1862 Confederate Almanac

[A. P. Hill]

https://archive.org/details/confederatestat00clar

[Redleader]

Great resource here, actually printed in Vicksburg where I've spent so much of my semester doing research (actually in Mississippi right now). Clarke was a printer for the Daily Whig, I think? The name is familiar but I don't have my notes with me at the moment.

Being an almanac, I'm surprised at how many pages were devoted to making a defense of slavery (beginning with a biblical defense at around pg. 125).

edit: I realize now why I remembered his Hugh C. Clarke's name in a Vicksburg Daily Whig, he was an advertiser in that paper.

The population numbers in "whites" & "slaves" & growth from 1850 - 1860 is also very interesting (page 30-32).

Seems when you become an officer .. the pay rises exponential :)

[Matt(Fridge)]

I will have to add this to the list of stuff I need to read.

[Shoshibo]

yep