Map of operations at Bermuda Hundred and Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 10th May 1864

In this map Sneden attempts to show several engagements that took place between Butler's Army of the James and Beauregard's Confederates, May 6th through May 13th, 1864. He includes Port Walthall Junction, where Union forces first engaged Beauregard's Confederates; the Confederate defense of Fort Darling at Drewry's Bluff; and the Union entrenchments astride the Appomattox River at Bermuda Hundred and City Point, where they were blocked by Confederate forces spanning the peninsula formed by the Appomattox and James rivers.
Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces and fortifications.
NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary image.
Relief shown by hachures.
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In the Robert Knox Sneden Diary (Mss5:1 Sn237:1 v. 5, p. 585).
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