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[Manuscript Civil War map of Dover, Tennessee, showing battlefield and artillery]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04042.01 Author/Creator: Place Written: Dover, Tennessee Type: Map Date: January 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : b&w Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy

Shows Confederate line of batteries, roads, rivers, and ravines. Also shows the town layout with gun placements and building locations. Approximately forty buildings appear, including the headquarters of the 83rd Illinois Regiments, Colonel A.C. Harding's quarters, the commissary, magazine, post office, jail, and hospital. Made sometimes around the Battle of Fort Donelson in February 1863.

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