Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1874-07-14
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

This Society, as it will be remembered, was
te>orgsnizad last year, with Gen. Early as its
President, aud Vice President Tor each of
the Southern States, and means were then
taken for the attainment of the worthy OBJ
jeUts for which it was created. The general
objects of the Society are to collect and pre-
serve the materials of our history. and to this
end contributions to the archives and library
of the Society arc respectfully solicited under
the following specific divisions:
l. The histories and historical collections
of the individual States from the earliest
periods TO the present time, including travels.
journals and maps.
Complete files of the newspapers. peri
odicals, literary scientific aud medical Journals
of the Southern Stites. from the earliest time
to the present day. including, especially the
period OF the recent American civil war.
g. Geological, typographical, agricultural,
manufacturing and commercial reports, illus
trating the statistics, climate, soil, resources,
products and commerce OF the Southern
Sites.
4. Works, speeches, sermons and discourses
relating to the recent conflict and political
changes. Congressional and State reports,
during the recent war
s. Official reports and descriptions, by off
GERS and privates and newspaper correspon
dents and eye-witnesses of campaigns, mill
tary operations. battles and sieges.
6 Military maps.
T. Reports upon the munitions, arms and
equipment, organisation, numbers and losses
81 the various branches of the Southern
a.mies-intantry. artillery. cavalry, ordnance
nd
mants
s. Reports of the Adjutant General of the
late c. = A, and of the Adjnrant Generals
az the armies. departments districts and States.
showing the resources of the individual States.
tie available fighting population. the number.
organization and losses of the forces called
into sctnal service.
g. Naval operations of the Confederate
States
10. Operations of the Nitre and Mining
Bureau
H. Commercial operations
IL Foreign relations, diplomatic cores
Tondencr etc.
j. Currency.
II. Medical statistics and medical reports
] 10. Names of all officers. soldiers and sailors
in the military and naval service of the Com
federate States who were killed in battle, or
died of disease wounds.
l6. Names of all wounded officers. soldiers
and sailors. The nature of tho wounds should
TO attached t. each name, also the loss of one
or more limbs should be carefully noted.
II. Published reports and manuscripts re
lsting to civil prisoners held during the war.
Is All matters. published or unpublished,
relating to the treatment, diseases, mortality,
and exchange of prisoners of war.
10 The conduct of the hostile armies in
tie Southern States. Private and public
l5sses during the war. Treatment of citizens
by hostile forces
20 Southern poetry, ballads songs, etc.
Mrs Arthur F. Hopkins, widow of the late
Judge Hopkins, of Alabama, and native of
this cOunty.-s lady eminent during the late
war for her unself<h and untiripg labors in
the Southern hospitals at Richmond and else
whereas now on visit to her relatives in
Jefferson and being the agent of this Society,
desires during her stay here to do something
.iu benallsof the good cause in which she is
4eE sngaged "a ;eanse, as the AIabile. I2eqisfer
fpls.s iisslfsa 1sastts1 Isa,isl tostslaf Witch