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[Confederate Civil War map of the Army of Mississippi camp at Corinth, Mississippi]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05668 Author/Creator: Place Written: Corinth, Mississippi Type: Map Date: May 1862 Pagination: 1 map : docket ; Height: 58.7 cm, Width: 50.2 cm Order a Copy

Manuscript map shows the lines of entrenchments and reinforcements, the Danville Road, cultivated land, camp roads, a cotton press, the O & M Railroad and C & M Railroad, and General William J. Hardee's headquarters. Map was blind stamped while folded with a mark saying "Peter O'Donnell, 16 Camp Street New Orleans" with a design of a ship; he was the stationer who made the paper. Docketed on verso.

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