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![Anonymous, [Untitled plan docketed “Fort Moultrie” on verso.] [Charleston, early 1861-ca. 1863?]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BRM1335-Fort-Moultrie-ms_edited-scaled-e1665587791271-150x150.jpg)
A remarkably detailed plan of Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor, likely dating to the Secession Crisis or soon thereafter. The first Fort Moultrie (originally Fort Sullivan) was constructed of palmetto logs on the southern end of Sullivan’s Island in early 1776 to command the entrance to Charleston Harbor. Later that year this first, crude structure […]
A striking and scarce 1862 case map of the United States by Joseph Hutchins Colton, one of the country’s most prolific and enduring 19th-century map publishers, with vibrant coloring to highlight the state of the Union early in the Civil War. This appealing map depicts the United States westward to the Great Plains and with […]
![[Edw. Molitor Lith., SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA SHOWING THE APPROACHES TO MOBILE. [Washington, D.C.:] Coast Survey Office, 1863.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BRM1767W3-USCS-Southern-Miss-and-Ala_2-stone_lowres-150x150.jpg)
Rare map of southern Alabama and Mississippi, drawn by the United States Coast Survey for use of the Union Army during the Civil War. At the outset of the Civil War, it became apparent to the Union leadership that there was a lack of reliable maps available for much of the South. They soon turned […]
![Jed[ediah] Hotchkiss, Top. Engineer, Staunton, Virginia, THIRTY FIVE MILES AROUND RICHMOND, VA. Washington, D.C. and Richmond, Va.: C[asimir] Bohn, 1867.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/BRM4401-Hotchkiss-Richmond-1867_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A rare 1867 map of Richmond, Virginia and surroundings by Jedediah Hotchkiss, formerly mapmaker to Generals Stonewall Jackson and Lee. Beginning with McLellan’s abortive Peninsula Campaign of 1862, the Confederate capital at Richmond was of course a primary target of the Union, both for war planners and in the mind of the general public. A […]