Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.

Confederate archives at Washington.

We published in the November number of the Papers so full an account of our relations with the “Archive Bureau,” and our efforts to obtain access to the documents, &c., on file there, that little need be said here concerning it. We continue to receive from General Townsend and his subordinates every kindness and courtesy, and our arrangements for the exchange of papers are entirely satisfactory.

It will be readily seen that this access to the “Record office,” while it greatly increases our facilities for obtaining the material for a true history of the war, will impose upon us additional work, and at the same time render it more desirable that our friends should furnish us increased means for copying and publishing the records for the use of the future historian.