Railroad Map; Colton's New Railroad & County Map of the US; Antique 1862

This is a museum-grade reproduction of Colton's Case Map of the United States. It is also called the Civil War map. The colors mean different things. The confederacy is green, North red, border states yellow. A pasted down sheet in the bottom margin explains the color coding and gives population statistics for the three regions. There is an ad for "Colton's...Complete Series of War Maps" on the verso of the cover and a pasted down list of Union and Confederate Political and Military leaders on the verso of the map. The original map was sold in London by Sampson Low, Son & Co., by arrangement with Colton. There was great demand in England for maps of the American Civil War, and Colton exploited it by providing his maps to English map sellers. W.H. has an identical copy of this map sold by Crutchly. Stanford also sold this map under his imprint. Full color. Dissected into 32 sections. Original map folds into dark green cloth with a green paper label reading "Colton's Map Of The United States Of America And The Canadas."