Excerpt from Donelson Campaign Sources: Supplementing Volume 7 of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion
In introducing critical historical study, which has for the past six years formed an important part of the Staff College course, into the Army School of the Line course, the Donelson campaign has been chosen for a number of reasons, among which might be mentioned that: the forces dealt with on both sides are relatively small; the sources are contained, so far as the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion are concerned, in a single volume or nearly so, and the student has here of necessity to find his own way through the sources to the facts since there has not yet been written on this campaign any secondary work of sufficient value to constitute a guide.
Yet there are considerable important data outside Volume 7 of the Official Records which are essential to an understanding of this campaign, but which are scattered through many volumes which it would take the student a long time to find and of which the Service Schools library does not contain enough copies for the common use of the class. The present volume has been compiled by Captain Conger to meet the situation by supplementing the reports and correspondence found in Volume 7 by reports and correspondence found elsewhere, newspaper articles, private letters, regimental histories, memoirs, and recollections of participants.
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