American Civil War Daily Lite
Daily Civil War events and maps.
THOMAS HORN
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Description
The app presents daily events from the American Civil War, including their locations on a zoomable map. It provides descriptions and links to Wikipedia articles for each event, drawing data from the American Civil War Timeline Project.
American Civil War Daily Lite answers two questions. What happened today in the American Civil War? Where did it happen? Show me a map!
Flip through daily events leading up to and during the deadliest war in American History.
Each page shows the date, a succinct description, a zoomable map for the event and a link to the a detailed Wikipedia article.
The data for American Civil War Daily Lite comes from the American Civil War Timeline Project at Cannonade.Net. This is a community contributed project to collect time and place data for the war. You can come to the site to browse the timeline or even log in and contribute new data.
The Timeline Project currently indexes over 400 data points with new entries being added daily. If a significant event isn't in the database yet, it soon will be.