Official document outlining plans for the publication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion as authorized by Act of Congress approved August 7, 1882. Prepared under the direction of Robert T. Lincoln, Secretary of War.

An anti-Jackson campaign document, comprising a reprint, with comments of the documents published in the same year as House Report no. 140, 20th Cong., 1st sess., under title: "Tennessee militiamen." The report of the House Committee on military affairs, accompanying the documents, is omitted from the reprint. The six militiamen were executed for mutiny at the close of the Creek war in 1814.