Read Coming Fury, Volume 1 Online
Authors: Bruce Catton
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 Historical 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, Massachusetts 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, Ill., 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.
Mary Lee Custis Letters, Virginia State Historical Society.
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.
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.
Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Duke University Library.
Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Huntington Library.
Journal Magnolia Plantation, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Albert Kautz, mss., Bancroft Library.
J. M. Keller Papers, Arkansas History Commission.
Diary of Francis Milton Kennedy, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
William Keyser Papers, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore.
Horatio King Papers, Library of Congress.
Langhorne Family Papers, Virginia State Historical Society.
Lanphier Papers, Illinois State Historical Library.
Mary Custis Lee, Letter, Rosenbach Foundation.
Lee Headquarters Papers, Virginia State Historical Society.
R. E. Lee Papers, Duke University Library.
R. E. Lee Letters, Huntington Library.
Lee Family Papers, Brock Collection, Huntington Library.
R. E. Lee Papers, Library of Congress.
R. E. Lee Letters, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore.
R. E. Lee Letters, Palmer Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society.
Civil War Journal, the Stephen Dill Lee Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Francis Lieber Collection, Huntington Library.
The Lincoln Collection, Chicago Historical Society.
Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress; microfilm at the Chicago Historical Society.
T. S. C. Lowe, Aeronautic Report, National Archives.
George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress.
John A. McClernand Papers, Illinois State Historical Library.
McCook Family Papers, Library of Congress.
Hugh MacRae Letters, Duke University Library.
John McRae Letterbooks, State Historical Library of Wisconsin.
Thomas F. Madigan Collection, Nevins’ Notes.
S. R. Mallory Diary, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Betty Herndon Maury Diary, Library of Congress.
Matthew Fontaine Maury Papers, Library of Congress.
Christopher G. Memminger Letters, Rosenbach Foundation.
Christopher G. Memminger Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Meteorological Registers, Naval Observatory, Washington; Weather Bureau Records, Agriculture and General Branch, National Resources Division, National Archives.
William Porcher Miles Letters, New York Public Library.
William Porcher Miles Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
William Porcher Miles Letter, A. Conger Goodyear Collection, Yale University Library.
Papers of the Massachusetts Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Miscellaneous Papers, Huntington Library.
Miscellaneous Soldiers’ Letters, C.S.A. Archives, Duke University Library.
Diary of James H. M. Montgomery, Library of Congress.
Orlando Hurley Moore Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California.
Samuel F. B. Morse Papers, Library of Congress.
Allan Nevins, research notes and manuscripts.
Newhall Family Letters, Boston Public Library.
Nicholson Collection, Huntington Library.
John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress.
Kie Oldham Collection, Arkansas History Commission.
Williamson Simpson Oldham Memoirs, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas.