A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Section One: Marching with Maps & Mapping the Shenandoah Valley

By Earl B. McElfresh
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Published: Jan. 23, 2012
Words: 10,331 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781885294371

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This first section of A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping includes an introduction to the series as well as a description of the efforts by the opposing Confederate and Federal Armies to accurately map the logistically and strategically crucial valley sheltered between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains.

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A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping is an ongoing series adapted from presentations made by Earl B. McElfresh to Civil War Round Tables and Map Societies, from monographs accompanying published McElfresh maps, from articles published in various magazines as well as radio presentations broadcast by NPR affiliate WBFO in Buffalo, New York. This first section includes an introduction to the series entitled “Marching with Maps—Making the Military Maps that Remake the World.” Also included in this section is “Civil War Mapping and the Shenandoah Valley” which describes the efforts by opposing Confederate and Federal armies throughout the Civil War to accurately map the logistically and strategically crucial valley sheltered between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains. Earl B. McElfresh is a renowned cartographer and Civil War map historian. He has mapped over twenty battlefields for McElfresh Map Company. He is the author of Maps and Mapmakers of the.. (Read more) A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping is an ongoing series adapted from presentations made by Earl B. McElfresh to Civil War Round Tables and Map Societies, from monographs accompanying published McElfresh maps, from articles published in various magazines as well as radio presentations broadcast by NPR affiliate WBFO in Buffalo, New York. This first section includes an introduction to the series entitled “Marching with Maps—Making the Military Maps that Remake the World.” Also included in this section is “Civil War Mapping and the Shenandoah Valley” which describes the efforts by opposing Confederate and Federal armies throughout the Civil War to accurately map the logistically and strategically crucial valley sheltered between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains. Earl B. McElfresh is a renowned cartographer and Civil War map historian. He has mapped over twenty battlefields for McElfresh Map Company. He is the author of Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War (Abrams 1999) and is a frequent contributor to Civil War Times Magazine.
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civil war, american civil war, mapping, military mapping, topographical engineers, 19th century mapping

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