Birds Eye View of the Seat of War Around Richmond – Antique Wall Map
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Step back in time with Birds Eye View of the Seat of War Around Richmond, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Birds Eye View of the Seat of War Around Richmond
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Drawn from an elevated oblique angle, this view presents the country around Richmond as a single landscape, with rivers, roads, and fortified lines laid out for the viewer to follow. Richmond became the Confederate capital in 1861, and the surrounding ground was fought over repeatedly in campaigns to take the city, including the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles in 1862 and the later operations of 1864 and 1865. Bird's-eye views like this were popular in the 19th century because they let newspaper readers and military audiences grasp the geography of distant fighting at a glance.
| Original scan | 8,846 × 6,221 px · prints to 29 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | cw0621000 |
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