The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-08
THE PUBLICATION OF CIVIL
WAR RECORDS is FINISHED.
A Gigantic Undertaking That Has Taken TWENTY
Six Years of Hard Work.

states property In the Southern States, and
then deals In regular chronological order
Win al the military operations in the field
scouts. skirmishes. raids marches battles
expeditions and sieges. together with the
correspondence. orders and returns related
thereto. The second series contains the Of
hc!a! correspondence and reports on both
sizes relating TO prisoners Of war arr! TO
state and political prisoners. from which,
reading between the lines. many interesting
roinances may hereafter be woven. The
tiiFd series covers matters not specially re-
lated to the subjects handled in the first and
second series, such as the annual and spe-
eial reports Of the Secretary of War, of the
General-in-Chief, and of the chiefs OF tho
several staff corps and departments. be-
sizes the calls for troops and correspond
ence between the national and State alI-
thorities. OH the Union side. While the
fourth series, CT rare interest, covers from
the Confederate side the same field as that
covered on the Union side by the third
series The first series, however, Is the piece
de resistance of the history, and consists
OF III books or parts. with provision left
open for the Insertion OF two more volumes
In the series in case additional matter that
ought to go in should be unearthed here
after The three other series all together
make up only sixteen volumes. and the
hnal index. printed in double measure in fine
type In one volume. completes the SET
Inc atlas contains IFS plates. consisting of
collection Of several hundred maps Of i'm
poftant bat,lefields Of the war routes of
Ha[ch or the armies. plans of forts. and IA
number of Photographic views OF prominent
scenes, places and objects In addition are
pidtes illustrating the marches of Sherman's
army. from 1863 to 1866: maps OF the whole
'heater OF war in current use In 1876; maps
OF The Union and Confederate military divi-
SONS and departments: specimen uniforms,
onion and Confederate, In colors. and illus
uatons Of ordnance, ordnance stores appIf-
ahces Tor the care and transportation OF sick
ana wounded. and Union and Confederate
Hags and Union corps flags.
me preliminary operations at Charleston.
. Z, and the secession of the various
soathern States occupy the first serial vol
u'ie. The second takes in Bull Run. and
otner early actions OF less Importance The
u"ru eighth. nineteenth. thirty-second and
tiaTty-third numbers concern the war in
MissoGri and adjacent States Of the West
me sixth. twentieth. forty-first. forty-sec-
ono. forty-seyenth, sixty-fifth and sixty-
siNth discuss the operations on tho South
Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Inc Battle of Shiloh and other Tenues>
see kentucky and Missouri campaigns are
detailed In serial volumes 10 and IL: the
rehlnsnlar Campaign is given In numbers
-. u and H. and the Vicksburg campaign
Al numbers q, g. So, 81 and 80. The in
.asion OF Maryland and Pennsylvania in
isoZ. eliminated in the battle of Antietam
Is SET out in parts q and Is. Morgans
RAID and numberless other raids are de-
fefioed In parts "a and IS The Gettysburg