.... let's try this again. with the word ... "research" spelled right.
----- Original Message -----
From: Marjorie Priser <mapriser(a)waveone.net>
To: INKOSCIU-L <INKOSCIU-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 6:30 PM
Subject: Fw: ANN: Civil War Map Collection
| As many of you know, I have a special place in my heart for Civil War
research. 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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