Collection Items

  • Map
    1862 map of the James River.
    Map of the James River 1862.
    Payne, a member of the 4th Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A., was wounded and captured during the Battle of Williamsburg, Va., in May 1862. This map depicts the area of the Virginia Peninsula between Williamsburg and Richmond.
    • Contributor: Hunton Family - Payne, William Henry Fitzhugh
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    2nd attack on Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River, Georgia
    Second attack on Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River, Georgia
    Also shown is the result of an attack by Union Gen. William B. Hazen's 2nd Division, 15th Corps, 1864 December 13, which succeeded in taking the garrison. Shows a portion of Big Ogeechee River and indicates the location of Confederate Fort McAllister. On March 3, 1863 Union gunboats and ironclads attacked the fort in order to test the effectiveness of their new monitors, which...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1863-03-03
  • Map
    2nd Battle of Bull Run, Va. position of both armies, 6 p.m. Aug. 26th 1862, showing Jackson's flank march. The map shows the area surrounding the Bull Run Mountains including Centreville and Kellysville, Va. As part of the Second Bull Run Campaign, Pope's U.S. Army of Virginia assigned to protect Washington, the Shenandoah Valley and draw Lee away from the defense of Richmond. Lee split his army, and Jackson's brilliant maneuvering thoroughly confused Pope, and allowed Longstreet to join with reinforcements. While Longstreet's...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1862-08-26
  • Map
    The 2nd Battle of Bull Run, Va., August 1862. Map showing position of the Union and Rebel forces, August 26th, 1862 at 7 p.m. Below title: "Copy of Official Map Headquarters 3rd Corps. Drawn by R.K. Sneden, 40th N.Y. Vols. & Topog. Engineer. 3rd Army Corps." NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this scrapbook image. Original scrapbook housed in the Museum Department of the Virginia Historical Society (1994.80.4-525) with restricted access. This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1862-08-26
  • Map
    Abbeville District, South Carolina Scale from Stephenson's Civil War Maps, 1989. "Approved, Chas. R. Suter, 1st Lt., U.S. Engrs., Chf. Engr., D. S." Pen and ink tracing of a map in Robert Mills' Atlas of the State of South Carolina . . . Baltimore, F. Lucas, Jr. [1825] LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) S129. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Mills, Robert - Robertson, William
    • Date: 1825-01-01
  • Map
    Across Kentucky Scale ca. 1:1,020,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 215.5 Pen and ink sketch map showing "route of regiment" of the "38th Brigade, Gilbert's Division, of Buel's [sic] Army" from Louisville to "Mitchelsville" (i.e., Mitchellville), Tennessee. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Blakeslee, G. H.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    Additions & corrections for the "Map of a part of the Rappahannock above Fredericksburg" Scale ca. 1:63,360. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 619.4 Map of the Rappahannock River from Falmouth to Richard's Ferry. "The dotted parts of the river give points of reference to the original map." The map which this supplements and corrects is listed as entry no. 619.5. "No. 34" is written in ink below the map title. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also...
    • Contributor: Paine, William H.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Map
    Additions & corrections to the map of Cobb Co., Ga.
    Additions and corrections to the map of Cobb Co., Ga
    Shows northwestern area of Cobb County, Georgia. Relief shown by hachures. Main entry from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Negative photocopy. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S56, S57 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes names of select landowners. In manuscript pencil in lower right margin: 32. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined.
    • Contributor: United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers - United States. Army of the Cumberland. Topographical Engineers Office
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Aerial reconnaissance, August 10th, 1861 : [Sewells Point, Virginia] Relief shown by hachures. Civil War salted paper maps. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 654 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: La Mountain, John
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    Aero view of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (looking east). Perspective map not drawn to scale. Photocopy; blue line print. Oriented with north to the left. Bird's-eye-view. "G-CF-435 G 501." LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 159.5 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2: 651/1; 710/1
    • Contributor: Tennessee Valley Authority - Shutting, Rudolph J.
    • Date: 1974-01-01
  • Map
    Affair of the Wmsbg Road or Fair Oaks No. 2, Oct. 26-27-28/64
    Affair of the Williamsburg Road or Fair Oaks No. 2, October 26-27-28, 1864
    One of a series of five maps drawn by Col. Normand Smith showing Civil War battle lines. Original maps are included in Personal Papers Collection, accession 24417, Gaines Family Papers, 1776-1905. 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...
    • Contributor: Smith, Normand
    • Date: 1800-01-01
  • Map
    Albemarle County, Virginia Scale 1:126,720. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H275 Fine drawing, giving roads in red, drainage in blue, and elevations by hachures. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Hotchkiss, Jedediah
    • Date: 1867-01-01
  • Map
    Amelia County "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: Henderson, D. E. - Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    American campaigns, On verso of t.-p.: War Department. Document no. 324. Office of the Chief of Staff. "These volumes represent a part of my three years' work as lecturer in military history at the Army Service Schools at Fort Leavenworth."--Author's pref. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 87.2 Phillips, 10669 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Steele, Matthew Forney
    • Date: 1909-01-01

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  • Map
    The American Civil War--maps. Title from cover. Issued to accompany Formby, John. The American Civil War, a concise history of its causes, progress, and results (New York, Scribners, 1910). List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 10657 LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 66 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes maps of the principal campaigns and battles of...
    • Contributor: Formby, John
    • Date: 1910-01-01

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  • Map
    The American Civil War--maps. Title from cover. Issued to accompany Formby, John. The American Civil War, a concise history of its causes, progress, and results (London, John Murray, 1910). List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 10657 LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 65 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes maps of the principal campaigns and battles of...
    • Contributor: Formby, John
    • Date: 1910-01-01

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  • Map
    Amherst County, Virginia Scale ca. 1:126,720. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H277 Unfinished map giving roads in red, drainage in blue, but lacking names. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Hotchkiss, Jedediah
    • Date: 1867-01-01
  • Map
    Andersonville Prison Detailed plan of Andersonville Prison Camp, showing Sweetwater Lick to the north, and the Southwestern & Enfaula Railroad to the east. Shows the main forts, stockade and cemetery.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    Andersonville Prison, Georgia in July 1864. Illustrates a detailed outline of the actual prison yard with acreage and stockade dimensions given. Also, shows the surrounding area where the following sites were located: "death house," graveyard, rifle trenches, forts, including the one where Captain Henry Wirz had his headquarters and loghouse, Union hospital, cook house, and soup house.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
  • Map
    Antietam Relief shown by hachures. "General direction of Confederate line of battle, Sept. 16th 1862" and "(General direction of) Confederate line of battle, Sept. 17th 1862 (evening)" are hand-colored in red. Union troop positions are not indicated. Detailed map of the environs of Sharpsburg showing roads, the "Washington Co. R.R.," fences, houses, names of residents, vegetation, drainage, villages, the "Burnside Bridge," "Bloody Lane," "Dunker's Chapel,"...
    • Contributor: Michler, N. (Nathaniel)
    • Date: 1867-01-01
  • Map
    Antietam Scale ca. 1:31,680. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 250.4 Folded title: Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland. Relief shown by shading. Includes text, descriptive index to points of interest, and location map. Text and ill. (some col.) on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
    • Contributor: United States. National Park Service
    • Date: 1980-01-01
  • Map
    Antietam Relief shown by hachures. Map is annotated by hand to show the Confederate positions in red, additional hachures in pencil and blue ink,and a 3/4-inch grid. Another copy of original. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 245.95 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. This map was in the possession of Jedediah Hotchkiss...
    • Contributor: Weyss, J. E. - Michler, N. (Nathaniel)
    • Date: 1867-01-01
  • Map
    Antietam Battlefield : new 1972 Scale ca. 1:23,500. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 250.9 Folded title: Antietam National Battlefield Site, Maryland. Includes text and descriptive index to points of interest. Text and ill. on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
    • Contributor: United States. National Park Service
    • Date: 1978-01-01
  • Map
    Antietam battlefield : preliminary map no. 3 Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink on tracing linen, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H113 On verso: 237. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Hotchkiss, Jedediah
    • Date: 1895-01-01
  • Map
    Antietam Battlefield. Scale ca. 1:24,000. Folded title: Antietam Battlefield Site, Maryland. "1972-515-975/3." LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 250.7 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text and index to points of interest. Text and illus. on verso. AACR2
    • Contributor: United States. National Park Service
    • Date: 1972-01-01