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Heard the Yankees had left the Valley and that Gen . Jones had gone back to
Winchester . Dr . R . S . Hamilton and Mr . Booth dined with me at home . At night
went up for awhile and heard one of the plays of the Soldiers ' Aid Society .
Heard the Yankees had left the Valley and that Gen . Jones had gone back to
Winchester . Dr . R . S . Hamilton and Mr . Booth dined with me at home . At night
went up for awhile and heard one of the plays of the Soldiers ' Aid Society .
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I heard from home ; they had had a hard hail storm . I wrote at night to John B .
Baldwin and to young Forrer . Tuesday , April 28th . Worked awhile at map of
battle of Groveton , but the Gen . said I need not finish it but go to something else ,
as ...
I heard from home ; they had had a hard hail storm . I wrote at night to John B .
Baldwin and to young Forrer . Tuesday , April 28th . Worked awhile at map of
battle of Groveton , but the Gen . said I need not finish it but go to something else ,
as ...
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After dinner Robinson and I went over to Brandy Station and I called at the
Misses Wise and heard from home . We skirmished with the enemy on the other
side of the Rappahannock and were [ hauling ] away railroad iron . Tuesday ,
October ...
After dinner Robinson and I went over to Brandy Station and I called at the
Misses Wise and heard from home . We skirmished with the enemy on the other
side of the Rappahannock and were [ hauling ] away railroad iron . Tuesday ,
October ...
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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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