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Repository	Outer Banks History Center
Title	A Sketch of Roanoke Island, N.C.
Date Published	1866
Date Depicted	1862
Creator - Individual	Foster, John G. (John Gray), 1823-1874.
Creator - Organization	United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Bowen & Co.
Place of Publication	Philadelphia
Publisher	Bowen & Co.
Caption	Under title: "Report of Maj. Gen. J.G. Foster to the Committee on the Conduct of the War. Bown & Co. lith. Phila." Includes notes: "Fort Huger...12 guns and hot shot-furnace. Fort Blanchard...4 guns. Fort Bartow...8 guns. Ballast Pt. Batty...2 guns." Legend indicates where "Landing Place, "Battle was fought" and "Rebels surrendered."
Abstract	Printed. This map was prepared to accompany a report of Major General John Gray Foster (1823-1874) to the congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. It was printed by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia and published in and extracted from the Supplemental Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, (Washington, 1866), volume 2. The map portrays Roanoke Island and vicinity at the time of the Battle of Roanoke Island in 1862 and shows the locations of fortifications and the positions of the United States and Confederate naval forces. Notes in the lower left corner report the number of guns at each of the forts on the island and the locations of the landing place of Federal troops, the site of the battle, and the place of the surrender of the Confederates.
Bibliographic Note	This map was formerly classified as 33 MAP-O-182.
Related Item	Published in: Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. (Washington : G.P.O. 1866) Vol. 2.
OCLC	13907457
Type	Military
Details	Battles Legends
Subject - Geographic	Roanoke Island (N.C.) -- History -- Capture, 1862 -- Maps. North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps.
Places Depicted	Roanoke Island (N.C.)
West Longitude	-75.833333
East Longitude	-75.522222
North Latitude	35.983333
South Latitude	35.763889
Scale	Scale not given.
Size	21.9 x 23.2 cm.
Medium	Paper
Format	Maps
Language	English
Digital Collection	North Carolina Maps
Host	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sponsor	North Carolina Maps is made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina.
Call Number	MC.175.1866f;MARS Id 3.14.99

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