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Map Plan from Fortress Monroe to Big Bethel Va. : showing Union and Rebel position April 1st 1862.

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Title

  • Plan from Fortress Monroe to Big Bethel Va. : showing Union and Rebel position April 1st 1862.

Summary

  • Shows area of Virginia Peninsula between Newport News and Big Bethel to the north and Fortress Monroe to the south as McClellan prepared to move his forces toward Richmond.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1862-1865].

Headings

  • -  Peninsular Campaign, 1862--Maps
  • -  Big Bethel (Hampton, Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Fort Monroe (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Newport News (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia--Big Bethel
  • -  United States--Virginia--Fort Monroe
  • -  United States--Virginia--Newport News
  • -  Peninsular Campaign

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. 546).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 14 x 18 cm.

Repository

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

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Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Plan from Fortress Monroe to Big Bethel Va.: showing Union and Rebel position April 1st. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00071/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1862) Plan from Fortress Monroe to Big Bethel Va.: showing Union and Rebel position April 1st. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00071/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Plan from Fortress Monroe to Big Bethel Va.: showing Union and Rebel position April 1st. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00071/>.