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Subject: Library of Congress: Hotchkiss Map Collection Online
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005
From: Wishard, Lisa A <[log in to unmask]>
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From: Laura Gottesman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 9:05 AM
To: Laura Gottesman
Subject: [DIGLIB] Library of Congress: Hotchkiss Map Collection Online

Please excuse any cross-postings:

The Library of Congress's Geography and Map Division is pleased to
announce the release of a new American Memory collection: "The Hotchkiss
Map Collection: Confederate Army Maps" <
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/maps/hotchkiss/ >.

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 importance in the military campaigns. The
collection also includes maps made or used by Hotchkiss during his
post-war years, including maps with information about railroads,
minerals and mining, geology and history, most of which focus on
Virginia and West Virginia, but also cover other states and even the
world.

The collection consists of 341 sketchbooks, manuscripts, and annotated
printed maps, the originals of which reside in the Library of Congress'
Geography and Map Division.

This online presentation includes all the materials in the Hotchkiss Map
Collection, some of which also appear in the American Memory collection:
"Civil War Maps, 1861-1865" <
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/ >.

Please direct any questions about this collection to the Library of
Congress's Geography and Map Division: <
http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-geogmap2.html >.



Laura Gottesman
Reference Specialist
The Library of Congress