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Map Capture of Mobile, Alabama

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Title

  • Capture of Mobile, Alabama

Summary

  • A regional view of Mobile and environs, encompassing Mobile, Blakely, Spanish Fort, Alabama City, Williamsburg, Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines, and Fort Orwell. Also shows defenses of Mobile Bay, including use of torpedoes (mines), spikes, and sunken logs. The city of Mobile was abandoned by the Confederates on the night of April 11-20th, 1865.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1861-1865]

Headings

  • -  Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Mobile (Ala.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--Alabama--Mobile

Notes

  • -  Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces.
  • -  NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this scrapbook image.
  • -  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. 438).
  • -  Manuscripts

Medium

  • 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 12.5 x 11 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. Capture of Mobile, Alabama. [to 1865, 1861] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00283/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1861) Capture of Mobile, Alabama. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00283/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Capture of Mobile, Alabama. [to 1865, 1861] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00283/>.