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First Battle of Manassas map

Original - A Confederate position map of the First Battle of Manassas, 1861. Includes some troop positions and lists of Confederate regiments with the names of their commanders. Relief shown by hachures. Digitally restored from pen-and-ink and pencil manuscript on tracing linen, mounted on paper (original 41cm x 41cm). Scale [1:63,360].

Reason

A manuscript map of the first major land battle of the American Civil War, known as First Battle of Bull Run in the North or First Battle of Manassas to the Confederates who made this document. Restored version of File:First Manassas map.jpg.

Articles this image appears in

Hachure map, First Bull Run Confederate order of battle

Creator

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• Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 06:54, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support. A high quality, high EV image with historic value. Mostlyharmless (talk) 10:44, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support per Durova.--Mbz1 (talk) 15:17, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support per nom --Noodle snacks (talk) 08:27, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support - LoC has some interesting images, don't they...great job again, Durova, and my apologies for not getting ere sooner. 20:28, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:First Manassas map2.jpg MER-C 03:30, 9 February 2009 (UTC)