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    "title": "Map of the seat of war, positions of the rebel forces, batteries, entrenchments, and encampments in Virginia-the fortifications for the protection of Richmond",
    "description": "Includes a mileage table.",
    "date": "[\"[1861]\"]",
    "year": 1861,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:xg94j2376",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_006565",
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
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        "Fortification--Virginia",
        "Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps"
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        "North and Central America",
        "United States",
        "Virginia"
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    "extent": "1 map : col. ; 40 x 32 cm, on sheet 52 x 39 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "Includes a mileage table.",
        "Reference is made in the lower margin to the \"Battle of Bull's [sic] Run, fought on Sunday, the 21st July [1861], about 22,000 unionists and about 60,000 rebels were in the engagement.\"",
        "An earlier version of this map was published in the morning edition of the New York Herald, June 17, 1861. See Civil War Maps entry no. 451.3.",
        "Description derived from published bibliography."
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