Title

Potomac River showing picket lines, January 1862] 1862

Caption

Concerns Union and Confederate pickets positioned north and south around Pohick Church and Accotink in Fairfax County, Va., in January 1862. Includes a balloon pictured near Pohick Church and labeled as "December. 1861," but as noted in Sneden' s diary text on pp. 374-376, he indicates that Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe also was using the surveillance hot-air balloons in the same area in January of the next year.

Date

1862

Credit line

Photo12/Universal Images Group

Reference

UMG20A03_005

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

9,6Mb (2,4Mb) / 7,3in x 5,1in / 2178 x 1543 (300dpi)

Keywords

Maps Cartography Cartographic Hand colored Civil War Federal Union North Potomac Military army Glendale Charles City Frasier's Farm Seven Days White oak Swamp 1862