Excerpt from The Confederate States Almanac, and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1863, Vol. 2: Being the Third Year of the Independence of the Confederate States of America The financial resources of individual States were taken from the last Reports. Much valuable inf01 mation has been compiled from the United States census of 1860, uhich 11 ill be found exceedingly interesting at the present time. The Ast1onomical calculations, &c., have been prepared by Thomas P. Ashmore, of Georgia. The calculations will be found full and accurate. In a work like this, designed to embrace so much variety of matter, there. Is no doubt some errors. The compiler would be under obligations to the patrons of the work for any valuable hints, communications or correction of errors, or improvements in the Almanac. Address the publisher. 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.