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Map Plan of Fort Magruder, Battlefield of Williamsburg, Virginia. Sketched the day after the battle 6th May 1862.

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Title

  • Plan of Fort Magruder, Battlefield of Williamsburg, Virginia. Sketched the day after the battle 6th May 1862.

Summary

  • Shows the area surrounding Confederate Fort Magruder just south of in Williamsburg, Va. Details include the network of ravines and slashed trees extending the width of the Peninsula used by the Confederate Army as part of its defenses.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1862-1865]

Headings

  • -  Peninsular Campaign, 1862--Maps
  • -  Williamsburg, Battle of, Williamsburg, Va., 1862--Maps
  • -  Fort Magruder (Va.)--Maps
  • -  Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia--Fort Magruder
  • -  United States--Virginia--Williamsburg
  • -  Peninsular Campaign
  • -  Williamsburg, Battle of, Williamsburg, 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. 128).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 18 x 15.5 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. Plan of Fort Magruder, Battlefield of Williamsburg, Virginia. Sketched the day after the battle 6th May. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00294/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1862) Plan of Fort Magruder, Battlefield of Williamsburg, Virginia. Sketched the day after the battle 6th May. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00294/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Plan of Fort Magruder, Battlefield of Williamsburg, Virginia. Sketched the day after the battle 6th May. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00294/>.