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    Map of reconnaissance of the valley of Brandywine Creek : including the section from Smiths Bridge to the State Road Topographic map showing roads, railroad, bridges, fortifications, batteries, and various Revolutionary War sites along Brandywine Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot heights. Pen-and-ink (black and red) and blue wash. Fold-lined crosswise in 3 places; lower fold line completely torn to separate lower panel; has adhesive paper label with inked no. "854 St 1863" in lower right corner; former owner's...
    • Contributor: Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas) - United States Coast Survey - Whiting, Henry L.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
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    Map of Bedford Co. "Chief Engineer's Office D.N.V. Maj. Gen. J.F. Gilmer Chief Engineer"--map. "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. A slightly different version of Map F232 B4 1864:2; this includes the Chief Engineer's Office designation, and A.H. Campbell's rank is that of...
    • Contributor: Izard, Walter - Campbell, Albert H. (Albert Henry) - Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Part of Chesterfield Co., 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. Title taken from handwritten notation on map. Available also through the Library of...
    • Contributor: Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Military map showing the marches of the United States forces under command of Maj. Gen'l W.T. Sherman, during the years 1863, 1864, 1865 Shows area from Virginia in the north to Georgia in the south and west to Missouri. Relief shown by hachures. "Printed by Joseph F. Gedney." "Engraved at Head Qrs. Corps of Engineers. U.S.A. by H.C. Evans & F. Courtenay." LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 72, S6 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes list of sources...
    • Contributor: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh) - Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell) - United States. Army. Military Division of the Mississippi - Muller, John B. - Jenney, W. L. B. (William Le Baron) - Kossak, William
    • Date: 1865-01-01
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    Route of the Tenth New York Cavalry from Culpeper to Gettysburg and return. Summer and fall campaigns of 1863. Scale ca. 1:440,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 46 Finished pen and ink manuscript map of parts of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, showing location and date of encampments and battles, route of the Tenth New York Cavalry, route of Capt. Pratt, roads, railroads, towns, drainage, and relief by hachures. Printed version appears in Preston's History of the Tenth Regiment of Cavalry, New York...
    • Contributor: Preston, Noble D. - United States. Army. New York Cavalry Regiment, 10th
    • Date: 1863-01-01
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    Plan of Fort Magruder, Battlefield of Williamsburg, Virginia. Sketched the day after the battle 6th May 1862. Shows the area surrounding Confederate Fort Magruder just south of in Williamsburg, Va. Details include the network of ravines and slashed trees extending the width of the Peninsula used by the Confederate Army as part of its defenses.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1862-05-06
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    Position of 3rd Army Corps at Harrison's Landing, Va., July 9th 1862. From actual survey made for Genl. Heintzelman Gives Union Army positions around Harrison's Landing in Charles City County, Va., on July 9th, 1862, with details of the terrain and locations of headquarters for the following Union officers: David Bell Birney, Cuvier Grover, Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Joseph Hooker, Philip Kearny, Israel Bush Richardson, John Sedgwick, and George Sykes.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1862-07-09
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    Gettysburg July 2nd The Union and Rebel forces in the cemetery. While purporting to depict a meeting of Union and Confederate forces at Cemetery Hill, this map instead shows in detail the disposition of Union forces on Cemetery and Culp's hills. Of greater interest is the indication of the location of Sickles's 3rd Corps along the Emmitsburg Road on the morning of July 2nd, and their new position at the base of Little Round Top...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1863-07-02
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    [Map of the city of Richmond, Virginia Scale ca. 1:13,350. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 645.7 Another issue. Sold by booksellers in Richmond, Va. 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
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    Plan of action at Devaux Neck South Carolina. December 9th 1864. Devaux Neck is a peninsula formed by the Tulfinney and Coosawatchie rivers as they branch off the Broad River. The peninsula is crossed by the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. This map, in closer detail than the one on p. 196, shows the skirmish between Confederate forces protecting the railroad and Union forces (the 127th New York Regiment under Gen. E. E. Potter) hoping to...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1864-12-09
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    Map of the vicinity of Richmond and part of the Peninsula Scale 1:92,000 (not "1:80,000"). LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 626 Cover title: Fac-simile reproduction of the Confederate war map of the "Vicinity of Richmond and part of the Peninsula" which was issued to Gen'l. Robert E. Lee and his corps commanders in 1864. This facsimile was made from the preceding photocopy (entry no. 625) Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the...
    • Contributor: Ball, T. Sewell - Campbell, Albert H. (Albert Henry)
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Extract from Fort Monroe, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Yorktown, with their connections and surroundings for military purposes Shows Virginia Peninsula region, south of Yorktown to Fort Monroe. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy: Publication information annotated in ink. Sun print. Civil War salted paper maps. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 601 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy: Mounted on cloth.
    • Contributor: United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers - Cram, Thomas Jefferson
    • Date: 1862-01-01
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    [Maps for history of 20th Army Corps, June 1864-May 11, 1865]. Maps show General Sherman's march south through Georgia then north to Virginia. Relief shown by hachures. Title from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen and ink, colored ink, and pencil on paper and tracing cloth. Not bound. Each map in an envelope 31 x 23 cm. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 77.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a...
    • Contributor: McDowell, Robert M.

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    Sketch of sea coast of South Carolina and Georgia from Bull's Bay to Ossabaw Sound Scale 1:200,000. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Hand colored. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 363 LC copy annotated in ink in cover. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes list of "References" to Civil War engagements. AACR2
    • Contributor: Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell) - United States Coast Survey - Molitor, E. - Lindenkohl, A.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
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    Reconnoissance of the Mississippi River below Forts Jackson and St. Philip : made previous to the reduction by the U.S. Fleet, under the command of flag officer D.G. Farragut, U.S.N. 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
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    [Map of the country northwest of Jonesboro, Georgia, Aug.-Sept. 1864]. Shows troop positions and names of commanders annotated in pencil. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil on tracing cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S84, 187 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes names of select landowners. Imperfect: Fold-lined. Mounted on paper.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    [Map of Richmond and vicinity Relief shown by hachures. Description derived from published bibliography. Map consists of four sheets, each 32 X 26 cm., which have been joined together. Lower sheets are numbered "Range C, no. 2" and "Range C, no. 3." Depicted are cities and towns, roads and railroads, houses and names of residents, fortifications, and woodland. Gift; July 23, 1924; Mrs. Maud C. Brady; LC Civil War...
    • Contributor: Confederate States of America. Army. Department of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Map illustrating the operations of the army under com'd of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, in Georgia, from May 5th to September 4th, 1864 Shows Union and Confederate works in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. Relief shown by hachures. Civil War salted paper maps. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S33, 123 Annotation in ink "Ezra Ch[urch]" west of Atlanta. In manuscript pencil at lower left: "Federal lines in blue, Rebel [lines in] red." In manuscript ink at lower left: "Photographed at Chief Engr's Office, Mily. Divn. Miss.,...
    • Contributor: Poe, O. M. (Orlando Metcalfe) - Brooks, Alfred F. - United States. Army. Military Division of the Mississippi. Chief Engrs. Office
    • Date: 1864-05-05
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    Map of the seat of war, positions of the rebel forces, batteries, entrenchments, and encampments in Virginia-the fortifications for the protection of Richmond Scale ca. 1:800,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 450.3 Includes a mileage table. Reference is made in the lower margin to the "battle of Bull's [sic] Run, fought on Sunday, the 21st July [1861], about 22,000 unionists and about 60,000 rebels were in the engagement." An earlier version of this map was published in the morning edition of the New York Herald, June...
    • Date: 1861-01-01
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    Central Virginia : showing Lieut. Gen'l. U.S. Grant's campaign and marches of the armies under his command in 1864-5 Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by isolines. Shows the routes taken in central Virginia by the various army corps under General Grant in 1864-65. 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.), 513 Swem, E.G. Maps relating to Virginia, 1190 Available also...
    • Contributor: United States. War Dept. Engineer Bureau
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    Map of the city of Richmond, Virginia LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 645.6 General map indicating streets and street names, important buildings, and relief by hachures. Water is tinted blue. Map annotated with a 1 1/4 inch grid. Water is colored green and built-up area is colored brown. On verso in ink: "To be returned to Jed. Hotchkiss, Staunton, Augusta Co., Va." Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through...
    • Contributor: United States Coast Survey
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Map[s] illustrating the military operations of the Atlanta campaign ... 1864 Relief shown by hachures. Shows Union Army lines of march, dates, troop positions, and campsites in northwestern Georgia between Chattanooga and Atlanta. The coverage of these 5 maps is indicated on J.v. Glümer's 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 (CW 127, S181). LC Civil War maps...
    • Contributor: United States. War Department. Office of the Chief of Engineers - Julius Bien & Co
    • Date: 1875-01-01
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    The Investment of Petersburg, Va. Shewing [sic] battlefield of 5 Forks and Hatcher's Run, Friday March 31st, Saturday April 1st & Sunday April 2nd 1865. Shows the area surrounding Petersburg on the Appomattox River with all major transportation lines noted. Union forces under Grant are opposed by Lee's Confederates. Five Forks is to the left of the image; Port Walthall to the upper right: Ream's Station is in the lower right; and Dinwiddie Court House is at the bottom center.
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
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    Military maps. Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot heights on some maps. Depths shown by contours on some maps. Title from cover (on mounted label). Maps dated from 1862 to1879. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 92 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10672 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in lead pencil on leaf...
    • Contributor: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
    • Date: 1879-01-01

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    Map of a part of Brunswick County, N.C. "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: James, William H. - Blackford, B. L. (Benjamin Lewis) - Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office
    • Date: 1863-01-01