File:(Map of the lower Potomac River showing picket lines, January 1862) LOC gvhs01.vhs00059.jpg

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English: 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 labelled as "Decr. 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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[Map of the lower Potomac River showing picket lines, January 1862]
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https://www.loc.gov/item/001-CABIB20005779/
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Author Sneden, Robert Knox
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United States · Accotink · Fairfax County · Potomac River · Virginia
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American Memory · Civil War Maps
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Accotink · Aerial Operations · Maps · Virginia · Civil War · United States · Pohick Church (Fairfax County, Va.) · Accotink (Va.) · Fairfax County · (Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt) · Lowe, T. S. C. · Balloons · Potomac River · History

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