From the American Battlefield Trust, the collection of their popular
battle maps of the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
"I just love those maps that you guys send to me." It is a phrase that
the staff of the American Battlefield Trust hears on a weekly basis and
the expression refers to one of the cornerstone initiatives of the
organization, mapping the battlefields of the Revolutionary War, War of
1812, and the American Civil War.
The American Battlefield Trust is the premier battlefield preservation
organization in the United States. Over the last thirty years the
American Battlefield Trust and its members have preserved more than
52,000 acres of battlefield land across 143 battlefields, in 24
states--at sites such as Lexington & Concord, Vicksburg, Yorktown,
Shiloh, and Gettysburg. Other than physically walking across the
hallowed battle grounds that the American Battlefield Trust has saved,
the best way to illustrate the importance of the properties that we have
preserved is through our battle maps.
Through the decades, the American Battlefield Trust has created hundreds
of maps detailing the action at major battles. Now, for the first time
in book form, we have collected the maps of some of the most iconic
battles of the Western Theater of the Civil War into one volume. In Vol.
2 of our Battle Maps of the Civil War Series, you can follow the course
of the war from Fort Sumter to the Surrender at Bennett Place. Study the
major actions of the Western Theater from start to finish utilizing this
unparalleled collection of maps.
