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PREFACE.
By an act approved June 23, 1874, Congress made an appropriation
"to enable the Secretary of War to begin the publication of the Offi-
cial Records of the War of the Rebellion, both of the Union and Con-
federate Armies," and directed him "to have copied for the Public
Printer all reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders not hereto-
fore copied or printed, and properly arranged in chronological order."
Appropriations for continuing such preparation have been made
from time to time, and the act approved June 16, 1880, has provided
"for the printing and binding, under direction of the Secretary of
War, of 10,000 copies of a compilation 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 Repre-
sentatives, 2,000 copies for the use of the Senate, and 1,000 copies for
the use of the Executive Departments."*
* Volumes I to V distributed under act approved June 16,1880. The act approved
August 7, 1882, provides that-
"The volumes of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion shall be distri-
buted 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 be
covered into the Treasury. If two or more sets of said volumes are ordered to the
same address the Secretary of War shall inform the Senators, Representatives, or
Delegates, who have designated the same, who thereupon may designate other
libraries, organizations, or individuals. The Secretary of War shall report to the
first session of the Forty-eighth Congress what volumes of the series heretofore
published have not been furnished to such libraries, organizations, and individuals.
He shall also inform distributees at whose instance the volumes are sent."
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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 30, In Four Parts. Part 1, Reports., book, 1890; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152978/m1/4/?q=%221863%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.