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Map Plan shewing [sic] battle ground and cavalry fight, 17th March 1863, Kelly's Ford, Va.

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Title

  • Plan shewing [sic] battle ground and cavalry fight, 17th March 1863, Kelly's Ford, Va.

Summary

  • Map shows the area surrounding Kellysville, Va., and Kelly's Ford on the Rappahannock River. On March 17, 1863, this was the site of a cavalry skirmish between Confederate forces under Fitzhugh Lee and Jeb Stuart, who were trying to defend the route to Brandy Station, and Union forces under Gen. W. W. Averell.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1863-1865]

Headings

  • -  Kelly's Ford, Battle of, Va., 1863--Maps
  • -  Culpeper County (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Fauquier County (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cavalry operations
  • -  United States--Virginia--Culpeper County
  • -  United States--Virginia--Fauquier County
  • -  Kelly's Ford, Battle of, Va

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.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
  • -  In the Robert Knox Sneden Diary (Mss5:1 Sn237:1 v. 4, p. 222).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 10.5 x 14.5 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 shewing sic battle ground and cavalry fight, 17th March , Kelly's Ford, Va. [to 1865, 1863] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00130/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1863) Plan shewing sic battle ground and cavalry fight, 17th March , Kelly's Ford, Va. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00130/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Plan shewing sic battle ground and cavalry fight, 17th March , Kelly's Ford, Va. [to 1865, 1863] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00130/>.