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I rode , by detours , very cautiously to the top of the ... 2 where I got Mr . Henry H .
Propes , a former pupil of mine at Mossy Creek , as a guide , and we rode up the
North Fork of Naked Creek , behind a low range of mountains between us and ...
I rode , by detours , very cautiously to the top of the ... 2 where I got Mr . Henry H .
Propes , a former pupil of mine at Mossy Creek , as a guide , and we rode up the
North Fork of Naked Creek , behind a low range of mountains between us and ...
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We then rode back to the gap and with great difficulty rode up a steep , rough way
, along a gorge , to the cleared fields on the top of the mountain to our left , called
Sitlington ' s Hill , where Gen . Jackson had already taken his command and ...
We then rode back to the gap and with great difficulty rode up a steep , rough way
, along a gorge , to the cleared fields on the top of the mountain to our left , called
Sitlington ' s Hill , where Gen . Jackson had already taken his command and ...
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J . M . McCue rode with me today on his way home . Friday , May 16th . I started
home in the morning and met a wagon load of my people in Jenning ' s Gap
coming to the army to see me ; we all turned back home . Drew my pay for April .
J . M . McCue rode with me today on his way home . Friday , May 16th . I started
home in the morning and met a wagon load of my people in Jenning ' s Gap
coming to the army to see me ; we all turned back home . Drew my pay for April .
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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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