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[Map of the southern states, including rail roads, county towns, state capitals, county roads, the southern coast Delaware to Texas, showing the harbors, inlets, forts and position of blockading ships

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[Map of the southern states, including rail roads, county towns, state capitals, county roads, the southern coast Delaware to Texas, showing the harbors, inlets, forts and position of blockading ships

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Scale ca. 1:3,000,000.
LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 14.55
From Harper's weekly, v. 5, Nov. 9, 1861. Following p. 706.
Inset: Charleston and Beaufort, South Carolina. 12 x 12 cm.
Includes portraits of Lincoln, Seward, Scott, and McClellan.
Geography and Map Division copy badly cropped. Border and map title wanting.
"Our war map. We break through our usual habits in this number, and devote four pages to the publication of a large war map of the southern states. Without intending to disparage any of the maps in existence, we think this will be found more reliable, and more useful to the students of the war, than any other we have seen." (Harper's Weekly, v. 5, Nov. 9, 1861. p. 706.)
Map was also published in the Sun, New York, Jan. 4, 1862 (Civil War Maps entry no. 32.9) and by Bacon and Company, ca. 1863 (Civil War Maps entry no. 37).
Description derived from published bibliography.
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

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