From every department of the Government, from the officers ot thearmy, and from a great number of custodians of records and specialinformation everywhere, both authors and publishers have receivedevery aid that could be asked in this undertaking; and in announcingthe issue of the work the publishers take this occasion to convey thethanks which the authors have had individual opportunities to expresselsewhere.

The volumes of the series will be duodecimos of about 250pages each, illustrated by maps and plans prepared underthe direction of the authors. They will appear, as far aspossible, in the chronological order of the Campaigns ofwhich they treat; and by their preliminary and concludingchapters will be so far connected that the completed workwill practically cover the entire field of the war.

The price of each volume will be $1.00.

The following volumes are now ready :

I. —THE OUTBREAK OF REBELLION. By John G. Nicolay

, Esq., Private Secretary to President Lincoln; lateConsul-General to France , etc.

A preliminary volume, describing the opening of the war, and covering theperiod from the election o. Lincoln to the end of the first battle of Bull Run.

II, —FROM FORT HENRY TO CORINTH. By the Hon.

M. F. Force, Justice of the Superior Court, Cincinnati ; lateBrigadier-General and Bvt. Maj. Gen’l, U.S.V., commandingFirst Division, 17th Corps: in 1862, Lieut . Colonel of the20th Ohio , commanding the regiment at Shiloh; Treasurer ofthe Society of the Army of the Tennessee.

The narrative of events in the West from the Summer of i86t to May. 1862:covering the capture ofFts. Henry and Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, etc., etc.