ABBREVIATIONS

ALPLC

Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html

AP

The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/

CA

Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress, http://www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

CSAA

Confederate States of America Archives, Library of Congress; previously known as the Pickett Papers

CWAL

The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, 8 vols., Abraham Lincoln Association, online at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/

FRUS

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1861–65, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/FRUS

LoC

Library of Congress

NYPL

New York Public Library

NYT

New York Times: all references are to online archives, http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/

OR

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC: GPO, 1880–1901), DVD (Guild Press of Indiana, 2002)

ORN

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (Washington, DC: GPO, 1922), DVD (Guild Press of Indiana, 2002)

RG 59

Record Group 59: diplomatic and consular correspondence, microfilm collection, National Archives and Records Administration, NARA II, College Park, MD; foreign country names indicate US ministries; foreign city names indicate US consulates

SP

Henry S. Sanford Papers, Sanford Public Library, Sanford, FL