The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War

by George B. Davis, Leslie J. Perry, George Breckenridge Davis

This is an invaluable book and is truly a must-have for any Civil War researcher. This is a 2003 re-printing by Barns & Noble Publishing Inc. of the 1983 Arno Press Inc. and Crown Publishers Inc... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760750440
• ISBN13: 9780760750445
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 9.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What a surprise!

What a surprise the day our book arrived! I ordered this "coffeetable" book for my Civil War enthusist husband. How beautifully bound it is and what a novel dust jacket. The book surpasses our expectation.

Military atlas of the civil war

Book is awesome, It has some great maps and outstanding information in the book. I purchased for my husband, a civil war history buff, and he absolutely flipped over it. Thanks for the opportunity for purchasing.

Military Atlas of the Civil War

Wow! What a compilation of maps, drawings, photographs, and other useful Civil War information. This volume is large, both physically and figuratively. The maps showing battle positions are second to none, drawn up in the 1890s. No modern GPS or computer enhanced map can claim to have anything on these beautiful maps. Any Civil War scholar or buff will appreciate the detail and the comprehensiveness of the maps selected for inclusion. It even has maps of the 1863 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. There are battles only but the most knowledgeable Civil War authority has even heard of. This is a must for any serious Civil War student. But as mentioned, it is quite large and will likely not fit in most basic bookshelves.

Official Military Atlas of the Civil War

This is an invaluable book and is truly a must-have for any Civil War researcher. This is a 2003 re-printing by Barns & Noble Publishing Inc. of the 1983 Arno Press Inc. and Crown Publishers Inc printing. Unlike other versions it has the plates numbered in Arabic and not Roman Numerals which is much easier to search.

If you can find one BUY IT!!! NOW!!!

This is THE indespensible source for Civil War maps. It has hundreds of them, from both sides, good, bad, and sometimes appalling inaccurate, produced by the men who actually fought there. You get to see what the generals saw, and sometimes its pretty appalling. Take McClellan's first map of the Penninsula for example, or Bragg's map of Chickamauga. On the other hand, you get Jed Hotchkiss's masterpieces from the Shenandoah Valley and some of the great maps produced on the Union side. One thing you notice is that, except for Hotchkiss, the Union had a pretty clear superiority as far as topography was concerned. Aside form the obvious uses for the historian, the maps are often extremely beautiful and artistic, unlike modern maps. There are a few minor problems. The first is that it is out of print and fairly hard to find, and pretty expensive if you do manage to find it (I paid $60 for a copy that was a little banged up). The second is that some of the maps are blurred and/or hard to read, and often run right through the seam of the book. I have also had problems with pages falling out completely. Anyway, if the high cost and sheer massiveness of this thing doesn't dismay you, and if you find a copy, buy and enjoy this masterpiece for a long time.