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Here for your enjoyment is an extraordinary map of New Market, Va., battlefield May 15, 1864 Surveyed in 1910-12 by B. Allison Colonna under the direction of B. A. Colonna, Cadet Captain, D Co., Corps of Cadets, Virginia Military Institute, May 15, 1864, and late asst., U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey in charge of office. Wm. E. Johnson, draftsman.
New Market, Battle of, New Market, Va., 1864.
"This map shows the battlefield as it was May 15, 1864. It is based on the Woodstock, Va., sheet of the U.S. Geological Survey as shown in the subsketch inset. The woods, orchards, houses and other cultural features are by Frank J. Bushong, the best living authority, confirmed by Mr. Hupp, of Sperryville, Va., who also pointed out on the ground the Imboden-Boyd action of May 13, 1864. The places where certain ones fell are from lifelong residents of New Market, who were there on the day of the battle, and from J. H. Dwyer, of Woodson's Missourians." Shows troop and artillery locatios, roads, rivers and vegetation
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