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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:37:48 -0400
From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: New Exhibit
Sender: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>


Dear Colleagues -

        The Harvard Map Collection is pleased to announce the opening of its
current exhibit: A House Divided: Maps of the Civil War. The central focus
of the exhibition will be thirty five Civil War period maps including maps
presented to the Library by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States (MOLLUS).

        The Civil War map collection at Harvard included approximately 1,000 maps,
in both manuscript and printed form, including an unusual isometric drawing
of the Gettysburg Battlefield published in 1863, less than six months after
the battle, by John Bachelder of Boston. Other highlights include a
manuscript map of the Topsail Sound area in North Carolina, another
manuscript outlining Lee's retreat to Appomattox, and a common 1859 map of
Charleston Harbor made uncommon by the several pasted on Boston newspaper
clippings describing Civil War actions.

        Many of the maps were the property of Charles Loring, a Harvard graduate,
and an aide to General Ambrose Burnside, a longtime commander of the Union
IX Corps. Manuscript maps used during Burnside's time are included and some
very significant moments for the Union Army are displayed in these maps,
such as the battle of Cold Harbor.

        The exhibit will run from September 15, 2000 through March 1, 2001 in the
Map Gallery of Pusey Library in Harvard Yard. Selected images from the
exhibit are also available for viewing on the Harvard Map Collection
webpage (http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/maps/civilwar/). With the exception of
University holidays the exhibit is available for viewing Monday-Friday from
9 am - 5 pm.

David Cobb
Harvard Map Collection
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