"Help referencing an ACW map?" Topic

Hi All,

Can anyone help me find the reference for this map. I found the image online credited to Shelby Foote but I borrowed all three volumes of his Civil War from the library and didn't find it.

Little help?

Thanks Much

L

You can see why West Virginia was created, and why Lincoln continuously pushed to get eastern Tennessee under Union control.

What a great map, never seen it before. Brings an interesting perspective to the war.

My Mother's Cousin's wife was from one of the northern Alabama counties. They sent their taxes north during the war and Many of their young men to fight for the Union.

A friend from Texas lost family members in the Texas Nueces Massacre of Unionist Germans from the red rock counties.

My GG-Grandmother Rogenbucke's two half-brothers survived the Nueces Massacre, but several weeks later they were ambushed while attempting to cross the Rio Grande. One was wounded, and although the other tried to save him, both drowned. It was a dangerous time to be a German loyalist in Central Texas.

The map is misleading, at least for Virginia. There were three Virginia votes on secession. The first was a vote by the Convention before Sumter in which secession was rejected. The second was a vote by the Convention after Sumter and the demand that Virginia supply troops to fight against the South, which approved secession. It appears this is what the map represents. The third was the popular referendum to approve the Convention's vote to secede. Some of counties where delegates went one way in the second Convention vote went another in the referendum. See this: link

Does this help?

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Guys, he wasn't asking for political or military commentary on the state of the country during the war, lol.

He wants to know the source where the map comes from.

Looking at the type font that the state abbreviations are done in, it has the feel of one of Bruce Catton's books. That type font was used a lot for maps in history books the 50s and 60s.

It also could possibly be from a text book of the same time period, 50s or 60s.

This is what I'm talking about…this map is from Bruce Catton's 'The Coming Fury'. Very similar font and look.

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Here's a map from 'Never Call Retreat':

I couldn't find a sharper image of this one, but this map also has a similar feel to the one you posted:

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On the internet, I found this map on a forum called CivilWarTalk. I don't know where the person who posted it back in 2016 got it.

Googling the map title brought up a couple similar maps; perhaps they would be of use?

Grelber

@ John the Greater:
Thanks for the link. That's where I think I found it originally and -- judging by how he leads up to it from mentioning Shelby Foote -- why I thought it would be in Foote's Civil War. I was surprised it isn't. Or at least I didn't see it.

@ Baranovich:
Thanks for the Catton goto. I'll look into that.

@ Grelber:
Yeah I found a couple others as well that are almost exactly the same but more modern. I suspect they're copies/reworks. One is listed as coming from Kids Britannica! I tried zooming on the publisher/source for the others but, no joy.

I have all three first edition volumes of Foote's narrative and it is not in them. I suggest you send a request to the UNC Southern Collection. Might check with the University of Virginia's Department of History.

library.unc.edu/wilson/shc

@ Old Contemptible:
Thanks for that confirm re Foote.
I'll take your advice and contact those folks. Thanks for that as well.

And at risk of sidelining my own thread, what I find interesting about the map I'm working to source is how much it layers with this map from Ella Lonn's Desertion During the Civil War: