1862 Shaffner Taliaferro Preston Map of the United States of America.

PRESTON, Shaffner Taliaferro.

$2,000.00

Item Number: 145577

London:, 1862.

Rare hand-colored lithographed folding map from the American Civil War. The map displays the Federal or non-slaveholding states, the border or slaveholding states, the Confederacy, and the Indian reservation with hand-colored borders. In fine condition. Matted and framed, the entire piece measures 15 inches by 21 inches.

Colonel Taliaferro Preston Shaffner wrote several histories of the United States Civil War and was active in a non-political, non-sectarian international fraternal order called the 'Independent Order of Odd Fellows.' A self-taught American inventor and entrepreneur, Shaffner was responsible for the creation of several methods of blasting with nitroglycerine and other high explosives. As an associate of Samuel Morse, he additionally published 'Shaffner's Telegraph Companion,' a monthly journal devoted to Morse's telegraphy, from 1854 to 1855.