Texas State Archives Map Collection
Rebel Defenses, Mobile, Alabama, occupied by Union Forces under Major General E.R.S. Canby, April 12th, 1865
| Date: | 1865 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1891-1895. |
| Cartographer: | -- None Listed -- |
| Scale: | varying |
| Size: | 42 cm x 26 cm |
| Type of Map: | military |
| Format: | color, engraved, lithographed, printed |
| Language: | English |
| AC Number: | 03738 |
| Photo Media: | -- None Listed -- |
Rebel Defenses, Mobile, Alabama, occupied by Union Forces under Major General E.R.S. Canby, April 12th, 1865 Image:
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Description:
Shows the Mobile River, creeks, terrain, plan of Mobile, streets, roads, railroads, and Confederate forts, batteries, and works. Insets: Plans and Sections of Redans...and Forts and Redoubts on Lieutenant Colonel W. Sheliha's Line of Works.
This map accompanies the report of Major General R.S. Canby, U.S. Army, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1, 1865. This map and report are part of the Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, compiled by Captain Calvin D. Cowles, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891-1895, plate CV. Title page, table of contents, and index to maps in the atlas are filed under map #3209. A reprint of this atlas can be found in the Archive's Texana book collection.
Scale of map: 7/8 inch = 3/8 mile
Scale of plans: 1 inch = 350 feet; of sections: 1 inch = 170 feet
12/3/84
Subjects:
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