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Shows the area of Fairfax County, Va., which was the site of the Battle of Bristoe Station. The map is oriented with Cedar Run to the south, Bristoe to the west and indicates the route of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Also indicated are A. P. Hill's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, engaging the Union's II Corps during its withdrawal toward Centreville, Va.
Shows the western theater of the war, focusing on Vicksburg. The Vicksburg & Jackson, and Vicksburg & Texas railroads are indicated.
Taken in part from the author's "McClellan: who he is and what he has done" (New York, 1863) a revised edition of which was published in 1863 under the title: McClellan: from Ball's Bluff to Antietam. Also available in digital form.
Comprises portions of a series of articles first printed in "Wilkes' Spirit of the times," July 9, 1862-March 14, 1863. A later edition, with slight additions, was published in 1863 under the title: McClellan from Ball's Bluff to Antietam. Also available in digital form.
Lusk served in the 79th New York Infantry from June 1861 to his resignation in February 1863. Was later on the staff of Gen. Daniel Tyler till September 1863. Also available in digital form.
Signed in ms: "Milliard Fillmore, March 9, 1863." Another edition. 4 sheets, each 48 x 66 cm. dated 1863. Stephenson, no. 41. Description derived from published bibliography. "Exhibiting the sugar and cotton plantations, cities, towns, landings, sand bars, islands, bluffs, bayous, cut-offs, the steamboat channel, mileage, fortifications, railroads, &c. along the river." LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 28 LC Railroad maps, 139 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
The 119th Pennsylvania Volunteers, in U.S. service Aug 1862-June 1865, was largely recruited from this regiment. The old organization was still maintained, and saw active service on Pennsylvania soil in 1862 as the 7th Regiment, Pennsylvania, Militia, and again in 1863 as the 32d Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. Also available in digital form.
Caption title: Address of Hon. John Brough, Union candidate for Governor of Ohio. Caption title, p. 19: President Lincoln on the arrest of C.L. Vallandigham. "Cincinnati, Ohio, July, 1863." Also available in digital form. LAC snh 2019-05-23 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-06-06 review
Daniel E. Sickles, chairman. "Life and military services of Brevet Major-General George Sears Greene, U. S. V. By William F. Fox" : p. 61-106 [1] Greene's brigade included the 60th, 78th, 102d, 137th, and 149th rebiments of New York infantry ; the 45th, 84th, 147th, and 157th regiments were sent to his support during the night of July 2, 1863. Also available in digital form.
"Delivered in the House of Representatives, Feb. 2, 1863." Title from caption. Also available in digital form.
Cover-title. Campaign of the Sixth army corps, summer of 1863 [by George E. Reed]: p. 11-28. Also available in digital form.
Includes (14 p. at end) supplement to Fourth report, (of Dec. 15th, 1862) concerning the aid and comfort given by the Sanitary Commission to sick soldiers passing through Washington / by Frederick N. Knapp. -- Washington : [The Commission, 1863.] Caption title.
"A sermon, preached on Sunday morning, February 22, 1863." "Published by request." Also available in digital form.
Caption title. "Commission appointed under ordinance of Dec. 12, 1863, to pay bounty to volunteers." Also available in digital form.
Initially, the Civil War between the North and the South was fought by the North to prevent the secession of the South and preserve the Union. Ending slavery was not a goal. That changed on September 22, 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that slaves in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be free. One hundred days later Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be, free." Lincoln's bold step was a military measure by which he hoped to inspire the slaves in the Confederacy to support the Union cause. Because it was a military measure, the proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, and left slavery untouched in the border states. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery, it did fundamentally transform the character of the war. Henceforth, every advance of Federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and their own freedom.
Map of the eastern United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, forts and fortification, express companies, railroads, and magnetic telegraph wires. Includes railroads which have been completed and in operation up to July 1863.
Detailed map of the north-central states showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroads with names and emphasis on the main line. Incorporated in 1863 as the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. See items 464 and 465. In 1874 the word Chicago was added to the name. LC has a Rand McNally and Company map, measuring 35 x 45 cm., which uses the new name for the first time.
"President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law on July 1, 1862. The act gave two companies, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad, responsibility for completing the transcontinental railroad. The Union Pacific was to lay track westward from a point near Omaha, Nebraska, toward Ogden, Utah; the Central Pacific was to build eastward from Sacramento, California. The Union Pacific began construction on December 2, 1863. This map, submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan on September 18, 1865, by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers, shows the different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska surveyed for the Union Pacific. Based on a map submitted by Silas Seymour, consulting engineer to the Union Pacific, the map shows five alternative routes with probable connections to existing railroads. Also shown are relief by hachures, county boundaries, drainage, vegetation, and roads. Nebraska was at this time a territory; it became the 37th state on March 1, 1867. Under the authorizing legislation, the railroad was not to have grades or curves exceeding the maximums on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the first U.S. railroad to cross the Appalachians. This profile shows the careful attention paid by the engineers to the steepness of the grades on alternative routes considered for the line. The horizontal scale shown is one mile to one inch (1.61 kilometers to 2.54 centimeters), and the vertical scale is 60 feet to one inch (18.28 meters to 2.54 centimeters). The profile accompanied a topographic map showing five different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska, which was part of a report submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers." World Digital Library. Detailed map of Nebraska showing relief by hachures, drainage, vegetation, roads, and railroads.