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"Copyright secured by W. & J. March 1862." Accompanied by cover: Map of Virginia. Richmond: West & Johnston, Publishers. 1862; 15 x 10 cm. Inset: View of Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.; includes list of railroads. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by isolines. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 475.5 Parrish & Willingham. Confederate imprints, 6204 Swem, E.G. Maps relating to Virginia, 971 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. c. 1, May 2002, source unknown; c. 3, source unknown; Map Cataloging Team. Civil War Map Proj. no.: LVA00038. Conservation: copy 1 restored April 17, 1947; copy 1 and 3, Etherington Conservation Center, Jan. 2002. Copy 1 has no cover; c. 3 has blue cardboard cover and is 58 x 87 cm on sheet 66 x 96 cm. Copy 1 map accession no. 5177ax; copy 3 map accession no. 5177bx. Digital image available: 26 x 37.5 in. Previously filed as: 755 1862(3) copy 1 & 3
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Issued also as Senate Document 412, 57th Cong., 1st sess. under title: Missouri troops in service during the Civil War. Letter from the Secretary of War ... Also available in digital form. Also available in digital form.
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 the one on p. 196, shows the skirmish between Confederate forces protecting the railroad and Union forces (the 127th New York Regiment under Gen. E. E. Potter) hoping to secure it.
Shows location of battles of Allatoona, Allatoona Creek, Picketts Mill, and New Hope Church, roads, railroads, Confederate entrenchments, towns, drainage, and relief by hachures. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:280,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 132.5 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Delineates the route of the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad, (named on map as A. & T. Riv. R-Ra.). Also shows roads, rivers, section lines, houses, and outbuildings. Relief shown by hachures. Signed in pencil in two places by the Confederate engineer "Geo. Wadsworth Chf Engr." Pen and ink and watercolor. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 103.5 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 7-85 Vault
HUSBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE Alfter Four Years of Discouraging Conditions Mrs Bullock Cave Up in Despair Husband Came to Rescue Catron Kyln an interesting letter from this place Mrs Bettie Bullock writes as follows I suffered for four years with womanly troubles and during this time I could only sit up for a little while and could not walk anywhere at all At times I would have severe pains in my left side The doctor was called in and his treat ment relieved me for a while but I was soon confined to my bed again After that nothing seemed to do me any good FOR THE HOME AND THE SCRAPBOOK SELECTIONS of poetry and SELECTIONS FROM prose humor and pathos rare THE bits of history and interesting facts from week to week EDITORS SCRAPBOOK A The Confederate ReUnion Git my old knapsack Mary and my uniform of gray Git my battered helmet Mary for Ill need them all today Git mny canteen and my leggins reach me down my rusty gun For Im goin out paradin with the boys of 61 Never mind them blood stains Mary never mind them ragged holes It was left there by a bullet
Confederate imprint. Shows "battle ground, July 18th," "battle ground July 21st," roads, railroads, towns, and drainage. "Blue Ridge," "Thorough Fare Mountains," and two unnamed mountains are indicated by hachures. Troop positions are not given. Roads, railroads, bridges, and distances are described in a brief text below the map. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:322,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 568 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
This map depicts the Five Forks area of Dinwiddie County, Va., where Confederate forces under Gen. George E. Pickett tried to hold off the Union advance on Petersburg and the important South Side Railroad. Included are Hatcher's Run, the Appomattox River, Petersburg, Dinwiddie Court House, and the Weldon Railroad. Union forces involved included Warren's Fifth Corps infantry and Sheridan's cavalry. Accused by Sheridan of insubordination and failure to cooperate, Warren was removed from command during the height of battle.