April 5, 2024
CIVIL WAR MAPS; GEORGIA, ALABAMA, CAROLINA, VIRGINIA +
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One complete, uncut, ORIGINAL Civil War Atlas map sheet...18" by 29"...from the 1890s U.S. Government limited issue ATLAS TO ACCOMPANY THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES. Plate number CXVIII contains three Civil War maps. Central to the piece is a large and extremely nicely detailed southeast map: Campaigns of The Army of The Cumberland, by order Maj. General George H. Thomas, U.S.A. This big map covers parts or all of the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky. Two smaller maps are: 1. Operations of the Seventh Division, under General Morgan; Cumberland Gap, Tennessee: 1862. 2. Environs of Petersburg, Virginia during the siege. THE OFFICIAL ATLAS, as it is called, represents the culmination of decades of research after The War, and was contributed to by the military leaders of The War, civil engineers and cartographers, and was intended to be THE companion to The OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE CIVIL WAR. The complete ATLASES were not available to the public, rather they were sent in a series of five sheets at a time, 178 sheets in total, to the three branches of government and to federal and state agencies and libraries. When THE OFFICIAL ATLAS was printed, over a century ago, each large map sheet was folded once, neatly, left side over right and this beautiful
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