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**************************IMPORTANT NOTICE **************************

After four years on the market the sales of this book have decreased, however there is still some demand for it. I Because of the historical significance of the information I am now having it published in shorter production runs to keep it available. This makes the cost of manufacture go up considerable. At my age, I can’t afford to print a large quantity and store them. So the only alternative I have is to produce them in smaller quantities and pay a higher cost and then pass the increased cost on to the end buyer.

I apologize for the increased cost, but I believe it is better to have it available at a higher cost than NOT AVAILABLE AT ALL.

In order to help offset the higher cost, for ALL ORDERS RECEIVED BEFORE DECEMBER 25, 2007,

I will INCLUDE at NO EXTRA CHARGE .........a FREE CD of the book.

Please USE See the ORDER FORM BELOW

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Both the BOOK and the CD contain The Complete and MANUSCRIPT of -

"The Official History of the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, ..... as told by the men who were there."

ISBN 0-9722855-0-4

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BUT FIRST - READ WHAT THE REVIEWS SAY ----

BELOW are TWO REVIEWS of the

"THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE 13TH MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY REGIMENT OF VOLUNTEERS ....................................As Told by Those Who Were There" [ISBN 0-9722855-0-4]

One by Nancianne Parkes Suber, published in the Jackson, MS, Clarion-Ledger in January 2002, and the other by Patrick Brennan Chicago, Illinois, published in the North & South Magazine in August of 2004.

Both reviewed the CD [Now in Book form] issue of the work, now the same PLUS NEW information is being published in a BOOK format. More information on the book is down further.

************ REVIEW *****************

The first review of “The Official Records of the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment...” was written by Nancianne Parkee Suber and published in a January 2002 issue of the Jackson, Mississippi newspaper, ‘The Clarion-Ledger.”

Initial [Now in Book Form] CD Is Out Detailing 13th’s War Tales

Those of you with Civil War ancestors who fought with the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment should be standing at full attention now. The CD version of “ THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE 13TH MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY REGIMENT OF VOLUNTEERS ....................................As Told by Those Who Were There” is now available [In Book Form].

Jess McLean who researched, compiled ,wrote and produced this amazing work, started his research in 1976 and spent the next the next 20-plus years tracing not only the regiment’s activities during the war but the lives of each of the 1,732 listed on it’s rolls ... an ambitious with enthralling results.

The’ 13th Mississippi was formed in May 1861, some two months before it was initiated into battle at Bull Run on July 21, 1861. The regiment would follow Gen. Robert E. Lee through Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and then help Gen. Braxton Bragg in Georgia and Tennessee. It was surrendered with Gen. Lee at Appomattox Court House, Va., on April 9.1865.

The list of battles the regiment participated in (Manassas, Leesburg, Seven Pines, Garnett’s farm, Savage Station, Malvern Hill, Maryland Heights, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg. Chickamauga, Chattanooga., Knoxville, Wilderness, Plank Road, Spotsylvania, Bloody Bend, Horshoe, Hanover Junction,, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Charlestown, Berryville, Rockfish Gap, Fisher’s Hill, Cedar Run, Brown’s Gap, etc.) Is a chilling record of the war itself. But McLean’s approach moves this from a simple history to a genealogist’s dream.

It is 884 pages, packed full of the details of daily life in the 13th, Mr. McLean also provides a detailed biography of each of the men who served the regiment (and even information on men who transferred to other units) and follows them until the last one dies in 1936.

Roughly 200 pages of the work are devoted to letters, written by the men themselves, five or six diaries kept during the campaign and other written recollections and documents. There are 60 some odd pictures of the actual men of the 13th.

But, the author did not let things rest there. Any time one of the documents even mentions another soldier, that soldier is identified. The reader is left with not “just the facts ma’am” but a well-drawn picture of the men themselves, the relationships that they developed and the personal impact the war had on these participants and their families.

The data captured here covers such items as: All records of every man that served in the regiment, individual medical records, pay vouchers, prisoner of war records, courts martial and data on relatives.

By: Nancianne Parkes Suber, Family Trees, 900 Main Street, Natchez, MS, 39120

************ REVIEW *****************

THIS IS THE REVIEW by PATRICK BRENNAN for the NORTH & SOUTH MAGAZINE of the CD NOW IN BOOK FORM ISBN 0-9722855-0-4).

[Note - The BOOK has all AND MORE Information that is on the CD AND IT IS NOW A BOOK]

THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE 13TH MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY REGIMENT OF VOLUNTEERS ....................................As Told by Those Who Were There - By Jess N. McLean.

ISBN 0-9722855-0-4

It’s a problem every student of the Civil War confronts at one time or another: the dearth of quality Confederate regimentals. Unionists commissioned writers to collect and collate primary material on the history of their regiments then hired publishing houses to produce their work. As a result, Federal regimentals serve as the starting point for any inquiry into the Civil War. However, while Northerners spent the postwar years memorializing their war service, Confederate veterans had bread-and-butter issues occupying their time. In the war-ravaged South, there was little time to gather diaries or collect letters and reminiscences, and even less money to produce the limited-run volumes. Luckily for researchers, the Southern Historical Society Papers and Confederate Veteran fill some of the void, but study of the Civil War will forever be hampered by the inability of Confederate veterans to document their regimental service in detail.

Recently, a number of armchair historians have sought to rectify the situation. However, even after committing years to researching a regiment, an author can find the costs to produce a book to be daunting, even prohibitive. But one such author has found an interesting answer to the problem in the new technologies of the day. Jess N. McLean has spent years running down information on the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, William Barksdale’s first command. But instead of wrestling the data into a narrative, McLean collated it into a day-by-day accounting, and his efforts are enormously impressive. The reader can scroll through a literal diary of the regiment to find out who was absent, who died, and who was promoted on any certain day. A series of entries unencumbered by editorial molding reveals how different soldiers experienced their baptism of battle at First Manassas. Reports detail the striking number of soldiers killed in battle or absent from disease. McLean has unearthed an vast array of unpublished accounts, letters, diaries, news reports, and family lore to produce this definitive collection of primary material on the unit’s history from its spirited beginnings to grim end game.

There are some drawbacks to this approach as context can suffer, but that hardly detracts from the project. A detailed roster of the unit provides myriad details of the men who made up the regiment. McLean also includes a generous photographic gallery, haunting images of Mississippians who faced down combat. In all, the author fills up 848 pages with a superb accounting of the unit’s history, but if you think you may get tendinitis balancing this book in your easy chair, think again. McLean has chosen to release his work on a CD-ROM as a PDF file. No, it doesn’t take an engineering degree to get it up and running on your PC, as all the programs you will need to read the book come with the disc and are easily accessible. .... So while you like, you can quickly learn to navigate the book easily and effectively.

So hats off to Jess McLean. His interest in the 13th Mississippi and his willingness to employ new technology has served his beloved Mississippians and all students of the Civil War

-Patrick Brennan Chicago, Illinois, for the NORTH & SOUTH Magazine

************* UPDATED WITH LATEST INFORMATION *******************

BOTH THE CD and the BOOK manuscript has been UPDATED with all of the NEW and ADDITIONAL INFORMATION received since the CD was published two years ago.

It is complete with bibliography, references and all of the photos of the men. There are some NEW PHOTOS.

Each book INCLUDES an 8 x 10 Inch ORIGINAL COLOR PHOTOGRAPH of the ORIGINAL battle flag of the 13th Mississippi -gun powder, bullet holes and wear all clearly shown. This beautiful picture can be removed from the book and framed for display.

********* Some Background *********

Two years ago, when my twenty five plus years of research, "The Official History of the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, as told by the men who were there." was completed, I contacted a number of publishers. A few agreed to publish it. But - each had the same two conditions: 1) cut down the size to about 300 pages, and 2) include some tactics and strategy.

My rebuttal to each was - that every book has tactics and strategy, so why does it need to be in this one? And, as to cutting out 400 pages, that would have totally ruined the purpose of the chronology. The purpose of this work is to show how the real soldiers, who fought, bled and died, were impacted by the war. It is not about war, it is about the poor people who were caught up in a war.

A publisher must make a profit, that is simply business. And they must make a book "commercial" to earn that profit. But both of those goals, of publishers, are in conflict with my goal which is - to make all of the information about the soldiers of the 13th, available to for all to see and to distribute it so that it will survive.

After the Civil War ended, the U.S. government actually paid all of the costs for the research, printing and distribution of the Regimental Histories of the U.S. forces. These were partially paid for by the taxes collected from these veterans of the 13th Mississippi and the rest of the Confederate Army.

The war weary veterans of the Confederacy, were confronted with getting home, rebuilding their destroyed farms, replanting crops that had been burned, refilling the pillaged grain, replacing their farm animals that were stolen, trying to find some pigs so they could refill their smokehouses, and all of this while trying to feed a hungry family under the watchful eyes of a Carpetbagger government that was sent into their home states by the same U..S. government that were financing the publication of the regimental histories of Union Regiments. So, it is no great surprise that there weren't many Regimental histories written about the units of the Confederacy.

To help correct this absence of the memorialization of the southern experiences in the Civil War, is the purpose of this chronology. As it tells of the war time journey of the men of the 13th Mississippi, and in their own words. It was written by those who were there and witnessed all of the action. It has been accumulated with the with unselfish help of hundreds of descendants of the brave men of the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment.

******** An Overview of the Chronology ********

"The Official records of The 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment of Volunteers .... as told by those who were there" as researched, compiled, written and produced by Jess N. McLean. The book is almost 800 pages and contains the events that the men of the 13th witnessed on a day to day basis during the war. The chronology continues until the last one died in 1936. As time stretches out after the war, details become more scarce but many obituaries and a great amount of detail of their postwar lives including family, work, deaths and burial locations are included. There are 1.732 men listed on the rolls. Also included are many of the names of their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and children. An additional bonus is that I have included a great amount of information on the men that transferred to and from other units. There are numerous letters, perhaps 200 pages, 38 to and from one man alone, 18 from another, some 5 or 6 diaries and a great many other written recollections and documents. Included are many pictures of the men of the 13th Miss.

Any time one of the documents, such as a letter or diary, mentions another soldier - most all of these soldier are fully identified. Without the cross reference material, this would have been impossible. One example is a soldier who was named W.W. Durr, but who was actually called "Manuel." This way you can see the relationships that develop and what the men write home about them. You can then track him throughout all of the events of the war. After the war you can read their pension applications and see that often their witness' were other men of the 13th Miss. Regiment.

The bibliography which is the root source of all data is full and included, BUT THE IMPORTANT PART is that there is a long list of UNPUBLISHED sources with their source locations. This is a veritable mine of information that has never been consolidated into a single document about he 13th. All data is documented with references and sources.

BOTH the CD and the BOOK are, in themselves a REFERENCE source on the personal impact that the Civil War had on these participants and their families.

It is clear, concise and referenced documentation of these men in a war. It is NOT a documentation OF THE WAR, its causes, it's strategy, or it's justification.

If you enjoy it a fraction as much as I did putting it together, then you will spend hours just following the details and events gleaned from their daily records, diaries, letters, and personal recollections.

An observation about VALUE-

A novel by John Grisham sells for about ......................................$0.08 per page.

A novel by Danielle Steele sells for about.....................................$0.12 per page.

This book sells for ......................................................................$0.10 per page and it is FULL of historical, genealogical, and Civil War facts, much of it UNPUBLISHED elsewhere and that is why this book/CD is used in Libraries as a reference source.

Twice the value for half the cost.

************* ORDERING INFORMATION ********************

>>>> USE THE FORM BELOW TO ORDER THE BOOK or the CD <<<<<

$69.95 [Includes S&H and Postage in Continental United States ONLY.

Orders received before 12/24/2007 will receive a FREE CD with each Book

For the Book in CD format the price is $21.95 includes S&H and Postage in Continental United States ONLY.

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Regards, Jess

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