[CIVIL WAR] — [Amiel Weeks Whipple]

COPY OF AN UNFINISHED MAP OF A PORTION OF THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF NORTH EASTERN VIRGINIA AND FORT MONROE COMPILED IN THE BUREAU OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS WAR DEPARTMENT FROM THE BEST AND LATEST AUTHORITIES ... WASHINGTON: BUREAU OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS, AUGUST 1861

[CIVIL WAR] — [Amiel Weeks Whipple]

Sun printed (i.e. photozincographed) map after the original manuscript (44 x 51 1/2 in.; 1,118 x 1,308 mm), routes of railroads and canals hand-colored, dissected into 24 sections and linen-backed as issued. Manuscript annotations in pencil [by J. J. Young?]. PROVENANCE: The present copy descended in the family of Whipple and includes a manuscript presentation below the cartouche, "To accompany letter to | dated Bureau of Topogl. Eng.s Augt 1861." The name of the recipient is not filled in, suggesting that Whipple kept this copy for himself.

Spotting to verso, some browning to recto, a few stray stains, offsetting along folds. Housed in modern blue morocco-backed box.

Provenance:
Descendants of Amiel Weeks Whipple