Description: This 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 I, Volume XXVII -- Operations in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Department of the East, June 3 - August 3, 1863. Part I -- The Gettysburg Campaign -- Reports Published in 1889, this massive volume is three inches thick and 1,164 pages long. It is in its original black cloth binding, with gilt lettering on the spine. The book is in excellent condition, showing very little wear at all, and with its binding firm. Covering the Civil Wars most consequential battle, this is one of the most desirable of all the volumes in the Official Records series. The book is devoted to coverage of the Gettysburg phase of the Civil War. Besides a great amount of material on the Battle of Gettysburg itself, the book includes troop movements leading up to the Battle, plus its aftermath. It features 378 Union Reports on "The Gettysburg Campaign," in their full, original text. The authors of these Reports include Generals Meade, Kilpatrick, Pleasanton, Hooker, Geary, Hancock, Slocum, Buford, Doubleday, Sykes, Sedgwick, and Gregg. 7 pages are devoted to Reports written by Gen. George Armstrong Custer about his actions surrounding Gettysburg; and there are interesting Reports on the Campaign by many lesser officers below the rank of General, with these Colonels, Majors, Lieutenants, and Captains offering different and valuable firsthand viewpoints of their own on Gettysburg. There is also a battle map on page 915; and over 20 pages of charts of Union casualties, with breakdowns by Army units, and lists of over 200 hundred U.S. officers killed in the Battle. Besides all these official reports, there are also many battlefield letters from Meade, and other orders and correspondence related to the overall Campaign. All in all, it is one of the most desirable volumes in the entire Official Records series, dealing as it does in such depth on the most crucial battle of the entire Civil War. ************************ Background 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. [p4249] _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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