WIA Cabins

I have begun work on Flat Woods, the final map in the WIA series. Flat Woods will be part of the WIA5 Campaign Theater and is located near the present-day city of Mountain View in Stone County, Arkansas. (Stone County was established from part of Izard County after the war.)

In the area of Flat Woods (Mountain View was not established until after the war) was a settler name Samuel Brown and his cabin, covered with clapboard was a pre-war structure that still exists. The architecture is similar to the small cabins appearing in WIA maps. Most of the WIA maps use the same few houses, as there aren't too many options and I don't know how to create new houses. Many of the houses available for map makers come from the Gettysburg and Fredericksburg maps, and would be anachronistic for the Ozarks in the Civil War period. So.... it is hard to tell one WIA map from the other in terms of the houses used. They are, however, representative of local buildings at the time: