Friday, March 15, 2019

Confederate Centennial Studies

If you're a frequent browser of eBay offerings, one thing you'll come to expect is a steady appearance of titles from the Confederate Centennial Studies series. Oddly enough I never see them in brick and mortar bookstores, but that could just be a regional thing. The brainchild of William Stanley Hoole, the Confederate Centennial Studies series was published by (Hoole's?) Confederate Publishing Company out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Volumes were steadily released over a decade-long period preceding the end of the Civil War Centennial. The series was reprinted in a limited edition of 750 sets by Broadfoot in 2000, and these must be the ones I most frequently see for sale online. I don't know how many first edition sets were produced.

Below are the 28 titles in no particular order, just a list I found online. Oddly, the Broadfoot set has 28 volumes while Eicher's reference lists only 27 in the first run. I don't know if the latter was a mistake or if Broadfoot added one to the original contingent. If interested you can compare the two lists (this one and the linked one) yourself to find the outlier. It's a pretty impressive range of topics and book categories.

• A TEXAS SURGEON IN THE C.S.A. By John Q. Anderson.
• LOST GENERATION: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JAMES BARLOW, C.S.A. By Merton E. Coulter.
• COLIN J. MCRAE: CONFEDERATE FINANCE AGENT. By Charles S. Davis.
• A VISIT TO THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA IN 1863. Memoir Addressed to His Majesty Napoleon III by Charles Girard.
• CONFEDERATE EXILES IN VENEZUELA. By A. J. Hana and Kathryn Abbey Hanna.
• LEROY POPE WALKER: CONFEDERATE SECRETARY OF WAR. By William C. Harris.
• A CONFEDERATE MARINE: A SKETCH OF LT. HENRY LEA GRAVES. With Excerpts from the Graves Family Correspondence. Ed. by Richard B. Harwell.
• LINCOLN’S PLAN FOR RECONSTRUCTION. By William B. Hesseltine.
• WILLIAM STANLEY HOOLE: Student, Teacher, Librarian, Author. By Martha Dubose Hoole.
• ALABAMA TORIES: THE FIRST ALABAMA CAVALRY, U.S.A., 1862-1865. By William Stanley Hoole.
• LAWLEY COVERS THE CONFEDERACY. By William Stanley Hoole.
• VIZETELLY COVERS THE CONFEDERACY. BY William Stanley Hoole.
• RECONSTRUCTION IN WEST ALABAMA: THE MEMOIRS OF JOHN L. HUNNICUTT. By John L. Huynnicutt and Edited by William Stanley Hoole.
• YANKEES A’COMING. By MARY SHARPE JONES AND MARY JONES MALLARD. Edited by Haskell Monroe.
• THE CONFEDERATE RAMS AT BIRKENHEAD: A CHAPTER IN ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS. By Wilbur Devereux Jones.
• REBELS IN THE MAKING: PLANTERS’ CONVENTIONS AND SOUTHERN PROPAGANDA. By Weymouth T. Jordan.
• THE PEACE CONVENTION OF 1861. By Jesse L. Keene.
• “MY EVER DEAREST FRIEND”: THE LETTERS OF A. DUDLEY MANN TO JEFFERSON DAVIS, 1869-1889. By A. Dudley Mann and Ed. by John Preston Moore.
• SWAMPFOX OF THE CONFEDERACY. By Jay Monaghan.
• HOWELL COBB’S CONFEDERATE CAREER. By Horace Montgomery.
• CONFEDERATE ENGINEERS. By James L. Nichols.
• THE DIPLOMACY OF THE CONFEDERATE CABINET OF RICHMOND AND ITS AGENTS ABROAD. By Paul Pecquet Du Bellet and Edited by William Stanley Hoole.
• SEVEN MONTHS IN THE REBEL STATES DURING THE NORTH AMERICAN WAR OF 1863. By Justus Scheibert.
• CONFEDERATE MORALE AND CHURCH PROPAGANDA. By J. W. Silver.
• THE CRUISE OF C.S.S. SUMTER. By Charles G. Summersell.
• THE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF GEORGIANA GHOLSON WALKER, 1862-1865. By Georgiana Gholson Walker.
• THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN. By William W. White.
• THE CONFEDERACY AND ZEB VANCE. By Richard E. Yates.

I don't have any of these in my personal library and am curious to know if any of you out there own the entire set. Feel free to leave a comment about your thoughts on the series as a whole or any volumes you value in particular. Thanks in advance.

1 comment:

  1. Over the years, I have collected the entire set of 27. The title shown above as "W.S. Hoole" is the additional and not included in the original set. Generally, they are well written and discuss minor themes of the war. The better volumes, in my mind, were "Lost Generation..."; "Lincoln's Plan..."; "Confederate Rams..."; "Swampfox..."; "Seven Months..."; and "Cruise of Sumter."

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