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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

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

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 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

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

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 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

[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 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

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

Situation at Harper's Ferry, Sep't 15 - 1862, 7A.M.

"Sketch map" "R.E.L. Russell, Baltimore, Md, 1931" LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 698 Hand colored positive photocopy showing Confereate troop positions in red, rivers and woods in green, and roads in brown. Unio... More

Stalingrad-Süd. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale 1:25,000. Map of Velikiy Burluk vicinity on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

[June 13, 1944], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.

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

Tour route, Chickamauga Battlefield, Chickamauga and Chattanooga Natio...

Scale ca. 1:55,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 162.9 Reprinted 1957. Illustrates descriptive brochure entitled "Chickamauga Battlefield, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tenness... More

A plan of the town & harbour of Halifax in Nova Scotia

Also shows the town of Dartmouth. Depths shown by soundings. Appears in the London Magazine, May 1760, volume 29. LC Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789, 458 Available also through t... More

Hart-Bolton American history maps - Public domain map

Wall maps. Relief shown by gradient tints and hachures. Title from the separately published Teacher's manual accompanying the Hart-Bolton American history maps. Chicago : Denoyer-Geppert, 1919. Manuals describi... More

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

The North Anna and movement from Spottsylvania [sic], May 21-26, 1864 ...

"Lee's famous "hog-snout" line." "Read numerically." Maps 1 to 4 are dated 1933. Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil with blank leaves at end. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War M... More

Oakland Army Base, Private Vehicle Inspection Building, Africa Street ...

Significance: Building 4 was a structure used in support of Oakland Army Base's World War II mission. Survey number: HAER CA-125-C Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

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

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, 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

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

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...

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...

Map of the alluvial region of the Mississippi /

Shows the Mississippi River from Cape Giradeau to the delta. Soundings shown in fathoms. Gift; Miss Eleanor Sherman Fitch; July 7, 1942. "Prepared to accompany the report of Capt. A.A. Humphreys and Lieut. H.L.... More

Oakland Army Base, Printing Plant, Attu & Baku Streets, Oakland, Alame...

Significance: Building 85 was a structure used in support of Oakland Army Base's World War II mission. Survey number: HAER CA-125-E Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

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

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

Oakland Army Base, Storehouse, Buna & Baku Streets, Oakland, Alameda C...

Significance: Building 88 was used in support of Oakland Army Base's World War II mission. Survey number: HAER CA-125-F Building/structure dates: 1919 Initial Construction

A chorographical map of the Province of New-York in North America, div...

Scale ca. 1:322,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. Inscribed: To His Excellency Major General William Tryon ... "Advertisement. The tracts of land c... More

Mississippi River Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale 1:40,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 48.4, 48.5 U.S. Coast Survey, chart no. 3017, 3018. Sheet no. at head of each title. Detailed river chart indicating field patterns and vegetation along the shore li... More

Atlas of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and vicinity.

Title from label mounted on cover. Duplicate sheet of p. [1] and [2] inserted. Erratum slip dated Jan. 31, 1902 inserted before p. [1] ; erratum slip mounted on map 4. At head of title: Vol. 101. Phillips, 1067... More

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...

An Accurate map of the present seat of war between Great-Britain and h...

Scale ca. 1:5,600,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown pictorially. Area extends from James Bay to Philadelphia and from the Great Lakes to Penobscot Bay. Available also through the Library o... More

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 Bur...

The American Civil War--maps. - Public domain map

Title from cover. Issued to accompany Formby, John. The American Civil War, a concise history of its causes, progress, and results (London, John Murray, 1910). Listed in C.E. Le Gear's A List of Geographical At... More

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,

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

American campaigns,

Atlas of the battles of the American Revolution, together with maps sh...

LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 609, 910, 1003, 1013, 1183, 1184, 1185, 1186, 1200, 1291, 1321, 1327, 1337, 1342, 1346, 1356, 1375, 1465, 1474, 1476, 1516, 1543, 1561, 1564, 1566, 1576, 1630, 2075 Availabl... More

Atlas of the battles of the American Revolution, together with maps sh...

A plan of Quebec - Public domain vintage map

Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications. Oriented with north to the right. Includes inset "The port & environs of Quebec as it was when attack'd by the English". LC copy mounted on cloth. LC Maps and cha... More

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows precinct boundaries. Insets: The harbour of Port Royal [ca. 1:200,000]--The bar and ha... More

A general map of the middle British colonies in America: Viz. Virginia...

Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "West longitude from London" and "from Philadelphia." Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 712 Available also through the Library of Congress... More

La partie françoise de l'isle de Saint Domingue.

Scale ca. 1:1,300,000. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1870 "Tome I, no. 67." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. Available also through the Library of Congress Web s... More

A new and accurate map of the English empire in North America; Represe...

Scale ca. 1:7,200,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Longitude west from Ferro." "Sold by Wm. Herbert ... & Robt. Sayer ... " LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 62 Includes notes. Maps in margin: A... More

A general map of the middle British colonies, in America; viz Virginia...

Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Cover title: Middle British colonies in America: Original wrappers. Hand colored, coloration does not agree with legend. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Longitude west of London" and "fr... More

Carte de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1754.

Scale ca. 1:15,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. From the author's Atlas méthodique. 1755. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 16 Shows boundaries, some cities and towns, forts, and Indian trib... More

A correct draught of the harbours of Port Royal and Kingston, with the...

Scale ca. 1:32,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially and by shading and hachures. Soundings shown in fathoms and feet. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1949 Available also through the Library of Congr... More

A plan of the harbour and town of Louisbourg in the Island of Cape Bre...

Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north to the upper right. Appears in An authentic account of the reduction of Louisbourg, in June and July 1758. London : W. Owen, 1758. LC Maps and charts of North Ameri... More

A plan of Boston, and its environs, shewing the true situation of His ...

Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References" to points of military and general interest. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 932 Available also through the Librar... More

A plan of the city and environs of Philadelphia.

Scale ca. 1:42,000. Hand colored. Shows names of landowners in rural areas. LC copy annotated, has "8.11.45.Vme." Includes "Elevation of the State House." Available also through the Library of Congress web site... More

Carte du golfe du Méxique, des isles et des pays adjacens.

Scale ca. 1:9,500,000. "Longitude ouest de l'isle de Fer." Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1739 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "Pl. I."... More

Plan of the encampment and position of the army under His Excelly. Lt....

Scale ca. 1:14,400. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown by hachures LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1186 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 650

A map, Middlesex County. - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:64,000. Title from table of contents: A survey of Middlesex County by B. Morgan, A. Dunham [and] J. Rue. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north to the right. LC ... More

An accurate map of the United States of America, with part of the surr...

Scale ca. 1:4,100,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. Shows national boundaries, towns and cities, frontier forts, trading posts, Indian villages and tribal territory, rivers an... More

Comanche pictograph map of the Battle of Sierra Blanca, 1787

Shows battle between two warring Plains Indian tribes, the Comanche and Apache. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink with fold lines. Map pasted on larger sheet of paper which includes key to map signed by ... More

[Map showing Indian land &c. 1772. - Public domain map

Scale ca. 1:200,000. Title from verso annotation. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows the boundary of "The lands [in Georgia] which the Cherokees have assigned for payments of their debts." "Col. off.... More

Camp Garnett and vicinity, Rich Mountain, Randolph Co., Virginia /

LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H70 Relief shown by form lines. Shows encampments and troop movements of Confederate and Union forces at the battle of Rich Mountain. Similar to the map reproduced in the Atlas to a... More

Topographical map of Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction...

Shows Union and Confederate positions at "Battle of Bull Run, July 21st 1861." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. In right margin at bottom: Guide to Mount Vernon by the Road Maker. Available ... More

Map showing the defenses of the Mississippi below New Orleans and Farr...

Map shows the Confederate fortifications at Fort Jackson under Gen. Duncan, Fort St. Philip and the Union fleet along the Mississippi River. This map, also shows the positions of Union ships under Farragut, who... More

Map showing the system of rebel fortifications on the Mississippi Rive...

Scale 1:84,480 ("3/4 of an inch = one mile"). LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 299.8 From U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the W... More

Map of the battle ground near Richmond, showing plainly, every point o...

Scale ca. 1:250,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 633 Indicates location and dates of battles, "McClellan's present defensive line" at Harrison's Landing, principal roads, railroads, towns, and drainage. Descri... More

A map of Fauquier Co. Virginia / - Public domain old map

LC Land ownership maps, 1256 Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. Pen-and-ink over pencil grid with pencil emendations. Imperfect: torn vertically with some staining along tear, and moun... More

Map of supplementary reconnaissance of the approaches to Philadelphia ...

Topographic map showing Civil War earthworks and batteries. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Authorship statement citing Whiting's name is in handwriting (black ink). Pen-and-ink, red ink (contours), ... More

Plan of the attack on Ft. Sumter, April 6th, 1863.

Map shows a regional view of Charleston Harbor including Confederate fortifications and Union naval vessels. This April 1863 atttack by Union ironclads was unsuccessful. Color coding indicates the location of U... More

Greene Co., Virginia /, Confederate States of America

Shows roads, settlements, rural householders' names, and streams. Does not show military features. Relief shown by hachures. "November 1863." Believed to have been prepared by Jedediah Hotchkiss. Pen-and-ink (b... More

Plan of fortifications at Columbus, Ga.

Shows fortifications near Columbus, Georgia. Relief shown by hachures. Similar map appears in the U.S. War Dept.'s Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate armies, 1891-95, pl. 132, ... More

[Preliminary map of northeastern Virginia, south of the Rappahannock, ...

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Date and title from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Sun print on a number of sheets pieced together and sectioned in two, with extensive ink and penci... More

Richmond, Petersburg, and vicinity. - Public domain map

Scale ca. 1:105,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 623 At top of map: Genl. Grant's campaign war map. Shows fortifications, camps, roads, railroads, street pattern of Richmond and Petersburg, towns, drainage, ve... More

[Part of South Carolina and Georgia]

Scale 1:350,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 365.5 Southern half of an unidentified printed map. Sheet extends from Augusta south to Jacksonville, Georgia, and Beaufort, South Carolina, west to Eatonton, Georg... More

[Schofield crossing the Chattahoochee, July 1864].

Shows military camp west of the Chattahoochee River near the Ulrich farm and troop positions in Fulton County between Roswell and Atlanta. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Title and date from Stephenso... More

Battlefield of Dinwiddie Courthouse, Va. from official map made by Col...

Map shows the area between Dinwiddie Court House and Five Forks, Va., including the location of troops at different times during the engagement. Beginning on March 30, 1865, Sheridan advanced on the Five Forks ... More

Plan showing positions of Union and Rebel armies 8th and 9th April 186...

This detail of an unidentified printed map has annotations by Sneden showing the locations of troops surrounding Appomattox Courthouse, April 9th, 1865. Union forces identified include Sheridan's 9th Corps, Hum... More

Augusta County, Virginia, Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:126,720. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H282 Unfinished map, giving roads in red and drainage in blue. Some elevations are shown by hachures, but coverage is incomplete. Description derived from publi... More

Map of Gauly Farm, 1722 acres. - Public domain old map

Shows the farm near the mouth of New River, at Gauley, Fayette County, West Virginia and names of some residents. Pen-and-ink on tracing paper, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H321 Available also... More

Map of the battlefield of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, showing the positions o...

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 116 Shows relief by hachures, drainage, vegetation, and houses. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web ... More

Carte du Mexique / Historic map, Library of Congress

LC copy extensively annotated in English to show railroads. French. Publication information in English. Prepared from a map originally published in 1873 in Paris. Prime meridian: Mexico City. Printed on two she... More

Pacific Coast from San Francisco Bay to the Strait of Juan de Fuca /

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S202 Includes table of sea coast lights and notes. In top left margin: No. 602. In top center margin: Plate no.... More

[Base map of Kansas]. - Public domain vintage map

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, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.)... More

[Base map of Georgia]. - Public domain vintage map

Isla de Puerto Rico. - Public domain vintage map

Blueprint. "Said to be a print from a tracing of a French map. Additions made in the Office of the General of the Army of the United States and furnished to the Coast and Geodetic Survey by Col. Black, U.S.A." ... More

Goff's historical map of the Spanish-American War in the West Indies, ...

Insets: San Juan, island of Puerto Rico.--Havana, city and harbor.--Santiago campaign June-July 1898. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Daily Mail world map of war and commerce /

Includes color illustrations, charts, and list of the distribution of British fleets in 1914. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy sectioned in two and mounted on cloth.

Manuscript planning map for the Allied landing near Licata, Sicily, on...

Title provided by cataloger. Pencil and colored pencil on paper. All edges torn. Accompanied by documents concerning the life and service of Capt. Alfred J. Reid. Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

[June 12, 1944], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.

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

[August 3, 1944], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.

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

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. during American Civil W...

Scale ca. 1:62,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 291.1 Descriptive leaflet illustrated with the following two maps: [a] Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Colored. Scale ca. 1:14,400. 11 x 22 cm. (S... More

Cours du fleuve Saint Louis depuis ses embouchures jusqu'à la rivière ...

Scale ca. 1:830,000. "Tome I. no. 43." Prime meridian: Paris. Depths shown by soundings. From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 778 Available also through the Libr... More

Civil War newspaper maps from the New York times and the New York hera...

Issues of the New York times and the New York herald published between Sept. 5, 1861 and June 28, 1862, each with a front page map depicting a Civil War battle, campaign, or other related military event. Some i... More

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

Maps illustrating Gen'l Sherman's "March to the sea" and through the C...

Relief shown by hachures. Title from cover. Gift; Ransom Post no. 131, Grand Army of the Republic, St. Louis, Mo.; September 1933. Pen and ink and colored ink on paper and tracing cloth. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ... More

American state papers : documents, legislative and executive, of the C...

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

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

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