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General map of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina : showing rebel defences sic and obstructions

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General map of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina : showing rebel defences sic and obstructions

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Summary

"Bowen & Co. lith. Philada."
"The survey of the channels, fortifications etc. was made after the occupation of the Harbor by the U.S. Naval forces."
Depths shown by gradient tints.
From: Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents to the two houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress. Report of the Secretary of the Navy. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1856. fol. p. 256.
In upper right margin: 39th Congress, 1st Sess.-Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy.
Includes table: Armament of Rebel forts.
Shows shipwrecks, as well as torpedoes and obstructions, roads, railroads, and a plan of the city.
This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information.
LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 371
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Source unknown; April 2004, Map Cataloging Team.
Civil War project no.: lva00205.
Conservation: Etherington Conservation Center, April 2004.
Digital image available: 24 x 27 in.
Map accession no. 5277.

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Date

01/01/1865
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charleston
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