Reconciling a Map and Sketch

[Bradley]

I was wondering if someone might help me identify a couple of points of interest in this cropped sketch made by A.E. Mathews, 31st O.V.I.,

There is a white house, circled in the sketch and on the map, that I cannot identify. I am reasonably confident this is not the Rock House north of Jackson Road, as you'll note Mathews has drawn three separate structures which correspond exactly to the three structures circled on the map.

Also, Mathews depicts a few earthworks along Moore's line in the full-size sketch, which I have marked A, two or three cannon visible, and B. I realize now I have mistakenly cropped out another earthwork with three cannon visible, we'll call C. All three of these earthworks are still visible at the park, I think, with maybe a solitary cannon at each place, but I have not photographed their markers on my numerous trips. Landis' (Missouri) Battery is one, for sure, who would the other cannon belong to?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Bradley]

Combing through my pictures from Vicksburg, I reckon I have found my answer to the second question on the marker at "C"

 

[Yankeedave]

Interesting work my friend.

 

[Vicksburger]

I was wondering if someone might help me identify a couple of points of interest in this cropped sketch made by A.E. Mathews, 31st O.V.I.,

There is a white house, circled in the sketch and on the map, that I cannot identify. I am reasonably confident this is not the Rock House north of Jackson Road, as you'll note Mathews has drawn three separate structures which correspond exactly to the three structures circled on the map.

Also, Mathews depicts a few earthworks along Moore's line in the full-size sketch, which I have marked A, two or three cannon visible, and B. I realize now I have mistakenly cropped out another earthwork with three cannon visible, we'll call C. All three of these earthworks are still visible at the park, I think, with maybe a solitary cannon at each place, but I have not photographed their markers on my numerous trips. Landis' (Missouri) Battery is one, for sure, who would the other cannon belong to?

Thanks in advance!

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Those A. E. Mathews sketches have long interested me and I will be interested to see if some on this site can come up with the answers!

 

[tony_gunter]

That area is where the Wildwood Subdivision and Mercy Hospital are today. I believe both were built in the 1950's. I pinged my Vicksburg neighborhood group to see if anyone remembered who owned the land before it was developed and nobody remembers.

 

[tony_gunter]

That area is where the Wildwood Subdivision and Mercy Hospital are today. I believe both were built in the 1950's. I pinged my Vicksburg neighborhood group to see if anyone remembered who owned the land before it was developed and nobody remembers.

Apparently, this land was incorporated as The Vicksburg Sanitarium in 1903 by Dr. D. P. Street. Possibly it was family land? His brothers became involved in the operation of the sanitarium later.

https://cite.case.law/miss/209/427/

 

[tony_gunter]

Apparently, this land was incorporated as The Vicksburg Sanitarium in 1903 by Dr. D. P. Street. Possibly it was family land? His brothers became involved in the operation of the sanitarium later.

https://cite.case.law/miss/209/427/

Scratch that. The original Mercy Hospital was at 900 Crawford Street in uptown. Still don't know who owned the land under the current Mercy Hospital building.

 

[Bradley]

I am thinking the group of buildings in the Mathews sketch and featured on the Comstock map were somewhere in this red circle. The Comstock map is very good, but not exactly perfect especially in this area we are looking. I have two likely locations, roughly 1,000 ft. apart, if Google's elevation actually corresponds to Comstock's map. I am thinking the lower-right "X" is most likely of the two.

I think this would be about 1,000 ft. or so north-west of the subdivision you reference, @tony_gunter ?

The funny thing is if we relied more on the artist's sketch, where the group of buildings are almost dead-center but slightly north of "A" battery in the drawing, the next best location for those buildings would be north of Acorn Street, not south.

 

[tony_gunter]

I am thinking the group of buildings in the Mathews sketch and featured on the Comstock map were somewhere in this red circle. The Comstock map is very good, but not exactly perfect especially in this area we are looking. I have two likely locations, roughly 1,000 ft. apart, if Google's elevation actually corresponds to Comstock's map. I am thinking the lower-right "X" is most likely of the two.

I think this would be about 1,000 ft. or so north-west of the subdivision you reference, @tony_gunter ?

Yeah, but I was thinking whoever owned that huge chunk of property between Grove Street and East Main probably lived on East Main because Grove Street is in the bottoms. So if we find out who sold that piece of land where the subdivision was developed it might lead to the answer.

East Main follows a ridge all the way to the Jackson Road that was the same elevation as the Confederate defenses.