War of the Rebellion
 
Official Records of the
Union & Confederate Armies
 
Book #1 - Volume 39 Part I
FROM May 1,1864, TO November 13, 1864
CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY, SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, 
MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, AND NORTH GEORGIA, 
 
 
Book #2 - Volume 40 Part II
FROM DECEMBER 1,1864, TO JANUARY 23, 1865
 
Published under the Direction Secretary of War
1892 - 1894
 
1,028 + 903 pages, indexed and searchable
 
 
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This is one of 128 volumes published by the U.S. Secretary of War.
By an act approved June 23,1874, Congress made an appropriation " to enable the Secretary of War to begin the publication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, 
both of the Union and Confederate Armies," and directed him " to have copied for the Public Printer all reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders not heretofore copied or 
printed, and properly arranged in chronological order."
 
Appropriations for continuing such preparation were 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 Representatives, 2,000 copies for the use of the Senate, and 
1,000 copies for the use of the Executive Departments."
 
This compilation will be the first general publication of the military records of the war, and will embrace all official documents that can be obtained by the compiler, and that 
appear to be of any historical value.
 
The publication will present the records in the following order of arrangement :
The 1st 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 military 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 several 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 2d Series will contain the correspondence, orders, reports, and returns, Union and Confederate, relating to prisoners of war, and (so 
far as the military authorities were concerned) to State or political prisoners.
 
The 3d Series will contain the correspondence, orders, reports, and returns of the Union authorities (embracing their correspondence 
with the Confederate officials) not relating specially to the subjects of the ßrst 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 tlio correspondence between, the National and the several State authorities.
 
The 4th 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 Confederate authorities given in 
that series.
 
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