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February 2023 publications listed have a ‘Related Charts’ box. Click on this box to open a new page containing maps and charts accompanying the report—for example, this Cedar Keys, Florida, map. Continued success in researching the American Civil War! Michael K. Shaffer is a Civil War historian, author, lecturer,
and instructor, who remains a member of the Society of Civil War Historians, Historians of the Civil War Western Theater, and the Georgia Association of Historians. Readers may contact him at mkscdr11@gmail.com or request speaking engagements at www.civilwarhistorian. net. Follow Michael on Facebook, www.facebook.com/ michael.k.shaffer, and Twitter @ michaelkshaffer
NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey Historical Publications
Publication search page.
1861 Report.
Search results. Researchers seeking information on coastal operations during the American Civil War can augment their searches using the various publications found at the Historical Map
Day by Day through the Civil War in Georgia
& Chart Collection website at https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/ publications.php. Many maps reviewed in last month’s column have supporting documentation, especially the
Until now, a daily account
(1,630 days) of Georgia’s social, political, economic, and military events during the Civil War did not exist. In Day by Day through the Civil War in Georgia, Michael K. Shaffer strikes a balance between the combatants while remembering the struggles of enslaved persons, folks on the home front, and merchants and clergy attempting to maintain some sense of normalcy. Maps, footnotes, a detailed index, and bibliographical references will aid those wanting more. February 2022 • $37.00, hardback
Michael K. Shaffer is a Civil War historian, instructor, lecturer, newspaper columnist, and author. He is a member of the Society of Civil War Historians, Historians of the Civil War Western Theater, and the Georgia Association of Historians. Contact the author: mkscdr11@gmail.com
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Notes on the Coast of the United States. The website states, “Coast Survey supervisor Alexander Dallas Bache published Notes on the Coast of the United States, secret documents used by the Union Blockade Board. Coast Survey superintendents prepared a report each year, showing the progress of the survey…full reports were over 200 pages, Bache’s summary statements… gave a sense of Coast Survey’s involvement in the war effort.” The image above shows an entry of search dates 1861– 1865, and results yielded 15 archival publications; various sort methods exist. See the image above. Mining the Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey Showing the Progress of the Work 1861 offers an example of the type of literature available in the archive. Each wartime report – 1861– 1865 – resides in PDF format. (See the image of the cover page for the 1861 report.) Note: several
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