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Map Plan of Yorktown, Virginia : showing the Rebel works after the evacuation, May 4th, 1862.

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Title

  • Plan of Yorktown, Virginia : showing the Rebel works after the evacuation, May 4th, 1862.

Summary

  • Shows the street plan of Yorktown and the fortifications surrounding the town following the Confederate removal up the Peninsula. The York River and the town of Gloucester Point are also indicated.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1862-1865].

Headings

  • -  Peninsular Campaign, 1862--Maps
  • -  Yorktown (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia--Yorktown
  • -  Peninsular Campaign

Notes

  • -  Color coding indicates the 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. 779).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 13.5 x 17.5 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. Plan of Yorktown, Virginia: showing the Rebel works after the evacuation, May 4th. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00083/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1862) Plan of Yorktown, Virginia: showing the Rebel works after the evacuation, May 4th. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00083/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Plan of Yorktown, Virginia: showing the Rebel works after the evacuation, May 4th. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00083/>.