Collection Items
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MapMap of New Kent, Charles City, James City and York counties. "Chief Engineer's Office D.N.V. Colonel J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer."--map. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virginia Historical Society by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Minis, Sav[ana]h, Ga."--Note on map. Forms part of the Gilmer Map Collection. Relief shown by hachures. Shows towns, waterways, roads, geographic features and land owners. Available also through the...
- Contributor: Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office
- Date: 1863-01-01
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MapMap of the country between the York and James Rivers in 1862 and 1863 : showing the names of the owners of the divisions of land at that time. "From a survey made for Hon. Eli Thayer of Massachusetts, who fixed at this point the site of the city he intended to build in connection with his plan for the free-labor colonization of Virginia. Mr. Thayer passed the union lines twice in 1862-3, receiving written authority from Secretary Seward, and with the aid of a surveyor was able to complete this map."--verso. Show...
- Contributor: Thayer, Eli
- Date: 1863-01-01