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Title: Mapping the Civil War: Featuring Rare Maps from the Library of Congress (Library of Congress Classics) by Christopher Nelson, Brian Pohanka, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division ISBN: 1-56373-001-4 Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: A beautiful printing job but just coffee table material.
Comment: The Forward was the best reading, with interesting historical insights about map makers during the war, but with Chapter One, the book turned into a "one over the world" scale recap of selected battles of the war. The book displayed maps associated with a particular battle, but beyond "pretty" they were useless. I bought the book in the hope that the map reprints could be studied and perhaps compared to the West Point Atlas. But unfortunately, map details are mostly illegible as printed. They present the reader only with a sense of what a CW period map looked like. Fold out maps reproduced with some greater clarity and thus useful detail would have been preferred to the useless reprints of old civil war photographs which added nothing to a book on map making and probably made the book more expensive to produce. Disappointing.

Rating: 5
Summary: A must read for all Civil War buffs!
Comment: A well documented volume. Mr. Pohanka and Mr. Nelson have a winner with this volume. Nicely detailed in all aspects. If any one individual has full and accurate knowledge of the Civil War it is Mr. Pohanka. His books come highly recommended!