The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-31
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PAPERS.

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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY Pa
pERs. Volume XVII. Lee Monument
Memorial volume. Edited by r. A.
Brock, secretary of the Southern His
torical Society. AS this volume was
intended to be the Lee Memorial vol.
ume, special efforts we're made to make
il a particularly interesting and valua-
bic number The effort has met
with the success it deserved, and
the present number is most en-
PERTAINING. Ii contains in addl-
ton to macs of material referring TO
the memorial to Lee. a number of other
contributions. The address of DR.. Hun
ter Mcclure on Progress of Medicine
in the South" will not only interest
physicians everywhere, but will recall
the heroic acts of those who served as
surgeons on the field of battle. These
recolleclions are the more vivid, mas
much as they were written by
the man who was medical drec-
tor of Stonewall Jackson's corps in
the Army of Northern Virginia.
Among the men famous in the South
in the history of medicine he mentions
Frick. Goodman and Smith, OF Mary
land; Hartshorne. Chapman, Horner'
Mitchell. Muller. ]. l.. Cabell, Mettaur-
of Virginia; Jones. Caldwell, Dickson,
of North Carolina: Geddings, Bellinger.
Toland and Dickson. of South Carolina;
Meigs. Arnold, Bedford, Anthony aud
Crawford Long, OF Georgia.; Eve, OF
Tennessee: Mott, Sims and Baldwin, OF
Alabama: Stone and Jones. of Louis
lana: Dudley, Mcdowell and fande!l,
of Kentucky. The address was made
before the Southern Surgical Gynaeco-
logial Association at Nashville, Tenn,
on November l3. 1889. \ paper on
Confederate Surgeons is supplied by
DR.. +. Peyre Porcher, surgeon 70 the
Holcombe Legion, the Confederate
Hospital. Fort Nelson, Norfolk llarbor,
and the South Carolina Hospital, Peters
burg, Va.
Major I. b. Edgington discusses the
race problem in the South. and TINS Is
followed by word to critics from the
Memoirs Daily Advocate with refer
ence to Major Edgington address.
A list Of Confederate officers ana
prisoners who were held by Federal
authorities on Morris Island. ). c.. un-
der Confederate fire from September
10 October u. 1864. will recall to the
survivors the horrors Of that time.
Leo Wheat contributes a touching
memoir Of his brother. General =. IL.
Wheat. commander of the LOUISIANA
battalion. whose request 70 be buried
on the battle field was thought to have
been carried out III his lnterment IN
Holly wood.
The siege and evacuation Of Savan-
nah. Ga I'D. IA an address delivered by
Colonel Charles G.. Jones, Jr., before
the Confederate Survivors Association
in Augusta, Ga. April 70. 1897.
the address of General h. NJ. Law
before the Society Of the Army OF
Northern Virginia, the address Of Seua-
tor John w. Daniel on the Life, Ser
vices.and Character OF Jefferson DAVIS,
mon the OCCASION Of the memorial ser
vice held in Richmond under the au-
spices of the Virginia General Assem-
bly,. Papers Relating to the Twelfth
Georgia Infantry Letters OF Robert
T.. Lee, AT Lee 5 Tomb. the tribute
of Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. Field, Lee S
Birthday Lee as an Educator. re-
published from THE TINES; Jefferson
Davis Estimate of Lee" Slavery Of
the Fourth Virginia Cavalry, PMS
ouers Of the Civil War. "Andersonyllle
Prison. both republished from IhE
TIMES: the unwilling of the Soldiers
Monument at Petersburg with the elo-
auent and mastery Grafton by Captain
W. Gordon McCa0e; valuable war
Relics, Williamsburg, list OF Lee :
lieuienants, West Virginia regiments at
Gettysburg, and The Development Of
the Free Soil Idea in the United States, ~
constitute the rest of the volume, besides
the two hundred pages devoted es'
pecially to the unwilling OF the Lee
monument.
In the account of this a summary IS
given of the events leading to the lay
ing of the cornerstone. with the adj
dress of Colonel Charles Marshall upon
that occasion; an account of the scenes
attending the hauling Of the statue from
the depot to the site of the monument,
incidents of the day of the unveiling
with the addresses on that day. M
Guiding that by Colonel Archer Ander-
son. with a full list of the organizations,
volunteer, veteran, military, and civic,
which participated Ia the parade. and
rosters of Lee Camp, Company +, How
tzer. Alexander. and Pegram bate
ries. Richmond Light Infantry Blues.
Otey Battery, and other ORGANIZATIONS.
The volume which Is given TO mem
beers of the society is sold to others Tor
three dollars volume by Mr.. il. y.
Brock, the secretary. 1t Is a book
which will become more and more
valuable as time passes, and every man.
woman, and child who was present at
the unwilling should possess a copy OF
the memorial volume.
Ton AND JOE by Clarence b. Col
Inns. published by Everett Waddey'
Richmond. Va. This is one of those
volumes written in a graphic and at
tractive style, which will serve to I'M
press upon the younger generation the
facts of the great war between the
States. Tom and Joe were brothers
| raised on the ldrn. OHe eutticu tut
Confederate Army at the age Of seven
teen. and died a Colonel before
Petersburg. Tom was too young
even to enter the Confederate
Army, but had to remain at nome
with his father. Judge Mabry,
who loved the Union. but loved
more the autonomy OF States. Many
of the incidents are true, and the whole
sketch, which will interest both old and
Young, is founded upon facts. Asthe au-
thor states, the book is Intended TO teach
the young OF the New South what were
the glories of the old South, SO rapidly
passing away, and the book in doing
this appeals to the hearts of thousands
who took part in the great tragedy OF
thirty years ago.
THAT BRUSH LAD o. GREYsToNE
LODGE" novel, by Thomas Bruce,
published by the Bell Printing and
Manufacturing Company, Roanoke, w,
THIS is story the scene Of which is
placed in North Carolina. The plot
| tnrns nnon the love of Charles Metc9l.