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Colton's rail-road and military map of the United States, Mexico, the West Indies, &c.

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Colton's rail-road and military map of the United States, Mexico, the West Indies, &c.

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Detailed general map of portions of North America framed in decorative borders showing drainage, international and state boundaries, cities and towns, forts, railroads in operation, and proposed lines. [From published bibliography]
Scale ca. 1:6,500,000.
Relief shown by hachures.
Shows slave holding states.
LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 26.3
LC Railroad maps, 45
Includes census information for 1860.
Insets: Colton's map of the Americas, Africa and a portion of Europe showing the Atlantic and part of the Pacific oceans.--New Orleans and delta of the Mississippi, Louisiana.--Mobile harbor, Alabama.--Key West and Tortugas, Florida reefs.--Wilmington and vicinity, N. Carolina.--Beaufort and vicinity, N. Carolina.--Norfolk, fortress Monroe, James River, Richmond, Petersburg &c &c.--Map of Charleston, Port Royal & Savannah vicinities.--Washington, Manassas Junction, Harpers Ferry, Baltimore, Annapolis &c &c.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
AACR2: 651/1; 650/2; 651/3; 651/4

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Date

01/01/1862
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Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893.
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Library of Congress
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Public Domain

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