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Map The Union assault on the Rebel works at Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Va.

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Title

  • The Union assault on the Rebel works at Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Va.

Summary

  • Shows fortifications on opposite sides of the Warwick River, with the Confederate forces concentrated to the north of the river and the Union forces to the south around Lee's Mill.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1862-1865]

Headings

  • -  Penninsular Campaign, 1862--Maps
  • -  York County (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Yorktown (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Lee's Mill (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia--York County
  • -  United States--Virginia--Yorktown
  • -  United States--Virginia--Lee's Mill
  • -  Peninsular Campaign

Notes

  • -  NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this scrapbook image.
  • -  Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces.
  • -  This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the institution for more information.
  • -  Robert Knox Sneden Diary (Mss5:1 Sn237:1), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.
  • -  In the Robert Knox Sneden Scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1 p. 115).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 17.5 x 10 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. The Union assault on the Rebel works at Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Va. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00210/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1862) The Union assault on the Rebel works at Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Va. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00210/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. The Union assault on the Rebel works at Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Va. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00210/>.