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Map Official map of the Union works in front of Yorktown, Va.

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Title

  • Official map of the Union works in front of Yorktown, Va.

Summary

  • Shows the vicinity of Yorktown, Va., including Union batteries located along the Warwick Court House Road. Also shows the Confederate barricade made up of abatis, palisades, slashings of trees, felled trees, and dams that flooded low-lying areas. The Union army, under Gen. McClellan, prepared to lay siege to Yorktown as part of its advance up the Virginia Peninsula toward the Confederate capital of Richmond.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.
  • Heine, William.

Created / Published

  • [1862-1865]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces.
  • -  NOTE: Researchers will be served a photocopy of this scrapbook 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 Scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1 p. 103).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 45 x 34 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, and William Heine. Official map of the Union works in front of Yorktown, Va. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00246/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. & Heine, W. (1862) Official map of the Union works in front of Yorktown, Va. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00246/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox, and William Heine. Official map of the Union works in front of Yorktown, Va. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00246/>.