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Swaim, Roger Dyer. "When we fit for General Grant." Light Battery A, Massachusetts field artillery in the manoeuvres at Manassas, Virginia, September, 1904. Cambridge, pub. by the Battery for private circulation. (7), 55 p. port., plates, map. [801 Talcott, J. M. R. General Lee's strategy at the battle of Chancellorsville. So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXIV, 1-27. [802 Taylor, Walter Herron. General Lee, his campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1865, with personal reminiscences. Brooklyn, N. Y., Braunworth and co. X, 314 p. fold. maps. [803 Thorpe, Francis Newton. The Civil war: the national view. Phila., printed for subscribers only by G. Barrie and sons. xxi, 535 p. plates, ports., facsims. (The history of North America; Francis Newton Thorpe, ed. v. 15.) [804 Townsend, Harry C. Townsend's diaryJanuary-May, 1865. From Petersburg to Appomattox, thence to North Carolina to join Johnston's army. So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXIV, 99–127.

[805 Underwood, John Levi. The women of the confederacy, in which is presented the heroism of the women of the confederacy with accounts of their trials during the war and the period of reconstruction, with their ultimate triumph over adversity. Their motives and achievements as told by writers and orators now preserved in permanent form. N. Y. and Washington, Neale. 313 p. port. [806 U. S. Military secretary's dept. Memorandum relative to the general officers in the armies of the United States during the Civil war, 1861-1865. (Compiled from official records.) 1906. Washington, Gov. print. off. 73 p.

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U. S. Navy dept. Official records of the Union and Confederate navies in the War of the Rebellion. Published under the direction of the Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy, by Charles W. Stewart. Series I-Volume 21. West Gulf blockading squadron, from January I to December 31, 1864. Washington, Gov. print. off. xvi, 1049 p. (59th Cong., 2 sess. House doc. 25.)

[808 An "Unseen message" of President Davis's. Concerning the military career of Gen. J. E. Johnston. CONFED. VET., XIV (Aug.) 364-371. [809 Van Dyke, Ben. Ben Van Dyke's escape from the hospital at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana. His narrative, revised by S. F. Benson. ANN. IOWA, 3d ser., VII (Oct.) 523-532. [810

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ment, federal and state, in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861-1865. Boston and N. Y., Houghton. xxv, 389 p. [812

Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Jan. 1907) 408410; Am. pol. sci. rev., I, no. 2 (Feb. 1907) 292-297; Dial, XLI (Sept. 16) 41; Independent, LXI (Sept. 13) 639.

White, Ellsberry Valentine. The first ironclad naval engagement in the world; history of facts of the great naval battle between the Merrimac-Virginia, C. S. N. and the Ericsson Monitor, U. S. N., Hampton Roads, March 8 and 9, 1862. Portsmouth? Va. [24] p. plates, port.

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Report on the battle by the commander of the Gassendi, a French man-of-war: p. [15-21]. Whitford, William Clark. Colorado volunteers in the Civil war; the New Mexico campaign in 1862. Denver, State hist. and nat. hist. soc. (2), 9-159 p. illus. (incl. ports., maps). (Pub. of the State hist, and nat. hist. soc. of Colorado. Hist. ser. 1.) [814

Preface by Jerome C. Smiley. Wills, Charles Wright. Army life of an Illinois soldier, including a day by day record of Sherman's march to the sea; letters and diary of Charles W. Wills. Comp. and pub. by his sister [Mary E. Kellogg]. Washington, D. C., Globe print. co. 383 p. port. [815 Wisconsin. State historical society. I. Confederate battle flags in the museum of the Wisconsin historical society; II. Photographs of Confederate officers and monuments in the library of the society. Madison, State hist. soc. of Wis. 3942, 103-107 p. front., plates. [816

From rep. of Executive committee, in Proc. of the state hist. soc. of Wis., 1905. Witt, John George. Life in the law. London, T. Werner Laurie. 1906(?). 224 p. ports., plates. [817

Reminiscences of an English lawyer with one chapter (141-183 p.) devoted to anecdotes of celebrities of the Confederate States of America while in England during and after the

war.

Wood, Henry Clay. The left of the Federal line of battle at Wilson's Creek. JOUR. MIL. SER. INST., XXXIX (Nov.) 341-352.

[818 Yankee Gunboat "Smith Briggs." How it was captured by rebels. Some interesting war history. So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXIV, 162-169. [819

Letters of William W. Rodgers, R. S. Thomas and B. A. Sowell.

Regimental Histories.

ARKANSAS. Ellis, A. T. Returned Arkansas Confederate flags. ARK. HIST. ASSOC. PUB., I, 187-190.

[820 Historical record of troops from the state of Arkansas.

CONNECTICUT. Beecher, Herbert W. History of the First light battery Connecticut volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time. N. Y., A. I. De La Mare print. and pub. co. 2 vol. illus., portraits, plates, maps. [821 CONNECTICUT INFANTRY. Page, Charles Davis. History of the Fourteenth regiment, Connecticut vol. infantry. den, Conn., Horton print. co. illus., plates, ports.

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Thirty-second Iowa infantry.
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KANSAS. Palmer, H. E. Company A,
Eleventh Kansas regiment in the Price
Raid. KANSAS HIST. SOC. TRANS., IX,
431-443.
KENTUCKY MOUNTED RIFLES. Muster roll
of Capt. P. M. Everett's company (B)
Ist battalion Ky. mounted rifles, Army of
Confederate States of America, 1863. Ky.
HIST. SOC. REG., IV (Jan.) 20. [825

MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. Bruce, George
A. The twentieth regiment of Massa-
chusetts volunteer infantry, 1861-1865.
Boston and N. Y., Houghton. viii, 519,
(1) p. plates, ports., maps.
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MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. Gammons,
John Gray, comp. The Third Massachu-
setts regiment volunteer militia in the war
of the rebellion, 1861-1863. Providence,
Snow. x, 326 p. ports., fold. map. [827
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Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts vol-
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History committee. Salem, Mass., Salem
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Compiled by Ernest Linden Waitt.
MASSACHUSETTS COLORED REGIMENTS.
der, Burt Green. Two examples of the
negro's courage, physical and moral. An
address at the Garrison centenary, De-
cember 10, 1905. ALEXANDER'S MAG., I,
(Jan.) 23-26.

The two Mass. colored regiments. fourth and Fifty-fifth.

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[MISSISSIPPI.] History of Quitman Rifles, historic command, organized in 1859. So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXIV, 239-242. [831 NEW YORK INFANTRY. Curtis, Newton Martin. From Bull Run to Chancellorsville; the story of the Sixteenth New York infantry together with personal reminiscences. N. Y., Putnam. xix, 384 p. ports. [832

Relates also to "the other military organizations from northern New York which for any portion of the two years' term of the Sixteenth, formed part of the Army of the Potomac." PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. History of the Fifty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania veteran volunteer infantry. Comp. by James M. Martin, E. C. Strouss, R. G. Madge, R. I. Campbell, M. C. Zahniser. Meadville, Pa., McCoy and Calvin, printers, 1906? 196 p. pl., ports. [833-4 PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. History of the 121st regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. "An account from the ranks." By the Survivor's association. Rev. ed. Phila., Pa., Press of Catholic standard and times. 299, (3) p. illus., plates, ports., [835 maps.

Edited by William W. Strong. PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. History of the One hundred and twenty-fifth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, 1862-1863, by the regimental committee. Phila., Lippincott. 342 p. illus., plates, ports. [836 PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY. Kirk, Charles H., comp. and ed. History of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania volunteer cavalry which was recruited and known as the Anderson cavalry in the rebellion of 1861-1865; ed. and comp. by Charles H. Kirk, assisted by the Historical committee of the Society of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry. Phila. 784 p. plates, ports., fold. map.

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A letter, signed A. J. Speese, addressed to Governor Pennypacker of Pennsylvania, criticiz ing the "History of the Third Pennsylvania cavalry," prepared by a committee of the regimental association and published in 1905. PENNSYLVANIA RESERVE CORPS. Thomson, Osmond Rhodes Howard. History of the 'Bucktails," Kane rifle regiment of the Pennsylvania reserve corps (13th Pennsylvania reserves, 42nd of the line). By

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O. R. Howard Thomson and William H. Rauch, with a dedicatory note by Edward A. Irvin. Phila., Electric print. co. x, 466 p. plates, ports., facsim. [840 Rev. in: Nation, LXXXIII (Oct. 11) 307. PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. Ward, Joseph Ripley Chandler. History of the One hundred and sixth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, 2d brigade, 2d division, 2d corps, 1861-1865. Phila., F. McManus, jr. and co. xii, 457 p. plates, ports. [841

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First edition, Philadelphia, 1883. TEXAS. Hamby, William R. in battle of Gaines's Mill. XIV (Apr.) 183-185. VIRGINIA INFANTRY. Apperson, John S. Smyth Blues." Muster roll of Company D, Fourth Virginia infantry. So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXÏV, 359–362. [843 [VIRGINIA.] Bouldin, E. E. Historical memorial of the Charlotte cavalry. So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXIV, 75–81. [844 VIRGINIA. Daniel, John W. The Thirtythird Virginia at first Manassas. Colonel J. W. Allen's report and Colonel Arthur C. Cumming's account. So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXIV, 363–376. [845

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VIRGINIA CAVALRY. Edwards, L. R. Roll of Company E, Thirteenth Virginia cavalry, and as to the flag of the regiment. So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXIV, 210–211. [846 VIRGINIA. Parham, John T. Thirty-second Virginia at Sharpsburg. So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXIV, 250-253. VIRGINIA CAVALRY. Roll of Company I, Thirteenth regiment of Virginia cavalry. [1861.] So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXIV, 278– 279. [848 [VIRGINIA.] Unveiling of shaft to historic Portsmouth artillery. Addresses of Captain John H. Thompson, giving history of the command, and of Colonel Wm. H. Stewart on the "Patriotism of Peace." So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXIV, 144–161. [849

1865-1906.

Allen, Philip Loring. America's awakening. The triumph of righteousness in high places. N. Y., Revell. 288 p. map, ports. [850

Contents: How the awakening came [18991906]; graft among the Fathers; Roosevelt the inspiration; La Follette's up-hill fight; the Jerome campaign; Folk and his following; the enforcement of law; Philadelphia's revolution; Cleveland and the three-cent fare; New Jersey's stirring; the resources of reform; the new politics; humdrum work for good; the trend towards a pure Democracy; the moral wave and the average man.

Rev. in: Nation, LXXXIII (Nov. 29) 467. Ames, Mary. From a New England woman's diary in Dixie in 1865. Spring

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The experiences of Miss Mary Ames as a teacher among the colored people of South Carolina in the service of the Freedman's Bureau at the end of the Civil war.

Avary, Mrs. Myrta (Lockett). Dixie after the war; an exposition of social conditions existing in the South during the twelve years succeeding the fall of Richmond. With an introduction by General Clement A. Evans. N. Y., Doubleday. 435 p. plates, ports. [852

Rev. in: Dial, XLI (Nov. 1) 274-276; Nation, LXXXIII (Oct. 11) 307-308. Bancroft, George. Letters and diaries of George Bancroft. [1867-1874.] Edited by M. A. De Wolfe Howe. SCRIBNER'S, XXXIX (Jan.) 53-71.

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Battle of Santiago de Cuba. Edmonds, Richard H. The South's amazing progress. [1880-1905.] REV. OF REV., XXXIII (Feb.) 177-190. [858 Fleming, Walter Lynwood, ed. Documentary history of reconstruction, political, military, social, religious, educational and industrial, 1865 to the present time, with facsimiles. Vol. I. Cleveland, O., A. H. Clark. xviii, 493 P. [859

Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Apr. 1907) 700-701; Am. pol. sci. rev., II, no. I (Nov. 1907) 99-101; Dial, XLII (Jan. 1, 1907) 10-11. Fleming, Walter Lynwood. The Freedman's savings bank. YALE REV., XV (May, Aug.) 40-67, 134–146. [860 Hamilton, Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac. Reconstruction in North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C., Edwards. 264 p.

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Fuller, Myron Leslie. quakes. POP. SCI. 76-86.

Our greatest earthMO., LXIX (July) [876

Mowry, Duane. Senator Doolittle and Reconstruction. SEWANEE REV., XIV (Oct.) 449-458.

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Muzzy, Florence E. D. The log of a Fortyniner. [Extracts from the journal of William Ives Morgan, who sailed in the barque J. Wallis, jr., for California, via Cape Horn.]. HARPER'S, CXIII (Nov.) 920-926. [865 Peck, Harry Thurston. Twenty years of the republic, 1885-1905. N. Y., Dodd. viii, 811 p. front.

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Originally published in the Bookman. Rev. in: Nation, LXXXIV (Jan. 3, 1907) 15; Pol. sci. quar., XXII (June 1907) 331-333. Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the compromise of 1850 to the final restoration of home rule at the South in 1877. Vol. VI, 1866-1872; vol. VII, 1872-1877. N. Y., London, Macmillan. xx, 440; xiii, 431 p. maps (partly fold.). [867

Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Apr. 1907) 680684; Dial, XLII (Mar. 16, 1907) 180-182; Nation, LXXXIV (Jan. 3, 1907) 14-15; Pol. sci. quar., XXII (Sept. 1907) 513-518. Rogers, Joseph Morgan. The development of the North since the Civil war. Phila., G. Barrie and sons. xxix, 482 p. plates, ports., maps, facsims. (The history of North America [ed. by] Francis Newton Thorpe [v. 18].) [868 Schouler, James. President Johnson's policy. OUTLOOK, LXXXII (Feb. 3) 264268. [869

Two leaders in the new Reconstruction. [Robert C. Ogden and George Foster Peabody.] OUTLOOK, LXXXIII (July 28) 735-738. [870 Wilcox, Henry S. The trials of a stumpspeaker. A series of sketches and humorous incidents that happened during the many years' experience of the author, and particularly during the campaign of 1888. N. Y., Ogilvie pub. co. 124 P. [871 Williams, John Skelton. Advance from Appomattox. Startling development of the South. So. HIST. SOC. PAP., XXXIV, 336352. [872

Miscellaneous.

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Bosher, Kate Langley. The Jamestown commemoration, 1607-1907. OUTLOOK, LXXXIV (Oct. 27) 489-499. Brown, Robert Marshall. Notes on the Mississippi river flood of 1903 and on the floods of other years. AM. GEOG. SOC. BUL., XXXVIII (Feb.) 131-134. [874 First things in America. CONN. MAG., X (Jan.-Mar.) 153-155. [875

The first ballot, book, magazine, newspaper, theatre, public schools, lotteries, postal communication, railroad, manufacturers.

New Madrid, 1811; Charleston, 1886; San Francisco, 1906.

Haskell, H. J. Myths of American history. INDEP., LXI (July 5) 31-35. [877 Jones, Plummer F. The cradle of the republic. Jamestown and its tercentennial of 1907. WORLD TO-DAY, XI (July) 687-696.

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History and criticism of the statue by Crawford surmounting the dome of the Capitol. Smith, Herbert Greenhough. Historic deeds of danger and daring, by Herbert G. Smith, B. J. Fernie, R. S. Blair. N. Y., Christian herald. 320 p.

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Contents: Henry Hudson, navigator and discoverer (5-20 p.); Myles Standish, the Puritan captain (41-64 p.); Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and statesman (83-97 p.); Anthony Wayne, a hero of the Revolution (123-150 p.); Daniel Boone, pioneer and state-founder (184209 p.); Count Frontenac, the Hammer of the Iroquois (248-265 p.); John Charles Frémont, the Pathfinder (310-320 p.).

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Report of the Jamestown tercentennial commission made to the General assembly at it January_session, 1906. Providence, R. I., E. L. Freeman and sons. 18 p. [883 Sweet, Frank H. Three famous homes. NEW AGE, IV (Apr.-June) 338-341, 442-444, 514-516. [884

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I. The Elms farm-the home of Daniel Webster. II. The Chappaqua farm-Horace Greeley's farm. III. The Hermitage-the home of Andrew Jackson.

Van Horn, J. M. Banners of the world

Our flag. WOR. MAG., IX (Mar.) 64-66.

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REGIONAL (LOCAL) HISTORY.

General.

Bacon, Edwin Munroe. The Connecticut River and the valley of the Connecticut; three hundred and fifty miles from mountain to sea; historical and descriptive. N. Y. and London, Putnam. plates, ports., fold. map.

xx, 487 P. [886 (Apr. 1907)

Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII 693-694; Nation, LXXXIII (Oct. 18) 331-332. Bell, J. C. The pilgrim and the pioneer: the social and material developments in the Rocky Mountains. College View, Lincoln, Neb., International pub. assoc. [887 531 p. illus. Bourne, Edward Gaylord. The romance of Western history. Mo. HIST. REV., I (Oct.) 3-21.

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Brown, William Horace. The glory seekers; the romance of would-be founders of empire in the early days of the great Southwest. Chicago, McClurg. xi, [15]347 p. ports. [889

Desert of Sahara and the Great American desert compared. AM. ANTIQ., XXVIII (July and Aug.) 197-204. [890 Grinnell, George Bird. Cheyenne stream names. AM. ANTHROP., n. s. VIII (Jan.Mar.) 15-22.

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A number of names with their meanings, given by the Cheyenne Indians to some of the rivers in the country over which they formerly ranged.

Hulbert, Archer Butler. The Ohio River; a course of empire. N. Y. and London, Putnam. xiv, 378 p. plates, ports., maps.

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Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Apr. 1907) 662-663; Nation, LXXXIV (Jan. 17, 1907) 60. Hulbert, Archer Butler. Pilots of the republic; the romance of the pioneer promoter in the middle West. Chicago, McClurg. xvi, (2), (21)-368 p. ports.

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Contents: Introductory: the brother of the sword.-Washington: the promoter of western investments.-Richard Henderson: the founder of Transylvania.-Rufus Putnam: the father of Ohio.-David Zeisberger: hero of "the meadow of light."-George Rogers Clark: founder of Louisville.-Henry Clay: promoter of the first American highway.-Morris and Clinton: fathers of the Erie canal.-Thomas and Mercer: rival promoters of canal and railway.-Lewis and Clark: explorers of Louisiana.-Astor: the promoter of Astoria.-Marcus Whitman: the hero of Oregon.-The captains of "the American system."

Johnson, Overton, and Wm. H. Winter. Route across the Rocky Mountains with a Description of Oregon and California,

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Lewis, Lawrence. The Pike's Peak centennial. The story of the teeming region that gold mines and railroads have developed about the towering scenic wonder. WORLD'S WORK, XII (Aug.) 78577866. Lyman, Horace S. Early New England exploration of our north Pacific coastThe Columbia River. AM. HIST. MAG., I (Jan.) 52-67. [896 Lytle, William. Personal narrative of William Lytle. [1779-1788.] HIST. AND PHIL. SOC. OHIO, QUAR. PUB., I (Jan.Mar.) 3-30. [897

Story of emigration from Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, to Kentucky 1779-1780, settlement near Lexington, Ky., and battle with the Indians of Eagle Creek, Ohio, known as Grant's defeat.

McReynolds, Robert. Thirty years on the frontier. Colorado Springs, Col., ΕΙ Paso pub. co. (4), 256 p. plates, ports.

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