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MapMap of Virginia Shows canals and railways. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. LC copy imperfect: Torn along fold line and piece cut from lower left margin.
- Contributor: Hotchkiss, Jedediah - A. Hoen & Co
- Date: 1874-01-01
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MapOak Hill lots Shows properties in the Oak Hill section of Staunton, Virginia and names of some residents. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink and pencil on tracing linen, mounted on cloth. Title on verso obscured by mounting. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H335 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. In pencil on verso: 473.
- Contributor: Hotchkiss, Jedediah
- Date: 1874-01-01
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CollectionHotchkiss Map Collection The Hotchkiss Map Collection contains cartographic items made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828-1899), a topographic engineer in the Confederate Army. Hotchkiss made detailed battle maps primarily of the Shenandoah Valley, some of which were used by the Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson for their combat planning and strategy. Several of the maps have annotations of various military officers, demonstrating their...
- Date: 1828
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ArticleThe Hotchkiss Collection of Confederate Maps by Clara LeGear Jedediah Hotchkiss was born at Windsor, Broome County, N. Y., November 30, 1828. He was graduated from the Windsor Academy and early showed great interest in botany and in geology. In the winter of 1846-47, he taught school in Lykens Valley near Harrisburg, Pa., in a community where coal mines were being opened. In his spare time, he studied the geology...
- Date: 1828
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PDFThe Hotchkiss Collection of Confederate Maps The Hotchkiss Collection of Confederate Maps by Clara E. LeGear LeGear, Clara."The Hotchkiss Collection of Confederate Maps." Reproduced from Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions 6 (November 1948): 16-20 Jedediah Hotchkiss was born at Windsor, Broome County, N. Y., November 30, 1828. He was graduated from the Windsor Academy and early showed great interest in botany and in geology. In the winter...
- Contributor: Clara E. Legear, Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress
- Date: 1828