Official Military Atlas of the Civil War

User Review: - Official Military Atlas of the Civil War
Great book, although the original ISBN had the book four times a large and four times as thick. Outstanding product though! Great seller, very quick to respond.

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User Review: - Military Atlas of the Civil War
Wow! What a compilation of maps, drawings, photographs, and other useful Civil War information. This volume is large, both physically and figuratively. The maps showing battle positions are second to none, drawn up in the 1890s. No modern GPS or computer enhanced map can claim to have anything on these beautiful maps. Any Civil War scholar or buff will appreciate the detail and the comprehensiveness of the maps selected for inclusion. It even has maps of the 1863 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. There are battles only but the most knowledgeable Civil War authority has even heard of. This is a must for any serious Civil War student. But as mentioned, it is quite large and will likely not fit in most basic bookshelves.

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User Review: - Official Military Atlas of the Civil War
This is an invaluable book and is truly a must-have for any Civil War researcher. This is a 2003 re-printing by Barns & Noble Publishing Inc. of the 1983 Arno Press Inc. and Crown Publishers Inc printing. Unlike other versions it has the plates numbered in Arabic and not Roman Numerals which is much easier to search.

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User Review: - If you can find one BUY IT!!! NOW!!!
This is THE indespensible source for Civil War maps. It has hundreds of them, from both sides, good, bad, and sometimes appalling inaccurate, produced by the men who actually fought there. You get to see what the generals saw, and sometimes its pretty appalling. Take McClellan's first map of the Penninsula for example, or Bragg's map of Chickamauga. On the other hand, you get Jed Hotchkiss's masterpieces from the Shenandoah Valley and some of the great maps produced on the Union side. One thing you notice is that, except for Hotchkiss, the Union had a pretty clear superiority as far as topography was concerned. Aside form the obvious uses for the historian, the maps are often extremely beautiful and artistic, unlike modern maps. There are a few minor problems. The first is that it is out of print and fairly hard to find, and pretty expensive if you do manage to find it (I paid $60 for a copy that was a little banged up). The second is that some of the maps are blurred and/or hard to read, and often run right through the seam of the book. I have also had problems with pages falling out completely. Anyway, if the high cost and sheer massiveness of this thing doesn't dismay you, and if you find a copy, buy and enjoy this masterpiece for a long time.

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User Review: - fantastic
One had better know his roman numerals as index to the map chart are confusing!!!!!!!!!!