This month marks the Civil War Sesquicentennial. In honor of this event, I would like to showcase one of our Civil War maps. Published in 1961 for the Centennial Celebrations, it shows major troop movements, battle sites, and portraits of important figures. It also features historical commentary and illustrations of flags, artillery, and uniforms. If you’d like to view more Civil War-related items, you can search the BHS collections or preview the National Archives’ upcoming exhibit Discovering the Civil War.
Campaigns of the Civil War. 1961. Civ. War-1861-1865 (1961).Fl.F. Brooklyn Historical Society Map Collection.
(View this map as a PDF file for more detail).
Interested in seeing more maps? You can view the BHS map collection anytime during the library’s open hours, Wed.-Fri., from 1-5 p.m. No appointment is necessary to view most maps. Our cataloged maps can be searched through BobCat and our map inventories through Emma.
Map of the Month is a part of a project to catalog our map holdings, funded through the Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Collections program. If you would like to help us do more of this kind of work with our exciting map holdings, donate here.
Wish to purchase photocopy of “Wolfert Gerritsen Van Couwenhoven and the Founding of New York,” Journal of Long Island History 15:5-22, by Morton Wagman, 1979.