Savas Beatie has a military atlas series currently at five titles, the first three of which I've reviewed:

1. *The Maps of Gettysburg (2007)
   

2. *The Maps of First Bull Run (2009)
   

3. *The Maps of Chickamauga (2009)
   

4. *The Maps of Antietam (2012)
   

5. *The Maps of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns (2013)
   

The format is text on the left page with an accompanying map on the right page, both in sync. Detail is pretty good, showing regiments and detached companies. Time period of each is as low as 15 minutes. Color is helpful so getting the hardcover book version is better.

The narrative is not designed to introduce new scholarship or long discussions but present the most accepted way of how each battle ran, though Gettysburg and Chickamauga have exceptions because the respective authors specialized in that battle. But in general the intention is to have a way for readers to visualize a battle when they're reading other books.

Bradley M Gottfried is writer and cartographer of four books (and will continue to do Eastern Theater books). Writing is good and maps are serviceable. David A Powell writes Chickamauga and David A Friedrichs is cartographer. I believe Friedrichs has done wargame maps and the maps in Chickamauga are better than in other books.

Overall it's a pretty nice series. None of the books are extensive enough to be your sole book on a battle (as I wrote before, narrative is bare bones and factual and tends to skip over controversies and human dimensions). But they are valuable resources that would complement any Civil War library.