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Book Stonewall Jackson s Map maker  Jed Hotchkiss

Download or read book Stonewall Jackson s Map maker Jed Hotchkiss written by Charles Hotchkiss Osterhout and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mapping for Stonewall

Download or read book Mapping for Stonewall written by William J. Miller and published by Elliott & Clark. This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True story of Jed Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson's mapmaker and friend.

Book Jedediah Hotchkiss

Download or read book Jedediah Hotchkiss written by Peter W. Roper and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a complete biography of a transplanted New Yorker who embraced the cause of Virginia and the Confederacy. Hotchkiss' learning and winning personality made him successful as a staff officer. His forte as a military cartographer soon became apparent to Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. But Roper's ten-year study of Hotchkiss shows us more than the work and challenges of a mid-level staff officer illustrating the Confederate way of war in the East. His postwar life is even more fascinating. Hotchkiss embraced the cause of the "New South" and applied his skills and enthusiasm to the Shenandoah Valley and surrounding parts of Virginia and West Virginia, working on behalf of industry and railroading. Fully documented here are Hotchkiss' efforts to promote the Lost Cause and recapture the truth of Civil War campaigns through his maps. His friendships with former Confederate personalities provide an unusual chapter in Reconstruction and New South history."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Make Me a Map of the Valley

Download or read book Make Me a Map of the Valley written by Jedediah Hotchkiss and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Make Me a Map of the Valley  from T J  Jackson     to Jed  Hotchkiss

Download or read book Make Me a Map of the Valley from T J Jackson to Jed Hotchkiss written by Jedediah Hotchkiss and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Civil War Battles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chester G. Hearn
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781592239528
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Civil War Battles written by Chester G. Hearn and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Civil War Battles traces the battles, marches, and actions of the Civil War through the maps and journals of Jed Hotchkiss, as well as diaries, journals and other primary sources written by Civil War soldiers. Hotchkiss' maps provide a unique chronology of the Civil War from early 1861 through March 1865. Included are 40 of his smaller maps, covering every battle and campaign in which he left a record. There are also several animated action scenes, including a scouting expedition at Stony Creek."--Publisher's description.

Book Major General Robert E Rodes of the Army of Northern Virginia

Download or read book Major General Robert E Rodes of the Army of Northern Virginia written by Darrell Collins and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR BIOGRAPHY, 2008, ARMY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD WINNER, 2009, THE DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN AWARD FOR BEST BOOK ON SOUTHERN HISTORY Jedediah Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson’s renowned mapmaker, expressed the feelings of many contemporaries when he declared that Robert Rodes was the best division commander in the Army of Northern Virginia. This well-deserved accolade is all the more remarkable considering that Rodes, a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and a prewar railroad engineer, was one of a very few officers in Lee’s army to rise so high without the benefit of a West Point education. Major General Robert E. Rodes of the Army of Northern Virginia: A Biography, is the first deeply researched scholarly biography on this remarkable Confederate officer. From First Manassas in 1861 to Third Winchester in 1864, Rodes served in all the great battles and campaigns of the legendary Army of Northern Virginia. He quickly earned a reputation as a courageous and inspiring leader who delivered hard-hitting attacks and rock steady defensive efforts. His greatest moment came at Chancellorsville in the spring of 1863, when he spearheaded Stonewall Jackson’s famous flank attack that crushed the left wing of General Hooker’s Army of the Potomac. Rodes began the conflict with a deep yearning for recognition and glory, coupled with an indifferent attitude toward religion and salvation. When he was killed at the height of his glorious career at Third Winchester on September 19, 1864, a trove of prayer books and testaments were found on his corpse. Based upon exhaustive new research, Darrell Collins’s new biography breathes life into a heretofore largely overlooked Southern soldier. Although Rodes’ widow consigned his personal papers to the flames after the war, Collins has uncovered a substantial amount of firsthand information to complete this compelling portrait of one of Robert E. Lee’s most dependable field generals. Darrell L. Collins is the author of several books on the Civil War, including General William Averell’s Salem Raid: Breaking the Knoxville Supply Line (1999) and Jackson’s Valley Campaign: The Battles of Cross Keys and Port Republic (The Virginia Civil War Battles and Leaders Series, 1993). A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Darrell and his wife Judith recently relocated to Conifer, Colorado.

Book Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War

Download or read book Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War written by Earl B. McElfresh and published by . This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, a good map could spell the difference between victory and defeat. This book collects the war's most notable, interesting, and beautiful maps--and tells the story of how they were made. Ranging from exquisitely detailed renderings reproduced in full color to rough pencil sketches drawn from horseback, these maps are both striking works of art and invaluable historical artifacts. The anecdotal text explains the techniques and travails of mapmaking during the war and reveals the little-known cartographic exploits of George Armstrong Custer, writer Ambrose Bierce, and Brooklyn Bridge engineer Washington Roebling, among many others.

Book Stonewall s Prussian Mapmaker

Download or read book Stonewall s Prussian Mapmaker written by Oscar Hinrichs and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonewall's Prussian Mapmaker: The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs

Book Stonewall s Prussian Mapmaker

Download or read book Stonewall s Prussian Mapmaker written by Richard Brady Williams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-07-19 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jackson's staff, collaborated on maps with Jedediah Hotchkiss, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe Johnston, Richard H. Anderson, and Jubal Early. After being smuggled along the Rebel Secret Line in southern Maryland by John Surratt Sr., his wife Mary, and other Confederate sympathizers, Hinrichs saw action in key campaigns from the Shenandoah Valley and Antietam to Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Appomattox. After the Confederate surrender, Hinrichs was arrested alongside his friend Henry Kyd Douglas and imprisoned under suspicion of having played a role in the Booth conspiracy, though the charges were later dropped. Hinrichs's detailed wartime journals, published here for the first time, shed new light on mapmaking as a tool of war, illuminate Stonewall Jackson's notoriously superior strategic and tactical use of terrain, and offer unique perspectives on the lives of common soldiers, staff officers, and commanders in Lee's army. Impressively comprehensive, Hinrichs's writings constitute a valuable and revelatory primary source from the Civil War era.

Book History of the Campaign of Gen  T  J  Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia  from November 4  1861  to June 17  1862     with     Maps     by Jed  Hotchkiss    Scholar s Choice Edition

Download or read book History of the Campaign of Gen T J Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia from November 4 1861 to June 17 1862 with Maps by Jed Hotchkiss Scholar s Choice Edition written by William Allan and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book History of the Campaign of Gen  T  J  Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia  From November 4  1861  to June 17  1862     With     maps     by Jed  Hotchkiss

Download or read book History of the Campaign of Gen T J Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia From November 4 1861 to June 17 1862 With maps by Jed Hotchkiss written by William ALLAN (late Lieut.-Col., Second Corps, A.N.V.) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Partnership

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christian B Keller
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2019-07-02
  • ISBN : 1643131737
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Great Partnership written by Christian B Keller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were Generals Lee and Jackson so successful in their partner- ship in trying to win the war for the South? What was it about their styles, friendship, even their faith, that cemented them together into a fighting machine that consistently won despite often overwhelming odds against them?The Great Partnership has the power to change how we think about Confederate strategic decision-making and the value of personal relationships among senior leaders responsible for organizational survival. Those relationships in the Confederate high command were particularly critical for victory, especially the one that existed between the two great Army of Northern Virginia generals.It has been over two decades since any author attempted a joint study of the two generals. At the very least, the book will inspire a very lively debate among the thousands of students of Civil War his- tory. At best, it will significantly revise how we evaluate Confederate strategy during the height the war and our understanding of why, in the end, the South lost.

Book Those Damn Horse Soldiers

Download or read book Those Damn Horse Soldiers written by George Walsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jackson s Valley Campaign

Download or read book Jackson s Valley Campaign written by David G. Martin and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a few short months in the Shenandoah Valley, Stonewall Jackson rewrote military history. Accompanied by George Patton's great-uncle and a staff of able subordinates, the Bible-quoting general used his own unique view of past military doctrine to defeat a series of converging enemy armies. American military strategy has never been the same since. Jackson's aggressive personality enabled him to constantly maintain the initiative. While cloaking his own operations in tight security, he was often able to discern the aims of his opponent. Frequently outnumbered, he managed to keep enemy units separated, and to defeat them in detail. Jackson was able to co-ordinate infantry, cavalry, and artillery operations, and was particularly successful in turning the normally slow-moving infantry into an effective mobile strike force.Jackson's Valley Campaign is supplemented by sidebars on famous units, weapons, incidents, and in-depth personality profiles of Jackson and his opponents. Complete orders of battle and special maps that clearly illustrate Jackson's operational doctrine are enhanced by unique charts that show the distances and rates of march of Jackson's "foot cavalry" between all major points in the Shenandoah Valley.In the long-awaited revision of his out-of-print classic, the author describes Jackson's war of maneuver and the tactical ideas it represented, without losing sight of the individuals and units on both sides who tested military theory with their lives. John C. Frémont, "Napoleon" Banks, Turner Ashby, Belle Boyd, the Louisiana Tigers, Blenker's German Division, and the Stonewall Brigade all live again in this colorful but thoughtfully written account.

Book Stonewall Jackson

Download or read book Stonewall Jackson written by Ethan S. Rafuse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough and effectively executed study, this biography will appeal to anyone interested in Stonewall Jackson and the military history of the Civil War. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was one of the greatest generals of the Civil War and remains an iconic figure of American history. Stonewall Jackson: A Biography offers a complete yet concise account of Jackson's life and career, illuminating the forces and events that shaped both. The study is organized chronologically, beginning with Jackson's hardscrabble upbringing in the mountains of western Virginia. It follows him through the experiences that brought him to 1861, when he won the nickname "Stonewall" on the battlefield of the first great battle of the Civil War, and then traces his military career and role in the Confederate victories of 1861–1863. Throughout, the biography never loses sight of the man himself. Readers will understand both Jackson's impact on military history and the qualities that enabled him to achieve personal satisfaction and fame as one of history's great soldiers.