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Tag Archives: maps
5 August 1864: “Line of Works occupied by 1st Division”
Item Description: Map dated 5 August 1864, by Herbert E. Valentine. He was a private in Company F of the 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers. Valentine made birds eye view sketches of the towns in which he was stationed, as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged 1st Division, hand-drawn maps, Herbert E. Valentine Papers, Herbert Valentine, maps, Petersburg (VA)
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30 April 1864: Map “Jenkins Ferry, April 30 1864”
Item Description: “Jenkins Ferry, April 30 1864” (map), [Captain Richard Morton Venable, chief, Topographical Bureau for the District of West Louisiana and Arkansas, Confederate States Army]. Note: On April 29 and 30, 1864, Union troops fended an attack by Confederates … Continue reading
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Tagged Jenkins Ferry, Jeremy Francis Gilmer, maps
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14 March 1864: Maps of Fort DeRussy on the Red River, Louisiana
Item description: Maps, dated 1864, from the Jeremy Francis Gilmer Collection depicting Fort DeRussy and the Red River in Louisiana. Fort DeRussy fell to Union forces during the Red River Campaign on 14 March 1864. Item citation: Fort DeRussy and … Continue reading
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Tagged Fort DeRussy, Jeremy Francis Gilmer, Louisiana, maps
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10 November 1863: Union general Benjamin F. Butler assumes command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina
Item Description: Envelope (ca. 1860s?) showing a map of eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, and a portrait of General Benjamin F. Butler, U. S. Army. On November 10, 1863, General Butler assumed command of the Department of Virginia and … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged envelopes, Fort Monroe, General Benjamin Franklin Butler, maps, North Carolina, pictorial envelopes, Virginia
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29 March 1863: Sketch….showing…..Siege of Washington, NC, March 29 to April 16, 1863
Item: “Sketch showing the position of the attacking and defending forces at the siege of Washington, N.C., March 29 to April 16, 1863” From: U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged maps, Neuse River, New Bern, Pamlico Sound, Tar River, Washington (N.C)
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17 December 1862: “MAP of The Route Marched by the Foster Expedition Dec, 1862”
Item description: Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Infantry, drew this map of the route the Foster expedition took through eastern North Carolina, moving from New Bern to Goldsboro in December 1862. It includes towns, railroads, roads, water features, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 27th Infantry (Massachusetts), Battle of Goldsboro Bridge, General Foster, General John G. Foster, Goldsboro, hand-drawn maps, maps, New Bern, Newton Wallace, North Carolina, Union occupation, Union soldiers
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13 November 1862: “So much for a little party.”
Item Description: a portion (text from columns 1 and 2; map and headlines from columns 3-4) of The New York Herald, 13 November 1862, page 1. Transcription: IMPORTANT FROM NORTH CAROLINA. ADVANCE OF THE UNION FORCES. Combined Naval and Military … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 3rd New York Artillery, Belger's Brigade, Fort Branch, Hamilton NC, Maine, maps, newspapers, North Carolina, railroads, The New York Herald, Weldon, Williamston NC, Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
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30 October 1862: “A map of Port Hudson and its defences”
Item description: Map, dated 30 October 1862, of Port Hudson (La.) and its defences, including a descriptive list of batteries (hand-drawn and colored). More about this map and the Gilmer Maps Collection: This map is part of the Southern Historical … Continue reading
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Tagged earthworks, hand-drawn maps, Jeremy Francis Gilmer, Louisiana, maps, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Port Hudson
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21 July 1862: “MAP of Marches Made July 21′, 1862 and July 4th 1863”
Item description: Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Infantry, drew this map of the marches he made while in North Carolina with the Union Army. Item citation: Diary commencing Oct. 14, 1861 – ending Sept. 20th, 1863 / Newton Wallace, … Continue reading
27 May 1862: “4 miles S.E. of Hanover C.H. Va.”
Item Description: Hand drawn map of the Battle of Lebanon Church [Hanover Court House], Va., 27 May 1862. Item Citation: William James Harriss Bellamy Papers, #1559-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Hanover Court House, Battle of Lebanon Church, hand-drawn maps, maps, Peninsula Campaign, Virginia
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