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Map Map of Roanoke Island showing Rebel forts.

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Title

  • Map of Roanoke Island showing Rebel forts.

Summary

  • Shows the area surrounding Roanoke Island, N.C., including Croatan, Roanoke and Pamlico sounds, and the locations of Confederate forces on the eve of the Battle of Roanoke Island in February 1862.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1862-1865].

Headings

  • -  Roanoke Island (N.C.)--History--Capture, 1862--Maps
  • -  United States--North Carolina--Roanoke Island

Notes

  • -  Color coding indicates location of Union and Confederate forces.
  • -  NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary image.
  • -  Relief shown by hachures.
  • -  This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the institution for more information.
  • -  Robert Knox Sneden Scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.
  • -  In the Robert Knox Sneden Diary (Mss5:1 Sn237:1 v. 1, p. 406).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 14.5 x 19 cm.

Repository

  • Virginia Historical Society, P.O. Box 7311, Richmond, VA 23221-0311 USA vau

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Chicago citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Map of Roanoke Island showing Rebel forts. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00069/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1862) Map of Roanoke Island showing Rebel forts. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00069/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Map of Roanoke Island showing Rebel forts. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00069/>.