Old Opinions, New Glory: An Investigation of Rank and Battlefield Mortality among All-Black Units during the American Civil War *The companion set of all visualizations can be found here. I. INTRODUCTION On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the now famed Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all those held in bondage in states in rebellion. […]
In terms of roadblocks I’ve faced in forming this project, most have to do with data cleaning. More specifically, my dataset was compiled using a codebook, so dates and the like did not conform to workable standards for Tableau. For this reason, I had to break apart columns using field length factors, standardize the various […]
Visualizations In these first three visualizations, grouped together n the final project, my ambition is to explore geographic and temporal trends in Union Army enlistment for African Americans. The first, “Enlistments per Year” is a line graph which simply endeavors to demonstrate how total enlistments trackked through the course of the conflict. The second, “Birthplace […]
For this project, I’ll be using the dataset compiled by Jacob Metzer and Robert A. Margo entitled “Union Army Recruits in Black Regiments in the United States, 1862-1865.” This dataset records important information about these recruits, including their birthplace, place of enlistment, year of enlistment, regiment and company, rank, etc. It also delineates their pre-war […]
For the final project, I would like to use the “Union Army Recruits in Black Regiments in the United States, 1862-1865” dataset by Jacob Metzer and Robert A. Margo (available here). Given my interest in American military history, I think this dataset will provide a great opportunity to do a bit of analysis on force […]