1862 Dollar Weekly Times Map of the Southern States during the U.S. Civil War

This is an 1862 map of the Southern United States during the American Civil War published as a supplement to the Cincinnati Dollar Weekly Times. Depicting the region from Texas and Kansas east to cover the Atlantic seaboard from Maryland south to Florida, Thus putting entire Confederacy into focus. Railroads, as arteries of transport and supply, are illustrated in detail. Major roads are illustrated as well. An inset situated in the lower right details the vicinity of Washington, D.C..

The Borders

With the exception of the blockading ships situated along the coast from Delaware Bay to Galveston Bay, very little highlights the bloody struggle taking place. The border nonetheless reinforces the pro-Union position of the Dollar Weekly Times. Portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of State William H. Seward, and Union Generals Winfield Scott and George McClellan occupy the corners. The vertical sections include illustrations of a star-spangled shield, a banner adorned with the Seal of the United States, and classical weapons. A further, text heavy border surrounds the central image. Advertisements for the Dollar Weekly Times, its new military chart essential for following war news, and the Cincinnati Tri-Weekly Times occupy the left and right borders. Statistics concerning a wide range of subjects, including the popular vote in the election of 1860, the strength of the Union Navy, square miles of railroad in the United States divided by state, population by state, the number of fugitive slaves from each state, and the ages of Union generals.

Publication History and Census

This map was published in 1862 by the Cincinnati Dollar Weekly Times. One example of this map is cataloged in OCLC and is part of the collection at the Osher Map Library. This map was published in several different editions, each of which varies slightly in appearance. It was published by Harper's Weekly in 1861 and again in 1863. The New York Sun published an edition in 1861. Bacon and Company published an edition as Bacon's Shilling Series of War Maps - Map No. 3 in 1863 and replaced Seward's portrait with a portrait of 'Stonewall' Jackson.