Old Military Map of American Civil War, 1862: Washington DC, Richmond, Mississippi, Forts, Railroads Size:18x24in (45x60cm) Cours Saleya

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and classical artistic elements

from its rugged mountains to its flowing rivers

Weston-super-Mare and Wells are also shown - along with a lovely 1950s British Railway compass rose logo

yet powerful forms

Old Military Map of American Civil War, 1862: Washington DC, Richmond, Mississippi, Forts, Railroads Size:18x24in (45x60cm) Cours SaleyaBacons Military Map of America, issued by Bacon & Co. in 1862 and entered at Stationers Hall that August, distills the American Civil Wars sprawling theater into a legible, at a glance narrative. At a sweeping scale of approximately 1: 8,000,000, it charts the United States with state and territorial boundaries crisply defined and a lucid legend that decodes symbols and colors. The maps most arresting feature is its tri chromatic political key: free