"Panorama of the Seat of War / Birds Eye View / of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Part of Florida"

Lithograph

Rare, two colored bird's-eye lithograph by John Bachmann, Sr. The view encompasses coastlines along the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River delta and a panoptic view inland as far as Vicksburg, Jackson, Montgomery and Macon with details of roads. towns and cities. Many vessels are shown in the Gulf of Mexico, Atchafalaya Bay, Lake Ponchatrain, Mobile Bay and Pensacola Bay. Above the image is printed "Panorama of the Seat of War"; beneath image: "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by John Bachmann in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Southern District of New York" / "BIRDS EYE VIEW / OF LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA AND PART OF FLORIDA" / John Bachmann, Publisher, / 115 & 117 Nassau St., New York."; in lower left and right corners are tables listing the distances between New Orleans and Vicksburg, Miss., Jackson, Miss., Alexandria, LA., Franklin, LA., South Pass, LA., Mobile, Al., Pensacola, FA., Montgomery, AL. and Columbus, GA.