Excerpt from Confederate Veteran, 1898, Vol. 6: Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics Older readers of the veteran will readily recall the story of Uncle Dan Emmett in the veteran for September, 1895, and the reproduction of the original Dixie. These plates are the more valuable now, since he has lost the original, and may be republished in the veteran next month. Not having heard from the genial, appreciative old gentleman in many months, inquiry was made, to which he replied, November 5, 1897. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.