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Map Battle of Antietam, Md.

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Title

  • Battle of Antietam, Md.

Summary

  • In this extremely detailed map, Sneden indicates the locations of roads, bridges, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, houses, barns, ploughed fields, and the Antietam Iron Works. The Union and Confederate signal stations are also noted. The line of battle is located east of the town of Sharpsburg on September 16; encompassing the town on September 17 (after the actual battle); and to the west of town on September 18th as Lee's Confederate troops retreated back across the Potomac toward Sheperdstown, W. Va.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1862-1865]

Headings

  • -  Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
  • -  Maryland Campaign, 1862
  • -  Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Maryland--Antietam
  • -  Antietam, Battle of, Md
  • -  Maryland Campaign

Notes

  • -  Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces.
  • -  NOTE: Researchers will be served a 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.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
  • -  In the Robert Knox Sneden Scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1 p. 233).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 35 x 45 cm.

Repository

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

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Online Format

  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Battle of Antietam, Md. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00259/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1862) Battle of Antietam, Md. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00259/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Battle of Antietam, Md. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00259/>.