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Map The Rebel entrenched position at Fredericksburg, Va. showing Hooker's flank march on Chancellorsville 3rd and 4th May 1863.

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Title

  • The Rebel entrenched position at Fredericksburg, Va. showing Hooker's flank march on Chancellorsville 3rd and 4th May 1863.

Summary

  • Regional map of the Chancellorsville area encompassing Kelly's Ford in the upper left, Stafford in the upper right, and Spotsylvania Court House at the bottom. Indicates roads and railroads, fords, bridges, and inhabited buildings. Also, indicates the route taken by Hooker's Union forces across the Rappahannock River at Kelly's Ford with the intention of attacking Lee's Confederates at Chancellorsville from the west. Union General John Sedgwick's capture of Marie's Heights outside of Fredericksburg, intended as a diversion, is also indicated.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1863-1865]

Headings

  • -  Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863--Maps
  • -  Chancellorsville (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Fredericksburg, (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia--Chancellorsville
  • -  United States--Virginia--Fredericksburg Region
  • -  Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va

Notes

  • -  Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces.
  • -  NOTE: Researchers will be served a color 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. 257).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 22 x 27.5 cm.

Repository

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

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Sneden, Robert Knox. The Rebel entrenched position at Fredericksburg, Va. showing Hooker's flank march on Chancellorsville 3rd and 4th May. [to 1865, 1863] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00288/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1863) The Rebel entrenched position at Fredericksburg, Va. showing Hooker's flank march on Chancellorsville 3rd and 4th May. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00288/.

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Sneden, Robert Knox. The Rebel entrenched position at Fredericksburg, Va. showing Hooker's flank march on Chancellorsville 3rd and 4th May. [to 1865, 1863] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00288/>.