{"id":1805770,"date":"2021-12-27T18:52:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T23:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1805770"},"modified":"2021-12-27T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T23:52:35","slug":"hal-jespersens-civil-war-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/12\/hal-jespersens-civil-war-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Hal Jespersen\u2019s Civil War Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StonewallFreelance cartographer Hal Jespersen has created more than 200 maps for various Wikipedia articles on battles in the U.S. Civil War<\/a>.\u00a0They are available for free download\u2014both as PNGs and as source files\u2014under a Creative Commons licence. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freelance cartographer Hal Jespersen has created more than 200 maps for various Wikipedia articles on battles in the U.S. Civil War.\u00a0They are available for free download\u2014both as PNGs and as source files\u2014under a Creative Commons… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,35],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-1805770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-conflicts","category-history","tag-u-s-civil-war","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6167,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/11\/confederate-maps-at-the-u-s-national-archives\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805770,"position":0},"title":"Confederate Maps at the U.S. National Archives","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 November 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The Unwritten Record, a blog by staff at the U.S. National Archives's Special Media Archives Services Division, announced last month: \"Civil War maps are always popular at the National Archives, and the Cartographic Branch is pleased to announce the digitization of over 100 Confederate maps from Record Group (RG) 109.\u00a0\u00a0All\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shiloh-1024x649.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shiloh-1024x649.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shiloh-1024x649.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shiloh-1024x649.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":992,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/the-north-carolina-civil-war-atlas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805770,"position":1},"title":"The North Carolina Civil War Atlas","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"23 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The result of a decade's worth of research, The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas, written by Mark Anderson Moore with Jessica Bandel and Michael Hill, is now available. 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