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Plan of the redoubt and rifle pits ensilading sic the Leesburg and Fairfax turnpikes 2 miles from Alexandria, Virginia. Built by the 38th, 40th N.Y. and 3rd Maine regiments during October and November 1861

Plan of the redoubt and rifle pits ensilading sic the Leesburg and Fairfax turnpikes 2 miles from Alexandria, Virginia. Built by the 38th, 40th N.Y. and 3rd Maine regiments during October and November 1861

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Includes main roads, buildings used for the hospital, chapel, stables, theater, and headquarters encampment of Brigadier General John Sedgwick.
NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this scrapbook image.
Original scrapbook housed in the Museum Department of the Virginia Historical Society (1994.80.4-525) with restricted access.
This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the institution for more information.
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
Robert Knox Sneden diary (Mss5:1 Sn237:1), Virginia Historical Society.
The Mozart Regiment is another name for the 40th New York Regiment, U.S.A.
In the Robert Knox Sneden Scrapbook, 1870-1899 (p. 68).

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01/01/1861
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fairfax county
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