Historical Maps from the Civil War

  Main Author:   A Mobile Rifleman  
  Title/Description:   Norfolk, Va. and Vicinity
  Publication Info:   Unpublished, hand drawn
  Date:   June 10, 1861
  Scale:   1:120,000
  Original Source:   Alabama Department of Archives and History
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  Main Author:   Paterson, J.T.
  Title/Description:   Map of Virginia, Maryland, Etc., Seat of War
  Publication Info:   Richmond: J.T. Paterson, 1861
  Date:   1861
  Scale:   1:760,000
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map Showing the Line of the Blockade, and the Strategic Routes in the Interior
  Publication Info:   New York: Harper's Weekly, 1861; p.322, May 25, 1861
  Date:   1861
  Scale:   1:7,920,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map Showing the New Boundaries of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware as Proposed by Secretary Cameron
  Publication Info:   New York: Harper's Weekly, 1861; p.806, December 21, 1861
  Date:   1861
  Scale:   1:3,168,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:   Weller, Edward
  Title/Description:   Seat of War in Virginia and Maryland (Sheet 1,Sheet 2, Sheet 3)
  Publication Info:   London: Weekly Dispatch, 1862
  Date:   1862
  Scale:   1:411,840
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams III Americana Collection
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  Main Author:   Randolph, J.W.  
  Title/Description:   Map of the Seat of War in Virginia
  Publication Info:   Columbia S.C.: B. Duncan, [1862]
  Date:   1862
  Scale:   1:220,000
  Original Source:   Alabama Department of Archives and History
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  Main Author:   Johnson and Ward
  Title/Description:   Johnson's Map of the Vicinity of Richmond, and Peninsular Campaign in Virginia
  Publication Info:   [New York: A.J. Johnson], 1862
  Date:   1862
  Scale:   1:185,000
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:   Abbot, Henry L.
  Title/Description:   White House to Harrisons Landing (Virginia)
  Publication Info:   Washington: 1862
  Date:   1862
  Scale:   1:63,360
  Original Source:   Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Seat of War Virginia-Showing the Recent and Present Operations of the National and Rebel Armies
  Publication Info:   New York: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1862; p.397, September 13, 1862
  Date:   1862
  Scale:   1:317,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map of the Seat of War in Virginia, Showing the Sites of the Recent Battles
  Publication Info:   New York: Harper's Weekly, 1862; p.583, September 13, 1862
  Date:   1862
  Scale:   1:633,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map of the Seat of War Before Richmond, Illustrating the Recent Strategical Movements of the National Troops in Eastern Virginia, and Showing the Places Where the Six Battles Were Fought, Commencing June 26th to July 1st, Also the Present Position of Gen. M'Clellan's Army
  Publication Info:   New York: Harper's Weekly, 1862; p.266, July 19, 1862
  Date:   1862
  Scale:   1:317,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:   Grant, M.B.
  Title/Description:   Map of the Seat of War
  Publication Info:   Savannah: Burke, T.A., Morning News Office, c.1862
  Date:   1862
  Scale:   1:825,000
  Original Source:   Alabama Department of Archives and History
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  Main Author:   Schaus, W.
  Title/Description:   Military Map of the Middle and Southern States Showing the Seat of War during the Great Rebellion in 1861
  Publication Info:   New York: W. Schaus, 1862
  Date:   1862
  Scale:   1:2,407,680
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:   Colton, J.H.
  Title/Description:   J.H. Colton's Topographical Map of the Seat of War in Virginia, Maryland &c.
  Publication Info:   New York, J.H. Colton, 1862
  Date:   1862
  Scale:   1:760,320
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Railway Map of the Southern States
  Publication Info:   New York: Fisk and Russell, c. 1862
  Date:   1862
  Scale:   1:4,435,200
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams III Americana Collection Library
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map of Maryland and Parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia Showing the Present Theatre of the War
  Publication Info:   Harpers Weekly, June 27, 1863
  Date:   1863
  Scale:   1:365,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map of the Seat of War in Virginia, Showing the Theatre of Operations of Gens. Hooker. Dix and Keyes and the scene of Gen. Stoneman's Raid
  Publication Info:   Harpers Weekly, May 23, 1863
  Date:   1863
  Scale:   1:950,400
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:   Mitchler, Captain N.
  Title/Description:   Military Map showing the topographical features of the Country adjacent to Harpers Ferry, Va.
  Publication Info:   [Washington: Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1863]
  Date:   1863
  Scale:   1:15,840
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map of Maryland, and Parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia, Showing the Present Theatre of War
  Publication Info:   New York: Harper's Weekly, 1863; p.407, June 27, 1863
  Date:   1863
  Scale:   1:348,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:   Sholl, Charles
  Title/Description:   A Topographical Map of Eastern Virginia from "Fredricksburg" to "Richmond," Taken from Tracings (Now in the Possession of the Government) of the Original Railroad Surveys of this Portion of the States, Comprising the Topography for Six Miles on Each Side of the Track. This is the only reliable map of this Portion of the State
  Publication Info:   New York: Harper's Weekly, 1863; p.310, May 16, 1863
  Date:   1863
  Scale:   1:445,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:   Phelps and Watson
  Title/Description:   Phelps and Watson's Historical and Military Map of the Border and Southern States
  Publication Info:   New York: Phelps and Western, 1863
  Date:   1863
  Scale:   1:2,534,400
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:   Lindenkhol, Adolph
  Title/Description:   Military Map of South-Eastern Virginia
  Publication Info:   Washington, D.C.: Henry Lindenkohl and Charles G. Krebs, 1864
  Date:   1864
  Scale:   1:200,000
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams Americana Collection
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Portions of Virginia and North Carolina Embracing Richmond & Lynchburg, Va and Goldsboro and Salisbury, N.C.
  Publication Info:   New York: J. Schedler, 1864
  Date:   1864
  Scale:   1:350,000
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams Americana Collection
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map of the Seat of War
  Publication Info:   Lithographed by Evans and Cogswell; Charleston, SC: [c.1864]
  Date:   1864
  Scale:   not indicated
  Original Source:   Alabama Department of Archives and History
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Grant's Campaign - Topographical Map of Virginia
  Publication Info:   New York: Harper's Weekly, 1864; p.342, May 28, 1864
  Date:   1864
  Scale:   1:445,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   A Carefully Prepared Map of the Battle - Fields Around Richmond, Virginia
  Publication Info:   New York: Harper's Weekly, 1864; p.398, June 18, 1864
  Date:   1864
  Scale:   1:206,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map of the Rebellion, as It was in 1861 and as It is in 1864
  Publication Info:   New York: Harper's Weekly, 1864; p.181, March 19, 1864
  Date:   1864
  Scale:   1:10,138,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:   Sholl, Charles
  Title/Description:   Map of Richmand, Showing Its Defenses and Railroad Connections
  Publication Info:   New York: Harper's Weekly, 1864; p.332, May 21, 1864
  Date:   1864
  Scale:   1:51,000
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:   Johnson and Ward
  Title/Description:   Johnson's Map of the Vicinity of Richmond and Peninsular Campaign in Virginia
  Publication Info:   New York: Johnson and Ward, 1864; from Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas
  Date:   1864
  Scale:   1:190,080
  Original Source:   Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee
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  Main Author:   Perrine, Charles O.
  Title/Description:   Perrine's New Topographical War Map of the Southern States
  Publication Info:   Indianapolis: Charles O. Perrine, 1864; from A Concise History of the War by Capt. John S. Bishop
  Date:   1864
  Scale:   1:2,000,000
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:   unknown
  Title/Description:   Environs of Richmond
  Publication Info:   unknown, c. 1864
  Date:   1864
  Scale:   1:125,000
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams III Americana Collection Library
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  Main Author:   Engineer Bureau, War Department
  Title/Description:   Central Virginia showing Lieut. Genrl. U.S. Grant's Campaign
  Publication Info:   [Washington: 1865]
  Date:   1865
  Scale:   1:350,000
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:   United States Coastal Survey
  Title/Description:   Map of Eastern Virginia and North Carolina
  Publication Info:   Columbia: Evans and Cogswell, c.1865
  Date:   1865
  Scale:   1:950,000
  Original Source:   Alabama Department of Archives and History
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  Main Author:   Asher and Company
  Title/Description:   The Historical War Map
  Publication Info:   Buffalo: E.R. Jewett and Company, c. 1865; 1862 map revised to show battles through 1864
  Date:   1865
  Scale:   1:3,250,000
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:   Lloyd, W. Alvin
  Title/Description:   Southern Rail Road Map, 1865
  Publication Info:   Mobile: W.R. Robertson, 1865
  Date:   1865
  Scale:   1:3,168,000
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams III Americana Collection Library
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  Main Author:   McCallum, D.C.
  Title/Description:   Map of United States Military Rail Roads
  Publication Info:   New York: Julius Bien, 1866
  Date:   1866
  Scale:   1:1,900,800
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:   Michler, N., U.S. Army
  Title/Description:   Harpers Ferry
  Publication Info:   New York: Julius Bien, 1867
  Date:   1867
  Scale:   1:21,120
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:   Michler, N., U.S. Army
  Title/Description:   Appomattox Court House
  Publication Info:   New York: Julius Bien, 1867
  Date:   1867
  Scale:   1:21,120
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams III Americana Collection Library
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  Main Author:   Michler, N., U.S. Army
  Title/Description:   Totopotomoy
  Publication Info:   New York: Julius Bien, 1867
  Date:   1867
  Scale:   1:21,120
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams III Americana Collection Library
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  Main Author:   Michler, N., U.S. Army
  Title/Description:   North Anna
  Publication Info:   New York: Julius Bien, 1867
  Date:   1867
  Scale:   1:21,120
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams III Americana Collection Library
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  Main Author:   Michler, N., U.S. Army
  Title/Description:   High Bridge and Farmville
  Publication Info:   New York: Julius Bien, 1867
  Date:   1867
  Scale:   1:21,120
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams III Americana Collection Library
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  Main Author:   Michler, N., U.S. Army
  Title/Description:   The Wilderness
  Publication Info:   New York: Julius Bien, 1867
  Date:   1867
  Scale:   1:21,120
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams III Americana Collection Library
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  Main Author:   Michler, N., U.S. Army
  Title/Description:   Jetersville and Sailors Creek
  Publication Info:   New York: Julius Bien, 1867
  Date:   1867
  Scale:   1:21,120
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams III Americana Collection Library
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  Main Author:   Michler, N., Major of Engineers, U.S.A.
  Title/Description:   Map of the Battlefield of Five Forks (Va.) (North Half)
  Publication Info:   unknown publisher, c. 1875
  Date:   1875
  Scale:   1:15,840
  Original Source:   Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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  Main Author:   Michler, N., Major of Engineers, U.S.A.
  Title/Description:   Map of the Battlefield of Five Forks (Va.) (South Half)
  Publication Info:   unknown publisher, c. 1875
  Date:   1875
  Scale:   1:15,840
  Original Source:   Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map of the Battelfield of Carnifex Ferry, Gauley River, West Virginia, Septemeber 10th, 1861
  Publication Info:   Washington: US Army Corps of Engineers, 1876; copied from a map accompanying the Report of Gen. Rosecrans
  Date:   1876
  Scale:   1:5,280
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:   Sholl, Charles
  Title/Description:   Richmond and it's Defences
  Publication Info:   New York: Virtue and Yorston, 1877; from "The War with the South"
  Date:   1877
  Scale:   1:47,500
  Original Source:  

Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:   Raynolds, W.F., W. Margedant and W. Angelo Powell
  Title/Description:   Military Reconnaissance in the Vicinity of Gauley Bridge (Virginia)
  Publication Info:   published by authority of the Secretary of War in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army
  Date:   1879
  Scale:   1:63,360
  Original Source:   Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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  Main Author:   Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co.
  Title/Description:   Map Showing the Location of Battlefields of Virginia
  Publication Info:   Chicago: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co., 1891
  Date:   1891
  Scale:   1:650,000
  Original Source:   Alabama Department of Archives and History
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map Showing the Location of Battlefields of Virginia
  Publication Info:   Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co: 1898
  Date:   1898
  Scale:   1:636,000
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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  Main Author:   U.S. Geological Survey
  Title/Description:   Topographic Maps of Chancersville and Salem Church Battlefields, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
  Publication Info:   Washington: Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1932
  Date:   1932
  Scale:   1:24,000
  Original Source:   A.S. Williams III Americana Collection
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  Main Author:    
  Title/Description:   Map Showing the Location of Battlefields of Virginia
  Publication Info:   Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co: 1898
  Date:   1898
  Scale:   1:636,000
  Original Source:   Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
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