Isbn: 9781885294173 - the battlefield of cold harbor, hanover county, virginia, 1864 (5 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Large folded color map in card sleeve.

Zustand: Good. A Civil War Watercolor Map Series, unpaged.

Map in illustrated sleeve. Zustand: Good. Approximately 18 inches by 28 inches, folded into 14 panels per side. Each panel is approximately 9 inches by 4 inches. Map and text information on each side. Stiff cardboard sleeve has some wear, tape remnants, and soiling. Map condition is very good. This is one of the publisher's Civil War Watercolor Map Series. Earl B. McElfresh (St. Lawrence University) is the author of works such as Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War (Abrams, 1999) and contributing editor to Company Commander by Charles B. MacDonald He is a regular contributor of Civil War articles to Civil War Times Magazine. He has spoken on Civil War mapping at The Smithsonian, The National Archives, The Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, The Boston Public Library. The Harvard Map Collection, The Warburg Institute in London, National Geographic and on C-Span Book TV. Cartographer for McElfresh Map Company LLC, he has prepared twenty-three maps. Twenty of the maps have been main or featured selections of History Book Club. He is currently preparing endpaper maps for the four volume Civil War set being being published by Library of America and entitled The Civil War: Told by Those Who Lived It. The site of Robert E. Lee's and his army of Northern Virginia's last Civil War Victory. The Battle of Cold Harbor was fought from May 31 to June 12, 1864, with the most significant fighting occurring on June 3. It was one of the final battles of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, and is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles. Thousands of Union soldiers were killed or wounded in a hopeless frontal assault against the fortified positions of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's army. The most complete and accurate map of the approaches to and battle of Cold Harbor ever published. Watercolor and colored pencil map showing farms, mills, entrenchments, watercourses, woods, fields and residences. Reverse side includes an account of Union mapping at Cold Harbor; full color reproduction of an Army of the Potomac theater map of the Overland Campaign; and photographs of two prominent Union topographical engineers, W. H. Paine and W.A. Roebling. The author's on-site research for the Cold Harbor Battlefield, Hanover County, Virginia map was documented in an article in the November/December 2000 issue of Preservation magazine.…

map. Zustand: Sehr gut. Seiten; 9781885294173.2 Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Zustand: gut. 2000. The Battlefield of Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Virginia, 1864 In englischer Sprache. pages.