As many of you know, I have a special place in my heart for Civil War
reseat. This message is from another list. Be sure to take a look at this
web site, as it is truly remarkable what is available now!! For
researchers this will certainly prove to be a popular site.
marge
----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Boomhower <RBoomhower(a)indianahistory.org>
To: <H-INDIANA(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 7:28 AM
Subject: ANN: Civil War Map Collection
| From: Ray Boomhower <rboomhower(a)indianahistory.org>
| Sent: Fri, 17 Dec 99
| Subject: ANN: Civil War Map Collection
|
|
| Announcement of Civil War Maps Collection to be Added to American Memory
|
| Maps documenting battles, troop movements, reconnaissance efforts and
| locations of fortifications are a part of the most recent addition to
| the American Memory historical collections. The Civil War Maps
| collection contains approximately 2240 Civil War maps and charts and 76
| atlases and sketchbooks that are held within the Library=92s Geography and
| Map Division. A selection of these maps, based on Civil War Maps: An
| Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress, will be
| made available through American Memory. Updates will be made to this
| collection on a monthly basis.
|
| Though the large majority of these maps were created during the time of
| the Civil War, a number were created afterwards to illustrate or explain
| certain events or battles. Publishers in the North and South created
| maps included in this collection by both Union and Confederate forces.
| An introductory essay provides a discussion of mapping during the Civil
| War highlighting materials that are within the Geography and Map
| Division of the Library.
|
| Of special interest are maps created by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss, a
| topographical engineer for the Confederate Army. Hotchkiss=92s
| granddaughter donated these maps to the Library of Congress in 1948.
| Generals Lee and Jackson used a number of his maps as they planned
| strategy for various battles. Future updates will include images from
| his notebooks, which contain detailed notes about his various map
| projects. Also included are maps that were owned by General William
| Tecumseh Sherman. Some of these maps, which were donated by members of
| his family, document Sherman=92s military campaigns in Tennessee,
| Mississippi, Georgia and the Carolinas. Users may also be interested in
| maps that were created as propaganda items to encourage support of one
| side or the other during wartime and maps that were published in various
| newspapers. Panoramic maps and city plans are included within the
| collection.
|
| The Civil War Maps collection compliments many of the American Memory
| collections currently online including the Selected Civil War
| Photographs, Pioneering the Upper Midwest, California as I Saw It,
| Historic American Sheet Music and the WPA Life Histories. Images from
| these and other collections are used to highlight the material within
| the Civil War Maps collection and to provide links to these related
| collections.
|
| The Civil War Maps collection can be found at
| |
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html
| For questions please send email to maps(a)loc.gov.
|
| | Danna C. Bell-Russel
| National Digital Library Learning Center
| 202-707-4159
| dbell(a)loc.gov
|
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