Map of the defences · August 1863
The Rebel defences of Charleston Harbor S.C., August 1863
The Rebel defences of Charleston Harbor S.C., August 1863
Held by Virginia Historical Society. The Library of Congress serves the image; the sheet itself belongs to another institution, and permission to reproduce it comes from them.
Hand-drawn in a diary, four inches across, in the month the siege of Morris Island was at its height. Sneden was a Union soldier-mapmaker with an extraordinary compulsion to record, and his little watercolors are a different kind of evidence from an engraved chart: one man’s understanding, dated, in his own hand.
The Library of Congress serves the image. The Virginia Historical Society owns the diary, and permission comes from them.
What is on the sheet
- Union and Confederate positions, color-coded
The catalog’s own notes
Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces.