Colton's Map of the Southern States, Including Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Showing Also Part of Adjoining States & Territories ...

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Old map of Southern States, United States.

Created by J. H. (Joseph Hutchins) Colton in 1862.

• Scale ca. 1: 1,520,640.
• Civil War Map
• "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by J. H. Colton."
• Printed by Lang & Laing, N.Y.
• "No. 6" in the upper left margin.
• Insets: Southern part of Florida. 27 x 20 cm.-Colton's map of the United States showing the proposed railroad routes to the Pacific Ocean. 19 x 26 cm.
• Includes tables of population based on the "United States Census for 1860."
• Cover title: Colton's map of the southern states of America, showing the whole seat of war on the seabord [sic] and in the interior, designating every town, railway, and stream; also showing the forts and fortifications. London, Bacon and Co.
• Pasted inside the cover is a list of "Bacon's shilling series of American war maps, just published."
• Advertisement for "Bacon's guide to American politics" and a list of "Colton's maps of America, and complete series of war maps" are pasted to the verso of the map.
• "Explanations" (i.e., legend) is pasted over the bottom border. Map is colored to show "free, or non-slaveholding states" (pink), "border slave states" (yellow), and "seceded or confederate states" (green).
• 1861 editions are listed as Civil War Maps entry nos. 6.5-6.6; 1863 edition is listed as Civil War Maps entry no. 37.6.
• Description derived from published bibliography.

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