Compact, comprehensive, "user friendly", and providing a narrative history along with a complete cartographic display of the famed American Civil War battle of Gettysburg, this 103-pages (plus an additional page offering author biographical synopses) battlefield atlas is a superb supplement for students of the battle rendering the events of the engagement both vividly depicted and comprehensibly understandable.

In conjunction with the experimental opto-mechanical plant, the Military Topographic Service designed and sent to the troops the army cartographic reproduction kits, the front-line field cartographic set, the lithographic printing train and the improved hectograph.

95) covers the new applications and potentials of cartographic mapping tools as they apply to GPS devices and new navigation sites online.