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Atlas to Accompany the Official Record of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865

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Atlas to Accompany the Official Record of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865

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File Name	shades_van_0012.tif
Title	Atlas to Accompany the Official Record of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865
Alternate Title	Defenses of Nashville, Tennessee 1864, 1865
Date	1862-1865
Genre	Drawings--Engineering
Description	Collection of engineering schematics for various fortifications in Nashville: Battery Erwin, Battery Coolidge, Battery for Casino Hill, Fort Morton, Fort Sill, Redoubt for Hill No 210, and the Capitol. Includes plans for Fort Dan McCook and Fort W. D. Whipple in Chattanooga.
Historical note	Army of the Ohio chief engineer James St. Clair Morton, who designed Fort Negley, is credited with the designs for Fort Morton and the defenses of the Tennessee State Capitol building.
Subject	Fortifications; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Engineering & construction--Union
Theme	Visualizing the War
Story	Orlando Poe
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Nashville; United States--Tennessee--Chattanooga
Time period	1860-1869
Language	eng
Contributing Institution	Vanderbilt University Libraries
Rights	Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. For research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images, contact Vanderbilt University Libraries.
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,101
Source	Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies 1861-1865
Archival file	shades11/shades_van_0012.tif