39 Rare Historic Civil War Maps of Mississippi on CD

39 Historic Civil War Era
Maps of Mississippi

This CD contains 39 rare historic maps and descriptive pages representing fascinating details about Mississippi and its vicinity during the Civil War in MrSid format. This format allows you to see the entire map on your computer screen or drill down to see the smallest details. The original maps are often quite large, as much as 36" long or larger and quite detailed. With the MrSID software, you can manipulate the map to print the entire map in great detail or zoom into a portion of the map in full detail for viewing or printing. You could even bring the images to a local print shop to have the maps reprinted in their full size. (MrSID software is included on the CD.)

To give you a sample of the detail you can expect in these maps, here is an example based on a panoramic map of Washington, DC.

 

The table below shows the description and a small image of each map on this fascinating civil war history CD.

Map of a part of Louisiana and Mississippi, illustrating the operations of the U.S. forces, in the Department of the Gulf Drawn by H. Lindenkohl. E. Moliter lith. United States Coast Survey. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.], 1863. NOTES Scale ca. 1:380,160. In margin at bottom: Line of marsh [sic] of Gen. Banks corps d'armee April & Mai 1863. Map extends from Natchez, Mississippi, in the north to Marsh Island, Louisiana, in the south, and Columbia, Mississippi, in the east to Alexandria, Louisiana, in the west. Roads, railroads, drainage, and towns are shown.

Map of battlefield of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi, showing the positions of the U.S. troops, May 17th 1863 Prepared under the direction of Lieut. P. C. Hains. U.S. Engrs., by F. Mason, Act. Asst. Engineer. Published by authority of the Hon. the Secretary of War. Mason, F. Act. Asst. Engineer. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.], Office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1876. NOTES Scale ca. 1:7200. Inset: [Cross] section of parapet A. 6 x 16 cm. Detailed map indicating "confederate works," Union troop positions and names of commanders, artillery positions, roads, "Vicksburg and Jackson Rail Road," houses, fences, vegetation, drainage, and relief by hachures.

No. 1. First Vicksburg campaign or Chicksaw [sic] Bayou. Dec. 27th 1862-Jan. 3rd 1863.-No. 2. Map of battle ground of Chickasaw Bayou, Dec. 28th and 29th 1862 Enlarged and drawn by E. A. Munn from Gen. Morgan's map. Munn, Edward A. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Chicago, Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1892] NOTES Scale of map 1, ca. 1:150,000; scale of map 2 not given. Maps indicate troop movements and positions.

General plan of the field-fortifications around Corinth, Miss. : also exhibiting the rebel entrenchments and the approaches of the U.S. forces during May 1862 under Major Genl. H. W. Halleck, U.S.A. / surveyed and drawn under the direction of Captain Fred. E. Prime, Corps of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Department of Tennessee ; surveyed and drawn by F. Shraag and F. Theinert. Shraag, F. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1862] NOTES Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Detailed topographic map showing Union and Confederate fortifications by the colors blue and red respectively, powder magazines, city streets and buildings (both unnamed), rural houses and names of a few residents, fences, roads, railroads, vegetation, drainage, and artesian wells.

Map of the country between Monterey, Tenn: & Corinth, Miss: showing the lines of entrenchments made & the routes followed by the U.S. forces under the command of Maj. Genl. Halleck, U.S. Army, in their advance upon Corinth in May 1862: Surveyed under the direction of Col. Geo. Thom, A.D.C. & Chief of Topl. Engrs., Department of the Mississippi, by Lieuts. Fred. Schraag and C. L. Spangenberg, Asst. Topl. Engrs. and drawn by Lieut. Otto H. Matz, Asst. Topl. Engr. Matz, Otto H. CREATED/PUBLISHED N.Y., Lith. of J. Bien, [1862] NOTES Scale 1:31,680. Includes houses, names of residents, fences, roads, railroads, vegetation, fields, drainage, and relief by hachures.

Map showing the battle field at Harrisburg, Miss. July 13-15, 1864. Allman, Eugene H. CREATED/PUBLISHED Mobile, Alabama, Aynsley Litho. & Eng. Co. Inc., c1912. NOTES Scale not given. "Legend: This map shows the position of the Confederate and the Federal forces during the three days encounter, showing in detail the position of the several commands. "The tables show the record of casualties, in offices [sic] and men, killed, wounded and captured during the three days, as compiled from the official records of the Union and Confederate armies, and is authentic. Indicates entrenchments, batteries, roads, towns, vegetation, drainage, and some relief by hachures. There are colored portraits of "Maj. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest, C.S. Army" and "Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Smith, U.S. Army" in the top margin, as well as a drawing of an eagle perched on the crossed flags of the Confederate States and United States with "at peace" printed below the flags.

Sketch of rebel fortifications at Hayne's Bluff. United States. Navy. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l., 1863] NOTES Scale ca. 1:23,000.

Map of the battle of Iuka, Mississippi, showing the positions of the United States and Confederate troops on the 19th of September 1862 Accompanying the report of Maj. Gen. W. S. Rosecrans. Published by authority of the Hon. the Secretary of War, office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army. United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.], 1876. NOTES Scale 1:6336. "The United States forces are shown in blue [and] the Confederate forces are shown in red." Detailed map indicating roads, the "route to heights commanding Fulton Road," street pattern and buildings in Iuka, houses and names of residents in outlying areas, fences, "Memphis & Charleston R.R.," vegetation, drainage, and relief by hachures.

Map of Jackson, Miss: and surroundings during the siege July 10th-16th, 1863, and location of the Cooper home whence a piano was carried by a company of pioneers, commanded by a Capt: McPheely, to the position of 5th Company, Washington (Louisiana) Battery, and there remained during the siege, and played upon while the battle, July 12th, 1863, was in progress. Duff, William H. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.], c1908. NOTES Scale not given. Sketch map showing the "Confederate's line of works," positions of "Slocomb's Louisiana Battery" and "Cobb's Kentucky Battery," "Federal line," "Mrs. Cooper's home," railroads, roads, and drainage.

Vicksburg National Military Park. Vicksburg National Park Commission. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.] Topographical survey, 1902. NOTES Scale 1:2500. Large-scale topographic map showing contour lines, drainage, and fortifications in the vicinity of the Alabama and Vicksburg R.R. at Two Mile Bridge.

The Vicksburg National Military Park and vicinity showing lines of siege and defense of the city. National cemetery in background. Poole Brothers. CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Poole Bros., c1925. NOTES Scale not given. Panoramic map in which "black lines indicate the Union trenches," "red lines indicate the Confederate line of defense," "white lines show the park roads," and "the stars mark general headquarters."

ksburg National Military Park, Miss. Albert Pike, Division Engineer. Topography by Frank Larner, H. G. Warner, and J. G. Harrison. Control by U.S. Geological Survey. Surveyed in 1935. Geological Survey (U.S.) CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, U.S. Geological Survey, 1935] NOTES Scale 1:9600. Detailed topographic map. Contour interval 10 feet. Includes a detailed list of monuments, markers, batteries, and approaches keyed by number to the map.

Vicksburg National Military Park and Vicksburg National Cemetery. United States. National Park Service. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.], reprint 1952. NOTES Scale ca. 1:62,000. Illustrates a descriptive leaflet by the U.S. National Park Service entitled "Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi." Map indicates Union and Confederate lines, "significant structures" in the park, a park tour, roads, and railroads.

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. United States. National Park Service. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington], Government Printing Office, 1958. NOTES Scale ca. 1:62,000. Descriptive leaflet illustrated with the following two maps: [a] Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Colored. Scale ca. 1:14,400. 11 x 22 cm. (Shows names of commander roads, railroad, and tour route.) [b] The Vicksburg campaign. Aug. 1962. Colored. Scale ca. 1:2,350,000. 40 x 23 cm. (Map of the Mississippi River from Memphis to the Gulf of Mexico showing drainage, railroads, and towns.)

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. United States. National Park Service. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington], Government Printing Office, 1963. NOTES Various scales. Descriptive leaflet illustrated with the following two maps: [a] Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Colored. Scale ca. 1:14,400. 11 x 22 cm. (Shows names of commander roads, railroad, and tour route.) [b] The Vicksburg campaign. Aug. 1962. Colored. Scale ca. 1:2,350,000. 40 x 23 cm. (Map of the Mississippi River from Memphis to the Gulf of Mexico showing drainage, railroads, and towns.)

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. United States. National Park Service. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969] NOTES Scale ca. 1:34,000. Includes descriptive index and illus.

Vicksburg National Military Park. United States. National Park Service. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1973. NOTES Scale ca. 1:28,000. Folded title: Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Includes descriptive index, text, and illus.

Approaches to Vicksburg and Rebel defences From a reconnaissance by C. Fendall, Sub. Assist., under the direction of F. H. Gerdes, Assist., assigned by A. D. Bache, Supdt., U.S. Coast Survey, to act under orders of Rear Admiral D. D. Porter, U.S. Navy, commanding Mississippi Squadron. Fendall, C. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.] 1863. NOTES Scale 1:20,000. Indicates fortifications, names and positions of boats, roads, streets, railroads, canal across De Soto Point, houses, vegetation, drainage, and relief by hachures.

Map illustrating the operations of the U.S. forces against Vicksburg. United States Coast Survey. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.], J. W. Maedel, [1863] NOTES Scale ca. 1:390,000. "Indicates "Genl. Grant's track," "Union forces surrounding Vicksburg," and "track of Genl. Blair." Roads, railroads, drainage, and towns are shown. "Union victories" are noted by colored U.S. flags.

The siege of Vicksburg, its approaches by Yazoo Pass and other routes T. S. Hardee, del. W. R. Robertson, Mobile, Ala., lith. Mobile, S. H. Goetzel & Co., May 1st, 1863. Hardee, T. S. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Mobile S. H. Goetzel & Co. 1863] NOTES Scale not given. Gives towns, Fort Pemberton, railroads, drainage, and the location of "Gen. Grant's Army 75000" opposite Vicksburg. Brief notes describe the "land lying between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers" and the first and second "inland expedition[s] of the enemy."

Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Miss. by the U.S. forces under the command of Maj. Genl. U.S. Grant, U.S. Vls. Maj. F. E. Prime, Chief Engr. Surveyed and constructed under the direction of Capt. C. B. Comstock, U.S. Engrs. and Lt. Col. Js. H. Wilson, A. I. Genl., 1st Lt. Engrs., by Major Otto H. Matz, Ills. Vols., Chs. Spangenberg, Asst. Engr., Lts. Patton, Karnasch & Helmle, Mo. Vols., L. Zwanziger, S. R. Tresilian, B. Barth, S. Hartwell, Asst. Engs. Drawn by Chs. Spangenberg, Asst. Engr. Engr. on stone by J. Schedler, N.Y. Vicksburg, Miss., Head Qrs. of the Dept. of the Tenn., Aug. 20th, 1863. Spangenberg, Charles. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Vicksburg, Miss., Head Qrs. of the Dept. of the Tenn., 1863] NOTES Scale ca. 1:17,000 (not "1:15,840"). Detailed map showing entrenchments, roads, streets, railroads, hachures, vegetation, houses, and drainage. Contains five topographic profiles, six cross sections of artillery batteries, and one cross section of a "rebel rifle pit."

Vicksburg and its defences. Constructed and engraved to illustrate "The war with the South" [Compiled by Charles Sholl] Engd. by W. Kemble. Sholl, Charles. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.], c1863. NOTES Scale ca. 1:72,500. Caption in lower margin: A topographical map of Vicksburg & its vicinity showing all batteries that were in existence at the time of its fall, with the names of the owners of plantations, &c.

Environs of Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863] / U.S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, supdt. United States Coast Survey. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, D.C.] : The Survey, 1863. NOTES Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. Maps of "Yazoo River defences at Walnut Hills" and "Haines Bluff" autogr. by Hausmann. Yazoo River defences at Walnut Hills, near Vicksburg, Miss. : occupied by the U.S. Naval Forces, May 20, 1863 / surveyed for Rear Adminral D.D. Porter, commanding Mississippi flotilla, by sub. asst., C. Fendall -- Haines Bluff, Miss. : showing the positions of the attacking gunboats, April 30th, May 1st, 1863 / sketched by C. Fendall ... under direction of Rear Admiral D.D. Porter -- Vicksburg and vicinity / surveyed by C. Fendall & A. Strausz, under the direction of Real Admiral D.C. Porter -- Survey of a canal connecting Walnut Bayou with the Mississippi River : dug by the U.S. Forces under Genl. Grant in April 1863 / surveyed by C. Fendall & A. Strausz.

View of Vicksburg and plan of the canal, fortifications & vicinity Surveyed by Lieut. L. A. Wrotnowski, Top: Engr. Drawn & lithogd. by A. F. Wrotnowski C.E. Wrotnowski, L. A. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.], 1863. NOTES Scale 1:63,360. Indicates fortifications, location, type and names of boats, roads, railroads, levees, drainage, vegetation, and the names of a few residents. Inset: [View of Vicksburg] 17 x 54 cm.

linson's map of Vicksburg, showing all the surrounding fortifications, batteries, principal plantation, &c. Tomlinson, G. W. (George W.) CREATED/PUBLISHED Boston, J. Mayer & Co., lith., c1863. NOTES Scale ca. 1:65,000. At top of map: New map of Vicksburg, showing the scene of Gen. Grants operations, together with all of the fortifications, batteries, rifle pits &c. Text to right of map: Sketch of Vicksburg and the surrounding batteries.

Map of the siege of Vicksburg. [1864]. Badeau, Adam. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l., 1885] NOTES Scale not given. From Century illustrated monthly magazine, v. 30, Sept. 1885. p. 756. Shows fortifications, "Maj. Gen. Grant's Hd. Qrs. during the siege," street pattern of Vicksburg, houses, roads, railroads, drainage, vegetation, and relief by hachures.

Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Miss. Vicksburg, Miss., Aug. 20th 1863 C. B. Comstock, Capt. of Engrs. Spangenberg, Charles. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Jackson Mississippi State Geological Survey 1935] NOTES Scale ca. 1:29,250.

Map showing the route of the late expedition, commanded by Rear Admiral Porter, U.S.N., in attempting to get into the Yazoo River by the way of Steel's Bluff [i.e., Bayou] and Deer Creek. United States. Navy. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l., 1863] NOTES Scale ca. 1:500,000. Inset: Plan showing the place from which Gunboats first commenced to fall back, to open communications behind them, which had been obstructed. Scale ca. 1:36,000. 10 x 7 cm.

Map of operations of the Yazoo Pass expedition under command of Lt. Com. Watson Smith, U.S.N., 1863. United States. Navy. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l., 1863] NOTES Scale ca. 1:225,000. Map of the attack of the Yazoo Pass Expedition on Confederate Fort Pemberton, near Greenwood, Mississippi, March-April, 1863. Map illustrates "Addition report of Lieutenant Commander [James P.] Foster" dated April 13, 1863.

Route of the late expedtion [sic] commanded by Act'g. Rear Admiral D. D. Porter U.S.N. attempting to get into the Yazoo River by the way of Steels Bayou and Deer Creek Compiled & drawn by A. Strausz, U.S. Coast Survey. Strausz, A. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington], U.S. Coast Survey, 1863. NOTES Scale ca. 1:215,000. "The shaded bayou shows the route actually travelled by the gun boats. The doted line shows the remaining proposed route." Indicates the location of bridges, Indian mounds, and names or residents along Deer Creek.

Map of the alluvial region of the Mississippi Prepared to accompany the report of Capt. A. A. Humphreys and Lieut H. L. Abbot, Corps. of Top'l. Engrs., U.S.A. to the Bureau of Topl. Engrs., War Dept. Drawn by Chs. Mahon. Mahon, Charles. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l., 1861] NOTES Scale 1:1,500,000.Map of the Mississippi River from Cape Girardeau to the delta showing the extent of the alluvial region.

Map of the alluvial region of the Mississippi [Prepared to accompany the report of Capt. A. A. Humphreys and Lieut H. L. Abbot, Corps. of Top'l. Engrs., U.S.A. to the Bureau of Topl. Engrs., War Dept. Drawn by Chs. Mahon] Mahon, Charles. CREATED/PUBLISHED Phil. Bowen & Co. lith. [1861] NOTES Scale 1:1,500,000.

Grierson's route from La Grange to Baton Rouge. [April 17-May 2, 1863]. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l., 1863] NOTES Scale ca. 1:3,625,000. From "Monthly record of current events," Harper's new monthly magazine, v. 27, June-Nov., 1863 p. 271. Map of "The seat of war on the Mississippi" is on the verso. 18 x 13 cm.

Southern Mississippi and Alabama : showing the approaches to Mobile / Coast Survey Office, A.D. Bache, supt. United States Coast Survey. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, D.C.] : The Office, 1863. NOTES Covers the area west to east, from Jackson, Miss. to Montgomery, Ala. and north to south, from Philadelphia, Miss./Centreville, Ala. to Gulf of Mexico.

Southern Mississippi and Alabama Compiled and engraved at the U.S. Coast Survey Office, from state maps, post office maps, local surveys, etc., with additions from campaign maps and information furnished by Capt. O. M. Poe, Chief Engineer, Military Division of the Mississippi and by Capt. W. E. Merrill, Chief Engineer, Department of the Cumberland. Drawn by A. Lindenkohl. Lindenkohl, A. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l., H. Lindenkohl & Chas. G. Krebs, lith.], 1864. NOTES Scale 1:633,600. General map indicating cities and towns, roads and railroads, rivers, and some relief by hachures. The map is overprinted in red to show state names and highlight state boundaries and railroads.

Southern Mississippi and Alabama] Drawn by A. Lindenkohl. H. Lindenkohl & Chas. G. Krebs, lith. Lindenkohl, A. CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.], U.S. Coast Survey, A. D. Bache, Supdt., 1865. NOTES Scale 1:633,600. General map, without title. State names, boundaries, and railroads are colored red.

Map of the country between Millikens Bend, La. and Jackson, Miss. shewing the routes followed by the Army of the Tennessee under the command of Maj. Genl. U.S. Grant, U.S. Vols. in its march from Millikens Bend to the rear of Vicksburg in April and May 1863. Wilson, Js. H. CREATED/PUBLISHED N.Y., Julius Bien & Co., photo lith., 1876. NOTES Scale 1:126,720. Drawn by: Maj. O. H. Matz, Asst. Eng. & 1st Lt. L. Helmle, 3d Mo. Vols. Inft. Surveys by: 1st Lt. P. C. Hains, U.S. Eng. & Asst. Engrs. Ulffers, Wrigley, Tunica, McComas & Mason. Geographl. authorities: La Tourette's sectl. map, U.S. land surveys, official county and city maps." Map of Hinds and Warren counties, Mississippi and parts of Claiborne County, Mississippi, and Madison County, Louisiana, showing Union positions in blue and Confederate positions in red, fortifications, "routes followed by the army of the Tenn.," roads, railroads, drainage, some vegetation along the Mississippi River, towns, relief by hachures, and a few houses and names of residents. Legend contains a brief description of the "face of country," "soil," "productions," "roads," "streams," "fords," and "bayous."

Map of the country between Millikens Bend, La. and Jackson, Miss. shewing the routes followed by the Army of the Tennessee under the command of Maj. Genl. U.S. Grant, U.S. Vols. in its march from Millikens Bend to the rear of Vicksburg in April and May 1863; compiled, surveyed and drawn under the direction of Lt. Col. Js. H. Wilson, A.I. Gnl. & 1st Lt. Engrs. Published by authority of the Hon. the Secretary of War. Office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army.] Drawn on stone by John D. Hoffmann. Wilson, Js. H. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, D.C., Lith. of J. F. Gedney, 1876 NOTES Scale 1:126,720. Another edition. Similar to the preceding map but drawn on stone by Hoffmann and lithographed by Gedney instead of Bien. This edition denotes the positions of the Union and Confederate troops by symbols rather than by colors, and the legend lacks the statement "Published by authority of the Hon. the Secretary of War. Office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army. 1876."

Plan der Schlacht von Gettysburg am 1, 2 & 3 Juli, 1863.-Plan zur Erlauterung von Gen. Grant's Vicksburg Campagne Mai-Juli, 1863 Gez v. E. R. Schmidt. Th. Leonhardt, lith., Philada. Schmidt, Ernst Reinhold. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Philadelphia, 1869] NOTES Scales vary. Gettysburg map shows the location of Union and Confederate corps. The Vicksburg campaign map indicates the route followed by General Grant.

 

This is a must have collection for any civil war history buff!

To use this software, you must install the free ExpressView MrSid software which is included on the CD. This is a 30 second process and will allow you to view and manipulate/print all the maps in this CD collection in full detail. There is a version for both Windows platforms and Macintosh platforms and full installation instructions are included on the CD.