Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-17
REBELLION RECORDS.
Report Of the Board of Publication of
Last Years Work.
The Forty-Firs Volume Has Been Issued
and Five More Volumes Are In Differ
emit Stages Of Indexing.

Maj. George B. Davis, judge advocate. q. s.
A., and Messrs. Leslie ]. Perry and J. W. KIRK
ley, civilian experts, composing the board OF
publication Of the official records Of the rebel
lion. have submitted to the Secretary Of War .
report Of their operations during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1898.
Eleven thousand copies each Of volumes
xxx. parts 2 and s; XL, parts 1, 2, s,
and XII, parts and 2 and $500 copies each
of the reprint Of volumes / to v, inclusive,
have been printed and bound by the public
printer. and have been distributed during the
year. Five more volumes we're printed and
are in different stages OF indexing at the close
OF the year. These books cover the operations
in Kentucky, southwest Virginia, Tennessee,
Mississippi, Alabama and north Georgia (the
Atlanta campaign excepted; the operations in
southeast Virginia and North Carolina Qnclud-
ing Richmond, Petersburg, DC. }; the operations
in Louisiana and the trans Mississippi states,
&c. the operations in southeast Virginia and
North Carolins; the operations in northern
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Penn
sylvania Including Opequon, Fishers Hill,
Cedar Greek, Sc.)
Work on the atlas Of maps and plans has also
been carried forward and plates XXI to Xxx.
| inclusive have been printed and distributed
during the year. Twenty-Five more are in the
hands Of the engraver and will be issued during
the current calendar year.
The examination Of files and archives and the
work Of selecting, copying and comparing
material for the remaining volumes Of the
| several series has been continued without in
terruption during the entire fiscal year.
Satisfactory progress has been made in the
| work of indexing the confederate archives.
| A modification Of the excellent system of card
| indexing now in use In the record and pension
| Office has been applied to the letters. orders,
vouchers. muster rolls and returns winch make
up the collection, aud it is hoped to finish the
| work during the coming fiscal year.
The inquiry instituted by this Office to ascer-
tain what societies or persons were entitled to
receive the reprint Of the volumes authorized
at the first session Of the Fifty-second Congress
has developed the fact that about 500 Of the
original IL 900 benefciaries have, by reason Of
| originally assigned them. The result 10 that
beginning with volume xxx there are on hand
500 sets Of the work which are not available for
distribution on account Of the absence Of the
earlier volumes. As the stereotype plates have
been preserved it is estimated that it will cost
less than 50 cents per volume to reprint these
books and thus complete and make available
for distribution the sets to which they belong
1t is therefore recommended that authority be
obtained for reprinting 500 copies of volumes
to 80, inclusive, with view to their distribu-
ton by members of the Fifty-third Congress.
The inquiry for complete sets of the work
and for separate volumes from societies and
individuals who desire to purchase them
steadily increases To meet this demand it 10
| respectfully recommended that authority be
obtained for printing 900 copies Of the entire
work from the plates now in the hands Of the
public printer. In closing it again gives the
board great pleasure to recognize the efficient
assistance ii has received from the officers en-
gagged on the work and from the employees con-
nected with the different departments Of the
Office. Their labors have been jealous and un-
firing, and the services rendered by them have
been entirely satisfactory.