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Make Me a Map Of the Valley: The Civil War Journal of Stonewall Jackson's Topographer. Written by Jedediah Hotchkiss, Edited by Archie P. McDonald and Forward by T. Harry Williams. Published by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas 1973.
*Signed by Editor Archie P. McDonald to Kenneth Fisher on October 5, 1982, when Mr. McDonald was presenting at the Civil
War Round Table of Eastern Pennsylvania.
1st Edition.
352 numbered pages.
Approximate dimensions: 9.25" x 6.25" x 1.25"
Library Of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-82036
ISBN: 0-787074-137-3
A portion of the inside dust jacket reads:
When Jedediah Hotchkiss obeyed Stonewall Jackson's first order to make him a map of the Shenandoah Valley, he entered upon a career which was to supply a desperate need of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Both sides had begun the war, as eminent Civil War historian T. Harry Williams points out in his Foreword to Make Me a Map of the Valley, "with no reliable maps of the area in which they would fight." United States government agencies had mapped such areas as the Great Lakes region and the Far West, but no one had thought to map the part of the country where the Union and Confederacy were to engage in their tragic struggle...
Condition: All pages are free of folds, marks or tears. Boards are straight. Dust jacket is in good condition with little wear/aging. Includes a Crystal Shield Booksaver around the dust jacket (not shown in photos due to glare). Please see the photos.
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