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[Field map made prior to the Civil War battles of Shiloh and Corinth]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05759 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Map Date: April 1862 Pagination: 1 map Height: 43.3 cm, Width: 32 cm Order a Copy

This document is a manuscript map that shows major roads from Corinth to the Tennessee River, houses and their inhabitants, and occasionally their sympathies along the route. It also includes other topographical features. Drawn in pencil and brown ink and marked No. 5.

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