Bates, Diary
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866. Ed. Howard K. Beale. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1933.
B&L
Johnson, Robert U., and Clarence C. Buell, eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. 4 vols. Edison, NJ: Castle, 1995.
Browning, Diary
The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning. Ed. Theodore C. Pease. 2 vols. Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925.
Chase, Diaries Inside Lincoln’s Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase. Ed. David Donald. New York: Longmans, Green, 1954.
CWL
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Ed. Roy P. Basler. 8 vols. Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association; New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
Davis Papers
The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Ed. Lynda Lasswell Crist, Mary Seaton Dix, and Kenneth H. Williams. 11 vols. to date. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1979–.
Grant Papers
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Ed. John Y. Simon. 31 vols. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967–2009.
Hay, Diary
Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay. Ed. Michael Burlingame and John R. T. Ettlinger. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.
Lee’s Dispatches
Lee’s Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862–65. Ed. Douglas Southall Freeman and Grady McWhiney. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1957.
McClellan Papers
The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860–1865. Ed. Stephen W. Sears. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1989.
Messages and Papers
The Messages and Papers of Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy Including Diplomatic Correspondence, 1861–1865. Ed. James D. Richardson. 2 vols. New York: Chelsea House, 1966.
OR
U.S. Congress. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 128 vols. Washington: GPO, 1880–1901. Version on CD-ROM: The Civil War CD-ROM. Ed. Phillip Oliver. Carmel: Guild Press of Indiana, 1996–2000.
ORN
U.S. Congress. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. 30 vols. Washington, DC: GPO, 1894–1922.
ORS
Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Ed. Jane B. Hewitt et al. 100 vols. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot, 1994–1999.
Sherman’s Civil War
Sherman’s Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860–1865. Ed. Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Wartime Papers
The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee. Ed. Clifford Dowdey and Louis H. Manarin. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.
Welles, Diary
The Diary of Gideon Welles. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1911.