Library Jewel #3: Official records of Union, Confederate armies
(Image courtesy of Washington State Library) The third and final State Library Jewel for May is timely since the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War was recognized this spring: official records of the Union and Confederate armies, as found in the United States Congressional Serial Set. Here is an excerpt regarding the two-volume atlas from which the Gettysburg map shown above is found: “The atlas of the Official records consists of maps of battlefields, cities and their…