Map of the southern states, including rail roads, county towns, state capitals, county roads, the southern coast from Delaware to Texas, showing the harbors, inlets, forts, and position of blockading ships
Summary
Covers northern Missouri to Texas and the Kansas boundary to the Atlantic shore, including Delaware and a portion of Florida.
Includes portraits of Lincoln, Seward, Scott, and McClellan and inset map of Washington, D.C. and environs.
Relief shown by hachures.
Similar to no. 14.55, LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), with a different inset of Charleston and Beaufort, South Carolina and also published in Harper's weekly, v. 5, Nov. 9, 1861, following p. 706.
This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information.
Verso: Text and ill. from Harper's weekly, dated Nov. 9, 1861 (p. 708, 709, 716, 717). Page 706 of Harper's weekly, Nov. 9, 1861 describes a large "War map of the southern states" published in 4 p.
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Jan. 2002, Prints Old & Rare, Pacifica, Calif., ALE.
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