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Day, A. (b. 1840) Rough sketch of Richmond & Petersburg and surrounding works & railroads

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02249.02 Author/Creator: Day, A. (b. 1840) Place Written: Virginia Type: Map Date: 20 September 1864 Pagination: 1 map. ; 31 x 40.2 cm. Order a Copy

Author is Captain Albert A. Day of Company K, 20th Michigan Infantry, 9th Corps. The map notes rail roads, General Ulysses S. Grant's supply train, Jerusalem Plank Road, Deep Bottom, Jones's Neck, Malvern Hill, Chickahominy River, the fortifications of Richmond and Petersburg, Union lines surrounding Petersburg, the Weldon Rail Road, Reams Station, Confederate works surrounding Petersburg, and the Appomattox and James Rivers, among other features. Possibly drawn in Virginia.

Day, Albert A., 1840-?
Treadwell, Thomas James, -1879
Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885

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