Series 3 Correspondence, orders, reports and returns of the Union authorities, embracing their correspondence with the Confederate officials, not relating especially to the subjects of the 1stĪnd 2d series. Series 2 Correspondence, orders, reports and returns, Union and Confederate, relating to prisoners of war and, so far as the military authorities were concerned, to state or political prisoners. According to this plan, 4 series were issued as follows: Series 1 Formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating especially thereto. Under Colonel Scott, the work was systematized and the plan finally adopted which has been carried on throughout the entire set know as the Official records. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1990. From War and Conflict: Selected Images from the At that time, 47 of the 79 volumes, later known as "preliminary prints" (W45.9:) had been compiled and 30 copies of each had been printed.
Scott, later lieutenant-colonel, was detailed to take charge of the work.
406)." Other acts followed from time to time, and the work was carried on in a more or less desultory fashion until December 14, 1877, when Captain Robert N.
"The matter of publishing the official records of the Civil War seems to have been considered by Congress as early as (Stat.
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