
Battle-Field of Chickamauga, GA. et al: Bien, 1893
Title: Battle-Field of Chickamauga, GA. et al Author: Julius Bien Date: 1893 Medium: Chromolithograph Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, issued center fold Inches: 29 1/2 x 18 1/2 [Paper] Centimeters: 74.93 x 46.99 [Paper] Product ID: 319024 Map of the Civil War battle at Chickamauga, Georgia in 1864. Also includes two maps titled 'Map of the Battle-Field of Cold Harbor, VA.,' and 'Map Showing the Army Movements around Chattanooga, Tenn.' Published in the Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies 1861-1865. Julius Bien (1826-1909) was born in Naumburg, Germany to a Jewish family. Best known for his scientific maps of the United States, Bien gained a reputation as a master lithographer and the foremost American scientific cartographer of his day. Coming of age as a young German in the mid-1840s, Bien studied art at both the Kunsthochschule Kassel as well as the Städel Institute in Frankfurt until the Revolutions of 1848 d