Welcome k.s.. Research is looking for proofs or confirmations of a lead and adding to your notes.,like a site, or just a solid evidence serendipity drops on you while following a lead or browsing history. Old maps can tell where traffic should have followed waterways or terrain.Water alone important when on foot or riding beasts. Plat maps reveal ownership,not always by an individual and can reveal what was on a property and when first developed. Local community seniors can be a rich source of verbal info, but please be fair and polite about it ,if they don,t want to share info or refer you to someone ,leave them be on the subject. If they put you in the way of a successful hunt, you may want to enhance their well being a tad in return. They are true history as you are ,just longer.
Keep records/notes of your leads and add to them over time as well as occasional review of inactive ones. Minds are funny how puzzles can be solved..Memory as you may have all ready found plays tricks on all of us, hunters,writers,tellers of tales.If your into Civil War era, study it from a participants perspective of the who,why,how,when,and where. The where looked usually nothing like it does now.Sound reasoning when allowed determined where to sit,lay down,get drinkable water,graze an officers horse. After the ladies created a sanitary commission to combat great illness numbers ,even where to go the bathroom was established. So finding camp sites can follow original methods ,requirements and locations? Distance traveled between camps affected by? H.H.
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And let us know what you dig up! Andi
