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morning , to go and burn the " Red " and the " Columbia " bridges , across the
South Fork of the Shenandoah , on the ... Mantaur ' s company to get the " Red "
bridge ready for burning , but directing him not to fire it until I should have time to
...
morning , to go and burn the " Red " and the " Columbia " bridges , across the
South Fork of the Shenandoah , on the ... Mantaur ' s company to get the " Red "
bridge ready for burning , but directing him not to fire it until I should have time to
...
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I was sent on by the General , with 150 cavalry to burn the bridges on the
Shenandoah River below here . I rode on 10 miles to the first bridge and there left
a strong picket , and had the plank taken up at once , at one end , and
preparations ...
I was sent on by the General , with 150 cavalry to burn the bridges on the
Shenandoah River below here . I rode on 10 miles to the first bridge and there left
a strong picket , and had the plank taken up at once , at one end , and
preparations ...
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Our bridge guard was then firing at the enemy across the main Shenandoah
River below the bridge and the Yankee artillery , below Mrs . Yost ' s on Charles
Lewis ' land , opened on our troops and on the bridge . Soon as General Jackson
...
Our bridge guard was then firing at the enemy across the main Shenandoah
River below the bridge and the Yankee artillery , below Mrs . Yost ' s on Charles
Lewis ' land , opened on our troops and on the bridge . Soon as General Jackson
...
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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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