Monday, November 19, 2007

Gilmer Civil War Maps Collection



Gilmer, Jeremy Francis, 1818-1883. Goldsboro-Wilson-Smithfield area map. Local Identifier: 276/229.

The Gilmer maps are an extensive group of Civil War maps, including both manuscript maps and printed maps with manuscript annotations and engineers' drawings of military construction, housed in the Manuscripts Department of The Wilson Library. This site currently includes 161 maps representative of the entire southern region, with particularly large groupings of North Carolina and Virginia maps. Most of the maps are dated 1861-1865.

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