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July 1863

Map

Title: Manuscript map of Gettysburg battlefield

With annotations describing the battle and its aftermath. "Perfect desolation everything shot away dead reables [sic] & horse trees bushes & fence & posts all gone a perfect valley of death."

GLC09181

1864

Shoel, Charles, fl. 1863-1865

Map

Title: Gettysburg and Vicinity: Constructed and Engraved to Illustrate the War with the South

One map entitled "Gettysburg and Vicinity: Constructed and Engraved to Illustrate the War with the South" dated 1864. Depicts a topographical map of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. Caption notes, "from an actual survey by an engineer Officer on General Doubleday's Staff." Engraved by Rae Smith after topography by Charles Shoel.

GLC08878.0125

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