1860, De Bow's Review, Vol 29 #3, SB G, SIGNATURE 1860s VA SENATOR!

Description: From Wikipedia on this periodical: DeBow's Review was a widely circulated magazine of "agricultural, commercial, and industrial progress and resource" in the American South during the upper middle of the nineteenth century, from 1846 until 1884. Before the Civil War, the magazine "recommended the best practices for wringing profits from slaves". It bore the name of its first editor, James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow (J. D. B. DeBow, 1820–1867) who wrote much in the early issues; however, there were various writers over the years. R. G. Barnwell and Edwin Q. Bell, of Charleston, appeared as editors in March 1867, after DeBow's death, and W. M. Burwell was editor from March 1868–Dec. 1879." THIS LISTING IS FOR A COMPLETE ISSUE INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR COVERS, string-bound, clean with light foxing over the text throughout the book. The issue is Vol 29, #3 in September of 1860. It is paginated 257-400, followed by an unpaginated 54 PAGES OF ADS (including back cover). GREAT COVER ILLUSTRATION AND SOME ILLUSTRATIONS AMONG THE ADS. There is wear along the cover edges, some paper loss on the spine, some corner curling. OVERALL IN GOOD CONDITION FOR A 160+ YEAR SOFTBACK PAPER SOUTHERN JOURNAL. INTERESTINGLY, THIS WAS FOUND IN AN ESTATE CONTAINING ITEMS OWNED BY A VIRGINIA STATE SENATOR FROM THE 1860s, DAVID S.G. CABELL. His brief bio is shown below. HE WAS AN ACQUAINTANCE AND/OR FRIEND OF ROBERT E LEE, with one or two letters between the two found in online archives. Here is a letter from the journal, Southern Historical Society Papers, by David S.G. Cabell written 1889 describing his interactions with R. E. Lee where he was encouraging him to run for VA Governor: "In the early part of 1867, I wrote to General Lee, inquiring whether he would permit the use of his name as a candidate for governor of Virginia, and urging reasons for it. He replied that he would not, because he thought at that time that his candidacy would be injurious to Virginia. I showed Lee's letter to Judge Robert Ould, excommissioner of exchange, and then my associate in the Senate. He immediately took from his desk a letter, recently received from Lee, in reply to an inquiry from him identical with mine and handed it to me. From its perusal I found he based his refusal to Ould on the same ground he did to me. A gentleman—at whose house, in Powhatan county, Va., General Lee stopped while returning from the surrender in Appomattox—told me Lee said to him that many would wonder why he did not make his escape before the surrender, when [362] it was practicable, and gave as a reason why he did not that he was unwilling to separate his fate from men who had fought under him so long. When I recall my old commander, I think not in connection with him of ambitious Caesar, of avaricious Marlborough, of selfish Bonaparte, but rather of the English Hampden and the American Washington, who resembled him in his rare moderation and in exalted virtue. The recent installation of a monument to Lee in Richmond city gives him just now special prominence. I therefore hope that these details, illustrative of particular phases of his character, may not be without interest to many. David S. G. Cabell. Richmond, VA. 1889." Here is a brief bio of David S.G. Cabell found on a genealogy website: "David S. G. Cabell, born June 23, 1825 ; educated at Princeton, N. J., where he took the degree of A.B. ; studied law at the University of Virginia, 1852-1853 ; practiced law with his brother in Nelson, 1853-1859 ; entered the C. S. A. as a private in Company H, 49th Virginia ; served through the war ; represented the counties of Nelson and Rockbridge in the state senate two sessions, 1865-1867 ; an instructor at the Norwood High School, 1871-1872 ; a contributor to many newspapers and magazines, much both of a political and literary character. He died unmarried, at the residence of his brother Wlliam, in Buckingham, in 1893, and is buried there." RARE AND ADDITIONALLY INTERESTING BECAUSE OF ITS ORIGINAL OWNER! B126

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