(Vicinity of Petersburg)
Pen and ink manuscript map drawn on tracing cloth showing Civil War fortifications, roads, railroads, rivers, vegetation and houses with names of residents. Confederate lines drawn in red. Union lines and batteries drawn in blue. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. c. 1, Dec. 1968, source unknown; c. 2, photocopy, LVA; March 2004, Map Cataloging Team. Civil War project no.: lva00194. Copy 1: Conservation: restored Dec. 1968; Etherington Conservation Center, Jan. 2004. Copy 1: map accession no. 2747 (1968); copy 2 (negative photostat, LVA, on 2 sheets aprox. 52 x 46 cm.) Digital image available: 20.8 x 36 in. Previously filed as: 755.63 M6 1861-1865 1864.
- Date
- 1864
- Mapmaker / publisher
- United States. Army Of The Potomac. Engineer Dept; Michler, N. (Nathaniel)
- Place
- Virginia
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 11,059 × 6,543 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.
Credit line
"(Vicinity of Petersburg)" (1864). United States. Army Of The Potomac. Engineer Dept; Michler, N. (Nathaniel). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(Vicinity_of_Petersburg)_LOC_lva0000194.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 6193.
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