As many of you know, I have a special place in my heart for Civil War reseat. This message is from another list. Be sure to take a look at this web site, as it is truly remarkable what is available now!! For researchers this will certainly prove to be a popular site. marge ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Boomhower <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 7:28 AM Subject: ANN: Civil War Map Collection | From: Ray Boomhower <[email protected]> | Sent: Fri, 17 Dec 99 | Subject: ANN: Civil War Map Collection | | | Announcement of Civil War Maps Collection to be Added to American Memory | | Maps documenting battles, troop movements, reconnaissance efforts and | locations of fortifications are a part of the most recent addition to | the American Memory historical collections. The Civil War Maps | collection contains approximately 2240 Civil War maps and charts and 76 | atlases and sketchbooks that are held within the Library=92s Geography and | Map Division. A selection of these maps, based on Civil War Maps: An | Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress, will be | made available through American Memory. Updates will be made to this | collection on a monthly basis. | | Though the large majority of these maps were created during the time of | the Civil War, a number were created afterwards to illustrate or explain | certain events or battles. Publishers in the North and South created | maps included in this collection by both Union and Confederate forces. | An introductory essay provides a discussion of mapping during the Civil | War highlighting materials that are within the Geography and Map | Division of the Library. | | Of special interest are maps created by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss, a | topographical engineer for the Confederate Army. Hotchkiss=92s | granddaughter donated these maps to the Library of Congress in 1948. | Generals Lee and Jackson used a number of his maps as they planned | strategy for various battles. Future updates will include images from | his notebooks, which contain detailed notes about his various map | projects. Also included are maps that were owned by General William | Tecumseh Sherman. Some of these maps, which were donated by members of | his family, document Sherman=92s military campaigns in Tennessee, | Mississippi, Georgia and the Carolinas. Users may also be interested in | maps that were created as propaganda items to encourage support of one | side or the other during wartime and maps that were published in various | newspapers. Panoramic maps and city plans are included within the | collection. | | The Civil War Maps collection compliments many of the American Memory | collections currently online including the Selected Civil War | Photographs, Pioneering the Upper Midwest, California as I Saw It, | Historic American Sheet Music and the WPA Life Histories. Images from | these and other collections are used to highlight the material within | the Civil War Maps collection and to provide links to these related | collections. | | The Civil War Maps collection can be found at | | http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html | For questions please send email to [email protected] | | | Danna C. Bell-Russel | National Digital Library Learning Center | 202-707-4159 | [email protected] | | ********************************************************* | This announcement has been posted by H-ANNOUNCE, | a service of H-Net, Michigan State University. | | For an archive of announcements and information about how | to post, visit: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce | ********************************************************* |