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[2], 33 pages plus covers. Staple-bound paperback booklet: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Gray paper covers with multiple surface abrasions and some soiling and a few stains. Text block edges foxed as are front cover's verso and rear cover's recto; foxing to first and last pages bit interior pages are mostly otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good+ copy. Features a collection of Civil War recollections by assorted authors collected from various sources all concerning Columbus, Mississippi or nearby environs including some accounts of General Nathan Bedford Forrest's activities. Pages 29-32 feature a reprint of a 1907 article by Georgia P. Young (with the addition of three b/w photographs by Calvin Shanks) regarding the city's claim to founding Confederate Decoration Day or Memorial Day.