Map Map of operations at Bermuda Hundred and Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 10th May 1864.

Title

• Map of operations at Bermuda Hundred and Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 10th May 1864.

Summary

• In this map Sneden attempts to show several engagements that took place between Butler's Army of the James and Beauregard's Confederates, May 6th through May 13th, 1864. He includes Port Walthall Junction, where Union forces first engaged Beauregard's Confederates; the Confederate defense of Fort Darling at Drewry's Bluff; and the Union entrenchments astride the Appomattox River at Bermuda Hundred and City Point, where they were blocked by Confederate forces spanning the peninsula formed by the Appomattox and James rivers.

Names

• Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

• [S.l., 1864-1865]

Headings

• -  Beauregard, G. T.--(Gustave Toutant),--1818-1893
• -  Butler, Benjamin F.--(Benjamin Franklin),--1818-1893
• -  Bermuda Hundred (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
• -  City Point (Hopewell, Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
• -  United States--Virginia--Bermuda Hundred Region
• -  United States--Virginia--City Point (Hopewell)

Notes

• -  Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces and fortifications.
• -  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.
• -  In the Robert Knox Sneden Diary (Mss5:1 Sn237:1 v. 5, p. 585).
• -  Manuscripts

Medium

• 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 16 x 11.5 cm.

Repository

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

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.ndlpcoop/gvhs01.vhs00178

Online Format

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