that War, and its wholesale deaths, burials, graves. (They
make indeed the true Memoranda of the War -- mute, subtle, immortal.)
...
Walt Whitman {For
a list of the Civil War Dead from the Towns in Our Area, click here.}
Vermont
in the Civil War - Cemetery Database
Vermont
in the Civil War - Battles
We've said it elsewhere in this
month's issue, but it bears repeating: this "grassroots
effort" has put together an invaluable site on Vermont in the Civil War
and deserves much thanks. These links will take you to the two places
where you can find casualty lists of Vermonters who lost their lives in
service to their country. The Cemetery Database focuses on those who
are buried in national cemeteries. ... The Battles link will
take you to a menu of all the major battles of the War. Once you
select one, you will find a subsequent link to casualties of that particular
battle.
. World
War II Search
This link takes you to a page where you can enter
the name of a veteran and search the on-line database. Hosted by the
American Battle Monuments Commission, you'll want to be careful to follow
the instructions for entering names exactly as indicated -- last name SPACE
first name or initial ... no punctuation. The search will then scan
the database and return all matches. Simply click on the button next
to the veterans name and you will get a detail record of name, service
number, unit, where the vet entered the service, when he or she died, where
he or she is buried, and what awards he or she received. ... The
database is not absolutely complete, but it's the best available.
. Korean
War Search
This link is the companion page of the American
Battle Monuments Commission for Korean War vets. The same format holds
for this one as the WW II Search outlined above. ...
. The
Wall on the Web
This link currently contains a list of 58,169
names. Developed by the former Vietnam Veterans Home Page Platoon
Guide, Chris Shepard, he is performing an admirable service until a fully
searchable database can be created. At present, however, the list is
separated into 26 pages, one for each first initial of the last name.
In some cases, then, the complete pages can take a little while to fully
load in your browser window. {For example, 'X' contains only 1 record,
while 'S' contains over 5,000.} ... But the several times we
visited the site, it was still fairly fast considering.
If you know of any other resources like these, please let us
know. We plan on providing these links again for our Veterans Day /
Thanksgiving Day issue. . *******
******* If you know of any
links that you think are worthwhile, why not send them along to ...
links@downstreetmagazine.com
... If we agree, we'll be happy to include
them in an upcoming issue to pass the word along. ...
Thanks. *******
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