From the Map Collection. Map of the western hemisphere, including North and South America. Map also shows a small portion of Western Europe and Africa. [Maps of the same name by Fer previously published or issued in 1699 and 1705.]
A letter from Milton W. Shaw, a corporal with the 5th Iowa Volunteers, to his friend Alf Giague in Birmingham, Iowa. Shaw was on board the naval transport Von Phul with Grant's troops who, in early 1863, entered the Yazoo Pass and attempted to...