United States War Department. Corps of Topographical Engineers.

 

Date of original: 1862

Dimensions: 16.34" x 12.21" (25% original), 26.14" x 19.53" (40% original), 32.68" x 24.41" (50% original), 42.48" x 31.73" (65% original), 49.01" x 36.62" (75% original), 58.82" x 43.94" (90% original), 65.35" x 48.82" (original). [Custom sizing also available.  Please contact us for more information.]

Scale: 1:63,360

Subject: Civil War, 1861-1865 - Topographic Maps - Virginia - Washington, D.C. - Washington Metropolitan Area - Fortification

 

Notes:  One map on two sheets.  Shows forts and batteries in the District of Columbia and immediate vicinity, vegetation, counties, railroads, names of residents and boundaries, and street patterns of Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Accompanied by photocopy of original map cover indicating provenance: "Copy No. 15, presented to Prof. Geo. C. Scheffer with respects of Lt Col Macomb A.D.C ... now belongs to E.M. Schaeffer M.D., Washington D.C., June 1882. N.B., The pencil additions in lower part of the map are, I think, by Col. Macomb., E.M.S." Map annotated with similar statement. Includes "Data used in compilation," table of "Elevations above tide water," and "Geological profile of Loudoun County."

 

Civil War Map Project - This collection features nearly 200 Civil War cartographic items from the Library's vast map collection originally digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Library, the Library of Congress, and the Virginia Historical Society.