Evening star., 1949-01-12
Stars, Men and Atoms
Library Displays Copies
OfLee's Lost War Mops'
Originals Disappeared in Transport
When Richmond Was Evacuated
By Thomas x. Henry

Copies Of some Of the "lost war maps Of the
Confederacy' have turned up at the Library Of
Congress.
These were detailed maps OF nearly every
county in the South-modelS of military map
making for that day-which were prepared
under the personal orders Of Gen. Robert E.
Lee by Maj Albert H. Campbell, chief of the
typographical section Of the Southern Army
Suitable maps were one Of the first demands Of
Lee at the time he took command of the Army
Of Northern Virginia. Himself a military en-
gineer, he had little confidence in the supposed
accurate knowledge of his officers about their
native countryside.
The maps were used through the war. When
Richmond was evacuated on the night Of April
2. 1865, Maj. Campbell packed up all ths
master maps and placed them on an archives
train bound for Raleigh, N. c., in charge of an
engineer officer. They never were seen again.
1t is not known whether the train ever reached
its destination.
Family Souvenirs.
From time to time copies of some Of these
maps have cropped up in family souvenir COLI
lections. major find came, however, with the
recent acquisition by the national library of the
papers Of one of Campbells officers, Mai
Jedediah Hotchkiss, himself an expert map
maker, who was attached to the staff of Stone
wall Jackson during much of the Valley cam
paigns. The collection contains also most Of
the maps drawn by Hotchkiss himself includ-
ing copies which, there is reason to believe were
used by Lee and Jackson personally in PLAN
ming their campaigns.
Study Of the maps, it is expected may throw
new light on Civil War history, although they
have already been studied by DR.. Douglas
Freeman, Lees biographer to whom they were
made available by Maj. Hotchkiss' descendants.
They have been unknown, however, to his
torians in general Some of the maps are Of
major battlefelds Of the war prepared on the
eve Of action. They show clearly, In some
cases for the first time, the actual disposition
Of major bodies of Confederate troops and the
lines of projected movements.
A means Of controlling the black fly, one Of
the most obnoxious of insect pests has been
developed in a cooperative project of the Army
Medical Department and the Agriculture De-
partment.
Especially in times Of high water and floods
these insects are especially dangerous to cat
tie, sheep and poultry. The black flies attack
the eyes and respiratory tracts of the animals.
During floods relief workers may be tempo
rarily blinded by them. While no actual dis
ease can be traced to the black flys bite, It
is DeleVed That acute local Inflammation 1S
caused by the poison which is injected.
For as little as five dollars worth of material
and few hours labor, the Army entomolo-
gists have found, large area may be cleaned
OF the pests. mixture Of oil and DDT La
sprayed on the surface Of small streams run.
ming through tract of land. This will destroy
the larvae which thrive in fast-moving brooks
and small rivers.
Minimum Of Effort.
The Army entomologsts say that a man
with an ordinary two-inch spray gun may
stand on the side Of stream with the wind
at his back and spray the surface of the water
in such a fashion that the currents will carry
film of poison as much as 25 miles down
stream About tenth of pound of DDT per
acre of land is all that is required
Black flies are among the pests which mako
life miserable for hunters in the north woods
and in Alaska. These are all hilly or noun.
famous areas drained by fast-moving streams
With minimum of effort large hunting re.
serve can be cleared
The problem of controlling them has been
especially difficult in the past because of their
prediction for moving instead of stagnant
water. Other major pests breed only in the
latter.