Long Lane

[Amish John]

I've yet to catch a significant terrain feature or structure which NSD has not included. However, I don't give up easy. B)

[Little Powell]

Amish John wrote:

I've yet to catch a significant terrain feature or structure which NSD has not included. However, I don't give up easy. B)

It seems that every time I test, something new catches my eye. The maps are simply amazing.

[louie raider]

thanks LP.

i notice that GBDaily has an article on the Bliss Farm today, great stuff.

and to answer a future question from AJ: yes, the Bryan tenant house is on the map

[O. O. Howard]

Amish John wrote:

And just as we are discussing Long Lane, the following is the subject of today's Gettysburg Daily web site:

http://www.gettysburgdaily.com/

This will only link to info on Long Lane today. After today, anyone wanting to look at the Long Lane info at gettysburgdaily.com will have to search the site for it.

Thanks for that link. The photos were cool, especially where current Long Lane deviates from the original. The sunken nature of the road is clearly visible. One of my (many) favorite regiments, the 106th PA, had some companies fight around the Bliss Barn in the area shown in the link. It was a hot little fight there for a while, but pretty much a side-show to the rest of the action going on.

[Amish John]

Louie Raider wrote:

thanks LP.

i notice that GBDaily has an article on the Bliss Farm today, great stuff.

and to answer a future question from AJ: yes, the Bryan tenant house is on the map

I haven't gone through the whole Bliss Farm posting on GBDaily yet, but the one video said (if I heard him right) the Bryan farm tenant house was at the location where the post and board fence (Bryan farm lane) met the Emmitsburg Road. So the "tenant" house is a separate structure from the Bryan farm house. If so, I don't see the tenant house on the version of the Warren map I have. Do you have a map that shows it?

[J Canuck]

So I tried to fly a lead balloon. Humour me ….. I'll finish this off anyway.

SMA (Sid Meier's Antietam ) was the sequel to SMG. SMA contained several enhancements such as extended firing range for artillery, entrenchments, river fords, grand battery command and sunken roads with a terrain bonus, to name a few. Doug Bonforte (aka Col Zeitsev) combined the original SMG map with the enhanced SMA game engine to create his mod he entitled SMG2. Doug touched up the SMG map primarily by adding the sunken road I now know as the Long Lane. SMG2 was a remarkable modding achievement for its time; it virtually made a new game out of SMG.

End of thread hijack.

[louie raider]

Amish John wrote:

Louie Raider wrote:

thanks LP.

i notice that GBDaily has an article on the Bliss Farm today, great stuff.

and to answer a future question from AJ: yes, the Bryan tenant house is on the map

I haven't gone through the whole Bliss Farm posting on GBDaily yet, but the one video said (if I heard him right) the Bryan farm tenant house was at the location where the post and board fence (Bryan farm lane) met the Emmitsburg Road. So the "tenant" house is a separate structure from the Bryan farm house. If so, I don't see the tenant house on the version of the Warren map I have. Do you have a map that shows it?

yep. more specifically, Frassanito's Early Photography @ GB, pg. 218. When one is creating a historical map it definitely pays to depend on multiple resources to make certain one has as much accurate info as possible. While the Warren maps are nice, they're definitely inaccurate, as much as any map that's been created before computers/satellites were available.