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One hundred & fifty miles around Richmond. 9th ed.

Scale ca. 1:880,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 632.3 General map centered on Richmond, Virginia. Map is printed in blue with title and border in red. "Ninth edition 3000 of Magnus' all around map." "Dedicate... More

Orange County, Va. / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. Date and scale derived from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and ink and pencil, drawn on a 1 1/2-inch grid on 9 sheets of paper pasted togethe... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and U.S. belt buckle with pisto...

Case: Leather, floral and scroll design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). NewsetLilj02 pp/liljunion

New map of Virginia : compiled from the latest maps

Accompanied by cover: New map of Virginia. Richmond, Va. : J.W. Randolph ; 14 x 9 cm. Insets: Harpers Ferry -- Norfolk Harbor and vicinity. Relief shown by hachures. Shows principal cities, towns and railroads,... More

Colton's United States shewing the military stations, forts &c. Entere...

Scale ca. 1:7,900,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 7 "No 3" in upper left corner. Forts are marked by red flags. Indicates railroads, towns, names and boundaries of states and territories, rivers, and canals. ... More

Army map of the seat of war in Virginia, showing the battle fields, fo...

Scale ca. 1:183,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 448 Map of the Potomac River and vicinity from Harpers Ferry to Swan Point showing towns, roads, railroads, names and boundaries of counties, drainage, and reli... More

New map of Kentucky and Tennessee from authentic reports of county sur...

Scale ca. 1:600,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 215.7 "Entered accoring to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by Campbell & Barlow." Index to cities counties is printed below the map. General map indicating roa... More

The Union assault on the Rebel works at Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Va.

Shows fortifications on opposite sides of the Warwick River, with the Confederate forces concentrated to the north of the river and the Union forces to the south around Lee's Mill.

Plan of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Va. Showing position of both ar...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Blockade of the Potomac. Map showing Union and Rebel batteries January...

"The Rebel troops and batteries were commanded by Genl. Holmes, C.S.A. during the blockade which lasted from Decr 1861 to 9th March 1862." -- Page caption. Color coding shows location of Union and Confederate f... More

Colton's new topographical map of the states of Virginia, Maryland and...

Scale 1:760,320. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 25.9 Another issue. Lang & Laing Lith, N.Y. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 by J. H. Colton." 1864 edition listed as Civil War Maps entry no.... More

Preliminary chart of Calibogue Sound and Skull Creek forming inside pa...

Scale 1:40,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 368a.4 From its Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1862 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1... More

Plan of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., Decr. 13, 1862.

Map shows the region surrounding Fredericksburg, Va., including Marie's Heights outside of the city and Falmouth across the Rappahannock River. Due to Burnside's slow maneuvering of the Union forces, Lee was a... More

[Map of Nelson Co. and part of the counties of Albemarle, Amherst, Aug...

"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

Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of the Rebe...

[Scale 1:30,000]. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 380 Another issue. Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals. Overprinted to show positions occupied... More

Plan of the Battle of Cold Harbor, June 3rd

After two days' preparation, the main Federal assault took place in the early morning of June 3rd against a well-entrenched Confederate army. Federal losses were overwhelming, and by noon Gen. Grant called a h... More

[Map of the environs of Olley Creek near Marietta, Georgia, July? 1864...

Shows troop positions, fortifications, and names of some residents. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S96, 198 Available also through the Library of Congress We... More

Plan of action at Devaux Neck South Carolina. December 9th 1864

Devaux Neck is a peninsula formed by the Tulfinney and Coosawatchie rivers as they branch off the Broad River. The peninsula is crossed by the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. This map, in closer detail than... More

Phelps & Watson's historical and military map of the border & southern...

Shows locations of battles and skirmishes, 1861 to May (?) 1864, with red dots or by red underlining of place names. Also shows population statistics for each state; statistics positioned near blue dots. Relief... More

Campaign map of Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, showing all the battle ...

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The Wilderness. [May 5-7, 1864] - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:69,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 666 From Century illustrated monthly magazine, v. 34, June 1887. p.279. "Union works are marked U" and "Confederate works are marked C." Shows roads, houses, nam... More

A full brass band composed of women, heading one of the posts from the...

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Company B, Confederate Veterans, Nashville, Tennessee Giers, Nashville...

Photomontage shows portraits of identified Confederate veterans taken by Giers Art Gallery. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: The Veteran's Attic, Kingston, ... More

Topographic map of Fredericksburg and vicinity, Virginia, showing batt...

Scale 1:24,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 556 "Advanced sheet subject to correction." Detailed topographic map indicating relief by contour lines and spot heights, fortifications, roads and streets, houses, ... More

No. 2, Art gallery, Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, June, 1864

Photograph shows a view of the paintings and sculpture on one of the walls in the art gallery at the fair sponsored by the United States Sanitary Commission in 1864. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015... 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

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Financial pape...

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: General Correspondence, 1846-1899; 1882

The West Point atlas of American wars /

Picryl description: Public domain image of a World War II Military Situation Maps, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The maps in the World War II Military Situation Maps were published by the United State... More

Map[s] illustrating the military operations of the Atlanta campaign .....

Shows Union Army lines of march, dates, troop positions, and campsites in northwestern Georgia between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Relief shown by hachures. The coverage of these 5 maps is indicated on J.v. Glümer... More

[Central Virginia]. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Capt. R. Headen / Ball & Thomas, Photographic Art Gallery, 120 W. 4th ...

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Capt. Robert Headen, Company E, 12th U.S. Colored Infantry. Title from ink inscription on front. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV52; Capt. Robert Hea... More

Atlas of the war of the Rebellion giving Union and Confederate armies ...

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The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the...

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The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the...

Public domain scan of a plan, map, diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Union District, South Carolina / - Public domain old map

Relief shown by hachures. Scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. "Approved, Chas. R. Suter, 1st Lt., U.S. Engrs., Chf. Engr., D. S." Pen and ink tracing of a map in Robert Mills's Atlas of the State of S... More

Memphis and vicinity / Historic map, Library of Congress

LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S168, 429 Finished pen and ink map drawn on tracing cloth. "For General Sherman, General of the Army." Indicates fortifications at Fort Pickering and Fort Harris, roads and streets,... More

[Map of the coast of South Carolina, from Charleston to Savannah].

Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Portion of an unidentified printed map showing roads, railroads, towns, and drainage. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S126 Available also through the ... More

Plan of the Battle of Dranesville Va Decr 20th 1861.

Shows Dranesville, Fairfax County, Va., and the area to the north. The locations of the Leesburg Turnpike, Centreville Road and Chain Bridge Road are indicated.

Lloyd's American railroad map, showing the whole seat of the war.

Scale ca. 1:1,900,800. Hand colored. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 14 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus., "Time dial," and inset of "Map of Escambia & Santa... More

Second battle field at Bull Run - Public domain old map

Shows the Union forces under Gen. John Pope and the Confederates under Gen. Robert E. Lee on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of August 1862 in an area of Virginia defined by the towns of Chantilly to the north, Manass... More

Map of the country between the York and James Rivers in 1862 and 1863 ...

Map of Pr. George, Surry, Sussex and Southampton counties, Virginia /

Shows names of some residents. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer chief engineer - Presented to - the West Point Military Academy by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Mini... More

Plan of Andersonville Prison, Georgia 1864.

Shows dimensions, layout, outbuildings and immediate surroundings of Andersonville Prison Camp, Georgia. NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary image. Relief shown by hachures. This it... More

Ohio River between Mound City and Cairo /

Depths shown by soundings in feet. Indicates Fort Cairo, naval depot, and "harbor for powder barges" at Mound City, soundings in feet, roads and streets, and vegetation. Upper left margin: No. 31, No. 3020. Pri... More

[Map of the lower Shenandoah Valley, Virginia] /

Shows the Shenandoah Valley from the Potomac to the north to Front Royal and Strasburg to the south, including roads, drainage, railroads, and names of residents. Relief shown by shading. Title derived from Ste... More

Isometric view of General Grant's Virginia campaign.

Not drawn to scale. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 488.4 From Harper's weekly, v. 8, Sept. 10, 1864. p. 580. Panoramic view of the environs of the James and Appomattox rivers showing Union and Confederate lines a... More

Map of Richmond, Va., and surrounding country showing Rebel fortificat...

Scale ca. 1:70,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 640 Shows fortifications, street pattern of Richmond and Manchester, roads, railroads, towns, vegetation, drainage, relief by hachures, and rural houses. Descrip... More

Map of Pr. Edward Co., Virginia / - Public domain map

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north to the upper right. Originally printed on 2 sheets pasted together. "March 1st 1864." "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Ri... More

View of Johnson's Island, near Sandusky City, O.

Not drawn to scale. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 320 Perspective drawing showing fortifications, prison, buildings, and vegetation. Principal buildings are keyed by number to a list in the lower left corner. De... More

Map of Nelson County, Virginia / - Public domain old map

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. At lower left: C.W. Oltmanns. Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil, sectioned in 2 and mounted on cloth. In pencil in upper right corner: 219. In pencil i... More

Map of Antietam National Cemetery at Sharpsburg, Maryland

Scale 1:600. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 245.65 "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by the Board of Trustees of the 'Antietam National Cemetary' in the Clerks Office of the U.S. District Cou... More

Appomattox Court House. [1865] - Public domain old map

Scale 1:21,120. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 525.2 Detailed map of the environs of Appomattox Court House showing roads, railroads, houses and names of residents, drainage, and woodlands. Troop positions are no... More

Vicksburg and its defences - Public domain old map

Relief shown by hachures. From Tomes, Robert. The war with the South, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 1862-1867. v. 2, between p. 566 and 567. "Copyright 1877 by Virtue, Yorston." Caption in lower margin: A topogra... More

Manassas National Battlefield Park, Virginia. during American Civil Wa...

Scale ca. 1:48,000. Printed on both sides of sheet. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 572.2 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes descriptive index, text, and illus. AACR2

Civil War bas relief on the Pension Building, 401 F St., NW, Washingto...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Sanitary Fair - Public domain scenic

Photograph shows Frederic Church's painting, "The Heart of the Andes" flanked by portraits of American presidents in the fine art gallery at the Metropolitan Fair in New York in 1864. Purchase; Robin Stanford; ... More

Gen. Robert Edward Lee - Public domain portrait engraving

Photograph of a painting in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; signed "J.A. Elder, Richmond, Va." Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 29914. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Legal papers; ...

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

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Legal papers; ...

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Legal papers; ...

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Scrapbooks; Mo...

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Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: General Correspondence, 1846-1899; Letterbo...

The West Point atlas of American wars /

Picryl description: Public domain image of a World War II Military Situation Maps, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The maps in the World War II Military Situation Maps were published by the United State... More

[Group shot, officers of the 54th Mass. Colored]

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of three officers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. Sitters have been identified as Second Lieutenant Ezekiel G. Tomlinson, Captain Luis F. Emilio (center), an... More

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

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...

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

Thirty pen and ink maps of the Maryland Campaign, 1862 : drawn from de...

Photocopies of manuscript maps showing Union and Confederate troop positions. Confederate troop positions annotated in red pencil. Title from typewritten label (5 x 14 cm.) affixed to p. [1]. LC Civil War maps ... More

[Maps for history of 20th Army Corps, June 1864-May 11, 1865].

Maps show General Sherman's march south through Georgia then north to Virginia. Relief shown by hachures. Title from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen and ink, colored ink, and pencil on paper and tracing ... More

Death of Reynolds--Gettysburg - Public domain architectural plan drawi...

Three men on horseback in foreground, soldiers in background. Title inscribed lower left. A narrative and a map on cream lined paper accompany the drawing (on the verso). The text reads: The Fall of Reynolds/ L... More

The campaign atlas, for 1861 : [United States].

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[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].

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

General Daniel E. Sickles - Public domain portrait print

Stereograph showing a head and shoulders portrait of General Daniel Edgar Sickles, officer of the Federal Army, in an oval cropping, facing front. No. 1702. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic W... More

Capt. R. Headen / Ball & Thomas, Photographic Art Gallery, 120 W. 4th ...

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Capt. Robert Headen, Company E, 12th U.S. Colored Infantry. Title from ink inscription on front. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV52; Capt. Robert Hea... More

Atlas of the war of the Rebellion giving Union and Confederate armies ...

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The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the...

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Military maps illustrating the operations of the armies of the Potomac...

LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 518 Phillips, 10673 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. ga36 2007-03-06

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 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

Plan of the Battle of Savage's Station Virginia. Sunday, June 29th 186...

The Battle of Savage's Station was part of the Seven Days' Battles of the Peninsular Campaign. This map shows the area of Savage's Farm in Henrico County, Va., to the north and the Williamsburg Road to the sout... 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

Plan of Rebel redoubt and barracks [at] "Camp Misery" : surveyed April...

Layout of "Camp Misery," a Confederate fort on the Virginia Peninsula located in a swampy area on the Ship Point road. The camp was evacuated on April 5th, 1862, as Union forces began their siege of Yorktown.

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

Plan of battle of Salem Church near Bank's Ford, Virginia : May 3rd & ...

As part of a series depicting the Chancellorsville Campgain, this map gives details of the area around Salem Church, where Union Gen. Sedgwick's forces, en route from Fredericksburg to reinforce Hooker near Cha... 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

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

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

[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

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

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

[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

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