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On July 31, 1894, the sum of US$15,000 was authorized for printing the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies, the first in a long series of Congressional appropriations provided annually until 1915. Compilation of the OR was begun in the Library soon after its organization, and was definitely appropriated for by act of July 7, 1884. The work of preparing for publication of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, which was begun 7 July 1884, was organized under the superintendency of Professor James Russell Soley, United States Navy, at that time librarian of the Navy Department, afterwards Assistant Secretary of the Navy. History Origins Professor James Russell Soley It includes selected first-hand accounts, orders, reports, maps, diagrams, and correspondence drawn from official records of both Union and Confederate navies. The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, commonly known as the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies or Official Records ( OR or ORs), is the most extensive collection of American Civil War naval records available to the general public. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion Country