Collection Items

  • Map
    Hunter's victory at Mount Crawford [October 2, 1864]. Scene of the operations in Shenadoah Valley-capture of Staunton [June 6, 1864]. Scale not given. Relief shown by hachures. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 654.8 Anonymous, undated newspaper map showing the Shenandoah Valley from Front Royal to Staunton. Military information is not given. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the Shenandoah & Upper Potomac including portions of Virginia and Maryland Scale 1:253,440. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 655.5 General map extending from Charlottesville north to the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary and showing roads, railroads, towns, rivers, houses and names of residents, and relief by shading. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Meigs, John Rodgers
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the Shenandoah Valley, to illustrate the Valley Campaign of "Stonewall" Jackson, 1862: Scale ca. 1:860,000. Relief shown by hachures. Inset: General map [of Virginia and Maryland] 11 x 12 cm. This map was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1948 with the purchase of the papers and maps of Maj. Jedediah Hotchkiss. It is the base used to produce maps I and II in William Allan's History of the Campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall)...
    • Contributor: Hotchkiss, Jedediah - J.B. Lippincott & Co - Humphreys, D.C.
    • Date: 1880-01-01
  • Map
    [Maps illustrating campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. 1862 Various scales. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 654.6 Proof sheet containing the maps made to illustrate William Allan's History of the Campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880). 175 p. Proof sheet was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1948 with the purchase of the papers and maps of...
    • Contributor: Hotchkiss, Jedediah - Humphreys, D. C. - J.B. Lippincott & Co
    • Date: 1880-01-01
  • Map
    [Maps illustrating campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. 1862. Various scales. Proof sheet containing the maps made to illustrate William Allan's History of the Campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880). 175 p. Proof sheet was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1948 with the purchase of the papers and maps of Maj. Jedediah Hotchkiss. Contents: I. Shenandoah Valley...
    • Contributor: Hotchkiss, Jedediah - Humphreys, D. C. - J.B. Lippincott & Co
    • Date: 1880-01-01
  • Map
    Lee's map of the Valley of Virginia. Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 655 Insets: [Minerals and rock deposits in the vicinity of Luray, Virginia] 13 x 11 cm.-[View of] Luray Inn. 13 x 21 cm. Map of the Shenandoah Valley, showing roads railroads, towns, relief by hachures, and the location of 30 Civil War battlefields. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress...
    • Contributor: Lee, A. Y.
    • Date: 1890-01-01
  • Map
    Map to illustrate the report of Brigadier-General Hill Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 693 Map of part of West Virginia and western Maryland from Romney west to Grafton, showing the battle of Corricks Ford on July 14th, routes used by Union and Confederate columns, location of bridges burned by Confederates on July 12, 14, and 15, and the "point where pursuit was abandoned by orders of Major-General McClellan."...
    • Contributor: Richardson, James H.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    [Western Virginia from Petersburg to Warm Springs, showing the movement of the Union army, 1862] Covers parts of the counties of Grant, Randolph, Pendleton, and Pocahontas, West Virginia and Highland and Bath, Virginia including the names of some residents. Relief shown by shading. Date and title from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Prime meridian: Washington? Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil. In upper left corner: Sheet No. 1. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 458 Includes note. In ink on blue...
    • Contributor: Hausmann, A.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    [Map of part of eastern West Virginia, extending from Romney westward to Clarksburg, centering on the Rich Mountain Battle area]. Shows "Camp Bartow" and "Yankee Camp on Cheat Mt." Relief shown by hachures. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pencil and colored pencil on lined paper, mounted between sheets of transparent paper. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H67 Imperfect: Lower left corner is lacking, repaired tears in top left and right corners. Smudges and discoloration throughout. Available also through the...
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    [Map of part of Pocahontas, Randolph, and Webster counties, West Virginia]. Map shows the approximate position of the "enemy" south of Mace and the location of two camps southeast of Huttonsville, one of which is named "Camp Summit Cheat." Map also includes "turnpikes," "common roads," "horse paths," towns, drainage, houses, and names of residents. Relief shown by hachures. Title derived from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Oriented with north to the bottom. Pen-and-ink sketch with...
    • Date: 1865-01-01
  • Map
    [Sketch of the region west of Charlestown, West Virginia, showing fortifications]. Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by form lines. Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pencil (some col.), mounted on cloth. Similar to the map reproduced in the Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1891-95, pl. 82, no. 6. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H184 Available also through the Library of Congress...
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Military reconnaissance in the vicinity of Gauley Bridge, Department of western Virginia, Brig. Genl. W. S. Rosecrans, comd'g., Sept. 11th to Nov. 15, 1861 Scale 1:63,360. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 695 "United States forces" are colored blue, and "Confederate forces & works" are red. Shows Union headquarters, towns, roads, houses, names of residents, drainage, and relief by hachures. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Margedant, Wm. C. (William C.) - Raynolds, W. F. (William Franklin) - Powell, W. Angelo
    • Date: 1879-01-01
  • Map
    Vicinity of Winchester and Harper's Ferry, Va. Detail of a printed map of Winchester, Va., and environs, with annotations and additions by Sneden. Additions include inclusion of roads, notes about and dates of battles and skirmishes, location of the point where the Confederate army recrossed the Potomac River following the Battle of Gettysburg, and note that the town of Winchester changed hands [46] times during the war.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    Plan of the Battle of Carnifex Ferry, West Virginia. Carnifex Ferry is located on the Gauley River east of the town of Gauley Bridge. Floyd's Confederate forces are positioned with their backs to the Gauley River, and the Union is shown attacking chiefly in the center and on the left.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1861-09-25
  • Map
    [Map of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864]. Shows the area of the Shenandoah Valley including the Blue Ridge Mountains between Staunton and Front Royal, Va. In mid-1864 almost 50,000 troops were placed in the Middle Military Division under General Sheridan. Between August and November Sheridan engaged Early's troops several times at Winchester, Fishers Hill and Cedar Creek, Va.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Position of Union Army at Cedar Creek Union position and plan of battle. However, what initially appeared to be an overwhelming success quickly turned to a rout when the Union forces were redeployed and launched a successful counterattack that drove the Confederates back across the Shenandoah to Fisher's Hill, with heavy losses of men, equipment and supplies. Map shows troop locations along the Strasburg Pike on either side of Cedar Creek, and along the north fork of...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    [Map of the counties of Greene, Madison, Page, and Rockingham, and parts of the counties of Albemarle, Augusta, Culpeper, Louisa, Orange, and Rappahannock, Va.] "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, and geographic features. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of...
    • Contributor: Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Map of western Virginia This map was apparently captured by Confederate cavalry under the command of Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn during a raid on the Union arsenal at Holly Springs, Miss., in December 1862, and forwarded to the Confederate Engineer's Office in Richmond, Va.
    • Contributor: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - Bache, Alexander Dallas - Nicholson, W. L. - Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office - Krebs, Charles G.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    [Map of the lower Shenandoah Valley of Virginia]. "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 Library of Congress web site as a raster image....
    • Contributor: Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Johnson's Virginia, Delaware, Maryland & West Virginia "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1864, by A.J. Johnson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Includes ill. of "Fortress Monroe," "General post office," "Treasury buildings," "Patent Office," and "University of Virginia." Plates 35-36. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by isolines. Shows counties, railroads, and includes some...
    • Contributor: Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett)
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Military reconnaissance in the vicinity of Gauley Bridge, Department of Western Virginia, Brig. Gen'l W.S. Rosecrans, Comd'g., Sept. 11th to Nov. 15th, 1861 Relief shown by hachures. Shows Union headquarters, towns, roads, houses, names of residents, drainage. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 696 Swem, E.G. Maps relating to Virginia, 920 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. C....
    • Contributor: Julius Bien & Co. - Raynolds, W. F. (William Franklin) - United States. Army. Dept. Of West Virginia - United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers - Margedant, Wm. C. (William C.) - Powell, W. Angelo
    • Date: 1879-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the battle ground of Greenbrier River Oriented with north to upper right. Sketch map showing Confederate camps and batteries, positions of union and Confederate troops during engagements and drawings of principal buildings, roads and drainage. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 697 Parrish & Willingham. Confederate imprints,...
    • Contributor: McRae, A. T. - Gary (Printer) - Baumgarten, J.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    Berkeley County, Virginia "No. 20." Relief shown by hachures. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. C. 1, Dec. 2002; source unknown, Map Cataloging Team; c. 2, photocopy, LVA. C. 1, map accession no. 2537 (1967); c. 2, no....
    • Contributor: Hinkle, D. - Macomb, J. N. (John N.) - Hergesheimer, E. (Edwin) - Kearfott, J. Baker - Mathiot, G.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    Berkeley County, Virginia Hand-colored lines show roads "reliable in all seasons." Relief shown by hachures. Sun print. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. C. 1, Dec. 2002; source unknown, Map Cataloging Team; c. 2, photocopy, LVA. C. 1,...
    • Contributor: Macomb, J. N. (John N.) - Strother, David Hunter
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    Jefferson County, Virginia Sun print. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. C. 1, Dec. 2002, source unknown, Map Cataloging Team; c. 2, photocopy, LVA. C. 1, map accession no. 2533 (1967); c. 2, no. 2534 (1967) (negative photostat,...
    • Contributor: Macomb, J. N. (John N.)
    • Date: 1861-01-01