[Civil War] — Read, Joseph CorsonSouthern Mississippi and Alabama Showing the Approaches to Mobile. [Washington]: Coastal Survey Office, 1863
Folding map (610 x 648 mm). Mounted in twenty-four sections on linen; light wear. Original card covers with printed paper label, contemporary ownership inscription on label; minor foxing and wear to map. Rare field operations map of Mississippi. This rare Civil War map was created by the Coast Survey office, the main cartographic arm of the Union Army, for use in the Union campaigns into the South. This copy was owned and used by Colonel Joseph Corson Read, the Chief Commissary of the Army of the Cumberland. In November 1863, the Union armies captured Chattanooga, the "Gateway to the South," enabling them to stage a prolonged offensive into the Southern heartland. Grant moved very quickly to overwhelm the South and immediately ordered Sherman to move against Atlanta and its vital railroad supply lines, at the same time as he sent Nathaniel Banks to attack Mobile, Alabama. Joseph Corson Read was one of the first wave of men to take up Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers to put down the rebellion in April 1861. He remained continuously in the army, and was eventually commanded by George H. Thomas Read would serve alongside Thomas in the field and had the responsibility to supply the entire army as it moved South. During the long and arduous Atlanta campaign he was the man on the ground, making the supply side work. Read developed a close relationship with Thomas, one with both personal and professional aspects. An important map that would have been used by the Union Army in the field, specifically by the Chief Commissary of the Army of the Cumberland. REFERENCE:Library of Congress, Civil War Maps 260.1; Library of Congress, Railroad Maps 140
[Civil War] — Read, Joseph CorsonSouthern Mississippi and Alabama Showing the Approaches to Mobile. [Washington]: Coastal Survey Office, 1863
Folding map (610 x 648 mm). Mounted in twenty-four sections on linen; light wear. Original card covers with printed paper label, contemporary ownership inscription on label; minor foxing and wear to map. Rare field operations map of Mississippi. This rare Civil War map was created by the Coast Survey office, the main cartographic arm of the Union Army, for use in the Union campaigns into the South. This copy was owned and used by Colonel Joseph Corson Read, the Chief Commissary of the Army of the Cumberland. In November 1863, the Union armies captured Chattanooga, the "Gateway to the South," enabling them to stage a prolonged offensive into the Southern heartland. Grant moved very quickly to overwhelm the South and immediately ordered Sherman to move against Atlanta and its vital railroad supply lines, at the same time as he sent Nathaniel Banks to attack Mobile, Alabama. Joseph Corson Read was one of the first wave of men to take up Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers to put down the rebellion in April 1861. He remained continuously in the army, and was eventually commanded by George H. Thomas Read would serve alongside Thomas in the field and had the responsibility to supply the entire army as it moved South. During the long and arduous Atlanta campaign he was the man on the ground, making the supply side work. Read developed a close relationship with Thomas, one with both personal and professional aspects. An important map that would have been used by the Union Army in the field, specifically by the Chief Commissary of the Army of the Cumberland. REFERENCE:Library of Congress, Civil War Maps 260.1; Library of Congress, Railroad Maps 140
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