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Rare separately issued plan of Charleston Harbor, lithographed by C.D. Andrew's and published in Boston in 1861, at the start of the Civil War.
One of the earliest of all separately issued Civil War Plans, being issued shortly after the start of the war. The plan includes remarkable detail, including a town plan of Charleston and Mt. Pleasant, details showing Ft. Sumter, Ft. Johnson, Fort Moultrie and Moultrieville, the Battery erected by the Successionists, Castle Pinchney on Shute's Folly Island and extensive soundings. Other place names include Wappoo Creek, James Creek, James Island, Light House Creek, Vincent's Creek, Morris Island, Cumming's Point, Sullivan Island, Breach Inlet, the Cove, Hog Island, Shem Creek, Hadrell's Point, Cooper River, Wandoo River, Hobcaw Point, Drum Island, Twon Creek, White Point, the Charleston Arsenal and Battery, the S. Carolina RR, St. Phillips Church, St. Michael's Church, and Meeting Street. Many of the Channels and Rebellion Road are named. A note shows the Line of low water, line of the channels and other notes. A scarce chart, having appeared only once in the past 20 years in Jolly, and that copy being in poor condition.
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![(Southeast United States) Carte de la partie sud, des Etats Unis de L' amerique septentrionale [Map of the southern part of the United States of North America]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/98738.jpg)
