I'm excited about starting my final project for my Digital History class. Since I am already working on a project at the University of New Hampshire involving civil war letters from a member of the New Hampshire 14th Volunteer Regiment, I thought I might enhance that with added digital components. This blog will serve as a document of the tools with which I experiment, and what works and what doesn't. It will also serve as a stream of consciousness for me as I embark on this effort to bring to life the letters of John Henry Jenks.

I've done some searching today for more information about the 14th Volunteer Regiment from Keene, and was lucky to find a digital version of volume 3 of the Granite Monthly, published in 1880, that has a short section on the 14th Regiment and notes J. Henry Jenks' death in 1864. Because this volume has been digitized by UNH, I was able to find and access this immediately, rather than wait until Monday when I could look at the physical copy in the library.

http://www.library.unh.edu/digital/object/granite:0003

I also plotted the known locations of the regiment using some Google Maps tools that allowed me to see how far they travelled. I hope to refine this as time goes on.