The Civil War Project began as an offshoot from a project to research and locate the graves of civil war veterans in Williamson County, Texas. The only list that existed was put together in 1966 by the San Antonio Genealogical Society using manual efforts to document civil war graves. It became obvious to me that I could leverage technology to not only make it easier to put together a new, more comprehensive list, but I could expand it to include GPS locations and maps of civil war graves that had not existed before.
About half way through the project it also became evident to me that I needed to share the methodologies, best practices, and frameworks that I developed to help other individuals and groups conduct their own civil war cemetery research. The Civil War Project began. .
The end goal is not just to research civil war veterans, although that is a worthy enough goal in and of itself, but to locate and preserve those graves for posterity.
Johnny Anderson
The Civil War Project