Steve and I have been having a little private conversation about the adequacy [or inadequacy] of the maps held by the Union Army during the Civil War. I have no firm argument one way or the other, but Steve is doing some research of the matter. I am not a Civil War buff, but the war did impinge on my family history--my German immigrant family as well as several Texas relatives, one of whom was imprisoned in New Orleans and later exchanged at the Red River. By googling around, I discovered Hargett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. There are some links to some jpg maps which may interest some of you, especially those of the area around the James River in the 1860s. Prior to discovering this Library website, I found several maps of Antietam battle Sharpsburg Maryland Sep 16-18, 1862. My German immigrant, in his pension claim, filed in Brooklyn, NY in the 1890s claimed he [a member of the First Cavalry--regular army] had been at the battle at Sharpsburg. He gave no other details. But the pension file was rather hefty and full of family information which put flesh on the bones of himself, his divorced first wife, their four children, her second husband [who had been bugler for the company], and his German-immigrant widow, who claimed he had come to Hamburg and courted her!!! Happy hunting, and share your internet--and genealogical--adventures with us. E.W.Wallace

I jumped on this one because my husband's mother was a Hargett from North Carolina. Google lists a mix of spellings. I assume you mean the HARGRETT collection at the University of Georgia. --Sally