RARELY SEEN DEPICTION OF THE UNITED STATES! (“JOHNSON'S NEW MILITARY MAP OF THE UNITED STATES SHOWING THE Forts, Military Posts &c...” New York: Johnson and Ward, c. 1862. Lithographed map with original hand-coloring. Centerfold stremgthened. Image: 17 x 23 ½”)
Published early in the Civil War: Military Posts and Forts across the country are depicted and nine insets show important Southern Harbors.
Of particular interest are New Mexico and Arizona (both admitted 1912)– in a very unusual HORIZONTAL configuration which existed very briefly. (The Confederate Territory of Arizona appears in the southern third of New Mexico Territory. Between August 1861 - July 1862, Confederate officer John R. Baylor appointed himself the territorial governor and claimed all of New Mexico Territory south of the 34th Parallel for the Confederacy).
Other ephemeral configurations are: Virginia (shown prior to the formation of West Virginia in 1863), Dakota Territory (admitted 1889 - shown including today's Montana & Wyoming), and territories of Washington (admitted 1889 - shown including today's Idaho), Nebraska (admitted 1867 - shown to include part of Wyoming), Nevada (admitted 1864 with a southern tip and its boundary shifted eastward) and Utah (admitted 1896).
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