Stonewall's Prussian mapmaker : the journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs / edited by Richard Brady Williams ; foreword by Robert K. Krick.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Civil War America (Series)
Main Author: Hinrichs, Oscar
Other Authors: Williams, Richard Brady (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Series:Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:
Hinrichs, Oscar > Diaries.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Confederate.
Confederate States of America. > Army > Officers > Diaries.
Cartographers > Confederate States of America > Diaries.
German American soldiers > Confederate States of America > Diaries.
Soldiers > Confederate States of America > Diaries.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Cartography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Maps.
Maps.
Genre:
Diaries.
Personal narratives, Confederate.
Maps.
Physical Description:xxvii, 359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Leaving the country: November 1860-November 1861
  • Crossing to Virginia: November 20, 1861-January 3, 1862
  • Appointment in the Engineer Corps: January 4, 1862-March 1, 1862
  • Retreat from Yorktown: March 2, 1862-May 6, 1862
  • Jackson in the Valley: May 7, 1862-June 25, 1862
  • The fights around Richmond: June 26, 1862-July 6, 1862
  • The Maryland shore: July 7, 1862-December 31, 1862
  • The Pennsylvania line: January 1, 1863-June 28, 1863
  • General Lee at Gettysburg: June 29, 1863-August 31, 1863
  • The Battle of Payne's Farm: September 1, 1863-December 31, 1863
  • Winter quarters: January 1, 1864-February 29, 1864
  • Nothing but death: March 1, 1864-May 21, 1864
  • Attacks on our lines: May 22, 1864-June 14, 1864
  • In front of Washington: June 16, 1864-July 15, 1864
  • On the Valley Pike: July 16, 1864-August 18, 1864
  • A game of bluff: August 19, 1864-September 5, 1864
  • Calamity and defeat: September 6, 1864-September 17, 1864
  • A day long to be remembered: September 18, 1864-September 30, 1864
  • Put them into the infantry: October 1, 1864-October 14, 1864
  • We lost nearly everything: October 15, 1864-November 30, 1864
  • Leave for Petersburg: December 1, 1864-December 31, 1864
  • Capture of Fort Fisher: January 1, 1865-January 31, 1865
  • General Pegram was killed: February 1, 1865-February 28, 1865
  • Lines around Petersburg: March 1, 1865-March 25, 1865
  • The last battle of this army: March 26, 1865-April 19, 1865.