Credits

Project Co-Directors

Lorien Foote

Andrew Fialka

Researchers & Consultants 

Undergraduate and Graduate students at Texas A&M researched and verified mapping locations, created a geodatabase of prison locations inside the Confederacy, researched historical maps, assisted in database management, created data visualizations, and maintained changing versions of the project website. Dr. Foote would like to thank Erin Hope, Ethan Reed, Aidan Brown, Robin Roe, Douglas Bell, David Villar, and Ken Merrick.

Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia, and David Holcomb of UGA’s Information Technology Outreach Services served as technical consultants. 

Laura June Davis, Assistant Professor of History at Columbus State University, developed the project’s initial classroom use.

Citations

The University of Central Arkansas, Texas A&M University, and the University of Georgia have contributed funds to this project.

Fialka used some Union positions demarcated in the maps from Mark Swanson & Jacqueline D. Langley, Atlas of the Civil War, Month by Month: Major Battles and Troop Movements (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004). 

Civil War-era basemaps come from The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Atlas (available at the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701sm.gcw0099000). 

State outlines come from the National Historical Geographic Information System’s 1860 census data.

Please cite this project as:

Lorien Foote and Andrew Fialka, Fugitive Federals: A Public History Investigation of Escaped Union Prisoners, fugitive-federals.tamu.edu, published November 2022, (accessed [date]).

The project's original website is now retired.