The Continuing War

THE CONTINUING WAR by James I. Robertson, Jr. Allan Nevins has completed the manuscript for Volume III of his War for the Union. Scribner's is rushing the work into production for release next year. . . . This year's "Lakeside Classics" volume is a new edition of O. J. HoUister's history of the 1st Colorado. Richard Harwell was the editor. . . . The Virginia Civil War Commission is preparing a film on Stonewall Jackson, with particular emphasis on the Valley Campaign. Executive Director James G. Geary expects the sound movie to be ready for showing next spring. . . . Indications are good at this point that new and annotated editions of two Confederate classics may shortiy be in print: Mrs. Roger Pryor's Reminiscences of Peace and War and Arthur J. L. Fremantie's Three Months in the Southern States. . . . Bell I. Wiley and Hirst Milhollen have collaborated on a pictorial history of the Confederacy, which Harper will publish. This is the same team that produced the excellent They Who Fought Here, a Macmillan release. McCowat-Mercer's forthcoming addition to its respectable list of Confederate reprints is James Cooper Nisbet's Four Years on the Firing Line. The general editor of the series, Bell I. Wüey, prepared the new edition of Colonel Nisbet's memoirs. . . . Tentatively scheduled to foUow Nisbet is a McCowat-Mercer new edition of John H. Worsham's One of Jacfaoris Foot Cavalry. . . . One of the most valuable projects (at least in the eyes of researchers and writers) that could come from the Centennial would be for every state involved in the Civd War to compile and publish descriptive rosters of men from the individual states who served in the armies. Lilian Henderson has just finished a four-volume set on Georgia soldiers, and Louis Manarin is working diligently on a simdar roster for North Carolina troops. Years ago multivolume sets ofpersonal service records were published by Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Maryland, and Louisiana. However, all are out of print, scarce, and very expensive to obtain. State centennial commissions, historical societies, and other such groups could perform no more lasting service than to initiate such undertakings for their areas. Scores of persons undoubtedly would be willing to lend assistance, and the National Ar433 434JAMES I. ROBERTSON, JR. chives would be happy to make personal service files available to reputable groups. The inimitable Dr. Otto Eisenschiml has authored a charming little book entitled The Civil War in Miniature, which manages to tell the essential story of the war in just twenty-four tiny pages. This collector's item was published by the Black Cat Press of Chicago, and can be obtained through the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 18 East Chestnut Street, Chicago 11. . . . From Doubleday comes a "special dlustrated edition for young readers" of Bruce Catton's classic, This Hallowed Ground. Junior buffs everywhere will pester their elders for copies of this handsome volume. George Markham, an avid book collector and one of Wisconsin's most respected Civd War students, has agreed to prepare the cumulative index of the Southern Historical Society Papers. Following a September meeting in Chicago of interested parties, work got underway on the mammoth project. The Virginia Historical Society donated a complete set of the SHSP to be used as a working copy. The task will take many months, as Mr. Markham plans to compile a line-by-line index of the fifty-two volumes in the set. All researchers wish Mr. Markham and his colleagues well in this valuable undertaking. . . . Now, if only someone could find a way to get in print the equally valuable index to the Confederate Veteran painstakingly prepared by Ray D. Smith of Chicago . That Civil War History's June issue on prisons made an impact around the nation is evident from widespread verbal and written comment that has been received by all parties concerned. The Ohio Civd War Centennial Commission is reproducing the study of Johnson's Island by Edward T. Downer, to be printed in booklet form for them by the Ohio Historical Society. Also, the New York CWCC plans to republish this writer's article on Elmira in its excellent monthly magazine. Possibly some Empire Stater wdl append a...