Civil War Maps,, circa 1862-1925

Summary: Series includes maps which were in the possession of or otherwise acquired by Washington A. Roebling in connection to his service with the Army of the Potomac during the U.S. Civil War (April 1861-December 1864). They include manuscript maps, annotated field maps provided by the Army Corps of Engineers, and some commercial maps created and/or annotated during the conflict, as well as a number of maps related to Washington A.'s Civil War service but created and acquired after the end of the war, in connection with his involvement with the U.S. Gettysburg Battlefield Commission.

Maps mainly cover eastern and central Virginia, Pennsylvania and also parts of North Georgia. Included are maps of Antietam, Bull Run (2nd), Chancellorsville, Culpeper, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Hatcher's Run, Petersburg, Richmond and Spotsylvania Court House. The series also includes a map drawn by W.P. Hopkins of Fort Sedgwick in Petersburg, Virginia, received by Washington A. Roebling as an enclosure in a letter. (Roebling laid out the plans of the fort during the war.)

Many of the printed maps have been annotated to show troop movements or have had the geography corrected by Washington A. Roebling. Also, the series includes several printed maps from the Engineering Department Head Quarters, U.S. Army of the Potomac.

Among the maps present are: a pencil-drawn "Map of the Battlefield of Antietam, made by Lt. W.A. Roebling the day after the battle, Lt. Roebling was Engineer Officer on General Hookers [sic] staff during the battle, under Major Houston," circa September 18, 1862; and a map of the "Battle-Grounds of August 28th, 29th and 30th, 1862 in the vicinity of Goreton, Prince William Co., VA" with pencil annotations by Washington A. Roebling showing the position and movements of various corps during the Second Battle of Bull Run. (The map is an 1878 reproduction of an "official copy" belonging to G.K. Warren, Major Engineer and Brv't Major General U.S.A.," and was used in the trial(s) of Fitz John Porter in 1878/89.)

The series also includes three maps of the battlefield at Gettysburg, one for each of the battles which occurred on July 1, 2 and 3, 1863, which note the position of troops from official army reports. These maps were published in 1876 by the office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army. Also included in the series are several blueprint maps prepared by the U.S. Gettysburg Battlefield Commission for the Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania.