A series of technical difficulties could not prevent me from posting this just under the wire on March 26th!
On March 26, 1862, Stonewall Jackson assigned Jedediah Hotchkiss to produce a map of the Shenandoah Valley. To commemorate this, I’ve created a short biography of Hotchkiss and a look at the importance of cartography during the Civil War.
The podcast can be found here.