DESCRIPTION
The library is considered by many to be one of the finest private collections of Confederate history assembled in the United States. It was donated to Marshall University after her death and is housed in a separate section of Special Collections with its own hours. Researchers should call ahead (1-304-696-3097 or 1-304-696-2343) to ensure availability.
- Sample Exhibit
- Contents in Marshall Libraries Online Catalog
- Overview of the Library of Confederate History
- Online Presentation by Jack Dickinson, the Bibliographer of the Blake Library
- Civil War Paper Items, by Jack Dickinson
FULL EXHIBIT
- Confederate imprints are items published in the southern states, but only in those areas under the actual governmental control of the Confederate States of American, dating roughly from 1861 to 1865.
- When a region fell to Federal control, items published there are no longer considered Confederate imprints.
- The imprints are arranged according to T. Michael Parrish and Robert M. Willingham, Confederate Imprints: A Bibliography of Southern Publications from Secession to Surrender. (Austin, TX: Jenkins Publishing Co.; and Katonah, NY: Gary A.Foster, n.d.).
- In the lists the numbers in brackets “[ ]” denote the Parrish-Willingham numbers. Imprints, placed in the Library’s on-line catalog, also have call numbers following the bibliographic data.
Alabama
- Huntsville Democrat, (Daily), 1 Jan 1862
- Mobile Register and Journal (Daily), 24 June 1845
- Montgomery Weekly Mail (Weekly),24 May 1862, 28 June 1862
- Selma Register (Weekly), 16 Dec 1862
- Selma Weekly Reporter (Weekly), 16 Dec 1862
- Tallahassee Floridian and Journal (Daily), 17 May 1862
- Atlanta Southern Confederacy (Daily), 21 May 1862
- Augusta Daily Constitutionalist (Daily), 15 Aug 1861
- Weekly Constitutionalist (Weekly), 2 Apr 1862, 21 May 1862
- Daily Chronicle & Sentinel (Daily), 9 April 1861, 9 Sept 1863
- Daily Register (Daily), 4 Oct 1864
- Columbus Times (Daily), 8 June 1864
- Weekly Times (Weekly), 21 Oct 1861
- Southern Recorder, 7 July 1863
- Winchester Daily Bulletin (Daily), 13 Oct 1863
- Savannah Daily Loyal Georgian (Daily), 26 Dec 1864
- Daily Morning News (Daily), 19 Aug 1864
- Louisville Daily Courier (Daily), 9 July 1861
- Port Hudson The Morning Courier (Daily), 17 Apr 1863
- Baltimore Sun (Daily), 25 Apr 1862, 4 Jun 1862, 5 Jun 1862, 21 Aug 1862, 16 Dec 1862, 17 Dec 1862, 25 Dec 1862
- The Baltimore County Advocate, Feb 22, 1862
- Maryland Newsheet. 21 Apr 1862
- The South, 2 Aug 1861
- Easton Maryland Star, 7 Jan 1862
- Jackson Daily Mississippian (Daily), 8 Oct 1862
- Meridian Daily Clarion (Daily), 15 Jan 1865
- Natchez Weekly Courier (Weekly), 29 April 1863, 6 May 1863
- Brooklyn Daily Times, 8 Jan 1864
- Harper’s Weekly, Apr 8, 1865 and Dec 14, 1889 (Death of Jefferson Davis)
- National Anti-Slavery Standard, 20August1864 (a weekly publication)
- New York Caucasian, 13 Jun 1863, 18 Jul 1863, 1 Aug 1863, 12 Dec 1863
- New York Times, Apr 29, 1861 and Jan 30, 1865
- Weekly Day-Book (Weekly), 2 Feb 1861, 3 Oct 1863, 17 Oct 1863, 24 Oct 1863, 31 Oct 1863, 7 Nov 1863,14 Nov 1863, 21 Nov 1863, 28 Nov 1863, 5 Dec 1863, 19 Dec 1863, 26 Dec 1863
- Daily Telegraph (Daily), 1 Mar 1865, 7 Mar 1865 (Bound with Columbia, S. C. Daily South Carolinian)
- Observer (Semi-weekly), 3 Aug 1863
- North Carolina Presbyterian, 31 Jan 1863
- Progress, 9 Apr 1862
- Raleigh Semi-Weekly Standard (Semi-weekly), 21 Sept 1861
- Wilmington Daily Journal (Daily), 21 Sept 1861
- Cincinnati Cincinnati Daily Enquirer ( Daily), 25 Oct 1864
- Times (Daily), 4 Aug 1863
- Camden Confederate, 22 May 1863, 2 Oct 1863
- Charleston Daily Courier (Daily), 14 Aug 1861, 17 Aug 1861, 8 Aug 1862, 3 Sept 1863, 30 Sept 1863, 6 Oct 1863, 25 Oct 1864
- Charleston Mercury ( Daily), 24 June 1862, 19 Jan 1863, Jun 17, 1863, 20 July 1863, 24 July 1863, 9 Jan 1864, 15 May 1863
- -Weekly Courier (Tri weekly), 23 July 1863, 3 Mar 1864, 21 May 1864
- Columbia Banner, 26 Mar 1862, 9 Apr 1862
- Daily South Carolinian (Daily), 29 Apr 1864 to 8 Feb 1865 (a few missing issues) Includes some special “South Carolinian – Evening editions” (Bound volume with title on spine “Sacred Book of Copperheads.”)
- Daily Southern Guardian (Daily), 28 Oct 1863
- -Weekly Southern Guardian (Tri weekly), 20 Sept 1861
- Weekly South Carolinian (Tri weekly), 27 May 1862, 31 May 1862
- Advertiser, 11 Mar 1863
- Express, 6 Nov 1861
- Sumter Tri-Weekly Watchman, (Tri weekly), 21 June 1861
- Nashville Nashville Union and American (Daily), 6 Oct 1861
- Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, 7 June 1865
- Bristol-Goodson Southern Advocate, 3 Apr 1862
- Daily Lynchburg Virginian, 26 Mar 1863
- Richmond Dispatch, 22 Mar 1862
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, Oct 22, 1862 and Oct 7, 1862
- Enquirer (Semi-weekly), 27 June 1861
- The Patrol (Charleston, Va.), 28 Feb 1862 (digital copy)
- Sentinel, 19 Apr 1864
- The Record (of News, History and Literature) (Weekly), Unbound: 18 Jun 1863, 25 June 1863, 2 July 1863, 9 July 1863, 16 July 1863, 20 Aug 1863 Bound: 18 Jun 1863, 25 June 1863, 2 July 1863, 9 July 1863, 16 July 1863, 23 July 1863, 30 July 1863, 6 Aug 1863, 13 Aug 1863, 20 Aug 1863, 27 Aug 1863, 3 Sept 1863, 10 Sept 1863, 17 Sept 1863, 25 Sept 1863, 1 Oct 1863, 8 Oct 1863, 15 Oct 1863, 22 Oct 1863, 29 Oct 1863, 5 Nov 1863, 12 Nov 1863, 19 Nov 1863, 26 Nov 1863, 3 Dec 1863, 10 Dec 1863 (Complete publication, no missing issues) (A weekly paper, but really a magazine in newsprint, $10.00 per year)
- Times, 25 May 1890, 5 June 1892
- All the Year Round. Conducted by Charles Dickens, No. 135 (Nov1861)
- All books in the Blake Library are cataloged.
- Use the Marshall University Libraries’ online catalog to search for these books.
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