The Confederate first reader
Subtitle: containing selections in prose and poetry, as reading exercises for the younger children in the schools and families of the Confederate states
By: Smith, R.M. (Richard McAllister), 1819-1870
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Readers (Primary); Textbooks; Education; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Southern homefront, 1861-1865.
Notes: Title from TEI header.

Ascribed by the publisher to R.M. Smith of Randolph-Macon College.

"This book has been compiled and prepared for the use of children ... as an immediate successor, in this respect, to the "Confederate Spelling Book," which has been so extensively adopted in the schools of the Confederate States."--P. 3.

Pages 65-72 are missing in the original document; references in the Table of Contents to missing pages are not linked to those pages.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is part of the collection The Southern homefront, 1861-1865.

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Transcribed from: The Confederate first reader : containing selections in prose and poetry, as reading exercises for the younger children in the schools and families of the Confederate states. Richmond, Va. : published by G.L. Bidgood, 1864 ([Richmond] : Ayres & Wade, printers). 120 p. ; 18 cm. Cover has slightly variant title: Confederate first reader : containing selections in prose and poetry, as reading exercises for the young children in the schools and families of the Confederate states. Crandall, 4083. Parrish and Willingham, 7873.

Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.

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