The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 41, In Four Parts. Part 1, Reports. Page: iv
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in the following order of arrangement, which has been adhered to
by his successors :
The first series will embrace the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of
the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all mil-
itary operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating
specially thereto, and, as proposed, is to be accompanied by an Atlas.
In this series the reports will be arranged according to the campaigns and sev-
eral theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the, Union
reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate
accounts.- The ..correspondence, &c., not embraced in the "'reports" proper will
follow (first Union and next Confederate) in chronological order.
The second series will contain the correspondence, order, reports, and returns,
Union and Confederate, relating to prisoners of war, and (so far as the military au-
thorities were concerned) to State or political prisoners.
The third series will contain the correspondence, orders, reports, and returns of
the Union authorities (embracing their correspondence with the Confederate offi-
cials) not relating specially to the subjects of the first and second series. It will
set forth the annual and special reports of the Secretary of War, of the General-
in-Chief, and of the chiefs of the several staff- corps and departments; the calls for
troops, and the correspondence between the National and the several State author-
ities.
The fourth series will exhibit the correspondence, orders, reports, and returns of
the Confederate authorities, similar to that indicated for the Union officials, as of
the third series, but excluding the correspondence between the Union and Confed-
erate authorities given in that series.
The first volume of the records was issued in the early fall of 1880.
The act approved June 16, 1880, provided "for the printing arid bind-
ing; under direction of the Secretary of War, of 10,000 copies of a com-
pilation of the Official Records (Union and Confederate) of the War
of the Rebellion, so far as the same may be ready for publication,
during the fiscal year;" and that "of said number 7,000 copies shall
be for the use of the House of Representatives, 2,000 copies fQr the
use of the Senate, and 1,000 copies for the use of the Executive De-
partments." . Under this act Colonel Scott proceeded to publish the
first five volumes of the records.*
* All subsequent volumes have been distributed under the act approved August
7, 1882, which provides that:
" The volumes of the Official Recdrds of the War of the Rebellion shall be distrib-
uted as follows: One thousand copies to the Executive Departments, as now pro-
vided by law. One thousand copies for distribution- by the Secretary of War
,among officers of the Army and contributors to the work. Eight thousand three
hundred copies shall be sent by the Secretary of War to such libraries, organiza-
tions, and individuals as may be designated by the Senators, Representatives, and
Delegates of the Forty-seventh Congress. Each Senator shall designate not exceed-
ing twenty-six,-- and each Representative and Delegate not exceeding twenty-one, of
such addresses, and the volumes shall be sent thereto from time to time as they are
'published, until the publication is completed. Senators, Representatives, and Dele-
gates shall inform the Secretary of War in each case how many volumes of those
heretofore published they have forwarded to such addresses. The remaining copies
of the eleven thousand to be published, and all sets that may not be ordered to be
distributed as provided herein, shall be sold by the Secretary of War for cost of
publication with ten per cent. added thereto, and the proceeds of such sale shall beIV
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 41, In Four Parts. Part 1, Reports., book, 1893; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145053/m1/5/?q=Coleman: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.