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Map Capture of forts [sic] Henry ... Tennessee By U.S. Grant, January 1862.

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Title

  • Capture of forts [sic] Henry ... Tennessee By U.S. Grant, January 1862.

Summary

  • Shows Confederate Fort Henry on the Tennessee River. The entire site was to include the fort on the low ground near the edge of the river with an entrenched camp (Fort Heiman) on a high plateau immediately above it. The work was not completed and on the day of the Union attack the river had partially flooded the fort site. Realizing the futility of his position, Confederate Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman sent the majority of his force east to reinforce Fort Donelson (on the Columbia River) before surrendering.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1862-1865]

Headings

  • -  Tilghman, Lloyd,--1816-1863
  • -  Fort Henry, Battle of, Tenn., 1862--Maps
  • -  Fortification--United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works
  • -  Fort Henry (Tenn.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Tennessee--Fort Henry Region
  • -  Fort Henry, Battle of, Tenn

Notes

  • -  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. 437).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 14.5 x 12 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. Capture of forts sic Henry ... Tennessee By U.S. Grant, January. [to 1865, 1862] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00281/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1862) Capture of forts sic Henry ... Tennessee By U.S. Grant, January. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00281/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Capture of forts sic Henry ... Tennessee By U.S. Grant, January. [to 1865, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00281/>.