Manuscript map of Union operations during the Siege of Port Hudson, showing fortifications, batteries, rifle pits, covered ways, etc., heavily annotated

by its maker. by Hartwell

$3,000 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Port Hudson or vicinity, likely July 1863 . Ink on blue-lined notebook paper, 9.5” x 7.75” sheet size . Docketed “Hartwell” in ink on verso. CONDITION: Very good, old folds, crease along lower edge of map. An extensively annotated manuscript map documenting an aspect of the Union operations against Confederate defenses shortly before the end of the Siege of Port

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