Federal Reconnaissance, Base Map dated September 13, 1864, with later annotations
Work on this map began after the Federal offensives leading to the capture of the Weldon Railroad, August 18. The base map shows Federal lines extending from the Petersburg & Norfolk Railroad to Fort Wadsworth and Globe Tavern. Confederate lines are shown in red (and pencil), Federal lines in blue. This appears to be an attempt to fill in some of the terrain features between the lines from Jerusalem Plank Road west. Some Union troop positions are tentatively sketched in, which may be more clearly seen in the detail following.
NARA RG77/G443, Vol. 2, No. 2. "Sketch showing the positions of the Redoubts and Batteries of the Lines of the U.S. Forces in Front of Petersburg." Engineers Department, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac.
NARA RG77/443-2-2 detail, showing annotations, earthworks, house sites, wood lots, a ravine, tentative Union troop positions.
An excellent map from the Head Quarters Army of the Potomac Engineer Department, showing Federal and Confederate Lines before and after the battles for the Weldon Railroad. Legend reads: "Triangulations and Surveys of the Environs of Petersburg and the Entrenched Lines were commened on the 9th of July and completed on the 25th of September." It shows how the Federal lines were consolidated after the Grand Medicine Pow-wow. this map was likely put together sometime in October 1864. From the collections of the New York Public. The map is misdated in pencil as "1863." Library. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c684f630-6bdd-0135-6b29-6de9ec527a31
"Map of the Environs of Petersburg from the Appomattox River to the Weldon Railroad Shaowing the Positions of the Entrenched Lines Occupied by the Forces of the United States During the Siege." Image ID 57495505
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