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Here for your consideration is a beautiful map of Northwest, or no. 1, sheet of preliminary map of Antietam (Sharpsburg) battlefield. Enlarged from the "Michler" map of the war records atlas with corrections and additions Antietam Battlefield Commission [sic] Major Geo. B. Davis. U.S.A., President, H. Heth, E. A. Carman, Expert Historian, [and] Jed. Hotchkiss, Expert Topographer. It was taken in 1894.
Antietam National Battlefield (Md.).
This map was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1948 with the purchase of the papers and maps of Maj. Jedediah Hotchkiss. Description derived from published bibliography.
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