Platefire
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- Dec 27, 2018
I got "The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War" for Christmas. I'm 10 miles away from the Battle of Pleasant hill and the Mansfield La Battle grounds am about 30 miles away.
What I've been doing is comparing the Civil war map for roads and land-marks that existed in the Civil War according to the maps in this book to modern road maps. I'm just looking at the road surrounding the battle grounds in my local area because I'm very familiar them. Some things I've observed comparing these are as follows:
1-Most of the main roads of today are comparable to the Civil War(CW) maps in a vague way. I'm sure that the modern road maps are probably a lot more accurate than the CW maps because of our improved technology. A lot of the twist and turns on the modern map are not shown on the CW maps. More of a general straight or gradual curved lines from point to point.
2-I see a lot of cross roads between main roads on the CW maps that there is no designation of them on the modern maps. I assume these roads were abandoned for more modern routes.
3-A lot of towns or villages that I'm pretty sure existed during the CW are not noted on the CW maps. For example my home town of Zwolle, neighboring Noble and on down the road Converse are not listed. I'm not sure why?
4-In my comparison it appears that main roads have evolved to some degree, a lot of roads between main roads no longer exist and a lot of new through roads have been added.
One thing I should say it the original town of Pleasant Hill where the battle happened was latter moved several miles down the road when the railroad came in. So where Pleasant hill of today is not where the battle happened at. Now all that exist at the battle grounds it the Memorial Park, informational markers and plaques at the cross roads. All the original town is gone. I don't know if anybody else has done comparison of old maps with new but I would appreciate any information on the subject about trying to do such a comparison of maps.
One thing that has spurred my interest is maybe trying to locate some of those old roads that was apparently abandoned to see if any identifiable remains are left of those old roads. Thanks, Bob
What I've been doing is comparing the Civil war map for roads and land-marks that existed in the Civil War according to the maps in this book to modern road maps. I'm just looking at the road surrounding the battle grounds in my local area because I'm very familiar them. Some things I've observed comparing these are as follows:
1-Most of the main roads of today are comparable to the Civil War(CW) maps in a vague way. I'm sure that the modern road maps are probably a lot more accurate than the CW maps because of our improved technology. A lot of the twist and turns on the modern map are not shown on the CW maps. More of a general straight or gradual curved lines from point to point.
2-I see a lot of cross roads between main roads on the CW maps that there is no designation of them on the modern maps. I assume these roads were abandoned for more modern routes.
3-A lot of towns or villages that I'm pretty sure existed during the CW are not noted on the CW maps. For example my home town of Zwolle, neighboring Noble and on down the road Converse are not listed. I'm not sure why?
4-In my comparison it appears that main roads have evolved to some degree, a lot of roads between main roads no longer exist and a lot of new through roads have been added.
One thing I should say it the original town of Pleasant Hill where the battle happened was latter moved several miles down the road when the railroad came in. So where Pleasant hill of today is not where the battle happened at. Now all that exist at the battle grounds it the Memorial Park, informational markers and plaques at the cross roads. All the original town is gone. I don't know if anybody else has done comparison of old maps with new but I would appreciate any information on the subject about trying to do such a comparison of maps.
One thing that has spurred my interest is maybe trying to locate some of those old roads that was apparently abandoned to see if any identifiable remains are left of those old roads. Thanks, Bob
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