Guide to Thaddeus K. Oglesby's The Case of the South Against Britannica manuscript, circa 1903


Descriptive Summary
	Title:	Thaddeus K. Oglesby, The Case of the South Against Britannica.
	Dates:	circa 1903
	Abstract:	The collection consists of a revised manuscript of The Case of the South Against the Encyclopaedia Britannica and other Maligners and contains approximately 140 loose sheets of various sizes, consisting of printed material pasted on with handwritten notations and revisions.
	Identification:	MS 382
	Extent:	2 lin. ft. (1 box)
	Language	Materials are in English.
	Repository:	Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Biographical Note

Thaddeus K. Oglesby was the private secretary to Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America.

The collection consists of a revised manuscript of The Case of the South Against the Encyclopaedia Britannica and other Maligners and contains approximately 140 loose sheets of various sizes, consisting of printed material pasted on with handwritten notations and revisions. Written as a critical response to the Encyclopaedia's depiction and belittlement of the South, the material was first published as articles in The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser in January 1891. Shortly thereafter, the articles were brought out in pamphlet form as "The Britannnica Answered and the South Vindicated". The revised manuscript was the result of the decision to issue another edition.

The new edition was to include the original Advertiser articles with additional material incorporated, other articles by the writer, and other material "of a historical character worthy of note and preservation" (news articles, reprtints of speeches with manuscript notationsand more).

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

This material is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish from this material required by the Woodson Research Center.


Index Terms

	Subjects (Persons)
		Oglesby, Thaddeus K.
	Subjects
		United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
	Formats
		Manuscript

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Thaddeus K. Oglesby, The Case of the South Against Britannica, circa 1903, MS 382, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Acquisition Information

Gift of John Wright, 1964

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series I: Main section titles

Press Comment

Prefatory Note

The Case of the South Against the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Other Maligners

The Lees of Virginia

The Spanish-American War

Words of Winthrop and Calhoun

An Address Before the Historical Committee of the United Confederate Veterans at Birmingham, Ala., April 24, 1894

The Encyclopaedia Britannica as Published by the Werner Company of Chicago. Confederate Veterans Denounce it and Refuse to Allow it to Remain in their Hall

An Interesting Speech by Judge Monroe, of Louisiana Supreme Court

A Forcible and Eloquent Paper. The Bivouac of the Dead Must be Guarded by the Living, and Their Memory Shielded from Unjust Aspersion

A Striking Contrast

Greg's History of the United States

Georgia and the Constitution

Alexander Hamilton Stephens

The Shackling of Jefferson Davis

An Old Man Eloquent. A Belated Champion of the Declaration

Stephens vs. Roosevelt

Some Presidential Appreciations

Series II: Addenda

Addendum A: Sherman in Georgia

Addendum B: Intolerance in Massachusetts

Addendum C: The Federative Principle of Our Government