Make Me a Map of the Valley

by Hotchkiss, Jedediah; McDonald, Archie P.

• ISBN13: 9780870742705
• ISBN10: 0870742701
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-06-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

Records the daily observations over a three-year period of Jedediah Hotchkiss during his career as courier, soldier, mapmaker, and companion to the Confederate general

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
Introduction	xv
March 10-April 14, 1862
``I want you to make me a map of the Valley''	3	(21)
April 15-May 6, 1862
``Heaven only can tell what the future has in store for us''	24	(14)
May 7-June 19, 1862
``Our men would rather fight and march than dig''	38	(21)
June 24-August 31, 1862
``O Lord, give us the biggest kind of a victory''	59	(18)
September 1-December 31, 1862
``Maryland, My Maryland''	77	(28)
January 1-April 18, 1863
``Surely the Lord is on our side''	105	(28)
April 19-June 4, 1863
``I have fought a good fight, I have finished my work''	133	(15)
June 5-August 5, 1863
``But now he often wishes he had many Jacksons''	148	(18)
August 6-December 18, 1863
``I spent the day in camp''	166	(24)
December 19, 1863-May 3, 1864
``Alas we are fast passing away!''	190	(11)
May 4-August 3, 1864
``We spent the day in front of Washington''	201	(19)
August 4-December 31, 1864
``The Yankees got whipped and we got scared''	220	(31)
January 1-April 18, 1865
``Many of the soldiers have reached home''	251	(18)
Notes	269	(54)
Bibliography	323	(10)
Index	333