GDG- RE: Pipe Creek

[jack]

Thanks Tom. My respect for Jackso diminishes.

I'll have to see if i can find that old Cartog rapher's issue.

My respect for Jackson diminishes.

Have you ever seen the map?

Regards,

Jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>
To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:20 PM
Subject: RE: GDG- RE: Pipe Creek


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> <<I think the Hotchkiss map was a map that jackson had requestyed a year 
> or
> so
> earlier>>
>
> The Hotchkiss diary entry was dated February 23, 1863, right around the 
> time
> that Lee began seriously thinking about invading the North.  The complete
> entry on this subject reads as follows:
>
> "I got secret orders from the General [Jackson] to prepare a map of the
> Valley of Va. extended to Harrisburg, Pa., and then on to
> Philadelphia;--wishing the preparation to be kept a profound secret.  So I
> went to reducing a map of Cumberland Co., Pa."
>
> Hotchkiss started work on the map the next day, and worked on it for a
> couple weeks, then on March 4 made this entry:
>
> "As I had nearly finished the map of Cumberland Co. I wanted some more to
> add to it, I therefore went up to Gen. Lee's to obtain others, or rather 
> to
> Gen. Stuart's, Capt. Blackford having them."
>
> Hotchkiss says he finished the "map of Cumberland Co., Pa." on March 10.
> Cumberland County is north of Adams Co. and runs from about Shippensburg
> east to the Susquehanna River.  This, of course, was just one part of the
> overall map that Jackson requested.
>
> What these passages suggest, I believe, is that Jackson had been 
> encouraging
> Lee for some time to invade the North, and do as much damage as possible 
> to
> its capability to conduct warfare.  Lee had been hesitant about the idea
> earlier, but now decided it was time to take the war into Northern
> territory.  Hooker's aggressiveness that led to the Battle of
> Chancellorsvile delayed these plans until early June when the the invasion
> took place.
>
> Tom Ryan
>
>
>
>
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