Part of PICRYL.com. Not developed or endorsed by the Library of Congress

military battles and campaigns

public
6,490 media by topicpage 3 of 65
A plan of the city of Louisbourg with its fortifications

A plan of the city of Louisbourg with its fortifications

Relief shown by hachures. Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Aug. 2010. Gift from Mark Hutchins, Hutchins & Associates. Indexed. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

The West Indies exhibiting the English, French, Spanish, Dutch & Danish settlements.

The West Indies exhibiting the English, French, Spanish, Dutch & Danis...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. Shows southern United States, Central America, northern South America, and West Indies. From the author's The natural and c... More

Descripcion de las costas, islas placeres, i bajos delas, Indias Occidentales,

Descripcion de las costas, islas placeres, i bajos delas, Indias Occid...

Scale ca. 1:5,000,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Shows the Atlantic coast of southern U.S., Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. "Sibre para Domingo de Belasco Pilo to d... More

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville - A new and accurate map of North America,

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville - A new and accurate map of North ...

Scale ca. 1:6,360,000. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. "West longitude from Ferro." Differs from other copies in coloration of boundaries. Boundaries only are colored. Long Island is colored as being at... More

A plan of the city of New-York & its environs to Greenwich, on the North or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point, on the East or Sound River, shewing the several streets, publick buildings, docks, fort & battery, with the true form & course of the commanding grounds, with and without the town. Survey'd in the winter, 1775 [i.e. 1766]

A plan of the city of New-York & its environs to Greenwich, on the Nor...

Scale ca. 1:6,300. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. Dedicated to Major Gen. Thos. Gage. Includes descriptive note, "References," and inset "A chart of the entrance to New York from Sandy Ho... More

Sketch of the engagement at Trenton, given on the 26th of December 1776 betwixt the American troops under command of General Washington, and three Hessian regiments under command of Colonell Rall, in which the latter a part surrendert themselves prisoner of war.

Sketch of the engagement at Trenton, given on the 26th of December 177...

Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Includes "Explanation." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1267 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ... More

Carte de la Floride occidentale et Louisiane. La peninsule et golfe de la Floride ou canal de Bahama avec les isles de Bahama.

Carte de la Floride occidentale et Louisiane. La peninsule et golfe de...

Scale ca. 1:1,360,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. "Les sondes le long de la côte de la Floride des isles et des bas fonds sont marqués en pieds." Pictorial map. From the... More

Plan of the town with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th. of June 1775.

Plan of the town with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of C...

Scale ca. 1:19,000. Relief shown by hachures. Battle of Bunker Hill shown pictorially. From James Murray's Impartial history of the present war in America. v. 1. p. 431. Includes historical note on fires and in... More

Carte des environs d'Hampton. - Public domain old map

Carte des environs d'Hampton. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:28,800; échelle de 3 lignes pour 100 toises. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: Fleur de lis surmounting a scroll crossed with three bars. Oriented with north toward the right. Relie... More

This map of Kentucke, drawn from actual observations, is inscribed with the most perfect respect, to the Honorable the Congress of the United States of America; and to His Excellcy. George Washington, late Commander in Chief of their Army.

This map of Kentucke, drawn from actual observations, is inscribed wit...

Scale 1:633,600; 10 miles to an in. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Includes inscriptions. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 792 Available also through the Library of Co... More

Plan of the city of New York. - Public domain old map

Plan of the city of New York. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:13,000. Hand colored. Shows ward boundaries. Includes index to buildings. Wheat & Brun. Maps and Charts (1978 ed.) 387 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1113 Available also through the Library of... More

A correct map of the seat of war. - Public domain map

A correct map of the seat of war. - Public domain map

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Map illustrating the siege of Atlanta, Ga., by the U.S. forces under command of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, from the passage of Peach Tree Creek, July 19th 1864, to the commencement of the movement upon the enemy's lines of communication south of Atlanta, August 26, 1864 /

Map illustrating the siege of Atlanta, Ga., by the U.S. forces under c...

Partial cadastral map showing selected buildings and householders' names beyond city limits. Covers area extending from Mt. Gilead Church in west to Decatur in east and from Buckhead in north to East Point in s... More

District of Columbia and the seat of war on the Potomac.

District of Columbia and the seat of war on the Potomac.

Low-angle bird's-eye view. Shows cities of Washington and Alexandria in foreground. Includes index of military positions with regiment names. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 678 Stephenson. Cartography of northern... More

Birds eye view of Florida and part of Georgia and Alabama

Birds eye view of Florida and part of Georgia and Alabama

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 117.2 At top of map: Panorama of the seat of war. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by John Bachmann." Tables of distances from Key West and Ta... More

The historical war map. - Public domain vintage map

The historical war map. - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:3,250,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 21 Map of southeastern United States showing forts and battlefields, railroads, state boundaries, rivers, and town. Principal engagements are not described in... More

Plan of Alexandria. Historic map, Library of Congress

Plan of Alexandria. Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows selected buildings and churches. Copy annotated in blue pencil: Printed at the Coast Survey Office, October 25, 1862; authographic transfer from an old map of Alexandria furnished by the U.S. Sanitary Co... More

Military map of Suffolk & vicinity for Majr. Genl. J. A. Dix /

Military map of Suffolk & vicinity for Majr. Genl. J. A. Dix /

Shows fortifications, houses, names of residents, roads, railroads, and drainage. Relief shown by hachures. Ink and pencil on tracing cloth, in three sections, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 661... More

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

Map of the southern states, including rail roads, county towns, state ...

Scale ca. 1:2,970,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 37 At top of map: Bacon's shilling series of war maps,-no. 3. Inset: Enlarged plan of the battle fields of Virginia and Maryland. Scale ca. 1:1,040,000. 16 x ... More

Chesapeake Bay, Sheet no. 1, York River, Hampton Roads, Chesapeake entrance..

Chesapeake Bay, Sheet no. 1, York River, Hampton Roads, Chesapeake ent...

Scale 1:80,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 47.5 At head of title: Coast chart no. 31. Printed in the upper margin: "No. 131" and "Electrotype copy no. 2 by G. Mathiot, U.S.C.S." General chart indicating sound... More

[Map of Bertie County, North Carolina] : no. 2.

[Map of Bertie County, North Carolina] : no. 2.

"Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virginia Historical Society by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Minis, Sav[ana]h, Ga."--Note on map... More

Map of Fauquier & Loudon [sic] co's. Va. /

Map of Fauquier & Loudon [sic] co's. Va. /

LC Land ownership maps, 1288 Relief shown by hachures. Shows names of residents. Oriented with north to the right. Pen-and-ink on tracing linen. Irregularly shaped. Imperfect: lacking lower left corner. LC Civi... More

The Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia position of Union Army, 2nd May 1863.

The Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia position of Union Army, 2nd M...

Shows the position of Union troops on the second day of the Battle of Chancellorsville, including Oliver Otis Howard's 11th Corps, Daniel Edgar Sickles' 3rd Corps, George Gordon Meade's 5th Corps, Henry Warner ... More

Civil War campaigns of 1864 - Public domain old map

Civil War campaigns of 1864 - Public domain old map

Scale 1:13,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 48.6 From Wood, William. Captains of the Civil War; A chronicle of the blue and the gray. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1921. Map depicts the movements of Le... More

Prison at Andersonville, Ga. - Public domain old map

Prison at Andersonville, Ga. - Public domain old map

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 134 From Sanitary Commission bulletin, v. 1, no. 21, Sept. 1, 1864. opp. p. 647. Plan of camp showing the prison, the "dead line," "Rebel camp," batteries, "Gen. Wi... More

Antietam Sharpsburg and vicinity. Constructed and engraved to illustrate "The war with the South"

Antietam Sharpsburg and vicinity. Constructed and engraved to illustra...

Scale ca. 1:26,700. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 246.2 From Tomes, Robert. The war with the South. New York, Virtue & Yorston, 1862-1867, v. 2, between p. 426 and 427. Signed (facsim.): Charles: Sholl, Topl. En... More

Fort McAllister : [Georgia]. Historic map, Library of Congress

Fort McAllister : [Georgia]. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S107, 182 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Pen-and-ink on ... More

General map of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, showing rebel defences and obstructions /

General map of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, showing rebel defenc...

Depths shown by gradient tints. Shows location of sunken ships. Printed in upper left margin: 39th Cong. 1st Sess. --- Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 370.1 Available als... More

Map showing location of Flat top, New River, Gauly Lower Measures coal field, West Virginia.

Map showing location of Flat top, New River, Gauly Lower Measures coal...

Incorrect scale cited in LC Civil War maps. Pen-and-ink and pencil on verso of lined paper, mounted on cloth. Includes notes and instructions for draftsman. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H254 Available also thro... More

[Sketch of the "proposed route of Virginias Railway" to Flat-top and Guyandot coal fields, West Virginia].

[Sketch of the "proposed route of Virginias Railway" to Flat-top and G...

Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil on tracing linen, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H272 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

Map of Augusta Co., Virginia, 1738-1770

Map of Augusta Co., Virginia, 1738-1770

Scale ca. 1:9,000,000. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H278 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

Map of Augusta County, Virginia, 1886

Map of Augusta County, Virginia, 1886

Scale 1:264,000. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H283 A list of six magisterial districts in the lower left corner corresponds to numbers on the map. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also... More

Map of the field of operations of Gregg's (Union) & Stuart's (Confederate) cavalry at the battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863

Map of the field of operations of Gregg's (Union) & Stuart's (Confeder...

Scale 1:12,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 357.3 "For sale by Woeltje & Cutting, 115 Pearl Street, New York." Copyright no. 18292, Aug. 4, 1888. This map is based on the map surveyed by Frank O. Maxson under ... More

[Base map of California]. - Public domain dedication image

[Base map of California]. - Public domain dedication image

Shows names of counties, major cities and towns, and rivers. Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil on tracing linen, sectioned in 3, and mounted on cloth. LC Civi... More

Sketch map of United States of North-America. [1861-65]

Sketch map of United States of North-America. [1861-65]

Scale ca. 1:4,700,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 84.5 Map of the Southern States showing places where battles were fought. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library ... More

Perspective view of Gettysburg National Military Park

Perspective view of Gettysburg National Military Park

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 329.5 Panoramic map, with Round Top in the foreground, showing roads, railroads, field patterns, woodland, observation towers, monuments, and houses. Description de... More

Area 'K' : administrative map Operation Overlord South Western Zone, 15 April 1944 /

Area 'K' : administrative map Operation Overlord South Western Zone, 1...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours. Shows marshaling and embarkation areas of allied forces in Devon, England, in preparation for Operation Overlord. At head of title: Top secret, copy no. 41. "... More

[American paratrooper cleans his gun at Army base camp in Beirut, Lebanon] / [TOH].

[American paratrooper cleans his gun at Army base camp in Beirut, Leba...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Lebanon, Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania. during American Civil War

Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania. during American Civil...

Scale ca. 1:28,000. Title from verso. "1973-515-981/64." LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 352.7 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, index to points of interest,... More

Map of the approaches and defences of Knoxville, Tenn., showing the positions occupied by the United States & Confederate forces during the siege.

Map of the approaches and defences of Knoxville, Tenn., showing the po...

Scale ca. 1:9,600. Photocopy; blue line print. Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot heights. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 428.2 "G-X-I-455 K 90." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site a... More

Sketch book showing positions of Second Corps, A.N.Va. in engagements of 1864-5 : [Virginia] /

Sketch book showing positions of Second Corps, A.N.Va. in engagements ...

Shows several battles with troop movements and names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Title from paper label affixed to cover. "Return to Jed. Hotchkiss, Staunton, Virginia"--On label on cover. Pen-... More

Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Road & Fifteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Ro...

Significance: Buildings 802-808 played a vital role in the Installation's mission to resupply U.S. forces in the Pacific during both World War II and the Korean engagement. Materiel was shipped by rail and tru... More

Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Road & Fifteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Ro...

Significance: Buildings 802-808 played a vital role in the Installation's mission to resupply U.S. forces in the Pacific during both World War II and the Korean engagement. Materiel was shipped by rail and tru... More

Iraq, situation map. Historic map, Library of Congress

Iraq, situation map. Historic map, Library of Congress

Special insert from Soldiers, the official U.S. Army magazine, January 2004, v. 59, no. 1. "Map source: Map Resources." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes map of... More

Oakland Army Base, Post Headquarters Building, Alaska & Africa Streets, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Post Headquarters Building, Alaska & Africa Streets...

Significance: Building 1 has served as the central administration building and headquarters for the Installation since 1942. Survey number: HAER CA-125-B Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

Oakland Army Base, Post Headquarters Building, Alaska & Africa Streets, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Post Headquarters Building, Alaska & Africa Streets...

Significance: Building 1 has served as the central administration building and headquarters for the Installation since 1942. Survey number: HAER CA-125-B Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

A general map of the middle British colonies, in America. Containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware counties, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With the addition of New York, and the greatest part of New England, as also of the bordering parts of the province of Quebec, improved from several surveys made after the late war, and corrected from Governor Pownall's late map 1776.

A general map of the middle British colonies, in America. Containing V...

Scale ca. 1:2,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "The seat of the war in the middle British colonies, containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware counties, &ca." From the author's The American mil... More

Oakland Army Base, General Purpose Administration Building, Chungking & Algiers Streets, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, General Purpose Administration Building, Chungking ...

Significance: Building 90 was a structure used in support of Oakland Army Base's World War II mission. Survey number: HAER CA-125-G Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) and Grant (120,000) including the approach and the movement toward Spottsylvania [sic] Courthouse /

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

"Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Ci... More

Report of the camps, marches & engagements, of the Second Corps, A.N.V., and of the Army of the Valley Dist. of the Department of Northern VA., during the campaign of 1864 : [Virginia] /

Report of the camps, marches & engagements, of the Second Corps, A.N.V...

Relief shown by hachures. A number of the maps from this report are reproduced in the Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1891-95. Pen-and-ink and pencil (some col.) wit... More

Oakland Army Base, Storehouse Type, Ukraine & Maritime Streets, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Storehouse Type, Ukraine & Maritime Streets, Oaklan...

Significance: The support activities conducted in these facilities were integral to the success of the Installation's World War II mission. Survey number: HAER CA-125-K Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial ... More

A map of the most inhabited part of New England; containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of Konektikut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and townships: The whole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations.

A map of the most inhabited part of New England; containing the provin...

Scale ca. 1:440,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. Relief shown pictorially. Includes compilation data and insets of "Fort Frederik," ca. 1:1,680 and "A plan of Boston Harbor from an accurate ... More

Oakland Army Base, Vehicle Maintenance Shop, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Road & Ukraine Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Vehicle Maintenance Shop, Tobruk Street, between Wa...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Oakland Army Base, Maritime Street at West Grand Avenue, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Maritime Street at West Grand Avenue, Oakland, Alam...

Significance: Oakland Army Base served in an important capacity during the Second World War (1941-1945), and is therefore eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, repr... More

Oakland Army Base, Maritime Street at West Grand Avenue, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Maritime Street at West Grand Avenue, Oakland, Alam...

Significance: Oakland Army Base served in an important capacity during the Second World War (1941-1945), and is therefore eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, repr... More

Fifteen pen and ink maps of the battle of the Wilderness /

Fifteen pen and ink maps of the battle of the Wilderness /

Annotated in pen-and-ink and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 668 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10662 Call no. cited in LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.): G129... More

Guide leaflets for the tour of historic Civil War defenses, Washington D.C.

Guide leaflets for the tour of historic Civil War defenses, Washington...

Relief shown by contours on some maps. Title from title sheet (sheet #1). Facsims. of Civil War fortification maps of Washington D.C. Original version: [S.l. : s.n., 1861?-1865]. LC sheets imperfect: Use-worn, ... More

Guide leaflets for the tour of historic Civil War defenses, Washington D.C.

Guide leaflets for the tour of historic Civil War defenses, Washington...

Relief shown by contours on some maps. Title from title sheet (sheet #1). Facsims. of Civil War fortification maps of Washington D.C. Original version: [S.l. : s.n., 1861?-1865]. LC sheets imperfect: Use-worn, ... More

Oakland Army Base, Vehicle Maintenance Shop, Attu Street & Corregidor Avenue, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Vehicle Maintenance Shop, Attu Street & Corregidor ...

Significance: Building 99 was used in support of Oakland Army Base's World War II mission. Survey number: HAER CA-125-H Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1937 Subs... More

A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and townships: The whole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations.

A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provin...

Scale ca. 1:440,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. Relief shown pictorially. Includes compilation data and insets of "A plan of the town of Boston" and "A plan of Boston Harbor from an accurat... More

Atlas of the battlefield of Antietam, prepared under the direction of the Antietam Battlefield Board, lieut. col. Geo. W. Davis, U.S.A., president, gen. E.A. Carman, U.S.V., gen. H Heth, C.S.A. Surveyed by lieut. col. E.B. Cope, engineer, H.W. Mattern, assistant engineer, of the Gettysburg National Park. Drawn by Charles H. Ourand, 1899. Position of troops by gen. E. A. Carman.  Published by authority of the Secretary of War, under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1908.

Atlas of the battlefield of Antietam, prepared under the direction of ...

Relief shown by contour lines. Indicates roads and streets, houses, names of residents, fences, vegetation, drainage, bridges, and fords. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster imag... More

Oakland Army Base, Railroad Engine Shop, Engineer Road & Wake Avenue, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Railroad Engine Shop, Engineer Road & Wake Avenue, ...

Significance: The Railroad Engine Shop, provided both housing and maintenance for OARB's locomotive engines. The conveyance, by rail, of troops and materiel to the shipping berths was important in fulfilling t... More

Maps of East and West Florida. nautical chart

Maps of East and West Florida. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:500,000. Cover title. Alternate title from Peter Force's catalog of printed maps: Florida and its vicinity. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "To the Marine Society of the city of... More

[Sketch of the road from Waynesboro toward Staunton, in Augusta County, Virginia.].

[Sketch of the road from Waynesboro toward Staunton, in Augusta County...

Scale ca. 1:63,360. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H281 Sketch is drawn on both sides of the sheet with colored pencils, showing roads in red and drainage in blue. Description derived from published bibliography.... More

A new map of the British Dominions in North America; with the limits of the governments annexed thereto by the late Treaty of Peace, and settled by Proclamation, October 7th 1763.

A new map of the British Dominions in North America; with the limits o...

Scale ca. 1:3,200,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Longit. west from London." "Engraved for the History of the War in the Annual Register, and to be placed at the end of the volume for 1763." Includes inset. LC ... More

Militärgeographische Einzelangaben über England : militärgeographische Objektkarten mit Objektbildern.

Militärgeographische Einzelangaben über England : militärgeographische...

Also shows Wales on some sheets. Issued as a series in separate portfolios; each portfolio consists of 2 or more sheets; and numbered 1 through 4 and 6 through 12. Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot h... More

Militärgeographische Einzelangaben über England : militärgeographische Objektkarten mit Objektbildern.

Militärgeographische Einzelangaben über England : militärgeographische...

Also shows Wales on some sheets. Issued as a series in separate portfolios; each portfolio consists of 2 or more sheets; and numbered 1 through 4 and 6 through 12. Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot h... More

[Civil War proof maps : United States].

[Civil War proof maps : United States].

Most maps show troop movements and positions, fortifications, battle sites, or other military operations. Includes maps of Puebla, Mexico, Sonderburg, Denmark, the Bering Strait, and the English Channel. Relief... More

[Civil War proof maps : United States].

[Civil War proof maps : United States].

Most maps show troop movements and positions, fortifications, battle sites, or other military operations. Includes maps of Puebla, Mexico, Sonderburg, Denmark, the Bering Strait, and the English Channel. Relief... More

Oakland Army Base, Transit Shed, East of Dunkirk Street & South of Burma Road, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Transit Shed, East of Dunkirk Street & South of Bur...

Significance: Oakland Army Base (OARB) was planned and constructed a a time when military planners recognized that the West Coast would have a vital role in responding to Japanese aggression during World War II... More

Oakland Army Base, Transit Shed, East of Dunkirk Street & South of Burma Road, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Transit Shed, East of Dunkirk Street & South of Bur...

Significance: Oakland Army Base (OARB) was planned and constructed a a time when military planners recognized that the West Coast would have a vital role in responding to Japanese aggression during World War II... More

Oakland Army Base, Transit Shed, East of Dunkirk Street & South of Burma Road, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Transit Shed, East of Dunkirk Street & South of Bur...

Significance: Oakland Army Base (OARB) was planned and constructed a a time when military planners recognized that the West Coast would have a vital role in responding to Japanese aggression during World War II... More

Amérique campagne. Historic map, Library of Congress

Amérique campagne. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Most of the plans are oriented with north to the top. This is the first in a series of plans of the camps of Comte de Rochambeau's army during the march ... More

American campaigns,

American campaigns,

On verso of t.-p.: War Department. Document no. 324. Office of the Chief of Staff. "These volumes represent a part of my three years' work as lecturer in military history at the Army Service Schools at Fort Lea... More

[San Juan de Ulúa / - Public domain vintage map

[San Juan de Ulúa / - Public domain vintage map

Ground plan of a projected fortress. In black ink, with a part in yellow watercolor, on vellum. Mounted on cloth. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 47 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a r... More

An exact plan of the city, fortifications & harbour of Havana in the island of Cuba /

An exact plan of the city, fortifications & harbour of Havana in the i...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure. May 1762, v. 30. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1814 Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

Carte de l'isle de Nieves.

Carte de l'isle de Nieves.

Scale ca. 1:50,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "Tome I, no. 84." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1995 Available also through the L... More

America septentrionalis oder Mitternächtiger Theil von America,

America septentrionalis oder Mitternächtiger Theil von America,

Scale not given. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Map in English, cartouche in German. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 113 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. ... More

Potomack / Historic map, Library of Congress

Potomack / Historic map, Library of Congress

Covers the Potomac River (estuary and river), its tributaries, and the Rappahannock River. Also covers "The Northern Neck of Virginia". Title from annotation on verso. Gift; Robert Lee Brown, Woodville, Va.; Oc... More

[Map of Orange and Rockland counties area of New York]

[Map of Orange and Rockland counties area of New York]

Scale ca. 1:126,720. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and pencil. Watermark: J. Whatman. Relief shown by hachures. Shows some landownership. On verso: Honbe. Majr. Genl. Green. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1090 ... More

Plano de la plaza y ciudad de Santo Domingo, capital de la isla Española;

Plano de la plaza y ciudad de Santo Domingo, capital de la isla Españo...

Scale ca. 1:6,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the upper left. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1910 Available also through the Library of C... More

Vessels destroyed at Norfolk 1861. - Public domain map

Vessels destroyed at Norfolk 1861. - Public domain map

Sketch map of "U.S. Navy Yard" vicinity at Portsmouth (Va.) showing buildings, shipbuilding docks, drydock, buoys, and locations of the scuttled U.S. ships "Pennsylvania", "Columbia", "Raritan", and "Delaware".... More

Sketch of the action fought near Bladensberg [i.e. Bladensburg], August 24th, 1814 /

Sketch of the action fought near Bladensberg [i.e. Bladensburg], Augus...

Oriented with north to the right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Imperfect: Tears, stains, mounted on cloth.

[Map of Nelson and Amherst counties, Va.] /

[Map of Nelson and Amherst counties, Va.] /

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. Date, title, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink on tracing linen, on a 3/4-inch grid, sectioned in 2 and mounted on cloth... More

Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee November 24th, 1863

Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee November 24th, 1863

Oriented with the Tennessee River to the top and the East Tennessee Railroad to the east, image gives details of the difficult terrain surrounding the Confederate position on Lookout Mountain. Dotted lines sho... More

Beaufort Harbor and coast line between Charleston, S.C. and Savanna [sic] Ga., with 5 mile distance lines in circles round Beaufort, and R.R. connections, roads, &c, &c.

Beaufort Harbor and coast line between Charleston, S.C. and Savanna [s...

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 368a Indicates ships in Beaufort Harbor and a few of the line coastal forts. "The naval force in the great expedition" appears above the map, followed by the names ... More

Plan of Genl Q. A. Gillmore's position on Morris Island, Charleston S.C.

Plan of Genl Q. A. Gillmore's position on Morris Island, Charleston S....

Shows the progression of earthworks constructed to allow Union forces to approach Fort Wagner. Gillmore's troops reached the ditch surrounding the fort on September 6. The Confederate forces abandoned the fort ... More

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.

Colton's map of the southern states. Including Maryland, Delaware, Vir...

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'... More

Battle of Beaverdam Creek Va., Chickahominy River, June 27th 1862

Battle of Beaverdam Creek Va., Chickahominy River, June 27th 1862

While dated June 27th, this map depicts an engagement that took place the day previously, on the second day of the Seven Days' Battles. It shows the area of Hanover County that includes Mechanicsville, with th... More

The new naval and military map of the United States

The new naval and military map of the United States

Scale ca. 1:3,275,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 32.5 "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 by Robert P. Smith." Stamped in right-hand corner: Copyright Library, Jan. 12, 1863. General map o... More

Map of the battle field of Shiloh, April 6 & 7, 1862 /

Map of the battle field of Shiloh, April 6 & 7, 1862 /

Relief shown by hachures. Endorsed in ink: Approved G.T. Beauregard, Genl. Comdg. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.) 435.3 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raste... More

Battle of the Antietam, Confederate States of America

Battle of the Antietam, Confederate States of America

Conveys the placement of Union and Confederate forces in Washington County, Md., around Sharpsburg during the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this... More

The Battle of Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1864

The Battle of Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1864

After a day of fierce fighting "above the clouds" on November 24, the Confederates retained a tenuous hold on Lookout Mountain. In this image the focus has shifted to Missionary Ridge. Arrows show the directio... More

Map showing the positions occupied by the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry in the engagements on the right flank at Gettysburg, Pa., between the Union cavalry under Gen. D. McM. Gregg and the "Stonewall" Brigade of Confederate infantry on July 2d, 1863, and the Confederate cavalry under Gen. J. E. B. Stuart on July 3d, 1863.

Map showing the positions occupied by the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry i...

Scale ca. 1:24,200. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 345 From History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry . . . Philadelphia, Franklin Printing Company, 1905. opp. p. 261. Indicates troop, cavalry, and artillery posi... More

Fort Lee. Historic map, Library of Congress

Fort Lee. Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows fortification of Savannah, Georgia. Date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink on tracing cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S106, 181 Includes 5 cross sections. Available also through the ... More

Map showing route taken by U.S. prisoners of war, Feby. 1864, when sent from Richmond, Va., to Andersonville, Georgia.

Map showing route taken by U.S. prisoners of war, Feby. 1864, when sen...

Depicts railroad lines from Raleigh, N.C., through South Carolina and Georgia, highlighting in purple ink the particular train route Sneden took as a prisoner. NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocop... More

Fort Thunderbolt. Historic map, Library of Congress

Fort Thunderbolt. Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows fortification of Savannah, Georgia. Date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink on tracing cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S109, 185 Available also through the Library of Congress Web sit... More

[Map of the siege of Petersburg, 1864-5 /

[Map of the siege of Petersburg, 1864-5 /

Relief shown by hachures. Includes names of some residents in outlying areas. Civil War salted paper maps. Title taken from other version. Names of surveyors and draftsmen have been added by hand in the lower l... More

Monumental guide to the Gettysburg battlefield.  A map showing the location of every monument, marker and tablet with approaching roads and avenues

Monumental guide to the Gettysburg battlefield. A map showing the loc...

Scale ca. 1:12,800. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 338.2 "Library of Congress, Maps & Charts, no. 2502" is stamped in the lower right corner. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also throug... More

The battlefield of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 1863

The battlefield of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 1863

Scale 1:15,840. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 344 Shows Union positions in black and Confederate positions in red, names of field commanders, relief by hachures, drainage, vegetation, roads, railroad, and a few ... More

Previous

of 65

Next