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Wall map showing railroads, navigable rivers, highways, and shipping routes. Relief shown by shading. Also covers Manchuria. St. Petersburg (Pulkovo) meridian. Includes note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy rubber-stamped, annotated in red ink to show Russian railroad survey routes in Mongolia and Manchuria.
Descriptive leaflet illustrated with the following two maps: [a] Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Colored. Scale ca. 1:14,400. 11 x 22 cm. (Shows names of commander roads, railroad, and tour route.) [b] The Vicksburg campaign. Aug. 1962. Colored. Scale ca. 1:2,350,000. 40 x 23 cm. (Map of the Mississippi River from Memphis to the Gulf of Mexico showing drainage, railroads, and towns.) Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:62,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 291.1 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
General map of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and southern Pennsylvania showing cities and towns, roads, rivers, and relief by hachures. The map is overprinted in red to indicate railroads, the state name "West Virginia," and concentric circles centered on Washington, D.C. A table of "Distances by Railroads" appears below the map title. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:887,040. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 493.6 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Map includes "Chesapeake & Ohio R.R. after the war," "other railroads after the war," "railroads during the war," "plank roads and turnpikes," "other roads," rivers, towns, and relief by hachures. Title when folded: 26th annual encampment, G.A.R. Sept 20th 1892. Washington, D.C., via Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Poole Bros., Chicago. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:680,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 504 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
General map of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and southern Pennsylvania showing cities and towns, roads, rivers, and relief by hachures. The map is overprinted in red to indicate railroads, the state name "West Virginia," and concentric circles centered on Richmond. Printed in blue are concentric circles centered on Washington, D.C. A table of "Distances by Railroads" appears below the map title. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:887,040. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 509.2 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Map of the United States east of the Mississippi River. [From published bibliography]
Topographic map of part of New Jersey and New York, covering the area north of the Hudson River and between Jersey City and Nyack, N.Y. The map shows drainage, roads, houses, cities and towns, single-track, double-track, and proposed railroads. Chartered February 9, 1854. Completed in 1859. [From published bibliography]
Outline sketch map of the United States west of the Mississippi River designed to show the relationship of the proposed railroad routes. First edition of the map appears in U.S. War Department, Report of the Secretary...Communicating the Several Pacific Railroad Explorations (Washington, 1855). [From published bibliography]
Covers area east of the Mississippi River. Omits most of Florida and northern Maine. Indicates "railroads in running order." [From published bibliography]
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.
Regional view of Savannah, Ga., with the many landforms (rivers, sounds, swamps, islands) noted as well as the locations of forts Jackson and Pulaski. The Savannah & Gulf Railroad, Georgia Central Railroad, and Ogeechee Canal are also indicated.
Naval Strength of Argentina It is Absurdly Overrated The National Navy Yard Interesting Items Concern ing our Distant Sister Republic Special Correspondence of Tlie Journal Tigre Argentina July 1 1905 This queer little town where is the national navy yard of Argentina is about twenty miles from Buenos Ayres at the confluence of two riversthe Parana and Lujan Several torpedo boats and other small craft that make up the navy of the republic are always to be seen off shore It is diflicult to imagine how these boats could be of any use in case of emergency because the water is so shallowin many places barely two feet deep though fairly rough and with a very rapid current that no vessel with much draft could possibly be gotten out without a very slow and tedious trip up this branch of the Parana river to distant San Pedro and then down again by one of the main branches We are given to under stand however that the torpedo boats are maintained chiefly for the overaw ing of the neighboring republics and are expected to furnish more employ ment to painters than to gunners They are rarely ever in practice hut are
Early Incidents Of the Civil War _ i the story of the frigate CUMBERLAND BY CAPTAIN JOHN O JOHNSON OF LIBERTY ME Continued It was le desire to conciliate Virgin ia and no the fear of the rebel troops that led to this hesitating conduct on the part of Commodore McCauley and his refusal to permit Lieut Selfridge to go down and guard the mouth of the Elizabeth river Indeed he was pecu larly circumstanced He was surrouud ed on every hand by officers high in rank in thenavy most of them looked up to as the best officers in the service and all or nearly all of them rebels at heart But this fact was unknown to the commandant and was not mis trusted by him until later The only loval officers at this station at that time were the commandant commo dores or captains as there was no rank of commodore in our navy the senior officer in command of a squadron had that honorary title Morrison and Pen dergrastLieutenants Self ridge and Mur ray and Lieutenant of Mariues Hay wood But they all knew that Govern or Letcher of Virginia had forbidden the pilots of Virginia taking
THE REPUBLICAN JlURNAL BELFAST THURSDAY APRIL 22 1909 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Journal Publishing Co CHARLES A BILSBUKY BuStSnager Subscription Terms In advance 200 a year 100 for six months 50 cents for three months Advertising Terms For one square one inch length in column 50 cents for one week and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion MAINES LITERARY OUTPUT Maine has many claims to distinction If it may no longer be called the Pine Tree State we can take the spruce as an emblem or adopt Miss Sarah Orne Jewetts designation The Land of the Pointed Firs We no longer build ships but they are not built elsewhere and until this class of shipping went into decadence Maine held her supremacy both in ships and their commanders Un til the advent of the artificial ice plant and the Morse ice trust our ice crop furnished employment to hundreds of men and horses in the winter months and when the rivers opened our vessels carried the ice to market Maine is be coming the summer playground of the nation and the mecca of sportsmen dur ing the fishing and big game seasons Lumber and granite are important fac
mmm Frank W Cowen of Waterville author o The Queen of the Kennebec etc and a prominent Good Templar The Queen of the Kennebec Or The Last of The Wamparoags BY FRANK W GOWEN NO 10 The n ght before Arnoldleft Fort Wes ton with his army to proceed up the river to Quebec Jacataque slept none too well She laid awake thinking of her lover and of the dangers and perils of the coming invasion She knew that she was taking desperate chances but life was not sweeter to her than her love for Burr and she would go forward Naturally her mind reverted to Swan Island and to her friends in Bermuda Would she ever return to the beautiful island in the Ken nebec or meet her friends in Bermuda on earth again But she soon tried to banish all such thoughts from her mind and gain some needed rest Occasional ly the tread of a sentry reached her ears through her open chamber window7 and once she heard voices of some sleepy soldiers not far away It was late in the night when she fell asleep and late the next morning when she awoke She rubbed her
orrespondence purred from last week and two children Marian Jcrn1 Atlantic Mass arrived Monday 5ts 0f Mrs Annie Bunker rt r kf r left Saturday for a short Yotts _Mr and Mrs Ray t r v1 Brighton Mass are visit Mr and Mrs E G Coombs W Pr es Wood of Forest Hills ft Saturday for a visit with y Kdith WymanMiss Ger ton is visiting her mother Miss Josephine Johnson s the guest of Miss Beulah 3 Moody left Friday for a v Harry Hull returned to Mr Wyman Warren of luirday for a visit with his Point Comfort Mr W v ton Center Mass arrived t visit with his family stville Kdith and C aro Murray of Pitts n of Fall River Mass fords last Thursday and Knowlton wife and son ted Preston Rowell last Kid opened his new home He invited fifteen of his mem and ice cream was triven the name of Hill o la Carll celebrated her h Mrs Abbie Daniels of this town is visiting Brown of Warren and ont Edith Cushman of m My rick and Delbert M ay and Edgar Sawyer at Frank Cushmans last oth and wife visited es Hummer of
Back Numbers Two recent deaths in one family ir Machias recall boyhood memories of thal historic town Few towns in New Eng land of its size couldcompare with it ir the intelligence culture and sterling qualities of its people The old families included the Longfellows from the same stock as thepoet the Porters to one of this family Machia3 is indebt ed for her public library the OBriens of Revolutionary fame the Crockers the Hills Sargents and others all more or less distinguishedand all worthy law abiding Godfearing citizens Two mem bers of the Holway family and I think the last of their generation died withir one week Miss Eilen C Holway daughter of the late John and Leonici Crocker Holway died March 3 1912 aged 8 years As I recall her she was something of an invalid and it seems surprising that she should have attainec so great an age She was fond of flow ers and in the season there was a wealtl of bloom around the hospitable Holwaj home on what was known as the Dublir side of the Machias river I recall he as working about her flowers out oi doors or seated in a low
WOE AND WIT r _ Gath Tells ai a Chicago Banquet lor journalists Some Kemlnioenoe of Newspaper Work fa War DayPublisher Scott and Kohlsuat a ComradesSomething About French Papers COPTBIGHT 1893 After the worlds fair had been well under way I was invited to a dinner at the Union club in North Chicago by Moses P Handy to meet some persons of the foreign press and in the art de partment and as we mingled together from halfpast seven oclock until one in the morning and I may not have leisure soon for another such bout I will narrate the appearance and ad ventures ofsomeof these persons We had of foreign journalists Mr Villiers Mr Senior and My Millet Mr Millet is also an artist who resides about equally in England and the United States He is the author of an adven turous trip down the Danube river in to the Turkish regions Then we had Mr Atwood the chief architect of the worlds fair and the only author of the magnificent Art building which is the admiration of all beholders and turns out to be equally happjy in its in ternal arrangements Mr Atwood is a finelooking man rather