When Union General George McClellan marched toward the Confederate capital of Richmond in 1862, he encountered the Warwick River “where it wasn't supposed to be,” causing a delay in his strategy and criticism from Northern press. McClellan was following a map created by an esteemed and experienced topographer, but the map was wrong! The map McClellan was following, reproduced in Great Maps of the Civil War , shows lines in pencil along the true course of the Warwick, apparently drawn after it was too late. |
The second in a series produced in conjunction with the publishing office of the Library of Congress. Campaign by campaign, presents contemporary maps, many in color, to give an idea of what the commanders on both sides might have seen. The text provides descriptions of the movements and battles, armies and tactics. Also includes many contemporary drawings and sketches. |
This is THE indespensible source for Civil War maps. It has hundreds of them, from both sides, good, bad, and sometimes appalling inaccurate, produced by the men who actually fought there. You get to see what the generals saw, and sometimes its pretty appalling. Take McClellan's first map of the Penninsula for example, or Bragg's map of Chickamauga. On the other hand, you get Jed Hotchkiss's masterpieces from the Shenandoah Valley and some of the great maps produced on the Union side. One thing you notice is that, except for Hotchkiss, the Union had a pretty clear superiority as far as topography was concerned. Aside form the obvious uses for the historian, the maps are often extremely beautiful and artistic, unlike modern maps. |
During the Civil War, a good map could spell the difference between victory and defeat. This book collects, for the first time, the war's most notable, interesting, and beautiful maps-and tells the story of how they were made. Ranging from exquisitely detailed renderings reproduced in full color to rough pencil sketches drawn from horseback, these maps-many never before reproduced-are both striking works of art and invaluable historical artifacts. The lively, anecdotal text explains the techniques and travails of mapmaking during the war and reveals the little-known cartographic exploits of George Armstrong Custer, writer Ambrose Bierce, and Brooklyn Bridge engineer Washington Roebling, among many others. |
This electronic book on CD-ROM presents hundreds of spectacular, fully detailed color maps of important military campaigns from ancient times to the present. Wars and conflicts included in this comprehensive collection of historic maps include: Colonial Wars * The American Revolution * Napleonic Wars * War of 1812 * Mexican War * American Civil War * Spanish-American War * Chinese Civil War * World War One * World War Two – Europe and Asia |
