Letters received by the Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General, 1861-1865.
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| Language: | English |
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Washington [District of Columbia] :
National Archives & Records Administration,
1963.
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| Series: | National Archives microfilm publications ;
M0474. |
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| Format: | Monograph Note that CRL will digitize material from the collection when copyright allows. |
Table of Contents:
- Letters received in the Office of the Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General were endorsed on the back or on a separate cover sheet with the name of the writer, the place from which the letter was sent, the date of the letter, its purpose, and the date received. This information was also copied in a register of letters received, and a file number assigned from the register was written above the endorsement on the back of the letter in the style 'M 537.' Sometimes comments or instructions for drafting a reply were also written on the back of a letter. Many letters already contained endorsements that had been written in the headquarters of Army field commands or in the bureaus of the War Department through which they had passed"
- Introd.
- The letters are arranged first by year, then alphabetically by the initial letter of the writer's surname or office, and thereunder numerically in the order of their entry in the registers of letters received. Letters from writers whose surnames began with 'I' and 'J' were filed separately until June 1862. Beginning in July 1862, the 'I' and 'J' letters were entered together in the registers and numbered in a single series. Sometimes several letters relating to the same subject were brought together in a consolidation after having been entered and numbered separately in the registers. Cross-reference cards show the file number of the consolidation. Some letters were entered in the registers under both the name of the writer and the names of persons mentioned in the letter. Cross- reference cards show the file numbers of such letters"
- Introd.
- "Many letters that were received in the Office of the Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General and entered in the registers are no longer in the series. When the series was being examined in the U.S. War Department, a preliminary survey showed that there were few letters for 1861 and none for the periods July to October 1862 and January to June 1863. A few letters for these last two periods are now in the series. In this microcopy the file numbers refer to both letters and cross-reference cards, but the dates shown are only for letters that are still in the series"
- Introd.
- "The absence of some letters can be explained in several ways. The registers show that many letters were forwarded to other Confederate offices for action or were returned to the senders with endorsements written on them in place of letters of reply. Also, while the records were in the custody of the U.S. War Department, some letters were removed and placed in other series
- especially in the compiled military service records of Confederate soldiers. These service records have been reproduced in a number of separate microfilm publications of the National Archives. The cross-reference cards inserted in place of these letters contain the notation 'Filed with personal papers' and give the name and organization of the soldier and the subject of the letter. Many other letters relating to Confederate soldiers are still in the original series. Some letters or their enclosures were refiled with orders, returns, and muster rolls. The cross-reference cards in place of the letters so removed show the organization from which the letter came, the type, date, and subject of the document, and the series in which it was refiled"
- Introd.