Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of the Organized Militia and Volunteers of the United States: Appendix |
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20 feet 880 contour abbreviations adjacent contours Alter your drawing angle or sharp approximately round arrow CHIEF OF STAFF clay mound closed contours closed form contour bend contour round contour stand contours represent contours show conventional signs Corral Creek depression dowels figure 11 fordable given map ground distance ground feature ground forms hachures height horizontal distance inch Indicate character instance island know the vertical line marked 880 lines of sight long narrow look map a line map distance map position map shows MAPS AND SKETCHES Merritt Hill MILITARY MAP READING Missouri objects or features ordinary map outline piece of ground pond proportional in length put the lines read a map real distance ridge road round bay round the nose scale of distances show SLOPES show the shape skeleton mound stream lines stream run true north United States Army United States Penitentiary valley vertical interval WAR DEPARTMENT water's edge watermark
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Page 18 - Field Maps and Sketches. The following abbreviations and signs are authorized for use on field maps and sketches. For more elaborate map work the authorized conventional signs aa given in the manual of " Conventional Signs, United States Army Maps," are used. Abbreviations other than those given should not be used. ABBREVIATIONS. A. abut. Ar. b. BS bot. Br. br. C. cem. con. cov.
Page 18 - W, w. wd, Point. Queen-post River. Roundhouse. Railroad. South. Steel. Schoolhouse. Sawmill. Station, Stone, Stream. Tollgate. Trestle. Truss. Water Tank. Waterworks. West. Wood. Wide. SIGNS— HELD MAPS AND SKETCHES.
Page 19 - If boundary tines are fences they are indicated as such Brush, crops or grass, important as cover or forage I Cemetery
Page 18 - Ft Arroyo. Abutment. Arch. Brick. Blacksmith Shop. Bottom. Branch, Bridge. Cape, Cemetery. Concrete. Covered. Creek.
Page 10 - the water's edge of a lake, but horizontally they wander back and forth to just as great a degree. The
Page 7 - If the map has no arrow, you must locate some objects or features on the ground, and on the map,
Page 18 - Life-Saving Station. L, H, Lighthouse Long, Longitude, Mt, Mountain. Mts. Mountains, N. North.
Page 19 - Meaning wooden kingpost bridge,40feet lon|,20feet wide, and 10 feet above the water