Krebs, Charles G.
Charles G. Krebs (1830 - 1890) was a German American lithographer and engraver. Born in Germany, Charles was living in Washington, D.C. working for the U.S. Coast Survey by 1862. When he signed up for the draft for the Union Army during the American Civil War a year later, he stated that he was married. In 1880, he and his wife Dorothea (1839 - 1924) had four children.
Railroads in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
Map of Eastern Virginia.
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This is an 1862 Walter L. Nicholson map of eastern Virginia and Maryland, published during the second year of the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). The map embraces the Eastern Theater of war, from Pennsylvania south to the North Carolina - Virginia border. Washington, D.C. stands out on the Potomac River, while red concentric circles in ten mile increments focus upon Richmond. No battlefields are explicitly marked, but landmarks for which battles were named both before and after this map was published, including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania Court House, and Gettysburg, appear. Red overprinting illustrates the railroad network, which proved critical to both the Union and Confederate war effort. Both sides used the railroads to move men and supplies to and from battlefields. Railroads and railroad hubs thus became strategic targets for raids and advancing armies. (more details)