Plan of the Battle of Chancellorsville. Virginia Position, 5 P.m., 2nd May 1863 05-02

Old map of Chancellorsville, United States, Virginia.

Sneden uses his usual eye for detail in showing the nature of the terrain with crop fields, woods, areas of felled trees, roads, and waterways in the vicinity of the Battle of Chancellorsville. He particularly emphasizes the positions of the following corps in the U.S. Army of the Potomac: 2nd Corps (commanded by Winfield Scott Hancock), 3rd Corps (commanded by Daniel Edgar Sickles), 5th Corps (commanded by George Gordon Meade), 11th Corps (commanded by Oliver Otis Howard), and 12th Corps (commanded by Henry Warner Slocum).

Created by Robert Knox Sneden in 05-02.

• Bottom margin: "Copy from official map, Topog. Engineers."
• Key across the bottom margin indicates that Sneden is illustrating positions of the Union and Confederate forces, including cavalry and artillery positions, houses in the vicinity, headquarters, breastworks, wagons, and skirmishes.
• This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the institution for more information.
• Robert Knox Sneden scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1), Virginia Historical Society.
• In the Robert Knox Sneden diary, 1861-1865 (v. 4, p. 301-302).

Map Tags

(Oliver Otis)

05-02

Army Of The Potomac

Chancellorsville

Chancellorsville (Va.)

Chancellorsville (Va.) Battle Of

Civil War

Corps 11th

Corps 12th

Corps 2nd

Corps 3rd

Corps 5th

Hancock Winfield Scott

History

Howard O. O.

Map

Maps

Meade George Gordon

Robert Knox Sneden

Sickles Daniel Edgar

Slocum Henry Warner

United States

Virginia