Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Society, held in the city of Richmond on the Twenty-Seventh Day of October, 1874

Richmond: Printed by James E. Goode, 1874. 8vo, original printed wrappers. 20 pp. An address to the Southern Historical Society by the Hon. R. M. T. Hunter is the highlight of this 1874 annual report. Hunter encourages efforts to record the heroic southern experience in the Civil War. "We have helped to make this history; let us see that it be truthfully written. For woe to the people who leave it to their conquerors to write the history of the contest." For example, he derides the claims by Grant's admirers of a great victory over Lee at Appomattox when Lee "had but 42,000 men, as a distinguished member of this body assures me he had it from his own lips, in opposition to 220,000 under Grant." CONDITION: Near good, insect damage at upper left corner, but no loss of text; small ink stamp at upper right corner of front wrapper; bumped upper right corner of back wrapper, vertical crease through entire pamphlet, early ownership inscription in ink at top of front wrapper, another in pencil on inside cover, perforated library stamp on title page.