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features detailed battle maps made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss for General Lee and General Sherman, and maps taken from diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts -- all available for the first time in one place. An essay, "History of Mapping the Civil War," looks at Union maps, Confederate maps, battlefield maps, commercial maps, and others. (Library of Congress)
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On March 18, 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman was ordered by General Grant "to move against Johnston's army, to break it up, and to get into the interior of the enemy's country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their war resources." Sherman, with more than one hundred thousand men, immediately began preparations for what became known as the Atlanta Campaign. |
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Gettysburg, PA -- 1863 |
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