Mapping the Civil War: Featuring Rare Maps from the Library of Congress

Washington, DC: sTARWOOD Publishing, 1992. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Library of Congress Classics sticker on front of DJ. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 176 p. Endpaper map. Illustrations (some in color). Library of Congress Classics. Bibliography. Index. From a Library of Congress website: The collection "contains approximately 2, 240 Civil War maps and charts and 76 atlases and sketchbooks that are held within the Geography and Map Division, 200 maps from the Library of Virginia, and 400 maps from the Virginia Historical Society. The maps, charts, and atlases depict battles, troop positions and movements, engagements, and fortifications. Also included are reconnaissance maps, sketch maps, coastal charts, and theater of war maps. The vast majority of the maps were prepared by Federal forces or by commercial firms in the North, but there are also a substantial number by Confederate military authorities and a few by Southern publishers. The largest group among the Confederate works are the 341 manuscript maps and sketch books that make up the Hotchkiss Map Collection. Assembled by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss, who served as topographic engineer with the Army of Northern Virginia."