Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi,
created 2007-2017,
by Paul Davis
| Title: | Map showing Harbor of Vicksburg and Yazoo River with proposed routes of communication. Reduced from the copy furnished by the Citizen's Committeeof the city of Vicksburg. To accompany report of Board of U.S. Engineer officers convened by G.O. [general order?] No. 141 A.G.O. [Adjutant General's Office?] dated Washington D.C. June 28, 1877. |
| Author: | U.S. Army Engineers |
| Scale: | 1 inch to 2,000 feet |
| Situation Date: | 1877 |
| Publication Date: | 1877 |
| Type: | Original |
| Features: | Relief, Drainage, lakes, sandbars, wooded areas with vegetation types/species noted, swamps, mud bars, 1877 shore line of Mississippi River, Vicksburg and town of Delta street patterns, roads, railroads, houses and structures with names of some residents, fields-annotated in red ink with line and point survey data, line of "proposed cut" and "proposed dike" off of Desoto Island. |
| Comments: | Author Note: Noted on National Archives file card- "Illustrating report of January 22, 1878, by Board of Engineers, constructed by G.O [General order?] 141, A.G.O. [Adjutant General's Office?] 1877; reduced from copies furnished by Citizen's Committee. Features Note: Accompanied with separate sheets showing profiles and cross-sections at 37 stations. Bibliographic note: Printed copy in "An. [annual] report of Chief of Engineers, 1878, Pt.1, p. 644, and Senate Executive Document 55-45-2. |
| Coverage: | Warren County |
| Repository: | Mississippi Department of Archives and History | National Archives and Records Administration, Cartographic and Architectural Records |
| Publisher: | U.S. Army Engineers |
| Size (inches): | 23 X 37.5 |
| Color: | Y |
| Link: | http://zed.mdah.state.ms.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bibl ionumber=000072647 |