Collection Items

  • Map
    [Map of the environs of Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi.]. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War Maps, 1989. Pencil sketch showing towns, railroads, roads, and drainage. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S116 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    [Map of the environs of Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi]. Title, scale, and date from Stephenson's Civil War Maps, 1989. Pen and ink sketch map drawn on tracing cloth. Indicates roads in red, drainage in blue, railroads, town and names of residents in black. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S117 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    [Map of the environs of Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863] Pen and ink sketch map indicating drainage. The "new channel" of Steel's Bayou is depicted. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S118 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    [Map of the environs of Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863] Title, scale, and date from Stephenson's Civil War Maps, 1989. Pen and ink sketch map drawn on tracing cloth, showing roads in red, principal rivers in blue, and "Vicksburg & Jackson R.R.," streams, towns, and names of residents in black. Fortifications are indicated at the "R.R. Brigde" across the Big Black River. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S119, 282 Available also through the...
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Miss. Vicksburg, Miss., Aug. 2... Scale ca. 1:29,250. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 285.1 Accompanies William Clifford Morse's The Geologic History of the Vicksburg National Military Park Area ([Jackson] Mississippi State Geological Survey, 1935), frontispiece. "Reproduced with only minor changes from a "Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Miss.' bearing the date of August 20, 1863, and the signature of C. B. Comstock, Captain of Engineers." Printed in...
    • Contributor: Spangenberg, Charles
    • Date: 1935-01-01
  • Map
    The siege of Vicksburg, its approaches by Yazoo Pass and othe... Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 280 "Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by S. H. Goetzel & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Alabama, for the Confederate States of America." Gives towns, Fort Pemberton, railroads, drainage, and the location of "Gen. Grant's Army 75000" opposite Vicksburg. Brief notes describe the "land...
    • Contributor: Hardee, T. S.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Approaches to Vicksburg, Miss. & Rebel defences
    Approaches to Vicksburg, Miss. and Rebel defences
    LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.). 281 Relief shown by contours and hachures. "No: 103. Recd. & regd. Nov. 6 1863." Detailed pen and ink drawing on tracing cloth, showing fortifications, roads, street names, railroads, houses, fences, drainage, vegetation, and contour lines. Map title is written in each corner on the verso. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress...
    • Contributor: Logan, James H.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Vicksburg and its defences. Constructed and engraved to illus... Scale ca. 1:72,500. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 283.2 From Tomes, Robert. The war with the South, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 1862-1867. v. 2, between p. 566 and 567. Signed (facsim.): Charles, Sholl, Topl. Engineer. "Entered according to act of Congress AD. 1863 by Virtue, Yorston & Co." Caption in lower margin: A topographical map of Vicksburg & its vicinity showing all...
    • Contributor: Sholl, Charles
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Miss. Relief shown by hachures. Civil War salted paper maps. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), S120, 285 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. Dedicated in ms: To Thomas E. Sherman to keep forever, from his father, W.T. Sherman, Maj. Genl. Jan 20, 1864. Union and Confederate entrenchments are handcolored blue and red respectively. Detailed map showing roads, streets,...
    • Contributor: Spangenberg, Charles
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Miss. Scale ca. 1:17,000 (not "1:15,840"). LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 285 Signed (facsim.): C. B. Comstock, Capt. of Engrs. Detailed map showing entrenchments, roads, streets, railroads, hachures, vegetation, houses, and drainage. Contains five topographic profiles, six cross sections of artillery batteries, and one cross section of a "rebel rifle pit." For another issue, see Sherman map coll. no. 120. Description derived from published...
    • Contributor: Spangenberg, Charles
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Tomlinson's map of Vicksburg, showing all the surrounding for... Scale ca. 1:65,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 286 At top of map: New map of Vicksburg, showing the scene of Gen. Grants operations, together with all of the fortifications, batteries, rifle pits &c. Text to right of map: Sketch of Vicksburg and the surrounding batteries. Map is printed in green ink and extends from Haines Bluff south to Port Gibson. Description derived...
    • Contributor: Tomlinson, G. W. (George W.)
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    [Environs of Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863] Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 279 Maps of "Yazoo River defences at Walnut Hills" and "Haines Bluff" autogr. by Hausmann. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Strausz, A. - Fendall, C. - Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell) - United States Coast Survey - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Map illustrating the operations of the U.S. forces against Vi... Scale ca. 1:390,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 287 "Indicates "Genl. Grant's track," "Union forces surrounding Vicksburg," and "track of Genl. Blair." Roads, railroads, drainage, and towns are shown. "Union victories" are noted by colored U.S. flags. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    View of Vicksburg and plan of the canal, fortifications & vic... Scale 1:63,360. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 294 Indicates fortifications, location, type and names of boats, roads, railroads, levees, drainage, vegetation, and the names of a few residents. Inset: [View of Vicksburg] 17 x 54 cm. Inscribed in the lower right hand corner "Major David C. Houston, Chief Engineer, 19th Army Corps, with the compliments from the author." Description derived from published bibliography....
    • Contributor: Wrotnowski, L. A.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the siege of Vicksburg. [1864]. Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 275 From Century illustrated monthly magazine, v. 30, Sept. 1885. p. 756. Shows fortifications, "Maj. Gen. Grant's Hd. Qrs. during the siege," street pattern of Vicksburg, houses, roads, railroads, drainage, vegetation, and relief by hachures. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Badeau, Adam
    • Date: 1885-01-01
  • Map
    Vicksburg and its defences Relief shown by hachures. From Tomes, Robert. The war with the South, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 1862-1867. v. 2, between p. 566 and 567. "Copyright 1877 by Virtue, Yorston." Caption in lower margin: A topographical map of Vicksburg & its vicinity showing all batteries that were in existence at the time of its fall, with the names of the owners of plantations, &c....
    • Contributor: Sholl, Charles
    • Date: 1877-01-01
  • Map
    Vicksburg Missp. and the Rebel batteries 1863. Shows the western theater of the war, focusing on Vicksburg. The Vicksburg & Jackson, and Vicksburg & Texas railroads are indicated.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the rebel position at Vicksburg, Miss., May 1863. Shows the Union troops surrounding the Confederate fortified city of Vicksburg, Miss., with blockades and forces on both sides of the Mississippi River. Shows the locations of outlying Confederate forts and other defenses including extensive use of abatis and felled trees to hinder overland advances. The map also indicates the position of Union gunboats on the Mississippi River south of the town of Warrenton,...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
  • Map
    The Enemy's fortifications around Vicksburg Shows the terrain and Confederate fortifications around Vicksburg, Miss., in mid-May, 1863, just after Confederate Gen. Pemberton was forced to evacuate Hayne's Bluff. Indicated are the locations of Union forces under Sherman, McPherson, McClernand, and Carr.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Plan of approaches to the Vicksburg Mine. Shows Brig. Genl. Hickenlooper's design for the trenches approaching Vicksburg, Miss., for the placement of the explosives detonated on 25 June.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1863-07-01