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    Map
    Map of Charleston Harbor, S.C. Scale ca. 1:15,800. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 371 Upper right corner: Mil. aff., vol. v., no. 591b. Red curves are marked 6, 12, 18, and 24 feet to show depths at mean low water. The area always covered with water is blue, the surface between high and low water marks is indicated by wavy lines and colored with bistre. Shows drainage, vegetation,...
    • Contributor: Bowen & Co
    • Date: 1860-01-01
  • Map
    [Map of Charleston Harbor showing defenses. 186-] Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 368a.5 Printed in upper margin: Peter Adams Co.'s.-vellum map. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Peter Adams Company
    • Date: 1860-01-01
  • Map
    Sketch of Charleston Harbor Scale ca. 1:70,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 385 Shows fortifications, street pattern of Charleston, vegetation, and a few soundings. Insets: Castle Pinckney. 7 x 5 cm-Fort Sumpter [sic]. 7 x 6 cm-Fort Moultrie. 5 x 6 cm. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Williams, W. A.
    • Date: 1860-01-01
  • Map
    Plan of Charleston Harbor, and its fortifications Scale 1:31,680. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 373 Shows channel, low water mark and soundings, drainage, roads, railroads, some dwellings, a plan of the city, and forts. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Elliot & Ames
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    Part of Charleston Harbor, embracing forts Moultrie, Sumter, ... Scale ca. 1:31,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 374 Shows the channel, drainage, vegetation, roads, plan of the city, and forts. A portrait of Major Anderson, commander of Fort Sumter, is in the upper right corner. Below the neat line is a view of the harbor and city from Fort Johnson to Mt. Pleasant. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the...
    • Contributor: Perry, George T.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    New map of Charleston Harbor, showing the scene of the great ... Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 376 Shows the coast from Long Island to the North Edisto River. Indicates drainage, roads, railroads, and dwellings with names of inhabitants. Channels, water depths, forts and batteries, with lines of fire, are given. The following title appears in the lower right corner: Tomlinson's map of Charleston Harbor, S.C., and vicinity, showing the fortifications and...
    • Contributor: Tomlinson, G. W. (George W.)
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of... Scale 1:30,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 378, 379 Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals. 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
    Charleston Harbor and city defences Scale ca. 1:170,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 372 "Key to the map of Charleston Harbor and defences" is pasted to the right of the map. "Green represents the Confederates" land [and] pink the Federal possessions" Indicates "torpedoes in the channels," obstructions, bridges, roads and streets, railroads, and rivers. Letters A to K represent fortifications, headquarters, depots, and "place where Clarck of Brooklin...
    • Contributor: Dobelmann, D. N. - Huck, G.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    General map of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, showing reb... Depths shown by gradient tints. Shows location of sunken ships. Printed in upper left margin: 39th Cong. 1st Sess. --- Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 370.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Boutelle, C. O. (Charles Otis) - Willenbücher, Eugene - Krebs, Charles G.
    • Date: 1865-01-01
  • Map
    Preliminary chart of Charleston Harbor and its approaches Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. In upper right margin: Plate 1 In lower right margin: Lith. of J. Bien. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ms. letter, signed by Gen. S.W. Crawford, a Union officer at Fort Sumter, dated July 10, 1869 Copy imperfect: Map edges torn Control no.: 99-28
    • Contributor: Boutelle, C. O. (Charles Otis) - Bien, Julius - United States Coast Survey - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
    • Date: 1858-01-01
  • Map
    Preliminary chart of Charleston Harbor and its approaches. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 383 Inscribed in ink: Transferred from Office of Chf. Engr., Defenses of Washington, to Engr. Dept., Jany. 1866. Shows fortifications, towns, soundings, roads and streets, vegetation, and drainage. Includes "view of main ship channel" and "view off north channel." Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    Resurvey of Charleston Bar Scale 1:30,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 384 "No. 15" is in the upper left corner. Revised and redrawn edition of the preceding chart published in 1862. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Sketch showing position of besieging batteries. [Fort Sumter]... Scale ca. 1:30,800. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 386.5 From U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, in two volumes. Supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1866). v. 2, fol. p. 8. Accompanies "Report of Major General J. G. Foster,...
    • Contributor: Foster, John G. (John Gray)
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of... [Scale 1:30,000]. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 380 Another issue. Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals. Overprinted to show positions occupied by the Union Army and Navy, and "Rebel batteries in possession [of] National forces [and] batteries still held by the Rebels [on] Sept. 7, 1863." Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the...
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of... Scale 1:30,000. Another issue. Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 381 Overprinted to show 1/4-mile concentric circles centered on St. Michaels, Charleston; positions occupied by the Union Army and Navy; "Rebel batteries in possession of National forces [and] batteries still held by the Rebels [on] Sept. 7th 1863." Union positions...
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of... Scale ca. 1:30,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 382 Another issue. Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals. Enlarged issue covering all of James Island and indicating 1/2-mile concentric circles centered on St. Michaels, Charleston, "first [and] second line[s] of Rebel defences," positions occupied by the Union Army and Navy, and "Rebel batteries in possession [of]...
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Map of Charleston Harbor with Morris Island and James, Broad,... Regional map of Charleston Harbor extending along the Atlantic Coast from Sullivan's Island just north of the harbor entrance to St. John's and Kiawah islands to the south. Indicates the presence of Union warships off the coast and places along the coastline where the Union has established a foothold.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
  • Map
    Charleston Harbor S.C. Bombardment of Fort Sumter. Regional view of Charleston Harbor showing the city of Charleston on the Ashley and Cooper rivers, Castle Pinckney on Shute's Folly Island, Pleasantville and Mt. Pleasant Battery, Mechanicsville and batteries on Sullivan's Island, and the Morris and James island batteries, and their distances from Fort Sumter. Shipping channels and the U.S. warships and supply fleet are also noted.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    Plan of the attack on Ft. Sumter, April 6th, 1863. Map shows a regional view of Charleston Harbor including Confederate fortifications and Union naval vessels. This April 1863 atttack by Union ironclads was unsuccessful.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1863-04-06
  • Map
    Map of Charleston Harbor showing Union and Rebel Batteries &c... Map shows the location of Union and Confederate fortifications on James, Sullivan, Block and Morris islands at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, S.C. In July 1863, Union generals Gillmore and Dahlgren hoped to take Fort Wagner, on Morris Island in Charleston Harbor, in order to gain a vantage point from which to launch an attack on the city of Charleston. Strongly defended by the...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
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    Plan of Genl Q. A. Gillmore's position on Morris Island, Char... Shows the progression of earthworks constructed to allow Union forces to approach Fort Wagner. Gillmore's troops reached the ditch surrounding the fort on September 6. The Confederate forces abandoned the fort during the night.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    Fortifications around Charleston, H.B. ... "Reduced from the Coast Survey Chart." Dated: "Charleston, Oct 23rd, 1863." Shows approximate distances between batteries. 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. source unknown; Oct. 2003, Map Cataloging Team. Civil War project no.: lva00154. Conservation:...
    • Contributor: Ruffin, Edmund
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    General map of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina : showing re... "Bowen & Co. lith. Philada." "The survey of the channels, fortifications etc. was made after the occupation of the Harbor by the U.S. Naval forces." Depths shown by gradient tints. 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...
    • Contributor: Bowen & Co. - Boutelle, C. O. (Charles Otis) - Krebs, Charles G. - Willenbacher, Eugene
    • Date: 1865-01-01
  • Map
    Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of... Description derived from published bibliography. Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals. 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.), 378 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. Source unknown; April...
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey
    • Date: 1863-01-01