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Sketch of Dover, Stewart Co. (Tenn.) Showing the Site of the U.S. Military Cemetery at Fort Donelson and Its Surroundings

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Title	Sketch of Dover, Stewart Co. (Tenn.) Showing the Site of the U.S. Military Cemetery at Fort Donelson and Its Surroundings
Alternate Title	Fort Donelson
Date	circa 1867-1868
Genre	Drawings Maps
Material/Technique	ink and colored wash on paper
Description	Hand-drawn pictorial map depicting part of the fort itself, the Cumberland River,and the town of Dover. A red line highlights a section labeled "military cemetery." Below it the word "Freestate" is written and in parenthesis: "camp of contrabands."
Historical note	This document is one of the very few to identify a location and approximate size for a "contraband camp." Such camps were often found near Union fortifications. Many African American former slaves and other persons who had escaped through enemy lines sought protection and sometimes employment as Union forces coming into the South. Since Tennessee was in the northernmost portion of the western war theater, some of the earliest contraband camps were established in or around strategic transportation corridors, such as at Dover, at Memphis, and at Grand Junction, an important railroad intersection between Memphis and Corinth, Mississippi.
Subject	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans
Theme	Building a Future
Story	McKissacks, Wessyngton
Geographic Location	United States -- Tennessee -- Fort Donelson; United States--Tennessee--Grand Junction; United States--Tennessee--Memphis
Time period	1860-1869
Language	eng
Contributing Institution	Fort Donelson, National Park Service
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 Fort Donelson, National Park Service, or the National Archives & Records Administration.
Credit line	Courtesy of Fort Donelson, National Park Service, original held by National Archives & Records Administration
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Archival file	shades3/shades_nps_0001.tif