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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
by the
US War Dept.
This massive 128 volume work is a collection of official military documents from the American Civil War,
from both the Union and Confederate armies. Although the full title is “The War of the Rebellion: A
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies”, it is known to anyone who’s
ever done research in the ACW as simply the OR. The compilation was authorized by act of Congress in
1874, but is completion was the work of many years. Although this collection deals only with the armies,
there was a second collection made for the navies, called the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (known as the ORN). Praise for the OR is superfluous:
it is THE essential source for research on the war.
HTML (English – very partial – Series I, Vol.
1-9,50, Series II, Vol 1-5, Series III, Vol. 1.).
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Atlas to Accompany the Official Records
by the
US War Dept.
The documents being published as the official records were frequently accompanied by maps and other
images that could not be printed as in the OR volumes proper due to their physical size and the need for
color printing. To accomodate these materials, an over-size full-color Atlas was also prepared. This Atlas,
formally titled the "Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies",
contained over 1000 maps and other images. Almost all of the maps were drawn up during the war itself
by the participants, although some general images are pre-war and some others were drawn up for historical
purposes after the war was over. Important Note: Map pages are numbered using Roman Numerals
(I, II, III, etc.)
Scanned (complete).
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