Reference Meaning Repository Location
AHC Atlanta History Center Atlanta History Center Atlanta, Ga.
AL Alabama Archives Alabama State Archives Montgomery, Ala.
AOC Act of Congress Many libraries Available on line here
AR Annual Report Various Various
B1 Bain, "B & O in the Civil War, from the papers of Wm. Prescott Smith"
B2 Derrick, "Centennial History of South Carolina Railroad"
B3 Dawdey, "The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee"
B4 Freeman, "Lee's Dispatches"
B5 Manarin, "Richmond at War: The Minutes of the City Council, 1861-1865"
B6 The Confederate Records of the State of Georgia, Vol.s 2 & 3
B7 The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance
B8 Letter to Hon. Chas. B. Mitchell, in Relation to the Iron Business of Alabama
B9 De Bow's Review 1861
B10 War Time Diary of Miss Julia Chase Hadley Regional Library Winchester, Va.
B11 Thomas, "50 Years on the Rail"
B12 War Time Diary of Miss Sarah Morgan McKown Hadley Regional Library Winchester, Va.
B13 Journals of John Morris Wampler In descendents' private hands Quoted and used in Kundahl, Confederate Engineer
B14 Diary of Ida Dulaney Leesburg, Va. Public Library Leesburg, Va.
B15 R. L. Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenant-General Thomas J. Jackson, copyright 1866
B16 Annual Report of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
B17 Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations in the Civil War
B18 Vermont General; The Unusual War Experiences of Edward Hastings Ripley, 1862 - 1865
B19 Mayo, Episodes of a Busy Life, unpublished manuscript, University of North Carolina Library
B20

Scharf, History of the Confederate States Navy
B21 Jeter, A Man and His Boat; The Civil War Career and Correspondence of Lieutenant Jonathan H. Carter, CSN
B22 Report of the Special Joint Committee, in regard to certain public property on hand at the evacuation of Columbia, and the surrender of Gen. Johnston's Army Harvard University Boston, Mass.
B23 Gov. Zebulon Vance Letter Book North Carolina Archives & History Raleigh, N. C.
B24 The Papers of Andrew Johnson
B25 Kean, "Inside the Confederate Government"
B26 Black, "The Railroads of the Confederacy"
B27 Bruce, "Virginia Iron Manufacture in the Slave Era"
B28 Ramsdell, ed., "Laws and Joint Resolutions of the Last Session of the Confederate Congress (November 7, 1864 - March 18, 1865) Together with the Secret Acts of Previous Congresses"
B29 Bradlee, "Blockade Running During the Civil War"
B30 Daniel, "Confederate Cannon Foundries"
B31 Stockdale, "The Death of An Army: The Battle of Nashville & Hood's Retreat"
B32 Vandiver, "Ploughshares into Swords"
B33 Acts of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, Passed in December, 1862 and February and April, 1863
B36 Hamilton, "The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, Vol. III" North Carolina Historical Commission, 1920
B91 Brown, "Mary Edward Bryan, Her Early Life and Works"
BA Boston Athenaeum Boston Athenaeum Boston, Mass.
BO Baltimore & Ohio RR Archives Baltimore & Ohio RR Museum Baltimore, Md.
COC College of Charleston College of Charleston Charleston, S. C.
D Duke University Duke University Durham, NC
FA Florida Archives Florida State Archives Tallahassee, Fl.
FHS Florida Historical Society Florida Historical Society Coco, Fl.
G Google Books books.google.com
GA Georgia Archives Georgia State Archives Atlanta, Ga.
GHS Georgia Historical Society Georgia Historical Society Savannah, Ga.
H Huntington Library Huntington Library San Marino, Ca.
LOC Library of Congress Library of Congress Washington D. C.
LVA Library of Virginia Library of Virginia Richmond, Va.
MA Mississippi Archives Mississippi State Archives Jackson, Miss.
MISC Unusual sources that will provide only a very few documents, for example, a transcription of a letter or order on a web site. I will try to give the source at the bottom of the transcription.
NA National Archives National Archives Washington, D. C.
NCA North Carolina Archives North Carolina Archives Raleigh, N. C.
NCRR North Carolina Railroad Archives North Carolina Railroad Headquarters Raleigh, N. C.
NP Newspapers Various Various
OR Official Records of the Union & Confederate Armies Many libraries and on CD from Guild Press Many
ORN Official Records of the Union & Confederate Navies Many libraries and on CD from Guild Press Many
PC Private Collections Various
RRBA Railroad Bureau Archives Valentine Museum Richmond, Va.
RRBAT Railroad Bureau Archives -- Telegram Valentine Museum Richmond, Va.
SC South Caroliniana Library University of South Carolina Columbia, S. C.
SCR Screven Archives University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N. C.
SOR Supplement to the Official Records of the Union & Confederate Armies Some libraries Various
TN Tennessee Library & Archives Tennessee State Library & Archives Nashville, Tenn.
TX Texas Library & Archives Texas State Library & Archives Austin, Tex.
UA University of Alabama University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Al.
UF University of Florida University of Florida Gainesville, Fla.
UNC University of North Carolina University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N. C.
UNCC University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, N. C.
UT University of Texas University of Texas Austin, Tex.
UTN University of Tennessee University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tn.
UV University of Virginia University of Virginia Charlottesville, Va.
UVT University of Virginia Tech University of Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Va.
VHS Virginia Historical Society Virginia Historical Society Richmond, Va.
WM College of William & Mary College of William & Mary Williamsburg, Va.
 

Comments and Warnings Regarding the Transcribed Documents
1. The transcriptions from the Official Records, newspapers and books are from printed copies; therefore, most transcription errors are someone else's.
2. Most other transcriptions are from the original (usually microfilmed) documents. Since these documents were in cursive writing, and were often written in a hurry, there are bound to be transcription errors on my part. Unless the meaning of the document is changed by a possible error in transcription, I have made little effort to resolve transcription problems (ie I have not tried to verify the initials of the names of various quartermasters). 
3. There are many more documents that I have not transcribed. There are orders to quartermasters to provide transportation for various companies and regiments in 1861 (I provide the ones sent directly to the railroad companies) and there are documents (particularly in press letterbooks) where so little of the document could be read that it seemed useless to provide what little could be deciphered. There are also documents where the ink has run together or the ink has faded away. Finally, there documents where the microfilm copy is so small that it cannot be read.
4. I have attempted to identify railroads and railroad personnel in the transcriptions. Otherwise, I have rarely provided editorial notes. For example, there is an order for certain Navy personnel to be given special assistance in transporting a shaft from Richmond to New Orleans. I understand from other sources that this was for the ironclad Mississippi, but since I have no document to prove this, I have left the raw data for the researcher to use on his own.
5. Most of the outgoing letters and telegrams from the Quartermaster General are copied in his letterbook and are transcribed. The incoming letters were logged, but most were not saved. The same appears to be true of the Engineer Bureau. The Railroad Bureau is represented by only a tiny portion of its correspondence. The Iron Commission is also missing in the records. The result is a very fragmented record, on the Government side, and an almost non-existent one on the companies' sides. This fragmentation is one reason I have posted the transcriptions.