here we meet alisa fairchild the nice of jedediah hotchkiss, the famous cartographer of stonewall jackson and she was down in the shenandoah valley when the war began in one mother became ill, she met her father and martinsburg, virginia and traveled home to see her sick mother. fortunately for us, she wrote a letter describing that entire trip and how desolate of the south was and how pristine the northern territory was once she crossed this is when a river. we have are associated with this very typical civil war passenger car which we will visit in a second. the railroad continued to function whenever possible under its civilian time schedule and freight rates. in her account of the trip, she mentions moving up north of the strasburg,pping in having that has to the confederate lines and then having to pass through the union lines, finally meeting her father in martinsburg, waiting all night for a train and then traveling through the baltimore and the north average of new york. she was continuously impressed by the fact that the south was ravaged by war and the north was untouched. she l