The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
CONFEDERATE ROSTER
Can. Ainsworth, of War De-
oartment, Outlines Plan.
o..,osI Documents Must be Sent to Washing
tor---State Auditor Dixon Urges
Prompt Action.
r5jtor Dixon yesterday received

Prompt Action.
e..ts suditor Dixon yesterday received
allowing letter from Gen. F. c..
r,~rh chief Of the Record and Pen
office. War Department, Washing
ION.
.-, acknowledging the receipt of your
,s,.t,s 5he 18th inst, l beg to express
~r~iFcation of the department at
s.gtial assurance Of cooperation
- the effort to make the recently
.lsd roster Of the officers and men
. the Union and Confederate armies as
,..~,v complete as it is possible to make
. far as North Carolina troops are
.. considerable collection of the rolls
North Carolina Confederate organiza-
-..s is now in the possession Of this
.~ruent. While the collection does not
-uv means show all the names of the
.ra..r. and men who were in the Con-
..-.te service from North Carolina. and
...L IL does not show the complete mil
...r. histories of those whose names it
a.a- show. it is hoped that the list of
-amae and the histories of individual
.farare ard mon can be made more nearly
r~.-rlat" by record violence obtainable
t~an. other original rolls that may o
Ia. II. The possession of the State of North
carolina. or Of historical societies., me
mortal associations and individuals of
Nr,th Carolina and other States.
~ .-sr51+;o- o,Ihori1;rr Tho on,
station of the roster is construed by
+r. DEPARTMENT to restrict it, in making
-rs compilation. TO the use of original
records made during the war period, and
40 preclude the use IF the printed or
manuscript copies or compilations made
subsequently,. For this reason and in or
der that there shall be no ground fol
doubt as to the accuracy of the proposed
roster. the department will be unable tt
use in the compilation any of the rosters
that have heretofore been published, but
must IT. sill cases seek the original rec
rras upon which those rosters are based
"You Will readily see that, in order
that the compilation now in progress shall
he as nearly perfect as it is possible to
make it, it is essential that the Wal
nanartment shall obtain in the temporary
loan for the purpose of copying, OF
any original official rolls, lists o. other
that show the names OF oCn-
fassrate officers n men and that are
row in the custody Of State officials, his
tarical or memorial associations, pubilt
on private libraries, or that are IN th'
POSSESSION Of private citizens.
III is impracticable for the War De
pertinent to communicate with the Va
r:ols holders of these scattered records
and consequently the department mus
-ffv upon each state to collect by loan
rr otherwise. such records Of its own OF
other Confederate organizations as ma.
he obtainable within the State, and Il
toward the collection when completed u
this department. by which the recorda
MY he copied and returned to the Stat
with the least possible delay. or cours'
tho axnress charges incident to shipping
records to and from the State Will D
betrayed by the department.
.,Permft me to suggest, if the pla'
herein outlined meets with your approval
that YOU take such steps, through IN
-lb1ic press and otherwise, as you deer
To- Ire advisable and proper to give IN
Man wide publicity, and to enable Fo
Ito gather together all origlnal CON
f.f,rato records that can be collected l
rg-r state bv loan or otherwise.
IF it occurs to you hat a dlfteren
rlan from that indicated herein shoul
BE- adopted. or if during the progress !
The work you can make any suggeSllo
-.oifng to facilitate or improve IT, ~
Viii confer a favor upon the department
an5 myself by advising me freely "h
uIlv with regard 90 your views
DR.. Dixon urges that all lnfofl1allol
documents. etc, be sent as replaaly {
POSSIBLE to him, so that he can lol"al
them to the War Department. re ais
REQUESTS that General AinsWorth s letl'
he coDied by the newspapers OF the stat
aa has written to Major J. w. Moore
reweIsviIle. Berthe county, II VIII .
him on the 9th of April. 1t Will De r
uanbared that Major Moore printed l
u.-t volume OF his roster in 1882. a gre
deal Of his information was derived ITO
Major James ". Foote's Roll OF homo
which was written by hand on olal
hooks that ran the blockade from Ell
land during the Civil War.
Ir. Dixon expressed himself yeSIeIu'
.s.Ictrg in hearty accord with the plf
as c.tlincd by General AinsWorth'