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Map Attack on Ft. Pulaski Savannah, Georgia, April 1862.

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Title

  • Attack on Ft. Pulaski Savannah, Georgia, April 1862.

Summary

  • Shows a section of the Savannah River with Long Island (containing an unnamed Confederate battery) and Cockspur Island (containing Fort Pulaski). Also shows the Union position on Big Tybee Island.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1862-1865]

Headings

  • -  Fort Pulaski (Ga.)--History--Siege, 1862--Maps
  • -  Savannah River (Ga. and S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  • -  United States--Georgia--Savannah River
  • -  United States--Georgia--Fort Pulaski

Notes

  • -  "Foundation laid in 1832 by Lt. Mansfield & Lt. Benshaw. Built of brick. Has one teir of guns in casemates and one en Barbette on each side of the four channel fronts -- Walls 7 ft. thick at bottom and 5 ft. at top and are surrounded by a wet ditch 20 ft. wide. The whole fort is intended to mount 102 guns. It now mounts (April 1862) 47 guns 1 being a 13 inch."--Page caption.
  • -  Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces.
  • -  NOTE: Researchers will be served a photocopy of this scrapbook image.
  • -  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. 431).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 30.5 x 16 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. Attack on Ft. Pulaski Savannah, Georgia, April. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00277/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1862) Attack on Ft. Pulaski Savannah, Georgia, April. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00277/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Attack on Ft. Pulaski Savannah, Georgia, April. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00277/>.