Battlefield Atlas
Map library

The maps behind the atlas

Every period map used to place the units in Battlefield Atlas, free to download. Get the full-resolution original from the library or archive that holds it, or our copy exactly as used on the map. Members can also download each georeferenced map as a Google Earth file, pinned to the real ground.

American Revolution

Bunker Hill, 1775 3 maps

Campaign and battle maps drawn by West Point's Department of History for teaching cadets.

Saratoga, 1777 5 maps

Campaign and battle maps drawn by West Point's Department of History for teaching cadets. Modern unit arrays on shaded relief, after the National Park Service's interpretation of the battlefield.

Yorktown, 1781 1 map

Campaign and battle maps drawn by West Point's Department of History for teaching cadets.

Napoleonic Wars

Waterloo, 1815 2 maps

Craan surveyed the field within months of the battle and plotted every unit from officers' accounts. It is the earliest detailed plan of Waterloo and the source of the positions in the atlas. A clear later plan of the armies before the battle and at 8 PM.

American Civil War

Shiloh, 1862 3 maps

Modern phase maps by Civil War cartographer Hal Jespersen, based on the official records and park research.

Antietam, 1862 14 maps

The Battlefield Board's 14-sheet atlas of the battle, hour by hour, drawn from veterans' testimony and a survey of the field. Still the standard source for where every regiment stood.

Gettysburg, 1863 20 maps

Modern phase maps by Civil War cartographer Hal Jespersen, based on the official records and park research. John Bachelder spent decades interviewing veterans of both armies; his 1876 isometric maps of each day became the basis for the park's monuments.

Chickamauga, 1863 7 maps

Modern phase maps by Civil War cartographer Hal Jespersen, based on the official records and park research.

Plains Wars

Fetterman Fight, 1866 1 map

Colonel Carrington, who commanded Fort Phil Kearny, mapped the fort and the ridges where the Fetterman Fight took place.

World War II

Omaha Beach, 1944 3 maps

Maps from the Army's own history of the landing, written in 1945 from interviews with the men who made it.

Iwo Jima, 1945 1 map

The Marine Corps' map of the landing beaches below Mount Suribachi.

Vietnam War

Ia Drang, 1965 2 maps

Army sketches of Landing Zone X-Ray drawn for the after-action reports.

About these maps

Most are public domain: 19th- and early 20th-century surveys and U.S. government work. Hal Jespersen's and Charles Frye's modern maps are shared under Creative Commons licences that allow reuse with credit; follow each map's "Source and licence" link for the exact terms. The georeferenced versions were fitted to modern terrain by Battlefield Atlas, and their accuracy varies by map (see each battle's placement-confidence score).