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TERRITORY and MILITARY DEPARTMENT of UTAH
compiled in the BUREAU of TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS
of the War Department chiefly for Military purposes.
Under the Authority of HON. J.B. FLOYD, SEC. OF WAR. 1860

Plate CXX
ATLAS TO ACCOMPANY THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES 1861-1865
U.S. War Records Office, 1894

Lithographed by Julius Bien & Co., N.Y.

Western Forts
This 1894 map, originally compiled in 1860, shows military instillations and routes in the West prior to and during the Civil War years. Shown here is a portion of the map covering the area from San Francisco to Ogden over which the CPRR was built from 1863 to 1869.

(BELOW) This detail of the above map shows the area from Sacramento to the Truckee River at the end of the Civil War when the tracks of CPRR were just entering the Sierra Nevadas.
Western Forts Map, detail

Courtesy Bruce C. Cooper Collection.

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