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Abbreviated Titles

AHR

American Historical Review

Battles and Leaders

Clarence C. Buel and Robert U. Johnson, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 4 vols. (New York, 1888)

CG

Congressional Globe

CWH

Civil War History

CWL

Roy C. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 9 vols. (New Brunswick, N.J., 1952–55)

Dennett, Lincoln/Hay

Tyler Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay (New York, 1939)

Foote, Civil War

Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative, 3 vols. (New York, 1958, 1963, 1974)

Jones, War Clerk's Diary (Miers)

John B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (New York, 1958)

Jones, War Clerk's Diary (Swiggett)

John B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capitol, ed. Henry Swiggett (New York, 1935)

JAH

Journal of American History

JSH

Journal of Southern History

MVHR

Mississippi Valley Historical Review

Nevins, Ordeal

Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union, 2 vols. (New York, 1947). Vol. I: Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847–1852. Vol. II: A House Dividing, 1852-1857

Nevins, Emergence

Allan Nevins, The Emergence of Lincoln, 2 vols. (New York, 1950). Vol. I: Douglas, Buchanan, and Party Chaos 1857–1859Vol. 11: Prologue to Civil War, 1859–1861

Nevins, War

Allan Nevins, The War for the Union, 4 vols. (New York, 1959, 1960, 1971). Vol. I: The Improvised War, 1861–1862. Vol. II: War Becomes Revolution . Vol. Ill: The Organized War, 1863–1864. Vol. IV: The Organized War to Victory, 1864–1865

O.R.

War of the Rebellion . . . Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. (Washington, 1880–1901)

O.R. Navy

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, 30 vols. (Washington, 1894–1922)

Potter, Impending Crisis

David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis 1848–1861 (New York, 1976)

Rowland, Davis

Dunbar Rowland, ed., Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers, and Speeches, 10 vols. (Jackson, Miss., 1923)

Strong, Diary

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, vol. 3: The Civil War 1860–1865, ed. Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas (New York, 1952)

Wiley, Johnny Reb

Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (Indianapolis, 1943)

Wiley, Billy Yank

Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (Indianapolis, 1952)

Woodward, Chesnut's Civil War

C. Vann Woodward, ed., Mary Chesnut's Civil War (New Haven, 1981)

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