Category: Military History

Refined by: (Author) Amelia Raines

Detail of manuscript map of part of Henrico and Chesterfield Counties showing topography and some landowners' names.

More Places in Civil War History

September 14, 2023

This post is a compilation of the Places in History series written by G&M staff in 2011 and 2016, which explores maps produced during the Civil War, their creation, and the geography they depict. Previous blog posts based on that series can be seen under Places in Civil War History. Mapping Slavery According to the 1860 …

Posted in: 19th century cartography, African American History, American History, Military History, Series: Places in Civil War History

Detail of pictorial map showing locations and characters from "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.

Mapping Life on the Mighty Mississippi

October 13, 2022

Posted by: Amelia Raines

“The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book — a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be …

Posted in: 19th century cartography, American History, Imaginary maps, Military History

Refined by: (Author) Amelia Raines