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of the magazine, and never sending out a number which is not of real historic value, we shall at the same time intersperse narratives which tell of the camp, the march, the bivouack, the battle-field, the hospital, or the prison, and give vivid pictures of the every day inner life of the Confederate soldier.
The extent to which the Southern Historical Society is to be held as endorsing everything contained in the papers we publish, is a question so often raised that we allude to it here.
Of course the Society, whose members are scattered all through the country, cannot meet to pass upon each paper, and cannot endorse what is published further than as it is done by its Executive Committee.
The members of the Committee are accustomed to give very careful consideration to the propriety of each publication, but even they are not to be considered as endorsing everything they publish.
In the mass of Mss. on our shelves, and constantly coming in, there are many statements made by eye-witnesses, or active participants, concerning events of which we have no personal knowledge.
Even the official reports of our most distinguished and trustworthy officers contain conflicting statements about events which they view from different stand-points.
It is obvious that it would not be proper for the Committee to assume the responsibility of deciding who is right in such cases, and we must, therefore, either publish nothing about which any difference of opinion can arise (and that course would limit us to a very narrow field), or we must publish, impartially and without comment, both sides, being careful to admit nothing which has not a responsible name attached to it. It has seemed to the Committee far better to publish these papers now, while living witnesses can sift them, than that they should be allowed to sleep in our archives, and be produced in years to come, when, perhaps, no competent witness of the events recorded will be alive to attest their accuracy or refute their errors.
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Electrical torpedoes as a system of defence.
The relative strength of the armies of
Generals
Lee
and
Grant
.
Memorandum of information as to battles, &c., in the year
1864
, called for by the
Honorable Secretary of War
.
chapter 1.4
Correspondence between
Colonel
S.
Bassett
French
and
General
Wade
Hampton
.
General
Lee
's final and full report of the
Pennsylvania
campaign and
battle of Gettysburg
.
Patriotic letters of Confederate leaders.
Resources of the
Confederacy
in
February
,
1865
.
Editorial paragraphs.
General
J.
E.
B.
Stuart
's report of operations after
Gettysburg
.
chapter 2.11
Resources of the
Confederacy
in
February
,
1865
.
General
George
H.
Steuart
's
brigade
at the
battle of Gettysburg
.
Editorial paragraphs.
Book notices.
chapter 3.16
Detailed Minutiae of soldier life in the
Army of Northern Virginia
.
General
R.
E.
Bodes
' report of the
battle of Gettysburg
.
Editorial paragraphs.
General
B.
E.
Rodes
' report of the
battle of Chancellorsville
.
chapter 4.21
Recollections of the
Elkhorn
campaign.
Defence of
Charleston
from
July
1st
to
July
10th
,
1864
.
Editorial paragraphs.
Book notices.
A foreign view of the civil War in
America
.
General
A.
P.
Hill
's report of
battle of Gettysburg
.
Detailed Minutiae of soldier life in the
Army of Northern Virginia
.
chapter 5.29
Letter from
General
A.
L.
Long
.
Operations of
Confederate States
Navy in defence of New Orleans.
Annual meeting of the
Southern Historical Society
.
Editorial paragraphs.
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