Mr. WILSON. Yes, sir; all the reports. Then there are several hundred maps that accompanied these reports. It will not be necessary to publish all those maps in order to illustrate the work, because many of them are almost duplicates ofothers. You want a revising mind over the whole. Whoever is to do this work should have some help, and I suppose the Dept may detail clerks under him to do that kind of work. The work has to be done now in the Dept. Then there is another thing about it, and I am rather surprised at it. It would seem reasonable that whatever concerned one portion of the country or one army GenlSherman s army for instance, in its movements and marches, all the public papers and telegraphic dispatches and reports in regard to it should all go together because they illustrate each other; and so with the army of the Potomac; and so with all the other great military movements. Under the old resolution, the tele graphic dispatches and the reports are to be published separately, so that in order to understand them one has to read all these works. Then there is to be no INDEX to the volumes until they are completed and then a general INDEX for the whole. Every volume should be INDEXed, and the subjects should be divided into their properDepts, so that any person wishing to learn about any of the movements of any of the armies under any of the generals would have it at his finger ends, all perfect. with the telegraphic ispatchcs, reports, and maps, and an INDEX for the whole. Now, sir, this is a simple proposition that some person shall be employedlly the SecyWar, at an annual sa ary of $2.500, for 2 years, to supervise and arrange this work. I believe it Will save 1/3rd of the expense that would otherwise be incurred under the present plan. If it is carried on under the plan already ordered, the work will cost from $500,000 to $750,000. I believe that the expenditure of his $6,000 will not only make this work such a one as we ought to have, if it is put in the care of a competent man, but it W1 1 save $150,000 or $200,000. I have not a doubt of that.