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Map [Map of the Manassas battlefield area in Northern Virginia

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Title

  • [Map of the Manassas battlefield area in Northern Virginia

Names

  • Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899.

Created / Published

  • [186-?]

Headings

  • -  Manassas Region (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Manassas Region (Va.)--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia--Manassas Region

Genre

  • Topographic maps
  • Manuscript maps

Notes

  • -  Shows roads, railroads, fortifications, settlements, farmhouses with owners' names, and woodlands. Does not show troop positions or movements.
  • -  Relief shown by contours (10-ft. intervals), hachures, form lines, and spot heights.
  • -  Wall map believed to have been used by the author after the Civil War for lecture purposes.
  • -  Signed in ms. on verso.
  • -  Title from R.W. Stephenson's Civil War maps, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • -  Pen-and-ink (red/black [broad nib]), watercolors, and col. pencils (blue/green/brown).
  • -  Originally drawn on 9 sheets.
  • -  Imperfect: Sheets halved, mounted on cloth backing, darkened, missing small sections at right edge.
  • -  LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 564.5
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
  • -  Includes index[?] grid numbers at ends of red grid lines.

Medium

  • 1 ms. map on 6 sheets : col. ; 220 x 282 cm., sheets 110 x 95 cm. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3884.M25S5 186- .H6

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2003630496

Online Format

  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Hotchkiss, Jedediah. Map of the Manassas battlefield area in Northern Virginia. [186-?, 1860] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003630496/.

APA citation style:

Hotchkiss, J. (1860) Map of the Manassas battlefield area in Northern Virginia. [186-?] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003630496/.

MLA citation style:

Hotchkiss, Jedediah. Map of the Manassas battlefield area in Northern Virginia. [186-?, 1860] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2003630496/>.