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Map Chart of the battle off Cherbourg.

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Title

  • Chart of the battle off Cherbourg.

Summary

  • The map charts the course of the two ships in Cherbourg Harbor and in the British Channel off the coast of Cherbourg, France. Made by the British for the Confederacy and captained by Raphael Semmes the C.S.S. Alabama was a blockade runner. Spotted by the U.S.S. Kearsarge, the Alabama was cornered and sunk.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [S.l., 1864-1865]

Headings

  • -  Alabama (Screw sloop)
  • -  Kearsarge (Sloop)
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations
  • -  France--Cherbourg

Notes

  • -  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.
  • -  In the Robert Knox Sneden Diary (Mss5:1 Sn237:1 v. 4, p. 1002).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 16 x 12 cm.

Repository

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

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Chicago citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Chart of the battle off Cherbourg. [S.l., to 1865, 1864] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00168/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1864) Chart of the battle off Cherbourg. [S.l., to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00168/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Chart of the battle off Cherbourg. [S.l., to 1865, 1864] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00168/>.