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    Rockbridge Co., Va. Section no. 3.
    Rockbridge 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. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Mrs. Louisa Porter (Gilmer) Minis (i.e., Mrs....
    • Contributor: Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office
    • Date: 1863-01-01
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    Thirty five miles around Richmond, Va. Shows radial distances from Richmond. Does not show fortifications. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 631.2 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes views of "The capitol of the C.S., Richmond" and "Washington Monument, Richmond". Insets: Map of the city of Richmond, Va., from the U.S. Coast Survey map of 1860, with additions by Jed. Hotchkiss. 1866....
    • Contributor: Bohn, Casimir - Hotchkiss, Jedediah
    • Date: 1867-01-01
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    This map of the peninsula between the York and James rivers was found by me in the office of the quartermaster of the rebel army at Williamsburg, Va. three days after the ... Shows unnamed major roads and a few place names. Ink and pencil mounted on paper. Folded into 16 sections, with losses along fold lines. In lower left corner: "[AC 12,509]". Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. CW3 Acquisitions control no. 2002-21
    • Contributor: Talieferro, E.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
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    Map showing the location of the Mount Vernon iron, manganese & timber lands, Rockingham County, Va. Shows the names of some residents. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "The land lines of this map are from surveys by Jasper Hawse, county surveyor of Rockingham Co., Va." Includes inset map showing distances 50, 100, and 150 miles from Mount Vernon iron in concentric circles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Hawse, Jasper - Hotchkiss, Jedediah
    • Date: 1888-01-01
  • Map
    Sketch showing the position of Cap. F.B. Schaeffer's comd. on July the 21st, 1861 Relief shown by hachures. Shows the position of Capt. F.B. Schaeffer's command along Bull Run some 600 yards from the Lewis house during the 1st Battle of Bull Run. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 567.5 Includes profile. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault Acquisitions control no. 4-85
    • Contributor: Schaeffer, F. B. - Frémaux, Léon Joseph
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Map
    From Occoquan to Brentsville
    Sketch of the Occoquon
    Selected buildings shown pictorially. "Transferred from Office of Chf. Engr., Defenses of Washington, to Engr. Dept., Jan'y 1866." Stamped on verso: By transfer, Chief Engineers Office, War Department. Oriented with north to the right. Pen-and-ink and pencil. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 593.2 In ink in upper left: 211, L. Sheet 9 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a...
    • Contributor: Garton, M. N.
    • Date: 1860-01-01
  • Map
    Map of Augusta County, Virginia Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. Oriented with north toward upper left. Two sheets joined to form 1, mounted on cloth. LC Land ownership maps, 1214 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Hotchkiss, Jedediah
    • Date: 1875-01-01
  • Map
    Illustrative map of battle-grounds of August 28th, 29th & 30th, 1862, in the vicinity of Groveton, Prince William Co., Va. : of counsel for the government, chiefly from the survey made under ... Covers Manassas and vicinity. Relief shown by contours and hachures. At head of title: No. 1. Folding map from: Argument of Asa Bird Gardner, counsel for government, after conclusion of the evidence in the case of Fitz-John Porter, before the Board of Army Officers at West Point, January 1879. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 572.7 Accompanied by: Letter-press descriptive of illustrative map no....
    • Contributor: McCrary, George W. (George Washington) - Gardiner, ASA Bird
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the first & second division of the James River & Kanawha Canal. "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. Extends from Richmond west to Buchanan, Va., indicating the streams feeding into the James and the locations of roads, which are indentified. Forms part of the Gilmer Map Collection. Relief shown by hachures....
    • Contributor: Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office
    • Date: 1863-01-01
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    Battle-field & environs of the city of Fredericksburg.
    Battlefield and environs of the city of Fredericksburg
    "To James G. McCabe, Jr., from his friend James W.B." Dated 1863 in pencil in upper right corner. Dated on map: 13th Dec. 1862. Relief shown by hachures. Signed in lower right corner: J.M.B. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. Swem, C.E. Maps relating to Virginia, 1008...
    • Date: 1863-01-01
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    Geological map of Virginia & West Virginia showing their chief geological sub-divisions
    Geological map of Virginia and West Virginia showing their chief geological sub-divisions | Middle Atlantic States & North Carolina : physical and political / by A. Guyot
    Relief shown by hachures. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H218 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. LC copy: Extensive ink, pencil, and annotations with watercolor showing the different types of geological formations. LC copy: Title in ms. in lower left. In pencil on verso: 183.
    • Contributor: Guyot, A. (Arnold) - Rogers, William Barton
    • Date: 1870-01-01
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    Position of Richmond, Va. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Shows Richmond region. Pen-and-ink on pencil grid on tracing linen, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H98 Imperfect: Spotting throughout. In pencil on verso: 85. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: McClellan, George B. (George Brinton) - Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson) - Abbot, Henry L.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Map
    [Semmes Battery and vicinity, Chesterfield County, Virginia, 1864] Shows batteries, roads, rivers, names of property owners, and vegetation. Red concentric circles centered on Semmes Battery indicate range of the battery over Chesterfield and Henrico Counties, Virginia in the vicinity of Dutch Gap. 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...
    • Contributor: Brooke, John M. (John Mercer) - Ost, Charles J. - Confederate States of America. Navy Dept. Office of Ordnance and Hydrography
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    Map of part of the Potomac River, from the head of tide water to Alexandria : with its lateral canals, soundings, and topography Relief shown by hachures. Photocopy of ms. map. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Includes "Profile of the Alexandria Canal" and distance list. LC copy annotated in pencil: From a manuscript in the Office of the Chief of Engineers. LC copy originally printed on 6 sheets, mounted on cloth backing, and accompanied by negative photocopy. Available also through the Library of Congress Web...
    • Contributor: Alexandria Canal Company - Fairfax, Wilson M. C.
    • Date: 1835-01-01
  • Map
    [Map of Fairfax and Alexandria counties, Virginia, and parts of adjoining counties] Above neat line in right corner: "Recd. Engineer Bureau, April 25th 1864. with letter April 23d '64, fm. Capt. Michler, [signed] J.C. Woodruff, Maj. of Engineers." Map showing the defenses of Washington situated in Virginia, roads, railroads, towns, drainage, vegetation, houses, and names of residents. Description derived from published bibliography. Civil War salted paper maps. AL-6. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 493 Available...
    • Contributor: Michler, N. (Nathaniel)
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    [Map of the environs of Petersburg from the Appomattox River to the Jerusalem Plank Road showing entrenchments occupied by Federal forces] In addition to fortifications, the map shows roads, railroads, and houses and names of some residents. Annotated in pen and ink. Sun print. Civil War salted paper maps. AL-92. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 613.8 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Army of the Potomac. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Map of the state of Virginia : containing the counties, principal towns, railroads, rivers, canals & all other internal improvements.
    Map of Virginia
    "Copyright secured by W. & J. March 1862." Accompanied by cover: Map of Virginia. Richmond: West & Johnston, Publishers. 1862; 15 x 10 cm. Inset: View of Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.; includes list of railroads. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by isolines. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for...
    • Contributor: West & Johnston
    • Date: 1865-01-01
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    Map of the battle of Chancellorsville, Saturday, May 2nd 1863. Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink and pencil, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H131 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. Includes a list of names and locations of regiments and brigades. In pencil on verso: 96.
    • Date: 1863-01-01
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    Battle fields of Fisher's Hill [22 Sept. 1864] and Cedar Creek [19 Oct. 1864], Virginia Relief shown by contour lines, hachures, and spot elevations. Detailed map indicating earth and wood entrenchments, troop positions and movements, names of commanders and some unit numbers, roads, "Manassas Gap Railroad," houses, names of inhabitants, fences, vegetation, drainage, fords, street pattern of Middletown and Strasburg. Union and Confederate troop positions are hand-colored blue and red respectively. Description derived from published bibliography. LC Civil War...
    • Contributor: Gillespie, G. L.
    • Date: 1873-01-01
  • Map
    Position of Union Army Map shows the location of Union troops in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia poised to begin McClellan's Peninsular Campaign, March 1862. Among the landmarks noted are the location of McClellan's headquarters in Hampton from 23 March to 4 April 1862; the route of reconnaissance by Smith and Fitz-John Porter in the vicinity of Yorktown, Va., 27 March; and McClellan's new headquarters on the...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1862-03-08
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    Battle of Fisher's Hill, Va., Sept. 23, 1864 Shows Confederate positions in red, roads in brown, and vegetation in green. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 539 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Russell, Robert E. L.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Map
    [Sketch of roads and streams in Highland County, Va., and Pendleton County, W. Va.]. Relief shown by hachures. Date, title and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pencil on paper mounted on cloth. Imperfect: large ink blotches at right center. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H84 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
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    Position of Union Army at Cedar Creek Union position and plan of battle. However, what initially appeared to be an overwhelming success quickly turned to a rout when the Union forces were redeployed and launched a successful counterattack that drove the Confederates back across the Shenandoah to Fisher's Hill, with heavy losses of men, equipment and supplies. Map shows troop locations along the Strasburg Pike on either side of Cedar Creek, and along the north fork of...
    • Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
    • Date: 1861-01-01
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    Relative positions of forces at sunset, Aug. 27, 1862. [2nd Manassas Campaign]. Scale ca. 1:570,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 580 From Century illustrated monthly magazine, v. 31, Jan. 1886. p. 447. Map extends from White Plains south to Fayetteville, and from Orlean east to Fairfax Station. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
    • Contributor: Wells, Jacob
    • Date: 1886-01-01
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    High Bridge and Farmville. [1865] Scale 1:21,120. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 536.7, 536.8 In this issue, the map is printed on a yellow background with the Appomattox River colored green. Shows entrenchments, roads, "South Side R.R.," street plan of Farmville, houses, fences, names of residents in rural areas, drainage, vegetation, towns, and relief by hachures. Troop positions are not depicted. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also...
    • Contributor: Michler, N. (Nathaniel)
    • Date: 1867-01-01