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Map Plan of the Battle of Spotsylvania C.H., Virginia : fought May 8th to 21st 1864.

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Title

  • Plan of the Battle of Spotsylvania C.H., Virginia : fought May 8th to 21st 1864.

Summary

  • Shows the Confederate forces located around and to the north of Spotsylvania Court House, with the Po River at their back. The Union forces were positioned along the Ny River so as to attack on both the Confederate left and right. Several landmarks are indicated, including houses used as headquarters by various officers, and the "mule shoe" salient known as the "bloody angle" because of the fierce fighting and heavy losses required to take it.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1864-1865]

Headings

  • -  Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of Va., 1864--Maps
  • -  Spotsylvania County (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Virginia--Spotsylvania County
  • -  Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va

Notes

  • -  Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces.
  • -  NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this scrapbook 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 Scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1 p. 346).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 12.5 x 16.5 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 the Battle of Spotsylvania C.H., Virginia: fought May 8th to 21st. [to 1865, 1864] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00238/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1864) Plan of the Battle of Spotsylvania C.H., Virginia: fought May 8th to 21st. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00238/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Plan of the Battle of Spotsylvania C.H., Virginia: fought May 8th to 21st. [to 1865, 1864] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00238/>.