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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL, SOCIETY. Y.-The fol-
lowing additional. contributions have been
made TO the Southern Historical Society.
The amount Of historical material is largely
tincreasipgy and the promise of future. addi-
tions is gratifying
From Colonel John L.. Eubapk: Ad-
dresses delivered before. the Virginia State
Convention in February. 1861, by Hon. Full
ton Anderson, commissioner from the State
| of, Mississippi; by the Hon. Henry L. Ben
ming, COMMISSIONS FROM Georgia, and by the
Hon. John s. Preston, .commissio ionerE from
South Carolina, nvoking. the aid of Virginia
| in the cause Of the S0pthern Confederacy,
and an uhion with the Southern States.
From b.: AS matter Of curiosity, the
first Confederate five. dollar note put in cir
cuiation in Winchester. 81
From Judge Henry e.. Blair, of Roanoke
county: "reminiscences of his capture by
| Colonel u. Dahlgreen in his raid around
Richmond, of bis presence with him during
| that raid, and at his death account of that
death, and of the papers taken from bis per-
SOP.
From Captain NJ. B. Poiteaux: "A map Of
| the defences of Petersburg, beautifully and
correctly drawn by Lieutenant DuVal, ol
Florids.
| Authors name not given, or lost: "Ihe
Whole South as seen in one Picture" De.
scription of once happy home in North
Carolina, now of desolation. The inefh.
cheney of free negro labor.
| Obituary notice of private Burwell B.
Bloupt, OF Mobile, belonging to company Il
ofthe Eighth Alabama regiment. Was killed
bv a cannon ball at Yorktown on the 20th
April, 1862. .',.,.'..,
| From Allan B. Magruder, Esq, now Of
Baltimore: Major.General j. Baukhead Ma.
eruder's report of the operations on the
Peninsula, and of the battles OF Savage Sta
ton and Malvern Hill, near Richmond, June,
1862.
a manuscript article with the following
canton .tLincoLn, Se,odrd, and the Yir.
ginia Convention of 186l-A Stray Leaf from
Unpublished History"
Colonei j. Il. Baidwin's private interview
with President Lincoln.
From Private Frank Frazier, Second Ala
bama regiment, of General Fergu.on's bri-
cade: An account of the surrender Of the
| last flag Of the Army of Tennessee and the
last armed Confederate troops east of the
Chattaboochee river, the last escort of Jefer-
son Davis, President Of the Confederate
States of America. This brigade consisted
of the Second and Fifty.sixth regiments OF
Alabama cavalry and the Fifth, Ninth, and
Twelfth Mississippi regiments of cavalry,
numbering one thousand and four men, rank
j and file, May 4tb, 1860.
| From Joseph Daniel Pope, attorney at law,
| Columbia, S. c.: Account Of the battle OF
Honey Hill, near Grahamsvlle, S. c. State.
ment made by Colonel c. j. Colcock, who
was in command, and who modestly makes
no mention of his own invaluable services.
| Memoir of the excitement that took place
lin Baltimore following the 10th of April,
1861, on the first attempt of the PennSylya'
mia troops to pass through the city to Wash
/ iugton. -.
From Colonel William Norris, formerly in
the Confederate service, now living in Refs.
terstown, Baltimore county, Md: A truth:
| full and stirring account of the victory gained
by the Virginia. over the Monitor in Hamp
| ton Roads. He concludes thus: " In every
i Federal account Of the operations of the
war an antidote should accompany the poi
4 son, page by page, line by line"
This is the great desire and object OF the
/ Southern Historical Society. Let southern
sons with pens Of light now do what thei,
i flashing swords and gallant braves accom-
plished while there was shot in the locker