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    Bacon's new army map of the seat of war in Virginia, showing the battle fields, fortifications, etc., on & near the Potomac River Scale ca. 1:180,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 452 Map of northeast Virginia, Washington, D.C., and part of Maryland showing the location and date of engagements, battles in which cannons were used, country names and boundaries, roads, railroads, towns, drainage, hachures, and a few soundings in the Potomac River. Positions held by Union and Confederate forces are marked by flags. Description derived from...
    • Contributor: Bacon & Co
    • Date: 1862-01-01
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    Plan of Fort Sedgwick generally known as Fort Hell Scale ca. 1:3880. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 543 Shows "front [and] rear line of works," artillery positions, magazines, bomb proofs, covered ways, stockade, and sutler's tent. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Hopkins, William Palmer
    • Date: 1903-01-01
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    Military map of south-eastern Virginia Scale 1:200,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 489 Map title appears inside the border in the upper right corner. Indicates 5-mile concentric circles centered on Richmond, roads, bridges, railroads, towns, houses, drainage, vegetation, and some fortifications in the Richmond-Petersburg area. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Lindenkohl, A.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Map of Fort de Russy. Relief shown by hachures. From Harper's weekly, v. 8, April 30, 1864, p. 277. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 233.5 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Plan of the battle of the North Anna fought May 23rd-26th, 1864. Grant's continued attempts to turn Lee's flank and allow the Union troops access to Richmond were once again thwarted at the North Anna. Hoping to lure the Confederates away from Spotsylvania Court House, Union forces under Hancock headed for Hanover Junction, an important intersection of the Virginia Central and Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac railroads, hoping Lee would follow. Anticipating this maneuver, Lee moved a...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
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    Map of battlefield of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi, showing the positions of the U.S. troops, May 17th 1863 Relief by hachures. Inset: [Cross] section of parapet A. 6 x 16 cm. Detailed map indicating "confederate works," Union troop positions and names of commanders, artillery positions, roads, "Vicksburg and Jackson Rail Road," houses, fences, vegetation, and drainage. Map differs from G3982.B54S5 1863 .M3 CW 264 with addition of Julius Bean & Col., photo. lith. at bottom center, below neat line. Description derived from...
    • Contributor: United States Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers - Mason, F.
    • Date: 1876-01-01
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    Sketch of the entrenched lines in the immediate front of Petersburg, Virginia Cover title: Map of the battlefields around Petersburg, Virginia. 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. Aug. 1991, gift, unknown.
    • Contributor: T.S. Beckwith and Company - Michler, N. (Nathaniel)
    • Date: 1890-01-01
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    Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia showing attack on the salient angle May 12th. Shows the distribution of Confederate forces under the commands of Longstreet, Ewell, and Hill facing Union forces under Wright, Warren, Burnside, and Hancock, with special attention to Hancock's assault on Ewell's forces in the "Mule Shoe salient." Oriented with north to the upper left.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1864-05-12
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    Map of Devaux Neck on Broad River, South Carolina. Devaux Neck is formed by the Tulfinny River and Coosawatchie River as they branch off the Broad River. The Peninsula is crossed by the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. Map shows rebel forces protecting the railroad while Union forces, the 127th NY under Gen. Edward E. Potter, advance up the peninsula.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1864-12-08
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    Richmond, Petersburg, and vicinity Genl. Grant's campaign war map
    Genl. Grant's camgaign war map     "Shows fortifications, camps, roads, railroads, street pattern of Richmond and Petersburg, towns, drainage, vegetation, hachures, and houses. The horizontal and upright lines represent one mile square. " -- LC Civil War maps / Stephenson. "The horizontal and upright lines represent one mile square. By referring to the number on the left and to the letter on the base, any point may be found to...
    • Contributor: Bufford, John Henry - Baumgarten, J.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Military maps of the war of the Rebellion-miscellaneous, [1865-1879]. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 100 List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 10675 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights on some maps. Depths shown by contours on some maps. Title from cover (on mounted label). Maps dated from 1865 to 1879. Bound...
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Townsend, C. McD. (Curtis McDonald)
    • Date: 1879-01-01

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    Map of Louisa County, 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: Campbell, Albert H. (Albert Henry) - Blackford, B. L. (Benjamin Lewis) - Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office - O'Connor, James
    • Date: 1863-01-01
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    [Map of Kanawha, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, McDowell, Mercer, Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas, Greenbrier, Summers and Monroe Counties, West Va., and Tazewell, Smyth, Washington, Bland, Giles, Craig, Montgomery, Pulaski and Wythe Counties, Va. Cover the area from Charlestown south to Dublin Depot and east to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Drawn with blue and green ink on blue-lined paper. Shows towns, roads, railroads, rivers and mountains with some distances given. One of a series of eight maps of southwestern Virginia and West Virginia. Originally in envelope with notations: "Maps of various kinds by residents of Western Virginia....
    • Contributor: Loring, William Wing
    • Date: 1862-01-01
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    Map illustrating the operations of the army under command of General W.T. Sherman, in Georgia, from May the 5th to September the 4th, 1864 Shows Union and Confederate works in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. Relief shown by hachures. Gift; Miss Eleanor Sherman Fitch; July 7, 1942. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S181, 127 Indicates coverage of 5 additional maps described under CW 131 and S200. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Sectioned horizontally into 2 sheets,...
    • Contributor: Poe, O. M. (Orlando Metcalfe) - Julius Bien & Co - Glümer, J. V.
    • Date: 1864-05-05
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    [B]alloon view of the attack on Fort Darling in the James River, by Commander Rogers's [sic] [i.e., Rodger's] gun-boat flotilla, "Galena," "Monitor," etc. [May 16, 1862] Not drawn to scale. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 541.2 From Harper's weekly, v. 6, May 31, 1862. p. [337] This view was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1948 with the purchase of the papers and maps of Maj. Jedediah Hotchkiss. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
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    History of the Civil War in the United States, 1860-1865 Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 62.4 "Scaife's comparative and synoptical system of history applied to all countries." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1897, by The Comparative Synoptical Chart Co., Limited, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Filed in the United States, 1896. Copyright in Great Britain, 1897." This is not a geographical...
    • Contributor: Comparative Synoptical Chart Co., Limited
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    North Anna. [May 1864] Scale 1:21,120. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 590.1 In this issue, the map is printed on a yellow background with the North Anna and Little rivers colored blue. Union entrenchments are colored blue, and Confederate entrenchments red. Indicates roads, railroads, drainage, vegetation, hachures, houses, fences, and names of occupants. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site...
    • Contributor: Michler, N. (Nathaniel)
    • Date: 1867-01-01
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    Plan of Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Va. At this midpoint in the Spottsylvania Campaign (May 7-20), Union forces under Grant and Confederate forces under Lee were facing off to the south and east of Spottsylvania Court House. On May 12, Grant ordered Hancock to assault Ewell's position in the "mule's shoe" salient. This map attempts to depict the action during that assault. It shows Ewell's position at the start of the...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1864-05-12
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    Map of Richmond, Va., shewing fortifications surrounding the Confederate capital. From the latest government surveys. Scale ca. 1:57,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 622 At top of map: Map of Richmond. (6D) A description of "The city of Richmond" and the "Forts around Richmond, with their armament" appears to the right of the map. Important buildings are identified and the positions are located on the map by letters and numbers. Gives the street pattern of Richmond and Manchester,...
    • Contributor: Bailey, A. M.
    • Date: 1860-01-01
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    [Map of the First Battle of Bull Run] Shows the movement of the Union and Confederate forces as their positions changed over the course of July 21, 1861, during the First Battle of Bull Run. Sneden illustrates the battle over the countryside in Prince William and Fairfax counties, Va.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1861-01-01
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    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
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    Bermuda Hundred. [1864-1865] Scale 1:42,240. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 525b.2 In this issue, the map is printed on a yellow background with the James and Appomattox rivers colored blue. Map indicates roads, railroads, towns, drainage, vegetation, relief by hachures, houses, and names of residents. Union and Confederate entrenchments are colored blue and red respectively. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of...
    • Contributor: Michie, Peter Smith - Michler, N. (Nathaniel)
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Second Manassas Campaign, August 17 - September 1, 1862 Relief shown by hachures. "Synopsis of Second Manassas Campaign" precedes Map 1. Annotated in pen-and-ink and watercolor to show infantry and cavalry positions with blank leaves at end. Includes notes. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 575 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10667 Call no. cited in LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.): G1292.B8S5 .R8 1943 folio.$5 DLC Listed in C. E. Le...
    • Contributor: Russell, Robert E. L.
    • Date: 1862-01-01

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    Petersburg and Five Forks. [1864-1865] Scale 1:42,240. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 607.8, 607.9 In this issue, the map is printed on a yellow background with rivers colored green. Detailed topographic map showing Confederate works in red and Union fortifications in blue, houses, fences, names of residents, drainage, vegetation, hachures, railroads, roads, and the street pattern of Petersburg. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library...
    • Contributor: Michler, N. (Nathaniel)
    • Date: 1867-01-01
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    [Map of a part of Fauquier County, 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, 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: 1863-01-01