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Map of a cavalry engagement near Poolesville, Md., 1862.
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Map of a cavalry engagement near Poolesville, Md., 1862.

This hand-drawn map accompanies a letter to Dabney's mother describing a recent foray by Jeb Stuart's cavalry into Maryland and Pennsylvania, and an encounter with Union forces when the Confederates attempted to recross the Potomac River at White's Ford, Va.

Date
1862
Mapmaker / publisher
Dabney, Chiswell; Saunders Family
Place
Maryland
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
2,374 × 1,626 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Map of a cavalry engagement near Poolesville, Md., 1862." (1862). Dabney, Chiswell; Saunders Family. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_a_cavalry_engagement_near_Poolesville,_Md.,_1862._LOC_gvhs01.vhs00400.jpg

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