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Map Map of the lines at Yorktown, Virginia, April 1862.

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Title

  • Map of the lines at Yorktown, Virginia, April 1862.

Summary

  • Shows the vicinity around Yorktown, Va., including Warwick Court House, the Warwick River, and Wormsley Creek as siege lines were drawn by McClellan's Union troops and Magruder's Confederate forces.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.
  • Heine, William.
  • Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883.

Created / Published

  • [1862-1865]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  "Yorktown was evacuated on the night of 3rd May 1862, rear guard left at daylight of 4th when the whole Rebel Army fell back to the entrenched position at Williamsburg."--Page caption.
  • -  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. 121).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 25.5 x 36 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, William Heine, and A. A Humphreys. Map of the lines at Yorktown, Virginia, April. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00248/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K., Heine, W. & Humphreys, A. A. (1862) Map of the lines at Yorktown, Virginia, April. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00248/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox, William Heine, and A. A Humphreys. Map of the lines at Yorktown, Virginia, April. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00248/>.