Mapping for Stonewall; The Civil War Service of Jed Hotchkiss

by Miller, William J.

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First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

Washington DC: Elliot & Clark Publishing, 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The format is approximately 9.25 inches by 11.25 inches. 176 pages. Illustrations. Maps (some with color). Endnotes. Bibliographic Essay. Index. Autographed sticker on front of the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Illustrated endpaper. Gracefully written and necessarily selective (the huge collection of Hotchkiss's papers contains some 20,000 items). Profiles, with a focus on the war years, the extraordinary man who served as topographical engineer to some of the great leaders of the Confederacy. William J. Miller has written or edited seven books and published more than 100 articles on the Civil War including Mapping for Stonewall: The Civil War Service of Jed Hotchkiss, winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award. His next book, Great Maps of the Civil War, was published in 2004. A former editor of Civil War Magazine, Miller is a strong advocate of battlefield preservation. He was a founding director of the Richmond Battlefields Association and has served as a director or adviser of various preservation organizations, including the Kernstown Battlefield Association, Protect Historic America, and the Save the Battlefield Coalition. He lives in Virginia s Shenandoah Valley. Jedediah Hotchkiss (November 30, 1828 - January 17, 1899), known most frequently as Jed, was a teacher and the most famous cartographer and topographer of the American Civ

• Publisher: Elliot & Clark Publishing
• Year: 1993
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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