1890 Vorzet Map of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Iuka and Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi

Murfreesborough-vorzet-1890
$350.00
Murfreesborough (Tennessee). / Iuka (Mississippi). / Chickasaw Bayou (Mississippi). - Main View
Murfreesborough (Tennessee). / Iuka (Mississippi). / Chickasaw Bayou (Mississippi). - Main View
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1890 Vorzet Map of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Iuka and Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi

Murfreesborough-vorzet-1890

Turning the Tide in the West.
$350.00

Title

Murfreesborough (Tennessee). / Iuka (Mississippi). / Chickasaw Bayou (Mississippi).
  1890 (undated)     13.25 x 10.5 in (33.655 x 26.67 cm)

Description

This is Ernest Dumas-Vorzet's 1890 map of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Iuka and Chickasaw Bayou in Mississippi, prepared for the 1890 book Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique.
A Closer Look
The sheet is divided into three sections, with the right half being a map of Murfreesborough (now spelled Murfreesboro) in Tennessee and the left half divided into a top and bottom section, depicting Iuka and Chickasaw Bayou (near Vicksburg), Mississippi, respectively. Roads, railways, waterways, terrain, elevation, towns, farms, and other buildings and properties are noted throughout.
The Battles
The maps on this sheet refer to three battles in the early part of the war. They are:
  1. The Battle of Iuka - September 19, 1862, the opening phase of the Iuka-Corinth Campaign. Fought in the northeast corner of Mississippi, near the border with Tennessee and Alabama, was a confrontation between the Union Army of the Mississippi and the Confederate Army of the West. Although the Union battle plan devised by Ulysses S. Grant was thwarted, troops under the command of William Rosecrans still managed to drive off their opponents. The Battle of Iuka set up the Second Battle of Corinth two weeks later, which was also a Union victory.
  2. The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, December 26 - 29, 1862, in the opening phase of the Vicksburg Campaign. Union forces under William T. Sherman landed near the Yazoo River (Chickasaw Bayou is a tributary of the Yazoo River, which is itself a tributary of the Mississippi River) in an attempt to approach Vicksburg from the northeast. After progressing through swampland, Sherman's troops ran into well-prepared Confederate defenses (drawn here) at the Walnut Hills, and had to retreat after a costly failed attack.
  3. The Battle of Stones River or the Second Battle of Murfreesboro, December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863. This is an oft-forgotten but strategically significant battle that was also the deadliest of the war in terms of percentage of casualties in a major battle - nearly one-third of troops engaged were killed, wounded, captured, or missing, including four brigadier generals killed. In the battle, Gen. Rosecrans, reassigned from the Army of the Mississippi to the Army of the Cumberland, faced the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Braxton Bragg. A quick Confederate flanking attack almost broke the Union line on the first day of battle, but the defenders were able to rally along the Nashville Turnpike ('Grand Route Nashville' here) and repulse several more attacks. Fearing Union reinforcements, Bragg withdrew, giving the Union side a costly victory, but one which was welcome after the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg two weeks prior.
Publication History and Census
This sheet was drafted by Ernest Dumas-Vorzet, engraved by Louis Wuhrer, printed by Becquet, and published by Michel Lévy in Paris for the 1890 French edition of Philippe d'Orléans' Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique. The atlas supplement, of which this map was part, was issued only with the 1890 French publication and was not included in any of the earlier English editions. The entire work, in this edition, is uncommon in institutional collections, with only 3 being identified in OCLC, and is scarce to the market. Most examples lack the atlas, which in OCLC appears only at the Boston Athenaeum. Very little market history.

CartographerS

Ernest Dumas-Vorzet (18?? - 18??) was a French line and letter engraver active in Paris in the late 19th century. He engraved the lettering on nautical charts for the Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine. His later work is often associated with Émile Delaune (18?? - 19??) and Hachette et Cie. He is likely the father of Edouard Dumas-Vorzet, a French publisher and cartographer. More by this mapmaker...


Frédéric Louis Charles Wuhrer (1844 - 1925) was a French cartographer, engraver, and artist. He lived in the town of Buc, France, where he purchased the former Town Hall. Wuhrer is better known as a landscape artist, with a strong record at auctions. Little is known of his engraving work, but the Bibliothèque nationale de France has over one hundred pieces in their collection attributed to his name. Learn More...


Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans, Comte de Paris (August 24, 1838 - September 8, 1894) was a French prince, scholar, officer in the American Civil War (1861 - 1865), and unofficially King of France (February 24, 1848). Louis-Philippe-Albert was the grandson of French king, Louis Philippe I of the house of Orléans. With the advent of the French Second Republic (1848 - 1852), Louis-Philippe-Albert and his family fled to the United States. Louis-Philippe-Albert became an outspoken journalist who, when the Civil War broke out, volunteered to serve in the Union Army, being instantly appointed assistant adjutant general under General George McClellan with the rank of captain. During his service, he used the abbreviated name Philippe d'Orléans. He served in the Peninsular Campaign, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater, but resigned from service in July 1862. Later, he wrote a History of the Civil War in America, published in 1875. He returned to Europe in 1864, where in England, he married his paternal first cousin, Princess Marie Isabelle d'Orléans (1848–1919), Infanta of Spain. In 1871, after the Franco-Prussian War and the downfall of Napoleon III, they were allowed to return to France, and many of their properties were restored. He renounced all claims to the French throne in 1873 but was still considered by some Orléanists as Philippe VII of France. In 1886, the prince and his family again went into exile in London, where he died in 1894. Learn More...


Michel Lévy (1821 - May 4, 1875) was a French publisher and founder of the Michel Lévy Frères publishing house. Born in Phalsbourg in the Moselle to a bookseller (colporteur), he began selling books in Paris at the age of fifteen under the name Michel Lévy Frères. Although his brothers Kalmus (Calmann) and Nathan were sometimes involved in his business, Michel was the primary bookseller and later publisher. Initially, Lévy focused on works relating to the theater, but later expanded into literature, periodicals, and other fields. By the 1860s, Michel Lévy Frères was one of the major publishers in France, putting out works by the likes of Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, and Victor Hugo. Michel Lévy was inducted into the Légion d'Honneur in 1873, but died unexpectedly two years later. Afterwards, his brother took charge of the firm, then renamed Calmann Lévy (sometimes as Calmann-Lévy), and it continued its success as a leading publisher in France. In 1893, Calmann turned over the business to his three sons, Georges, Paul, and Gaston, who ran it until the Second World War, when Gaston was interned by the Nazis and the publishing house was renamed Editions Balzac. After the war, the firm continued and still exists today as a subsidiary of Hachette. Learn More...

Source

Orleans, Louis-Philippe-Albert d', Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique, par M. le comte de Paris, (Paris: Michel Lévy) 1890.    

Condition

Very good. Mounted on linen.

References

OCLC 877854530, 877854592, 877854597 (one sheet cataloged three times; dated 1875).