Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-06-03
3 coNFEpERATe ROLES.
information Is Wanted Regarding them
and How II Is to Be Obtained. S

and How Il Is to Be Obtained.
COL M. p. Tribble has begun work
on the Confederate rolls, which the
United States government has asked
for with a view to their, publication.
Col. Tribble invites and earnestly
solicits cooperation in the work he
has been designated to undertake
and hopes very much that those hav-
ing rolls or information such as is
sought will communicate with him.
There has been a great deal writ
ten about the p,atter and q good deal
of misunderstanding, and with view
of getting before the people the in
formation that is sought he has given
out one of the letters he has received
from Washington, in which the
exact Information which the govern
ment seeks and how it is to be OBJ
tanned is given. 1t reads as follows {:
Record and Pension Office,
War Department,
Washington City, March %, 1908.
Col. M. p. Tribble, Anderson, S.
C.--Dear Sir: The department
having been advised by Governor
Hayward on the 25th instant that he
will be glad to CO. cooperate With it in
compilation of the recently author
lied roster of the officers and men of
the Union and Confederate armies,
and that he has designated you to
confer with me relative to the details
of the work, | beg leave to submit
the following suggestions for your
consideration:
A considerable collection of the
rolls of South Carolina Confederate
organizations is now in the posses
sion of this department.. While
that collection does not by any means
show all the names of the officers
and men who were in the Confeder-
ate service from South Carolina, and
while it does not show the complete
military histories of those whose
names it does show, it is hoped that
the list of names and the histories of
individual officers and men can be
made much more nearly complete by
record evidence obtainable from
other original rolls that may now be
in the possession of the State of
South Carolina or of historical so.
cieties, memorial associations and in
dividuals of South Carolina and
other States.
The legislation authorizing the
compilation of the roster is construed
by the department to restrict it, in
making compilation, to the use of
original records made during the war
period, and to preclude the use OF
printed or manuscript copies or COM
pilations made subsequently. For
this reason and in order that there
shall be no ground for doubt as to
the accuracy of the proposed roster,
the department. will be unable to use
in the compilation any of the rosters
that have heretofore been published,
but must in all cases seek the origi-
nal records upon which those rosters
were based.
You will readily see that, in order
that the compilation now in progress
shall be as nearly complete as it is
possible to make it, it is essential
that the war department shall obtain
the temporary loan, for the purpose
OF copying, of any original official
rolls, lists or other documents that
show the names of Confederate off,
GERS and men, and that are now in
the custody of State officials, histori-
cal or memorial associations, public
or private libraries, or that are in the
possession of private citizens.
1t is impracticable for the War
to communicate with
the various holders of these scattered
records, and consequently the de-
partment must rely upon each State
to collect, by loan or otherwise, such,
records of its own or other Confede-
rate organizations as may be obtain
able within the State, and to for
ward the collection, when completed,
to this department., by which the
records will be copied and returned
to the State with the least possible
delay. Of course, express charges
incident to shipping records to and
from the State will be betrayed by
the department.
Permit me to suggest, if the plan
herein outlined meets with your ap=
proval, that you take such steps,
through the public press and other
wise, as you may deem to be advisa-
bic and proper to give the plan wide
publicity and to enable you to gather
all original Confederate records that
can be collected in your State by
loan or otherwise.
If it occurs to you that different
plan from that indicated herein
adopted, or if during the progress of
the work you can make any sugges-
tions tending to facilitate or improve
it, you will confer a favor upon the
department and myself by advising
me freely and fully with regard to
your views. Very respectfully,
b. l.. Ainsworth,
Brigadier General, United States
Army, Chief Record and Pension
Office.
Col. Tribble has already received
quite number of offers of the use
of original rolls and would like very
much to hear from any one who may
have such information as is sought.
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