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Map [Plan of Fort Sumter, South Carolina] : surveyed, March 20th, 22, 27, 1865.

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Title

  • [Plan of Fort Sumter, South Carolina] : surveyed, March 20th, 22, 27, 1865.

Created / Published

  • 1865.

Headings

  • -  Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)--Maps, Manuscript
  • -  Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)--Designs and plans
  • -  United States--South Carolina--Fort Sumter (Charleston)

Notes

  • -  Pen-and-ink and watercolor.
  • -  "Red lines [denote] remainder of walls of old Ft. Sumter; Red dotted [lines indicate] souterains of walls of old Ft. Sumter; blue dotted [lines signify] souterains built out of the rubbish; [and] black [lines indicate] interior and exterior limits of Sumter at date."
  • -  Title from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • -  LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 387
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

Medium

  • 1 ms. map : col., cloth backing ; 57 x 63 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3914.C3:2S92 1865 .P6

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2003623397

Online Format

  • image

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Plan of Fort Sumter, South Carolina: surveyed, March 20th, 22, 27. 1865. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003623397/.

APA citation style:

(1865) Plan of Fort Sumter, South Carolina: surveyed, March 20th, 22, 27. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003623397/.

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Plan of Fort Sumter, South Carolina: surveyed, March 20th, 22, 27. 1865. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2003623397/>.