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Official map of the Union works in front of Yorktown, Va.

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Official map of the Union works in front of Yorktown, Va.

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Shows the vicinity of Yorktown, Va., including Union batteries located along the Warwick Court House Road. Also shows the Confederate barricade made up of abatis, palisades, slashings of trees, felled trees, and dams that flooded low-lying areas. The Union army, under Gen. McClellan, prepared to lay siege to Yorktown as part of its advance up the Virginia Peninsula toward the Confederate capital of Richmond.
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. 103).
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Date

01/01/1862
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Contributors

Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.
Heine, William.
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Library of Congress
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