Southern coast of the United States from Pensacola to the mouth of the Mississippi showing the strategic position of Ship Island with approaches to New Orleans. [map] :
by United States Coast Survey
Publisher: [Washington, DC : The Survey, 1861] .Description: 1 map : col. ; 23 x 36 cm .Subject(s): Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps | Southern States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps | Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps | Florida -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps | Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps | Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps | Ship Island (Miss.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps | Mississippi -- Maps -- 1861-1865 | Maps -- 19th century Online Resources: Link to Electronic Resource| Item type | Location | Collection | Call Number | Status | Notes | Date Due |
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| Online | Online Electronic Resource | Electronic Records | MA/97.0017(a) | Open Shelf | Link to Electronic Resource | |
| Archive Request | Archival Reading Room | Maps | MA/97.0017(a) | Available |
Date of situation: 1861.
Shows islands, cities, Lake Ponchartrain, and rivers.
Also shows parts of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Relief shown by shading.
Appears in Mottelay's The Soldier in Our Civil War, p.213. 1884-1885.
Includes descriptive text and etchings.
"Captain Muller's Battery, seventy seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, making fascines and gabions for breastworks."
Inset: Ship Island & Vicinity on an enlarged scale / U.S. Coast Survey. Depth shown by soundings.
Map scanned as TIFF file then converted to Zoomify JPEG, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 2010.
Mode of access: Internet browser.