| Abstract | In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Richard D. Starnes Richard D. Starnes is a lecturer of history at Western Carolina University and a doctoral student in American history at Auburn University. Notes 1. "Editorial Paragraphs," Southern Historical Society Papers 1 (January 1876): 39-40. Here after cited as SHSP. 2. Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Harper and Row, 1988), 412-417; Michael Perman, The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879 (University of North Carolina Press, 1984), 4-21; and Allen Trelease, White Tenor: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (Harper and Row, 1971), 28-46, passim. As has become customary in the historical profession, the terms carpetbagger and scalawag are used to refer to groups of historical actors, not used as pejorative terms. 3. Rollin G. Osterweis, The Myth of the Lost Cause, 1865-1900 (Archon Books, 1973), 3-15; Charles Reagan Wilson, Baptized in Blood: the Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (University of Georgia Press, 1980), 1-8; Gaines M. Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865 to 1913 (Oxford University Press, 1987), 3-8; Thomas L. Connelly and Barbara Bellow, God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind (Louisiana State University Press, 1982), 119. See also Susan S. Durant, "The Gently Furled Banner: The Origins of the Myth of the Lost Cause, 1865-1900," Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972; and Lloyd Arthur Hunter, "The Sacred South: Postwar Confederates and the Sacredization of Southern Culture," Ph.D. dissertation, St. Louis University, 1978. 4. David Thelen, "Memory and American History," Journal of American History 75 (March 1989): 1117-1122; Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), 1-14; and Bernard Lewis, History—Remembered, Recovered, Invented (Princeton University Press, 1975), 43-52. 5. The Land We Love I (May 1866): 1-5. For an examination of this magazine's contents, see Ray M. Atchison, "The Land We Love: A Southern Magazine of Agriculture, Literature, and Military History," North Carolina Historical Review 37 (October 1960): 506-515. 6. "The Southern Historical Society: Its Origins and History," SHSP 18 (1890): 362-364. 7. Robert M.T. Hunter, "Origins of the Late War," SHSP 1 (January 1876): 1-13. 8. Daniel Harvey Hill, "Address to the Mecklenburg County [N.C.] Historical Society," SHSP 1 (May 1876): 389-398. 9. B.J. Sage, "Some Great Constitutional Questions," SHSP 12 (December 1884): 485-499; "Editorial Paragraphs," SHSP 9 (October-December 1881): 454; "Editorial Paragraphs," SHSP 10 (July 1882): 336. 10. J. William Jones, "The Treatment of Prisoners during the War between the States," SHSP 1 (March 1876): 115. 11. Ibid., 116. In "Editorial Paragraphs" of the April and May/June issues of the Papers, the Society defended its examination of the prisoner question against accusations of inaccuracy posed by The Nation. The Papers devoted several pages to its own defense, basically restating the original article. In the May/June issue, Jones wrote, "The Nation has quietly refused to accept our challenge of a full discussion of the 'Treatment of Prisoners during the War.'" 12. Edward Wellington Boate, "The True Story of Andersonville Told by a Federal Prisoner," SHSP 10 (January 1882): 25-32; "Recollections of Libby Prison," SHSP 11 (February-March 1883): 83-92; James T. Wells, "The Prison Experience," SHSP 7 (July 1879): 324-330. 13. J. William Jones, "Treatment of Prisoners during the War between the States," SHSP 1 (April 1876): 317. 14. "Resources of the Confederacy in February, 1865," SHSP 2 (September 1876): 113-132. Also included in this issue was commentary on Confederate shortages of leather and wool, as well as the southern inability to produce railroad engines and rolling stock. (September 1876): 113-132. 15. Ibid., 126-129. The blockade was given as the primary cause of the shortages. These comments may have been included to reinforce certain claims by Jones on the prisoner question. Battle deaths, disease, and capture had all taken their toll on the Medical Department, and were also enumerated in this report. 16. "Resources of the Confederacy in February, 1865," SHSP 2 (July 1876): 55...
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