Format Map
Contributors Sneden, Robert Knox
Dates 1861
Location Andersonville
Andersonville Prison
Georgia
United States
Language English
Subjects Andersonville (Ga.)
Andersonville Prison
Civil War
Georgia
History
Prisoners and Prisons
United States
Title
Plan of Andersonville Prison, Georgia. Aug. 1864.
Contributor Names
Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.
Created Published
[1864 to 1865]
Subject Headings
-  Andersonville Prison
-  Andersonville (Ga.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
-  Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
-  United States--History--Prisoners and prisons.--Civil War, 1861-1865
-  United States--Georgia--Andersonville Prison.
Notes
-  "Made from Plans By R.K. Sneden 40th N.Y. Vols. While There A Prisoner of War"--Page Caption.
-  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.
-  Map shows a detailed plan of the Andersonville prison complex including locations of external defenses, guards' and officers' quarters, hospital, storehouses, cook house, and graveyard, and the use of the terrain (swamps, creeks) as boundaries.
-  Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
-  In the Robert Knox Sneden Scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1 p. 387).
-  Manuscripts
Medium
1 Map : Pen and Ink and Watercolor ; 20 X 28.5 Cm.
Repository
Virginia Historical Society, P.O. Box 7311, Richmond, VA 23221-0311 USA vau
Digital Id
Gvhs01 Vhs00306 Http://Hdl.Loc.Gov/Loc.Ndlpcoop/Gvhs01.Vhs00306


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