contents -- "'The time has come' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things . . .'" An Introduction -- Historical-Archaeological Methods and the Documentation, Analysis, and Interpretation of Military Sites -- Following the Paper Trail A Historian's Role at the Snake Hill Excavations, Ontario, Canada -- Geophysics Some Recommendations and Applications -- Military Medicine in the Pre-Modern Era Using Forensic Techniques in Archaeological Investigations to Investigate Military Remains -- When the Site is a Scene Battlefield Archaeology and Forensic Sites -- Maritime Archaeology of Naval Battlefields -- Watch-Fires of a Hundred Circling Camps Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Investigating Civil War Campsites -- Mapping Early Modern Warfare The Role of Geophysical Survey and Archaeology in Interpreting the Buried Fortifications at Petersburg, Virginia -- Topics in the Historical Archaeology of Military Sites -- Civil War Battlefield Archaeology Examining and Interpreting the Debris of Battle -- Dissecting Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Battlefields Two Case Studies from the Jacobite Rebellions in Scotland -- Patterning in Earthen Fortifications -- Methods in the Archaeology of Colonial Frontier Forts Examples from Virginia and West Virginia -- Great War Archaeology in Belgium and France A New Challenge for Battlefield Archaeologists -- History, Archaeology, and the Battle of Balaclava (Crimea, 1854) -- Cultural Landscapes and Collateral Damage Fredericksburg and Northern Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in the Civil War -- Naval Battlefields as Cultural Landscapes The Siege of Yorktown -- The Maple Leaf Wreck Site of a Civil War Transport Ship -- Naval Monuments and Memorials Symbols in a Contested Landscape -- "We Must Act Under Our Own Chiefs According to our Own Customs" Understanding Indigenous Military Archaeology.

Tragedy of the Nez Perce War of 1877 An Archaeological Expression -- glossary -- references -- index.