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When Union General George McClellan marched toward the Confederate capital of Richmond in 1862, he encountered the Warwick River "where it wasn't supposed to be." McClellan was following a map created by an esteemed topographer, but the map was wrong! "The Cram Map" that McClellan was using is one of the removable maps in Great Maps of the Civil War. So is the map Union Gen. James B. McPherson was carrying when he was killed on July 22, 1864, just east of Atlanta. "Commanders moving their armies . . . often had to advance slowly, groping their way blindly," says William Miller. "They used what maps they could find, but most contained serious errors. . . . Studies of Civil War maps usually focus on handsome, postbattle maps of battlefields. . . . While these maps explain how a battle was fought, they do nothing to help us answer the questions about why a battle or campaign was conducted as it was." The maps in Great Maps of the Civil War are the ones the commanders actually used or were likely to have been available to them. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Besides the removable maps there are maps and illustrations throughout the book they give the reader something besides the printed word to help understand what was happening.
The front and back endsheets have a copy of what the author says was the most successful commercial map of the war. It is a panoramic view of the Gettysburg battlefield done in color. The map that was sold was 21 X 36 inches and was accompanied by a testimonial from General George Meade, a former topographical engineer. It is a beautiful map and I am sure that if I had been a veteran of that battle I would have wanted to have one.
I have gone through the book a number of times and always find some new interesting feature on one of the maps that I had not noticed before. I have also used one or two of the maps when reading about a particular battle that is set forth in the map.
There is a personal connection to several of the maps. One is a pocket map used by General J. E. B. Stuart that is now in Richmond's Museum of the Confederacy. The map that Baldy Smith had drawn of the Cracker Line that helped to supply Chattonooga, and a map that was carried by General McPherson when he was killed in the Battle of Atlanta are in the collection. There are blood stains on McPherson's map which show that he was carrying it when he was shot.
Another map in that pocket shows the work and detail that went into providing accurate maps for Sherman's officers. It is a map of Northern Georgia which covered the area from the North Georgia border down to below Jonesboro. The map was printed on a lithographic press and and newly acquired topographic information could be quickly added to the base map which were then printed and distributed. The enclosed map is said to be a copy of the map that Sherman used.
I find the battle maps to be fascinating artifacts.
There is a very interesting commercial map that was made to be sold with the book "The Lost Cause". It is a large map that covers the entire South except for West Texas. All of the counties in the Southern States are mapped out. There is a chronology of the different battles. I had to use a magnifying glass at times but the detail could be clearly read. The commercial maps provide insight into what was important to the people at the time.
I really enjoy using this book and recommend it to anyone with an interest in the Civil War. The book and the maps provide another level of knowledge about what the experience of the Civil War was like. ( )