The Old South. An Address Delivered by Lieutenant-General D. H. Hill, at Ford's Grand Opera House, on Memorial Day, June 6, 1887, before the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland
Baltimore: Andrew J. Conlon, 1887. Original Wrappers. near Very Good binding. Item #9365
Octavo. 23, [1] pp. First edition. As issued, in printed wrappers. Wrappers are a bit soiled; minor worming to the top edge at the spine, nowhere near text; minor chipping to the wrappers; gentle vertical crease from folding.
Hill offers a nostalgic address: "the Old South of pure women and brave men; the South of Washington and Jefferson . . . the generous Old South, which, rich, prosperous and peaceful under British domination, cried 'the cause of Boston is the cause of all,' and had her sons slain and her land desolated in defence of her Northern sister. . . ." There creeps into (and ultimately storms into) this address a bitterness or perceived betrayal as the "generous" antebellum South "provided" while the North "took." The betrayal coming to fruition with the Civil War. And a good portion of Hill's remarks addresses the Civil War and the results in Hill's assessment—an assessment that tracks with the Lost Cause narrative. Fairly rare in commerce. Institutionally uncommon with just over a dozen institutions recording ownership according to OCLC.
Price: $350.00