SEAT OF WAR IN VIRGINIA, MARYLAND
(Virginia, Maryland, Civil War) J.H. COLTON’S TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR IN VIRGINIA, MARYLAND,& C. 1862. 27 x 19 ½ inch folding map. Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1862 by J.H. Colton, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. Map folded into textured sloth covers. Printed by Lang and Cooper.
The map belonged to Charles F. Woodward, Co. F, 11 Regrt., N.H.V. which is inscribed in pencil in the top right corner. The 11th New Hampshire Infantry was organized at Concord, New Hampshire and mustered into federal service on September 2, 1862. They became actively engaged in the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House and the Siege of Petersburg. Woodward was mustered in on Sept. 5, 1862 as a private and mustered out on June 21, 1865.
Textured covers faded, but with the exception of one one inch seam split at the upper right the map is in vg cond.