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Title: Civil War military campaign and battle maps
Description: Maps show troop movements; fortifications and battlegrounds; routes to and from sites of military engagements; headquarters and camps; local architecture; topography, including railroads, rivers, and roadways; state and county lines; towns, cities, and capitals; and vegetation. Two of the maps also include remarks by military surveyor T. Ditterline describing troop movements during the Battle of Gettysburg. Two maps contain portraits of prominent political and Union military figures including President Lincoln, William H. Seward, General George McClellan, General Winfield Scott, and General Robert Anderson., Includes Maps of the District of Columbia, Baltimore with Ft. McHenry, Ft. Monroe and the Atlantic States, with their Rail Road Connections, Coast Lines, &.; A Correct Map of Pensacola Bay Showing Topography of the Coast, Fort Pickens, U. S. Navy Yard and all other Fortifications from the latest Government Surveys; Sketch of Vicinity of Fort Fisher; Plan and Sections of Fort Fisher carried by assault by the U. S. Forces, Maj. Gen. A. H. Terry, Commanding, Jan. 15th, 1865; Colton’s United States Shewing(sic) the Military Stations, Forts &.; Map of the Seat of War, Supplement to P. S. Duval & Son’s Military Map showing the location of the present Military Operations (1861); Map of the Battlefield of Antietam; Battlefield of Chattanooga with the operations of the National Forces under the command of Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant during the battles of Nov. 23, 24 & 25, 1863; Field of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 1863; Map of the Battle Ground of Manassas [i.e., Bull Run] from Actual Surveys by an Officer of Genl. Beauregard’s Staff Shewing [sic] the exact position occupied by Federal & Rebel forces in the battle of 21st July 1861; Battle of Gettysburg Showing the Position of the Two Contending Armies During the First, Second & Third of July 1863; Map of the Southern States including rail roads, county towns, state capitals, county roads, the southern coast from Delaware to Texas, showing the harbors, inlets, forts and position of blockading ships; and Part of Charleston Harbor: embracing Forts Moultrie, Sumter, Johnson, and Castle Pinckney, also Sullivan, James and Morris Islands and showing the position of the Star of the West when fired into from Morris Island. A Civil War era political map of Pennsylvania for the 1863 Governor's race and a Map of The Grounds and Design for the Improvement of The Soldiers’ National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa. 1863 also included as part of the collection., Various publishers and lithographers including W. Boell; J.H. Colton; P.S. Duval & Son; Engineer Bureau, War Dept.; Charles G. Kreb; Lithographers' Association of New York; E. Molitor ; L. Prang & Co.; George T. Perry; T.B. Pugh; J.G. Shoemaker; Jacob Weiss; and Benjamin Wrigley., Various surveyors and engineers including Brvt. Brig. Gen. C. B. Comstock; T. Ditterline; William Saunders; Private Otto Julian Schultze; Lt. Wm. H. Willcox; and members of the U.S. Coast Survey, including Captains F. W. Dorr and J. W. Donn, Maj. Morhardt, Capts. Ligowsky, McDowell, Jenney and Lts. Boeckh and Dahl, and U. S. Vol’s. Capt. Preston and C. F. West., Relief shown pictorially and by hachures., Majority of maps include a scale and a compass., Several maps include key to Union and Confederate troop positions., Two maps [5779.F.79a & 80a] contain insets. Insets show Washington, D.C.; Baltimore south to Annapolis, Maryland; Cairo, Illinois to Memphis, Tennessee; Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of Mexico; and the area from Winchester, Virginia to Morgantown, Maryland., Manuscript note on map 5779.F.107a: John A. McAllister from [D. McCoughy?], Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks containing Civil War views and Robert Anderson material., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: 1861-1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **maps - Civil War military campaign and battle [5779.F.76b; 79a; 80a; 81b; 82a; 83a; 84a; 85b; 86a; 97a; 99a; 107a; 108a; 121a; 5794.F; P.2006.1.28]

Title: Just published. War telegram marking map of Maryland, District of Columbia, Eastern Virginia, and the Shenandoah Valley designed on the grandest scale, 26 by 38 inches, after the latest government maps, and printed in brown oil-color. This map gives, with the utmost distinctness, every inch of ground where the Union forces, under Pope, Burnside, McClellan, Banks, Sigel, &c. &c., are opposed to the Rebels under Stonewall Jackson, Johnson, Lee, Beauregard, and Jeff. Davis. It is designed expressly for the use of a marking map; that is, to follow up the positions of the respective armies with red and blue marking pencils, as the daily war telegrams report the same; to gain by this means an understanding of the whole situation of the opposing forces at a single glance. For schools, no map can be better adapted. ... Price, for single map, 25 cents. Wholesale price, $15 per hundred, sent free of charge to any part of the country, on receipt of the price, in current money, provided the wholesale order is not less than one dozen. Small parcels will be sent by mail, folded up; large parcels, rolled up, by express
Description: The map was copyrighted by L. Prang & Co. in 1862., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: L. Prang & Co.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 L Prang (2)5786.F.49a (McAllister)

Title: A map of Virginia according to Captain Iohn Smith's map published anno 1606 also of the adjacent country called by the Dutch Niew Nederlant, anno 1630
Description: Oriented with north to the right., From Fayr Hall, A short account of the first settlement of the provinces of Virginia, Maryland, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania ..., In map box: 305 M 4- 307 M 53, Cf. Am 1735 Hal., Retrospective conversion record: Marc Link database.
Creator: Senex, John, d. 1740
Date: 1735
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *maps [305 M 40]

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