Unfinished topographic map showing troop positions, roads, railroads, buildings, rural householders' names, fences, streams, vegetation, and streets of town of Franklin. Relief shown by hachures and form lines. Title from R.W. Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Probable preliminary drawing for the 1874 printed map of the same area which is "Compiled under the direction of Col. W.E. Merrill". Pen-and-ink (black/blue/red/brown), wash (brown), and lead pencil. Mounted on cloth backing. Watermark: J. Whatman 1865. Imperfect: Scattered water stains, halved for folding. Includes block-lettered lead-pencil annotation at lower right: [Battlefield in front of Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30/64 1874?].
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