Map [Map of the Manassas battlefield area in Northern Virginia
About this Item
Title
- [Map of the Manassas battlefield area in Northern Virginia
Names
- Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899
Created / Published
- [186-?]
Headings
- - Manassas Region (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
- - Manassas Region (Va.)--Maps
- - United States--Virginia--Manassas Region
Genre
- Topographic maps
- Manuscript maps
Notes
- - Shows roads, railroads, fortifications, settlements, farmhouses with owners' names, and woodlands. Does not show troop positions or movements.
- - Relief shown by contours (10-ft. intervals), hachures, form lines, and spot heights.
- - Wall map believed to have been used by the author after the Civil War for lecture purposes.
- - Signed in ms. on verso.
- - Title from R.W. Stephenson's Civil War maps, 2nd ed., 1989.
- - Pen-and-ink (red/black [broad nib]), watercolors, and col. pencils (blue/green/brown).
- - Originally drawn on 9 sheets.
- - Imperfect: Sheets halved, mounted on cloth backing, darkened, missing small sections at right edge.
- - Includes index[?] grid numbers at ends of red grid lines.
- - Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 564.5
Medium
- 1 ms. map on 6 sheets : col. ; 220 x 282 cm., sheets 110 x 95 cm. or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
- G3884.M25S5 186- .H6
Repository
- Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2003630496
Online Format
- image