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Shows Fairfax County and parts of Loudoun and Prince William counties, Virginia. Also shows fortifications in the environs of Washington and names of some residents.
Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
In upper margin: 211, L. Sheet 19.
Date and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989.
Civil War salted paper maps.
Sun print annotated in pen-and-ink roads (red), railroads (blue), and a few additional place names (black).
LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 536.6
Signed in ink at lower right corner: Transferred from Office of Chf. Engr., Defenses of Washington to Engr. Dep't. Jany 1866.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Stamped on verso: By transfer, Chief Engineers Office, War Department.
LC copy imperfect: Photocopy is very faded.
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01/01/1860
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Young, J. J.
McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885.
Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1817?-1863.
Putnam, Haldimand Sumner, 1836-1863.
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
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Library of Congress
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