Pierce's Attempts at Escape from Prison.

Colonel Patton's "Reminiscences of Jackson's Infantry.'

Kirkland, the Hero of Fredericksburg."

Major McClellan's address on "The Life and Campains of General J. E. B. Stuart."

"Two Specimen Cases of Desertion."

General J. E. B. Stuart's "Report of the Gettysburg Campaign (with map.)

I have also translated many interesting parts of your Life of Lee. I have also published biographies of R. E. Lee, Jackson, Stuart and Mosby, besides my larger History of the War.

I do not mention these things to glorify my poor efforts to bring my friends out of their modest shade into the clear sunlight of truth, but I do wish to prove to my old gallant and noble comrades of the South that I have not been ungrateful to their country and her heroes, whom I admire so much. Your obedient servant,

I. SCHEIBERT, Major.

We need not comment on the above letter further than to say that if we had done nothing else than to afford our noble friend the material which he has so well used, then our work has not been in vain, and we have the ground of another strong appeal to our friends to sustain us in its further prosecution.

Of course we have sent Major Scheibert duplicates of the numbers of our PAPERS which he failed to receive, and shall continue to mail them to him regularly.

Notes and Queries.

Was "Cedar Run" (Slaughter's Mountain) a Federal victory?

We had always thought that the Confederates won that field. It so happened that our Brigade (Early's), and our own Regiment (the Thirteenth Virginia Infantry) opened the battle-that we saw the enemy driven back some two miles-and that General Early having charge of the "truce to bury the dead" which the enemy asked, and Jackson granted, we witnessed the burying of the poor fellows who had been killed in their vain efforts to break through "the Stonewall," and that we conversed with a number of Federal officers who frankly admitted that "the Foot Cavalry" had given their old friend "Stonewall's Quartermaster" a very sound drubbing.

But we have seen a newspaper report of a paper read by Rev. F. Denison, Chaplain of the First Rhode Island Cavalry, before the "Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society of Rhode Island," in which he makes, concerning this battle, the remarkable statement (if rightly quoted): "The field remained with the Federals."

We have not had the privilege of seeing the full text of Chaplain Denison's paper [we should be glad to do so] and we are at a loss to imagine the grounds upon which he puts this claim. Surely he does not accept now Pope's Munchausen dispatches, and the popular accounts in the northern newspapers of the day, which claimed every battle as a "Union victory."

Desired an Owner for a Watch.-A gentleman, a citizen of Brooklyn, New York, who served as an officer of the Thirteenth New York volunteers in our late war, desires to convey to the next of kin or legal representative of its deceased owner, a watch which was taken from the body of a first lieutenant of the Eleventh Virginia infantry, who was killed at the battle of Five Forks, about 3 P. M., April 1, 1865. We will take pleasure in being the medium of any desired communication.-R. A. BROCK, Richmond, Va.

Can New England rightly claim Captain John Smith as one of her heroes?

It is very well known that poor old Virginia "lost pretty much all by the war"; in fact northern writers have almost forgotten that we had a history down in this part of the country. George Mason, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, John Marshall are forgotten names; even Washington divides honors with Abraham Lincoln. We were not quite prepared, however, to see Captain John Smith transferred to the New England Pantheon; but we find a review in the New York Times of a work by Charles Dudley Warner, published by Henry Holt & Co., entitled: "The Admiral of New England. Captain John Smith, Sometime Governor of Virginia and Admiral of New England. A Study of his Life and Writings." We are pretty well gobbled up. What about the Peaks of Otter and Rock-fish Gap? Are they on the Penobscot River?-Central Presbyterian.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

THE DELAY IN THE ISSUE OF THIS NUMBER has been made much greater than we had anticipated, although we announced in our last that there would be delay.

We will simply say, by way of apology, that any irregularity of issue is far more distasteful to us than it can possibly be to our readers, that it has never occurred when we could prevent it, and that we think we see our way clear to more regular issues in the future than for the past year. But we beg to remind our subscribers that we have fully redeemed our promise that they should have their “full quota of numbers and of pages.”

RENEWALS FOR 1882 are now due, and we beg our friends to send on the $3 at once. Please do not conclude that you will wait 'till the close of the year, and then buy the whole set; for even if you should be able to do that, which is by no means certain, we are, in the meantime, compelled to raise the cash to pay for the printing, and you ought to help us to the extent of at least your subscription. Send on, then, your renewal, and see if you cannot secure us at least one new subscriber.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY AND NAVY SOCIETY OF MARYLAND was held at Raine's Hall, Baltimore, on the evening of the 19th of January, 1882, McHenry, Howard, President, W. L. Ritter, Secretary. The regular routine business was transacted, and the following officers were elected:President, Lieutenant McHenry Howard; Vice-Presidents, Major-General Isaac R. Trimble, Major W. Stuart Symington, Lieutenant D. G. Wright, Captain W. L. Ritter, Sergeant Frederick Ruff, Lieutenant-Colonel James R. Herbert, Major Harry Gilmer, Private D. Ridgely Howard, Private John F. Hayden, Lieutenant Chapman Maupin, Captain J. Blythe Allston, Lieutenant Winfield Peters; Recording Secretaries, Corporal Robert M. Blundon, Private George T. Hollyday; Corresponding Secretary, A. J. Smith; Treasurer, Captain F. M. Colston Executive Committee, Brigadier-General Bradley T. Johnson, Lieutenant W. P. Zollinger, Major-General George H. Steuart, Major F. H. Wigfall, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Lyle Clarke, Sergeant W. H. Pope, Private H. H. Garrigues; Chaplains, Revs. W. U. Murkland, John Landstreet, B. F. Ball, W. M. Dame, Frederick S. Hipkins, and Father H. S. McGivney.

The Secretary of the Southern Historical Society being present by special invitation, was cordially received and given the most favorable time and a most. patient hearing as he presented the claims of the Society, and urged that all Confederates should give it not only warm sympathy, but, as far as they were able, hearty support.

At the conclusion of the address the Maryland Society unanimously voted the Southern Historical Society one hundred dollars ($100) out of its treasury, and appointed a committee (consisting of Generals B. T. Johnson and I. R. Trimble Captain W. P. Zollinger, and Lieutenants Gwathmey and Winfield Peters) to de

vise ways and means of affording further pecuniary help to our Society. This action of the Maryland soldiers was generous and timely, and will be of the highest importance to our great work, not only in the substantial aid afforded, but in stimulating our friends elsewhere to help until the Society shall be placed on a firm financial basis, and prepared to do in a more satisfactory manner the grand work before us.

We need scarcely add, that the warm grasp and cordial greetings of our old comrades were none the less pleasant because of this generous, practical sympathy.

THE ASSOCIATION OF THE MARYLAND LINE was organized last summer in Baltimore, and "all persons who were citizens of Maryland, on April 19th, 1861, and who subsequently were duly commissioned, or mustered into the military or naval service of the Confederate States, and served honorably therein," are eligible to membership.

The following officers were elected July 22nd: President, Brigadier-General Bradley T. Johnson. Board of Governors: Major-General I. R. Trimble; Brigadier-General George H. Steuart; Lieutenant-Colonel Jas. R. Herbert; LieutenantColonel Robert Carter Smith; Captain Jno. W. Torsch; Captain McHenry Howard; Lieutenant W. P. Zollinger; Sergeant Wm. H. Pope; Private Ridgley Howard; Private George C. Jenkins; Private Frederick Marston. Corresponding Secretary, Surgeon Jno. N. Monmonier. Recording Secretary, Captain Geo. W. Booth. Treasurer, Private Lamar Hollyday.

The Association is proceeding vigorously to carry out its objects, the chief of which (besides its social and benevolent features) are "to collect, preserve and perpetuate all such evidence as can be found, of the services of the Maryland Line in the Army of Northern Virginia, and of all other Marylanders in the military and naval service of the Confederate States, and to make a complete record of their names and achievements, so as to present to posterity the evidence of the honorable service of every Maryland man who fought under the Confederate flag, on land or sea."

We desire to commend most heartily these objects to the imitation of similar organizations elsewhere. Many of our Confederate Associations have "a good time generally" at their "reunions and banquets," but they fail to make any practical provision for writing and preserving their history.

THE DEATH OF COLONEL GEORGE WYTHE MUNFORD, which occured suddenly at his residence in Richmond, on the night of January 9th, 1882, has caused universal sorrow, and leaves many a vacant place which had been so well filled by this accomplished Virginia gentleman. Others have fitly spoken his eulogy as the able, incorruptible, efficient, State officer, the good citizen, and the man above reproach in all of the relations of life.

We shall miss him, especially, as one of the most punctual, genial and efficient members of our Executive Committee, one of the most devoted Confederates, and one whose facile pen had made valuable contributions to our history. At the reorganization of the Society in 1873 he was elected Secretary and Treasurer, and

filled the office with marked ability until the winter of 1874, when other pressing duties impelled him to resign.

Full of years, full of labors, full of honors, this Virginia gentleman of the old school leaves behind him a stainless record and a hallowed memory.

LITERARY NOTICES.

I. THE OUTBREAK OF REBELLION. By John G. Nicolay, Esq., Private Secretary to President Lincoln; late Consul General to France, etc. A preliminary volume, describing the opening of the war, and covering the period from the election of Lincoln to the end of the first battle of Bull Run.

II.-FROM FORT HENRY TO CORINTH. By the Hon. M. F. Force, Justice of the Superior Court, Cincinnati; late Brigadier-General and Brevet Major General U. S. V., commanding First division, Seventeenth corps; in 1862, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Twentieth Ohio, commanding the regiment at Shiloh; Treasurer of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. The narrative of events in the West from the summer of 1861 to May, 1862; covering the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, the battle of Shiloh, etc., etc.

These two volumes, from a series of twelve volumes on the "Campaigns of the Civil War," we have received from the publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons, through Messrs. West & Johnston, of Richmond.

They are gotten up in the best style of the book-maker's art, are sold at $1 per volume, and, while we have not yet found time for a careful perusal, seem to be written in a very fair spirit, though they abound in mistakes, which we shall take the liberty of pointing out in future numbers of our Papers.

This series of the Messrs. Scribner will no doubt prove a valuable contribution to history; but it is to be regretted that they did not commit the writing of some of these volumes to the many able Confederates, who could give "the other side.' Perhaps, however, they intend to have another series of twelve volumes written by Confederate soldiers. We shall see.

THEON. A TALE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. BY SALLIE NEIL ROACH, of Louisville. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.

We propose to give hereafter some extracts from our readers may judge for themselves of its merits. that its simple plot is skillfully woven, its story is tion is of a high order of merit.

this charming little book, that We have only time now to say sweetly told, and its versifica.

We believe that this is Mrs. Roach's first attempt at authorship, but this book will at once rank her among our sweetest singers, and we predict for her a brilliant literary career. The volume is, of course, a fine specimen of the book-maker's art, and should find a place in many homes.

CAMPAIGN IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA IN AUGUST, 1862. BY MAJOR F. MANGOLD, of the Royal Prussian Engineers.

We had hoped to receive ere now a review of this able book from a competent German scholar and critic, who has it in charge. But meantime we advise all who read German to procure a copy, with the assurance that they will find it an able and impartial account (from an accomplished Prussian officer who has studied both sides) of the splendid campaign, by which our peerless Lee unhorsed the champion braggart, John Pope.

THE CENTURY AND ST. NICHOLAS lose nothing in interest or value under their new management, but seem to improve every month.