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I am keeping a sort of Sunday , abstaining from work . The work of last Sunday (
the battle of Kernstown ) turned out so disastrously for us that I suppose we
should try and keep more Sundays hereafter , though it is almost impossible to
keep ...
I am keeping a sort of Sunday , abstaining from work . The work of last Sunday (
the battle of Kernstown ) turned out so disastrously for us that I suppose we
should try and keep more Sundays hereafter , though it is almost impossible to
keep ...
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Sunday , June 29th . Went home in the morning and spent the day there ; my wife
not well . The people much rejoiced at the news . It rained in P . M . ; heavy
thunder . Went back to Staunton , in P . M . we heard of the continuation of the
fight ...
Sunday , June 29th . Went home in the morning and spent the day there ; my wife
not well . The people much rejoiced at the news . It rained in P . M . ; heavy
thunder . Went back to Staunton , in P . M . we heard of the continuation of the
fight ...
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for Richmond Monday and he started at midnight , Sunday , so as not to travel
Sunday ; but I convinced him that we did not start until Wednesday . He said he
had got it confounded with the next Sunday when he went to Richmond , from ...
for Richmond Monday and he started at midnight , Sunday , so as not to travel
Sunday ; but I convinced him that we did not start until Wednesday . He said he
had got it confounded with the next Sunday when he went to Richmond , from ...
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Contents
MARCH 10APRIL 14 1862 | 3 |
APRIL 15MAY 6 1862 | 24 |
MAY 7JUNE 19 1862 | 38 |
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| Title | Make Me a Map of the Valley: The Civil War Journal of Stonewall Jackson's Topographer Issue 1 of Bicentennial series in American studies |
| Author | Jedediah Hotchkiss |
| Editor | Archie P. McDonald |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Southern Methodist University Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0870741373, 9780870741371 |
| Length | 352 pages |
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