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Central Virginia Historic map, Library of Congress

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Relief shown by hachures.

Sheet 9 similar to no. 532, LC Civil War maps (2d ed.)

Some sheets consist of two parts joined in the middle showing towns and villages, roads and railroads, rivers and streams, and houses and names of residents.

The index map is a printed map entitled "Central Virginia, compiled in the Bureau of Topographl. Engrs. of the War Department for military purposes. July 1862" (entry no. 465.9)

This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information.

Title from R.W. Stephenson's: Civil War maps, 2nd ed., 1989.

LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 501.7

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Sheet 6 (lva00104), c. 1, source unknown, Aug. 1968; sheet 8 (lva00105), c. 1, source unknown, Aug. 1968, c. 2 negative photocopy, LVA; sheet 9, c. 1 (lva00106), c. 2 (lva00107), c. 3 (lva00108), source unknown, Aug. 1968, c. 4-5, source unknown, c. 6, photocopy, LVA, c. 7, negative photocopy, LVA; sheet 10, c. 1 (lva00139), R & M Books, March 1967, bcf, c. 2, negative photocopy, LVA; sheet 11 (lva00140), c. 1, source unknown, Aug. 1968, c. 2, negative photocopy, LVA; sheet 12, map 1, c. 1 (lva00141), source unknown, Aug. 1968, c. 2, negative photocopy, LVA; map 2, c. 1 (lva00142), source unknown, Aug. 1968; c. 2 (lva00143), photocopy, source unknown, Aug. 1968; sheet 16, map 1, c. 1 (lva00144), Jan. 1954, Argosy Books, i, c. 2 negative photocopy, LVA; map 2, c. 1 (lva00145), source unknown; sheet 17 (lva00146), c. 1, source unknown, Aug. 1968, c. 2, negative photocopy, LVA; sheet 21, map 1, c. 1 (lva00147), c. 2 (lva00148), c. 3 (lva00149), source unknown, Aug. 1968, c. 4, negative photocopy, LVA; map 2, c. 1 (lva00150), source unknown, Aug. 1968; map 3, c. 1 (lva00151), source unknown, Aug. 1968.

Conservation: restored 1954, June 1967 or Nov. 1968; all maps conserved by Etherington Conservation Center, 2003.

Digital image available: 26 x 40.25 in. or smaller.

Library also has a photocopy of the index map annoted to show sheet lines and numbers.

Library has sheets 6, 8-12, 16, 17, and 21.

Map sheets cover central Virginia.

Previously filed as: 755 M6 1861-1865 1864.

Sheet 6 map accession no. 2618 (1968); sheet 8 map accession no. 2616 (1968); sheet 9, c. 1 map accession no. 2615 (1968), c. 2 5261X, c. 3 5262X, c. 4 5263X, c. 5 5264X; sheet 10 map accession no. 2613 (1968); sheet 11 map accession no. 2611 (1968); sheet 12, map 1, c. 1 map accession no. 2609 (1968), c. 2 2610 (1968) (neg. photostat, LVA); map 2, c. 1 map accession no. 5259X, c. 2 5260X; sheet 16, map 1 map accession no. 1523 (1954), map 2 map accession no. 5265X; sheet 17 map accession no. 2607 (1968); sheet 21, map 1, c. 1 map accession no. 2605 (1968), c. 2 5256X, c. 3 5257X; map 2 map accession no. 5258X; map 3 map accession no. 5266X.

Some maps have titles written in manuscript on verso.

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military topography virginia maps maps topographic history civil war united states civil war maps military battles and campaigns geography and map division j f gedney j schedler united states army of the potomac engineer dept united states army corps of topographical engineers map central virginia high resolution plan settlement antique railroad maps
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01/01/1864
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label_outline Explore J Schedler, United States Army Of The Potomac Engineer Dept, J F Gedney

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military topography virginia maps maps topographic history civil war united states civil war maps military battles and campaigns geography and map division j f gedney j schedler united states army of the potomac engineer dept united states army corps of topographical engineers map central virginia high resolution plan settlement antique railroad maps