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No Binding. Condizione: Good. John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War; I. M. St. John, Col. & Chief of Bureau. COMMUNICATION FROM SECRETARY OF WAR. War Department, C. S. A., Richmond, Feb. 14, 1865 [conveying information relative to the number of iron furnaces and forges worked by agents of the government or by contractors, during the year 1864; transmitted by a] MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT Feb. 15, 1865. House of Representatives, Feb. 17, 1865.--Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. (By the Chair.). 15pp Thread-bound pamphlet (thread is original and intact), largely unopened signatures, title leaf bears the oval Rebel Archives stamp (only partly legible); somewhat toned with mild edgewear and minute curlings, good to very good. Includes 5 pages of tables (i.e., "cost per ton of pig, bloom and bar iron" and a long list of "Contractors, Name of Works, County, State," also brief "Remarks" such as "Destroyed by enemy"). Please email with questions or to request photos. This Confederate Imprint is one of more than 100 recently acquired, most with 'Rebel Archives' stamp on the cover, indicating that these were the actual copies seized by the Union Army at the end of the Civil War. A remarkable collection.…