Southern Mississippi and Alabama Showing the Approaches to Mobile

by Civil War, Joseph Corson - Read

$3,900 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Rare field operations map of Mississippi. This rare Civil War map was created by the Coast Survey office, the main cartographic arm of the Union Army, for use in the Union campaigns into the South. This copy was owned and used by Colonel Joseph Corson Read, the Chief Commissary of the Army of the Cumberland. In November 1863, the Union armies captured Chattanooga, the Gateway to the South, enabling them to stage a prolonged offensive into the Southern heartland. Grant

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