Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi,
created 2007-2017,
by Paul Davis
Title: | Map showing the route of the late expedition, commanded by Rear Admiral Porter, U.S.N., in attempting to get into the Yazoo River by the way of Steel's Bluff [i.e., Bayou] and Deer Creek. |
Author: | United States. Navy. |
Scale: | 1 inch to 7.9 miles |
Situation Date: | 1863 |
Publication Date: | [1863] |
Type: | |
Features: | Drainage, bluffs, river islands, Indian mounds, bridges, plantations, names of residents, roads, fences, Union gunboats, Confederate batteries. |
Comments: | Feature Note: Inset: Plan showing the place from which Gunboats first commenced to fall back, to open communications behind them, which had been obstructed. Scale ca. 1 inch to 3,000 feet. Size: 4 X 2.7 inches Bibliographic Note: From Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with an appendix, containing reports from officers. December, 1863 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1863). opp. p. 455. |
Coverage: | Warren, Issaquena, Sharkey and Yazoo Counties |
Repository: | Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division |
Language: | English |
Size (inches): | 6.6 X 9.8 |
Link: | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3982y.cw0295200 |