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Wiley InterScience | ||
  The Professional GeographerVolume 57 Issue 3, Pages 376 - 394 Published Online: 14 Jul 2005 © Copyright 2007 by Association of American Geographers
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 1622K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Comparative Accuracy in Four Civil War Maps of the Shenandoah Valley: A GIS Analysis Copyright © Copyright 2005 by Association of American Geographers. KEYWORDS American Civil War–mapping • GIS • historical cartography • Jedediah Hotchkiss • Shenandoah Valley Campaign ABSTRACTThis study compares the accuracy of four maps available to Union and Confederate officers during the 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign of the American Civil War. It examines historical maps of the Valley of Virginia by the following cartographers: James W. Abert, Hermann Böÿe and Lewis von Buchholtz, Jedediah Hotchkiss, and Franz Kappner. Both simple and three-tiered sinuosity measures are derived for reference points along study map representations of the Shenandoah river system. These data are then statistically compared to corresponding sinuosity data from USGS topographic quadrangles to identify the relative accuracies of the historical maps. This article offers evidence to refute the common historical assumption that Hotchkiss provided Maj. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson with terrain intelligence that was far superior to that available to his Union opponents. Evidence indicates that maps by Union cartographers as well as the prewar Böÿe-Buchholtz map were at least as accurate, or superior to, the work of Hotchkiss. Initial submission, April 2004; revised submission, December 2004; final acceptance, December 2004 |  |
