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    Robert E. Lee Fails: Mapping 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 One: Marching with Maps & Mapping the Shenandoah Valley
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    A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Series

    By Earl B. McElfresh

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    About this series

    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 dateJan 23, 2012
    Robert E. Lee Fails: Mapping 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 One: Marching with Maps & Mapping the Shenandoah Valley

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      A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Section One: Marching with Maps & Mapping the Shenandoah Valley
      A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Section One: Marching with Maps & Mapping the Shenandoah Valley

      A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping Section One: Marching with Maps & Mapping the Shenandoah Valley

      Earl B. McElfresh
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      A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping is an ongoing series adapted from presentations made by Earl B. McElfresh to Civil War Round Tables and Map Societies, from monographs accompanying published McElfresh maps, from articles published in various magazines as well as radio presentations broadcast by NPR affiliate WBFO in Buffalo, New York. This first section includes an introduction to the series entitled “Marching with Maps—Making the Military Maps that Remake the World.” Also included in this section is “Civil War Mapping and the Shenandoah Valley” which describes the efforts by opposing Confederate and Federal armies throughout the Civil War to accurately map the logistically and strategically crucial valley sheltered between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains. Earl B. McElfresh is a renowned cartographer and Civil War map historian. He has mapped over twenty battlefields for McElfresh Map Company. He is the author of Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War (Abrams 1999) and is a frequent contributor to Civil War Times Magazine.

      A Symposium of Lectures and Articles on Military Mapping is an ongoing series adapted from presentations made by Earl B. McElfresh to Civil War Round Tables and Map Societies, from monographs accompanying published McElfresh maps, from articles published in various magazines as well as radio presentations broadcast by NPR affiliate WBFO in Buffalo, New York. This first section includes an introduction to the series entitled “Marching with Maps—Making the Military Maps that Remake the World.” Also included in this section is “Civil War Mapping and the Shenandoah Valley” which describes the efforts by opposing Confederate and Federal armies throughout the Civil War to accurately map the logistically and strategically crucial valley sheltered between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains. Earl B. McElfresh is a renowned cartographer and Civil War map historian. He has mapped over twenty battlefields for McElfresh Map Company. He is the author of Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War (Abrams 1999) and is a frequent contributor to Civil War Times Magazine.

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      Robert E. Lee Fails: Mapping Gettysburg
      Robert E. Lee Fails: Mapping Gettysburg

      Robert E. Lee Fails: Mapping Gettysburg

      Earl B. McElfresh
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      Did hubris lead Robert E. Lee astray in the Gettysburg Campaign?

      Did hubris lead Robert E. Lee astray in the Gettysburg Campaign?

    • 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

      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.

      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.

    Author

    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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