In the early 1860’s Alvin Jewitt Johnson took control of the atlas publishers G. Woolworth Colton. His ‘New Illustrated Family Atlas’ brought out a whole new series of maps into the upheaval of the American Civil War raging at the time. This large map of Texas records the State just after the end of the Civil War. It shows how most of the counties in the east have already been formed but those in the west are still undergoing development. Insets show Galveston Bay and the ‘Northern Part of Texas’. Ristow (1985) p. 325.