Official Records of the Union & Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Series I - Volume 5 Operations on the Potomac & Rappahannock Rivers, From December 7, 1861, to July 31, 1865. -Atlantic Blockading Squadron, From April 4 to July 15, 1861. jmc Civil War

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1897. First Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed levi-blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xxi, 916, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... "Unfortunately, most of the Confederate Navy Department records were lost during the burning of Richmond. Union Navy Department records were preserved, but not until 1884 was work begun by Navy Department librarian, later Assistant Secretary of the Navy, James R. Soley to collect and publish. Intending to partially replace missing reports, many personal narratives were collected and included, often gaining Navy researchers incidental access to draft copies of original reports once thought lost. The official title of publication is Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. ... Series I Records of all naval operations including all inland waterways Series II Records relating to statistics and condition of both forces at the outset of conflict, returns of captured materials, and records of naval prisoners of war A proposed third series was deemed unnecessary; the final volume of series two was published in 1922. The Navy Department did not publish a comprehensive index to these volumes". (-Wiki)