Historic Maps » Mobile, Blakely, Messinger's Ferry-Canton. by United States. War Department from 1895

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Author: United States. War Department

Date: 1895

Short Title: Mobile, Blakely, Messinger's Ferry-Canton.

Publisher: Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office

Type: Atlas Map

Obj Height cm: 43

Obj Width cm: 70

Scale 1: Various

Note: Three col. maps, with 15 ancillary maps. Relief shown by hachures. Campaign map 11 contains 4 maps. Accompany reports of Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, A.S. Williams and James B. McPherson.

State/Province: Alabama ; Mississippi ; Georgia

County: Warren County (Miss.) ; Hinds County (Miss.)

City: Mobile (Ala.) ; Blakeley (Ala.)

Region: Savannah Region (Ga.)

Event: U.S. Civil War

Subject: Military

Full Title: No. 10. Map of the defenses of the city of Mobile. Rebel line of works at Blakely, Ala., captured by the Army of West Mississippi, April 9, 1865. Position and approaches by the Union forces. Expedition from Messinger's Ferry toward Canton, Miss., October 14-20, 1863. (with) Campaign maps, numbers 1 to 11 inclusive, showing position of 20th Army Corps on march from Atlanta, Ga. to Savannah, Ga., with dates and Union and rebel defenses, from surveys of Topographical Engineers 20th Army Corps. Position of troops by Lieut. Col. C.W. Asmussen ... December 1864. (with) Position occupied by troops from French's division at the crossing of the Chattahoochee River. S.G. French, Major-General, C.S. Army. Julius Bien & Co., Lith., N.Y. (1891-1895)

List No: 1780.071

Page No: pl. LXXI

Series No: 75

Engraver or Printer: Julius Bien & Co. ; Asmussen, Charles W. ; French, Samuel G.

Publication Author: United States. War Department; Davis, George B.; Perry, Leslie J.; Kirkley, JAW.; Cowles, Calvin D.

Pub Date: 1895

Pub Title: Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Published under the direction of the Hons. Redfield Proctor, Stephen B. Elkins and Daniel S. Lamont, secretaries of war, by Maj. George B. Davis, U.S. Army, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, civilian expert, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley, civilian expert, Board of Publication. Compiled by Capt. Calvin D. Cowles, 23d U.S. Infantry. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891-1895.

Pub Reference: LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 99; Civil War maps in the National Archives, 8; Phillips, 1353; LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 266.

Pub Note: See note field above.

Pub List No: 1780.000

Pub Type: Military Atlas

Pub Maps: 158

Pub Height cm: 47

Pub Width cm: 40

Image No: 1780071

Institution: Rumsey Collection

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