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    "title": "Military map of the United States & territories showing the location of the military posts, arsenals, Navy yards, & ports of entry",
    "description": "Shows the U.S. some time between April 17, 1861 when Virginia seceded and May 6, 1861 when Arkansas seceded. Indicates free states, border states, seceding states, old territories, and new territories. Map shows state capitals and principal towns, drainage, geographic coordinates, and names and boundaries of the states and territories",
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    "year": 1861,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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        "United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps"
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        "Shows the U.S. some time between April 17, 1861 when Virginia seceded and May 6, 1861 when Arkansas seceded. Indicates free states, border states, seceding states, old territories, and new territories. Map shows state capitals and principal towns, drainage, geographic coordinates, and names and boundaries of the states and territories",
        "Military posts and ports of entry are listed at bottom and sides of map.",
        "Insets: Key West -- Pensacola & Perdido Bays -- [Cairo, Illinois and surrounding area] -- Supplement to P.S. Duval & Son's military map showing the locations of the present military operations, expressly compiled from the latest surveys.",
        "\"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by P.S. Duval & Son in the Clerk's Office of the Dist. Court of the East. Dist. of Penna.\""
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