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    Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) and Grant (120,000) including the approach and the movement toward Spottsylvania [sic] Courthouse "Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.): G1292.W5S5 .R8 1935 folio. Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Russell, Robert E. L.
    • Date: 1864

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    Battery no. 6 on Mechanicsville Turnpike : total contents 10 69/100 acres. Gives measurements and latitude and longitude of perimeters. Map annotated with names of land owners: Edward Nauman and John B. Davis. One of a series of ten maps showing the plats of land appropriated for Batteries 1-10 around Richmond. Original maps are included in Personal Papers Collection, accession 26971, B.M. Jones Papers. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia;...
    • Contributor: Jones, M.
    • Date: 1861
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    Birds eye view of the city of Jackson, Michigan. Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 355 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 710/1
    • Contributor: Chicago Lithographing Co. - Ruger, A.
    • Date: 1868
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    Plan of Andersonville Prison or "Camp Sumter," April, 1864. Illustrates the layout of Andersonville Camp, as Sneden refers to the prison, and the surrounding area where Confederate guard troops of the 1st Florida Battery were stationed including the headquarters of Captain Henry Wirz, roads in and out, topographical features such as swampland, a graveyard presumed to be connected with the prison, and "Anderson Village." Sneden revised this map and it is available as...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1864
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    Sketch no. 4 of roads between Hd. Qu. 10th Army Corps and Swift Creek on the south : with enemy's 2nd line of intrenchments around Drury's Bluff on the north "To Brig. Gen. A. Terry, with Col. Serrell's complements, May 24th, 1864." Description derived from published bibliography. Includes handwritten note pasted to map: "Found among papers in the army field desk of Pvt. Maj. Gen. Alvin Coe Voris, who commanded the Union force in the Chester Station fight, May 10th, 1864. Presented by Alvia V. Baird of Delaplane, Virginia, April 10th 1937." Oriented with...
    • Contributor: United States. Army. Corps, 10th. Engineer Office
    • Date: 1864
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    The Washington map of the United States. Insets. By the Superintendent, U.S. National Observatory. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 2 copies.
    • Contributor: Maury, Matthew Fontaine
    • Date: 1862
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    Plan of the Battle of Antietam, Maryland. Sept 1862 Shows the area between Keedysville, Md., to the north and the Potomac River to the south. The locations of Sharpsburg, Md., and Antietam Creek are also indicated.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1862-09-16
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    Seat of war, Manassas and its vicinity Scale ca. 1:322,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 568 Confederate imprint. Shows "battle ground, July 18th," "battle ground July 21st," roads, railroads, towns, and drainage. "Blue Ridge," "Thorough Fare Mountains," and two unnamed mountains are indicated by hachures. Troop positions are not given. Roads, railroads, bridges, and distances are described in a brief text below the map. Description derived from published bibliography. Available...
    • Date: 1861
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    First attack upon Fort Fisher, by the U.S. Navy under Rear Admiral D. D. Porter, Dec. 24 and 25, 1864. Showing the position of vessels and line of fire Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 316.2 From Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress.-Report of the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1865). fol. p. 10. Printed in upper left margin: 39th Cong. 1st sess.-Annual Report of...
    • Contributor: United States. Navy
    • Date: 1865
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    Topographical map of Franklin County, Maine Relief shown by hachures. LC Land ownership maps, 267 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes distance chart, statistics, and illustrations. Insets: Allen's Mills -- Berry's Mill -- Chesterville -- East Dixfield -- East Wilton -- Farmington -- Farmington Falls -- Jay Bridge -- Keith's Mills -- Kingfield -- New Sharon -- New Vineyard -- Northern portion...
    • Contributor: Walling, Henry Francis
    • Date: 1861
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    Petersburg Shows fortifications and names of some residents. Official [signed] N. Michler, Major [of Engrs.]. Civil War salted paper maps. LC copy annotated in pen-and-ink, watercolor, crayon and pencil to show picket lines of the 2nd, 5th, and 6th Union corps situated between Fort Wadsworth and Billup's P.O. on the Weldon and Petersburg R.R. "Gilbert Thompson" stamped on lower right corner, annotated in pencil. Sun...
    • Contributor: United States. Army of the Potomac. Engineer Department - Michler, N. (Nathaniel)
    • Date: 1864
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    The new war map of Virginia, Maryland & Pennsylvania. General map of the Middle Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay regions showing railroads, highways, and selected forts in eastern Virginia. Does not show Civil War battle locations or troop positions. Relief shown by hachures. Printed in brown. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy fold-lined. Acquisitions control no.: 91-52 CW3
    • Contributor: Russell - Russell, (Benjamin )
    • Date: 1860
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    Stannard & Dixon's birds eye view of the north & south states of America : shewing the seat of revolution : projected from the ordnance surveys of the United States
    Stannard and Dixon's birds eye view of the north and south states of America     Aerial view of the eastern United States. Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Southern slave states indicated by the letter "S". Does not show Civil War military sites or battlefields. Hand colored to emphasize state boundaries. Sheet sectioned to 18 panels to enable folding. LC copy imperfect: Torn at upper fold line, taped, adhesive labels affixed to verso, cover title panel missing. Includes pictorial...
    • Contributor: Packer, Thomas - Stannard & Dixon
    • Date: 1861
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    Map of Jackson County, Iowa Shows landowners. LC Land ownership maps, 190 Scale from LC Land ownership maps. Includes ancillary maps of Bellevue and Maquoketa and illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on cloth and sectioned into six pieces.
    • Contributor: Thompson & Everts
    • Date: 1867
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    Extract of military map of N.E. Virginia showing forts and roads. Covers Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Also shows rural householders' names and vegetation. In left upper margin: 39th Cong. 1st Sess.--Report of the Chief Engineer U.S.A. Includes note and coat of arms below title. In right upper margin: No. 1. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 686 LC copies mounted on cloth backing. LC copy 2 fold-lined...
    • Contributor: Bowen & Co. - United States. Congress - United States. War Department. Engineer Bureau
    • Date: 1865
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    Map of the United States of North America, Upper & Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia & British Columbia. Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, St. Domingo and the Bahama Islands. Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 11.5 At top of map; Supplement to the Illustrated London News, June 1, 1861. General map showing state and international boundaries, railroads, cities, rivers, and relief by hachures. Two colors are used to differentiate between Union and Confederate states. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster...
    • Contributor: Ettling, Theodor
    • Date: 1861
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    Map of Macon, Ga. and vicinity. Shows fortifications in the Macon area. Title on verso. Oriented with north to the right. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S87, 190 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Pen and ink and pencil, separated along fold lines, mounted on cloth and laminated. Title on verso obscured by mounting.
    • Date: 1864
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    Part of Cobb Co., Ga.
    Part of Cobb County, Georgia     Shows northern Cobb County, Georgia. Relief shown by hachures. Differs from other 1864 ed. in omission of continuation at left edge. Main entry from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Negative photocopy. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S59 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes names of select landowners. Annotations in pencil, red pencil, and ink. LC...
    • Contributor: United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers - United States. Army. Department of the Cumberland. Topographical Engineers
    • Date: 1864
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    Perrine's new topographical war map of the southern states Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 43.6 Accompanies John S. Bishop's A Concise History of the War. Designed to Accompany Perrine's New War Map of the Southern States, with an Introduction and Statistical Appendix, Compiled from Authentic Sources (Indianapolis, Charles O. Perrine [c;1864]), 132, 9 p. 15 x 10 cm. Map indicates state boundaries and shore lines in green and battle...
    • Contributor: Perrine, C. O. (Charles O.) - Perrine, C. O.
    • Date: 1863
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    [Map of the vicinity of Fredericksburg, Va.]. Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by contours. Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Portions of 2 U.S. Geological Survey quadrangles pasted together, attached to a brown paper border, on the left side and mounted on cloth. Annotated in ink and pencil names of some residents, roads, features, etc. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H127 In pencil on...
    • Contributor: Geological Survey (U.S.)
    • Date: 1862
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    Copy of a map military reconnaissance Dep't Va. : [Hampton Roads and Norfolk regions, Va.] Map of the Hampton Roads vicinity showing Confederate fortifications/camps, settlements, city street patterns, roads, railroads, canals, streams, vegetation, and swamps. "Note--This map shows the positions of the rebel forces and their batteries as they were some six weeks since." Locates the "Minnesota 8 & 9 March 1862 on ground" and the "Monitor & Merrimac engagement on the 9th of March 1862". Relief shown by...
    • Contributor: Hitchcock, Ethan Allen - Worret, Ch. - United States. Army. Department of Virginia - Cram, Thomas Jefferson
    • Date: 1862
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    Winter quarters 1864 : [vicinity of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee] Sketch map showing Union troop positions, "Confederate Picket Post" on Lookout Mountain, roads, railroads, settlements, farms, and streams. Relief shown by hachures, spot heights, and landform drawings. Signed in ink handwriting at lower left: G.H. Blakeslee, 129th Ill. Inft. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink (brown/red/dark blue). Mounted on paper backing. Watermark: Franklin Mills. Imperfect: Laminated, small stain areas. Printed map pasted on...
    • Contributor: Dolton, G. E. (George E.) - Blakeslee, G. H.
    • Date: 1864
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    Map of the Rappahannock River fron [sic] Port Royal to Richards Ferry
    Map of the Rappahannock River from Port Royal to Richards Ferry     Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Fredericksburg city region. Shows "Lines of Gen. Hooker" at Chancellorsville, "Battle field of Gen. Sedgwick" at Salem Church, military bridges, towns, farmsteads with residents' names, wooded areas, and streams. Pen-and-ink (black/red) and watercolor (blue). Endorsed in ink handwriting on verso on 2 panels: Map of the Rappahannock from Port Royal to Kelly's Ford, showing the crossings of Gen....
    • Contributor: Vernam, John S. - Benham, Henry Washington - Woodbury, Daniel P. (Daniel Phineas) - United States Coast Survey - United States. Army of the Potomac. Engineer Brigade
    • Date: 1863
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    Bird's eye view of the city of Lexington, Lafayette Co., Missouri 1869. Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 430 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ill. and index to points of interest. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1
    • Contributor: Ruger, A.
    • Date: 1869
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    Bird's eye view of the city of Champaign, Champaign County, Illinois 1869. Perspective map not drawn to scale. "Looking from the south east." LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 144 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ill. and index to points of interest. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 710/1
    • Contributor: Chicago Lithographing Co. - Ruger, A.
    • Date: 1869