Confederate Imprints at the Georgia Historical Society

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Collection:: Georgia Historical Society collections in the Internet Archive
Title:: Confederate Imprints at the Georgia Historical Society
Creator:: Harwell, Richard Barksdale
Date of Original:: 1975
Subject:: Early printed books--Georgia--Bibliography--Catalogs
Confederate States of America--History--Sources--Bibliography--Catalogs
Confederate States of America--Imprints--Catalogs
Georgia--Imprints--Catalogs
Georgia Historical Society--Catalogs
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources--Bibliography--Catalogs
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COLLECTIONS, VOLUME XVI

(.onj ode rate Imprints at the
Georgia Historical Society

KI( HARD BARKSDAI.E HAHWELL

SAVANNAH: THE SOCIETY, 1975

A group c)t t'it'tyH)ne previously unrecorded ('oiilederate inipruits marks witli
^^distinction the collection of Conlederate publications m ilie library ot the Ckorgia
i.Historical Society. Thougli the collection at Hodgson Hall di)es not rank among the
Miiost extensive groups of Confederate imprints, the presence of these unrecorded
'pieces and other rare Confederate publications, many of them relating to (Georgia's
' history during the Civil War. assures it the attention of historians of Georgia and of
"^historians of the Confederacy.

) It is not necessary to retell here the distinguished beginnings of the Georgia
' Historical Society in 1839 or its leadership in collecting from repositories in
England copies of materials relating to the state's colonial history. ^ As with many
Georgia institutions, the bulk of its early endowment was rendered valueless by the
Civil War. New endowment was slow in coming, and even now does not produce
enough income to meet ongoing expenses. Nevertheless, a series of librarians has
built and maintained an extensive library of books about the state and an equally
extensive collection of Georgia manuscripts, the very materials from which even
more books about the state will be compiled.

With severely limited funds for the acquisition of books and with its primary
interest the history of Georgia, there was little reason for the Society to place
special emphasis in its library on Confederate materials. The Confederate Memorial
and Literary Society had been founded to collect the wartime history of the whole
South and early established its museum and library in Richmond. Who would
preserve Georgia history if not the Georgia Historical Society? That function was
the Society's natural specialization.

Not that there was any lack of enthusiasm in Savannah for the Confederacy.
Enthusiasm was there from the beginning, from the hoisting of the Liberty Flag in
1860. And from the end of the Confederacy itself there was, and still is, enthusiasm
for Confederate history.

Long before Gone With the Wind sparked renewed interest in the Georgia of the
Confederacy, even longer before the approach of the Civil War centennial made
collecting everything and anything Confederate fashionable. Savannah was the
home of four of the all-time leading collectors of Confederate imprints. Perhaps
because these prominent Savannahians collected Confederate imprints for
themselves, fewer than might otherwise have been the case found their way to
Hodgson Hall.

The first of these collectors was Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., ardent secessionist,
first wartime mayor of Savannah, Confederate officer, and distinguished historian
of Georgia. Jones collected Georgia and Confederate history, not imprints per sc:
but he collected original materials whenever possible, and his library was rich in
Confederate publications. The bulk of his Confederate collection, including its
major pieces, now forms part of the George Washington Flowers Memorial
Collection of the Duke University Library. Some items fiom his library are at the
University of Georgia, and occasional single items have strayed into other libraries.
Jones was an omnivorous collector. He collected manuscripts as well as books,
putting together two fine sets of autograph letters of the Signers of the Declaration
of Independence. (One set of these is now in the New York State Library at
Albany.) He collected a similar set of manuscripts of the members of the
Convention which established the Confederate States of America at Montgomery in
1861 . It is now at Duke.

Mr. and Mrs. George Wymberley Jones Do Renne were both collectors, he of
everything Georgian, she of those things Confederate. Their interests obviously
overlapped. His collection (recorded in a splendid three-volume catalog privately

published)^ is now at the University of Georgia where its Confederate imprints are
supplemented by those in the fine collection given the University a decade ago by
Felix Hargrett, another Georgian and eminent book collector, increased by the
assiduous purchasing of Confederate materials by W. Porter Kellam, former
Librarian of the University, Georgia's collection vies with those of the Boston
Athenaeum, Duke, and the Library of Congress for numerical leadership in this
field of collecting.

Mrs. De Renne's Confederate collection was given to the Confederate Museum in
Richmond. Its Confederate imprints form a substantial part of the Museum's
extensive collection of Confederate publications. The revered Douglas Southall
Freeman wrote of them in 1908 in his "Bibliography of Some Confederate
Publications in the Confederate Museum": "The books and pamphlets gathered by
Mrs. Mary De Renne of Savannah, and known as the De Renne Collection, are the
most valuable of the Library. At a time when Confederate publications were much
more numerous and more easily acquired than at present, Mrs. De Renne, with rare
judgement, gathered a collection of Confederate publications second to none in the
country ."3

The fourth of the Confederate collections formed by Savannahians is that of
Keith M. Read, neighbor and collecting rival of the De Rennes. The Read collection
was purchased by the Emory University Library in 1939 and established in that
library a major collection of Confederate imprints which has fortunately been
systematically augmented.

The collecting of Confederate publications was a major interest of the major
book collectors of Savannah. Book collecting is not the quiet, friendly occupation
it might seem to the uninitiated. It spawns rivalries and can sunder friendships.
Bibliomania is, as an extensive literature attests, a virulent disease, and usually
incurable. Major libraries of the South and the world of scholarship have benefited
by the energies of Savannah's collectors, but the Georgia Historical Society is
undoubtedly the poorer for these interests of the citizens of its home city though
they were interests of the very kind the Society seeks to engender in all Georgians.

In comparison with the major collections of Confederate imprints, those at the
Boston Athenaeum, Yale, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress,
the University of Virginia, the Confederate Museum, the Virginia Historical Society,
the Virginia State Library, Duke, the University of North Carolina, Emory, the
University of Georgia, Rice, the University of Texas, the University of Illinois, and
the Henry E. Huntington Library, the collection of the Georgia Historical Society is
not large. It is however, a worthwhile collection and merits interest for its group of
otherwise uncollected items.

A large proportion of the Confederate imprints at Hodgson Hall came to it in
1952 when efforts of Mrs. Lilla Hawes secured for the Historical Society a set of
the so-called "captured documents" then being distributed as duplicates by the
Library of Congress. These official publications of the Confederate government had
been removed from the Capitol in Richmond at the end of the Civil War and,
stamped "Rebel Archives," had, until their transfer to the Library of Congress,
remained in the Records Division of the War Department. The set received by the
Historical Society was one of the last sent out of Washington and is less full in its
holdings than sets earlier distributed. Even so, it includes approximately 345
separate publications of various branches of the Confederate government.

The rest of the collection is a miscellany of publications of the state of Georgia
and of the unofficial books, pamphlets, sheet music, broadsides, and church
publications that make up the publishing record of the Confederacy. It is
distressingly weak where it should be strong - in the publications that originated in

Savannah; but tliere are items in the collection that deserve the envy of any private
collector and many institutional collectors.

The Historical Society's copy of Uniform and Dress of the Army of the
Confederate States (Richmond: 1861), with its quaintly attractive black-and-white
plates, is that which belonged to General A. R. Lawton, a Savannahian who was an
outstanding Confederate administrator as Quartermaster General, later President of
the Society 1907 - 1914. A rare naval item (the only other known copy being at the
Library of Congress) is Horace M. Heiskell's Pay Table for the Use of Paymasters
and Others of the United States Navy (Columbia; 1864). It and other naval pieces,
including one presumed to be unique, came to the Society with a portion of the
wartime papers of Charles Lucian Jones. Jones was an Assistant Paymaster in the
Confederate Navy. He served as such with the Savannah Squadron in 1863 till he
was transferred April 13, 1863, to serve aboard the honchd Savannah as secretary
to the Commander in Chief of the Naval Forces Afloat in Savannah Waters. Two
items concerning slavery and the Negro are of considerable rarity and importance,
J.D.B. DeBow's Tlie Interest in Slavery of the Southern Non-Slaveholder
(Charleston: 1860) and Joseph R. Wilson's Mutual Relations of Masters and Slaves
As Taught in the Bible (Augusta; 1861). There is a copy of the Richmond 1863
edition of South Carolinian Francis Peyre Porcher's Resources of the Southern
Fields and forests. Medical, Economical, and Agricultural, a comprehensive study
in the great tradition of Catesby, Bartram and Elliott. Porcher's work proved
immediately useful in the wartime South by denominating substitutes for many
items unobtainable because of the Federal blockade; quinine and coffee, for
examples.

In the bibliographies of Confederate imprints a great many items, some of
exceptional interest, show in the record only as numbers of General Orders or titles
too brief to indicate their importance. For example, Crandall* 685 is a broadside
address by Gen. W. J. Hardee listed under Confederate States of America. Army of
Tennessee and the title "To the soldiers of the Army of Tennessee!" Crandall lists
only a copy of this at the Huntington Library. It is one of a pair of military
publications which must be read together to realize their importance. Its
companion piece, apparently held only by the Society '^cneral Orders No. 214
of the Army of Tennessee, dated at Dalton, Decembci , i863. This broadside is
the farewell to his troops of Gen. Braxton Bragg who had received orders to
transfer command of the Army of Tennessee to jeneral Hardee.

Bragg wrote in part:

The announcement of this separation is made with unfeigned
regret. The associations of more than two years which bind together a
Commander and his trusted troops, cannot be severed without deep
emotion. A common cause and dangers shared on the many hard-fought
fields from Pensacola to Chickamauga have cemented bonds which time
even can never impair.

The circumstances which render this step proper will be appreciated,
however, by every good soldier and true patriot, and the last appeal the
General has to make to the gallant army which has so long and so nobly
sustained him, is to give his successor that cordial and generous support
so essential to the success of our arms. In that successor you have a
veteran whose brilliant reputation you have aided to achieve. He cannot
fail, if properly sustained, to fill the measure of our country's
expectations. 5

The new commander, wlio a year later would be defending Savannah, four
hundred miles to the southeast, greeted his troops with the optimism expected on
such an occasion. Hardee declared:

I desire to say, in assuming command, that there is no cause for
discouragement. The overwhelming numbers of the enemy forced us
back from Missionary Ridge, but the army is still intact and in good
heart. Our losses were small and will be rapidly replaced. The country is
looking to you with painful interest. I feel that it can rely upon you.
Only the weak and timid need to be cheered by constant success. The
veterans of Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro and Chickamauga require
no such stimulus to sustain their courage and resolution. Let the past
take care of itself, we can and must secure the future. 6

Another unique item from Tennessee is a broadside of 1862 issued by Col. M.A.
Stovall at Greeneville. It warns against the ill treatment of East Tennesseeans
formerly Unionists who have taken the oath of allegiance to the Confederate States.

Except for three titles, one looks in vain for Confederate belles-lettres at
Hodgson Hall; but the three titles there are of high quality. One is Nathaniel
Beverley Tucker's 77/*? Partisan />ea<ier (Richmond: 1862), a novel prophetic of civil
war which had first been published in Washington in 1836 (surreptitiously and with
the fictitious imprint date of 1856). When the Civil War did come about Tucker's
book was republished in New York as well as in Richmond. There is a copy (one of
only two known) of Joseph Hodgson's The Confederate Vivandiere (Montgomery:
1862). And of particular importance as a Georgia book, there is a fine, untrimmed
copy of Richard Malcolm Johnston's Georgia Sketches ([Augusta:] 1864), an early
rendition of his Dukesborough Tales.

The representation of the popular works reprinted from English and European
publications is comparatively strong: copies oi Aurora Floyd (Richmond: 1863),
Darrell Markham; or, The Captain of the Vulture (Richmond: 1863), and Lady
Audley 's Secret! (Mobile: 1864) by the prolific and enormously popular Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Braddon Maxwell; Wilkie Collins' M; A^ame (Richmond: 1863), Charles
Dickens' Great Expectations (Mobile: 1863), The Romance of a Poor Young Man
(Richmond: 1863) by Octave Feuillet, four of the five parts of Victor Hugo's Les
Miserables (Richmond: 1863-64), one of two volumes of Louisa Muhlbach's (i.e.
Klara Mundt's) Henr}' VIII and His Court; or, Catharine Parr f Mobile: 1865) and a
complete set of her four-volume Joseph II and His Court (Mobile: 1864), Wilham
Makepeace Thackeray's The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World
(Columbia: 1864), and Mrs. Ellen Price Wood's East Lynne. (Richmond: 1864).

There are more than sixty examples of Confederate sheet music, many of them
in editions by John C. Schreiner & Son, publishers with offices in Macon and
Savannah. The A. E. Blackmar company of New Orleans (later of Augusta and New
Orleans) is also well represented. There are copies of "Lorena," the song that named
a generation of Southern girls, of "When This Cruel War Is Over," Hermann L.
Schreiner's "Do They Think of Me at Home?" dedicated to Mrs. Norah C. Sneed of
Savannah, and of the familiar tribute to the mulatto "Yellow Rose of Texas." But
there is no copy in this collection of the most Georgian of all songs, "Somebody's
Darling," words by Miss Marie La Coste of Savannah, music by John Hill Hewitt
(then living in Augusta), dedicated to Miss Mary Davis of Augusta, printed by J.F.
Weeks in Macon on paper manufactured at Athens, and published jointly by John
C. Schreiner & Son of Macon and Savannah and Schreiner & Hewitt of

Augusta.^ Nor is there a copy of "My Wife and Child" (Richmond and Columbia:
1863). Falsely attributed to "Stonewall" Jackson, the words of this song were
written by Henry Rootes Jackson, President of the Society 1874-1899. Quondam
Savannahian John Hill Hewitt is represented by his "Freedom's Muster-Drum", "I
Will Meet Thee", "Oh! Come to Me, Love, in a Beautiful Dream", "Rock Me to
Sleep, Mother" (three editions), "The Stonewall Quickstep", "When Upon the
Field of Glory", and "You Are Going to the Wars, Willie Boy!" But Hewitt was the
most prolific of Confederate composers. Even this representation is smaller than
should be available in Savannah. (Hewitt's papers, along with a broader selection of
his published sheet music, are in the Emory University Library.) At Hodgson Hall
are copies of songs honoring Generals Beauregard, Jackson, and Lee, but no"Genl
Longstreet's Grand March" nor - honoring Savannah's own Gen. Hugh W. Mercer
- "Gen. Mercer's Grand March!"

So is it down the line, through the long list of Confederate publications. The
Historical Society can be justly proud of the collection of Confederate imprints it
has, but is must eternally regret those that got away. Fortunately, two major
collections of these materials are in the state, at Emory and at the University of
Georgia.

The Society can indeed treasure the Confederate publications it owns, especially
that small bank of items not recorded elsewhere. It is a paradox that Confederate
imprints seem to be less rare as the record of them grows. Dr. Freeman's 1908
selective list was the first general bibliography of Confederate imprints. Nearly a
decade later it was foDowed by the much more extensive Confederate Literature
(Boston: 1917), a record of the collection of the Boston Athenaeum by Charles N.
Baxter and James M. Dearborn. ^ This volume was supplemented in a 1929 article
in The Papers of the BibUographical Society of America by Willard O. Waters of the
staff of the Henry E. Huntington Library. ^ Waters listed 412 items at the
Huntington which had not been recorded in "Baxter and Dearborn," to use the
book dealers' reference. Shortly after World War II the Athenaeum's collection of
Confederate imprints was virtually doubled by the addition to it of those collected
by Judge Raymond S. Wilkins. Walter Muir Whitehill, the amiable literary and
historiographical impresario who then presided over the Athenaeum as its Director
and Librarian, decided that Confederate Literature neeH I updating, and in away
that would reflect the total output of Confederate j acations, not just the
holdings, however extensive, of the Athenaeum itself. Ihe late Marjorie Lyle
Crandall, with the editorial collaboration of Richard Harwell, and the participatory
collaboration of scores of libraries put together for pubhcation in 1955 Confederate
Imprints. Exclusive of listings for newspapers and periodicals, its two volumes
record 5121 items.

Bibliographies beget bibliographies. Recording the rare calls out more rare to be
recorded. Confederate Imprints was followed a scart two years later with Harwell's
More Confederate Imprints}^ this supplement, itself in two volumes, adding 1773
items to the list of Confederate publications. The record had grown from the few
score described by Freeman to nearly seven thousand.

New discoveries of Confederate imprints since 1957 only emphasize that the
bibliographer's is an imperfect art. In 1964 Harwell listed 102 new items that had
come to the University of Georgia Libraries (chiefly in the gift of Felix
Hargrett).^^ Winston Broadfoot added a record of 317 previously unrecorded
items at the Duke University Library in 1966.^2 The collections in other libraries
were described and newly discovered publications noted. All the while the
established collections continued to grow and continue to grow. Harwell and

Peter Haack, Assistant Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, are once more engaged
in revising and amphfying the record. The paradox is that there is so much to
record that Confederate imprints miglit seem to have lost their rarity. Confederate
imprints as a group are less rare; but, as a group, the hst of Confederate imprints is a
list of many, many more rarities.

Such rarest of the rare - items known in only one copy each - are items at
Hodgson Hall which can now be added to the record. Many of these are
comparatively trivial military pieces, but it is sometimes a seemingly trivial item
that is the missing link of a historian's search. The slight Table of Hospital
Knapsack and Haversack for Field Services (n.p., n.d.j lists information not found
elsewhere. General Magruder's unnumbered general order of 4 July 1862 adds to
knowledge of him and of the battles before Richmond and also records his farewell
to his troops in Virginia. Three general orders, one special order, and three circulars
add to the detailed record of the defense of Georgia. Four of these items were
promulgated for Gen. Hugh W. Mercer by Capt. and A. A. G. George A. Mercer,
President of the Society 1900-1907.

Among unofficial publications are several times of particular interest: a long
poem "Greek Fire; or. The Siege of Charleston" by Eustanzia, the primitive verse of
James Hellier noted as "Songs Dedicated to the 26th La., Regiment," and Carrie Bell
Sinclair's "The Soldier's Suit of Grey." Miss Sinclair's poem was also published with
music by E. Clark Ilsley by Blackmar & Bro. in Augusta (copies at Emory and
Georgia but not at the Historical Society). The Society does hold James Pierpont's
musical setting of her Strike for the South (Macon: John C. Schreiner & Son, c.
1863).

Notable among the general broadsides is an elaborately reasoned proposal
Annexation of the North West ([Savannah, 186-?]) calling for the admission the
the Confederacy of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. There are two previously
unrecorded pieces of sheet music, a different edition of "Some One To Love." And
tucked away in this conglomeration is a previously unrecorded publication by the
Rev. Francis R. Goulding, author of The Young Marooners. It is not another boys'
book, however, but a Hospital Tract published in Macon by the Georgia Baptist
Bible and Colportage Society.

CONFEDERATE IMPRINTS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOT RECORDED IN

CONFEDERA TE IMPRINTS OR MORE CONFEDERA TE IMPRINTS

Official entries

Confederate States of America. Army. Army of Northern Virginia

. . . General orders, No. [ ] Major General Magruder Commanding the Centre
returns his thanks to the gallant officers and men, who fought under his orders and
gained a victory on the 1st inst., overcoming by their impetuosity, and tenacity, the
great obstacles of the ground, the terrific fire of the enemy's Field Artillery, and
Gun Boats, and the musketry of a superior force strongly posted ... By command
of Major General Magruder. A.G. Dickinson, A.A. General, [n.p., 1862.]
Broadside, 20 x 12.5 cm.

Dated: Head Quarters Crew's Farm, Assistant Adjutant General's Office, July
4th, 1862.

Confederate States of America. Army. Army of Tennessee

General orders. Headquarters. Army of Tennessee, [n.p., 1863.] v.p.

Nos. 1-214; January - December 2, 1863.

Crandall 672 revised.

The Georgia Historical Society holds General order no. 214, December 2, 1863.

Confederate States of America. Army. Department of East Tennessee

. . . The commanding officer at Greeneville regrets to learn that certain men
pretending to be authorized officers of the government are arresting and otherwise
ill treating some of the peaceful citizens of SulUvan county, who have heretofore
been Unionists, but have lately voluntarily come forward and taken the oath of
allegiance to the Confederate States of America and the State of
Tennessee . . . [Greeneville, Tenn., 1962]
Broadside, 32 x 14,5 cm.

Dated: Head Quarters, Greeneville, Tenn., Jan. 16th, 1862.
Signed: M.A. Stovall, Col. Commanding.

Confederate States of America. Army. Department of South CaroUna, Georgia and
Florida
Circular . . . [printing undated letter from S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector
General, to General Beauregard emphasizing the need for recruiting new soldiers;
received at Head Quarters [of the] Department [of] South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida, Charleston, January 11th, 1863. Charleston, 1863.]
Broadside, 25.5 x 20.5 cm.

Note at end of text of Cooper's letter refers it to the Commanding General of
the District of Georgia.

Signed: By command of General Beauregard. Thomas Jordan, Chief of Staff

Confederate States of America. Army. Department of South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida

Circular . . . [calling attention to parts of General Orders, No. 126, concerning
requirements in connection with requisitions for ordnance. Charleston, 1863.]

Broadside, 19 x 13.5 cm.

Dated: Head Quarters, Department ofS.C, Ga. & Fla., Charleston, S.C., January
15, 1863.

Signed: By command of General Beauregard, J no. M. Otey, Assistant Adjutant
General.

Confederate States of America. Army. Department of South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida

Circular . . . [concerning exaggerated reports of enemy forces and giving a table
of the numbers of men to be found in various types of units of the United States
army.) By command of General Beauregard. Thomas Jordan, Chief of Staff.
[Charleston, 1863.]

Broadside, 19.5 x 13 cm.

Dated: Head Quarters, Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida,
Charleston, S.C, January 18th, 1863.

Confederate States of America. Army. Department of South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida

Circular . . . [concerning promptness in filling requisitions made on several staff
departments.] By command of General Beauregard. Thomas Jordan, Chief of Staff
[Charleston, 1864.]

Broadside, 18 x 12.5 cm.

Dated: Head Quarters, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida,
Charleston, S.C, January 28, 1864.

Confederate States of America. Army. Department of South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida

Circular . . . (correcting an erroneous impression that rifled projectiles have
greater range and accuracy when fired from smoothbore muskets than round bullets
and ordering a stop to the requisitioning of them for such use.] By command of
General Beauregard. Thomas Jordan, Chief of Staff. [Charleston, 1864.]

Broadside, 19 x 13 cm.

Dated: Head Quarters, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida,
Charleston, S.C, February 10, 1864.

Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Reserve and Military District of
Georgia

. . . General orders. No. 30. I. The following military organizations, raised under
the authority of Governor Brown, and afterwards received into the Confederate
service by General J.B. Hood, to wit: the regiment commanded by Col. Findley, the
battalion commanded by Majors Beall, Murkinson, Graham, McCallum and
Ledford, and the battalion lately commanded by Lt. Col. Glenn, of Pickens county,
(whose commission was revoked because he was reported to Gov. Brown as a
deserter,) under the person who may have been elected, to command it, will be
maintained for sixty days from date in discharge of such duties as they may be
called upon to perform . . . [Macon, Ga., 1864.]

Broadside, 27 x 16 cm.

At head of title: Headquarters Georgia Reserve and Military District of Georgia,
Macon, Ga., December 7th, 1864.

At end is concurring order of Gov. Joseph /'. Brown dated: Fxecutive
Department, Macon, Ga., Dec. 7th, 1864.

Confederate States of America. Army. Military District of Georgia

. . . Circular. Ordnance Tegulations require that all empty powder barrels and

kegs, ammunition, shell, and packing boxes, shall be regularly taken up on the

Property Returns, and accounted for as other ordnance stores . . . [Signed: A.T.

Cunningham, 1st Lt.] Art'y and Ord. [Savannah, 1862.]
Broadside, 21 x 13.5 cm.

Dated: March 18th, 1862; ''March "corrected to "Oct. "in MS.

Confederate States of America. Army. Military District of Georgia

.... [Circular reprinting Circular of Surgeon General's Office, Richmond, Va.,
Sept. 10, 1862, which reprinted General Orders, No. 32 of that office dated April
30, 1862, and General Orders, No. 61 of that office dated August 23, 1862,
concerning the transportation of hospital supplies. [Signed:] Brig. Genl Mercer,
George A. Mercer, Capt. and A.A.G. [Savannah, 1863.]
Broadside, 22.5 x 19 cm.

Dated: Head Quarters, District of Georgia, Savannah, February 27, 1863.

Confederate States of America. Army. Military District of Georgia

Circular . . . The Brigadier General Commanding regrets to say, that some few of
the men of this and other commands have deserted their posts, and are now basely
skulking in the woods and swamps. Kind measures have failed to secure the return
of these criminals. Other means must be resorted to ... By command of Brigadier
General Mercer. Geo. A. Mercer, Capt., and A.A.G. [Savannah, 1863.]
Broadside, 20.5 x 14 cm.

Dated: Head Quarters [ , ] Mil. Dis't Geo., Savannah, September 16th, 1863.

Confederate States of America. Army. MiUtary District of Georgia

General orders, No. 51. I. In order to prevent unnecessary deterioration and
waste of ammunition, and the better to preserve small arms, the following
regulations will be strictly compUed with . . . [Signed:] By command of Brigadier
General H.W. Mercer. George A. Mercer, Captain and Asst. Adjt. Genl. [Savannah,
1863.]

Broadside, 27 x 21.5 cm.

Dated: Head Quarters Mil. Dist. Ga., Savannah, December 8th, 1863.

Confederate States of America. Army. Military District of Georgia

General orders. No. 8 . . . [calling the attention of commanding officers to the

depredations committed by soldiers upon private property in Georgia and South

Carolina. Signed:] By orders of Major General Gilmer. J.H. Alexander, Maj. &

A.A.G. [Savannah, 1864.]
Broadside, 28 x 21.5 cm.

Dated: Head Quarters, Savannah, March 21st, 1864.

Confederate States of America. Army. Military District of Georgia

. . . Special orders, No. 253 . . . [concerning enlisted men detailed from Head

Quarters.] By Command of Brig. Gen. Mercer, W.W. Gordon, Captain and A.A.G.

[Savannah, 1863.]

Broadside, 20.5 x 16 cm.

A t head of title <^xtract^

Dated: Head Quarters/ , J Mil. Dis't Geo., Savannah, 18th September, 1863.

Confederate States of America. Congress

... An act to relieve the army of disqualified, disabled, and incompetent
officers. [Richmond, 1862.] 3 p. 20.5 cm.

Caption title.

At head of title: No. 26

Approved Oetober 13, 1862.

Confederate States of America. Conscript Department. Department of Georgia.
Camp of Instruction, no. 2

. . . General orders, no. 21 . I. Conscripts detailed on government work cannot be
transferred by any government officer or contractor to the establishment of
another; but, in all cases, in leaving their employer they must report to the enrolling
officer or the commandant of the Camp of Instruction, who, with the consent of
their employer, may detail them anew under another government officer or
contractor on his making the necessary application . . . [Signed:] By order of
Major John F. Andrews, A.A.G., Commanding Camp of Instruction, No. 2, Alfred
Prescott, Adjutant. [Decatur, Ga.,? 1863.]

Broadside, 24 x 14 cm.

Dated: Head Quarters, Camp of Instruction, no. 2, Camp Randolph, Decatur,
Ga.,July 10th, 1863.

Followed by General orders, no. 22, similarly signed and dated.

Confederate States of America. Navy Department

Regulations governing the accounting officers in settling Navy accounts in this
office. [Richmond, 1864.] [2] p. 23.5 cm.

Caption title.

Signed: J. W. Robertson, Acting Auditor.

Dated: First Auditor's Office, January 1, 1864.

Confederate States of America. Surgeon-GeneraPs Office

[Circular letter] ... I herein inclose invoice of Medical stores turned over to the
Quarter Master this day for transportation . . . [Savannah, 1862.]

Broadside, 23 x 15 cm.

Dated: Confederate States of America, Medical Purveyor's Office, Savannah,
I November 181 186/2/.

"To Surgeon /Cap. EC. Anderson/ . "

Signed: /R Q L / ^/ Stacy, As Surg & Field Purveyor/.

Confederate States of America. Surgeon-General's Office.

Table of hospital knapsack and haversack for field service . . . [n.p., n.d.] [4] p.
16 cm.

Caption title.

P. /2/ : Tabic for nwss chest; p. /3/ : Table for regimental field chest; p. /4/:
Table for store chest.

Confederate States of America. Treasury Department

Claims for payments due to deceased soldiers . . . (Richmond, 1861.]
Broadside, 22 x 14 cm.

Dated: Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Office, December 30, 1861.
Signed by W.S. Taylor, Auditor; approved by Lewis Cruger, Comptroller.

Text of regulations printed within decorative border.

Confederate States of America. War Department

Circular . . . The practice of issuing, on the eve of an expected engagement
twenty rounds of ammunition to infantry, over and above the capacity of the
cartridge-boxes, will be discontinued, except on the special order of a General
commanding an army or department . . . [Richmond, 1863.]

Broadside, 19.5 x 13 cm.

Dated: Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Richmond, June 22, 1863.
Signed: H.L. Clay, Lieut. -Col. and A. A. G.

Confederate States of America. War Department
Circular . . . [Richmond, 1863.] [1] p. 20 cm.

Dated: Quartermaster General's Office . . . Sept. 9, 1863.

Confederate States of America. War Department

General orders from Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office, Confederate States
Army, in 1862; prepared from the files of Headquarters, Department of S.C.,Ga.,
and Fla. With a full index. Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, No. 3 Broad Street, 1863.
xxvi p. 20 cm.

Index only.

Georgia. Adjutant General

General orders, no. 5 . . . The following is the organization of the Regular Army
of Georgia, under the provisions of an ordinance of the Convention of the State of
Georgia, passed January 25th, 1861, and the order of precedence and relative rank
of the officers in their respective grades . . . [Milledgeville, 1861] 6 p. 22.5 cm.

Dated: Executive department. Adjutant general's office, Milledgeville, Ga.,
February 20, 1861.

Georgia. Adjutant General

<^ircular^. . . An appointment of the twelve ne / regiments to be raised under
the late requisition by the President upon the governor of this state has been made,
and approved by the commander-in-chief, with as much equality and justice as
possible among the different counties of this state . . . [Signed:] Henry C. Wayne,
Adj't. & Ins. General. [Milledgeville, 1862.]

Broadside, 27.5 x 21 .5 cm.

Dated: State of Georgia. Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Milledgeville,
Ga., February 17, 1862.

Georgia. General Assembly

Acts and resolutions passed at the called session held in March and April,
1863 .. . [Milledgeville. Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, State Printers. 1863.] [49] -
[79], [1] p. 24.5 cm.

Caption title.

Georgia. General Assembly. House. Committee on State Endorsement of the
Confederate Debt.
Report of the majority of the Committee on state endorsement of the

Confederate debt. Milledgeville, Ga., Bou^ton, Nisbet & Barnes, State Printers,
1863. 7 p. 23 cm.

Georgia. Quartermaster's Department.

. . .Gentlemen: I am directed by his excellency the Governor, to say to you
that, in the distribution of the funds and yarns provided by the legislature for the
destitute famihes of soldiers, the families of State Troops, if destitute, are entitled
to an equal participation with others . . . [Signed.] J.A.R. Hanks, Assistant
Quartermaster, State of Georgia. [Atlanta, 1863.]

Broadside, 20 x 14.5 cm.

At head of title: State of Georgia, Assistant Quartermaster's Office, Atlanta [2d
Nov] J 863.

3fifad.^uarter$ Camp pf Mn$txuc\m, ^o. 2, ^

DECATUR, GA., July loth, ISCyA. J

I. CoHicripU detailed on Government work cannot l)e trans-
forriMi bj ftnf Government Officer or Contractor to the eetahligh-
inciit of anoUMT ; but, In all cae, on leaving their employor
they must rtoort to the Enrolling Officer or the CommanUant of
the Camp of iMtruction, who, vnththe consent of their emuJof^er,
may detail ibem anew under another Government Otncer or
Contractor on hi* mtkinff the neceaaarj applic'ion.

II. Coa^cripts detailed on Government work will not bo trans-
ferred to Uailroads, nor any other work or service except that of
the Government, unless by B|)ecial order from the War Depart-
ment.

III. Conecripta leaving the employment of the Government
Officer or Contractor under whom they are detailed, vvithout his
consent, or going into the employment of another ulthout re-
Dorting to the Enrolling Officer or Commandant of the Camp of
Instruction, are guilty of desertion, and, in accordance with
orders from the fcJecreUry of War, will be arrested and sent to
Cfttnn of Instruction.

I V. Government Officers or Contractors who suffer conscript*
detailed under them to leave their employment without report-
ing them to the Enrolling Officer or Commandant of the Camp
of Instniction, are not only gMiltr of a violation of their obliga-
tions, (if a Contractor, his oath,) but, under orders from the War
Department, thev forfeit all right to any other details.

V. Enrolling Officers of the 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th Con-
gressional Districts will be governed by the instructions contain-
ed in the above paragraphs.

By order of M^jor JOHlf P. ANDfiBWS,

A. A, O., Coimnatiding Camp of Instrnctho), Xo. i.
Alfkli) Peescott, Adjutant.

fiead-djuarttrji Camp of |n$tturtion, ila. 2, ]

DKCATrU, GA., July l"th, lb03. J

Conscrij)t6 who have been mustered into the service at tliis
Camp of instruction and afterwards detailed out of the Camj) on
Government work, cannot receive a renewal or extension of their
details from any other source than from the Comiiiandaut oi the
('amp ; and at the expiration of their details, if no application
be made for their renewal bv their employers, they will be order-
ed back to Camp, and no lurthor detail granted to sue h employ-
ers. By order of

Major JOHN F. ANDREWS,
A. A. G.y Coniiva)yiiny Camp flii^ti vAion, Ao. 2.

AlFKED Piti;oOOTT, -(4t//'K''l/. 17

Eighth Annual Report

^arannali, StlVann iind #ulf

\j^ If V

ail lioad d^ompang.

M n y , 1 8 6 ^3

Unofficial entries

Augusta and Savannah Rail Road

Eleventh report of the president and directors of the Augusta and Savannah Rail
Road. To the Stockholders. For the year 1861. Savannah. Purse's print., 1862. 15
p. 22.5 cm.

Cover-title: Eleventh annual report of the Augusta and Savannah R. Road. 1861.
Harwell 1 159 revised.

Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia

Local rates of transportation on Central Rail Road and branches, Macon and
Western R.R., South Western R.R. and branches, and Muscogee Rail Road. To go
into operation June 15th, 1863. Savannah: E.J. Purse, Printer, 1863. 24 p., 7 fold,
tables.

Cover title.

Signed at end of text: Geo. W. Adams, General Superintendent C.R.R.

Folding tables measure 24 cm high.

Confederate , pseud.

Annexation of the North West . . . [Savannah, 186-]
Broadside, 41 x 39.5 cm.

Proposes the annexation of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to the Confederate States.

Goulding, Francis Robert

Hospital tract, by Rev. F.R. Goulding . . . [Macon, Ga., Ga. Bap. Bible & Col.
Society, n.d.] 4 p. 15.5 cm.

Caption title.
No. 20. - p. 4
Burke, Boy kin & Co., Printers, - p. 4

Greek Fire: or. The siege of Charleston, by Eustanzia . . . \n.p., 1863?]
Broadside, 48 x 15.5 cm.

Poem printed in nvo columns.

Dated at end: New Orleans. October, 1863.

Hellier, James

Song. Dedicated the 26th La., regiment, by James Hellier . . ; [n.p., 1862?]
Broadside, 30.5 x 12 cm.

Verse.

'i know not why I love thee!" . . . [Savannah? n.d.\
Broadside, 17.5 x 11.5 cm.

Verse.

Katie Payne, by Cousin Nourma . . . [Macon, 1864]
Broadside, 23.10cm.

Dated at end: Macon, Ga. 7.27. '64.
Verse.

O give me a home by the sea; words and music by E.A. Hosmer. New Orleans, A.
E. Blackmar& Bro., [etc., etc. 186-]

5 p. (The exotics; flowers of song transplanted to Southern soil.)

Title from caption.
Catalogue on verso of p. 5.
Engraver: Wehrmann.
Sheet music.

Oglethorpe Medical College, Savannah, Georgia

Annual circular of Oglethorpe Medical College, Savannah, Georgia. With a
catalogue of the graduates from thi- opening of the institution, and announcement
of lectures, session of 1861-62. Savannah: John M. Cooper & Company. 1861. 10
p. 22 cm.

Protestant Episcopal Church

The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments; and other
rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the Confederate States of America: together with the Psalter, or Psalms
of David. Richmond, Virginia: J.W. Randolph. M. DCCC. LXIII. [376] , 187, [1] p.
12.5 cm.

Imprint: London: - Printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode.

This includes (187 pp.): Selections from the Psalms of David in metre; with
hymns suited to the feasts and fasts of the church, and other occasions of public
worship. Richmond Virginia: J.W. Randolph. M.DCCC.LXIII.

Protestant Episcopal Church. Diocese of Georgia.

To the clergy of the diocese of Georgia . . . [Savannah, 1861.]
Broadside, 18.5 x 14.5 cm.

Sets Sunday, July 28, 1861 , as a day of thanksgiving and praise.
Dated and signed: Given under my hand this July 24th, 1861. Stephen Elliott,
Bishop of the Diocese of Georgia.

Confederate Imprints in the University of Georgia Libraries, item 95.

Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad Company

Seventh annual report of the president and directors of the Savannah, Albany
and Gulf Railroad Company, to the stockholders. Savannah: E.J. Purse, Printer.
1861.21 p. Fold, table. 22 cm.

Crandall 3000 revised.

Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad Company

Eighth annual report of the president and directors of the Savannah, Albany and
Gulf Rail Road Company, to the stockholders. May, 1862. Savannah, Georgia: Geo.
N. Nichols, Printer. 1862. 25 p. 22.5 cm.

Savannah Artillery

Rules for the government of the Savannah Artillery, adopted Febuary [sic\,
1861. Savannah: Geo. N. Nichols, Printer. 1861. 35 p. 17 cm.

Cover-title: Savannah Artillery 1861, encircles seal oj Georgia.

[Sawyer, Charles Carroll]

When this cruel war is over. [Savannah? n.d.]
Broadside, 19.5 x 10.5 cm.

Verse, without music.

. . . Secession quick step, by Herman L. Schreiner. Macon, Ga.: John C.
Schreiner & Sons, n.d. 6 p.

Flag with thirteen stars and rattlesnake on cover; overprinted on flag: The
South, the whole South, and nothing but the South. Noli me tangere!
Sheet music.

Possibly printed before the secession of Georgia.
Confederate Imprints in the University of Georgia Libraries, //em 87.

Sinclair, Carrie Bell

. . . The soldier's suit of grey. Dedicated to the soldiers of the South.<^y Carrie
Bell Sinclair^. . . [Savannah, 186-]

Broadside, 33.5 x 13 cm.

At head of title: <^opy right secured^

Verse; without music.

MS note by Miss Sinclair: "Air - Bonnie Blue Flag. "

Some one to love, ballad. Words by James Simmonds, music by J.R. Thomas.
Macon and Savannah, J.C. Schreiner & Son; Augusta, Ga., Schreiner & Hewitt, n.d.
4 p.

Sheet music.

The song of all songs, an original conglomeration of titles. Air "The captain
with his whiskers." [Savannah? n.d.\
Broadside, 22 x 12.5 cm.

Verse.

Southern land of Canan [sic] . "Air Happy land of C a." . . . [New Orleans]
John Hopkins, printer [1861?]
Broadside, 28 x 10 cm.

Verse.

To our Southern brothers . . . [Savannah? n.d.]
Broadside, 22 x 15 cm.

Verse.

.\c\\\s/)upcr.s and Periodicals

The Brunswick Advocate. Brunswick. Ga., 1861.
1861: Feb. 8.

The Charleston Daily Courier. Charleston, S.C., 1861-63.

1861: Nov. 27

1862: Feb. 17. Mar. 7. 8, 13. Apr. 6, July 15, 16, 21. 25. 28. Aug. 13, Sept. 5,8.
12, 15, 18. 22. 25, 26, Oct. 1,4,9, 15-18, 20, 28, 30, Nov. 3.5,7.8. 15,
18.21,22,24. 27, 29. Dec. 1, 10, 15, 17, 19,27,29-31.

1863: Jan. I. 5, 8. 13, 15, 19, 20, 24, 27, 29-31, Feb. 3. 5, 6,7, 12. 23-27, Apr.
16. May 14.

The Charleston Mercury. Charleston, S.C., 1861-63.

1861: Nov. 27.

1862: Feb. 18, 19. Mar. 8. 20-22. 27. Apr. 17, 18, May 1,22, 24, June 5. July 24,

Sept. 16, Oct. 11, Nov. 5.8, 11, 25, Dec. 8. 17,27.
1863: Jan. 6, Feb. 2. May 9, June 13, 26, July 4, 6. 9. Aug. 30. Nov. 13.

The Chattanooga Daily Rebel.
See The Daily Rebel.

Constitutionalist. Augusta, Ga., 1861 .
1861: Mar. 22-23-24 extra.
See also Daily Constitutionalist.

The Countryman. Turnwold, Ga., 1862.

1862: Sept. 29, Oct. 6, Nov. 10, 17, 24, Dec. 1,8, 15.

The Daily Chattanooga Rebel.
See The Daily Rebel.

Daily Commonwealth. Atlanta, Ga., 1863.
1863: May 8.

Daily Constitutionalist. Augusta, Ga., 1862-64.

1862: Feb. 6, 13, Apr. 27, Oct. 6.

1864: May 6.