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[1] [2] [3] The society was organized on May 1, 1869, in New Orleans, Louisiana. [4] [3] The society published 52 volumes of its Southern Historical Society Papers which helped preserve valuable historical resources.
Collection of the records began in 1864; no special attention was paid to Confederate records until just after the capture of Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, when with the help of Confederate Gen. Samuel Cooper, Union Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck began the task of collecting and preserving such archives of the Confederacy as had survived the war.
From the Southern Historical Society Papers: The flag of the Shenandoah, reverently preserved by the late Colonel Richard Launcelot Maury, C. S. A., son of Commissioner Matthew Fontaine Maury, was recently deposited with the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, and is preserved in the Museum Building at Richmond, Va.—Ed. [36]
Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World. University of South Carolina Press. [7] [8] Haw, J. (2002). Political Representation in South Carolina, 1669-1794: Evolution of a Lowcountry Tradition. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 103(2), 106–129. Haywood, C. R. (1959).
By the 1920s, Dr. J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, a professor of history was corresponding about the idea of creating "a great library of Southern human records." Hamilton began traveling the South, in his "faithful Fords," seeking out and gathering materials. [1] On January 14, 1930, the Southern Historical Collection was officially established. Dr.
Southern Bivouac traces its origins to February 7, 1879, the date on which the Southern Historical Society's Kentucky chapter was created by forty-eight former Confederate officers, most prominently General Basil W. Duke. So many individuals wanted to submit papers and speeches during their monthly meetings that by 1882 it was impossible to use ...
It was organized on November 2, 1934. Its objectives are the promotion of interest and research in Southern history, the collection and preservation of the South's historical records, and the encouragement of state and local historical societies in the South. As a secondary purpose the organization fosters the teaching and study of all areas of ...
The Southern History Association was a short-lived professional American organization of historians who studied the American South. The organization was founded in 1896, at the time of the Southern Renaissance , when a need for professionalization among historians in the United States gave rise to a more scientific treatment of history.