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| 1832 | June 3 |
born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, British
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| 1851 | family moves to New York |
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| 1858 | earliest known date on a Sneden watercolor, "Sneden’s
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| 1861 | June 14 |
informal job with 40th N.Y. (“Mozart”)
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| August 29 | arrives at “Camp Sackett” on Leesburg Turnpike
in northern Virginia where 40th N.Y. is camped; joins as a private |
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| 1862 | Jan 10 |
transferred from the 40th N.Y. to act as topographical
engineer on General Samuel P. Heintzelman’s staff at Fort Lyon, Virginia |
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| March 21 | with Heintzelman’s staff, boards
steamship for Hampton, Virginia, beginning of Peninsula Campaign |
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| Apr-July | participates in Peninsula campaign and Seven Days
battles |
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| July |
with the Army of the Potomac at Harrison’s
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| Aug | participates in Second Bull Run campaign |
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| Oct | on Heinzelman’s staff headquartered at Arlington
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| Dec 10 |
moves from Arlington House to 15th St and
Pennsylvania Avenue when Heintzelman is appointed to command the defenses
of Washington |
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| 1863 | Aug 25 |
tires of his work at headquarters in Washington;
assigned as map maker on. staff of General D. B. Birney and then on staff
of General William French, Third Corps, Army of the Potomac |
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| Oct 8 | leaves Washington, D.C., to rejoin Third
Corps near Brandy Station, Va. |
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| Nov 18 | at Miller’s House, near Brandy Station, HQ of
General French, Third Corps; when he learns the Mine Run campaign is about
to begin, he mails his diaries and drawings home to New York |
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| Nov 27 |
captured by John Singleton Mosby’s men
at Brandy Station, Virginia |
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| Nov 30 |
arrives on prison train in Richmond, Va. incarcerated
in Crew & Pemberton prison, a converted tobacco warehouse |
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| 1864 | Jan 15 |
attempted escape from prison |
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| Feb 22 | put on prison train at Richmond and shipped south |
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| Feb 24 |
arrives at Salisbury, North Carolina, prison
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| Feb 28 |
arrives at Andersonville, Georgia, prison
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| July 3 | witnesses battle between inmates and
raiders in Andersonville |
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| July 11 | witnesses execution of raiders in the stockade |
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| Sept 16 |
leaves Andersonville for Savannah prison
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| Nov 12 |
signs parole at Camp Lawton, Georgia, prison
camp to work for Surgeon Isaiah White C.S.A. |
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| Nov 23 |
arrives in Savannah. Surgeon White gives him
a pass and allows him to board at Pulaski Hotel |
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| Dec 3 | leaves Charleston on train for Florence, South Carolina,
prison camp still on parole to Surgeon White |
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| Dec 11 |
is exchanged and boards USS Varuna sailing
for Annapolis, Maryland |
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| Dec 17 |
Varuna arrives at Annapolis, Maryland |
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| Dec 26 |
arrives home in New York |
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| 1865 | Jan 30 |
musters out of 40th N.Y. "Mozart" Regiment |
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begins years work for architect William B.
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| 1877 |
moves to Greenwich, Conn., later to Monsey,
Rockland Co., N.Y. |
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| 1884 | Dec 10 |
Sneden applies for a pension |
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| 1884-87 |
Century Magazine’s serial on Civil War
(Nov. 1884 to Nov. 1887) includes one engraving based on a Sneden watercolor;
book form of the series, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, includes
several dozens engravings based on Sneden watercolors. |
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| 1905 | Jun 22 |
enters N.Y. State Soldiers & Sailors Home,
Bath, Steuben County, N.Y. |
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| 1918 | Sept 18 |
dies at Soldiers & Sailors Home, Bath, age
86; buried at national cemetery, Bath, N.Y. section J, row 11, grave 14. |
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| 1994 |
Virginia Historical Society acquires Sneden
scrapbook albums |
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| 1997-98 |
Virginia Historical Society acquires Sneden memoir
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