Gilmer Civil War Maps CollectionJeremy Francis Gilmer (1818-1883) was a United States Army Engineer, 1839-1861, and Confederate Chief of Engineers. Personal and military papers of Gilmer include a series of official army papers, 1851-1859, relating to the construction of fortifications on the Georgia and Florida coast; a diary, 1841-1842, at Fort Schuyler, N.Y.; letters, 1861-1864, from Gilmer to his wife Louisa Fredericka Alexander Gilmer, and other Civil War papers; a Confederate order book, 1863-1864, at headquarters, military district of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina; family correspondence with Lawton, Alexander, and Porter relatives in Georgia, including letters received by wife and daughter Louisa Porter Gilmer; and extensive group of Civil War maps, including both manuscript maps and printed maps with manuscript annotations and engineers' drawings of military construction. Provided by the University of North Carolina.