GDG- Ok... I will start one. How do we figure out timing?

[Jim Lamason]

Hi all, 

I have been more then a lurker, but here goes........... 

As I continue to research the New Jersey troops at Gettysburg, I keep
stumbling across timing. 

By that I mean, we all know that the keeping of time back then was at best
inaccurate. No body thought to coordinate watches, or used the suns position
in the sky to figure out the time of day.. 

Has any one in this great knowledge base figured out a way to coordinate the
timing of events? 

Jim Lamason 
The Flag, the Flag, Oh the Flag! G.K. Warren on his death bed, 1882.