[Map of the lower Potomac River showing picket lines, January 1862]
Summary
Concerns Union and Confederate pickets positioned north and south around Pohick Church and Accotink in Fairfax County, Va., in January 1862. Includes a balloon pictured near Pohick Church and labelled as "Decr. 1861," but as noted in Sneden's diary text on pp. 374-376, he indicates that Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe also was using the surveillance hot-air balloons in the same area in January of the next year.
NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary page.
Related to another Sneden map entitled "Official Map of the Lower Potomac River Showing Picket Lines, Jany. 1862" (Mss5:1 Sn237:1, v. 1, p. 370) and the diary text on pp. 372-376.
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Robert Knox Sneden scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1) Virginia Historical Society.
In the Robert Knox Sneden diary, 1861-1865 (V. 1, p. 117).
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