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Excerpt from The War of the Rebellion, Vol. 1: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies The work of preparing the records of the war for public use was begun, under the resolution of Congress of May 19, 1864, by 001. E. D. Townsend, assistant adjutan't-general, U. S. Army (then in charge of the adjutant-general's Office, and subsequently the adjutant-general), who caused copies to be made of reports of battles on file in his office and steps to be taken to collect missing records. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.