Map [Map of the battle of Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864].

Title

• [Map of the battle of Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864].

Headings

• -  Decatur Region (Ga.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps, Manuscript
• -  Atlanta Campaign, 1864--Maps
• -  United States--Georgia--Decatur Region
• -  Atlanta Campaign

Notes

• -  Shows environs of Decatur, Georgia including the "line of the enemy," the position of a Union battery, and the positions of the 15th and 17th Army Corps.
• -  Relief shown by hachures.
• -  Similar map appears in the U.S. War Dept.'s Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate armies, 1891-95, pl. 45, no. 3. A note on the printed copy states that "McPherson handed me this sketch a few moments before he was killed, July 22, 1864 (W. T. Sherman)."
• -  Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989.
• -  Pencil.
• -  LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S41, 136
• -  In pencil in upper right margin: 47.
• -  Imperfect: Mounted on paper.

Medium

• 1 ms. map ; 10 x 11 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• G3924.D4S5 1864 .M3

Repository

• Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3924d.cws00041

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2006458684

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2006458684

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