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Charleston Harbor and city defences (1864)

Abstract
Scale ca. 1:170,000.. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 372. "Key to the map of Charleston Harbor and defences" is pasted to the right of the map.. "Green represents the Confederates" land [and] pink the Federal possessions". Indicates "torpedoes in the channels," obstructions, bridges, roads and streets, railroads, and rivers. Letters A to K represent fortifications, headquarters, depots, and "place where Clarck of Brooklin was executed." Forts and batteries are numbered 1 to 40. The number of guns and mortars for each is shown opposite the name given in the "Key". Description derived from published bibliography.

Publication details
Download http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3912c.cw0372000
Publisher T. B. Usser
Repository Library of Congress Open Archive Initiative Repository 1 (United States)
Keywords Fortification--South Carolina., Charleston Harbor (S.C.)--Maps.
Type image, map, cartographic
Language eng
Coverage Charleston Harbor (S.C.), United States--South Carolina--Charleston Harbor, United States--South Carolina