Old Military Map of American Civil War, 1862: Washington DC, Richmond, Mississippi, Forts, Railroads Size:18x24in (45x60cm) and classical artistic elements

and classical artistic elements

including Saltash

yet powerful forms

renowned for their precision and artistry in cartography

from its rugged mountains to its flowing rivers

Old Military Map of American Civil War, 1862: Washington DC, Richmond, Mississippi, Forts, Railroads Size:18x24in (45x60cm) and classical artistic elementsBacons Military Map of America, issued by Bacon & Co. in 1862 and entered at Stationers Hall that August, distills the American Civil Wars sprawling theater into a legible, at a glance narrative. At a sweeping scale of approximately 1: 8,000,000, it charts the United States with state and territorial boundaries crisply defined and a lucid legend that decodes symbols and colors. The maps most arresting feature is its tri chromatic political key: free