Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Miss. /

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Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Miss. /

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Relief shown by hachures.
Civil War salted paper maps.
LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), S120, 285
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Dedicated in ms: To Thomas E. Sherman to keep forever, from his father, W.T. Sherman, Maj. Genl. Jan 20, 1864.
Union and Confederate entrenchments are handcolored blue and red respectively.
Detailed map showing roads, streets, railroads, hachures, vegetation, houses, and drainage.
Contains five topographic profiles, six cross sections of artillery batteries, and one cross section of a "rebel rifle pit."
LC copy inscribed at bottom: Cha Sangenberg, , Asst Engr.

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Date

01/01/1863
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Spangenberg, Charles.
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Library of Congress
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Public Domain

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