MUM00027
Finding-Aid for the Lionel Baxter Collection (MUM00027)
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: https://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/
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LIONEL BAXTER COLLECTION 00-78
Box 1 — Letters, Documents, Autographs, Engravings, Newsclips, etc. (predominately, but not exclusively, Civil War related)
Folder 1 (pre-Civil War letters):
W. E. Jones & W. W. Loring, C.S.A. Generals, DS,
April 15 1851, Oregon Territory
Robert F. Crenshaw, ALS, December 13, 1860, Pontotoc
Mississippi, to his cousin in Elkton, Tenn.
Albert Sydney Johnston, C.S.A. General, ADS, June 24,
1839, as Secretary of War, Texas Republic
Folder 2 (William T. Sherman, Jefferson Davis):
William T. Sherman, duplicate copy of field order #42,
Siege of Atlanta, July 25, 1864
Jefferson Davis, photocopies of ALS and typescript of
same, January 1, 1878, to A. D. Mann
Jefferson Davis, signed photograph card, photo taken
“in old age”
Folder 3 (Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Howard):
Nathan B. Forrest, C.S.A. General, letter in his hand but not signed, August 22 1869, Marion Alabama, to Gen. Rucker
Nathan B. Forrest, LS, February 10 1873, Memphis, Tennessee, to Gen. Rucker
[Nathan B. Forrest] clipped signature
William Howard, Maj. C.S.A., Forrest’s Quartermaster,
ALS, October 6 1862, to his father, praising Gen.
Forest
William Howard, ADS, December 22 1862, Parole of Honor
Folder 4 (Marion Francis Baxter):
Photocopies of photographs (1870 and 1925) and book
inscription dated September 1 1882
Folder 5 (Docs., Letters, from C.S.A. Officers & Soldiers):
William Edwin Baldwin, General, ALS, October 14 1863,
Enterprise Mississippi, to “Oscar”
James B. Blackwell, ALS and handmade envelope, October
5 1864, [Winsborough] Virginia, to his sister
Mrs. A. G. Duncan, New Albany Mississippi
William Joseph Hardee, General, ANS, no date, to “General”; an engraving of Hardee also included
Manfield Lovell, General, ALS, October 22 1862, Holly
Springs Mississippi, to his son Josie
J. C. Pemberton, Lt. Gen., LS, March 30 1863, Jackson
Mississippi, to Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, U.S.A.
Leonidas Polk, General, ALS, May 7 1863, Headquarters
Polks Corps, to “Elliott”
J. V. Ramsey, Col., August 28 1861, Montery Virignia,
to Brig. Gen. Henry R. Jackson in Greenbriar VA
Carter L. Stevenson, Maj. Gen., ANS (on the back of the
above letter from Ramsey to Jackson), Valley
Mountain West Virginia, to Gen. H. R. Jackson
Carter L. Stevenson, ALS, September 5 1861, Valley
Mountain West Virginia, to Gen. H. R. Jackson,
Montery Line Virginia
Daniel Ruggles, Brig. Gen., DS, January 9 1863, Exchange
and Paroled Prisoners
Folder 6 (Letters, Post-Civil War, C.S.A. Officers):
William H. Forney, General, ALS, March 23 1884, from
U.S. House of Representatives, to Lyle Thoburn
Alexander P. Stewart, General, ALS, February 16 1886,
Univ. of Mississippi, Oxford, to E. C. Brown
Alexander P. Stewart, ALS, August 18 1891, War Dept.,
Washington D.C., to Gen. Marcus J. Wright
John Tyler Morgan, General, ALS, February 9 1877,
Selma Alabama, to President Grant
Folder 7 (Documents, Letters, Union Officers, Civil War
and Post-Civil War):
Nathaniel P. Banks, Maj. Gen., ALS, September 4 1861,
Camp at Damstown, to Dr. Baxter
William S. Rosecrans, General, ALS, October 29 1872,
Mexico, to Miss Rosa Kingsley
E. O. C. Ord, General, ALS, December 31 1867, Holly
Springs Mississippi, to Editor of N.Y. Times
ALSO: telegrams to Ord from U. S. Grant and
Andrew Johnson
Folder 8 (Signatures, Union and C.S.A. Officers):
Gen. John Adams (plus a photocard of him)
Maj. George Blake Cosby
General Robert Lowry
Gen. Peter Joseph Osterhaus
Gen. Jones Mitchell Withers
Maj. Gen. David E. Twiggs (ANS)
Folder 9 (Miscellaneous Autographs):
George W. Childs
William H. Crane
John Cochrane
George William Curtis
Charles A. Dana
James. J. Davis
Richard Coker
A California “49-er”
Owen Davis
Folder 10 (Envelopes, Civil War):
Winfield Scott Featherston, General C.S.A., May 27 1864,
Dalton Georgia, to Chaplain Rev. Thomas R. Markham
David Dixon Porter, Commander U.S.N., a Patriotic
Envelope
Northern Patriotic Envelope used by a soldier in Co. E,
20th Mississippi Mounted Infantry
Homemade Envelope from Co. F, 20th Regiment Mississippi
Volunteers, Adams Brigade, Touring Division,
Garlandsville Mississippi
Georgia Battalion, Dalton Georgia
Edward Door Tracy, Brig. Gen. C.S.A., from Tullahoma
Tennessee, to Mrs. E. D. Tracy in Macon Georgia
Postmaster Provisional, Sumter South Carolina,
February 4 1861
Folder 11 (Engravings, predominately, but not exclusively,
Civil War Generals):
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Braxton Bragg
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne
Robert Edward Lee
John Buchanan Floyd
William Starke Rosecrans
Joseph E. Johnston
John Hunt Morgan
Nathaniel Greene
Rufus King
John Bell Hood
D. C. Broderick
Rev. James W. Alexander
Alexander H. Stephens
Group Portrait of Confederate Generals Bragg, Longstreet,
Johnston, Hood, Smith
Folder 12 (C.S.A. Government):
Richmond Virginia, General Orders #1, January 6 1865
Folder 13 (Father Abram J. Ryan):
Civil War Poet-Priest from Mobile Alabama, photograph
of statue and newsclipping
Folder 14 (John Sharp Williams):
United States Representative, TLS, September 24 1908,
Yazoo City Mississippi, to Hon. Robert Baker
Folder 15 (Edward VIII):
Newsclippings re. abdication
Folder 16 (FDR Speech):
Newsclipping, Franklin Roosevelt’s December 8 1941
Speech to Congress
Box 2 — Correspondence, Misc., Lionel Baxter
Folder l:
Letters to Lionel Baxter from various politicians,
including a TNS from Richard Nixon, and letters
from Carl Albert, Silvio Conte, Bob Dole,
Sam Ervin, Barry Goldwater, Jacob Javits, Jack
Kemp, Edward Kennedy, Claude Pepper, William
Proxmire, John Stennis, John Tower, George
Wallace, William Winter and many others
The letters are alphabetized
Most dating from the early 1970’s
Folder 2:
Carbon copies of letters sent by Lionel Baxter, Vice
President of Washington Affairs for Storer
Broadcasting Company, to various members of congress re. legislation affecting the broadcast industry
Not alphabetized or organized by date, early 1970’s
Replies from some politicians included Copies of House and Senate bills included
Folder 3:
Carbon copies of letters sent by Lionel Baxter to
various members of congress re. food stamps,
the United Nations, foreign policy, surtaxes,
U. S. Navy capabilities, P.O.W. legislation,
school desegregation, Abraham Lincoln and
“Save the Bay”
Misc. materials pertaining to same Not alphabetized or organized by date, 1970’s and
early 1980’s
Replies from some politicians included
Folder 4:
Photocopies of letters from various politicians to
Lionel Baxter
Not alphabetized or organized by date, 1960’s, 1970’s
Folder 5:
Letters from and to Lionel Baxter re. political
contributions
Not alphabetized or organized by date, 1970’s
Folder 6:
Miscellaneous Correspondence
Folder 7:
“This Week at the Whitehouse” — Fay Wells’ weekly reports to Storer Broadcasting, 1969-1974
Folder 8:
Letter from Gov. LeRoy Collins (Florida) to Harry
Barnard
Folder 9:
Logtown, Mississippi — photograph and reprint of Life
Magazine article, September 25 1964
Folder 10:
Newsclips, reprints, pertaining to Lionel Baxter
Folder 11:
Miscellaneous — Programs, postcards, etc.
Box 3 — Bureau of Printing & Engraving Series
Presidents
Chief Justices
Government Buildings
Folder:
1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Q. Adams
7. Andrew Jackson (two engravings)
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses Grant
19. Rutherford Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. William McKinley
25. Theodore Roosevelt
26. William Taft
27. Woodrow Wilson
28. Warren Harding
29. Calvin Coolidge
30. Herbert Hoover
31. Franklin Roosevelt
32. Harry Truman
33. Dwight Eisenhower
34. John Kennedy
35. Lyndon Johnson
36. Richard Nixon
37. Gerald Ford
38. Jimmy Carter
39. Ronald Reagon
40. John Jay
41. John Rutledge
42. Oliver Ellsworth
43. John Marshall
44. Roger Taney
45. S. P. Chase
46. Morrison Waite
47. Melville Fuller
48. Edward White
49. William Taft
50. Charles Hughes
51. Harlan Stone
52. Fred Vinson
53. Earl Warren
54. U. S. Supreme Court (two engravings, one signed
by Warren Burger)
55. U. S. Capitol (four engravings, two signed by
by Carl Albert)
56. U. S. Treasury (three engravings, two signed)
57. The White House (seven engravings, two signed
by Richard Nixon)
58. Lincoln Memorial
59. Washington Post Office
60. Bureau of Engraving & Printing
61. Mystery Home (Washington’s birthplace?)
62. Mt. Vernon
63. Monticello
64. Great Seal of the U. S. (two engravings)
Box 4 — Engravings and Documents, Oversized
Engravings:
George Washington (two, one in color)
Thomas Jefferson
N. H. Bidwell
“Boudoir Beauties”
Sir Henry Havelock
E.O.C. Ord (newsclipping glued to back)
Earl Van Dorn
Jefferson Davis
Simon Olivar Buckner
Stephen Dill Lee
Carter Littlepage Stevenson
Alexander Peter Stewart
Joseph E. Johnston
Documents:
Jefferson Davis, DS, February 17 1855, while Secretary
of War under Franklin Pierce
John B. Floyd, DS, June 6 1851, as Governor of
Virginia, a grant of acreage to George Arnold
Andrew Johnson, DS, April 25 1868, presidential pardon
of John Fleming, convicted of robbery and
sentenced to seven years imprisonment
Also signed by Sec. of State William Seward
Miscellaneous:
Photocopied Muster Rolls
Viking I panoramic photograph, 1977
Republican National Convention, 1972
Box 5 — Maps, Newspapers, Facsimiles & Broadsides, Oversize
Newspapers:
Montgomery Daily Mail, April 17 1865, photocopy
Mississippi Gulf Coast Sun Daily Herald, April 4 1982
(two copies)
Mississippian, July 31 1947
Hamilton, Bermuda Mid-Ocean News, July 6 1944
Birmingham News, September 3 1939
Maps:
St. Louis Bay and Sheildsboro Harbor, Mississippi, 1857, photocopy
American Heritage Reproductions:
New World, 1600
First American Map of U.S., 1784
New Netherlands & New England, 1635
New World, 1500
The Known Glove, 1667
New France, 1745
Mississippi Topographical (two parts, towns associated
with Marion F. Baxter’s service with Company E,
20th Mississippi Infantry, 1860-65)(photocopies)
Mississippi Historical, Chronological and Geographical,
1823
Atlas 29, Union & Confederate Armies, 1894
Atlas 28, Same
Atlas 23, Same
Champion Hill/Vicksburg/etc.
Fort Donelson, 1875 (two versions)
Sherman’s Operations, Atlanta, 1864
Facsimiles:
Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence (2)
Monroe Doctrine (2)
Gettysburg Address (2)
Emancipation Proclamation (2)
Broadsides:
Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet, Tuesday April 22 1977
(facsimile)
“Valor,” Edward Almond, Lt. Gen. USA, June 1 1967,
Virginia Military Institute
“The Last Confederate,” Henry C. Howell III
“I think continually of those who were truly great…,”
Stephen Spender
“Jefferson Davis, An American Patriot,” broadside
presented by Sen. James O. Eastland in the
U. S. Senate, June 9 1971
Abraham Lincoln, excerpt from first inaugural address,
6 copies
Box 6 — Maps (this is actually a folder of encapsulated maps too large to fit into the Hollinger Box #5)
Atlas of the Union & Confederate Armies, 1894
Louisiana
Louisiana/Mississippi
Bay of Mobile
Arkansas/Mississippi
Kentucky/Virginia
United States (two versions)
Box 7 — Herman Baxter, Scrapbook and United States Flag
Framed Items
Independence Hall, Philadelphia — limited edition
print on silk, signed by the artist (artist’s
name not legible)
Robert E. Lee — lithograph, reproduction of Cornelius
Hawkins’ oil portrait, presented to Lionel
Baxter by Henry Rau of Alexandria, Virginia
Gen. J. E. Stuart — lithograph of plumed hat, gauntlets,
Le Mat revolver and headquarters of Stuart, from
a photograph by Ron Jennings in the collection of
Mississippians in the Confederacy, Richmond, Va.
The Great Locomotive Chase, etching by Kathleen Cantin,
Franklin Mint
General Robert E. Lee, framed print
Colonel Isaac Hane Being Led to His Execution by Carrol
N. Jones, Jr., bicentennial print, Franklin Mint
Declaration of Independence, print, engraved by W. L.
Ormsby, after Durand
Ronald Reagon “honors the memory of German M. Baxter”
F.D.R. “In grateful memory of Herman M. Baxter”
William Penn, lithograph of ALS by Penn; framed and
matted, with metal tag “Presented to Lionel F.
Baxter…”
Frances Marion ‘Swamp Fox’, lithograph with document,
gold frame, clipped signature affixed
General P. G. T. Beauregard ALS, 1838, plus Matthew P. Brady photograph and contemporary engraving
Robert E. Lee, report card signed as President of
Washington College, [1867]
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Confederate Armies, vol. 1
New York: Thos. Yoseloff, 1968 (jacket, 3rd printing)
American Association for State & Local History. American Heritage: The Magazine of History, Vol. 16 #1, Dec. 1964
American Heritage Society. Bicentennial Series Desk Calendar
1973, 1974, 1975. American Heritage Pub. Co.
The American Image: Photographs from the National Archives,
1860-1960. NY: Pantheon Books, 1979 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Anderson, Ephraim McD. Memoirs: Historical and Personal:
Including the Campaigns of the First Missouri Confed-
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(2nd ed., limited to 1,000 copies, #352)
The Annals of the War Written by Leading Participants North
and South. Gettysburg: Civil War Times reprint, 1974
Battles of the Civil War, 1861-1865, A Pictorial Presentation
Pioneer Press, 1960 (oversize)
Basso, Hamilton. Beauregard, The Great Creole
NY: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1933 (1st ed.)
Baxter, Lionel. A Chronology and Narrative of the Service of
Marion Francis Baxter, C. S. A.
Compiled and research by Lionel F. Baxter (unpublished)
Benson, Evelyn A. With the Army of West Virginia, 1861-1864,
Reminiscences & Letters of Lt. James Abraham
Evelyn Benson, 1974 (green, loose leaf notebook)
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Bearss, Edwin C. Forrest at Brice’s Cross Roads and in North
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Martin, Everett D. Liberty
NY: W.W. Norton, 1930 (1st printing)
Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Refugee Life in the Confederacy
Baton Rouge: LA State Univ. Press, 1965 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Meade, Robert D. Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman
NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1943
Michie, Allan A. and Walter Graebner, eds. Their Finest Hour:
First-Hand Narratives of the War in England
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1941 (1st Amer. ed.)
Military Operations of the Civil War: A Guide-Index to the
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,
1861-1865
Two copies: Washington, GSA, 1968 and l972 (paper)
Minor, Kate P., comp. An Author and Subject Index to
the Southern Historical Society Papers, vols. 1-38
Richmond: Davis Botton, Sup. of Public Printing, 1913
(Virginia State Lib. Bulletin, July, Oct. vol. 6 #s 3,4)
Moore, Frank, ed. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of
American Events, 12 vols.
NY: Arno Press, 1977 (reprint)
Myers, Robert M., ed. The Children of Pride: A True Story
of Georgia and the Civil War
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1972 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Nasca, Stephen P. Colonel A. D. Streight’s Raid Through
Northern Alabama, a Day to Day Account
(student paper, St. Barnard College, Alabama, 1973)
National Committee for the Preservation of Existing Records
of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America,
published under the supervision of. American War Songs
Philadelphia: privately printed, 1975 (boxed, 1st ed.)
National Geographic Society. The Civil War
National Geo. Soc., 1969 (jacket, 1st ed.)
National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans, from Originial
Paintings by Alonzo Chappel, with Biographies by
E. A. Duyckinck, vol. 1
NY: Johnson, Fry & Co., 1862
Nettis, Joseph, photographer. Philadelphia Discovered
Phila.: Greater Phila. Magazine, 1964 (boxed, 1st ed.)
Nevins, Allan. The Emergence of Lincoln, 2 vols.
NY: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1950 (jackets)
Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union, 2 vols.
NY: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1947 (jackets, 1st ed.)
Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union: The Improvised War,
1861-1862, vol 1
NY: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1959 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union: War Becomes
Revolution, 1862-1863, vol. 2
NY: Chas. Scribner’s sons, 1960 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union: The Organized War,
1863-1864, vol. 3
NY: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1971 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Nevins, Allan, The War for the Union: The Organized War
to Victory, 1864-1865, vol. 4
NY: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1971 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Nevins, Allan, James I. Robertson Jr., & Bell I. Wiley, eds.
Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography, two vols.
Baton Rouge: LA State Univ. Press, 1969 (vol. 2) and
1970 (vol. 1) (jackets)
1971 Congressional Staff Directory
Washington, 1971 (13th ed.)
Nye, Wilbur St. Here Come the Rebels!
Baton Rouge: LA State Univ. Press, 1965
(jacket, 1st ed., signed by author)
O’Connor, Richard. The First Hurrah: A Biography of
Alfred E. Smith
NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Otero, Nina. Old Spain in Our Southwest
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1937 (reprint)
Parks, Joseph H. General Leonidas Polk C.S.A.:
The Fighting Bishop
Baton Rouge: LA State Univ. Press, 1962 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Pemberton, John C. Pemberton: Defender of Vicksburg
Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1942 (1st ed.)
Phillips, Herb. Champion Hill!
Champion Hill Battlefield Foundation (booklet)
Polley, Robert L., ed. America the Beautiful:
In the Words of John F. Kennedy
Elm Grove WI: Country Beautiful Foundation, 1964
Pourade, Richard F. The Call to California
San Diego: Union-Tribune Pub. Co., 1968 (dust jacket)
President Wilson’s Great Speeches and Other History Making
Documents
Chicago: Stanton and Van Vliet, 1917 (1st ed.)
Purdue, Howell and Eliz. Pat Cleburn, Confederate General
Hillsboro TX: Hill Jr. College Press, 1973 (jacket)
Rand, Clayton. Sons of the South
NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson
NY: Harper & Row, 1969 (paper)
Rickenbacker, Edward V. Rickenbacker
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967 (jacket,
fourth printing)
Ridley, Bromfield L. Battles and Sketches of the Army of
Tennessee
Dayton OH: Morningside Bookshop, 1978 (reprint)
Rietti, J.C., comp. Military Annals of Mississippi
Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Co., 1976
Robuck, J.E. My Own Personal Experience and Observation as a Soldier in the Confederate Army During the Civil War,
1861-1865; Also During the Period of Reconstruction
Memphis: Burke’s Book Store and Frank and Gennie
Myers, no date (reprint, jacket)
Roland, Charles P. Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of
Three Republics
Austin: Univ. of TX Press, 1964 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Russell, Francis. The American Heritage History of the
Confident Years
NY: Amer. Heritage Pub. Co., 1973
Russell, Lord, of Liverpool. The Knights of Bushido
London: Corgi Books, 1980 (paper)
Salisbur, John. A Message for Americans
Portland: KXL Radio & Binford & Mort, 1965
(jacket, 1st ed.)
Schurz, William L. The Manila Galleon
NY: E. P. dutton, 1939 (paper)
Silver, James W., ed. A Life for the Confederacy: As
Recorded in the Pocket Diaries of Pvt. Robert A. Moore
Jackson TN: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1959 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Simmons, Henry E., comp. Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War
NY: bonanza Books, 1965 (jacket)
Skelton, R. A., Thomas E. Marston, and George D. Painter
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1965 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Sloss, Edith T. Echoes of the Old Plantation
Phila.: Dorrance & Co., 1947 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Smith, J. Frazer. White Pillars
NY: Bramhall House, no date (dust jacket)
Smith, Margaret C., ed. by William C. Lewis Jr.
Declaration of Consience
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co., 1972
(jacket, presentation copy by Smith to Mr. Baxter)
Smith, Page. A New Age Now Begins: A People’s
History of the American Revolution, vols. 1 and 2
NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1976 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Southern Historical Society Papers, 52 vols. & 2 index vols.
Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co., 1977-1980
Stephenson, Wendell H. and E. Merton Coulter, eds.
A History of the South, vols. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Vol. 1: Craven, Wesley Frank. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1689
Baton Rouge: LA State Univ. Press, 1949 (jacket)
Vol. 3: Alden, John R. The South in the Revolution,
1763-1789 (1957, jacket)
Vol. 4: Abernethy, Thomas P. The South in the New
Nation, 1789-1819 (1961, jacket)
Vol. 5: Sydnor, Charles S. The Development of
Southern Sectionalism, 1819-1848 (1948, jacket)
Vol. 6: Craven, Avery C. The Growth of Southern
Nationalism, 1848-1861 (1953, jacket)
Vol. 7: Coulter, E. Merton. The Confederate States
of America, 1861-1865 (1950, jacket)
Vol. 8: Coulter, E. Merton. The South During
Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1947, jacket)
Vol. 9: Woodward C. Vann. Origins of the New South,
1877-1913 (1951, jacket)
Vol. 10: Tindall, George B. The Emergence of the New
South, 1913-1945 (1967, jacket)
Stillman, Edmund. The American Heritage History of the
20’s and 30’s
NY: Amer. Heritage Pub. Co., 1970 (boxed)
Stone, Irving. Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening
of the Far West, 1840-1900
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co., 1956
(jacket, 1st ed., signed by author)
Strode, Hudson. Jefferson Davis: American Patriot, 1808-1861
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1955
(jacket, 1st ed., presentation copy)
Strode, Hudson. Jefferson Davis: Confederate President
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1959
(jacket, 1st ed., presentation copy)
Strode, Hudson. Jefferson Davis: Private Letters, 1823-1889
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1966 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Strode, Hudson. Jefferson Davis: Tragic Hero: The Last
Twenty-Five Years, 1864-1889
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1964
(jacket, 1st ed., presentation copy)
Stuart, Jozefa, & Wilson R. Gathings. Great Southern Mansions
NY: Walker & Co., 1977 (paper, 1st ed.)
Sulzburger, C. L. American Heritage Picture History
of World War II, 2 vols.
NY: Amer. Heritage Pub. Co., 1966 (boxed)
Taylor, Richard. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal
Experiences of the Late War
Gettysburg: Civil War times, 1974
Tebeau, Charlton W. A History of Florida
Coral Gables: Univ. of Miami Press, 1971 (jacket 1st ed.)
Toward a Meaningful Bicentennial
1969, Phila. 1976 Bicentennial Corp. (oversize)
Townsend, George A. Rustics in Rebellion: A Yankee Reporter
on the Road to Richmond, 1861-1865
Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1950 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Tregaskis, Richard. Guadalcanal Diary
NY: Random House, 1943 (first printing)
Tully, Andrew. Supreme Court
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1963 (jacket)
Tumulty, Joseph P. Woodrow Wilson As I Know Him
Garden City NY: Literary Digest, n.d. (special ed.)
Turnard, W. H. A Southern Record: The History of the Third
Regiment Louisiana Infantry
Dayton: Morningside Bookshop, 1970 (reprint, #335)
United Press International and Amer. Heritage Mag., comp.
Four Days: The Historical Record of the Death
of President Kennedy
Amer. Heritage Pub. Co., 1964 (two copies)
Walters, John B. Merchant of Terror: General Sherman
and Total War
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril Co., 1973 (jacket, 1st ed.)
War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records
of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols.
Washington: GPO, 1894 (reprint by the National
Historical Society, Gettysburg, 1972)
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue: Lives of the
Union Commanders
Baton Rouge: LA State Univ. Press, 1964 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the
Confederate Commanders
Baton Rouge: LA State Univ. Press, 1959 (jacket)
Webb, Willard, ed. Crucial Moments in the Civil War
NY: Bonanza Books, 1961 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Weems, Mason L. & Marcus Cunliffe, eds.
The Life of Washington
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard U. Press, 1967
(jacket, second printing)
Wells, Kenneth D. Awake Throughout the Land
Valley Forge: published by the author, 1968
(a limited ed., #87, paper)
Wessels, William L. Born to Be a Soldier: The Military
Career of William Wing Loring of St. Augustine, Florida
Fort Worth: TX Christian U Press, 1971 (paper, 1st print)
Whittemore, Charles P. A General of the Revolution:
John Sullivan of New Hampshire
NY: Columbia U Press, 1961 (jacket,1st ed.)
Wiley, Bell I., text. Embattled Confederates
NY: Harper & Row, 1964 (jacket, 1st ed.)
Williams. T. Harry. P. G. T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray
Baton Rouge: LA State U Press, 1971 (jacket)
Wills, Garry. Inventing America: Jefferson’s
Declaration of Independence
NY: Vintage Books, 1979 (paper)
Wingfield, Marshall. General A. P. Stewart: His
Life and Letters
Memphis: W. Tenn. Hist. Soc., 1954 (1st ed.)
Wyeth, John A. Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest
Dayton: Morningside Bookshop, 1975 (1st ed.)
Oversize, spiral bound souvenier book of Richard Nixon’s
trip to the Middle East
Genealogy Books
Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, First Families in
America, Frederick Virkus, ed., 1925
Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed
Gentry, 17th edition, L. G. Pine, ed., MCMLII
Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches Embracing the
History of Campbell County, Virginia, 1782-1926,
R. H. Early, 1927
Carolina Cradle, Settlement of the Northwest Carolina
Frontier, 1747-1762, Robert W. Ramsey, n.d.
The Cradle, Anatomy of a Town-Fact and Fiction
Peter Kohn, 1969
Charleston, A Gracious Heritage, Robert Molloy, n.d.
Early Settlers of Alabama, with Notes and Genealogies
Col. James E. Saunders, Elizabeth S. B. Stubbs
Part I, 1899 and 1961
English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records
Louis des Cognets, Jr., comp., 1958
Essex Wills (England), vol. 1, 1558-1565
F. G. Emmison, ed., 1982
First Record Book of the “Old Dutch Church of Sleepy
Hollow,” organized in 1697 and now the First
Reformed Church of Tarrytown, N. Y.
Rev. David Cole, 1901
A Genealogical History of the O’Reillys
James Carney, ed., 1959
Genealogical History of the Rutherford Family, Vols. l & 2
William K. and Anna C. Z. Rutherford, 1969
Same, revised edition, vols. 1 & 2, 1979
The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
Sir Bernard Burke, 1884
General Griffith Rutherford and Allied Families
Minnie R. H. Long, comp., 1942
The Goulds, a Social History, Edwin P. Hoyt, 1969
Historical Collections of Georgia, third edition
Rev. George White, 1855
A History of Marion County, South Carolina, from Its
Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, W. W. Sellers, 1902
City Directory and History of Montgomery, Alabama
Beale & Phelan, 1878
A History of New York from the Beginning of the World
to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, Diedrich Knickerbocker, 1859
A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia,
John W. Wayland, 1927
A History of the Stewart or Stuart Family, Henry Lee, n.d.
A History of Sumter County, South Carolina
Anne K. Gregorie, 1954
Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research, Vol. II, Bibliography and Family Index, Margaret D. Falley, 1961
Life on Old St. David’s Bermuda, E. A. McCallan, 1948
Lowndes Court House, A Chronical of Hayneville, and
Alabama Black Belt Village, 1820-1900
Mildred B. Russell, n.d.
The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, The Barons Named in the
Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants Who
Settled in America, 1607-1650
Arthur Adams and Frederick L. Weis, 1955
Memorial Record of Alabama, A Concise Account of the
State’s Political, Military, Professional and Industrial
Progress, Together with the Personal Memoirs of Many of
Its People, in Two Volumes, Vol. 1, 1893
Milford Tombstone Inscriptions, Morris W. Abbott, 1967
Minutes of the Vestry of St. Helena’s Parish, South
Carolina, 1726-1812, A. S. Salley, Jr., 1919
North and South Carolina Marriage Records, from the
Earliest Colonial Days to the Civil War
William M. Clemens, comp. and ed., 1973
The Northrup-Northrup Genealogy, A. Judd Northrup, n.d.
Sweat Families of the South, Erbon W. Wise, 1983
Virginia Heraldica, 2nd edition, William A. Crozier, 1953
The Publications of The Harleian Society, Vol. XLI
MDCCCXCVII: The Visitation of Cambridge, John W. Clay, 1897
Warrants for Lands in South Carolina, 1692-1711
A. S. Salley, Jr., ed., 1915
Warrants for Lands in South Carolina, 1680-1692
A. S. Salley, Jr., ed., 1911
The Whitney Family of Connecticut and Its Affiliations,
Vol. I and II and III, S. Whitney Phoenix, 1878
William Russell and His Descendants and the Russell
Family in Virginia, Anna R. des Cognets and Louis
des Cognets, Jr., 1960
Journals and Periodicals
Confederate Philatelist, 33 vols., July 1970 – Feb. 1976
Confederate Veteran, 8 vols., Mar. 1985 – Feb. 1986
Civil War Times, 155 vols., Oct. 1960 – July 1978
Horizon, 12 vols., 1964, 1968, 1969
Look, 2 vols., Dec. 3 1963 and Sept. 7 1964
Life, Oct. 2 1964
Muster Roll of the C.S.A., 3 vols., Jan. 1972 and Jan. 1974
Philco Radio Atlans, 2 vols., 1936
Rebel Yell, 112 vols., 1975 – 1986
Seven Stars Sentinel, 10 vols., March 1985 – Feb. 1986
Additional Items.
Hollinger box (one) — various miscellaneous programs, brochures, pamphlets, souveniers of historic homes, etc.;
these items are not listed individually in this inventory
Foot Locker — Hermann M. Baxter, 1st Lt., Infantry, 0-514472
Please note that the U. S. flag and Hermann Baxter scrapbook
which were in the foot locker were moved to the archives
(see page 12, Box 7 of this inventory)
Microfilm — 20th Mississippi Infantry Regiment C.S.A.
Records from Archives in Washington, one box containing six
reels