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Map Plan of the Union and Rebel position at Yorktown, Va., April 7th, 1862.

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Title

  • Plan of the Union and Rebel position at Yorktown, Va., April 7th, 1862.

Summary

  • Illustrates a portion of York County, Va., showing headquarters camps of the various generals of the U.S. Army of the Potomac, including the Sawmill, headquarters of General Samuel P. Heintzelman, in the Peninsula Campaign, March-July 1862.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Headings

  • -  Heintzelman, Samuel Peter,--1805-1880
  • -  United States.--Army of the Potomac.--Corps, 3rd
  • -  Peninsular Campaign, 1862--Maps
  • -  York County (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Yorktown (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia--York County
  • -  United States--Virginia--Yorktown
  • -  Peninsular Campaign

Notes

  • -  NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this scrapbook image.
  • -  Original scrapbook housed in the Museum Department of the Virginia Historical Society (1994.80.4-525) with restricted access.
  • -  This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the institution for more information.
  • -  Upper left corner: "From Official Map of 3rd Corps."
  • -  Robert Knox Sneden diary (Mss5:1 Sn237:1), Virginia Historical Society.
  • -  In the Robert Knox Sneden Scrapbook, 1870-1899 (p. 110).

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 16 x 20 cm. on sheet 34 x 45 cm.

Repository

  • Virginia Historical Society, P.O. Box 7311, Richmond, VA 23221-0311 USA vau

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Chicago citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Plan of the Union and Rebel position at Yorktown, Va., April 7th. 1862. Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00005/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1862) Plan of the Union and Rebel position at Yorktown, Va., April 7th. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00005/.

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Sneden, Robert Knox. Plan of the Union and Rebel position at Yorktown, Va., April 7th. 1862. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00005/>.