The Disposition of Loyalist Estates in the Southern District of the State of New York

Abstract

have described summarily some works that in their time were regarded as of first importance. The greater part of my space I have given to those books, which so far as my knowledge of Confederate literature extends, have the most enduring interest and possess those elements of conviction, of sincerity and of human appeal that have brought a new generation of Americans to an understanding of the Southern point of view. Despite Dr. Freeman's modesty, the average reader will agree that a mastery of the sources cited would fit any one for a place among the select students of the War between the States. We predict that this scholarly appraisal of Confederate sources will stand as a new high in the treatment of bibliography. There are nine chapters with interest provoking titles: Punctuated by Gun-Fire, Writing in the Ashes, The Passing of the Great Captain, Controversy and Apologia, The Appeal to the Records, The War through Women's Eyes, The Later Foreign View, The Glamour Gathers, and Yet to be Written. Appropriate works are grouped and discussed under each of these titles. Seven pages of notes supply additional pertinent information. For our part we prefer notes arranged at the bottom of the individual page rather than collectively in the back of the book. A Confederate Book Shelf listing fifty-eight titles, many of which include two or more volumes and one of which, the War of the Rebellion Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies attains to 128 volumes, is appended. There is an index of nine pages. If any real objection can be offered, it rests in the choice of the title. Is all that the South means to posterity epitomized in four years of war? The Confederacy to Posterity would have been more apt.