AL

Abraham Lincoln

CS

Charles Sumner

EB

Edward Bates

EBL

Elizabeth Blair Lee

EMS

Edwin M. Stanton

FAS

Frances A. (Miller) Seward

FB

Francis Preston (“Frank”) Blair, Jr.

FPB

Francis Preston Blair, Sr.

FS

Frances A. (“Fanny”) Seward

FWS

Frederick W. Seward

GBM

George B. McClellan

GW

Gideon Welles

JGN

John G. Nicolay

JH

John Hay

JWW

Jesse W. Weik

KCS

Kate Chase Sprague

LW

Lazette M. (Miller) Worden

MB

Montgomery Blair

MEM

Mary Ellen McClellan

MTL

Mary Todd Lincoln

SPC

Salmon P. Chase

SPL

Samuel Phillips Lee

TB

Therena Bates

TW

Thurlow Weed

USG

Ulysses S. Grant

WHH

William H. Herndon

WHS

William H. Seward

CW

Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

HI

Herndon’s Informants NR National Republican, Washington, D.C.

NYH

New York Herald, New York, N.Y.

NYT

New York Times, New York, N.Y.

NYTrib

New York Tribune, New York, N.Y.

OR

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vols., Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901)

Star

Evening Star, Washington, D.C.

Chase Papers

The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Microfilm Edition, ed. John Niven (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1987)

Lincoln Papers

Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Available at Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (Washington, D.C.: American Memory Project, [2000–01]), http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.html

Nicolay Papers

Papers of John G. Nicolay, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Seward Papers

The Papers of William H. Seward (Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publications, 1983

Welles Papers

Papers of Gideon Welles, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress