From the editor:
"In New Orleans, in 1868, I determined to set foot on a plan for the systematic collection and preservation of the Southern archives relating to the war. General Dick Taylor cordially encouraged me, and in May of that year I called a meeting by quiet personal requests of nine or ten gentlemen in the office of Hewitt and Morton. After conversational discussion, it was agreed to meet at the same place one week from that date. Meantime, each of us agreed to canvass among friends and bring them in to help. Next week forty of us assembled, (among them were ten former generals, seven colonels two lieutenant generals, one major, seven captains, two first lieutenants, six medical officers and three members who had been in the Confederate Congress.) and the noble and able Presbyterian divine, Dr. B.M. Palmer, was elected president, and our work went on for several years......."
Major General Dabney Herndon Maury
Founder of the Southern Historical Society
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SAMPLE ARTICLES
| Dodge At Chancellorsville | Praise and admiration of the Confederate forces at Chancellorsville by Colonel Theodore A. Dodge of the Union Army! |
| Fitz Lee At Chancellorsville | See what this famous Confederate Vet has to say about the battle. |
| Interview with a Confederate Prisoner | The Story of General Averell's Interview with a Confederate Prisoner Retold. |
| 55th Virginia at Chancellorsville | An interesting account of this regiment at Chancellorsville. |
| Wounding of Stonewall | An interesting account by one of Stuart's Horse Artillery. |
