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- GLC#
- GLC02249.02
- Type
- Maps
- Date
- September 20, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Day, Albert A., 1840-?
- Title
- Rough sketch of Richmond & Petersburg and surrounding works & railroads
- Place Written
- Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 map Height: 31 cm, Width: 40.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
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.
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