Excerpt from The National Almanac and Annual Record: For the Year 1863 In addition to the precaution taken by the pnbhsher to secure reliability in this rupeut, he has hiss; endeavored in like manner to bring the facts 'down to the date of going to press. The statistics of preceding almanacs have generally been from six to twelve months behindhand, ' chiefly because their editors have been 00t to await the tardy publication by Congress of 0mm documents and reports; whereas in the present case, upon application to various depart ments of the Government, we have been kindly enabled to avail ourselves of the manuscript sources of information. 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.