NOAA's Office of Coast Survey - Civil War Collection


Coast Surveyors assumed important combat roles during the Civil War, serving as topographers, reconnaissance specialists, scouts, intelligence officers, and combat hydrographers. For a contemporary record of combat mapping during the Civil War, see the war record of Frederick Dorr and John Donn. Browse biographical vignettes of Coast Surveyors, listed below.
Bache, Alexander Dallas Boutelle, Charles Boyd, Charles Harrod Dahlgren, John Donn, John Dorr, Frederic Fendall, Clarence Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph Key, John Ross Lindenkohl, Henry Maffitt, John Newland Mathiot, George Oltmanns, John Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce, Benjamin Platt, Robert Porter, David Dixon Rockwell, Cleveland Schott, Charles Anton West, Preston Whiting, Henry Laurens Harris, Joseph Smith Wampler, John Morris Hinrichs, Oscar Pegram, R.P.	Lindenkohl, Henry Middle Initial: Rank: Branch: Army Theater: Eastern Related: FL Bio: Henry Lindenkohl (1839-1920) had a long career, spanning 59 years, as a cartographer with the U.S. Coast Survey. Lindenkohl was born in Hesse Cassell, Germany, and immigrated to the U.S.; he became an American citizen in 1861. During the Civil War, he made military maps for Union forces, including a notable map of Northern Florida in 1864. After the war, Lindenkohl became an original member of the National Greographic Society and was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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