# Re-Imagining the U.S. Civil War: Reconnaissance, Surveying and Cartography (afternoon session)

Cartographers during the U.S. Civil War invented new techniques and mapped the country--both Union and Confederate territories--more accurately than ever before in the nation's history. The afternoon session of this day-long conference included presentations on "Mapping the New Coasts of War,"Shedding a Little Light: Early Photographic Techniques Used to Reproduce Maps" and a reenactment and demonstration of the surveying and cartographic methods of the period, using original equipment.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2011
- By: Library Of Congress. Geography And Map Division
- Genres: War, Science, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688683/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2021688683?play=1)