Washington DC: Elliot & Clark Publishing, 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 9.25 inches by 11.25 inches. 176 pages. Illustrations. Maps (some with color). Endnotes. Bibliographic Essay. Index. Autographed sticker on front of the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Illustrated endpaper. Gracefully written and necessarily selective (the huge collection of Hotchkiss's papers contains some 20,000 items). Profiles, with a focus on the war years, the extraordinary man who served as topographical engineer to some of the great leaders of the Confederacy. William J. Miller has written or edited seven books and published more than 100 articles on the Civil War including Mapping for Stonewall: The Civil War Service of Jed Hotchkiss, winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award. His next book, Great Maps of the Civil War, was published in 2004. A former editor of Civil War Magazine, Miller is a strong advocate of battlefield preservation. He was a founding director of the Richmond Battlefields Association and has served as a director or adviser of various preservation organizations, including the Kernstown Battlefield Association, Protect Historic America, and the Save the Battlefield Coalition. He lives in Virginia s Shenandoah Valley. More

Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1960. Sixteenth Edition. Presumed first printing. Stiff boards. xi, [1], 641, [7] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Quizzes. Glossary. Index. Name of previous owner stamped on fep. Cover has some wear and soiling. This reflects the state of the art, the state of knowledge and the state of practice just at the United States was entering the Vietnam War. This revision into the thirteenth edition was undertaken at the request of the U.S. Naval Institute by the Standards and Curriculum Division, Training, Bureau of Naval Personnel. For nearly half a century The Bluejackets' Manual has been a basic training and reference text for hundreds of thousands of Navy men. During these years the book has incorporated the experience gained from two major wars, and has evolved into an ever more effective volume. This thirteenth edition is the most recent step in that evolution. More