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The princial movements and operations of the 2nd brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, in the year 1863, and of the same Brigade in the 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, in the years 1864 and 1865, in the Army of the Potomac."--Pref. Also available in digital form.
Pages [31]-447 printed on one side of leaf. Also available in digital form.
Differs from G3860 1862 .L51 with a printed note from Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy and a note cautioning the public about a bording house along one of the rail lines. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Relief shown by hachures. Advertisement for the "$100,000 topographical map of the state of Virginia" printed in lower right corner. Text printed on verso : Lloyd's military map and gazetteer of the southern states, Sept. 7, 1861. Description derived from published bibliography. LC copy: Mounted on cloth, some text visible on verso. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 14.25 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Relief shown by hachures. Another issue. Text printed below map: Sketch of the whole southern coast. Text printed on verso: Lloyd's military map and gazetteer of the southern states,1861. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 14.3 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by J.T. Lloyd in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States ..." Text of newspaper, entitled "Lloyd's military map and gazetteer of the Southern States, Saturday, September 7, 1861" on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Fold lines and tears in margins mended with tape. Vault CW3
Outline map centered on Green Bay showing the area between Detroit, Mich. and Fond du Lac, Wis. Contemplated and proposed railroad routes are shown.
Signed in ms: "Millard Fillmore 1862." Description derived from published bibliography. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 29 LC Railroad maps, 138 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
Detailed strip map from rights of way surveys showing the location of the line between Sunbury and Erie and the counties through which the line traverses. Relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns along the line are shown. Railroad stations and distances in 10-mile intervals are indicated.
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by J. T. Lloyd." Copyright no. 290, July 12, 1861, written in right margin. Stamped: Deposited in U.S. District Clerk's Office, Southern District of New York. General map. 1862 edition listed as item no. 29, and 1863 edition as no. 41.2 Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 14.2 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by J. T. Lloyd." Text printed on verso entitled "Lloyd's military map and gazetteer of the southern states" c1861). 1861 editions listed as Civil War Maps entry nos. 14.2-14.3 and 1862 edition as Civil War Maps entry no. 29. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 41.2 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Outline map of the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and constructed and contemplated railroads. The southern portion of map indicates proposed shipping routes to points in the West Indies and Middle America. This is one of the earliest small-scale government maps to show a railroad network. [From published bibliography]
PENOBSCOT PARK A BANGOR AROOSTOOK SUMMER RESORT The newest excursionist resort in all Maine is Penobscot Park in Stockton tiarbor Nature was wonderfully lavish with her charms and attractions when ahe fashioned the country round about Stockton harbor but it remained for the pushing of the Bangor Aroostook railroad down into that territory to the very waters edge to put all these nat ural delights within easy reach of ex cursionists Last year hundreds of parties great and small visited Stock ton harbor and declared that their out ing was one of the most instructive and enjoyable trips they had ever takeD This year the excursion facilities of the place will be added to considerably and it is safe to say that no other resort in Maine will offer a more genuine good time to its visitors than will Penobscot Park Stockton Harbor Stockton Harbor 33 miles by rail from Bangor is the seaport terminal of the Bangor Aroostook railroad Hera are truly gigantic wharves At Cape Jellison the alongshore dock measures 1750 feet with two others measuring 1600 by 200 and 1100 by SO feet giving a total waterfront wharfage of about 7000 feet Here too is the largest
Washington Whisperings Washington D C August 19 1912 Taking the items carried in the Sundry Civil bill for waterways on which there is absolute agreement between the Sen ate and House and these added to the several amounts appropriated in the River and Harbor bill which is now a law the total sum set aside for improv ing the rivers harbors and canals of the county for the fiscal year ending June will reach in the neighborhood of forty three millions within seven millions of the amount set by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress as a proper an nual appropriation to put the water ways of the United Sates in a condition to do their proportion of the work of transportation For the past two years the biggest of the waterway organizations the National Rivers and HarborsCongresshas been on record in favor of a yearly appropriation of fifty million dollars It has bent every energy to the accomplishment of the principle for which it stands and now with the present appropriation of nearly fortythree millions and a like sum prob bly at the short sessions of Congress next winter it looks as if the campaign of education conducted by
Relief shown by hachures. Insets: Galveston and vicinity, Texas -- Vicinity of the Rio Grande -- New Orleans and delta of the Mississippi, Louisiana -- Mobile harbor, Alabama -- Entrance to Pensacola Bay, Florida -- Wilmington and vicinity, N. Carolina -- Charleston harbor and its approaches, S. Carolina -- Beaufort and vicinity, N. Carolina. Imperfect: Creased, brittle, small tears along edges. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no.: 2007-021
Hand colored. Includes illus., "Time dial," and inset of "Map of Escambia & Santa Rosa Cos., Fl. showing Pensacola harbor and channel, Ft. Pickens, Ft. McRae, Bragg's batteries and the position of the U.S. fleet now before the harbor." On verso: Lloyd's American railroad weekly, vol. 1, no. 51, July 6, 1861. Scale ca. 1:1,900,800. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 14 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Covers the Isthmus of Panama from Panama City and Chorera on the Pacific Coast to Chagres and Portobelo Harbor on the Caribbean Coast. Also shows rivers, streams, settlements, an existing rail line, a proposed rail line to Panama City, a proposed canal, roads, a trail, coastline, coastal features, and anchorages. Title written in ink from verso. Pencil, pen-and-ink and wash. On verso at top in script and black ink: To: J.B. Feraud, esq. On verso in ink in bottom right corner: No.17 Coll. of Major DB Douglass, abt. 1838. Imperfect: Brittle, crack-lined, darkened, water-stained, holes throughout with minor losses, gold stitched along edges, and mounted on cloth. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 645 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.