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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Harwell, to whom this current work is dedicated, added an additional
1,773 entries to Crandall's 5,121 with his More Confederate Imprints
(1957).
Parrish and Willingham have altered, in a positive way, the structure
of the previous lists, "while retaining the style and spirit of the works by
Miss Crandall and Mr. Harwell" (p. 25). For those historians and others
who have compiled bibliographies and other records based on the
Crandall and Harwell numbers, there is a cross-reference section in
this volume that lists corresponding numbers.
The first section of this compilation contains entries on the Con-
federate States government. Subsections include all the government
branches and departments and the constitution. The next division is
composed of state entries (Missouri, Kentucky, and Indian tribes are
included). The last section lists unofficial publications in the general
subject areas of military; politics, economics and social issues; science
and medicine; maps and prints; belles-lettres; music and entertain-
ment; sheet music; education; and religion. This structure should be
convenient and helpful to most researchers.
Based on an exhaustive survey of archival repositories, Confederate
Imprints will be a valued addition to academic and private Civil War col-
lections. In addition to the overview of imprint publications, the intro-
duction contains a documented survey of the evolution of Confederate
imprints. A massive 2og3-page index further enhances the work, though
there is room for mild criticism here. Some of the index entries contain
a multitude of entries with no subheadings. Researchers will be frus-
trated at having to look up a hundred or more entries to find some-
thing specific on Jefferson Davis or the Army of Northern Virginia, to
cite but two of many examples. But certainly the task pales when mea-
sured against the effort that went into the production of this book.
The compilers approached their monumental task with perspective
and a sense of humor. They write in the closing paragraph of their In-
troduction: "Inevitably, any bibliography is 'out of date' from the time
it is issued: errors will be noted (sometimes gleefully), omissions will be
found (usually gleefully), and pertinent unrecorded rarities will be hailed
(always gleefully)" (p. 26). They are right, no doubt, but such reactions
will not prevent Parrish and Willingham from achieving their ultimate
goal-a major contribution to the expansion of scholarly research in
Confederate history.640
Mississippi State University
MICHAEL B. BALLARD
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