Stonewall's Prussian Mapmaker: The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs
- ISBN-10
- 1469614340
- ISBN-13
- 9781469614342
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 359
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Authors
- Robert K. Krick, Oscar Hinrichs
Description
Prussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jackson's staff, collaborated on maps with Jedediah Hotchkiss, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe Johnston, Richard H. Anderson, and Jubal Early. Hinrichs's detailed wartime journals, published here for the first time, shed new light on mapmaking as a tool of war, illuminate Jackson's notoriously superior strategic and tactical use of terrain, and offer unique perspectives on the lives of common soldiers, staff officers, and commanders in Lee's army. Impressively comprehensive, Hinrichs's writings constitute a valuable and revelatory primary source from the Civil War era.
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