Although I can find no news releases or news articles about the event, The CivilWarPhotoSleuth website did an official launch today at NARA in Washington D.C.. See their Facebook page for more info on that. The site has been around for some time (although without the official launch), and is doing some great work. The CWPS team is led by Prof. Kurt Luther, director of the Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech. His partners include Mr. Ron Coddington, editor and publisher of Military Images Magazine, and Prof. Paul Quigley, director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies.
The website has a database of American Civil War related photographs, as well as links to other Civil War related sites. According to their “About” page, their “mission is to rediscover the lost names and stories of every photo of American Civil War soldiers and sailors.”
Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the heads-up about the launch.
