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Map Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia showing attack on the salient angle May 12th.

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Title

  • Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia showing attack on the salient angle May 12th.

Summary

  • Shows the distribution of Confederate forces under the commands of Longstreet, Ewell, and Hill facing Union forces under Wright, Warren, Burnside, and Hancock, with special attention to Hancock's assault on Ewell's forces in the "Mule Shoe salient." Oriented with north to the upper left.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [S.l., 1864-1865]

Headings

  • -  Spotsylvania Courthouse, Battle of, Va., 1864--Maps
  • -  Spotsylvania County (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia--Spotsylvania County
  • -  Spotslyvania Courthouse, Battle of, Va

Notes

  • -  Color coding indicates the 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.
  • -  In the Robert Knox Sneden Diary (Mss5:1 Sn237:1 v. 6, p. 554).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 15 x 11 cm.

Repository

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

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Sneden, Robert Knox. Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia showing attack on the salient angle May 12th. [S.l., to 1865, 1864] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00198/.

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Sneden, R. K. (1864) Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia showing attack on the salient angle May 12th. [S.l., to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00198/.

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Sneden, Robert Knox. Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia showing attack on the salient angle May 12th. [S.l., to 1865, 1864] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00198/>.