Credits

Lorien Foote, the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor of History at Texas A&M University, conducted the research that led to this project and conceived its content and scope. She is the author of The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016), which uses evidence from the Fugitive Federals database.  

Andrew Fialka, associate Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University, created all maps in ArcGIS and built the project's original website.

Erin Hope assisted in creating the Fugitive Federals database.

Ethan Reed created a second version of this website, contributing data visualizations and text. 

Aidan Brown updated the website and created the timescale visualizations. 

Robin Roe, a Texas A&M University graduate student, researched and verified mapping locations, created a geodatabase of prison locations inside the Confederacy, researched historical maps, and assisted in database management.

Douglas Bell and David Villar, Texas A&M University graduate students, verified mapping locations for specific escape routes visualized in Fugitive Federals.

Ken Merrick, a Texas A&M University graduate student, assisted in database management.

Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History, provided his expertise at early stages of the project, served as a consultant, and provided a home for the original Fugitive Federals website.

Laura June Davis, Assistant Professor of History at Columbus State University, developed the framework for undergraduate students at the University of Georgia and Texas A&M University to produce short biographies of escaped prisoners.

David Holcomb of UGA’s Information Technology Outreach Services provided technical assistance.

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).

Please cite the original project as: Lorien Foote and Andrew Fialka, Fugitive Federals: A Digital Humanities Investigation of Escaped Union Prisoners, fugitive-federals.tamu.edu, published August 2018, accessed (date)