Maps of the Civil War Charting the Course of Historical Mapmaking

摘要

How can a war proceed without maps? And how does one obtain maps for a region of the United States that had not been adequately mapped • from a military point of view? Could maps be used to depict other issues related to the Civil War—for example, the extent of slave-holding, by county, in the South?Those questions and more were answered May 20 during "Re-imagining the U.S. Civil War: Reconnaissance, Surveying and Cartography" at the annual conference of the Geography and Map Division/Philip Lee Phillips Society held at the Library of Congress. The Phillips Society is a friends group that over the years has provided much support to programs of the division.