Library Of Congress Putting Civil War Maps Online

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Civil War buffs are getting access to a treasure trove of information - thousands of original maps and diagrams of battles and campaigns between 1861 and 1865, all posted on the Internet.

The Library of Congress is posting 2,240 maps and charts and 76 atlases and sketchbooks, while The Virginia Historical Society and the Library of Virginia are adding about 600 items. Much of the collection is online now; the rest will be by the spring.

The items depict troop positions and movements, as well as fortifications. There also are reconnaissance maps, sketches and coastal charts and theater-of-war maps.

The agency has been looking at the back of some of its documents since it worked with Walt Disney Pictures on the current film "National Treasure," a fictional story about a map to hidden treasure on the back of the original Declaration of Independence.

http://www.komotv.com/stories/34737.htm

more on Civil War Maps Online: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/

That will be an interesting site.

in the American History Group. I'm sure others will appreciate this resource as well.

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I was expecting some little neo-con staffer of Porter Goss to say that the maps would give away vital information to the enemy. Then again, most of the people in this Administration would have preferred a Confederate victory anyway.

(And that was a Chris Matthew's style "HA!!!!!!!"--LOUD, and forceful!!!!!!!)

You beat me to it--that was my FIRST thought, EXACTLY!

Man, this is one fucked up country nowadays, when that is the first thing that comes to mind reading a history segment!

maybe we can keep some of the white, male Bush/Republican voters too busy to vote in the future!