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Filing correspondence, reports, records, photo's etc... alphabetically would lead to mass confusion as you would have to go back and forth as the subjects change. There is a method to the War Department filing. Subject are assigned file numbers so info of a particular subject will be close at hand in the file cabnet. Below are some of the numbers with the subject therein. I'll try to hit those that are of interest to researchers within our field of interest.
000 GENERAL
..... 000.4 Historical (Antiquities, archeological sites, curios, landmarks,
......... museums, relics, ruins)
..... 000.75 Press Clippings
... 020 WAR DEPARTMENT (Administration and Functions)
... 050 STATISTICS
... 051 Armies of the Civil War (Union & Confederate)
... 052 Battles and battle reports
... 055 Wars (Wars and insurections)
... 060 CHARTS, MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND TABLES
... 061 Maps an Mosaics
............. 061.03 Blueprints, drawings, sketches and tracings
............. 061.04 Construction and method of (coordination, data,
..................... field notes, geodetic positions projection, scales, etc)
............. 061.08 Disposition
........ 061.1 Battlefield, maneuver, and war maps
........ 061.2 Civil and Military surveys (Fortification index
................... plats, land defense surveys and maps)
... 062 Photography and photographs
........ (Same subdivisions as 061)
........ 062.1 Still (Slides prints, etc..)
........ 062.2 Motion Picture
........ 062.3 Aerial
........ 062.4 Photostating and photostates
... 063 Charts and tables
........ (Same subdivisions as 061)
100 FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
... 140 ACCOUNTING for PROPERTY, STORES, SUPPLIES, ETC...
... 141 Post and field property accounts
........ 141.5 Memorandum receipts and accounts
........ 141.6 Dropping and taking up property
........ 141.7 Shortages, losses, damaged, destroyed property
... 142 Property on hand, transferred, etc...
........ 142.1 Inventories and reports of property on hand
........ 142.2 Statements of balances on hand
........ 142.3 Property transferred
........ 142.4 Maximum and minimum quantities
300 ADMINISTRATION
... 320 Organization of the Army
........ 320.1 Laws and regulations
........ 320.2 Strength
............. 320.21 Commissioned strength
............. 320.22 Enlisted strength
........ 320.3 Table of Organization
........ 320.4 Manning tables
... 321 Arms of Service and Departments
... 322 Organizations and Tactical Units
... 323 Geographical divisions
... 325 National Guard
... 326 Reserve orgnizations
... 327 National Army
... 332 Flags, trophies & personal property
........ 332.31 Uniforms
... 334 Boards, commissions, committees, councils & missions
... 370 Employment, operation & movement of Troops
........ 370.3 Land & marine tactics
............. 370.31 Submarine mine defense
............. 370.32 Harbors and Coast Defenses
............. 370.33 Interior defense
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