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Anticipating war, the U.S. Coast Survey was one of the few agencies able to provide accurate nautical charts and topographic maps before and during the war. Led by Alexander Dallas Bache, the nation’s foremost scientist and great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, the agency’s primary mission was to chart the nation’s coastal waters, and by the 1850s was beginning to produce detailed nautical charts for most of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal waters. One example is this chart of South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor published in 1863. Utilizing an 1858 chart, which was based on detailed hydrographic and topographic surveys conducted in the early 1850s, this version was overprinted to show forts, “National“ and “Rebel“ trenches and batteries, and positions of the attacking fleet as of September 7, 1863.
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xg94j205x
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Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of the Rebel batteries
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obj
dtoType
map
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1
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xg94j205x
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of the Rebel batteries
description
Anticipating war, the U.S. Coast Survey was one of the few agencies able to provide accurate nautical charts and topographic maps before and during the war. Led by Alexander Dallas Bache, the nation’s foremost scientist and great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, the agency’s primary mission was to chart the nation’s coastal waters, and by the 1850s was beginning to produce detailed nautical charts for most of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal waters. One example is this chart of South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor published in 1863. Utilizing an 1858 chart, which was based on detailed hydrographic and topographic surveys conducted in the early 1850s, this version was overprinted to show forts, “National“ and “Rebel“ trenches and batteries, and positions of the attacking fleet as of September 7, 1863.
date
["[1863]"]
year
1863
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_006533
creators
United States Coast Survey
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Charleston Harbor (S.C.)--History--19th century--Maps
Charleston Region (S.C.)--History--19th century--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Charleston
Charleston (county)
Charleston Harbor
North and Central America
South Carolina
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
South Carolina
county
Charleston
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
New York
publisher
Lith. of J. Bien
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
32.75
schema:longitude
-79.8833
extent
1 map : col., 61 x 47 cm.
notes
Another issue.
Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals.
Overprinted to show 1/4-mile concentric circles centered on St. Michaels, Charleston; positions occupied by the Union Army and Navy; "Rebel batteries in possession of National forces [and] batteries still held by the Rebels [on] Sept. 7th 1863." Union positions are based "on the authority of Maj. T.B. Brooks."
Description derived from published bibliography.
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no
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xg94j205x
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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2d49f5fc0bd4b063