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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 the U. States & showing all the rail roads, r. r. stations, & other internal improvements.

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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 the U. States & showing all the rail roads, r. r. stations, & other internal improvements.

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Scale ca 1:1,520,640.
LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 6.6
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by J.H. Colton."
Printed by Lang & Laing, N.Y.
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."
"No. 6" in upper left corner.
In this edition, "and" has not been inserted before "Texas" in the map title and the entire title has been moved from the right to the upper center.
Ships are depicted along the coast denoting Union blockade of southern harbors.
Description derived from published bibliography.
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

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01/01/1861
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Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893.
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Public Domain

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