.... let's try this again. with the word ... "research" spelled right. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marjorie Priser <[email protected]> To: INKOSCIU-L <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 6:30 PM Subject: Fw: ANN: Civil War Map Collection | As many of you know, I have a special place in my heart for Civil War research. 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 | | ********************************************************* | | |