| 1832 |
June 3 |
born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, British provinces of America
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| 1851 |
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family moves to New York |
| 1858 |
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earliest known date on a Sneden watercolor, "Sneden’s Landing, opposite Dobb’s Ferry, Hudson River, N.Y." |
| 1861 |
June 14 |
informal job with 40th N.Y. (“Mozart”) Regiment as assistant quartermaster |
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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 |
| 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 Landing |
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Aug |
participates in Second Bull Run campaign |
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Oct |
on Heinzelman’s staff headquartered at Arlington House |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 camp |
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Feb 28 |
arrives at Andersonville, Georgia, prison camp |
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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 camp |
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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 |
| 1865 |
Jan 30 |
musters out of 40th N.Y. "Mozart" Regiment |
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winter |
begins years work for architect William B. Olmsted, 50 Wall St. |
| 1877 |
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moves to Greenwich, Conn., later to Monsey, Rockland Co., N.Y. |
| 1884 |
Dec 10 |
Sneden applies for a pension |
| 1884-87 |
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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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| 1904 |
Jun 22 |
enters N.Y. State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Bath, Steuben County, N.Y. |
| 1918 |
Sept 18 |
dies at Soldiers & Sailors Home, Bath, age 86; buried at national cemetery, Bath, N.Y. section J, row 11, grave 14. |
| 1994 |
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Virginia Historical Society acquires Sneden scrapbook albums |
| 1997-98 |
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Virginia Historical Society acquires Sneden memoir albums |
