Plan of part of Richmond, Virginia : showing locations of Rebel prisons [in] winter of 1863.

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Plan of part of Richmond, Virginia : showing locations of Rebel prisons [in] winter of 1863.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48998890

Shows the streets of Richmond below Church Hill from the Canal to Broad Street and from 17th to 21st streets, including Castle Thunder and Libby prisons and the Union officers' and soldiers' hospitals.

1 map : pen-and-ink and watercol. ; 19 x 15 cm.

Virginia Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7601275

Virginia Historical Society Library

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Libby Prison

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Castle Thunder Prison (Richmond, Va.)

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Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918

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Robert Knox Sneden was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada and moved to New York City in 1851 at age 19. He received some architectural education. Sneden left Brooklyn in 1861 to enlist in the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, or the Mozart Regiment, of the Army of the Potomac. He served as a quartermaster when his regiment camped near Leesburg Turnpike. Starting from January 12, 1862, Sneden served on Samuel P. Heintzelman's III Corps staff, at first, as a draughtsman on ma...