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Map Defences of Charleston S.C. Fortifications on Sullivan's Island

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Title

  • Defences of Charleston S.C. Fortifications on Sullivan's Island

Created / Published

  • [Washington, Government Printing Office, 1865]

Headings

  • -  Fortification--South Carolina--Maps
  • -  United States--South Carolina--Sullivan Island

Notes

  • -  Scale ca. 1:4000.
  • -  LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 384.7
  • -  From Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress.-Report of the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1865). fol. p. 256.
  • -  At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey.
  • -  "No. 3" is printed below the map title and bar scales.
  • -  Printed in upper left margin: 39th Cong. 1st sess.-Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy.
  • -  Map shows Battery Bee and forts Moultrie, Beauregard, and Marshall. Included are 21 profiles of the defensive works. A "List of guns" appears in the lower left corner.
  • -  Description derived from published bibliography.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

Medium

  • 1 map, 29 x 63 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3912.S85S5 1865 .W5

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 99448831

Online Format

  • image

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