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Confederate Imprint collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0071
 

Confederate Imprint collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0071

The collection consists of 16 boxes of books and papers, mostly from the 1860s, all of which were readily available to the public in the Confederacy at the time. The collection includes state and C.S.A. laws, ordinances, and regulations, military manuals, political dissertations, school books, novels, maps, tracts, and sermons. Also included are works related to the Confederacy such as histories of the war and autobiographies. Most are originals, any photocopies are noted as such in this listing.

The numbers associated with most items refers to numbers used in the published volumes of citations "Confederate Imprints: A checklist based principally on the collection of the Boston Athenaeum", by Marjorie Lyle Crandall, published in two volumes by the Boston Atheneaum, 1955 and in "More Confederate Imprints", by Richard Harwell, The Virginia State Library, 1957.

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research. Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Dates
Creation: 1855-1879
Extent
16 Linear Feet
Related Names
Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America
Language of Materials
English

Series I: S Numbers, 1859-1864

 Series
Identifier: 228559
Dates
Creation: June 27-August 15, 1862
Dates
Creation: January 5-April 30, 1863
Dates
Creation: May 2-June 29 1863
Dates
Creation: January 4-May 27, 1865
Dates
Creation: Jan.2- May 3, 1865
Dates
Creation: May 5-July 17, 1865

US Army. Department of the South. General Orders Index, 1865

 File — Box: 1, Folder: S4.3
Identifier: 228737
Dates
Creation: 1865

Illinois Governor (Yates). Governor's Message 8p, April 23, 1861

 File — Box: 1, Folder: S5
Identifier: 228736
Dates
Creation: April 23, 1861
Dates
Creation: September 3, 1862
Dates
Creation: September 24, 1862
Dates
Creation: 1862
Dates
Creation: October 3, 1861
Dates
Creation: December 8, 1861

Post Office Regulations;, 1862

 File — Box: 1, Folder: S12a
Identifier: 228728
Dates
Creation: 1862
Dates
Creation: September 30, 1861
 
Dates
Creation: 1861
Dates
Creation: November 3, 1864
Dates
Creation: 1861

Mississippi Valley Union. Convention Report. 5p.;, September 12, 1864

 File — Box: 1, Folder: S18
Identifier: 228720
Dates
Creation: September 12, 1864

New Orleans. Mayor. Blank Form For a Pass For a Slave;, 1862

 File — Box: 1, Folder: S20
Identifier: 228718
Dates
Creation: 1862
Dates
Creation: 186-

Texas. Adjutant General. Circular, no. 34;, 1863

 File — Box: 1, Folder: S23a
Identifier: 228715
Dates
Creation: 1863
Dates
Creation: January 7, 1861

Virginia Convention. Circular Letter 1p.;, 1861

 File — Box: 1, Folder: S24
Identifier: 228713
Dates
Creation: 1861
Dates
Creation: 1863

Clark, Peter H. The Black Brigade of Cincinnati 30p.;, 1864

 File — Box: 1, Folder: S26
Identifier: 228711
Dates
Creation: 1864
Dates
Creation: 1864

Independent Burnet Rifles Battalion. Constitution and By-Laws 20p.;, 1861

 File — Box: 1, Folder: S28
Identifier: 228709
Dates
Creation: 1861
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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