Excerpt from The Record of News, History and Literature, Vol. 1: June 18, 1863 December 10, 1863 There is an officer at Gen. Hooker's head quarters, charged with the duty of compiling statistics and information from newspapers and other Confederate sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.