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Map [Map of attack on Fort Fisher, Wilmington, N.C.]

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Title

  • [Map of attack on Fort Fisher, Wilmington, N.C.]

Summary

  • Shows details of the area surrounding Wilmington, N.C., during the Union attack on and capture of Fort Fisher.

Names

  • Schilling, Franz Wilhelm von, 1832-1895.

Created / Published

  • 1865.

Headings

  • -  Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)--History--Capture, 1865
  • -  North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Wilmington (N.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--North Carolina--Wilmington

Notes

  • -  Accompanies letter, 1865 January 3, of von Schilling to his brother Alexander Ernst Schilling von Canstatt.
  • -  In the Franz Wilhelm von Schilling papers, 1861-1913.
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink ; 12.5 x 20.5 cm.

Source Collection

  • MS1003465

Repository

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

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Chicago citation style:

Schilling, Franz Wilhelm Von. Map of attack on Fort Fisher, Wilmington, N.C. 1865. Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00407/.

APA citation style:

Schilling, F. W. V. (1865) Map of attack on Fort Fisher, Wilmington, N.C. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00407/.

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Schilling, Franz Wilhelm Von. Map of attack on Fort Fisher, Wilmington, N.C. 1865. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/gvhs01.vhs00407/>.