CIVIL WAR]. Military Maps Illustrating the Operations of the Armies of the Potomac & James May 4th 1864 to April 9th 1865 . Washington, D.C.: War Department, Office of the Chief of Engineers [New York: Julius Bien 1869]. 2 o (609 x 453 mm). Lithographed title and 16 lithographed maps on 17 mapsheets, most double-page (lower corners of "Antietam" torn away, title a bit frayed at edges, first two mapsheets with some light soiling and spotting). Laid loose in modern cloth portfolio. FIRST EDITION. "Detailed series of maps indicating fortifications, roads, railroads, houses, names of residents, fences, drainage, vegetation and relied by hachures" (Richard W. Stephenson, Civil War Maps in the Library of Congress , 518). The maps cover the battlefields of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Totopotomoy, Cold Harbor, the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond, and the battles of Five Forks, Jetersville, Highbridge, Farmville and Appomatox Courthouse. Phillips Atlases 3688 [listing 15 maps only].
CIVIL WAR]. Military Maps Illustrating the Operations of the Armies of the Potomac & James May 4th 1864 to April 9th 1865 . Washington, D.C.: War Department, Office of the Chief of Engineers [New York: Julius Bien 1869]. 2 o (609 x 453 mm). Lithographed title and 16 lithographed maps on 17 mapsheets, most double-page (lower corners of "Antietam" torn away, title a bit frayed at edges, first two mapsheets with some light soiling and spotting). Laid loose in modern cloth portfolio. FIRST EDITION. "Detailed series of maps indicating fortifications, roads, railroads, houses, names of residents, fences, drainage, vegetation and relied by hachures" (Richard W. Stephenson, Civil War Maps in the Library of Congress , 518). The maps cover the battlefields of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Totopotomoy, Cold Harbor, the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond, and the battles of Five Forks, Jetersville, Highbridge, Farmville and Appomatox Courthouse. Phillips Atlases 3688 [listing 15 maps only].
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