A Map of the Valley
Major Jedediah Hotchkiss, a topographic engineer in the Confederate Army worked principally in the West Virginia and Virginia areas that he had toured during his earlier geological studies. He prepared maps and provided geographic intelligence for Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Richard Ewell, Jubal A. Early, and John B. Gordon. Hotchkiss’s remarkable “Map of the Shenandoah Valley,” measuring approximately three feet by eight feet, was prepared at the request of Stonewall Jackson. It shows the offensive and defensive points of the Shenandoah Valley from the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry to Lexington,Virginia. Hotchkiss also filled several notebooks, like those shown here, with topographic and strategic drawings that he stated “were made on horseback just as they now appear.”
Major Jedediah Hotchkiss, a topographic engineer in the Confederate Army worked principally in the West Virginia and Virginia areas that he had toured during his earlier geological studies. He prepared maps and provided geographic intelligence for Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Richard Ewell, Jubal A. Early, and John B. Gordon. Hotchkiss’s remarkable “Map of the Shenandoah Valley,” measuring approximately three feet by eight feet, was prepared at the request of Stonewall Jackson. It shows the offensive and defensive points of the Shenandoah Valley from the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry to Lexington,Virginia. Hotchkiss also filled several notebooks, like those shown here, with topographic and strategic drawings that he stated “were made on horseback just as they now appear.”