The Henry Daily Herald reports Col C.T. Zachry‘s last home, a house in McDonough, Georgia, will be relocated to serve as visitor’s center or museum at the Nash Farm site.
Zachry was Lieutenant Colonel of the 27th Georgia Infantry at Sharpsburg, where he succeeded to command of the regiment when Colonel Smith was killed in action.

The Nash Farm is noted as the site of the last action of the Atlanta Campaign of 1864.

Col Zachry before his next-to-last house, “Peachstone”, Henry County, GA
(photo from g-g-grandson Posey B. Howell)

Someone named Thomas has popped up in the American Civil War blogosphere this week with My Civil War Notes.

His first serious notes are about William Baya, a name I know from the 8th Florida Infantry. In September 1862 Baya was a Captain and ascended to command of the Regiment after two more senior officers were killed during the battle of Sharpsburg.

I look forward to more–

Greetings and good hunting, Thomas!

Visit a lovely timeline-based exhibit of US Presidents of the 20th Century from the folks at the Learning Technology Center, University of Texas at Austin, and Terra Incognita Productions— developers of “interactive educational experiences”.

Lieutenant Harry S Truman, 1917

Is it good education (Jeremy? Paula?)? Don’t know, but it sure has lots of good things to to look at.

See more in the February 15th launch announcement.

edit 3/14: removed extraneous punctuation from caption above.

Thomas J. Jones of the Antietam National Battlefield is among 7 candidates for the servicewide Harry Yount Award for 2007. Ranger Jones has already won for the National Capital Region.

The previous recipients of the award have embodied its intent, which is to honor rangers who, as their career has advanced, have continued to consistently and conscientiously go out every day and do the traditional, generalist ranger duties of protecting the resources and serving the visitor and who have done it well in the eyes of their peers.

Congratulations and thanks for your fine service to Ranger Jones, and best wishes in the “nationals”.

More from the US Park Service press release.

Talking about creating useful digital collections at WebWise 2007 yesterday, Dr. Deanna Marcum of the Library of Congress opined:

… it is not enough for us to create the perfect finding system, we know from all the user studies that individuals who are looking for information go directly to the open web, and our marvelous catalogues are not getting used. We have to find ways to take our content and the metadata and move that content to the open web. And until we do that, I believe we face a high probability of spending much, much, much money on developing bibliographic structures that are only used by a limited number of people. I know that in any organization when people are really good at what they do, it is very hard to abandon those systems. It is not enough to say ≈ìwell, users should use our catalogue.¬ù

Well let's think about how users are finding what they need and go where the users are. What we've always wanted to do. We have talked as librarians about how we want to get information into the hands of the people who need it. We now have the mechanism.

WHY ARE WE MAKING THAT HARD?

We have the opportunity to do what we've always said we want to do. Why aren't we doing it?

This is critical insight. I hope other library and museum people are listening …

Thanks to Holly Witchey, blogging at Musematic, who transcribed the Q&A (and covered most of the Conference). The original question to Dr Marcum that began the conversation apparently came from Murtha Baca of the Getty Research Institute:

What are some of the ways we can combat the idiotic idea that if you scan everything you get good access to it?

Talk about your strawman sans antecedent. I don’t think many people are seriously suggesting any such thing, but it gets the conversation started, right?