University of Richmond
Richmond Print Collection
MS-17
/repositories/4/resources/20
2 Linear Feet
1 box
27 items: 8 maps, 19 illustrations (4 color, 15 black/white)
1831-1892
This collection of contemporary (and near-contemporary) maps, woodcuts, and steel engravings illustrates the history of Richmond and environs from the 1830s to the 1870s, largely centered on the Civil War Era, but also featuring several illustrations of the disasters of 1870.
English
German
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The immediate source of acquisition for this collection is unknown.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into 2 series:
Series 1: Maps
- Subseries 1A: Civil War maps
- Subseries 1B: Other maps
Series 2: Illustrations
- Subseries 2A: Pre-Civil War Richmond
- Subseries 2B: Richmond in the Civil War
- Subseries 2C: Campaigns of the Civil War
- Subseries 2D: Post Civil-War Richmond
Biographical / Historical
The majority of pieces within the collection come from one of three sources: weekly newspapers Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (in one case, a German-language edition printed in New York), and one-time publication Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Harper's Weekly was published in New York from 1857 to 1916 as an offshoot of the more popular Harper's Monthly; both publications covered a variety of topics, including politics, literature, arts, humor, and illustrations, although the Weekly was especially famed for coverage of the events of the Civil War as they unfolded. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper was published in New York from 1855 to 1921 under a variety of titles; the German language edition, Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung, was published from 1857 to 1894, also in New York. Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, often referred to by historians as the War of the Rebellion Atlas, was created as a companion piece to the Official Records of the American Civil War, a collection of primary sources from both sides of the war, including orders, correspondence, and diagrams; maps were compiled into the Atlas. Of special note here are those included on Plate LXXXI, which were created originally by Jedediah Hotchkiss for Stonewall Jackson and whose detail and precision are credited as being a factor in Jackson's success.
Preferred Citation
[Box Number, Folder Number], MS-17, Richmond Print Collection, Book Arts, Archives, & Rare Books, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia.
Processing Information
Titles included in the finding aid are taken from the items themselves.
Processed by John Durvin.
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two series: maps and illustrations. Series I, Maps, is subdivided into Civil War era, arranged chronologically by year of publication and including several campaign maps from the definitive Atlas, and two additional maps.
Series II, Illustrations, tends to come from contemporary newspapers, and as such, the reverse sides may feature editorials and propaganda in support of the Union and ridiculing both the South and the pro-reconciliation views of the British, as well as fiction, poetry, and advertisements for patent medicines and sundry other items.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Richmond (Va.) -- History
Confederate States of America
Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Clippings
Maps
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
Richmond (Va.) -- Capital disaster, 1870
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885
Libby Prison
Series I: Maps/repositories/4/archival_objects/15021861-1895Sub-Series IA: Civil War Maps/repositories/4/archival_objects/15031861-1895"Richmond and its defences [sic]"/repositories/4/archival_objects/15041861Tinted map. 1861 in pencil.1 MS-171"A Topographical Map of Eastern Virginia from Fredericksburg to Virginia"/repositories/4/archival_objects/1505December 27, 1862Map, Harper's Weekly, December 27, 1862, p. 821.1 MS-172Map including Richmond, the James River, the Chickahominy River, and White Oak Swamp/repositories/4/archival_objects/15061867"Military and Naval History of the Rebellion", W.J. Tenney, p. 248.1 MS-173"Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865." Plate XIX./repositories/4/archival_objects/15071895Plate XIX. "No. 1. Campaign Maps - Army of the Potomac – Map No. 3 – White House to Harrison's Landing. Prepared by Command of Major General George B. McClellan, USA." Color map. "Series 1. Vol. XI. Part 1. Page 5. and 264."1 MS-174"Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865." Plate LXXXI./repositories/4/archival_objects/15081895"Accompanying journal of Capt. Jed Hotchkiss, Top Engineer, 2nd Corps, A.N.V.A. Series I, LXIII, Part 1." Color maps. Julius Bien and Co. Lith., New York. Left to right, top to bottom:
- "No. 1. Map, from Maj. A. H. Campbell's Surveys, Showing the Positions of the Camps and Pickets of the 2nd Corps, A.N.V.A., May 3, 1864, and the Routes of March from May 4th to May 21st, 1864, Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania C.H., Virginia."
- "No. 5. Map, from Maj. A. H. Campbell's Surveys, Showing the Routes and Positions of the 2nd Corps, A.N.V.A., from May 21st to May 27th, 1864."
- "No. 7. Map, from Maj. A. H. Campbell's Surveys, Showing the Routes, Camps, and Positions of the 2nd Corps, A.N.V.A., from May 27th to June 13th, 1864."
- "No. 11. Map Showing Routes and Camps of the Army of the Valley District from Staunton, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., and back to Strausburg [sic], Virginia, from June 27th to July 22nd, 1864."
- "No. 99. Wickham's Attack on Federal Cavalry, November 22nd, 1864."
- "No. 8. Map Showing the Routes and Camps of the 2nd Corps, A.N.V.A., from Gaines' Mill to Lynchburg, Virginia, June 13th to 18th, 1864, and of the Army of the Valley District from Lynchburg to Salem and Staunton, Virginia, June 19th to 27th, 1864."
- "No. 6. Map, from Maj. A.H. Campbell's Surveys, Showing the Position of the 2nd Corps, A.N.V.A., at Hanover Junction, Virginia, May 22nd to May 27th, 1864."
1 MS-175"Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865." Plate LXXXVI, number 12 only./repositories/4/archival_objects/15091895"Campaign Maps accompanying report of Bvt.Maj.Gen. J.W. Geary, U.S. Army, for the campaign from Goldsborough, N.C., to Washington, D.C." "12. May 9-12 [1865]. No. 6."1 MS-176Sub-Series IB: Other Maps/repositories/4/archival_objects/15101891-1892"Virginia and West Virginia"/repositories/4/archival_objects/15111891Map. People's Publishing Co.1891 in pencil.1 MS-177"No. 2. James River Improvement. Comparison of Cross-sections of Randolph Flats taken in 1874 & 1892. To accompany report of 1892"/repositories/4/archival_objects/15121892Topographical map.1 MS-178Series II: Illustrations/repositories/4/archival_objects/15131831-1896Subseries IIA: Pre-Civil War Richmond/repositories/4/archival_objects/15141831-1853"Episcopal Church at Richmond Virginia"/repositories/4/archival_objects/15151831Steel engraving, London.1 MS-179"Representation of the Equestrian Statue of Washington, at Richmond, Virginia"/repositories/4/archival_objects/1516April 16, 1853Hand colored woodcut, Gleason's Pictorial, April 16, 1853.1 MS-1710Subseries IIB: Richmond in the Civil War/repositories/4/archival_objects/15171861-1896"The Rebel Steamer 'Merrimac', Razeed [sic], and Iron-Clad." "Henrico County Jail, Richmond, Virginia."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15181861Two woodcuts, Harper's Weekly, November 2, 1861. Reverse: pro-Union editorials.1 MS-1711Main title: "The Prisons and Jailers at Richmond."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15191862Sub-titles: "General Wilder." "Lieutenant Todd." "A Prisoner of War." "Sudley Church." "The Rebel Prisons on Main St. Near 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia." "4th Story Prison No. 2, Richmond." Hand-colored woodcuts, Harper's Weekly, February 22, 1862, p. 117.1 MS-1712"The Inauguration at Richmond."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15201862Woodcut (political cartoon of Jefferson Davis), Harper's Weekly, March 15, 1862, p. 176.1 MS-1713"The City of Richmond, Virginia." "Henrico County Jail." "The Capitol at Richmond." "Rebel Prisons on Main, Near Twenty-Fifth Street, Richmond."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15211862Double-page color woodcut, Harper's Weekly, May 31, 1862, pp. 344-345.1 MS-1714"Interior view of Libey [sic] Prison, Richmond, Virginia, Showing the Quarters of the Union Officers Confined There."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15221862Insets: "Captain H. W. Sawyer, 1st, New Jersey" and "Captain Flynn. 71st Indiana." Woodcut. Harper's Weekly, October 17, 1863, p. 689.1 MS-1715"View of Richmond, Virginia, from the Libey [sic] Prison." "How the Rebels Destroy Railroads – Twisting the Rails."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15231863Two woodcuts, Harper's Weekly, October 24, 1863, p. 684.1 MS-1716"View of Richmond, Virginia, from the Prison Camp at Belle Isle, James River."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15241896Color woodcut, [95, penciled in.] Frank Leslie's Illustrated Famous Leaders and Battles of the Civil War (book, also called Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War), 1896, p. 430. Reverse: "Blowing Out of the Bulkhead of the Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia, January 1, 1865." Woodcut. P. 429.1 MS-1717Subseries IIC: Campaigns of the Civil War/repositories/4/archival_objects/15251862"General McClellan's Army on the March Through the Woods from Williamsburg toward Richmond."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15261862Woodcut, Harper's Weekly, June 7, 1862, p. 364. Reverse: news-item about Jefferson Davis' escaped slave coachmen and his account of Mrs. Davis' remarks about how she expected the South to lose the war.1 MS-1718"The Army Before Richmond – General Keyes's Division Crossing the Chickahominy River, May 23, over Bottom's Bridge, and a Supplementary Bridge built by the Engineer Corps of the National Army." "Major J. H. Allen, Provost Marshall of Beaufort, North Carolina." "Heroes in Ebony – the Captors of the Rebel Steamer Planter, Robert Small, W. Morrison, A. Gradine, and John Small." "Lieutenant Colonel E. F. W. Ellis, 15th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15271862Four woodcuts, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 21, 1862, p. 180. Reverse: editorials mocking Southern and anti-war British newspapers.1 MS-1719"Rebel Balloon Reconnoissance [sic] from Richmond, Thursday, June 26." "The Battles Before Richmond – Charging of the Jersey Brigade."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15281862Two woodcuts, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 2, 1862, p. 293. Reverse: stories and news about the two woodcuts, including an account of "cowardly" farmers firing on the unarmed reconnaissance balloons.1 MS-1720Subseries IID: Post-Civil War Richmond/repositories/4/archival_objects/15291865-1870"The Mass Meeting Held at Richmond, VA, August 19, 1865."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15301865Woodcut. Harper's Weekly, September 16, 1865, p. 5801 MS-1721"The Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad, Virginia – Train starting out from Richmond." "The James River and Kanawha Canal, Richmond, Virginia."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15311865Hand-colored woodcuts, Harper's Weekly, October 14, 1865, p. 652.1 MS-1722"View of Shockoe Creek Valley, Richmond, Virginia."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15321866Hand-colored woodcut, Harper's Weekly, May 12, 1866, p. 296.1 MS-1723"Ankunft von Jefferson Davis aus Richmond, am 11. Mai 1867 [Arrival of Jefferson Davis in Richmond, on May 11, 1867]."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15331866Woodcut, Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung [American German-language edition of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper], June 8, 1867.1 MS-1724"Virginia – the Richmond Calamity – Citizens and firemen removing the wounded, the dying and the dead, from the ruins. – Sketch taken from the west side of the Hall of Delegates."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15341870Double-page woodcut: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 14, 1870, pp. 136-137.1 MS-1725"Virginia. – The Terrible Calamity at the State Capitol, City of Richmond, Wednesday, April 27, 1870 – Exterior view of the building – Bringing out the wounded, the dying and the dead."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15351870Woodcut, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 14, 1870.1 MS-1726"The Great Flood at Richmond, V.A."/repositories/4/archival_objects/15361870Double-page, seven woodcuts (plus one of Sedan, France, "during the bombardment"), Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 22, 1870, pp. 88-89.1 MS-1727