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    A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Section Six: Make Straight His Path: Maps and Topography in the Civil War & Military Mapping: Robert E. Lee Moves to Gettysburg
    A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Section Six: Make Straight His Path: Maps and Topography in the Civil War & Military Mapping: Robert E. Lee Moves to Gettysburg
    A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Section Six: Make Straight His Path: Maps and Topography in the Civil War & Military Mapping: Robert E. Lee Moves to Gettysburg
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    A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Section Six: Make Straight His Path: Maps and Topography in the Civil War & Military Mapping: Robert E. Lee Moves to Gettysburg

    By Earl B. McElfresh

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    Military maps are not like civilian road maps which merely outline a transportation network. Military maps encompass a complete inventory of the topography of the geographic areas an army might march through or fight over. An army without detailed accurate maps is like a person walking blindfolded over particularly rugged terrain and in danger of starving—especially in the mid-19th century America, which was sparsely settled and often wilderness. Maps were critical to the success and well-being of armies.

    The two articles in this symposium describe in great detail how maps were prepared, used and what effect maps, or lack of maps, had on Civil War campaigns and battles. Of special interest is the negative effects the lack of maps had on Robert E. Lee’s campaign.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEarl B. McElfresh
    Release dateSep 11, 2013
    ISBN9781885294487
    A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Section Six: Make Straight His Path: Maps and Topography in the Civil War & Military Mapping: Robert E. Lee Moves to Gettysburg
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    Earl B. McElfresh

    Earl B. McElfresh (St. Lawrence University) is the author of Sidereal Days, The History of Rock & Roll, A Romance (Tammy Norie Press e-book 2012,) Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War (Abrams, 1999) and contributing editor to Company Commander by Charles B. MacDonald (History Book Club, 2007.) He is a regular contributor of Civil War articles to Civil War Times Magazine. He has spoken on Civil War mapping at The Smithsonian, The National Archives, The Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, The Boston Public Library, The Newberry Library, The Harvard Map Collection, The Warburg Institute in London, National Geographic and on C-Span Book TV. His plays Marvels of Modern Man and Amid Planetary Music were performed at St. Lawrence University. His play Honor Luck received a reading at the New Phoenix Theater in Buffalo. His screenplay Lazy Eye was filmed and premiered at the New School in New York. Cartographer for McElfresh Map Company LLC, he has prepared twenty-three maps. Twenty of the maps have been main or featured selections of History Book Club. He is currently preparing endpaper maps for the four volume Civil War set being being published by Library of America and entitled The Civil War: Told by Those Who Lived It. He served two years in Olean (NY) city government on the Common Council—a great experience—and he played rhythm guitar with the band The Fabtones. The cabaret laws of New York City pretty much restricted their playing to the wonderfully hospitable streets of New York City. He and his wife Michiko have three children and a cat. Like Roger Miller’s King of the Road, they have no pool.

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      A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Section Six - Earl B. McElfresh

      A Symposium of Lectures and Articles

      on Military Mapping

      Make Straight His Path: Maps and Topography in the Civil War &

      Military Mapping: Robert E. Lee Moves toward Gettysburg

      A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Section Six

      Make Straight His Path: Maps and Topography in the Civil War &

      Military Mapping: Robert E. Lee Moves toward Gettysburg

      Copyright 2013 Earl B. McElfresh.

      All rights reserved. No part of these articles may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information please contact McElfresh Map Company, 132 North Union Street, Olean, NY 14760.

      Published by McElfresh Map Company

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      Table of Contents:

      About the Author

      Make Straight His Path: Maps and Topography in the Civil War

      Military Mapping: Robert E. Lee Moves toward Gettysburg

      Footnotes and Photo Credits

      About the Author

      Earl B. McElfresh (St. Lawrence University) is the author of Sidereal Days, The History of Rock & Roll, A Romance (Tammy Norie Press e-book 2012,) Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War (Abrams, 1999) and contributing editor to Company Commander by Charles B. MacDonald (History Book Club, 2007.) He is a regular contributor of Civil War articles to Civil War Times Magazine. His most recent article Robert E. Lee and Mapping the Gettysburg Campaign appears in the August 2013 issue of Civil War Times.

      He has spoken on Civil War mapping at The Smithsonian, The National Archives, The Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, The Boston Public Library, The Newberry Library, The Harvard Map Collection, The Warburg Institute in London, National Geographic and on C-Span Book TV.

      His on-site research for the Cold Harbor Battlefield, Hanover County, Virginia map was documented in an article in the November/December 2000 issue of Preservation magazine.

      His plays Marvels of Modern Man and Amid Planetary Music were performed at St. Lawrence University. His play Honor Luck received a reading at the New Phoenix Theater in Buffalo. His screenplay Lazy Eye was filmed and premiered at the New School in New York.

      Cartographer for McElfresh Map Company LLC, he has prepared twenty-three maps. Twenty of the maps have been main or featured selections of History Book Club. Both Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War and Company Commander were main selections of History Book Club. He is currently preparing endpaper maps for the four volume set being published by Library of America and entitled The Civil War: Told by Those Who Lived It.

      He served two years in Olean (NY) city government on the Common Council—a great experience. He has served as an elected trustee of the Olean

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