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CIVIL WAR RECS, 1894 - TEXAS Surrender; Missouri; LINCOLN & slaves; E. TennesseeThis is a volume from the monumental series titled WAR OF THE REBELLION --- OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES.This particular volume is:
Series II, Volume I -- 1. The Texas Surrender (104 pages)
2. Earlier Captures and Arrests, and Measures of Pacification in Missouri (458 pages)
3. Union Policy of Repression in Maryland (185 pages)
4. Military Treatment of Captured and Fugitive Slaves (73 pages)
5. Confederate Policy of Repression in East Tennessee (108 pages)Published in 1894, this volume is 1,044 pages long. It measures 6 x 9 inches in size. It is an original printing of the book, but it has been rebound, with its original covers replaced by an attractive black pebbled binding which is in Fine condition, with gold lettering embossed on the spine. The interior is in excellent condition, with its binding very firm and tight. As noted in the chapter titles shown above, this volume covers a wide array of topics, although they are mostly more political in nature, than being directly involved with any battles or fighting between the Union and Confederate armies. There is a good deal on POWs, and on 80 Military Commission cases in Missouri, in which some list direct testimony concerning traitorous charges. There is a 9-page habeas corpus ruling by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, plus 38 communications concerning bridge-burners, marauders, etc. The chapter on East Tennessee has material on the famous case of Parson Brownlow, while the chapter on Maryland includes coverage of the Baltimore riots at the start of the Civil War; plus memoranda on 28 members of the Maryland legislature who were arrested for disloyalty to the Union. There is an interesting chapter dealing with issues surrounding fugitive slaves. This includes a proclamation by Abraham Lincoln on May 19, 1862, disavowing a May 9th order by Gen. David Hunter which had decreed that all slaves in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina were now free. This was four months before Lincoln\'s own Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which was put into effect at the start of 1863. This is one of 3 proclamations by Lincoln in the volume, and he is also represented by 27 letters he sent or received. Jeff Davis also is represented often in the book, while these are the most prominent Generals under them who show up frequently here: John C. Fremont; U.S. Grant; Leonidas Polk; Nathaniel Banks; John Pope; John Dix; and Henry on this series: Authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1874 and printed by the War Department, the labor involved in gathering and publishing the “Official Records” of the Civil War took almost 30 years. The first volume was printed in 1880, and succeeding volumes were issued periodically for the next two decades. By the time it was completed in 1902, this awesome work comprised 128 volumes in all. Consisting entirely of original source material, the Official Records are an invaluable and authoritative aid to Civil War researchers. [gsp6147]_gsrx_vers_1736 (GS 9.9.5 (1736))
