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Four companies of infantry and three pieces of artillery were sent today to near
Swift Run Gap to quell the Rockingham rebellion in the Blue Ridge . After
reaching Mr . Rude ' s , in the afternoon of April 2nd , I wrote my wife : " We have
changed ...
Four companies of infantry and three pieces of artillery were sent today to near
Swift Run Gap to quell the Rockingham rebellion in the Blue Ridge . After
reaching Mr . Rude ' s , in the afternoon of April 2nd , I wrote my wife : " We have
changed ...
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He drove in several of the skirmishing parties which the enemy sent out to flank
his left , then sent for reinforcements . The [ 52nd ] Virginia , under Col . M . G .
Harman , came up and was posted on the left as skirmishers ; it drove back the ...
He drove in several of the skirmishing parties which the enemy sent out to flank
his left , then sent for reinforcements . The [ 52nd ] Virginia , under Col . M . G .
Harman , came up and was posted on the left as skirmishers ; it drove back the ...
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Stuart , in some force and they may attempt to turn our position from that direction
. General Jackson was at Mr . Yerby ' s last night and the messenger with the
news of the enemy ' s movement went there for him ; he sent Lieut - Smith to Gen
.
Stuart , in some force and they may attempt to turn our position from that direction
. General Jackson was at Mr . Yerby ' s last night and the messenger with the
news of the enemy ' s movement went there for him ; he sent Lieut - Smith to Gen
.
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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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