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Map Plan of Union and Rebel position at Yorktown Va.

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Title

  • Plan of Union and Rebel position at Yorktown Va.

Summary

  • Shows the area between the Warwick River and Yorktown to the north and Wormsley Creek to the south that was the Confederacy's first line of defense against McClellan's advance up the Virginia Peninsula. The location of the road to Warwick Court House is also indicated.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1862-1865].

Headings

  • -  Peninsular Campaign, 1862--Maps
  • -  Virginia Peninsula (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1862--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia--Virginia Peninsula
  • -  United States--Virginia--Yorktown
  • -  Peninsular Campaign

Notes

  • -  Color coding indicates location of Union and Confederate forces.
  • -  NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary image.
  • -  Relief shown by hachures.
  • -  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, Richmond, Va.
  • -  In the Robert Knox Sneden Diary (Mss5:1 Sn237:1 v. 1, p. 584).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 14.5 x 18.5 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 Union and Rebel position at Yorktown Va. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00074/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1862) Plan of Union and Rebel position at Yorktown Va. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00074/.

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Sneden, Robert Knox. Plan of Union and Rebel position at Yorktown Va. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00074/>.