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CONFEDERATE CENTENNIAL STUDIES
1. Anderson, John Q.
A TEXAS SURGEON IN THE C.S.A. Tuscaloosa 1957. 123 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #6.
| "The abridged letters (1862-1865) of Dr. Edward W. Cade, whose service as a brigade surgeon was in the Trans-Mississippi department."__Civil War Books |
2. Coulter, E. Merton
LOST GENERATION; THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JAMES BARROW, C.S.A. Tuscaloosa 1956. 118 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #1. In Tall Cotton #29.
| "Fortified with the subject's cultured letters, this short biography recounts the brief life of a young officer from Georgia who was killed at the little-known battle of Olustee, Fla."__Civil War Books |
3. Davis, Charles S.
COLIN J. MCRAE: Confederate Financial Agent. Tuscaloosa, AL 1961. 101 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #17. Frontis portrait of McRae. McRae helped establish the Selma, Alabama munitions works and represented the CSA in Europe.
| "A useful study of an ordnance and purchasing agent who promoted a unified purchasing system for the Confederacy."__Civil War Books. |
4. Girard, Charles
A VISIT TO THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA IN 1863. Memoir Addressed to His Majesty Napoleon III. Tuscaloosa 1962. 126 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #21.
| "Recollections of a Frenchman who made a brief visit to the South in 1863; extremely sympathetic to the Confederate cause. An accurate translation, with necessary editorial trappings. . . ."__Civil War Books. |
5. Hanna, A. J. and Hanna, Kathryn Abbey
CONFEDERATE EXILES IN VENEZUELA. Tuscaloosa, AL 1960. 149 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #15. A most interesting study of a fascinating aspect of the Confederacy and it's aftermath.
| "The only study of a little-known episode attendant to Confederate defeat; well-researched and interestingly written."
__Civil War Books |
6. Harris, William C.
LEROY POPE WALKER. Confederate Secretary of War. Tuscaloosa 1962. 141 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #20. Frontis of Walker.
| "A thoroughly researched, though brief study of the first and least-known of Davis' secretaries of war."
__Civil War Books |
7. Harwell, Richard Barksdale, edited by
A CONFEDERATE MARINE: A SKETCH OF LT. HENRY LEA GRAVES with Excerpts from the Graves Family Correspondence. Tuscaloosa 1963. 140 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #24. Henry Lea Graves belonged to that small band of men who were the officers of the Confederate States Marine Corps. The Corps is virtually unknown to history.
Its authorized strength called for 840 enlisted privates, 20 musicians, 82 noncommissioned officers and 46 commissioned officers__a total of only 988, but the Corps was never recruited to full strength at any one time.
(Brandy Station Books description)
| "Extremely useful, for this is one of the very few sources on the C.S. Marines; in addition, the letters have charm and a high degree of literacy."__Civil War Books |
8. Hesseltine, William B.
LINCOLN'S PLAN OF RECONSTRUCTION. Tuscaloosa 1960. 154 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #13.
| "A refutation that Lincoln alive could have or would have prevented "the age of hate."__Civil War Books |
9. Hoole, William Stanley
ALABAMA TORIES. The First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., 1862-1865. Tuscaloosa 1960. 141 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #16.
| "A cursory sketch of the only unit from Alabama that served in the Federal armies."__Civil War Books |
10. Hoole, William Stanley
LAWLEY COVERS THE CONFEDERACY. Tuscaloosa 1964. 132 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #26. Frontis portrait of the Hon. Francis Lawley.
| "The best available study on the noted London Times correspondent."__Civil War Books |
11. Hoole, Wm. Stanley
VIZETELLY COVERS THE CONFEDERACY. Tuscaloosa, AL 1957. 173 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #4.
| "More important than the wordy and homely biographical text are thirty of Vizetelly's drawings on Confederate army life, which are included."__Civil War Books |
12. Hunnicutt, John L.
RECONSTRUCTION IN WEST ALABAMA. The Memoirs of John L. Hunnicutt. Edited by Stanley Hoole. Tuscaloosa 1959. 145 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #11. Frontis of Hunnicutt and 3 full page illustrations.
| "A first-hand eye-witness account of the day-by-day doings of the loyal Southerners who broke the hold of the Scalawag-Carpetbag domination and, thus, restored the South to decency and order"__Preface |
13. Jones, Mary Sharpe and Mallard, Mary Jones
YANKEES A'COMING. Edited by Haskell Monroe. Tuscaloosa, AL 1959. 102 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #12. Frontis portraits of Jones and Mallard, 2 full page illustrations and 1 map.
| "Descriptions of the invasion of a Southern home by Northern marauders; rich in detail, interesting in content."
__Civil War Books |
14. Jones, Wilbur Devereux
THE CONFEDERATE RAMS AT BIRKENHEAD: A Chapter in Anglo-American Relations. Tuscaloosa 1961. 124 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #19.
| "Author employs British manuscript sources to provide the clearest and most authoritative account available of Laird ram incident."__Civil War Books |
15. Jordan, Weymouth T.
REBELS IN THE MAKING. Planters' Conventions and Southern Propaganda. Tuscaloosa 1958. 135 pages.
Confederate Centennial Studies #7. A study of the ante-bellum Southern planters and their remarkable influence upon the ideas and actions of the South.
16. Keene, Jesse L.
THE PEACE CONVENTION OF 1861. Tuscaloosa, AL 1961. 141 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #18. The 1861 convention assembled, upon the invitation of the state of Virginia, to work out the differences between the North and the South. Instead it pointed out how intacable those differences were and impelled the nation toward war.
17. Mann, A. Dudley, edited by John Preston Moore
"MY EVER DEAREST FRIEND." The Letters of A. Dudley Mann to Jefferson Davis, 1869-1889. Tuscaloosa 1960. 114 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #14.
| "Mann's friendship with Davis began in 1853. This work contains 50 heretofore unpublished letters written by Mann to Davis during the period 1869-89."__Civil War Books |
18. Monaghan, Jay
SWAMP FOX OF THE CONFEDERACY. Tuscaloosa, AL 1956. 123 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #2.
| "An adequate study of a little-known figure whose service was primarily in the West." __ Civil War Books |
19. Montgomery, Horace
HOWELL COBB'S CONFEDERATE CAREER. Tuscaloosa 1959. 144 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #10. A biography of the illustrious Georgian who served four terms in Congress, was governor of Georgia and secretary of the treasury. Cobb led Georgia out of the Union, organized the 16th Georgia Infantry and rose to the rank of Major-General. After the War he vigorously opposed reconstruction politics and carpetbag rule.
| "A brief but excellent study of the eminent Georgian who chose to serve the Confederacy in a military capacity."
__Civil War Books |
20. Nichols, James L.
CONFEDERATE ENGINEERS. Tuscaloosa 1957. 122 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #5. In Tall Cotton #132. Frontis of Maj-Gen. Jeremy F Gilmer, Chief Confederate Engineer Bureau.
| "A scholarly study of the Confederate Engineer Bureau; of engineer supplies and operations in coast and siege operations."__Civil War Books |
21. Pecquet Du Bellet, Paul
THE DIPLOMACY OF THE CONFEDERATE CABINET OF RICHMOND AND ITS AGENTS ABROAD. Edited by Wm. Stanley Hoole. Tuscaloosa 1963. 128 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #23.
| "An undocumented expose of activities of Confederate agents and supporters in France, by a Southern propagandist residing in Paris."__Civil War Books |
22. Scheibert, Justus
SEVEN MONTHS IN THE REBEL STATES DURING THE NORTH AMERICAN WAR. 1863. Tuscaloosa 1958. 166 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #9. In Tall Cotton*#163. Frontis of Captain Scheibert plus 4 full page maps.
A strong Confederate sympathizer, he was at Lee's headquarters and was a member of Stuart's staff. This work contains vivid portrayals of the battles of Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, and Gettysburg, as well as records of conversations with President Jefferson Davis, and Generals Lee, Jackson, Beauregard, and Stuart.
| "A Prussian army engineer sent to study the American war, Scheibert penned a sometimes revealing narrative of his 1863 observations with Confederate forces."__Civil War Books |
23. Silver, J. W.
CONFEDERATE MORALE AND CHURCH PROPAGANDA. Gloucester 1964. 120 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #3. In Tall Cotton #166.
| "A first-rate book on a limited aspect of Confederate church history."__Civil War Books |
24. Summersell, Charles G.
THE CRUISE OF C.S.S. SUMTER. Tuscaloosa 1965. 187 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #27. Frontis portrait of Admiral Raphael Semmes.
An intertwined biography of Raphael Semmes, Commander, and his ship the C.S.S. Sumter, of which John McIntosh Kell wrote: "No ship of her size, her frailness, and her armament ever played such havoc on a powerful foe."
A fine and rousing tale of the most famous ship of the War__on either side.
25. Walker, Georgiana Gholson
THE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF GEORGIANA GHOLSON WALKER 1862-1865. WITH SELECTIONS FROM THE POST-WAR YEARS, 1865-1876. Tuscaloosa 1963. 148 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #25. Portrait of Georgiana Walker.
"One chapter tells of Richmond in the early days of war; the work as a whole is a good introduction
to blockade-running."__Civil War Books |
26. White, William W.
THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN. Tuscaloosa 1962. 128 pages. Confederate Centennial Series #22.
| "This examines the activities of the veterans and shows the extent to which their actions influenced the course of Southern and national life"__Preface |
27. Yates, Richard E.
THE CONFEDERACY AND ZEB VANCE. Tuscaloosa 1958. 132 pages. Confederate Centennial Studies #8.
Frontis of Vance.
| "A study of Vance's relations with the Confederate government."__Civil War Books |
28. Hoole, Martha Dubose
WILLIAM STANLEY HOOLE. All new material including a biography of William Stanley Hoole, the editor and author of several volumes in this excellent set.
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