Plan of the battle field of Prairie Grove Ark., Decembr. 7th 1862 / compiled & drawn by Geo. W. Ernst. [1862?]

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Plan of the battle field of Prairie Grove Ark., Decembr. 7th 1862 / compiled & drawn by Geo. W. Ernst. [1862?]

Collection of two similar military maps. Both covers an area near Fayetteville, Ark. Each shows and identifies infantry, calvalry and artillary positions and movements. Each also shows landforms, vegetation and streams.

2 maps : ms., col., on tracing cloth ; each 40 x 53 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7767451

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Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902

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Sigel was born in Sinsheim, Baden (Germany), and attended the gymnasium in Bruchsal. He graduated from Karlsruhe Military Academy in 1843, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Baden Army. He met the revolutionaries Friedrich Hecker and Gustav von Struve and became associated with the revolutionary movement. He was wounded in a duel in 1847. The same year, he retired from the army to begin law school studies in Heidelberg. After organizing a revolutionary free corps in Mannheim and later i...

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