The truth is that our Society was originally started in New Orleans by officers of the Western army—that we have on our shelves a large mass of material which illustrates the gallant deeds of our comrades of the West—and that while we hail the "Annals" as a valuable co-worker and helper, we shall still claim the privilege of asking our friends in the West to help us to put them right on the record.
A Letter from General Fitz. Lee, on Gettysburg, will appear in our next number, and will contain some things about the great battle never before published.
We have on hand and waiting for publication, a number of valuable articles. Our friends will please bear with us, and their papers shall appear at the earliest possible day.
Original Papers that have never been published in any form before always have the preference in making our selections. And while we sometimes copy articles even from current newspapers, yet we insist upon it that where gentlemen select first some other vehicle of publication, we are thereby released from any obligation to copy their papers; but, whether we can publish or not, we are always glad to place in our scrap-book or on our shelves anything bearing on the "War between the States."
Correction.—In the letter from General Clayton, page 127, line 7 from bottom, the word "morning" should be "moving."
