The Nashville & Northwestern Military Railroad

1850 Dinsmore & Company's new and complete map of the railway system of the United States and Canada
Courtesy Illinois Library Digital Collections

1852 map by Israel Andrews showing railroads in operation and progress, the Nashville & Northwestern is shown as the Nashville & Mississippi River Railroad, going by Charlotte
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1854 map by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. showing steamboat, stage and railroad routes in 1854. The Nashville & Northwestern Railroad route is shown as "proposed", going through Charlotte and hitting the river north of Reynoldsburg.
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1856 map by N. MacNeale showing the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad route from Nashville to the Mississippi River
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1860 Map of Nashville and Edgefield
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1862 map by Michler, N. (Nathaniel), 1827-1881; Weyss, J. E.; Mercell, C. S. showing unfinished route of the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad.
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1862 map by Benjamin Franklin Cheatham based on a federal map.
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1862 map of Kentucky and Tennessee showing the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad going to Charlotte
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1862 Topographical map of the Environs of Nashville Tennessee
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1863 map by Charles O. Perrine
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1863 map by James T Lloyd showing stops on the unifinished Nashville & Northwestern Railroad
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1863 map by William Emery Merrill (1837-1891) showing middle Tennessee (part 1)
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1863 map by William Emery Merrill (1837-1891) showing middle Tennessee (part 2)
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1863 map by G. H. Blakeslee Topo Engineer showing forts, camps and the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad
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1863 Military map of the States of Kentucky and Tennessee
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1864 map from the Atlas to accompany the official records

1864 map from John Johnston's Civil War Reminiscences published in 1905. While not showing the railroad it shows the area between Charlotte and Hardin pikes where the railroad was.
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1864 map by Lt. Col. Harry C. Wharton showing the Nashville and Northwestern

1864 Map of the Battlefield of Nashville. Dec. 15-16th, 1864 by Wilbur Foster, Major Engineer Corps CSA
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1864 may by Col. William E. Merrill of the 1st U.S. V.V. Engineers
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1864 map of the Battlefields in front of Nashville where the United States forces commanded by Major General Geo. H. Thomas defeated and routed the Rebel army under General Hood, December 15th & 16th, 1864
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1864 map by Blakeslee titled Fourteen Trips Across Tennessee 1862-1864
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1865 map by Kossak, William; Muller, John B. on orders of General Sherman showing the Nashville & Northwestern railroad reaching the Tennessee River at Johnsonville
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1865 Map of the Tennessee River for the use of the Mississippi Squadron
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1865 Military Map of Middle Tennessee and parts of East Tennessee and the adjoining states
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1865 (undated) map originally from Byrd Douglas Papers showing the railroads during the civil war
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1865 Map No. 55 of Western Tennessee and part of Kentucky
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1866 map of Military Railroads operated from 1862 to 1866. The Nashville & Northwestern Railroad is shown as running 5ft guage track
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1868 map showing Aetna Iron manufacturing, mining and oil company property in Tennessee, showing the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad
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1871 Map of Davidson County by Wilbur Foster
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1873 Plan of the City of Nashville and vicinity
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Map by W. R. Plum published in 1882 of the Theatre in central Kentucky and eastern Tennessee, also in Missouri and Arkansas.
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1895 Published map prepared to exhibit the campaigns in which the Army of the Cumberland took part during the war of the rebellion

1941 map drawn in the 1940s by Monroe Cockrell of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest extensive cavalry campaigns in Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi.
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1928 map of Humphrey's County showing the railroad and the community of "Fiftyfour", 54 miles from Nashville on the railroad
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An undated topographical map of the Nashville area showing the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad
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Undated survey map for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad also showing Nashville & Northwestern Railroad
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Undated Map of Nashville Tennessee by Orlando Matcalfe Poe, Chief Engrs. Office
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Undated Topographical Map of Nashville Tennessee
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