Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission, Atlas of Chickamauga and Vicinity, 1st ed.

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Park Historian Henry Boynton and his team created Atlas of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Vicinity, a magnificent collection of battle maps, to illustrate the new National Military Park for Congress. Boynton and park engineer Edward E. Betts produced thirteen 41″ x 26 ?” plates illustrating the theater of operations and movements in the battle plus a fourteenth plate showing the Chickamauga National Military Park. The maps are interpreted by two plates of text, plus a full order of battle for both armies. The lithographs were printed by Julius Bien & Co., of New York. Expertly rebound in gray cloth and brown spine and corners with original leather title label (7″  x 4 ” approximate). Deaccessioned from Morrisson-Reeves Library of Richmond, Indiana with their label pasted in.

Plates toned; light chipping at corners with minor loss (some damage reinforced with rice paper; light dampstaining; else very good with bright maps.

Handsome and scarce!

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission. House Documents Vol. 101 / No. 514. Atlas of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Vicinity / 56th Congress, 2nd session, 1900-1901. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1901. 1st edition, 4p., XIV plates, maps, errata.

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