SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS Confederate CIVIL WAR from Rebel perspective

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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS

A COMPILATION OF THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMIES

52 Volumes on DVD

This DVD contains all 52 volumes.

You can search individual volumes for keywords and phrases using your current browser.

These volumes are an invaluable reference work for Civil War historians, teachers, students, American history buffs, for home schooling and for anyone doing genalogy research during research on family members during the Civil War.

It would take many years to read and digest all this information\'

\"The largest gateway into the ranks of a Confederate army is a relatively unknown set of books entitled the Southern Historical Society Papers.

These fifty-two volumes lack the official stamp associated with the War of the Rebellion records, and they contain some inacicuracies as well as expected bias; yet no other single source contains more good material on life in the fighting forces of the South.

Preservation of such material began in 1869, when a group ofexConfederates desiring to collect scattered manuscript sources pertinent to the wartime South met in New Orleans and organized the Southern Historical Society.

The first president was Dr. Benjamin M. Palmer, an eminent Presbyterian minister. Even more illustrious figures were appointed state vice presidents, such as Robert E. Lee for Virginia, Alexander H. Stephens for Georgia, and Wade Hampton for South Carolina. In spite of such auspicious beginnings, the Southern Historical Society quickly floundered. Stronger organization, and ends more rewarding than the mere collecting of sources, were badly needed. In August, 1873, a number of changes occurred.

Headquarters of the Society Richmond, Virginia; its officers announced a plan to publish the better material at hand; the popular General Jubal A. Early became president; and for the highly important post of secretary-treasurer, the Society chose Dr. J. William Jones, frontier chaplain of the 13th Virginia and author of the bestseller. Personal Reminiscences of General Lee. The promise of publication was fulfilled. In January 1876, the first monthly issue of the SHSP appeared. Thereafter, numbers came forth monthly and were bound and indexed into yearly volumes.

The first article of note was Jones\'s \"Treatment of Prisoners, North and South,\" which was an initial and successful refutation of Northern charge that Confederates had mistreated prisoners of war. Another early contribution of excellence (and one of such length that it was published serially) was R. E. Parks\'s reminiscences of life in the 12th Alabama.

The SHSP became overnight a reservoir for any type of wartime memoir. Personal recollections of veterans ranging from generals to privates, unit rosters, correspondence, commentaries on men and events, book reviews and other literary donations made each volume a gold mine for almost any type of historical research.

Two of the best-known installments are Volume XV (\"The Appomattox Roster\"), which contains a listing by units of the men who surrendered with Lee; and Volume XLIII, which consists of two extremely valuable articles on the 1862 Valley Campaign and \"Stonewall\" Jackson.

The last nine volumes of the SHSP, edited successively by Douglas S. Freeman and Frank E. Vandiver, contain the proceedings of the Confederate Congress. Gleaned from the Richmond Examiner and other wartime newspapers, these minutes reveal much of what transpired inside the cantankerous Southern legislature.

Freeman was the Society\'s last president. After his death in June 1953, the Society\'s only surviving member, J. Ambler Johnston, donated all records and assets to the Virginia Historical Society for safekeeping.

Yet Mr. Johnston\'s connection with the SHSP was by no means Finished. In 1962, as chairman of the Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee, he spearheaded the start of a full index of the fifty-two volumes.\" (Reprinted from CWTI with permission)

A few of the topics covered:

Origin of the Late War, by Honorable R. M. T. Hunter; The Botetourt Resolutions of Judge John J. Allen; Inaugural Address of President Davis, February, 1861; Address of Congress to the people of the Confederate States; Editorial Department; Maury\'s Vindication of the South; Alexander\'s Sketch of Longstreet\'s Corps; Camp Fires of the Boys in Gray; Letter from General J. E. Johnston; A Correction, by Capt. Catesby Jones; Capture of the Indianola, by General J. L. Brent, General Fitz. Lee\'s Eulogy on Stuart; Seacoast Defences of South Carolina and Georgia by General A. L. Long, ; Mr. Blaine\'s arraignment.

Letter from President Davis; Testimony of General R. E. Lee; Vice-President Stephens\' Statement; Judge Ould\'s Vindication of the Confederate Government; Confederate Laws; Treatment of Privateers; Confederate Soldiers and their Prisoners; Andersonville Statement of one of the Guards; Paper of Dr. Jos. Jones on causes of mortality; Testimony of Federal Prisoners; Blaine\'s description of Northern Prisons; Prison Life of Rev. Geo. W. Nelson; Rock Island Prison, by Chas. W. Wright; Prison Rules at Fort Delaware; Efforts of a Northern gentleman to relieve our prisoners; Letter from a U. S. Medical Officer; The Exchange Question.

Letter from General Lee; Commissioner Ould\'s Report; Federal Orders Revoking Paroles\'; How the Federals Refused to Exchange; The Negro Question; Efforts of the Confederacy to effect an Exchange; Reminiscences of the Confederate Navy; Capt. Ritter\'s Account of the Death of Sergt. Langley; Gen\'l Wilcox on Seven Pines; Review of Bates\' Gettysburg, by Colonel Wm. Allan; Diary of Capt. R. E. Park, of 12th Ala. Regiment, Correction of Incident in Reference to Gen\'l Pickett; Address of Gen\'l D. H. Hill before the Mecklenburg; Seacoast Defences - Letter from General Thos. Jordan\' Strength of Lee\'s Army in the Seven Days\' Battles ,Army of the Cumberland.\", Diary of Capt. R. E. Park; Attack on Fort Gilmer; Colonel John B. Baldwin\'s Interview with Lincoln.

Electrical Torpedoes as System of Defence; Relative Strength of the Armies of Lee and Grant; Official Memoranda of Battles, &c., in the year 1864; Diary of Captain R. E. Park; Correspondence between Colonel Bassett French and General Wade Hampton; General Lee\'s Final Report of the Pennsylvania Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg; Patriotic Letters of Confederate Leaders; Resources of Confederacy in February, 1865; General J. E. R. Stuart\'s Report of Operations after Gettysburg; Diary of Captain R. F. Park, Twelfth Alabama Regiment; General George H. Stuart\'s Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg; Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Fife in the Army of Northern Virginia, by Carlton McCarthy of the Richmond Howitzers; General R. E. Rode\'s Report of the Battle of Gettysburg; General R. E. Rodes\' Report of the Battle of Chancellorsville.

AND THESE ARE JUST WHAT\'S IN VOLUME 1 AND 2!

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