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I. Poem — The South. Father Ryan i II. Robert E. Lee — The Flower of the South. Bishop Collins Denny. 3 III. Oakwood Memorial Address Dr. Douglas S. Freeman 14 IV. The Great Seal of the Confederacy. Wm. B. Smith 20 V. The Original Confederate Constitution. W. Gordon Mc- Cabe 34 VI. The Third Day at Gettysburg. Col. T. M. R. Talcott 37 VII. Jefferson Davis and Repudiation in Mississippi. John D. Van Home 49 VIII. Books Made in Dixie. James W. Albright 57 IX. Cabinet Meeting in Charlotte. Mrs. James A. Fore 61 X. Theodore S. Garnett. Capt. W. Gordon McCabe 68 XI. Walter H. Taylor. The News-Leader 82 XII. John Warwick Daniel. Prof. W. M. Thornton 88 XIII. Miss Kate Mason Rowland 113 XIV. Failure of the Confederacy— Was it a Blessing? Dr. J. H. McNeilly 115 XV. Battle Field Markers — Spotsylvania and Jefferson Counties. . 145 XVI. Books— Long Arm of Lee, The New Market Campaign 150 XVII. Gen. Lee's Traveller. The General's Description 158

XVIII. From Bache's Life of Meade— On Sheridan in the Valley. . . 160