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I posted the LC conference information to Maps-L and this gentleman
replied to me with the note below. I forward it ... to read, act upon or
delete.
:-)
Angie
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Subject: Civil War maps
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:53:08 +0000 (GMT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Dear Ms. Cope -
My wife Cheryl is a retired librarian here at New Mexico State U.
and she
called my attention to an email received this morning, "Library of Congress
Holds Conference on Civil War Mapping".
I have been living with Civil War maps for the last xnumber of
years as I
edited and did the background research on what will be my next book, the
edited
journals of an Illinois soldier who served with Sherman's Army from the
spring
of 1864 until he was finally discharged in July 1865. One fascinating
lead that
I had no way to follow up might be of interest to some one of your
colleagues:
The Antiques Road Show on February 13, 2006 had a presenter (no
name or
residence address of course) who had a book (I think folio would be a more
accurate term) of 32 maps made by a Major Wallace, a topographical
engineer with
the 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, during Sherman's campaign. The
interviewer
said these covered the country from Chattanoona to Atlanta, from Atlanta to
Savannah, and from Savannah to Goldsboro. The one closeup they showed
during
the show was a map dated May 5, 1864. In my opinion these would appear
to be a
great treasure historically. My soldier was part of the 15th (initially in
the16th) Army Corps, but the several corps all traveled in fairly close
proximity and these maps would have been very relevant for my research.
If someone from, say, the Library of Congress' map division were to
approach
the people who run the Antiques Road Show, I would hope that the latter
would be
able and hopefully also willing to place whoever makes the inquiry in
touch with
the present owner of the maps - who I assume is probably a descendant of
Major
Wallace. Good luck.
John P. Wilson
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