Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Civil War Maps
"Civil War Maps brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are the detailed battle maps made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss for Generals Lee and Jackson, General Sherman’s Southern military campaigns, and maps taken from diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts—all available for the first time in one place.

Most of the items presented here are documented in Civil War Maps: An Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress, compiled by Richard W. Stephenson in 1989. New selections from 2,240 maps and 76 atlases held by the Library will be added monthly."

3 comments:

Heyward Brockinton said...

FYI-- C-SPAN debuts its documentary, "The Library of Congress", on Monday, July 18th at 8pm and 11pm ET on C-SPAN. Here's the website for more information: www.c-span.org/loc

Anonymous said...

In case you missed it, here’s the C-SPAN “Library of Congress” documentary we aired last night on C-SPAN. Link to video: http://www.c-span.org/loc/watch-Documentary-complete-Version/

Heyward Brockinton said...

In case you missed it, here’s the C-SPAN “Library of Congress” documentary we aired last night on C-SPAN. Link to video: http://www.c-span.org/loc/watch-Documentary-complete-Version/