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can hardly be estimated, and the consternation among property holders in Pennsylvania beggars description

I am especially indebted to Captain B S. White, South Carolina

cavalry, and to Mr., and Mr. , whose skillful guidance was

of immense service to me. My staff are entitled to my thanks for untiring energy in the discharge of their duties.

I enclose a map of the expedition drawn by Captain W. W. Black- ford, to accompany this report. Also, a copy of orders enforced during the march.

Believing that the hand of God was clearly manifested in the sig- nal deliverance of my command from danger, and the crowning success attending it, I ascribe to Him the praise, the honor, and the glory.

I have the honor to be, most respectfully, your obedient servant,

(Signed) J. E. B. Stuart,

Major General Commanding Cavalry.

Address of Honorable B. H. Hill before the Georgia Branch of the Southern Historical Society at Atlanta, February i8th, 1874.

[The following address should have been published in our Papers at the time of its delivery, but for the fact that we did not begin our publication until two years later, and it was "crowded out" from time to time by the pressure upon our pages. We are quite sure that our readers will thank us for giving them now this superb ad- dress of the great orator :]

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen :

The object of this meeting is to organize in Georgia an aux- iliary branch of " The Southern Historical Society." The object of this Society is to collect and preserve authentic materials for a full and correct history of the Confederate States. I have accepted the flattering invitation to address you on this occasion, and now pro- ceed to perform the part allotted me as both a duly and a pleasure. When the war between secession and coercion ended, the South- ern States were under every obligation which defeat could imply, or surrender impose, to abandon secession as a remedy for every griev- ance, real or supposed. Whatever might have been their convictions