Siege of Vera Cruz : by the U.S. troops under Major General Scott, in March 1847, from surveys made by Major Turnbull, Captains Hughes, McClellan, & Johnston, Lieutenants Derby & Hardcastle, Topl. Engineers
Summary
Shows the port of Vera Cruz, outlying areas, troop positions, and details of siege.
Relief shown by hachures.
North oriented toward upper left corner of map.
Annotated in colored pencil and sectioned into 10 and mounted on cloth.
Phillips, 971
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Signed on verso: No. 123, Vera Cruz Siege, 1847. Millard Fillmore.
Includes text with statistics on "Worth's, Twiggs, and Patterson's Divisions," and a table that lists U.S. casualties during siege.
Tags
Date
01/01/1847
Location
llave
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain