Official Union & Confederate Naval Records - Civil War

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Books #1 & #2
Union & confederate
Navy – official records
Series 1,Vol. 4 & Series 2, Vol. 3
Published 1896 & 1922
By Govt. printing office
900+ & 1,1300+ pages, illustrated & Indexed
+Bonus Book #3 -
History of the Confederate Navy
J. Thomas Scharf 1896
900+ pages, indexed, profusely illustrated
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The
Official Records of the American Civil War
or often more simply the
Official Records
or
ORs
, constitute the most extensive collection
of
primary sources
of the history of the
American Civil War
. They include selected first-hand accounts, orders, reports, maps, diagrams, and
correspondence drawn from
War
and
Navy Department
records of both
Confederate
and
Union
governments.
The original title for the records was
The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
and they were later renamed
The War of the Rebellion:
a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies & Navies
, which has led to some lasting controversy over the
official name
for the war.
Collection of the records began in 1864; no special attention was paid to Confederate records until just after the capture of
Richmond, Virginia
,
in 1865, when with the help of Confederate
Gen.
Samuel Cooper
, Union Army Chief of Staff
Maj. Gen.
Henry W. Halleck
began the task of
collecting and preserving the archives of the Confederacy. In 1866 a
joint resolution
of
Congress
authorized the compilation and publication under
auspices of the War Department. Eventually, seventeen
Secretaries of War
were involved in the process. In 1877, Army Captain Robert N. Scott
was appointed by the Secretary of War as director of the Publications Office, War Records. (Scott's name appears in each volume as the preparer,
listed with the rank of
Brevet
Lieutenant Colonel
, 3rd U.S. Artillery.)
Union and Confederate Navies
Unfortunately, most of the Confederate Navy Department records were lost during the burning of Richmond. Union Navy Department records were
preserved, but not until 1884 was work begun by Navy Department librarian, later
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
,
James R. Soley
to collect and
publish. Intending to partially replace missing reports, many personal narratives were collected and included, often gaining Navy researchers incidental
access to draft copies of original reports once thought lost. The official title of publication is
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies
in the War of the Rebellion
.
Series I - Records of all naval operations including all inland waterways
Series II - Records relating to statistics and condition of both forces at the outset of conflict, returns of captured materials, and records of naval
prisoners of war
A proposed third series was deemed unnecessary; the final volume of series two was published in 1922. The Navy Department did not publish a
comprehensive index to these volumes.
Included on this CD:
Series 1 – Vol. 4
Operations in the Gulf of Mexico from November 15, 1860, to June 7, 1861.
Operations on the Atlantic coast from January 1 to May 13. 1861.
Operations on the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers from Januarv to December 7, 1861.
Series 2 – Vol. 3
Proclamations, Appointments, etc., of President Davis.
State Department Correspondence with Diplomatic Agents, etc.
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