Bacon's steel plate map of America, political, historical & military.
Scale 1:5,702,400. ), 36.8 "Federal free states" are outlined in red, "Federal slave states" are yellow, "Federal territories (free)" are orange, and "Confederate states (slave)" are green. Inset: Outline of England on the same scale. 13 x 10 cm. Includes population tables, "Extracts from the official census report of 1860," a brief description of the Federal navy, a table listing the "Positions of the American forts, North and South," a brief "politcal" overview, and a "Record of important events of the war, battle fields herein named are underlined with red on the map." The "Record" includes information from November 6, 1860, to July 15, 1863.
- Date
- 1863
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Bacon & Co
- Place
- the United States
- Scale
- 1:5,702,400
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 10,250 × 7,080 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Bacon's steel plate map of America, political, historical & military." (1863). Bacon & Co. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacon%27s_steel_plate_map_of_America,_political,_historical_%26_military._LOC_99447105.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 8696.
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