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Map [Map of the lower Potomac River showing picket lines, January 1862]

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Title

  • [Map of the lower Potomac River showing picket lines, January 1862]

Summary

  • Concerns Union and Confederate pickets positioned north and south around Pohick Church and Accotink in Fairfax County, Va., in January 1862. Includes a balloon pictured near Pohick Church and labelled as "Decr. 1861," but as noted in Sneden's diary text on pp. 374-376, he indicates that Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe also was using the surveillance hot-air balloons in the same area in January of the next year.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1861-1865]

Headings

  • -  Lowe, T. S. C.--(Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt),--1832-1913
  • -  Pohick Church (Fairfax County, Va.)
  • -  Balloons--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Accotink (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Fairfax County--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Potomac River--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Aerial Operations--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia--Fairfax County
  • -  United States--Virginia--Accotink
  • -  United States--Potomac River

Notes

  • -  NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary page.
  • -  Related to another Sneden map entitled "Official Map of the Lower Potomac River Showing Picket Lines, Jany. 1862" (Mss5:1 Sn237:1, v. 1, p. 370) and the diary text on pp. 372-376.
  • -  This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the institution for more information.
  • -  Robert Knox Sneden scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1) Virginia Historical Society.
  • -  In the Robert Knox Sneden diary, 1861-1865 (V. 1, p. 117).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 13 x 19 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. Map of the lower Potomac River showing picket lines, January. [to 1865, 1861] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00059/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1861) Map of the lower Potomac River showing picket lines, January. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00059/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Map of the lower Potomac River showing picket lines, January. [to 1865, 1861] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00059/>.