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Map Map showing the route of the late expedition, commanded by Rear Admiral Porter, U.S.N., in attempting to get into the Yazoo River by the way of Steel's Bluff [i.e., Bayou] and Deer Creek.

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Title

  • Map showing the route of the late expedition, commanded by Rear Admiral Porter, U.S.N., in attempting to get into the Yazoo River by the way of Steel's Bluff [i.e., Bayou] and Deer Creek.

Names

  • United States. Navy.

Created / Published

  • [S.l., 1863]

Headings

  • -  Yazoo River (Miss.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Mississippi--Yazoo River

Notes

  • -  Scale ca. 1:500,000.
  • -  LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 295.2
  • -  From Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with an appendix, containing reports from officers. December, 1863 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1863). opp. p. 455.
  • -  Inset: Plan showing the place from which Gunboats first commenced to fall back, to open communications behind them, which had been obstructed. Scale ca. 1:36,000. 10 x 7 cm.
  • -  Map is similar in content to the map drawn by A. Strausz, U.S. Coast Survey (entry no. 295)
  • -  Description derived from published bibliography.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

Medium

  • 1 map, 17 x 25 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3982.Y2S5 1863 .U5

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 99447437

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

United States Navy. Map showing the route of the late expedition, commanded by Rear Admiral Porter, U.S.N., in attempting to get into the Yazoo River by the way of Steel's Bluff i.e., Bayou and Deer Creek. [S.l, 1863] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/99447437/.

APA citation style:

United States Navy. (1863) Map showing the route of the late expedition, commanded by Rear Admiral Porter, U.S.N., in attempting to get into the Yazoo River by the way of Steel's Bluff i.e., Bayou and Deer Creek. [S.l] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/99447437/.

MLA citation style:

United States Navy. Map showing the route of the late expedition, commanded by Rear Admiral Porter, U.S.N., in attempting to get into the Yazoo River by the way of Steel's Bluff i.e., Bayou and Deer Creek. [S.l, 1863] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/99447437/>.