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REPORT ON THE CONDITION OF GOVERNMENT COTTON, CONTIGUOUS TO THE MISSISSIPPI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES [Confederate Imprint]
Published by Confederate Government. Richmond, 1864
Book First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. (C. G. Memminger, Secretary of Treasury; J. D. B. DeBow, General Agent Produce Loan.) REPORT ON THE CONDITION OF GOVERNMENT COTTON, CONTIGUOUS TO THE MISSISSIPPI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. Treasury Department, C. S. A., Richmond, May 16, 1864. 7p. House of Representatives, May 17, 1864. - Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. (By the Chair.). 7pp, bears the oval "Rebel Archives" stamp (faint, a few letters only are legible); paste-fastened pamphlet with print-block toning, several large flecks from impurities in paperstock, short splits at head and tail of spinefold: a good copy. Parrish & Willingham 2197. P&W present J. D. B. DeBow's printed signature line on p7 as having transposed initial letters. Their text reads, "Signed: J. D. B.D. [sic] DeBow,/ General Agent Produce Loan. but this is erroneous. Excerpt: "Large plantations are abandoned everywhere, and the cotton has been left in sheds. These tumble down or are blown down. Stray cattle destroy the cotton; soldiers, particularly cavalry, strip it of the ropes and bagging, or make use of it for beds" &c &c. Profuse detail, including accounts of fraud, of ineptitude, of panic burning by growers of stored bales (for fear Union troops will find them). Please email with questions or to request photos. This Confederate Imprint is one of more than 100 recently acquired, most with 'Rebel Archives' stamp on the cover, indicating that these were the actual copies seized by the Union Army at the end of the Civil War. A remarkable collection.
