Title: Battlefield of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland and vicinity, ca. 1862 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2007
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
- Willcox, William H.
- Shoemaker, J. G.
- P.S. Duval & Son.
Dates
- Issued: 2007-04
- Coverage: 1862
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map: Map of the battlefield of Antietam, prepared by Wm. H. Willcox, Top. Off. & A.A.D.C. on Brig. Genl. Doubleday's staff from actual surveys ; J.G. Shoemaker, engr. 4th ed. It was published ca. 1862 by Lith. of P.S. Duval & Son. Scale [ca. 1:13,300]. Covers area in Washington County, Maryland including the Sharpsburg region and the Antietam National Battlefield. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Maryland State Plane Coordinate System (in Meters) (Fipszone 1900). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads and streets, houses, fences, vegetation, drainage, and artillery and Union and Confederate troop positions, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset: [Map of the environs of Sharpsburg]. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of the Civil War from the Harvard Map Collection. Many items from this selection are from a collection of maps deposited by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts (MOLLUS) in the Harvard Map Collection in 1938. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features, in particular showing places of military importance. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.
Subjects
- Transportation
- Maryland
- Washington County
- Sharpsburg
- Antietam National Battlefield
- Maps
- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Fortification
- Human settlements
- Land use
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Bodies of water
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- intelligenceMilitary
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-77.783673, -77.691136, 39.51137, 39.427288)
- Geometry: BBOX (-77.783673, -77.691136, 39.51137, 39.427288)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Willcox, William H., Shoemaker, J. G., P.S. Duval & Son. Battlefield of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland and vicinity, ca. 1862 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-cw3844-s43s5-1862-w58
Format
GeoTIFF