Collection Items

  • Map
    Ohio River between Mound City and Cairo. Scale ca. 1:23,500. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 213 Indicates Fort Cairo, naval depot, and "harbor for powder barges" at Mound City, soundings in feet, roads and streets, and vegetation. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Gerdes, F. H. - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Ohio River between Mound City and Cairo Depths shown by soundings in feet. From its Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1864 (Washington, Government Printeing Office, 1866). Map 31. Indicates Fort Cairo, naval depot, and "harbor for powder barges" at Mound City, soundings in feet, roads and streets, and vegetation. Upper left margin: No. 31. LC Civil War maps (2nd...
    • Contributor: Gerdes, F. H. - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Ohio River between Mound City and Cairo Depths shown by soundings in feet. Indicates Fort Cairo, naval depot, and "harbor for powder barges" at Mound City, soundings in feet, roads and streets, and vegetation. Upper left margin: No. 31, No. 3020. Price 20 cents. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 214 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Gerdes, F. H. - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Cedar Keys, Florida Scale 1:50,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 117.35 From its Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey showing the progress of the survey during the year 1861 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1862). Map 17. "No. 17" appears in the upper left corner. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Guthrie, J. J. - United States Coast Survey - Berryman, O. H. - Huger, B. - Gerdes, F. H. - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    Sketch of the two breakwaters above Alexandria in the Red River, Scale ca. 1:2000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 241 "M. Section VIII.66." Detailed map showing upper and lower dams, falls, "Tennyson's channel," "De Russy's Channel," and some relief by hachures. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Gerdes, F. H. - De Russy, Lewis G.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Reconnoissance of the Mississippi River below Forts Jackson a... At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey. Prof. A. D. Bache, Supt. Stamped in lower right corner: From collection of David Dixon Porter. Pen and ink manuscript drawn on tracing cloth, covering the environs of forts St. Philip and Jackson, Louisiana. "Note: The forts and their immediate vicinity were taken from data furnished by Major Barnard, U.S.E., excepting the trigonometrical determinations of the forts...
    • Contributor: Bowen & Co - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas) - Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell) - United States Coast Survey - Gerdes, F. H.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    Plan of Fort Jackson, showing the effect of the bombardment b... Annotated in pencil on verso: Plan of Fort Jackson. [1862?]. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 237 Includes explanatory note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy 3 imperfect: Torn at upper edge.
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey - Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell) - Harris, J. S. - Hergesheimer, E. (Edwin) - Bowen & Co - Gerdes, F. H. - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    Reconnoissance of the Mississippi River below Forts Jackson a... Includes note describing positions of Union "mortar flotilla" on April 18-21, 1862. Annotated in pencil on verso: Forts of Jackson/St. Philip, [1863?]. Oriented with north toward the upper left. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 236 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Bowen & Co - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas) - Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell) - United States Coast Survey - Gerdes, F. H.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    South West pass of the Mississippi River LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 36.2 From its Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1862 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1864). Map 507. At head of title: U.S. Coast Surveys, A. D. Bache, Superintendent. "No. 507" in the upper left corner. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress...
    • Contributor: Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas) - United States Coast Survey - Gerdes, F. H.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    Approaches to Grand Gulf, Miss. Scale 1:10,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 270 Shows "Ft. Cobun," "Ft. Wade," streets of Grand Gulf, "R.R. to Port Gibson," plantation of "Col. Coffee," vegetation, soundings, and relief by hachures. "The fortifications facing the river are those erected by the rebels, and captured by the Mississippi Squadron, under the command of Admiral Porter, on May 3d 1863." Description derived from published bibliography....
    • Contributor: Gerdes, F. H.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    [Approaches to Grand Gulf, Miss. Relief shown by contours. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 271 Sun print with annotations in pencil and ink. Appears to be a preliminary copy of Civil War Maps (2nd ed.) no. 270: G4042.M5 1864 .G38 CW 270. Shows "Ft. Wade" fortifications. Description derived from published bibliography. Civil War salted paper maps. AL-36. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster...
    • Contributor: Gerdes, F. H.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Mississippi River Scale 1:40,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 48.4, 48.5 U.S. Coast Survey, chart no. 3017, 3018. Sheet no. at head of each title. Detailed river chart indicating field patterns and vegetation along the shore lines. Sheet no. 1: "No. 29 No. 3017 price 20 cents"; Sheet no. 2: "No. 30. No. 3018 price 20 cents" is printed in the upper left corner. Available...
    • Contributor: Gerdes, F. H. - United States Coast Survey
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Mississippi River LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 48.42, 48.52 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Sheet no. 1: "No. 29"; Sheet no. 2: "No. 30." is printed in the upper left corner.
    • Contributor: Gerdes, F. H.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Mississippi River from Cairo Ill. to St. Marys Mo. in VI sheets. Scale 1:40,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 95.2 United States Coast Survey no. 3016. "F. H. Gerdes, Asst. Coast Survey, Chief of Party. A. T. Mosman, Sub asst. in charge of astronomical observations. T. C. Bowie, Sub Asst. in charge of topography. F. W. Perkins, Aid. J. B. Adamson, Aid & Draughtsman." Detailed map of part of the Mississippi showing the river channel,...
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey - Gerdes, F. H.
    • Date: 1865-01-01