Week 12 Blog
This was our final week of the Battle of Olustee project. It is a bittersweet feeling for this summer internship come to a close. I am extremely grateful to have been part of a project that will hopefully make a significant impact on how Floridians view their history. I also hope that we can achieve…
Week 11 Blog Post
This week, our Olustee Battlefield group has been preparing for the Internship Showcase next week. We have decided to do a combined presentation as we each have our own specific research topics under the Olustee Project. Dr. Gannon has also given us instructions for completing our research for the website we will eventually be launching.…
Week 10 Blog Post
This week, the Olustee intern team did not meet over Zoom. However, Dr. Gannon left us with the task of doing some of our own individual research. She asked us to find and share our most interesting and important sources. Last week, Dr. Gannon reached out to another professor at UCF to gain some insight…
Week 8 Blog
This week, I mentioned the passing of Florida House Bill 37 to Dr. Gannon and the rest of our Olustee group. We agreed that this bill could be of great use to our project because it provides us with a specific division to contact within the state government. I did more research on the bill…
Week 7 Blog Post
This week we discussed more of our plans for the Olustee project. Again, Dr. Gannon mentioned the convict laborers that may be buried at the beach at Olustee. This topic ties into our efforts to look for missing Union soldiers because many of these soldiers and laborers that perished at Olutsee are believed to be…
Week 6 Blog
This week, one of the members of our group, Jacob, shared with us the pictures that he took at Olustee from his recent visit there. In these pictures, we saw just how little memorial there was for anyone besides the Confederates. We also saw pictures of the beach where we believe workers from the once…
Week 5 Blog
This week, our group focused on our goals for the Olustee project this summer. As I have mentioned in previous blog posts, our group determined that one of the best ways for us to reach our goal of establishing a monument is to make more people aware of the issue. We decided that social media…
Week 4 Blog
This week, Dr. Gannon informed us of new details about the history of Olustee. Decades ago in the Olustee National Forest, there was a turpentine factory that was run by the USDA’s Naval Stores Station. Dr. Gannon explained that some of the factory workers who died at this factory may have been buried in the…
Week 3 Blog
This week we discussed our plans for the project and some of the other factors that went into the Battle of Olustee. Specifically, Dr. Gannon introduced us to Andersonville. Many of the prisoners of war captured during the Battle of Olustee were sent to Andersonville. Dr. Gannon explained that the Andersonville prison is now the…
Week 2 Blog
This week was our first Zoom meeting about the Olustee project. During this meeting, Dr. Gannon asked us what our strengths were for the project. However, the most important part of the meeting was Dr. Gannon’s explanation of the Battle of Olustee and her recent visit to the battlefield. As someone who has never been…
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