Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Includes for the most part published maps, 1629-[ongoing].

Maps are described individually and are best discovered using keyword searches (check "include box list"). When requesting maps, please indicate folder and item number.

The description of this collection is in process and is currently underway; new items are being added on an ongoing basis.

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Department of Western Virginia, Brig. Genl. W. S. Rosecrans, U.S. Army , Commanding W. F. Raynold

W. Margedant, and W. Angelo Powell - cartographers

in color

1 mi to 1 in

71 cm x 89 cm

Accession information unavailable

Subject/Index Terms: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Gauley Bridge (WVa.)--Maps.

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Map showing Gloucester County Public and Private Roads, White and Colored Public Schools

R. A. Folkes, Supt. of Schools - surveyor

1 mi to 1 in

71.5 cm x 56 cm

Gift of Earl Gregg Swem III, Louisville, KY, June 11, 1040 (Mss.Acc. 1940.352); Subject/Index Terms: Gloucester County (Va.)--Maps.

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Plan made by virtue of an entry made in 1794 on land office treasury warrants situated in the counties of Grayson and Wythe on both sides of the Kenahewa River

Cha[rles] de Krafft - cartographer

in color

400 poles to 1 in. (approx 1/10 mi to 1 in)

68 cm x 90 cm

Accession information unavailable

Subject/Index Terms: Grayson County (Va.)--Maps.

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Map showing the area surrounding the town of Hampton, Virginia

cartographer unknown

[Pst]

400 toises to 1 in (approx 1/2 mi to 1 in)

56 cm x 135.5 cm

Original located in Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.

Subject/Index Terms: Hampton (Va.)--Maps, United States--History--Revolutionary War, 1775-1783--Maps.

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Showing soundings in feet in the rivers surrounding Hampton, cartographer unknown

[Pst]

no scale given

84 cm x 53.5 cm

Original located in the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Subject/Index Terms: Hampton (Va.)--History--Maps.

Scope and Contents Map of the Union and Confederate troop positions during the Battle of Totopotomy Creek (aka the Battle of Bethesda Church), Hanover County, VA, fought May 28-30, 1864. Photolitograph from surveys under the direction of Bvt. Brig. Gen. N. Michler, Major of Engineers by command of Bvt. Maj. Gen. A. A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers. Surveyed and drawn by Maj. J. E. Weyss, assisted by F. Theilkuhl, J. Strasser and G. Thompson in color 1/3 mi to 1 in ...

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Compiled from Surveys under the direction of N. Michler, Major of Engineers, Brvt. Brig, Genl U.S. A and C. W. Howell, Capt. of Engineers Brvt. Major U.S. A.

5 copies

1/4 mi to 1 in

70 cm x 126 cm

Subject/Index Terms: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battle of Totopotomy--Maps