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Map Map of Fort Huger & Mulberry Pt. Battery with intermediate soundings. Map of Fort Huger and Mulberry Point Battery with intermediate soundings.

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Title

  • Map of Fort Huger & Mulberry Pt. Battery with intermediate soundings.

Other Title

  • Map of Fort Huger and Mulberry Point Battery with intermediate soundings.

Names

  • Virginia. Engineer Dept.
  • Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office.

Created / Published

  • [S.l. : Engineer Department of Virginia, 1863].

Headings

  • -  Gilmer, Jeremy Francis,--1818-1883--Map collection
  • -  Fortification--Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works
  • -  Fort Huger (Va.)--Pictorial works
  • -  Isle of Wight County (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  • -  James River (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  • -  Mulberry Island (Newport News, Va.)
  • -  Newport News (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  • -  United States--Virginia--Isle of Wight County
  • -  United States--Virginia--James River
  • -  United States--Virginia--Fort Huger
  • -  United States--Virginia--Newport News

Notes

  • -  "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virginia Historical Society by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Minis, Sav[ana]h, Ga."--Note on map.
  • -  Forms part of the Gilmer Map Collection.
  • -  Illustrates the layout of the Fort Huger in Isle of Wight County along the James River, with the Mulberry Point Battery, on Mulberry Island, Warwick County [now the city of Newport News], opposite.
  • -  Relief shown by hachures.
  • -  Gift of Mrs. Louisa Porter (Gilmer) Minis (i.e., Mrs. J. F. Minis), Savannah, Ga., in 1911.
  • -  Manuscripts o.s.

Medium

  • 1 map : col. on linen ; 47 x 66 cm.

Repository

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

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Chicago citation style:

Virginia. Engineer Dept, and Confederate States Of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer'S Office. Map of Fort Huger & Mulberry Pt. Battery with intermediate soundings. [S.l.: Engineer Department of Virginia, 1863] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00359/.

APA citation style:

Virginia. Engineer Dept & Confederate States Of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer'S Office. (1863) Map of Fort Huger & Mulberry Pt. Battery with intermediate soundings. [S.l.: Engineer Department of Virginia] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00359/.

MLA citation style:

Virginia. Engineer Dept, and Confederate States Of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer'S Office. Map of Fort Huger & Mulberry Pt. Battery with intermediate soundings. [S.l.: Engineer Department of Virginia, 1863] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00359/>.