by Bruce Catton
Special Collections, Wilbur J. Smith, James Mink. Charleston Library Society, Charleston, S.C., Miss Virginia Rug-
heimer.
Chicago Historical Society, Paul M. Angle, Miss Margaret Scriven.
Chicago Public Library, Gertrude Gscheidle, Herbert Hewitt, and others.
Chicago, University of, Harper Library, Robert Rosenthal. Civil War Round Tables in numerous cities and their many,
many members who always co-operate in every way possible. Cockrell, Monroe F., Evanston, 111., private collection. Concordia Teachers College Library, River Forest, 111., Albert
Huegli, Cornell J. Kusmik. Confederate Memorial Hall, New Orleans, La., Kenneth Ur-
quhart.
Confederate Memorial Literary Society, Richmond, Va., also known as Confederate Museum or White House of the Confederacy, Miss India W. Thomas, Miss Eleanor Brocken-brough.
Dallas Historical Society, Dallas, Texas.
Duke University Library, Durham, N.C., Manuscript Department, Miss Mattie Russell, Mrs. Virginia R. Gray, Miss Sarah Gray.
Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., Mrs. Charles Potter, Mrs. Thomas
Barrow. Fort Pickens, Pensacola, Fla.
Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, S.C.
Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Ga., Walter C. Hartridge,
Mrs. Lilla M. Hawes. Hanaford, G. E., Oak Park, 111., private collection. Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass., W.
H. Bond.
Harvard University, Widener Library, Cambridge, Mass. Haverlin, Carl, New York, private collection. Heiskell, J. N., Little Rock, Ark., private collection, Mrs. Margaret Ross.
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif., John E. Pomfret, Allan Nevins, Norma B. Cuthbert, Mary Isabel Fry, Gertrude Ruhnka, Helen Mangold, and many others.
Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, 111., Clyde Walton,
Margaret Flint, James Hickey, Howard Rissler, and others. Johnston, J. Ambler, Richmond, Va., private collection. Lebold, Mrs. Foreman M., Chicago, 111., private collection. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., David C. Mearns, C.
Percy Powell, Willard Webb, Roy Basler, John J. de Porry,
and many others. Lincoln Memorial University, Dept. of Lincolniana, Harrogate,
Tenn., the late Robert Kincaid, William Taylor, Wayne C
Temple.
Lincoln National Life Foundation, Fort Wayne, Ind., R. Gerald
McMurtry, Louis Warren. Little Rock University, Little Rock, Ark.
Louisiana State Dept. of Archives, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, La., Virgil Bedsole. Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, Va., Francis Wil-
shin.
Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, Brady Memorial Library, Purchase, N.Y., Rev. Mother E. Mulqueen, Mother Eleanor O'Byrne, Mother Gertrude Buck.
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Md., Francis C. Haber.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass., Stephen T. Riley, Miss Winifred Collins, Warren Wheeler, Malcom Freiberg.
Meine, Franklin J., Chicago, 111., private collection.
Mercantile Library, St. Louis, Mo., Clarence E. Miller.
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass., Miss Agnes Scanlon.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Massachusetts Commandery, Boston, Mass., Preston Lincoln.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa., Mrs. Stephanie Benko.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Miss., Miss Charlotte Capers.
Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo., Charles van Ravens-waay, Mrs. Francis Stadler, Mrs. Ellen Harris, Mrs. Brenda R. Gieseker.
Museum of the City of New York, Philip Rees. National Archives, Washington, D.C., Dallas Irvine, Victor Gondos and others.
Nevins, Allan, Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., private collection.
Newberry Library, Chicago, Stanley Pargellis, Ben C. Bowman.
In addition to their invaluable library, an office was graciously
provided the Director of Research. Newman, Ralph, Chicago, private collection. New York Historical Society, New York. New York Public Library, Manuscript Division. Northwestern University Library, Evanston, 111., Robert Harvey,
Felix Pollak.
Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, 111., Lester Stoffel. Oberlin College Library, Oberlin, Ohio. Owen, Charles Norton, Chicago, 111., private collection. Peacock, John R., High Point, N.C., private collection. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg,
Pa., S. K. Stevens, Sanford W. Higginbotham, Henry Eddy,
Miss Martha L. Simonetti, Frank Evans. Pennsylvania, The Historical Society of, Philadelphia, Pa., R. N.
Williams II.
Princeton University Library, Manuscript Division, Princeton, N.J., Alexander P. Clark.
Rochester, University of, Rush Rhees Library, Rochester, N.Y., Dept. of Special Collections, Miss Margaret E. Butterfield, Mrs. Evelyn Yost.
The Philip H. & A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa., William McCarthy.
Russell, Don, Elmhurst, 111., private collection.
Sang, Philip D., and Elsie O., River Forest, 111., private collection.
Seward, Wm. H., Home, The Foundation Historical Association, Inc., Auburn, N.Y.
Shedd, Charles, Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., private collection.
Sinnott, James Butterfield III, New Orleans, La., private collection.
Smith, Ray D., Chicago, private collection.
South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, S.C., Samuel G.
Stoney, Mrs. Gertrude T. Prior. Southern California, University of, Los Angeles, Calif., Lloyd
Arvidson, Helen Azhderian. Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina
Library, Chapel Hill, N.C., James Patton, Mrs. Carolyn
Wallace.
Stanford University Library, Palo Alto, Calif., Julius Barclay. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tenn., William
T. Alderson, Jr., Mrs. Isabelle Howell, Mrs. Frank Owsley, Mrs. Gertrude Parsley, Robert T. Quarles, Daniel M. Robison. Texas State Archives, Austin, Tex., Dorman H. Winfrey, Mrs. Mary Osburn.
Tufts University, Eaton Library, Medford, Mass., Joseph S.
Komidor, Miss Hilda F. Harris. Tulane University, Dept. of Archives, New Orleans, La., Mrs.
Connie Griffith. Turner, Justin G., Los Angeles, Calif., private collection. Valentine Museum, Richmond, Va., Edward Davis, Mrs. Ralph
Caterall, Miss Elizabeth Dance. Virginia State Historical Society, Richmond, Va., John M. Jennings, Howson W. Cole, James A. Fleming, Wm. M. E. Rachal. Virginia State Library, Richmond, Va„ Randolph W. Church,
William J. Van Schreeven, John W. Dudley, Marvin D. Evans. Virginia, University of, Alderman Library, Manuscript Division,
Charlottesville, Va., Robert Stocking. Waitt, Robert J., Richmond, Va., private collection. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, William P.
Palmer Collection and regular collection, Meredith B. Colket,
Jr., Mrs. Alene Lowe White, Mrs. Mary Ruth Russell. Wisconsin, State Historical Society of, Manuscript Division,
Clifford Lord, Leslie Fischel, Mrs. Josephine Harper. Yale University Library, Historical Manuscripts Division, New
Haven, Conn., Howard Barnard Gottlieb, Miss Marjorie Gray
Wynne.
SECTION H: Manuscript Collections
This lists the primary manuscript collections used as sources. It includes only the major collections which were consulted; individual documents which were referred to are cited separately in the footnotes.
Diary of Charles F. Adams, Jr., Massachusetts Historical Society. Alcorn Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
E. P. Alexander Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Col. William Allan Collection, Southern Hi
storical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Robert Anderson Papers, Miscellaneous Letters, New York Public Library.
Robert Anderson Papers, Library of Congress.
Robert Anderson Retirement Hearing Notebooks, Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Robert Anderson Letters, the A. Conger Goodyear Collection, Yale University Library.
Mrs. Robert Anderson, Account of Visit to Fort Sumter, as recorded by Benson J. Lossing, the A. Conger Goodyear Collection, Yale University Library.
John A. Andrew Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
Isaac N. Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, extra illustrated, Huntington Library.
Nathaniel Banks Papers, Essex Institute Library, Salem, Mass.
Francis Channing Barlow Papers, Massachuetts Historical Society.
S. L. M. Barlow Papers, Huntington Library.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, extra illustrated, Huntington Library.
Beauregard Letters, Palmer Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland.
Beauregard Papers, Library of Congress.
P. G. T. Beauregard Papers, Duke University Library.
Letters of P. G. T. Beauregard, A. Conger Goodyear Collection, Yale University Library
Letters of Asa Beethan, Library of Congress.
Diary of Berry Greenwood Benson, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
John Milton Binckley Papers, Library of Congress.
Jeremiah Sullivan Black Papers, Library of Congress.
Papers of Francis P. Blair, Jr., Library of Congress.
Letters of Montgomery Blair, A. Conger Goodyear Collection, Yale University Library.
Papers of the Blair Family, Library of Congress.
Blair-Lee Papers, Princeton University Library.
Letters of Mrs. John Boyle, Library of Congress.
Bradlee and Sears: Letters to and from the South; Palmer Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society.
Braxton Bragg Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo.
Braxton Bragg, letters to his wife, Library of Congress.
Mrs. Braxton Bragg, letters to her husband, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas.
Thomas Bragg Diary, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Felix Brannigan Letters, Library of Congress.
Mason Brayman Collection, Chicago Historical Society.
John C. Breckinridge Papers, Chicago Historical Society. James O. Broadhead Papers, Missouri Historical Society. Campbell Brown, Notes, Tennessee State Library and Archives. G. Campbell Brown, Papers, Huntington Library. John Brown Diary, the J. N. Heiskell Collection, Little Rock, Ark.
John Brown Papers, Chicago Historical Society.
Joseph E. Brown Papers, Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
James Buchanan, Miscellaneous President File, New York Public Library.
James Buchanan Papers, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pa. James Buchanan Papers, Library of Congress. James Buchanan Papers, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission, Division of Public Records, Harrisburg, Pa. James Buchanan Letter, Andre de Coppet Collection, Princeton
University Library. John T. Buegel Diary, the J. N. Heiskell Collection, Little Rock,
Ark.
Sullivan Bullen Letters, Chicago Historical Society. J. Howard Burnham Letters, the J. N. Heiskell Collection, Little Rock, Ark.
William Butler Papers, Chicago Historical Society. R. K. Call Letters, Huntington Library. Papers of Simon Cameron, Library of Congress. George Washington Campbell Papers, Library of Congress. John A. Campbell Letters, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
John A. Campbell Manuscript, Confederate Memorial Literary Society, Richmond, Va.
John A. Campbell Letters, the A. Conger Goodyear Collection, Yale University Library.
Campbell-Colston Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Richard L. Campbell Letters, Mississippi State Department of Archives and History.
Anna Ella Carroll Papers, Maryland Historical Society.
Charleston, S.C., Board of Health, Daily Meteorological Observations, National Archives.
Chase Collections, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Col. W. H. Chase Papers, Palmer Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society.
Col. A. R. Chisholm, Journal of Events before and during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Palmer Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society.
Civil War Letters, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas.
Civil War Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo.
C. C. Clay Papers, Duke University Library.
Sherrard Clemens Letters, Western Reserve Historical Society.
T. R. R. Cobb Letters, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Diary kept by William T. Coggeshall as military secretary to Governor Dennison; Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, JJ1. Gift of Mrs. Foreman M. Lebold.
Comments of Gen. Jacob D. Cox on "McClellan's Own Story," from Cox's copy of the McClellan Book in the Oberlin College Library, Oberlin, Ohio.
Letterbook of the Commission Appointed for the Manufacture and Purchase of Arms and Munitions of War; for the Virginia State Legislature; Huntington Library.
Confederate Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas.
Jay Cooke Collection, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Abel H. Crawford Letters, Tennessee State Library and Archives.
Samuel W. Crawford Papers, A. Conger Goodyear Collection, Yale University Library.
Letters of John Crittenden, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas.
Caleb Cushing Correspondence, Nevins' Notes.
Charles A. Dana Papers, Duke University Library.
Richard Henry Dana and Family Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
C. C. Danley Letters, J. N. Heiskell Collection, Little Rock, Ark. David Davis Papers, Illinois State Historical Library. Jefferson Davis Papers, Duke University Library. Jefferson Davis Papers, Palmer Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society.
Jefferson Davis Postwar Manuscripts, Confederate Memorial Hall,
New Orleans, La. Jefferson Davis Letter, Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa. Jefferson Davis Letter, Nevins' Notes.
Jefferson Davis Letter, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Davis and Beauregard; A. Conger Goodyear Collection, Yale
University Library. Eugene Delano Notes, Nevins' Notes.
Wilmot Gibbes DeSaussure, Order Book; Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Stephen A. Douglas Papers, Chicago Historical Society.
Stephen A. Douglas Papers, Illinois State Historical Society.
Stephen A. Douglas Letter, Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Collection.
Charles D. Drake mss. autobiography, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.
Paul Pecquet Du Bellet, typed mss., The Diplomacy of the Confederate Cabinet of Richmond and its Agents Abroad, being memorandum notes taken in Paris during the Rebellion of the Southern States from 1861 to 1865; Library of Congress.
Thomas Haines Dudley Papers, Huntington Library.
W. T. Duganne, mss. The Story of the Confederate Navy.
James B. Eads Papers, Missouri Historical Society.
Eldridge Collection, Huntington Library.
Ellsworth Papers, Chicago Historical Society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson mss. remarks, Sumner Autographs, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
David C. Williams Papers, the Clara Bertha Eno Collection, Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, Ark.
Letters of Chesley D. Evans, 1860-1861, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
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Edward Everett Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
Ewing Family Papers, Library of Congress. Letters of A. B. Fairfax, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas.
James Fenton Recollections, Western Reserve Historical Society.
Recollections of C. D. Fishburne, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Letters of G. V. Fox, the A. Conger Goodyear Collection, Yale.
W. B. Franklin Papers, Library of Congress.
Joseph Gillespie Papers, Chicago Historical Society.
Gilpin Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California.
Political Associates of Abraham Lincoln, the A. Conger Goodyear Collection, Historical Manuscripts Division, Yale.
Thomas J. Goree Papers, Louisiana State University Department of Archives, Baton Rouge, La.
Robert N. Gourdin Papers, Duke University Library.
U. S. Grant Papers, Huntington Library.
U. S. Grant Letters, Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia.
Justice Horace Gray Papers, Library of Congress.
William Granville Gray Letters, Valentine Museum, Richmond.
Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers, Manuscript Department, Duke University Library.
Diary of John Berkley Grimball, South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, S.C.
Groner Collection, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
George Harrington Papers, Missouri Historical Society.
A. C. Haskell Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Frank A. Haskell Papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
O. M. Hatch Papers, Illinois State Historical Library.
Gary W. Hazleton, mss. Abraham Lincoln, Edward S. Bragg Papers, Palmer Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society.
Samuel Heintzelman Diary, Library of Congress.
Anson G. Henry Papers, Illinois State Historical Library.
Governor Hicks Papers, Maryland Historical Society.
John Lyon Hill Diary, Virginia State Historical Society.
Joseph Holt Letter, A. Conger Goodyear Collection, Yale University Library.
Jed Hotchkiss Papers, Library of Congress.
R. M. T. Hunter Papers, Alderman Library, University of Virginia.
Irregular Books, 1861-1865; Registers of Letters Received, Record Group 107, Inventory 38; National Archives, War Records, Old Army.
