AN OFFICIAL GUIDE OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT FROM 1861 TO 1865 AT RICHMOND — WILL P. HOOPER, RICHMOND, CA. 1907

AN OFFICIAL GUIDE OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT FROM 1861 TO 1865 AT RICHMOND — WILL P. HOOPER, RICHMOND, CA. 1907

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Turn-of-the-century Richmond souvenir booklet reprinting the wartime directory of the Confederate government, issued at a cover price of ten cents. Printed tan wrappers, stitched at the spine fold, approximately 4 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, 32 pages.

The front wrapper is set within a decorative wreath border, PRICE and 10 CTS at the upper corners, titled AN OFFICIAL GUIDE OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT / From 1861 to 1865 at / RICHMOND. Below the title is a wood-engraved three-quarter view of a large columned public building — apparently the Virginia State Capitol, which housed the Confederate Congress — with flags flying from staffs at either end and small figures on the entrance steps. Beneath the cut: "Showing the Location of the Public Buildings and Offices of the Confederate, State and City Governments, Residences of the Principal Officers, etc."

The inside front wrapper carries the publisher's note that the book served as the official guide to the Confederate government during the war and would appeal to the soldier, historian and student, the locations of the various offices being an excellent reference to the city as it stood before the evacuation and burning of Richmond.

The table of contents runs the full apparatus of the Confederate capital across thirty-two pages: the Executive; Department of State; Treasury Department; War Tax Bureau; War Department; the Adjutant General's, Quartermaster's, Ordnance, Commissary and Surgeon General's Departments; Department of Richmond and Henrico; Bureau of Conscription; Various Bureaus; Navy Department; Department of Justice; Post Office Department; the Government of Virginia, with Senate, Executive and Judicial sections; the City Government; and a General Directory covering banks, railroad depots, principal hotels and churches, army depots, the hospitals, Masonic and Odd Fellows bodies, newspapers and periodicals, and miscellaneous entries.

Printed below the contents is a table headed VALUE OF CONFEDERATE MONEY IN RICHMOND DURING THE SUCCESSIVE MONTHS OF THE WAR, giving month-by-month quotations from 1861 through 1865 — from small premiums in the first years to quotations in the forties and sixties by the opening months of 1865, a compact record of the currency's collapse in the capital.

Page one opens with THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT — EXECUTIVE: Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, President; Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, Vice President; and the President's staff with their Richmond addresses — Col. Wm. M. Browne on Franklin Street, Church Hill; Col. James Chesnut of South Carolina, noted as "now absent on duty"; Col. Wm. Preston Johnston, lodging at Mr. Dill's on the Meadow Bridge road; Col. Joseph C. Ives at Grace and 1st; Col. G. W. Custis Lee on Franklin between 7th and 8th; and Col. John Taylor Wood on 6th Street south of Main, in rear of Second Baptist Church. Burton N. Harrison, the President's private secretary, is listed as residing at the President's House. The visitor is directed to Davis's office on the third floor of the "Treasury Building," ascending by the first stairs to the right of the Bank Street entrance, second door from Bank Street on the left of the passage, with the private secretary's office adjoining and the aides' office opposite. The Vice President is noted as residing in Georgia and lodging with Mr. Baskervill on Franklin between 8th and 9th when in Richmond; the President's House is placed at the corner of Clay and 12th.

That combination of aides — Custis Lee, Preston Johnston, Ives, Browne and Wood, with Chesnut away — reflects the wartime original of roughly 1863 to 1864.

The rear wrapper is given over to a period Richmond clothing advertisement, "BERRY'S FOR CLOTHES," with a pen-and-ink cartoon of two colonial figures holding a SUITS placard, the artwork copyrighted 1907 by Will P. Hooper. Beneath, under the heading WHAT MIGHTY CHANGES A GENERATION HAS WROUGHT, the text advertises men's suits at $12.50 to $35, youths' at $10 to $25 and boys' at $2.85 to $12, for O. H. Berry & Company, 1017-1019 E. Main St., Richmond, Va.

CONDITION

Toning and light soiling overall. Chipping and tearing with associated paper loss along the upper edge of the front wrapper; spine fold rubbed and broken at the stitching, with the wrappers beginning to separate; scattered edge nicks and a soft crease at the lower corner. Text block sound, the printing crisp and fully legible throughout. A displayable copy of an uncommon Richmond souvenir imprint, and a genuinely useful reference to the geography of the Confederate capital.   [ss][ph:L]

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