Battle field of Gettysburg. - Public domain old map
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Scale 1:12,000 (1 inch equals 1000 feet).
LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 353.5
From the Jubal Early Collection in the Manuscript Division, L.C.
Detailed topographic map subsequently used as the base for John B. Bachelder's "Map of the Battle Field of Gettysburg" (see entry nos. 325 and 326)
"Positions of troops are not given."
"The map is reduced from one on a scale of 200 feet to the inch, deposited in the Archives of the office of the Chief of Engineers. The survey was ordered by Brevet Major General A. A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, and conducted under Brevet Major General G. K. Warren, Major of Engineers." The survey was made in 1868 and 1869 and revised on the ground by P. M. Blake, Civil Engineer in 1873. The original is in the National Archives, Cartographic and Architectural Branch, Record Group 77:E 81.
Description derived from published bibliography.
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
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