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Map Colton's map of the southern states, including Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, showing also part of adjoining states & territories locating the forts & military stations of U. States & showing all the rail roads, r. r. stations, & other internal improvements

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Title

  • Colton's map of the southern states, including Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, showing also part of adjoining states & territories locating the forts & military stations of U. States & showing all the rail roads, r. r. stations, & other internal improvements

Names

  • Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893

Created / Published

  • New York J. H. Colton 1862.

Headings

  • -  Southern States--Maps
  • -  United States--Southern States

Notes

  • -  Scale ca. 1: 1,520,640.
  • -  LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 25.5
  • -  "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by J. H. Colton."
  • -  Printed by Lang & Laing, N.Y.
  • -  "No. 6" in the upper left margin.
  • -  Insets: Southern part of Florida. 27 x 20 cm.-Colton's map of the United States showing the proposed railroad routes to the Pacific Ocean. 19 x 26 cm.
  • -  Includes tables of population based on the "United States Census for 1860."
  • -  Cover title: Colton's map of the southern states of America, showing the whole seat of war on the seabord [sic] and in the interior, designating every town, railway, and stream; also showing the forts and fortifications. London, Bacon and Co.
  • -  Pasted inside the cover is a list of "Bacon's shilling series of American war maps, just published."
  • -  Advertisement for "Bacon's guide to American politics" and a list of "Colton's maps of America, and complete series of war maps" are pasted to the verso of the map.
  • -  "Explanations" (i.e., legend) is pasted over the bottom border. Map is colored to show "free, or non-slaveholding states" (pink), "border slave states" (yellow), and "seceded or confederate states" (green).
  • -  1861 editions are listed as Civil War Maps entry nos. 6.5-6.6; 1863 edition is listed as Civil War Maps entry no. 37.6.
  • -  Description derived from published bibliography.

Medium

  • 1 map col. 97 x 140 cut and mounted to fold to 22 x 13 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3860 1862 .C6

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 dcu

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 99447073

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Colton, J. H. Colton's map of the southern states, including Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, showing also part of adjoining states & territories locating the forts & military stations of U. States & showing all the rail roads, r. r. stations, & other internal improvements. New York J. H. Colton, 1862. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/99447073/.

APA citation style:

Colton, J. H. (1862) Colton's map of the southern states, including Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, showing also part of adjoining states & territories locating the forts & military stations of U. States & showing all the rail roads, r. r. stations, & other internal improvements. New York J. H. Colton. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/99447073/.

MLA citation style:

Colton, J. H. Colton's map of the southern states, including Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, showing also part of adjoining states & territories locating the forts & military stations of U. States & showing all the rail roads, r. r. stations, & other internal improvements. New York J. H. Colton, 1862. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/99447073/>.