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Map Battle of Gettysburg, Penna. Showing positions held 1st and 3rd July 1863.

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Title

  • Battle of Gettysburg, Penna. Showing positions held 1st and 3rd July 1863.

Summary

  • This map of the battlefield at Gettysburg juxtaposes locations of various units on the first and third days of the three-day battle. Most of the fighting on July 1st seems to have taken place to the northwest of the town of Gettysburg, while that on July 3rd is concentrated to the southeast.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1863-1865]

Headings

  • -  Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Maps
  • -  Gettysburg (Pa.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg Region
  • -  Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa

Notes

  • -  Color coding indicates the location of Unin 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.
  • -  In the Robert Knox Sneden Scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1 p. 286).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 27.5 x 40.5 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. Battle of Gettysburg, Penna. Showing positions held 1st and 3rd July. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00265/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1862) Battle of Gettysburg, Penna. Showing positions held 1st and 3rd July. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00265/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Battle of Gettysburg, Penna. Showing positions held 1st and 3rd July. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00265/>.