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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: For all you Civil War buffs: NARA puts Civil War maps online
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 00:12:54 -0700 (PDT)


Hi all! As most of you know, I am an archivist/librarian and this just came to
me from a list I belong to for archivists. Below is a press release from the
National Archives about a new online map collection. Hope this helps someone!

Erin Bradford

List moderator Barringer, Black, Bradford,
Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, Kern, Wilder-North
http://www.gendepository.com (The Genealogy Depository)


-----------------Press Release----------------------
Library of Congress Makes Confederate Maps Available Online:
A collection of Civil War era maps, many of which were used by Gen. Robert E.
Lee and Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, is now available from the Library
of Congress (LC) online at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/maps/hotchkiss/. The maps that are
deposited in the LC's Geography and Map Division collection were obtained from
Mrs. R.E. Christian, the granddaughter of Maj. Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828-1899),
who served as a topographic engineer in the Confederate Army.

"The Hotchkiss Map Collection" contains cartographic items by Hotchkiss,
who made detailed battle maps, primarily of the Shenandoah Valley. Some
of these maps were used by Gens. Lee and Jackson for their combat planning and
strategy. Several of them have annotations of various military officers,
demonstrating their importance in the military campaigns. Most of the
collection focuses on Virginia and West Virginia, but they also cover other
states and even other countries around the world. In its entirety, the
collection consists of 341 sketchbooks, manuscripts and annotated printed maps.
This online presentation includes all the materials in the Hotchkiss Map
Collection, some of which also appear in the complementary American Memory
collection "Civil War Maps, 1861-1865" at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/.

Erin Bradford

List manager
http://www.ncalhn.org
ALHN County Coordinator for multiple NC Counties
http://www.gendepository.com (the Genealogy Depository-Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, and Kern)

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