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Image: Crook-Averell RR Raid Plan 1864 V2

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Description: Union Army May 1863 plan to attack the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad and important salt and lead mines. Text box added by TwoScarsUp. (This version is plainer and less detailed than the previous version.)
Title: Crook-Averell RR Raid Plan 1864 V2
Credit: This is a crop of an 1861 map created by O.N. Snow & Co. The entire map can be found in the Library of Congress here, and shows Virginia, Delaware, Maryland & West Virginia. Text box and circles were added by TwoScarsUp based on descriptions in the books History of the 2nd Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry Volunteers by Joseph Sutton; Lee's Endangered Left by Richard R. Duncan, and Official Reports of Averell and Confederate pursuers here.
Author: O.N. Snow with modifications by TwoScarsUp
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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