The March number (Vol. VI, No. 2) of Publications of the Southern History Association contains the first installment of two documents of considerable value: Journal of Charles Porterfield, and Southern Political Views, 1865, by Hon. John H. Reagan. Captain Charles Porterfield was a Virginian who enlisted in the Continental army in 1775. He saw service at the siege of Boston; in the Canada expedition of Montgomery and Arnold; in the battle of Saratoga; spent the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge, and was finally killed in the Southern campaign of 1780 in South Carolina. Judge Reagan's paper takes the form of a letter addressed to President Andrew Johnson. It was written from prison in Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, and is dated “May 28, 1865.” This number of the Publications contains also a Bibliography of S. C. Women Writers, by A. S. Salley, Jr.; An Early Decision on Imperialism (1812), by D. Y. Thomas; and an account of the celebration of the Bi-Centenary of the French Settlement of the Southwest, held at Mobile, Alabama, January 22, 1902. The Secretary's report for 1901 shows the Association in an encouraging condition.

The May number of the Publications contains: Journal of Charles Porterfield (continued); Southern Political Views, 1865 (concluded); Early Quaker Records in Virginia (to be continued); An Old-Time Merchant in South Carolina, by Kate Furman, and The Spaniards in the South and Southwest, by Stephen B. Weeks.

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"Publications of the Southern History Association", Volume 006, Number 1, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 64 - 65. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v006/n1/review_7.html
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