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Topographical Map of the Original District of Columbia and Environs Showing the Fortifications Around the City of Washington.
This map by E.G. Arnold was one of the most detailed available when it was printed in 1862. In addition to terrain, transportation routes, and the street grid, it also pinpoints forts and batteries protecting Washington, as well as hospitals and camps. Afraid of the potential disaster should it fall into enemy hands, War Department agents confiscated all available copies, while others destroyed the lithographic stone.
E.G. Arnold, artist; G. Woolworth Colton, publisher
Engraving, 1862 |