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Civil War Maps, a subset of Map Collections: 1500-2004,
contains approximately 2,240 Civil War maps and charts and 76
atlases
and sketchbooks depicting battles, troop positions and movements,
engagements, and fortifications. Included are maps of the whole
United States, maps of major regions such as the Eastern or Southern
States, maps of the Mississippi River, and state maps. The vast
majority of the maps were prepared by Federal forces or by commercial
firms in the North, but there are also a substantial number by
Confederate
military authorities and a few by Southern publishers.
These online exhibits provide context and additional
information about this collection.
History of Mapping the Civil War
These historical era(s) are best represented
in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.
The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877
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These collections and exhibits contain thematically-related
primary and secondary sources. Also browse the Collection
Finder for more related material on the American Memory Web
site.
African-American
Experience in Ohio
African
American Odyssey
African American
Perspectives, 1818-1907
Civil War Photographs,
1861-1865
The Gettysburg Address
Historic
American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
Mr. Lincoln's
Virtual Library
Narratives
of the American South, 1860-1920
Nineteenth-Century
Song Sheets
Pioneering
the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin,
ca. 1820-1910
Recovered Notebooks
from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection
Small-Town
America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920
Taking
the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
"We'll
Sing to Abe Our Song": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation,
and the Civil War
Recommended additional sources of information.
Read More About It! - A bibliography
Related
Resources
Specific guidance for searching this collection.
To find items in this collection, search by Keyword
or browse the Subject
Index, Creator
Index, Title
List, or Geographic
Index.
For help with search strategies, go to Finding
Items in American Memory.
There are a number of different viewing options, but no special
viewers are needed to see the maps. A special technology called
MrSID (Multi-Resolution Seamless Image Database) by LizardTech allows
you to zoom in or out on an area of the map that you wish to inspect.
If you wish to save maps with these special viewing options on your
computer, you will need to download
the free MrSID software.
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