Potomac River showing picket lines, January 1862]

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Concerns Union and Confederate pickets positioned north and south around Pohick Church and Accotink in Fairfax County, Va., in January 1862. Includes a balloon pictured near Pohick Church and labeled as "December. 1861," but as noted in Sneden' s diary text on pp. 374-376, he indicates that Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe also was using the surveillance hot-air balloons in the same area in January of the next year.

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Size: 2178px × 1543px
Location: Potomac River, Virginia
Photo credit: © The Protected Art Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: army, balloons, cartographic, cartography, church, ci, civil, colored, federal, glendale, hand, maps, military, north, pohick, potomac, potomac., reconnaissance, union, war