Find My Civil War & Reconstruction Photo Tours of History Sites on Google Earth

As many of you know I had a medical issue last March that led to me taking A LOT of very long walks. I try to take many of those walks near Civil War memorials! I have done about 30 of these walks in the last ten months and took a lot of photos. I decided to record them on Google Earth which can be easily jumped into on a computer and (with the free app) on a phone. I wanted to see if some of my friends here could take a look at the Google Earth project here:

This Google Earth thing is something I began working on in December and I am wondering if it is useful to others. I invite questions, criticism, suggestions, etc.

None of the sites are MAJOR BATTLEFIELDS. I visited the sites either on my daily three mile walks or while on business trips. So far all are between Maine and D.C.

You can find a site on the map that is marked with the RED historical site icon. Here you can see all the sites I posted in December and January. The scenes below are screenshots. To explore the actual Google Earth project, just click here.

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Below you can see the RED icon for the Elmira Prisoner of War Camp in Upstate New York.

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If you click on the RED icon, a pop-up will appear with a photo of the site and a brief description. You will some text in blue with a link. If you click the link, you will see a full page on the site, including my touring suggestions and four to twenty photos.

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If you look in Upstate New York at the small city of Auburn, it looks like there is only one site there.
If you zoom in you will see four sites appear. So scroll around and zoom in and out.
Let me know if this is at all useful. I plan to add more sites, but I don’t want to waste my time if this is not useful.
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