From the Political Mag., ii. 624, being the westerly half of the map there given, originally published in London, Nov. 30, 1781, by J. Bew. Faden published in 1781 A Plan of the Entrance of Chesapeake Bay, with James and York Rivers, by an officer, which shows the condition in the beginning of October.—Ed.
SIEGE OF YORKTOWN, 1781. (Ramsay.)
Note on the Maps of the Yorktown Campaign.—There is among the Rochambeau maps the original sketch, done with a pen and a wash, 40×12 inches, showing the different encampments of the French army between Boston and Yorktown, which is etched in Soulés' Histoire des Troubles de l'Amérique Anglaise, and reproduced in Balch's Les Français en Amérique, and in Mag. of Amer. Hist., v. p. 1, and vii. pp. 8, 12, 17.
The route of the allies from Chatham to Head of Elk, by Lieutenant Hills, a British map, is in Mag. of Amer. Hist., v. 16. Cf., for a general view, Harper's Mag., lxiii. p. 328. The best account of this march and the return to Boston is by J. A. Stevens in Mag. Amer. Hist., iii. 393; iv. 1; v. 1; vii. 1.
The earliest American map of the siege is one by Sebastian Bauman, an officer of German extraction attached to Lamb's artillery, whose draft was engraved in Philadelphia in 1782. There are copies in the N. Y. and Penna. Hist. Societies, and, reduced one half, it is given in the Mag. of Amer. Hist. (vol. vi. 57), and it is also in Johnston's Yorktown, p. 198. There is among the Rochambeau maps in the library of Congress (no. 63) a Plan of the investment of York and Gloucester by Sebastian Bauman; the French in yellow, the Americans in blue, and the English in red.
The earliest American maps issued to accompany narratives were Ramsay's in his Rev. in So. Carolina, ii. 545 (reproduced herewith, and followed in Harper's Mag., lxiii. 333, and Lowell's Hessians, 278); Gordon's, in his vol. iv. 196, also follows Bauman; Marshall's, in his Atlas to his Washington (reproduced herewith). Later published are the maps in Sparks's Washington, viii. 186; in Atlas to Guizot's Washington; in Irving's Washington, quarto ed., iv. 356; E. M. Stone's Our French Allies, 424; Carrington's Battles, 646; Lossing's Field-Book, ii. 518; Ridpath's United States; J. A. Stevens's Yorktown Centennial Handbook; Johnston's Yorktown (pp. 133, 144).
The leading British map of the siege is A Plan of Yorktown and Gloucester ... from an actual survey in the possession of Jno. Hills, late lieut. in the 23d Regiment (Faden, London, Oct. 7, 1785). There is another dated March 1, 1787, and, though a different plate, it corresponds nearly to the one in Stedman, ii. 412, which is reproduced in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., vi. p. 8; Tarleton's Campaigns, ch. vii.; R. E. Lee's ed. of Henry Lee's Memoirs, etc., p. 300; Hamilton, Repub. of the U. S., ii. 263. Other early English maps are: A Plan of the Posts of York and Gloucester in the Province of Virginia, established by his Majesty's Army, etc., which terminated in the Surrender ... on the 17th Oct., 1781. Surveyed by Capt. Fage of the Royal Artillery, which contains a small plan showing the position of the army between the ravines. What appears to be an original map is the Plan of York Town shewing the Batteries and Approaches of the French and Americans, 1781, on p. 61 of the Memoir of General Graham. A large map in colors is: Plan of York Town in Virginia and adjacent country exhibiting the operations of the American, French, and English armies during the siege of that place in Oct. 1781, by J. F. Renault. Leake's Lamb, p. 278, contains a fair map, with contours shown, although incorrectly.
There are MS. maps of the siege in the British Museum. Other MS. maps of Yorktown and the neighboring waters, including the drawn plan made for Faden's engraved map, are among the Faden maps (nos. 90, 91, 92) in the library of Congress.