Copy of a map military reconnaissance Dep't Va. : [Hampton Roads and Norfolk regions, Va.] /

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Copy of a map military reconnaissance Dep't Va. : [Hampton Roads and Norfolk regions, Va.] /

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Map of the Hampton Roads vicinity showing Confederate fortifications/camps, settlements, city street patterns, roads, railroads, canals, streams, vegetation, and swamps.
"Note--This map shows the positions of the rebel forces and their batteries as they were some six weeks since."
Locates the "Minnesota 8 & 9 March 1862 on ground" and the "Monitor & Merrimac engagement on the 9th of March 1862".
Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings and contours.
In lower margin at left: For Maj. Gen'l Hitchcock, U.S. Vol., with the regards of T.J. Cram.
Pen-and-ink (black/red) and watercolors (blue/green/orange).
Imperfect: Fold-lined, torn at central fold line.
LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 559
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Includes text in lower margin and lengthy notes in map area.

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01/01/1862
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Contributors

Worret, Ch.
Cram, Thomas Jefferson, 1807?-1883.
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1798-1870.
United States. Army. Department of Virginia.
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Library of Congress
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Public Domain

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