1880 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS : Vol VIII

Description: The Southern Historical Society Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- Vol. VIII - May, 1880 - No. 5 ---------------------------------------------- Original Issue - "First Edition" - in publisher's wraps ---------------------------------------------- Softcover : Good for the age and construction These pamphlets were made with covers that were bigger than the pages inside. As a result, you almost always find the covers / wraps to have chipped edges. If you find a copy without chipped edges, and the covers are the exact size of the pages inside - that means someone trimmed off the edges of the covers. This particular issue is "uncut". The tops and some of the sides of the pages are still intact from the printer - meaning this copy has never been read.47 pages, with a page of ads in the back ================================ The Southern Historical Society Papers have been reprinted many times. But the originals, like this copy, were issued by subscription in parts. Once you had a full year of the issues, you would have them bound into a book form. Each issue is numbered sequentially thru the year, so that you would have a full and properly numbered book at the end of each year.VOL. VIII (VOL. 8) - May 1880, No. 5Contents Include Part 6 : History of Lane's North Carolina Brigade Complete article : Burning of Columbia, South Carolina - Report of Citizens Committee Complete article : Mrs. Henrietta Lee's Letter to General Hunter on the Burning of her house Complete article : Relative Strengths at Second Manassas by Col. William Allan Complete article : Gen. Chalmers' Report of Operations of Cavalry Division on Line of Memphis and Charleston Railroad, from 5th to 13th October, 1863 Complete article : Gettysburg Campaign - Report of Brig. Gen. Harry T. Hays Complete article : Gen. J.E. Johnston's Official Report of the Battle of Seven Pines, or Fair Oaks ((( Longer articles were often broken up over several issues. To try and be honest about the content, I note "Complete articles" vs "Parts" of larger articles. ))) Interesting advertising in the back, including - A. Oppenhimer, Clothing Publication of General John Bell Hood's Memoir "Advance and Retreat" Margaret's Steam and Mechanical Bakery - New Orleans, Louisiana Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From the Wikipedia Entry for "Southern Historical Society The Southern Historical Society was an American organization founded to preserve archival materials related to the government of the Confederate States of America and to document the history of the American Civil War.[ Dabney H. Maury founded the Southern Historical Society on April 15, 1869, in New Orleans. Maury and the eight other founding members donated family papers, books, and artifacts to the society to form its initial collection. Its first publication began in 1876 and continued until 1959. The society was officially organized on May 1, 1869; signatories included Braxton Bragg, J. E. Austin, Dabney H. Maury, B. M. Harrod, Simon Bolivar Buckner, S. H. Buck, A. L. Stuart, George Norton, and C. L. C. Dupuy. The society's objective was "to collect reliable data of the workings of the late Confederate Government, and the battles, sieges, and exploits of the war." Other targeted Confederate materials for the archive included newspapers, speeches, literary and medical journals, journals, maps, agricultural and manufacturing reports, geological reports, weather reports, sermons, poetry, songs and ballads, mining operation records, and foreign relations. The society also wanted to document the names and details of wounded soldiers, mortality records, and exchanges of prisoners of war. For historians today, the Southern Papers serve as a storehouse of information concerning the Confederacy. Second, only to the War of the Rebellion records, the Papers represent the largest collection of battle accounts, unit rosters, and other primary material about the southern armies during the Civil War." ===================================Thank you for supporting independent booksellers ! (not bulk resellers who don't know the first thing about what they are selling !) I pride myself on knowing my stock, accurate descriptions, and good packing !!! The Rock Top Book Shop and Bindery Cashtown, Pennsylvania ====================================== Thanks for Looking !!! ---------------------------------------------------------- Postage is free (within Continental US - others at cost) either by media mail or priority depending upon the final sale price of the items(s). I always include delivery confirmation, and will insure more expensive packages at my cost.Check my other auctions for Civil War related books, documents, and ephemera, plus the occasional other book or curiosity - mostly military related.

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