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Aachen, Germany, 144n
Abbott , Henry L., 575
Abbott, Joseph Carter, 1417
Abbott, Josiah Gardner, 52
Abell, Edmund, 1244n, 1268
Abercrombie, John James, 274-75, 304-06, 333, 395
Abert, James William, 268, 278
Abert, John J., 248, 520
Abert, William Stretch, 247, 395, 520, 1075
Abolition of slavery or Abolitionism...see SlaveryAcademy of Music, New York, 541
Academy of the Visitation, Frederick, Maryland, 270
Acadians (Cajuns), 634-35, 634n, 642
Adams, Capt., 1503
Adams, Mr., 1234
Adams, Abigail (Smith), 1378
Adams, Charles Francis, 10, 29, 81, 90n, 97, 112, 199-200, 203, 500, 1287, 1446
Adams, Francis Colburn, 1400-03
Adams, Henry, 42
Adams, John, 52n, 53
Adams, John Quincy, 42, 48
Adams Express, 911-12
Adams family, 1289
Africa, social organization, 778
African Americans, 49; Northerners' attitudes toward, 62, 71, 76,
76n, 92, 142, 322, 597, 711-12, 714, 716, 840-41, 883, 961, 1372; Reconstruction
radicals' attitudes toward, 1371, 1438; restrictive legislation against, 83,
142, 846, 846n; question of citizenship and civil rights for, 812, 1147-48,
1150, 1184-85, 1188, 1284-88, 1290, 1292-93, 1371-72, 1374..(see alsoDred Scott v. Sandford); in Massachusetts, 175;
recruitment or conscription as soldiers, 250, 335, 564, 639, 662, 715-16, 771,
780, 839, 841-42, 845, 961; service as soldiers, 563, 639, 711, 1039, 1056,
1187; as runaway slaves, 321-22, 561, 570, 570n, 571, 1010, 1084, 1086; as
civilian workers for Union army, 321, 565-70, 569n, 711-12; free persons in
Virginia, 322; servants for Confederate officers, 322n; slave rebellions, 561,
561n, 712; as slaves, freedmen in West Indies, 570, 786-87; as slaves sent
westward to avoid Union army, 639, 653; as voters, 573, 807, 1438, 1441, 1449;
as soldiers on Ship Island, 597; as officers, 598-99, 712-14; under labor
contracts in Louisiana, 564-67, 569-71, 772-80, 804n, 843, 846, 1165, 1185-86,
1253, 1287, 1292; education in Louisiana, 773-74, 776, 779, 784, 1147, 1150,
1286; education in the South, 1380; on treasury-run plantations, 785; treatment
as soldier prisoners, 844-45; percentage of Louisiana population, 1292...see
also Corps d'Afrique...see also Native Guards...see also United States Colored Troops
African Americans in New
Orleans, interest in full civil rights, 799, 813, 845-46, 1266,
1292-93
Agassiz, Louis, 153, 194
Age of Jackson, 16
Agricultural problems in Confederacy , 637, 639-41, 641n
Aida, 1326
Aiken, William, 94-96, 98-99, 125-26
Aix-la-Chapelle, France, 144
Akbar (ship), 25
Alabama cavalry regiments (Union) 1st, 614
Alabama claims, 1324, 1357-58, 1362-68
Alabama River, 922
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad, 1418
Alaska, appropriations for purchaseof, 1299, 1302-04, 1306-07,1310, 1315, 1335n, 1339, 1346,1346n, 1348, 1407; treaty forpurchase, 1299, 1301-04, 1308,1310, 1438; history of, 1300;natural resources, 1300, 1305-06,1308, 1354; negotiations for saleof, 1300; American occupation of,1301-02, 1304, naming of, 1301-02; alleged payments tocongressmen for support ofpurchase, 1309-12, 1317;payment to Russian governmentfor, 1312, 1340
Albany, New York, 100
Albany Evening Journal, 474, 1409
Albatross, 606, 607n, 673
Alcatraz Island, California, 163,1415
Aleutian Islands, 1304
Alexander, Charles A., 165
Alexander, William, 553n
Alexander II, Czar, 1325-26
Alexandria, Louisiana, 887, 928,951, 1197, 1267; Union advanceto,
withdrawal from (1863), 635-36, 650-51, 654-55, 658-59, 664,670-71, 678-79, 690,
694, 723-24, 762, 772, 854, 891; Unionadvance to (1864), 930, 949, 961-62,
970-71, 973-76, 982,1003; Union retreat back to(1864), 1075, 1077, 1079-87,1119;
Union garrison during damconstruction there, 1089, 1101;cotton gathering there,
1220,1233, 1235, 1238-39, 1499-1501,1503, 1513n, 1519, 1522, 1524,1526, 1535-36;
description of anddemographics of residents, 653,947n, 990; vandalism and
fires,975, 1113-15; elections (1864),990-91; as supply base duringadvance of
Union army upriver,995, 1006; for Union dam there...see under Red River
Alexandria, Virginia, 214, 408,
533,597, 1418n
Allen, C. W., 1498
Allen, James H., 601
Allen, Stephen M., 116-20, 754
Alley, John Bassett, 1403-08
Allison, William Boyd, 1049n
Alsop, J. W., 190n
Alstead, New Hampshire, 2-3, 6, 1487
Alton, Illinois, 395
Ambrose, Stephen E., 1484
American Annual Cyclopaedia, 1293
American Freedman's Inquiry Commission, 778
American Homestead Company, 1455
American House, Boston, Massachusetts, 172n
American Missionary Association, 773n
American party...see Know-Nothing party
American Revolution, 236, 1488
American Watch Company, 1400
American West Indies Company, 1340
Ames, Oakes, 1225-27, 1228n, 1229, 1296, 1311, 1343, 1394n, 1404-12, 1417
Ames, Oliver, 1228n, 1343, 1394n, 1046, 1412n
Ames family, 1228n
Amherst College, Massachusetts, 153
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 159
Andem, J. S., 1466
Anderson, S. R., 539
Andrew, John Albion, 99n, 148, 160, 160n, 173, 200-01, 203, 212, 216, 259, 336-37, 405, 498, 504, 504n, 510, 523n, 533n, 831, 852, 1185n, 1285, 1289, 1532
Andrews, George Leonard, 366n, 461n, 480, 521; outfitting Banks expedition at New York, 519, 525; chief of staff, Louisiana, 673, 678, 682n, 692-93, 706-09, 729, 743, 747-48, 756, 759; personality, appearance of, 692-93; head of Corps d'Afrique, 840-42, 908
Andrews, Israel D., 88, 162, 171, 171n
Androscoggin Company, 1494
Annapolis, Maryland, 241, 252, 270, 1389
Annexation, of Caribbean lands, 63
Annisquam, 1491
Anthony, Henry, 1443n
Anthony, Susan Brownell, 36, 1378
Anti-Catholicism...see Nativism
Anti-Nebraska party, 80
Anti-Semitism...see Jews
Antietam, Maryland, battle of (1862), 369, 491, 496, 586, 709, 733, 895, 1278
Antisell, Thomas, 1483
"Anvil Chorus, The," 821, 1441n
Apollo Rooms, New York City, 116
Appeal to Heaven flag, 164
Appel, Henry, 340
Appleton, Nathan, 6, 21, 1309, 1328, 1333, 1336n, 1338-39, 1395
Appleton, William, 52
Appomattox, Virginia, surrender at (1865), 768
Aransas Pass, Texas, 895, 902, 909
Ariail, Mann K, 1115, 1257
Arizona (ship), 672, 676
Arkansas Post, Arkansas, battle of (1863), 612, 639, 658, 711n, 979,979n, 1041
Arlington, Massachusetts, 1461
Armory, Springfield, Massachusetts, 59, 59n, 60, 216
Armstrong, Thomas H., 1469
Army of the Potomac, 249, 518
Army of Virginia, 420
Arnold, Alexander, 1058
Arnold, Isaac Newton, 202, 213, 835
Arnold, Richard, 624, 1081, 1081n
Art of War,534
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1457
Arthur, William R., 192
Artillery, accuracy of, 227, 303, 364, 442-45; types available, 280-81; problems with in Louisiana, 574, 576, 580
Ashby, Turner, 262, 264-65, 276, 282, 294-95, 297, 301, 303, 310, 313, 319, 331, 347, 349, 353, 358, 386-87, 392
Ashley, James Mitchell, 499, 1183, 1185
Ashley Bill (HR 602), 1183, 1185, 1188
Ashmun, George, 160, 202-03, 239, 754, 830, 835, 1523-25
Asiatic Commercial Company, 1422
Aspinwall, William H., 190n, 213
Astor, John Jacob, 192n, 494; Mrs., 824, 835, 1418
Astor, William Backhouse, 1507
Astor family, 823
Astor House, New York, 518, 1168
Atchafalaya Bayou, 621n
Atchafalaya River, 594-97, 607, 613, 616-18, 620, 631-33, 635, 648, 650, 654, 657n, 665-66, 671, 969, 1261;concerns with fall in water level, 677-78; transport bridge across, 1864, 1129-30
Atchison, David Rice, 61
Atkinson, Edward, 1060n, 1176
Atlanta, Georgia, 897, 1135; campaign (1864), 932-34, 938, 945, 951, 999n, 1136
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, 1424
Atlantic and Pacific Interoceanic Railway Company, 1460
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, 1413
Atlas de Thiers,534
Atocha, A. A., 601, 826, 826n, 827n, 1145-46, 1151, 1163, 1210, 1218
Atocha, Alcé Aloysius, 1145n
Atocha, Alex Alexander Hypolité
,1145nAtocha, Carmen, 827n, 829
Attakapas prairie, Louisiana, 976
Auburn, New York, 250, 280, 1125, 1313
Auburndale, Massachusetts, 1315n
Augur, Christopher Columbus, at Cedar Mountain, 428-30, 435n, 441-42, 451-53, 455-57, 462, 464-65, 469-70, 475, 477, 592, 693, 1483; in Louisiana, 518, 592, 609, 644, 668, 679-81, 683, 687, 784; at siege of Port Hudson, 691-92, 691n, 700-02, 705-08, 727, 742, 758; transferred out of Louisiana, 758
Avery, Daniel D., 632
Avery Island, Louisiana, 632-33, 634n, 635
Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, 71
Ayers, J. C., 172
Babcock, John C., 491
Babcock, Orville Elias, 267, 267n, 268, 1349n
Bacon, Edward, 730n, 753
Badajoz, siege of (1812), 698
Badeau, Adam, 723, 921
Baden-Baden, Germany, 1320-22, 1352
Badger, Ella (later Burlingame, Ella), 1320, 1328
Baez, Buenaventura, 1346, 1348
Bagdad, Mexico, 857-58, 897, 910, 1160, 1213
Bailey, Gamaliel, 104, 108
Bailey, Joseph, attitudes toward blacks, 841, 841n; scout for retreat to Alexandria, 1086; architect of dams, 1091-94, 1107, 1110-11, 1129
Bailey, William, 1503-04, 1504n
Bainbridge, Edmund C., 629n
Baker, Edward Dickinson, 257-58, 260
Baker, S., 1513n
Baldwin, C. J., 151
Baldwin, John Denison, 1309
Ballard, John, 108
Ball's Bluff, Virginia, 288; engagement (1861), 257-62, 267-68, 315, 352, 380, 697, 895
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 243, 266, 269, 284, 371, 1392, 1401, 1403, 1418, 1422
Baltimore Exchange, 253
Baltimore, Maryland, 109, 132, 184, 214, 230-32, 236, 241, 245, 251-52, 335-36, 344, 355, 1151, 1224; closing of train line, 230, 232; Union occupation of, 230, 238; elections in, 231; arrests in, 232, 235, 237, 253; police board, 232-33, 259
Bancroft, Mrs., 824
Bancroft family, 823
Bangor, Maine, 100
Bank of Bacchus saloon, Houston, Texas, 879
Bank of California, 1428-31
Bank of Commerce, New Orleans, 1225
Bank of Commerce, New York, 498
Bank of England, 1423n
Bank of France, 1423n
Bank of Louisiana, 940, 1235n, 1506, 1527-30
Bank of New Orleans, 1272n, 1518, 1527n, 1536
Bank of Prussia, 1423n
Banks, Andrew, 6
Banks, Daisy, 33n
Banks, Edward, 1487
Banks, Elizabeth, 1488
Banks, Elizabeth (Grusey), 1488
Banks, Emma ("Tibbie"), 78, 1279, 1413
Banks, Fremont, 106
Banks, Gardner, 426n, 520n; background of, 1277-78, 1384n; as officer in Virginia, 487, 494, 1277-78; involvement in Louisiana plantations, 775; in New Orleans, 1206, 1279, 1412; death of, 1412-13
Banks, Hannah, 1488
Banks, Harry Waltham, 32, 46, 49
Banks, Henry Waltham, 32, 46, 49
Banks, Hiram, 34, 487, 495, 1167
Banks, Israel, 1487
Banks, John (Boston cooper), 1488
Banks, John (Boston distiller?), 1488
Banks, John (son of the distiller), 1488
Banks, John (grandson of the distiller), 1488
Banks, John, (grandfather of N.P. Banks Sr.), 1-4, 1487-88
Banks, Joseph Fremont, 106, 106n, 823, 825-26, 1275, 1433; in Prussia, 1315-16, 1318, 1321, 1349, 1378, 1425; childhood, 1318; at law school, 1432; in the West, 1432, 1447; as engineer, clerk, 1463; father's funeral, 1468; after father's death, 1469-71
Banks, Lydia (Frost), 1279
Banks, Mary Binney, (later Mrs. Mary Binney (Banks) Sterling); 270, 823; in Europe (1868-71), 1318-19, 1321-23, 1325, 1328; personality of, 1322; at father's funeral, 1468; married life and death of, 1471-73
Banks, Mary Theodosia (Palmer),
mentioned, 20, 23, 32; 46, 49,
142, 161, 167, 272, 332, 336,
355, 402-04, 422, 471, 481, 486,
500n, 507, 549, 551, 567, 603,
622, 630, 740, 753, 760, 775,
833, 868, 875, 904, 948, 991,
998, 1064, 1075, 1107, 1136,
1177, 1181, 1183, 1187, 1189,
1192, 1218, 1239, 1272, 1275,
1289, 1294, 1315, 1349-50, 1409,
1425, 1432, 1436, 1446;
relationship with
parents, 8; courtship of husband, 13;
personality, 13, 33-34, 824, 829;
childhood, 13-14, employment,
14; involvement in newspaper,
18-19; marriage of, 30; appearance of, 33; illness (1852), 46; real estate transactions, 165, 1404n, 1444, 1446, 1467-68; in Chicago, 194; at Frederick, Maryland, 270-71; problems with Mary Lincoln, 494; in New York, (1862), 518, 520, 1281; (1863), 540-41, 630, 822-24, 829, 1127, 1281; (1864), 1166-67, 1281, (1865), 1274; (postwar years), 1319; at social events in New Orleans, 822, 826-29, 1234; clothing purchases, New Orleans, 1280; and Genl. Stone, 1070; and Genl. Hunter, 1103; and Genl. Canby, 1127; and Mrs. Canby, 1127; and Secretary Stanton, 1178; and Colonel Holabird, 1194; investigated by Smith commission, 1210; returns to New Orleans, 1264; at Mobile, 1267; typical purchases, Waltham, 1280; seamstress skills, 1281; finances (1866), 1281-92; finances (1867), 1314-15, 1404n; finances (1868), 1316-17; finances (Europe, 1868-71) 1321-22; finances (1884), 1456; opposes involvement in illegal activities, 1282; and Franz
Weis, 1314; in Europe (1868-71),
1316-22, 1325, 1328-30, 1352;
middle-age problems, 1319; relations
with son, 1318-19; involvement
with canal project principals,
1328-33, 1334n; views on reconstruction, 1376; and Johnson impeachment, 1378; message from Julia Grant, 1399; second trip to Europe, 1456; and her son's unemployment, 1463; and husband's mental condition, 1466-67; at husband's death, 1468; grave of, 1468; death of, 1469
Banks, Maud(e), ("Baby Brow") 141, 823; in Europe (1868-71), 1318-19, 1321-22, 1325, 1328, 1456, 1467; at father's death, 1468; acting career, 1469-70; as clerk and death of, 1471
Banks, Mehitabel (Mattox), 1488
Banks, Miles Greenwood, 1166, 1279
Banks, "Napoleon P.," 1064
Banks,
Nathaniel Prentice Sr., 4-5, 7-10,
12-13, 22
Banks, Nathaniel Prentice
Jr.
accusations of postwar drinking,or infidelity 1394-95, 1452, 1462; of not paying hotel bill, 1452; of payment for support of Alaska appropriations, 1310, 1313, 1317, 1444
acting experience, 20-21, 36
activities
involving Kansas conflict, 139-41
ancestry of, 1-3,
1487-89
as
postwar lecturer, 1443-45, 1455
attitudes of
wealthy toward him, 42
birth of, 5
campaign of for
Republican presidential nomination
(1859-60), 168-182, 218; question of
(1863-64), 765, 765n, 770, 829-38, 984n, 1099, 1137, 1516-17
church affiliation, 31, 148
coalition of
parties involvement, 28, 41-43, 51-52,
81, 84, 87, 92, 119, 145, 170, 217,
1190, 1288, 1290, 1292, 1294, 1371,
1374, 1395-96
contributor to
newspapers, 19
courting of Daniel Webster, 46; of Admiral Porter in 1866, 1387; of Grant in late 1860s, 1398
courtship of wife,
13
dancing
master, 13, 15, 19
death, funeral of, 1468-69 and in Introduction to this book
early military
interests, 19, 29
early political work, 15, 17
editor of
newspapers, 18-19
efforts to elect John Frémont president, 41, 84, 106-16, 118, 121; to elect Sam Houston president, 84, 102, 106
elections for
governor (1857-60), 143, 147, 147n,
148, 148n, 149-50
elections for U.
S. representative
(1852) 49-51, 55, 55n
(1854) 67, 74-77, 76n
(1856) 143
(1865) 949,
1295-96
(1866)
1394
(1868)
1394
(1870)
1394-96
(1872)
1436, 1439-40
(1874) 1447
(1876) 1450
(1878) 1452
(1888) 1461-62
(1890) 1465
elementary schooling, 9
farming
activities, 166-67
fascination with Charles Sumner, 1445-46
finances of, 166-67, 1276, 1313-16, 1321, 1430-07, 1409, 1425, 1444, 1446-47, 1456, 1467; victim of theft/robbery, 1314, 1444; outlays to financial ventures, 1403, 1456; real estate transactions, 32, 163-66, 165n, 194; salary and income, 166, 182, 192-93, 214, 1280-82, 1323, 1400, 1415, 1424-25, 1444, 1456, 1467
governor
(1858-60), 151-60, 1290;
health, emotional
problems ormental deterioration, 35,
1466-68
honorary degrees,
153
horsemanship of, 597
injuries and near wounding , 368, 471, 631, 753-54, 983, 1036, 1057, 1080, 1127
interest in,
speculation about, or offer to become:
cabinet member (1860-61) 195-204, 239; (during Civil War), 400, 497, 499-500, 580, 754, 801, 1170, 1189; quarter-master genl., 212-13, 215; U. S. Senate from Louisiana, 811-12, 1189n; replacement for deceased Sumner, 1446minister to France, 1183, 1316, 1452; New Orleans dist. attorney, 1275; minister to Russia, 1307, 1452; minister to Mexico, 1398; port collector, Boston, 1454; secretary of interior, 1398; in administering soldiers' home, 1461;
interest in patent for uses of sphagnum moss, 1308-09; in living in Louisiana, 1275;
involvement with veterans' groups, 1390; Anglo-European consortium (Panamanian canal), 1327-28, 1331-38; Atlantic and Pacific I.R. Co., 1460; Clear Creek County, Colorado mining venture, 1456; Harpers Ferry company, 1400- 02; Greek resettlement, 1414; Kentucky and Great Eastern Railroad, 1422-25;1434-37, 1439-42; Sutro Tunnel, 1428-30; Union Pacific Railroad cabal, 1403- 05, 1407-08; New Orleans boarding house, 1276businesses of John C. Frémont, 58, 160-162, 162n, 163, 1413-16, 1418-21;with Know-Nothing lodge, 74-75, 78; 1125; with national conventions (1848), 44; (1852), 43-45; (1872), 1435
journeys to Europe, Egypt (1869 or 1871), 1318, 1321, 1323-27, 1338, 1338n, 1395, 1423
legislation supported and activities as congressman (1850s), 57-60, 63-64, 77, 90-91, 143-44, 308n; (1860s), 1307, 1328, 1334, 1381-82, 1384, 1386, 1390-91, 1396; (1870s), 1388-91, 1392-93, 1396-97, 1420, 1423-24, 1427, 1442, 1448-49, 1451-52; (1880s), 1463-64; principal in Alaska legislation, 1299, 1301-08, 131, 1315, 1339; efforts toward purchase of Virgin Islands, 1324, 1339; efforts toward acquisition of Santo Domingo, 1339-41, 1343-47, 1349; Cuban independence legislation, 1348-50, 1352, 1354-57; Fenian, neutrality and expatriation legislation, 1358-62; Canadian annexation, 1358n, 1359, 1363; efforts to resolve Alabama claims, 1363-68; lack of effort on Mexican issues, 1368-69; reconstruction, impeachment legislation, 1374-78; female suffrage, 1378-79; eight-hour day and labor and education legislation, 1379-80; veterans' bonus legislation, 1390-91; chairman, conference meeting, Committee on Appropriations, 1298; chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, 1297-98, 1339, 1398, 1442; chair, Republican caucus, 1298; on committee investigating S. Carolina elections, 1449;on the Credit Mobilier committee, 1408-09; on Mines and Mining Committee, 1429; on various committees, 1874, 1876 sessions, 1448-1450-51; during 1889 session, 1463; parliamentary expert, 1860s-70s, 1393; patronage, (especially navy yard), Hanscom firing, 1382-87, 1389-90, 1412, 1443, 1450; declines Mexican trip, 1369; resignation, Congress, (1857), 146
legislation supported in state senate, 1445; lobbyist in Mass., 40; for war claims in Washington, 46, 49-50
major general, selection as, 209-18; seniority, 222; evaluation of entire career, 1140-42; proclamations and general orders issued, 231-32, 233n, 547, 561-63, 566, 569-70, 769, 812-14, 839-40, 1159, 1188
commander, Dept. of Annapolis (1861),
215, 217, 230-33, 237-38, 241, 243;
arrests of Maryland pro-Confederates, 232-33, 242
commander, Dept. of Shenandoah (1861),
243, 245-48
commander, Banks's Division , Dept. of
Potomac (1861-62), 249, 253-56, 256n,
262-64, 268, 270, 270n, 272,
274, 276, 278; requests for
staff, 248, 260, 277-78; punishment of soldier offenders, 249, 276intelligence gathering activities, 279-80; Ball's Bluff operation, 260-61; response to Jackson's Romney campaign, 266-28l; advance to Winchester, 284-89;arrests of Maryland pro-Confederates, 251-53, 252n
commander 5th Corps, Army of Potomac, (early
1862) aborted movement to eastern
Virginia, 290; Kernstown battle, 293-94, 295n, 299; first pursuit of Stonewall Jackson, 300-05
commander, Dept. of
Shenandoah (spring 1862), first pursuit of Jackson, 306-18, 318n, 319-20, 320n, 321-24, 324n, 326-27, 329-30; retreat to Strasburg, 331-37; retreat to Potomac and battle at Winchester (May 1862), 338-43, 345, 349-53, 355-59, 362-65, 368, 371-72, 375-81, 973, 1032, 1141, 1476, 1478; second pursuit of Jackson, 384-85, 387-92; camped in Shenandoah, 393, 1479
commander, 2nd Corps,
Army of Virginia (summer-fall 1862), to camp at Washington, Virginia, 394-95, 397, 400-02, 404-09, 411-14; move to Cedar Mtn.., 419, 421-23, 425-27; battle at Cedar Mountain, 427-28, 430, 433-35, 438, 441-43, 446-47, 453, 459-61, 463-64, 466-78, 481, 1032, 1141, 1481-82, 1484, 1486; in Virginia after Cedar Mtn., 485-89
commander, Defenses of
Washington, Army of Potomac (fall 1862), 490-97, 507-08
commander, Banks
Expedition (late 1862), 498-99, 504, 507-10, 512, 518, 521-22, 524, 526-27, 532-33, 535-37, 558
commander, Dept. of the
Gulf (1862-1865), 540, 552, 574, appointment as, 497, 506, 511-13; assumption of command, 536, 538-39;
Military Aspects.
problems with
training, supplies, equipment, boats,
574-76, 613, 668-69, 846-48,
892-93, 893n, 897, 902, 905.
908-09, 914, 922-27, 980, 1060, 1142; loss of Galveston outpost (1863), 553, 556, 559; movements on Port Hudson, 273n, 516, 544-46, 579-81, 584-86, 589-90, 593, 596-97, 600-04, 608-10, 612, 614, 620, 647, 650, 667-70, 677, 979n, 1032; Teche campaign (1863) 610, 613, 616-17, 620-22, 630-31, 639-40, 645; at Fort Bisland, 622-25, 629n, 1141; decisions about African American soldiers, 563, 597-98, 639, 711-14, 717, 839-40, 843-46, 1056; secrecy, deception about operations, 586, 586n, 857, 880, 889-90, 893-94, 901, 907, 948, 957-58, 1141; efforts to communicate with, unite with, supercede Genl. Grant, 593, 613, 617, 643-45, 648-54, 657, 660-61, 664, 666, 668, 670-72, 676, 718-22, 723n, 724-25; at reviews, 597, 867, 869, 976; overall strategy, 610-11, 647, 650, 654, 667, 670, 677, 697, 725, 1019; movement to Alexandria (1863), 649-51, 654-55, 658, 723-24, 762, 1011; plans to go to Shreveport (1863), 665, 667; encirclement of Port Hudson, 673, 679-80, 682-83, 689-90, 693; at siege of Port Hudson, 691-92, 696, 700-02, 705-06, 709-10, 725-26, 731, 734-35, 740-42, 744, 746-51, 753-54, 843, 849, 1032, 1042, 1141; disputes with Genl. T. W. Sherman, 694-95, 705-06; and Confederate operations against New Orleans (1863), 738,
740; thanks of Congress, 752;
Sabine Pass expedition (1863),
756, 854, 871-72, 874-78; Port
Hudson parole disputes,
757-58; staff changes (summer
1863), 758-59; reviews of court-martial sentences, executions, military discipline, 551,768-70, 772; reenlistments, 839; prisoner exchanges, 845; plans for Mobile campaign, 849-50, 856, 907, 932, 954, 957-58, 1072-74, 1102, 1106, 1118, 1137, 1141; visit to Vicksburg, 856, 863-65, 1224; and Grant's visit to New Orleans, 865-69; fall 1863 advance into central Louisiana, 884, 886, 886n, 887-90; expedition to and occupation of southeastern Texas (1863-64), 798, 800, 804, 850, 889, 892-95, 897, 899-900, 904-05, 907, 909, 911, 913-14, 919, 930, 1042, 1141, 1212-13; and Porter's letter about Red River mouth, 919, 980; and placement of McClernand and problem generals, 941-42, 942n, 1525; planning, preparations for Red River as campaign route to Shreveport, 855, 860, 918, 931-32, 935-37, 939-40, 942, 944, 946-52, 954, 957-58, 1102, 1104; Genl. Sherman's views about, 943-44; criticism of by Admiral Porter, 943; 674, 719, 735, 884, 922, 944, 944, 973, 979, 984, 1053, 1062-63, 1104, 1255; meeting with Genl. Sherman, 945-46; advance to
Alexandria and Natchitoches
(1864), 973-76, 982-84, 986,
988-89, 991-93, 996, 998; at
Grand Ecore, 998-1000, 1002,
1007-08, 1010, 1059-60, 1062,
1066-68, 1072-73; advance to
Mansfield, 993-94, 999-1001,
1006, 1009-13, 1015-16,
1020-21, 1023-25; battle at
Mansfield (1864); 1026,
1028-33, 1035-3, 1043, 1063-64,
1099, 1141; relations with A. J.
Smith and his troops, 976, 987n, 1050-51, 1064-65, 1113-14, 1133; battle at Pleasant Grove and nighttime retreat (1864), 1039-41, 1063; relations with Admiral Porter, 977, 980, 983-84, 988, 1133, 1255; battle at Pleasant Hill, 1032, 1043-44, 1047-48, 1051, 1053-54, 1057, 1061, 1063-64, 1141; retreat to Grand Ecore, 838, 1052, 1054-55, 1058, 1061, 1102, 1182; interest in restarting advance to Shreveport, 1059-60, 1073, 1075; retreat to Alexandria and Monett's Ferry battle, 1032, 1074, 1077, 1079-80, 1083, 1086, 1088; accused of wanting to abandon the fleet, 1064, 1066, 1088, 1102, 1104-05, 1109; changes of staff at Grand Ecore, 1068-72, 1082; at Alexandria during dam construction, confidence and guarding fleet issues, 1088-89, 1090, 1092-98, 1100-01, 1103-10, 1112, 1114; and attacks on boats on lower Red River, 1075, 1089; departure from
Alexandria and march to Mississippi River (1864), 1113-16, 1127-30; appointment of Joseph Bailey, 1091; replaced as field commander, 1119-24, 1126, 1139; his evaluation of Red River campaign, 1136, 1142; firing of Dwight, 1144; issues alert re: Jefferson Davis travel, 1267; authorizes surrender propositions, 1267;
Civil
Aspects. ]
regulating activities of Confederate sympathizers, 547-48, 569, 571; trade regulation, smugglers and bribes, 549-51, 559-60, 763, 772, 1158, 1214-15, 1219-20, 1127, 1230, 1238-39, 1254, 1512; trade permits, 833, 1203, 1217, 1220-23, 1226-27, 1231, 1235, 1279, 1525; his proposals to allow sale of cotton, 654, 1230-33, 1237-38; his purchase of cotton, 638, 638n, 760, 762, 1176, 1496; and Red River cotton issues, 976, 1203, 1254-57, 1259, 1495-96, 1498, 1500-02, 1505-06, 1520-21, 1523-24, 1526, 1531, 1535; slavery, labor contracts and forced work decisions, 561-71, 772-74, 776-79, 786, 813-14, 843, 846, 1165, 1186, 1291-92; interest in settling Northerners in Louisiana, 572, 1179, 1270, 1285, 1294; and activities of Dr. Zacharie, 587-88, 760-62, 766-67; confiscation activities, 637-38, 790, 1230, 1262n; peace proposals, missions, 763, 765, 768; conflicts with treasury officials, 780, 784-87, 1215, 1533; and voter registration, calls for constitutional convention, constitution issues, convention itself, 1864, 1144, 1146-54, 1178-80, 1239-41; state elections, 789-93, 795-98; 800, 803-04, 806, 806n, 807-09, 811-19, 1152-53, 1169, 1179, 1197, 1242, 1243; and official newspapers, 815, 1155; overlapping authorities, 800-03; and Hahn inauguration, 821, 1076n; involvement with balls, parties, New Orleans, 827-29, 1207, 1222, 1234, 1280, 1497, 1506; decision about segregated street cars, 845-46; relations with Mexican leaders, 915-17; "inseparable" from Frank Howe, 1534;
elections on Red River or Ouachita River (1864), 990-91, 999, 1181, 1260; and A. A Atocha, 1145-46, 1163; works with Lincoln for readmission of Louisiana and support of antislavery Louisiana government, 1155, 1162, 1183-87, 1189-90, 1269, 1273, 1283-84, 1289, 1293; and New Orleans banks, 1157, 1197, 1506-07, 1530; and sugar cultivation, 1159; 1864 tour of the American Northeast, 1168-69; aids Lincoln reelection, 1168-69; sends soldiers home to vote, 1297; at White House (1864-65), 1170, 1183-84, 1187, 1192; resignation offer, 1177; Stanton tries to silence him, 1177-78, 1183; testimony to congressional committees
(1864-65), 1178-82, 1187, 1189, 1230; at Washington social events, 1192; issues about his conduct investigated by Smith and Brady, 1197-1202, 1204-05, 1209-13, 1215-18, 1221-23, 1225-27, 1233, 1239, 1241, 1248, 1251, 1263, 1532; attacked by disappointed speculators, 1239; receives emancipation pen, 1244; and New Orleans sanitation, 1248; return from Washington, 1264-65, 1267; eulogizes Lincoln, 1265-66; removes Mayor Kennedy, 1249; travel to Mobile, 1267; seeks support from Andrew Johnson, 1270, 1274, 1277; problems with his brother, 1278-79; payments to his servant, 1281; removed by Johnson, 1272
marriage of, 30
member, Waltham
school committee, 30
nomination as
North American party presidential
candidate, 115-18, 1342
pension of,
1465
personality, appearance, dress and speaking ability, 8, 21, 36, 21, 33-37, 68, 92, 92n, 153-54, 156, 168-69, 174, 272-74, 395, 689, 726, 753-54, 829-30, 833, 913, 1058, 1076, 1125, 1140, 1142, 1192, 1305, 1370, 1393, 1460-61, 1464
port of
Boston employment, 23- 24, 1310
president, constitutional convention, 52-53
presidential elector, 1466
relationship with
parents, 8-9; with family, 271; with
wife, 824-25
residency issues,
183n, 194, 210-11, 210n, 1295
resident director,
railroad, 182-83, 183n, 190, 193-94,
197-98, 200, 203, 205-06, 209
self-education,
11-12, 192-93, 271, 271n.; self study
of languages, 46-47, 1192; of law,
25-26
speaker of Mass.
House, 42-43
speaker of U. S. House (1856-57), 98, 109, 112, 124-125, 125n, 132, 127, 130; candidate for, 84-90, 93-94, 108, 842; election of, 95-97; plans to elect him again in 1876, 1450
speeches of,
20-21, 24, 27-28, 58-60, 63-65, 77,
90-92, 130, 135, 149-56, 169, 214, 272,
467-68, 726, 949, 1265-66, 1265n,
1273, 1295-96, 1305, 1315, 1349-50, 1352, 1354-55, 1361, 1374-75, 1396, 1439-40, 1445, 1449, 1452, 1455, 1460, 1482
spelling of
name, 4
state
legislator, (1840s-50s)30, 38-40, 42n;
(1874), 1444
statue of, 1472-73
support of candidacies of Franklin Pierce, 44, 55, 63; James K. Polk, 23-24; Lewis Cass, 28; Abraham Lincoln, 198; Ulysses H. Grant, 1398, 1434; Horace Greeley, 1398, 1435-37; Rutherford B. Hayes, 1449, 1454; James A. Garfield, 1455, 1460; William Claflin for governor, 1397; support withheld for Grant's reelection, 1365
U. S. marshal at Boston, 1454-55, 1457-59, 1461, 1500
views on
African Americans, 49, 712, 1293-94,
1294n; Jews, 153, 768n; Native
Americans, 153; Catholics, Irish,
foreign-born 75-78, 90, 150, 154-55,
169-70; Chinese, 78;
Mormons, 144
views on aid to railroads, 40; benefits of purchase of Alaska, 1305; capital punishment, prisons, flogging and crime, 29-30, 40, 156-58; Charles Sumner's actions, 1190; corruption during Grant presidency, 1439, 1441; daughter's acting career, 1469;prewar compromise with the South, 156; constitutional issues (Mass.), 53; presidential reconstruction issues, 1272-73, 1285, 1288-89;education support, 152, 773n, 774, 776; economic issues, 19, 77, 143, 149-53, 157, 1289, 1371, 1381; environmental issues, 1391; on modernization of state militia, 158; fate of Jefferson Davis, 1273; postwar Mexican issues, 1273, 1368-69; "popular sovereignty", 145; buying lands in Delaware, 141, 141n; preserving the union, 93, 93n, 156, 202; reconciliation with South, 1439, 1441, 1448; removing Judge Loring, 155-56; Russia and the czar, 1326; secret organizations, 77; slavery and racial issues, 27-29, 63-65, 76, 90, 92, 121, 150-51, 155-56, 175, 201, 210, 321, 567, 786, 843-44, 1266, 1275, 1289-90, 1293, 1371, 1373, 1375, 1440-41; superiority of New Englanders, 163; temperance, 19-20, 30, 43, 167n; labor issues, 1289, 1396; total military mobilization, (1861), 209, 262, 1289; U. S. expansion, 29, 77, 262, 1289, 1301, 1305, 1328, 1339, 1350, 1358; voting for women, 1378; resuming Louisiana constitutional convention, 1373; New Orleans riots, 1373-74; heavily taxing Southern cotton, 1371, 1377; (postwar) on Northern emigration to South, 1371; (postwar) on readmitting Southern states and military occupation, 1371, 1375, 1377
work as teenager, 10-11
Banks, Nathaniel Prentice (son of Nathaniel Jr.), 32
Banks, Priscilla, 1488
Banks, Rebecca (Greenwood), 5, 7-9, 12, 32
Banks, Robert Adam, 415
Banks, Robert Lenox, 1500n
Banks, Sarah (Gwin), 1488
Banks, Susan Prentice, 194, 488, 1279, 1467
Banks, Thomas, 1488
Banks, William, 1487-88
Banks, William Hazlett, 488, 488n
Banks Club, 169, 201
Banks family origins, 1487-89
Banks in Massachusetts, 157, 157n
Banks (political) party, 146
Baptist religion, political views of members, 15, 148n
Barclay, Frank E., 774
Baring Brothers (bankers), 1225, 1335, 1344n, 1423n, 1507
Barker, Jacob, 1144, 1207, 1223, 1224n, 1225-26, 1405, 1410-11, 1491, 1491n; background of, description of, 1224; and new bank, 1226
Barksdale, William, 56, 125
Barnard, C. A., 996
Barnard, John Gross, 284, 434
Barnburners, 110
Barnett's Ford, Rapidan River, Virginia, 410, 418, 421
Barney, Hiram, 782
Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 865, 1443
Barre's Landing, Louisiana, 888
Bartlett, David W., 168, 169n, 171
Bartlett, William O., 176, 176n, 177, 832, 1395, 1418, 1420, 1499
Barlow, Samuel Latham Mitchill, 835
Barton, Clara, 474, 1192
Batchford, R. M. , 1423
Bates, Benjamin E., 1406, 1494n
Bates, Edward, 171, 173-74, 180-81, 195n, 202, 231, 499, 812, 1150, 1165
Bates Manufacturing Company, 1494, 1494n
Bath, Virginia [West Virginia], 265
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Federal occupation of (Dec. 1862), 552; refugee camp in, 570, 570n; fortifications, 576, 597, 712 arrival Grierson's raid, 655-56; trading at, 1217, 1219, 1221
Baugh, Johnson, 1252
Bayard, George Dashiell, 399n
Bayou Boeuf, Louisiana, 972
Bayou Bourbeau, Louisiana, battle of (1863), 892
Bayou de Glaise, Louisiana, 968-70
Bayou du Lac, Louisiana, 969
Bayou Macon, Louisiana, 654
Bayou Pierre, Louisiana, 1001, 1003-04, 1004n, 1005, 1016, 1027, 1054-55, 1058
Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana, 648
Bayou Rapides, Louisiana, 971-72
Bayou San Patricio, 1018, 1022, 1024-25, 1030-31, 1039
Bayou Sara, Louisiana, 646, 657, 660, 667, 679-83, 719, 1221
Bayou Sara Road, Louisiana, 603
Bayou Sorrel, Louisiana, 595
Bayou Teche, 756, 891-92, 967, 1024; description of, 618, plans, engagements and outcome (first half 1863), 590, 594, 596, 613, 615-18, 620-30, 637, 639-40, 644, 648, 650, 667, 693, 714, 738, 772, 1141
Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, 822
Beall, William Nelson Rector, 674, 750
Beaman, Thomas R., 898
Bear Valley, California, 160-61, 163
Beard, A. W., 1454
Beard, Josiah, 32
Beatie, Russel H., 1293n
Beaumont, Texas, 872, 878
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 226, 381n; wife of, 822, 885n
Beckwith, Edward Griffin, 247, 279, 376, 395, 408, 508-09, 520n, 895,1479; in New Orleans, 520-21, 539n, 565-66
Beckwith, H., 1423
Bedini, Gaetano, 73
Bee (ship), 679, 746n
Bee, Hamilton Prioleau, 893-94, 899-900, 904, 909, 1079-81, 1085
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1443
Beecher, Lyman, 73
Behrman, S. W., 1268
Belknap, William Worth, 1399, 1443n
Bell, Henry H., 878, 926
Bell, John, 195, 572, 788n, 852
Belles, Capt., 1536
Belmont, Massachusetts, 1461
Belmont, Missouri, battle of (1861), 380, 380n, 381n, 474
Bemis, S. G., 20
Benachi, N. M., 1527
Benedict, Augustus W., 771-72
Benedict, Michael, 1299
Benjamin, Judah, 587, 765
Bennett, James Gordon, 121, 171, 176, 196, 253, 475, 587, 766, 825, 866n, 1352; wife of, 823, 825, 825n, 832, 1294, 1319, 1323, 1352-53
Benton, Thomas Hart, 56, 58, 103, 107, 122n, 586n, 826, 1221
Benton, William Plummer, 1219
Bentonville, North Carolina, battle of (1865), 472, 966n
Bercier, Oscar & Co., 1526
Bergholtz, W. R., 1417
Berry, Nathaniel Springer, 510
Berryville, Virginia, 299
Bertonneau, Arnold, 1147n
Berwick, Louisiana, 621
Berwick Bay, Louisiana, 885, 925-26, 958, 961
Best's battery, 276
Best, Clemont, 444n, 467n
Betterton, William G., 1208-09
Beverly, Massachusetts, 53
Biddeford, Maine, 1494
Bierstadt, Albert, 13n, 1392
Big Black River, Mississippi, 645-46, 764, 1517; battle of at bridge (1863), 673, 675, 697
Big Mulkey Mountain, Virginia, 407
Big Spring, Virginia, 319n
Bigelow, John, 104, 110, 110n, 133n, 145, 1313, 1374; wife of, 1169, 1319
Billington, Ray Allen, 141
Binney, Amos, 6
Binney, Mary 6
Bird, Francis William, 45n, 52, 160,174, 1296, 1408-09, 1436
Bird Club, 146, 149n, 175, 200, 1436
Birge, Henry Warner, 227, 753, 1058, 1081, 1097
Birmingham, Nicholas, 1217
Birney, David Bell, 1278
Bishop, John, 1513n
Bisland, Mr., 624
Bismarck, Otto von, 1331
Bissell, William Henry, 58, 190
Black Drift Mine, 162
Black Friday (1869), 1434
Black Hawk, 990, 1008n, 1058, 1197, 1229, 1234, 1500, 1536
Black Hawk War, 224n, 228, 1514
Black Republican, The (newspaper), 815n
Black Republicans (antislavery political faction), 88
Black River, Louisiana, 654
Blackwater Creek, Missouri, 396
Bladensburg, Maryland, 134
Blaine, James Gillespie, 126, 1299, 1339n, 1349, 1355, 1375, 1379, 1393, 1397, 1429, 1443n, 1448
Blair, Francis Preston Sr., 102-03, 108, 110, 171
Blair, Francis Preston Jr., 102-03, 105, 107-08, 111, 117, 120, 171, 722
Blair, Montgomery, 102, 196, 221, 233, 499, 722, 1184, 1184n, 1186, 1191, 1289, 1436
Blair family, 85, 109, 181, 499-500, 1289
Bland, Charles H., 1221n
Blenker, Louis, 78, 304-05, 317-18, 334-35, 1474
Block, L., 1509
Blockade-running and smuggling, 556, 763, 772, 833n, 850, 857, 861, 876, 880, 900, 910-13, 1172, 1174, 1176, 1186, 1195, 1201, 1217, 1219-20, 1225
Blodgett family, 823
Bloomer, Robert, 550-51, 1205, 1223, 1223n, 1411, 1500-01
Bloomington, Illinois, 190
Blossom, Levi, 1518-19
Blücher & Co., 1423n
"Blue Danube Waltz," 1441n
Blue Line (steamships), 1228
Blue Ridge Mountains, 240, 306, 326, 328, 332, 334, 343, 348, 375, 399, 407, 411-12, 414, 416-17
Bobbin Boy (book), 11, 175
Boca Chica, Texas, 895-97, 899
Bogota, Colombia, 1335
Boilleau, Gauldrie, 1416
Bolivar Heights, 240
Bologna, Italy, 73
Bonanza Kings, 1431
Bonekemper, Edward H., 1293n
Bonzano, Max, 1151, 1273
Booth, John Wilkes, 21, 976, 1192n, 1264
Booth, Junius, 21
Border Ruffians, 111, 136, 140
Border States, 169, 195
Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad, 1403
Boston, Massachusetts; cotton shipped through, 1159-60; sugar refineries at, 1353
Boston and Worcester Railroad, 6
Boston Atlas, 113
Boston Bay lands, 154, 190
Boston Board of Trade, 853
Boston Daily Advertiser, 336, 380
Boston Daily Bee, 149
Boston Journal, 169, 380, 475, 1394
Boston Lyceum Bureau, 1443
Boston Manufacturing Company, 5-7, 9-12, 14
Boston Tea Party, 1445
Boston Traveller, 19, 723n, 1099
Botts, John M., 196n
Bouligny, D., 1242n, 1500
Boutron, Sophie, 1280
Boutwell, George Sewel, 36, 42, 52, 54, 127, 133, 146, 149,154, 177-78, 202, 204, 210, 261, 490, 499, 567, 755, 803, 807, 812, 830-32, 905, 1106, 1289, 1296, 1299, 1379, 1394, 1443, 1460
Bowen, James, 547, 766-67, 801-02, 843, 863n, 925, 1157, 1163, 1218, 1226-27
Bowen, Nicholas, 1199, 1202
Bowles, Charles, 1328, 1336, 1336n
Bowles, Robert, 1336n
Bowles, Samuel, 80, 173, 173n, 176-78, 178n, 199, 203-05, 239, 834, 1099, 1499
Bowles Brothers (bankers), 1316
Bowman, Selwyn Zadock, 1452-53
Boyce, Charles William, 276
Boyce, Henry, 1115
Boyd, Alexander, 1334-37
Boyd, Belle, 346, 518
Boyd, Linn, 57, 98, 124
Boyer, Mr., 1333
Bradley, Joseph H., 138
Brady, James Topham, 1197-98, 1215, 1263, 1266, 1499
Brady, Matthew B., 824
Bragg, Braxton, 29, 226, 1105n
Brashear City (Morgan City), Louisiana, 616, 621, 651, 667-68, 670, 678, 781, 885, 890, 925; Confederate operation against (1863), 687-88, 724, 738-40, 756
Brayman, Mason, 1195, 1490
Brazos Island, Texas, 896, 898, 900, 904, 914
Brazos River, Texas, 859, 863
Brazos Santiago, Texas, 879, 896- 97, 899-900
Breckinridge, John Cabell, 57, 217, 572, 788n
Breese, Kidder Randolph, 984, 984n, 989n, 1227, 1229, 1513-14, 1516, 1536
Brega, George W., 88
Brewer, Melvin, 465
Bridge, H. E. & Co., 1513
Bridge, Hudson E., 1508, 1513n
Bridgeport, Alabama, 927, 973n
Briggs, George Nixon, 53
Bright, A. M., 1150
Brindisi, Italy, 1327
Brisbin, James Sanks, 836, 1082
Bristoe Station, Virginia, 486
Brookline, Massachusetts, 1203n
Brooklyn, New York, 498, 824, 1319, 1472, 1524
Brooks, Dr., 151
Brooks, Preston Smith, 127-33, 557n, 1356
Broom, Jacob, 89, 89n, 125
Brott & Davis, merchants, 1205-06
Brown, Campbell, 346
Brown, George E., 230
Brown, George T., 1516
Brown, George W., 141, 141n
Brown, James G., 763-64, 764n
Brown, John, 57, 136, 140, 141n, 148, 158, 160, 240, 288, 322, 504, 712, 772
Brown, R. B., 775-76
Brown, Samuel P., 1400, 1401n
Browne, Symmes, 1076n
Browning, Orville Hickman, 499, 514, 543, 1150, 1288, 1374
Brownsville, Texas, 861, 893, 899-902, 904, 908, 910-14, 1204n, 1212
Browntown, Virginia, 342
Brumagin, Mark, 163
Bryan, Thomas B., 1455-56, 1456n
Bryant, Edwin Eustace, 254, 280
Bryant, William Cullen, 85, 823, 834
Buchanan, James, 119-20, 122, 125, 141-42, 144, 144n, 207, 395, 849, 866n, 881, 1300
Buckeystown, Maryland, 254
Buckingham, William Alfred, 852
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1175
Buell, Don Carlos, 506, 1045n, 1142
Buford, John, 406, 412, 1481
Bulkley, Charles S., 521, 576, 694-95, 821, 1305, 1305n
Bull Run, Virginia...for general area see Manassas, Virginia
Bull Run, Virginia, first battle of (1861) , 224n, 239, 244-46, 245n, 291, 306, 330, 352, 380, 402, 486, 881, 998, 1063, 1105n, 1277
Bull Run, Virginia, second battle of (1862), 433, 465, 479n, 486, 489, 495, 592, 618, 621, 630, 683, 693, 706, 711n, 882, 1053n, 1064
Bullitt, Cuthbert, 772n, 781n, 782-83, 783n, 793, 793n, 812n, 818, 843n, 1150-51, 1153, 1157, 1189, 1189n, 1208, 1227, 1273, 1519
Bunker Hill, battle of, 3
Bunker Hill, Virginia (West Virginia), 243, 287
Burgess's Mill, Virginia, engagement (1864), 381n
Burlingame, Anson, 52, 126, 132-35, 145, 149, 172-73, 177, 1289; in Europe, 1318-19, 1324-25, 1327-28
Burlingame, Edward Livermore, 1320n
Burlington, Massachusetts, 1461
Burmeister, George C., 1022, 1084
Burnet, William, 1519, 1521
Burnham, George W., 203-04, 480, 1435
Burnett, Edward, 1457
Burns, Anthony, 66, 155, 1532n
Burns, William S., 1053
Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 225n, 414, 449, 483, 490, 493, 584-85, 587, 656, 1105n, 1120, 1194, 1195n, 1196, 1364n, 1460, 1509
Burnside expedition to North Carolina (1862), 523
Burr, Amanda (Banks), 1487n
Burrall, William P., 187n
Burrell, Isaac S., 553
Bush, George Walker, 1305
Butler, Andrew Jackson, 500, 504-05, 549, 549n, 550, 588, 1223, 1223n, 1235, 1254, 1277, 1279, 1490, 1534
Butler,
Andrew Pickens, 130, 789
Butler, Benjamin Franklin, mentioned, 51-53, 159, 214n, 217, 250, 500, 615, 619, 716, 751, 789, 797, 823, 826, 1120, 1142, 1147, 1171, 1235, 1266, 1296, 1465; description of, 538, 538n, 866n, 1370, 1446; his commands in Virginia, 217, 219, 558n, 571, 1196; command in Maryland, 230; expedition to New Orleans, 523, 523n; command in New Orleans, 497, 502, 504-05, 505n, 507-09, 511-12, 515, 523, 533, 536, 538-40, 543-44, 547-48, 549n, 550, 552-53, 556, 561, 564, 568, 571, 575, 576, 582, 586, 588, 639, 711, 715-16, 781, 785, 828, 841, 978, 1172, 1194, 1199, 1206-07, 1277, 1528; efforts to regain Louisiana command, 540-47, 568, 577, 887, 1154; at 1860 Democratic convention, 544, 789n; views on trading outside Union
lines, 560, 768; his financial assets,
761n; taxes he imposed in Louisiana,
784, 785n; offers to come to
organize a Louisiana government,
788; policies on voting in Louisiana, 791; 1864 presidential campaign, 830, 838; at Ft. Fisher, 1133, 1388; and New Orleans banks, 1157; trade policy in Louisiana, 1158; loss of Virginia command, 1192; and Asahel S. Mansfield, 1221; his bank account activity in New Orleans, 1223n, 1224n, 1491; loan to Adm. Farragut, 1490; allowing noncitizens to vote, 1242; cleaned up New Orleans streets, 1247-48; accusations against by Smith-Brady commission, 1490-91; personal relationship with Banks, political opponent, 1289, 1302, 1396-98, 1446, 1448, 1451; investigates Banks's residency, 1295; as leader in postwar Congress, 1299; and Alaska purchase, 1302-05, 1307, 1310, 1313, 1348; and acquisition of Santo Domingo, 1307, 1344n, 1345, 1348; and Perkins claim, 1307; and Uriah Painter, 1311; favored by Pres. Grant, 945n, 1348, 1435; views on Cuban civil war, 1354, 1356-57; and expatriation legislation, 1361; and Alabama treaty legislation,
1366-67; views on racial mixing, 1371;
manager of Johnson trial, 1372;
attacks on Admiral Porter,
1387-88; reinstatement of Hanscom,
1388; and Genl. Kilpatrick,
1396n; loses governor bid in
1870s, 1397; and Japanese compensation fund, 1397; and Houard citizenship, 1397-98; and Union Pacific Railroad, 1403-04, 1407-08; originates Bloody Shirt slogan, 1440; and William Simmons, 1443, 1448; at Grant inauguration, 1443n; as an independent, 1448; and 1888 election, 1462; his Massachusetts real estate, assets, 1491, 1491n, 1492n; and Gov. Yates, 1516; and Benjamin Camp, 1520
Butler, James Jr.,
1410, 1410n
Butler, Johnson & Co., 1225n
Butler, Peter Cleveland, 1225, 1225n, 1226, 1410-11, 1411n
Butler, Sarah Jones (Hildreth), 826
Butler, Sise & Co., 1225n, 1410n
Butler, Speed, 417n, 421, 421n, 426, 464-65, 1514
Butler, William, 1182, 1232, 1236, 1508-09, 1512-13, 1513n, 1515, 1517
Butler, William & Co., 1508, 1517
Butler expedition to Louisiana (1862), 523, 531n, 617
Butte-á-la-Rose, Louisiana, 594-95, 595n, 617, 620, 631, 635, 651, 678, 729, 1010
Byrne, Patrick, 1401
Cabinet, U.
S.
Buchanan
administration, 195
Pierce administration, 56, 63-64
Lincoln
administrations, 196-204, 560
Johnson
administration, 1300, 1382
Grant
administrations, 722n, 1347, 1351,
1434
Cadwalader, George, 217, 226, 231, 243, 243n, 245
Cadwallader, Sylvanus, 647n, 869
Caesar, Julius, 36, 1071
Cailloux, Andre, 885n
Cairo, Illinois, 183-85, 189, 191, 207-08, 512, 847, 921, 928-29, 945, 1070, 1077, 1104, 1124, 1260, 1264, 1508n, 1510-12, 1514
Cairo fraud controversy, 1126n
Cajuns...see Acadians
Calcasieu Lake, Louisiana, 875
Calcasieu River, Louisiana, 884
Calhoun, John Caldwell, 27, 29, 47, 168
California legislature, 99
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 108, 214, 408-09, 1203n, 1461, 1465
Cambridge City, Indiana, 1252-53
Camden, Arkansas, 1000
Cameron, Simon, 171, 178, 180-81, 196, 199, 204, 212n, 223, 231-32, 246, 499-501, 834
Camp, Benjamin F., 1232, 1519-22
Camp Moore, Louisiana, 590
Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1194
Campagne de Italie,, 534, 616
Campbell, Lewis Davis, 85-89, 125, 125n, 129, 131, 134, 138-39
Campbell mansion, New Orleans, 539
Campti, Louisiana, 1006
Canada, U.S. interest in acquiring, 1358, 1358n, 1363-64; invasion of by Fenians, 1358-59; confederation events, 1363; fisheries of, 1364-66, 1368
Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg, mentioned , 948; background of, personality, 1123, 1127; evaluation of Red River supply route, 934-35, 1125; during Red River expedition, 1124-27, 1129- 30; as administrator, Div. of W. Mississippi, 1127, 1131, 1144, 1149, 1158, 1161, 1164, 1195, 1265, 1489; and Louisiana civilian government, 1162, 1165, 1171, 1271, 1274, 1373; wounding of, 1171; and Mobile campaign, 1171n, 1267; and trade issues, cotton and smuggling, 1172-74, 1176, 1219, 1222, 1227-28, 1230-31, 1262n, 1504; question of his removal, 1177; Halleck communication about Banks in Washington, 1192; and Genl William F. Smith, 1196; and Everitt affair, 1205; accused by Hugh Kennedy, 1271; heads reorganized dept. in 1865, 1272; and wife of Genl. T. W. Sherman, 1272
Canby, Louisa (Harkins), 1127, 1127n
Cane River, Louisiana, 987, 994, 1024, 1079-81, 1083-84, 1086; engagement at junction with Red River (1864), 1085-87
Cane's warehouse, Shreveport, Louisiana, 981n
Cannon...see Artillery
Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1462
Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 534
Capers, Gerald Mortimer, 572, 1154n
Capital punishment, 26, 29
Capitol building (Washington), 49, 95, 131, 152, 864, 881, 1392
Carleton, James Henry, 909
Carondelet, 1109
Carpenter, George N., 753
Carradine, Miss, 1251
Carrollton, Louisiana, 867-68
Carter, James Earl ( Jimmy), 27, 1277
Carter, John H., 1254
Casey, Emma (Dent), 1508-09
Casey, James Finnie, 1412, 1442, 1508, 1508n
Casey, M. S., 1513
Casey, Peter, 1508-09, 1513n
Casey, Samuel Lewis, 921, 927, 1059, 1137, 1182, 1232, 1236, 1508-09, 1509n, 1510-14, 1513n, 1527, 1529, 1536n
Cass, Lewis, 28, 43, 77, 101
Casualties, Romney campaign, 269; at Kernstown, 297-98; at Front Royal, 348-49; at First Winchester, 370-71; at Cross Keys, 389; at Cedar Mountain, 444, 444n, 472-73, 1481-83; at Arkansas Post, 979n; at Ft. Bisland, 625; at Port Hudson siege, 704n, 709, 732, 733n, 734-35, 741n; at Vicksburg siege, 710, 733-35; at Henderson's Hill, 971;at Mansfield/Pleasant Grove, 1042; at Pleasant Hill, 1051; at Monett's Bluff, 1082; at Cane River junction, 1086; at Mansura, 1128; at Yellow Bayou, 1130; at all battles, compared, 733, 735
Catholic clergy, and slavery views, 73, 148
Catholic doctrine, 72
Catholic hierarchy, 72-73, 79; Chicago, 205
Catholic works, 195
Catholics in Louisiana, 832; in Massachusetts, 54, 83
Catholics in the United States, 68, 70; political views of members, 148
Catlin, George, 1392
Catoctin Mountains, 254
Catton, Bruce, 340, 950n, 1484
Cavalry, Union army, problems with, 293, 309-310, 310n, 342, 406-07, 511, 574-75, 575n, 589-90, 656, 718, 848, 899n, 973, 1035, 1042
Cayuga County, New York, 281
Cazneau, William L., 1342-43, 1348
Cedar Bayou, Texas, 906
Cedar Creek, Virginia, 435
Cedar Mountain, Virginia, 422, 485; battle of (1862), 296, 422-84, 488, 495, 506, 592, 624-25, 680, 683, 692-93, 709, 737, 824, 1019n, 1023n, 1032, 1140-41, 1182, 1192, 1377, 1468, 1481-86
Cedar Run, Virginia, 435, 438, 438n
Centerville, Louisiana, 616
Centerville (Centreville), Virginia, 302
Central American Company, The, 1342
Central Pacific Railroad, 1391, 1421
Central Park, New York, 352n, 1168, 1352
Central Rink, Cleveland, 1439
Chabert, L., 1520
Chadwick, George W., 1532n
Chadwick, John, 1323n
Chalard, J. E., 1208
Champion's Hill, Mississippi, battle of (1863), 673, 675, 919, 960, 1041
Champs Élysées , Paris, 1352
Chancellorsville, Virginia, battle of (1863), 310, 369, 472, 489, 735, 1002n, 1023n
Chandler, John, 1020, 1037, 1208
Chapin and Western Railway, 160
Chapultepec, Mexico, battle of (1847), 432
Charles River, 6, 164, 1382
Charles River bridge controversy (1827), 17
Charleston, South Carolina, 184, 639, 670
Charlestown, Massachusetts, 108, 467, 469, 949, 1212n, 1296, 1395, 1450, 1452, 1482; navy yard, 1295, 1379, 1382, 1384-86, 1389-90, 1442, 1447-48, 1450
Charlestown (Charles Town), Virginia (West Virginia), 243, 288
Charlottesville, Virginia, 397, 406, 414
Chase,
Samuel Portland, mentioned, 87-88,
107-08, 195n, 196n, 200, 204, 211-12,
383, 395, 501, 509, 561n, 573, 662,
716, 754, 765, 796, 799, 812n, 833,
1083, 1127, 1200, 1206, 1253,
1309n. 1508; works with Samuel
Hooper, 1493; presidential campaign (1859-60),170-71, 174, 174n, 180, 564; and Texas Unionists, Texas invasion, 498, 892; and treasury employees, New Orleans, 498n, 504, 504n, 539, 549-50, 568, 764, 780-83, 784, 808-11, 817, 1145, 1151, 1153-54, 1253-54, 1532-33; and friendship with Benjamin Butler, 504-05, 505n, 538, 544, 547; views on trading outside Union lines and trade regulations, 560, 801, 1238; critical of Banks's policies, 567, 780, 786, 838; presidential campaign (1863-64), 568, 782-83, 782n, 810, 830-31, 833-34, 1148, 1154, 1520, 1524; interest in civil rights for blacks, 780, 783, 786-87, 795, 799, 799n, 800, 812, 819, 1148, 1186, 1188, 1510; and cotton permits, 1524, 1525; debts of, 782, 1236; New York patronage issues, 1160;
meeting with Jacob Barker, 1224;
visit to New Orleans, 1274-75,
1523; as Liberal-Republican,
1436; at Grant inauguration,
1443n; and Daniel A. Dwight,
1493, 1496; his Louisiana relatives, 1508n
Chatham, England, 586n
Chatman's Bayou, Louisiana...for battle there...see Pleasant Grove
Chattanooga, Tennessee, 495n, 757, 764, 867-68, 883, 919, 932, 934, 936, 938, 944, 952, 964, 973n, 1196
Cheat Mountain, Virginia (West Virginia), battle of (1861), 381n
Chester, Pennsylvania, 1236
Chew's battery, 294
Chicago Board of Trade Battery, 1193
Chicago, Illinois, 25n, 60, 100, 121, 168, 171, 173, 177, 180-81, 183-85, 187, 189, 192, 194, 198n, 204-06, 214, 395, 1099, 1455
Chicago Mercantile Battery, 1036
Chicago River, 180, 189
Chicago Tribune, 126, 213, 380, 475, 479, 815n, 1105
Chickamauga, Georgia (1863), battle of, 733, 1023n, 1105n, 1193
Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi, battle of (1862), 579, 584, 596, 684, 711n, 918-19, 979, 1041
Chickering, Thomas, 830, 1532n
Child, George, 1098
Chillicothe, 1130
Chilson, A. W., 443
China, foreign intervention in, 1299; embassy to world (1869), 1324-25
Chinese immigration and workers, 72n, 78, 1371, 1396, 1396n
Chloe, Aunt, 322
Choate, Rufus, 52, 75, 187
Christy, Daniel, 796, 1152
Church, Frederick Edwin, 823
Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ at Hassanamisco, 1
Churchill, Thomas James, 1011, 1017, 1047
Cincinnati, Ohio, 73, 109-10, 495n, 1198, 1423, 1425, 1509, 1517
Cincinnati and Great Northern Railroad, 1423, 1426
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, 1425
Cincinnati Commercial, 1425-26
Cincinnati Enquirer, 463, 475,1182, 1486
Cincinnati Railway Tunnel Company, 1424n
Cincinnati Tunnel, 1424
Cisco, John J., 1423
Cisco, John J. & Sons, 1423n
Citadel area, Port Hudson, 742-44
Citizen Kane, 964
City Point, Virginia, 757n, 1260
Ciudad Rodrigo, siege of (1810), 698
Claflin, William, 1403-04, 1404n, 1407, 1446
Claiborne, John Francis Hamtrance, 633
Clarendon, Lord, 1363-64
Clarinda [ship], 876n
Clark, Mr., 1478
Clark, George D., 1389
Clark,
Henry, 588
Clark, John Swartout
Smith, 250, 279, 331, 370, 392, 519;
arrest by Genl. Patterson, 249, 249n;
friends with Sewards, 250, 250n,
337, 376, 520, 754, 783, 1125,
1168; views about Genl. Banks,
273, 489, 489n; intelligence
activities, 279-80, 288, 322, 345,
376, 409-10, 412, 412n, 413n,
450, 482-83, 490-93, 509, 520,
600, 632, 683, 935, 992, 995,
1001, 1024, 1031, 1060, 1090,
1476; at Kernstown, 296; as
lobbyist for Banks, 337, 345, 754,
801; witness to conversations,
426, 428; maps and map making,
435, 438n, 965, 1016, 1034,
1048; at Cedar Mountain area,
449, 459-60, 470-71, 476; spotted Jackson at Second BullRun, 489-90; appointment as aide in New Orleans command, 520; as New Orleans provost marshal, 547, 549, 549n, 586; injured March 1863, 604, 754; as friend of A. A. Atocha, 826; views on black soldiers, black units, 840-41, 844; trip to St. Louis, 956n; advance to Mansfield, 1010n, 1013, 1020, 1024; battle at Mansfield, 1029-30, 1030n, 1031n; at Pleasant Hill, 1052; question of speculation in cotton, 1125, 1256; accusation of "managing" Banks, 1125; as aide during Banks's stay in Washington, 1864-65, 1168, 1189; fails to obtain appointment to governor's staff, 1189; involvement with cotton shipments, 1206, 1389; and Benjamin Camp, 1520; second return to New Orleans, 1264; and sons in naval academy, 1389
Clark, Orton S., 535, 559, 691n
Clark Mountain, Virginia, 485
Clarke, Bayard, 89n
Clarke, G. W., 380n
Clarke County, Virginia, 310
Clary, Robert, 408
Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 172, 181, 498, 823
Clay, Henry, 29, 42, 46-47, 98, 127, 168, 184, 586, 1349, 1350n
Clear Creek County, Colorado, 1455, 1457
Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne, 227
Cleopatra, 36, 1326
Cleveland, Grover, 1457, 1461-62,1469
Cleveland, Ohio, 1439
Clifton, 876n
Clinton, William Jefferson ("Bill"), 1277
Clinton, Louisiana, 682, 726
Clothing, of soldiers, 281
Clough, Moses, 1491
Coahuila State, Mexico, 916
Cobb, Howell, 94, 125n, 229n
Cobos, José Maria, 915
Cochran, A. F., 1202
Cochrane, John, 270
Code Napoleon, 1360
Cohen, Henry, 595
Colby, Daniel W., 1029
Cold Harbor, Virginia, battle of (1864), 369, 381n, 699n, 731n, 733
Cold River, New Hampshire, 2, 4
Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice, 1460
Colfax, Schuyler , 94, 124, 145, 170, 173n, 178n, 202, 212-14, 214n, 239, 332, 520n, 1289, 1296-97, 1393, 1409, 1443
Coliseum Place, New Orleans, 827
Collamer, Jacob, 181, 819
College Point, Mississippi River, 739
Collis, Charles Henry Tucky, 261, 282
Cologne, Germany, 1323
Columbian Bank, 1228n
Columbus, Christopher, 898
Comins, Linus Bacon, 132
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 61
Committee of Correspondence, 2
Common Fund, 1423
Compensation...see Workers' pay
Compromise of 1820, 62, 65, 142
Compromise of 1850, 40, 45, 51, 56, 62, 66, 155, 184
Comstock Lode, 1428, 1430-31
Concord, Massachusetts, 2-3, 159
Conestoga, 946
Confederate Congress, 298, 879
Confederate officers, West Point-volunteer conflicts, 1012, 1012n
Confederate Cotton Bureau, 1232, 1530
Confiscation Act (1862), 403, 761
Confiscation of property in New Orleans or return of such property, 547-48, 548n, 785, 1194, 1206; of property near Port Hudson, 609; of property along Bayou Teche and south of Alexandria, 636-37, 639n, 640, 667, 1213, 1262n; of property in Texas, 1213; of cotton in Alexandria and Red River, 1230, 1237; of property in the South, 1237
Congdon, Charles, 21, 113, 113n
Congo balls, 1272n
Congregational religion, 3; political views of members, 15, 148n
Congressional Globe, 1139
Congressional Record, 1461
Conkling, James C., 746, 752n
Conkling, Roscoe, 1299, 1443n, 1532n
Connecticut
infantry regiments
3rd, 280
4th, 249
12th, 576
13th, 630, 680, 839, 1371
25th, 741n
26th, 741n
28th,
741n
Connecticut River, 2
Conness, John, 1379-80
Constitution, Confederate, 207
Constitution, Arkansas, 1156; Louisiana, 788, 790-91, 793-96, 798, 800, 806-07, 818-19, 1144, 1149-53, 1171, 1187-88; voter approval of, 1152-54, 1156, 1179, 1187
Constitution, U. S, 91, 234, 791
13th Amendment,
752n, 1184, 1191, 1287, 1371, 1141
14th
Amendment,1287, 1372, 1377, 1441
15th Amendment,
1287, 1372, 1377-78, 1441
17th Amendment,
811n
Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, 62
Constitutional Union party, 169, 195
Consulate and Empire, 25
Convents, 83
Conway, Robert, 1203
Conway, Thomas William, 773, 777, 1164-65, 1206, 1252, 1253n, 1271, 1290-91; 1373
Conwell, Russell H., 1454
Cook, Marcus, 1465
Cooke, Henry, 1419, 1421
Cooke, Jay, 1236n, 1419, 1421
Cooke, John Esten, 320n, 1475
Cooke, Philip St. George, 1219, 1221, 1221n
Coolidge, Calvin, 1380n
Cooper, James, 335-36
Cooper Institute, New York, 1184-85; 1347
Copeland, George W., 1394, 1462
Copeland, Robert Morris, 250, 278-79, 293, 333, 335-338, 404-05, 405n, 478, 674, 1140, 1394n
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1323
Corinth, Mississippi, 381n, 400, Union occupation of (1862), 377, 396, 611, 964, 964n, 1120; Confederate assault on (1862), 585, 964, 966
Corps d'Afrique, 726, 733, 776, 784, 841, 844, 894-95, 995, 1056, 1059, 1128, 1187, 1215...see also Native Guards (earlier) for individual regiments...and United States Colored Troops (later)
Corps of Observation, 255, 1068
Corpus Christi, Texas, 895, 902, 904, 1023n
Corbin, Abel, 1511n
Corrupt bargain of 1824, 42
Corsican Brothers, 976
Cortina(s), Juan Nepomucen, 915-17, 1204, 1204n, 1212-13
Cottman, Thomas, 798, 804-05, 1291, 1291n
Cotton , foreign interest in obtaining during Civil War, 542, 761n; cultivation during war, 272, 272n, 498, 638n, 1495; wartime transport networks of, 559-60, 859, 897, 900, 909, 913, 1159-60, 1261; interest in direct U. S. government purchases of, 761-62, 761n, 1173, 1175-76; sales by planters to Union authorities, 638, 654, 1174, 1206-07; permits to buy or ship, 833, 836, 921, 1173, 1176, 1182, 1203, 1220-23, 1227, 1231-32, 1234, 1237, 1495-96, 1498, 1501, 1506-07, 1508n, 1510, 1512-13, 1523-24, 1526-27; use as tax by Confederates, 860, 913, 1230; possible ownership by Julia D. Grant, 940; army collection, shipping of during Red River campaign, 976, 1008, 1112-13, 1125, 1180-82, 1220, 1229; collection of at Port Hudson, 1215; army sale of in 1863, 1213-14; civilian shipments, purchases during Red River campaign, 990, 999, 1102, 1233-34, 1253, 1260, 1267, 1499-1500, 1502-03; treasury disposal of, 1254; naval collection of as prizes of war, 976, 980, 1125, 1132, 1254-61; burning of by Confederates, 994, 1005, 1236, 1257, 1261; price of, 1174-75, 1232; Confederate sales to Union sources, 1175, 1497-98, 1527-29; Banks's proposals for taxing, 1230-31; stored Confederates supplies of, 1234-35, 1498...see also
Confiscation...see also Blockade-running and smuggling...see also...Trade regulations, Union...see also Mansfield, Asahel and cotton activities
Cotton mills, 272, 852, 852n, 853, 1159-60, 1160n, 1173, 1495, 1500, 1512
Cotton Whigs, 194-95
Coupée, Henry, 868n
Covode, John, 1274, 1289
Cowan, John F., 1400, 1424, 1432
Cox, Jacob Dolson, 222, 228n
Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 835, 1388
Cox's plantation, Louisiana, 756
Cozzens, G. W., 773
Cozzens, Peter, 1485
Cozzens, William L., 1250-51, 1253
Cramer, William, 837
Crane, Edward, 1403-05
Craven, Alfred, 1469
Crawcour, Dr., 1206, 1210
Crawford, Samuel Wylie, 350, 352-53, 363, 371, 391-92, 409-10, 422-24, 428, 430-31, 434, 438n, 441-43, 447-51, 455-57, 460-61, 467, 473, 477, 479, 488, 491, 1436
Credit Mobilier (bank), 1331, 1406n
Credit Mobilier Company, 1406-09, 1411, 1417, 1422
Credit Mobilier scandal, 1201, 1225, 1228, 1311, 1343, 1405, 1407-10, 1426, 1430, 1449, 1531
Cricket, 990
Crimean War, 79, 1307
Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas, 224n
Crittenden resolution, 321
Crocker, Mr., 1310n
Crooked Run, Virginia, 423
Crops...see Agriculture
Crosman, George Hampton, 247
Crosby, J. Schuyler, 665, 948, 948n
Cross Keys, Virginia, battle (1862), 389-90, 397, 402
Cross Lake, Louisiana, 1002
Cuba, civil
war in, 1351-52, 1355, 1357; American
support of independence movement,
1348-50, 1353-57, 1364; trade with
U.S., 1353; American interest in
acquiring, 1357n
Cullen expedition, 1337
Culpeper, Virginia, 406, 408-12, 414-15, 417-20, 422, 425, 427, 430, 436, 463-64, 467, 474, 485, 1119, 1121, 1484
Culpeper Co., Virginia, 411, 415, 417, 421-23, 481, 520
Culpeper Road, 429-30, 435, 439, 443, 445-47, 451, 459, 462
Cumberland, Maryland, 302
Cummings, John, 1450, 1452
Cunningham, John S., 497, 832, 1391
Currie, Leonard D. H., 598
Curtin, Andrew Gregg, 204, 534
Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 306, 310, 376, 380
Cushing, Caleb, 43-44, 56, 64, 66, 74, 104, 187
Cushman, Henry W., 41
Custer, George Armstrong, 1455
Customs House, New Orleans, 1273
Cutler, R. King, 1189
Cutting, Franklin Brockholst, 63
Cypress Island, Louisiana, 625
Dabney, Robert Lewis, 320n, 1475
Daily Morning Chronicle, 1310n, 1311
Daily Picayune, 1270
Daily Wisconsin, 836-37, 957
Dam 4, Potomac River, 238, 243
Dam 5, Potomac River, 238, 243, 265-66
Dana, Charles Anderson, 646-47, 647n, 719-21, 733-34, 847, 920, 933, 1088, 1518, 1532, 1533n; background of, 719-20
Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh, 558n, 895, 899, 904, 911-14, 916-17, 1173, 1186
Dana, Richard Henry Jr. 52-54, 193-94
Danville, Virginia, 413
Dargan, James F., 730n, 732n
Dargan, John, 638
Darien canal...see Panamanian canal projects
Darling, (Provost Marshal), 1208
Darnestown, Maryland, 254, 263, 269
Dartmouth College case, 65
Davis, David, 1160n
Davis, Edward Morris, 104-05
Davis, Henry Winter, 196n, 232, 377, 1155-56, 1184, 1188, 1297
Davis, Jefferson Finis, mentioned, 56, 226, 237, 264, 308, 339, 81n, 404, 482, 520n, 544, 544n, 618, 723, 763, 977, 1134, 1185, 1522, and Port Hudson operations, 584, 681, 687; and peace missions, 765-66; and Red River campaign, 955; orders Taylor to Alabama, 1130; and supply contracts, 1209; flees from Federals, 1267; in prison, 1435; his voting rights, 1448; and cotton sales, 1528
Davis, John, 50
Davis, Pauline, 1378
Davis, William C., 441
Dawes, Henry Laurens, 52, 201, 1392-93
Day, Horace, 114, 116, 119, 119n, 120
Day, Timothy Crane, 89, 89n
Dayton, William Lewis, 118, 120, 181, 196, 196n
De Forest, John William, 535, 629n, 630n, 715n, 731, 975
De Gorgoza, Anthony, see Gorgoza
De Jomini, Henri...see Jomini
De Lesseps, Ferdinand, 1327, 1338, 1338n
De Paris, Count...see Paris
De Rahm & Co., 1214
De Saligny, Count Dubois...see Saligny
De Serna, Don Jesú s , 916
De Soto Parish, Louisiana, 1001n
De Stoeckl, Edouard (Baron), see Stoeckl, Edouard
Dearborn, Mr., 18
Debt imprisonment, 83
Decatur, Stephen, 1260n
Decker, Michael, 815n
Declaration of Independence, 70n, 99n
Deer Creek, Mississippi, 924n, 979, 989n
Deer Isle, Maine, 1467, 1469, 1471-72
Delaware, proposed purchase, 141, 141n
Delaware
infantry regiments,
3rd, 1481
Delhi, Louisiana, 583, 583n
Delta (newspaper), 815, 815n
Delta, Louisiana, 583
Democratic party, in Massachusetts (1830s-40s), 16-18, 54-55; (coalition with Free-Soilers), 40-43, 45, 56, 68, 74, 1290; (late 1850s) 147
Democratic party, national convention, (1848), 44(1852), 43-45, 47, 63(1856) 120(1860) 544, 789n
Denison, George Stanton, 498n, 504, 504n, 509, 539, 549, 556, 568, 568n, 569n, 576, 587-88, 767, 780, 781n, 809-12, 814, 817, 841-42, 1148, 1153-54, 1164, 1205-06, 1206n, 1207, 1226, 1242n, 1249, 1253, 1290, 1504n
Denison, Rachel (Chase), 504n
Dennison, William Jr., 834, 1168
Department of Annapolis, 216-17,230-31, 239, 247
Department of the Cumberland, 934
Department of the Gulf, 552-53, 556, 580, 597, 680, 693, 721, 753, 760, 768-69, 772, 778, 786, 881-82, 908, 911, 941, 987n, 1010, 1048, 1080, 1102, 1126, 1141, 1160, 1177, 1193, 1214-15, 1264, 1267, 1297, 1427-28, 1489, 1530, 1532, 1535; quartermaster's dept., 1239; corruption in, 1126, 1126n, 1194n, 1207-08; cash advances from banks, 1157; solvency rescued by cotton sales, 1215-16; property confiscated by, 1237
Department of the Ohio, 219-20
Department of the Rappahannock, 306, 316
Department of the Shenandoah, 245-47, 306, 312, 317, 394
Derickson, Mr., 503,
Derrickson, Mr., 1203
Desertion problems, (1863), 598, 598n
Destruction and Reconstruction, 1012
Detroit, Michigan, 171, 205, 1448
Deutsches Haus, Chicago, Illinois, 179
Dewey, George, 606n, 1339
D'Hauteville, Frederick, 278, 518-19
Diana (boat), 620, 624, 629
Dickey, Col., 1039
Dickinson, Edward, 57
Dickinson, Emily, 57
Dillon, Edward, 1187n
Dimmock Line, Petersburg, Virginia, 699n
Disease...see Illness in the army
Division of West Mississippi, 1124
Dix, John Adams, 220, 222, 239, 251, 336, 830, 1406, 1423
Dixwell, J. J., 162
Dobbin, James, 56
Dollar, Susan, 1080n
Dolliver, Capt., 1315
Dolliver, J. M., 1315n
Dominican Republic...see entries under Santo Domingo
Donald, David Herbert, 134, 542, 1283
Donaldsonville, Louisiana, 739, 756, 786
Donnelly, Dudley, 355, 357-58, 362, 364, 367, 369, 391, 447, 450, 1478
Donohue, Patrick, 1315
Dorr, Thomas, 236
Dorsey, Stephen Wallace, 1443n
Dostie, Anthony Paul, 816, 1152, 1157, 1241, 1267, 1270-71, 1273, 1291, 1373
Double Bridges, Louisiana, 1021, 1023
Douglas, Henry Kyd, 1475, 1477
Douglas, John M., 200, 209
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 60-61, 65, 107, 120, 136, 145, 184, 187, 248n, 308, 788n, 808, 841
Douglass Frederick, 571, 786, 1288, 1443
Dover, New Hampshire, 11
Dow, Neal, 696, 706, 706n, 737
Doyle, R. W, 1233
Drake, George Bernard, 210, 813n, 1204
Dranesville, Maryland, 254-55
Drayton, Percival, 827, 1127, 1205
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 142, 151, 169, 236, 812, 1150
Drew, Charles, 772
Drew, John T., 1229
Dry Tortugas, Florida, 249, 771
Dublin, Ireland, 1323
Dubois, Jesse K., 1514
Dubuque, Iowa, 183, 189
Dudley, A. P., 993
Duels, 130, 132-34
Duganne, Augustine, 541
Dunbar, Edward B., 176
Duncan, Blanton, 1417
Duncan, D. G., 1228
Duncan, H. C., 589
Duncan, Stephen, 1536
Dunham, Robert T., 518, 923, 936, 1074, 1074n
Dunn, George Grundy, 89n, 90, 137-39
Dunning, William, 1313, 1317
Durant, Thomas Clark, 1311n, 1406, 1521, 1531
Durant, Thomas Jefferson., mentioned, 804n, 1201-02; background, personality of, 790, 793, 807; involvement in call for constitutional convention, 790-91, 793, 795, 798, 806, 809, 818; as attorney general and voter registrar, 791-95, 798-99, 814, 1178, 1179n; attitudes on Louisiana representation in Congress, 796, 811; and 1864 state elections, 806, 811-13, 818; referral of black emissaries, 1147; as advisor to radical members Congress, 1155; as leader of a faction, 1179, 1241; and William Betterton, 1209; moderates his 1864 views, 1266-67; and immigration of Northerners, 1285; investigates Banks's residency, 1295
Durgin, Henry J., 1027
Durrell, Edward H., 1146, 1148, 1189n, 1275, 1411, 1442
Duryeé, Abram, 446
Duvall, John, 250n
Duvall, William O., 250n
Dwight, Howard, 770, 772
Dwight, Daniel A., 1049n, 1072, 1203n, 1232, 1406, 1493-96, 1496n, 1497-99, 1499n, 1503, 1534
Dwight, Wilder, 255, 270, 271n, 298, 309n, 321-22, 331, 356n, 360, 363, 366n, 461, 479, 479n, 496, 521, 1493, 1495
Dwight,
William Sr., 693, 755, 1160n, 1404,
1494, 1494n, 1496n, 1499n, 1500
Dwight, William Jr., mentioned,
251n, 273, 273n, 521, 575,
691-92, 864, 892, 1070-71, 1493,
1495, 1534; background of, personality, 1070-72, 1167; in Washington, 496; and movement to Port Hudson operations, 592-93, 600, 603-04, 608, 611n, 671, 673, 679; and Irish Bend battle, 626, 628; attitudes toward and use of African Americans, 599, 714-15, 717, 841; as emissary to Genl. Grant, 671-77, 697, 720n, 721, 725, 978n; at Port Hudson siege, 693, 697, 702-03, 725, 727-30, 730n, 731, 742-44, 747, 753, 753n, 1069, 1071; and arrests and executions, 770-72, 1140; at Alexandria, 1019, 1255; at Grand Ecore, 1007, 1060, 1065; advance to Natchitoches and Mansfield, 1023-24; at Pleasant Grove, 1041, 1050n; at Pleasant Hill, 1049, 1049n, 1050, 1050n, 1052, 1057, 1060; as chief of staff, 1068, 1101, 1106, 1113, 1116, 1144, congressional testimony, 1071; discussion with Banks on racial views, 1290; in Shenandoah Valley, 1133; postwar career, 1133; and his brother's cotton operations, 1495, 1497-99
Dwight and Co., 1535
Dwight family, 1493, 1503
Eagle Pass, Texas, 912
Early, Jubal Anderson, 226, 423-25, 432, 445-46
East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 817
Eastport, 982-85, 988, 989n, 990, 1066, 1074-75, 1085, 1087, 1091-92
Eaton, John, 1291n
Edge, Frederick, 135
Edie, John Rufus, 96
Edinburg, Virginia, 307
Education in Louisiana, 774
Edward Scissorshands, 106
Eisenhower, Dwight David, 228n
Elements of Military Art and Science , 271n
Elgee, Mr., 1519
Elgee plantation, 1519
Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 53
Eliot, Thomas Dawes, 1185, 1307
Ellet, Alfred Washington, 983
Ellet's Marine Brigade, 1259
Elliott, C. W., 1220
Ellison, Joseph, 1223n
Ellsworth, Elmer, 214
Ely, Alfred Brewster, 76, 76n
Emancipation of serfs, Russia (1860), 786
Emancipation Proclamation, 403, 505-06, 543-44, 560-65, 570, 711, 792, 1183; manuscript copy, 1456n
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 19, 193, 405, 1460
Emory, William Hemsley, and Galveston, 557; background of, 557n, 714, 1007; and Port Hudson, 592; and Teche campaign, 596, 624, 629n; in command of New Orleans garrison, 693-94, 740, 840, 843n; personality of, 694; at Grand Ecore, 1007, 1065; at Mansfield (Pleasant Grove), 1030, 1030n, 1031, 1039-42, 1063; at Pleasant Hill, 1043, 1045-47, 1049-51, 1057, 1060; retreat to Alexandria and Monett's Ferry, 1079-80; at Alexandria, 1090, 1103, 1105, 1310n; the 1864 march to Mississippi River, 1128; in Shenandoah Valley, 1133
Empire City, 527-28
Empire Parish, 679, 1221-22
England...see Great Britain
Epherson, Colonel, 1418
Episcopal religion, political views of members, 15, 148, 148n
Era (New Orleans newspaper), 813-14, 815n, 836, 843, 1146, 1497
Era of Good Feelings, 55
Erie Railroad, 1424
D'Erlanger, Baron Frederic Emile, 1333-34
Erlanger loan, 1214n, 1334
Essex County, Massachusetts, 22
Etheridge, Emerson, 798
Eugénie, Empress, 1326-27, 1327n, 1328, 1330-31; personality of, 1328-29
Eustis, George Jr., 125
Eutropius, 25
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, 997
Evans, Thomas Wilberger, 1330-33, 1333n
Everett, Edward, 154, 505
Everitt, Lancelot Hope, 1204-05
Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 226, 314, 323, 326-29, 331, 333, 338-40, 348, 356, 367, 387, 389, 392, 399, 406, 409, 411, 418-19, 423-24, 428, 432-33, 444-45, 450, 462
Ewer, James K., 1057n
Ewing, Thomas, 943
Ewing family, 1523
Ex Parte Milligan, 1198n
Excelsior Brigade, 224n, 1167
Exeter Institute, Massachusetts, 172n
Expatriation legislation, 1360-62
Fabens, Joseph Warren, 1339, 1341-48
Fairfax (reporter), 1252
Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1487
Fales, Thomas F., 31, 1469
Falling Waters, 372
Falls City, 1006, 1117
Falstaff (Shakespearean character), 65
Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, 176, 541, 1169
Famine emigration, 73
Farnsworth, John Franklin, 1355
Farragut, David Glasgow, mentioned, 47n, 574, 751, 754, 821, 923, 925, 978, 989, 1127; opening of mouth of Mississippi River (1862), 502, 591, 977, 1527; and loss of Galveston, 553, 555-56; activities prior to contested passage, Port Hudson, March 1863, 538, 552, 576, 580, 596-97; passage of Port Hudson, 604-06, 610, 613; activities on middle Mississippi River before opening of river (1863), 607-09, 631, 643-44, 646, 648-51, 653-54, 656, 658, 666, 668-69, 677-78, 686, 924, 979n, 980, 1257; interest in capturing Mobile, 576, 591-92, 849; loan from Genl. Butler, 1490; background of, 591; proposed trip to Alexandria, 649-51; threats to leave the middle Mississippi, 651, 670, 677; during siege of Port Hudson, 687, 725, 732, 739-40, 747, 922; combating Confederates threatening New Orleans (July 1863), 749, 1141; at New Orleans parties, 827, 1207; and Sabine Pass expedition, 854, 878; during Red River campaign, 1087, 1089; and light-draft gunboats, 924, 926, 956; feint in Mobile Bay, 939n; and trade issues, 1176; at Washington social events, 1192; statue of, 1392
Fashion plantation, Louisiana, 619
Faust, 1323
Favé, Ildephonse, 271
Fellows, John Q. A., 799n, 817, 819
Felton, Cornelius Conrad, 154
Fenian Brotherhood, 1359
Fenians and Fenian movement, 1357-60
Fenner, Charles, 1012n
Ferry, Mr., 1517
Fessenden, Francis, 1047, 1059, 1083
Fessenden, William Pitt, 767n, 1083, 1151, 1176, 1225, 1228, 1504n
Field, Alexander P., 798, 805, 1188-89
Field, David Dudley, 823
Field, George B., 1518-20
Field, John B., 1518
Fifty-Five Mile Point, Mississippi River, 739
Fillmore, Millard, 103n, 109, 122, 185, 1445
First National Bank, New Orleans, 1249, 1253, 1253n
First National Bank, Washington, 1314, 1317
Fischer, Roger, 1293n
Fish, Hamilton, 1245, 1307, 1332, 1337, 1398; background of, appearance, 1351; Sumner's attempt to control him, 1363; and purchase of Virgin Islands, 1340; and acquisition of Santo Domingo, 1341, 1346, 1350; Banks's criticism of, 1351; and Cuban issues, 1351, 1353-54, 1358; and Alabama claims, 1357, 1364-65; and invasion of Canada, 1363; personal expenses, 1399; at Grant inauguration, 1443n
Fish, William R., 816, 1245-46, 1245n, 1271, 1291
Fisher, Judge, 1377
Fisk, James, 1404-05, 1434, 1499-1500, 1511n
Fitzhugh, J. W., 1401
"Five Associates," 1494
Flanders, Benjamin Franklin, mentioned, 562, 780-81, 781n, 784n, 797n, 843n; background of, personality, 781-82, 1164, 1188, 1242n; conflict over hospital tax, 784, 1215; his tax, 785, 1215; administration of seized plantations, 785, 840; administrator of seized property, 1207-08, 1209n, 1214-15, 1532; administrator of program to receive loyalist cotton, 1237-39, 1253-54, 1523; question of interest in smuggling, 785, 815; as a leader of a New Orleans radical faction, 787, 796, 800, 838, 1155m 1164, 1172, 1201-02, 1227; attitudes toward 1864 state elections, new constitution and related convention, 788, 797, 799, 808-09, 1145, 1180; views on rights for blacks, 795. 800, 811; as governor candidate (1864), 810-11, 813-14, 817, 819; as bank president, 810-11; patronage job issues at New Orleans, 1151; administrator of labor system, 1163-65; and Ashahel S. Mansfield, 1223, 1225-27, 1231; and Smith-Brady commission, 1243, 1252-54, 1531; speculation on being replaced, 1533; and Frank Howe, 1535; and John McKee, 1535
Fletcher, Peter, 5
Flinn, Frank M., 625, 1057n, 1064
Floyd, John Buchanan, 158n, 1142
Floyd, S. C., 1513n
Fodder Stack Mountain, Virginia, 407
Fogg, George Gilman, 197-98
Foner, Eric, 1283, 1293n
Foote, Andrew H., 980
Foote, Shelby, 989n, 1016, 1016n, 1288, 1484
Forbes, Mr., 163
Forbes, John Murray, 163n, 1334-35, 1335n
Forbes, Paul, 1354
Force Bill, 1464
Ford, William, 115-17
Ford's Theater, 36, 1384
Forest Hill, 679
Forlorn Hope storming party, 740-42, 746, 172
Forney, John Wien, 98, 125, 125n, 172, 514n, 835, 998, 1099, 1178, 1178n, 1270, 1311-12, 1418, 1455
Forney's War Press, 1099
Forrest, Edwin, 20-21, 25, 36, 272
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 227, 228n, 272n, 369, 457n, 699n, 938, 966n, 1131-32, 1136, 1161
Forsyth, Michael J., 989n, 1002n
Fort Adams, Mississippi, 1205, 1221n
Fort Bisland, Louisiana, battle (1863), 622-26, 629, 629n, 1141
Fort Brown, Texas, 899-900
Fort Butler, Louisiana, battle of (1863), 739
Fort de Russy, Louisiana, 962-63, 967-71, 1101, 1116, 1130, 1239, 1526
Fort Delaware, 233
Fort Donelson, Tennessee, battle of (1862), 306, 319, 381n, 506, 683, 831, 1509
Fort Esperanza, Texas, 905
Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1133, 1388
Fort Hill, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 716n
Fort Jackson, Louisiana, 771, 843, 1071
Fort Jesup, Louisiana, 993
Fort Lafayette, New York, 233, 253
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 520
Fort McHenry, Maryland, 231-33, 236
Fort Morgan, Alabama, 512
Fort Pickering, Tennessee, 1493
Fort Pike, Louisiana, 1226m 1226n
Fort Pillow, Tennessee, battle of (1864), 699n, 1131
Fort Smith, Arkansas, 957
Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 192, 208-09, 214, 230, 232, 241, 352, 449, 530
Fortress Monroe, Virginia, 217, 219, 231, 510, 512, 535, 586
Fosdick, George, 1241, 1246n
Foster, John Gray, wife of, 767n
Fouke, Philip Bond, 1522
Fourier, Charles, 790
Fox (ship), 785
Fox, Gustavus Vasa, 663, 674, 924, 926, 977, 979-80
Fox, J. A., 1465
Fox Island, 13
France, intervention in Mexico (1860s), 498, 507, 84-50, 854, 851, 893-94, 916-17, 1204, 1299, 1331, 1368; possible intervention in American Civil War, 500, 505-07, 850, 852-53, 856, 860, 892, 910, 917, 1179-80, 1286; interest in French ancestry residents of Louisiana, 542, 1179-80, 1286; alliances with northern Mexican leaders, 916
Franco-Prussian War, 1321, 1327
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspapers, 567, 716
Franklin, Benjamin, 1079n, 1224, 1445
Franklin, ?Samuel F. (brother of William Buel), 827, 1145
Franklin, William Buel, mentioned, 222, 225n, 1133, 1296; in Dept. of Gulf, 754, 760, 829, 840, 883, 901, 943, 1063, 1089, 1253; on trip to Vicksburg, 863n; background of, 864, 881-82, 1009, 1196, 1198n; and Genl. Grant's drinking, 867-68, 889n; and Sabine Pass expedition, 871, 874-80, 883, 889n; dislike of civilian generals, 882-83; opposition to marauding, 886; campaign into central Louisiana, fall 1863, 886n, 887, 889-90, 889n, 891-92, 905; planning, preparation for Red River campaign, 948, 961; advance to Alexandria, 961-62, 973-75, 1003, 1233; advance to Natchitoches, 982-83, 989, 991-94; at Grand Ecore, 1002, 1007; advance to Mansfield, 1009-10, 1018-25, 1069; battle at Mansfield, 1026, 1028-29, 1030n, 1033-36, 1038, 1099; battle at Pleasant Grove, 1039-41, 1063; at Pleasant Hill, 1048, 1052-53, 1056-57, 1060, 1082, 1089; retreat to Grand Ecore, 1054-55, 1060; retreat to Alexandria and Monett's Ferry, 1075, 1079, 1083-85; at Alexandria and dam at Alexandria, 1091-93, 1103-05, 1118, 1126; after leaving Dept. of the Gulf, 1132-33; and Col. Stokes, 1195; and Genl. Smith's investigation, 1197
Franklin, Louisiana, 628-29, 892
Franklin, Tennessee, battle of (1864), 381n, 1127
Frederick, Maryland, 238, 251, 254-55, 269-70, 1423
Fredericksburg, Virginia, 317, 321, 325, 327, 382, 390, 404, 416-17; battle of (1862), 584-85, 596, 697, 882, 1105n, 1278
Free-Soil party in Massachusetts, 27-30, 39-41, 43-44, 54, 56, 68, 74-76, 80
Free State Citizens' Ticket, 1145
Free State Club, 811
Free State General Committee, 806
Freedmen's Bureau, 1373, 1377, 1377n
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1320n, 1484
Frémont, Francis Preston, 103, 160, 1420
Frémont, Jessie Benton, 58, 85, 103, 105-08, 121, 121n, 823, 825-26, 837-38, 1415, 1426n, 1460, 1465, 1521
Frémont, John Charles, mentioned, 41, 58, 84-85, 88, 103-05, 107, 196n, 214n, 215n, 222, 373, 519, 520n, 591, 825, 1289, 1461, 1523; California businesses, 104, 107, 160-63, 330n, 531n, 586n, 1105, 1413; frauds in St. Louis command, 105, personality and appearance of, 106-07, 1018, conflicts with army in California, 107, 221, 395, 557n, 881, 941n, 961, 1221n; presidential campaign (1856), 107-116, 118-23, 122n, 1384; (1864), 835, 838, 941n; presidential campaign (1864), 1156; Civil War career, 163, 220, 221, 302, 314-18, 326, 328-30, 334-35, 338, 382-83, 385-88, 390-94, 397, 399n, 402, 570, 941n, 943, 1142, 1479; proposed expedition to Texas, 498; in Europe (1869), 1323; railroad operations, 1369, 1391, 1413-17, 1419-22, 1425-26, 1522; altercation in New York, 1418; bankruptcy of, 1426l supports Greeley, 1435n; governor of Arizona, 1460; and Weed libel suit, 1507; pension of, 1464-65; death of, 1465
Frémont clubs, 121
Frémont family, 1420
French, Benjamin Brown, 64, 64n
French, Jonas H., 503-04, 504n, 511, 547n, 550, 801, 1223, 1243, 1435, 1491, 1491n
French princes (on McClellan's staff), 494
Friends of Freedom Convention, 1146
Front Royal, Virginia, 293, 300, 302, 304, 324, 338-42, 344-46, 348, 350-53, 357-58, 361-62, 378-79, 386, 388, 390, 392, 397, 400, 414n, 451, 489; bridge at, 293, 374; battle of (1862), 341-42, 344-46, 348-49, 353, 374, 377, 380n, 396, 1474-75, 1478
Frost, Helen J., 1384n
Frost, Robert 4
Frost family of Maine, 520n
Fugitive-slave law and fugitives, 27, 44, 51, 66. 83, 155-56, 175, 196, 200
Fuller, Captain, 620n
Fuller, Henry Mills, 86. 93, 95-96, 126
Fusion party, 80
Gadsden Treaty, 1304
Gaelic language, 71
Gage, Thomas, 2
Gale family, 163
Galena, Illinois, 190, 1517
Gallagher, William D., 1508n
Galloway, Samuel, 76
Gallupe, Frederick D., 1458-59
Galveston, Texas, 858, 863, 871-72, 874, 1410; Confederate capture of rest of island (1863), 553-56, 857; importance of, 556, 854, 857, 860, 935; plans for recapture, 557, 854-55, 883, 905, 907, 910, 930; Confederate garrison in, defenses of, 861-62, 871, 908, 913-14; smuggling through, 1174, 1176
Galveston Bay, Texas, 857
Galveston Island, Texas, 871
Galvin, Jeremiah, 1212, 1212n, 1213n
"Galway," 887
Gardner, Alexander, 1192
Gardner, Franklin, 681-82, 687, 708, 726, 729, 747-49, 751, 753, 756-57, 1142; background of, 687, 865
Gardner, Henry Joseph, 52, 78, 81, 84, 109, 135, 149-50, 1411
Garfield, James Abram, 1379, 1388, 1409, 1449-50, 1455, 1457, 1460
Garland, Augustus Hill, 1458
Garrison, Cornelius Kingsland, 163, 531n, 1341-42
Garrison, William Lloyd, 12, 777, 786, 793, 1184, 1186, 1285
Gatchell, William H., 232
Geary, John White, 281, 332, 343, 353, 355, 374-76, 382, 391, 407, 475; at Cedar Mountain, 451-52, 456, 1482; as Liberal-Republican, 1436
General
Banks (ship), 679, 749, 877, 897
General
Price (ship), 746
Generals...see Union officers
Georgia
infantry regiments
12th, 386
German immigrants, 72n, 79; in Texas, 851-52
German voters, 171, 179, 179n, 817
Gerolt, Baron, 1314
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 352n, battle of (1863), 310, 369, 733, 735, 751, 758, 897, 1023n, 1127, 1130
Gettysburg Address, 998
Giddings, Joshua, 86, 98, 124, 126
Gienapp, William E., 120
Gildart, Frank, 900-01, 901n
Gillis, John P., 878
Gilmore, Joseph Albree, 852
Girl Scouts of America, 1344n
Glaisses, Mr., 770
Glenn, Austin H., 1061, 1061n
Glory, 1294
Glossbenner, Adam J., 93, 93n
Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1491n
Godwin, Parke, 834
Goicura, General, 1211
Gold Rush (California), 30, 60, 105n, 161, 1300, 1381
Gooch, Daniel Wheelwright, 52, 335, 392, 1180-82, 1276-77, 1295, 1394, 1436, 1439-40, 1447, 1450
Googe Mountain, Virginia, 407
Gordon, George Henry, 245n, 274-76, 283, 289, 303, 351-52, 352n, 354, 354n, 355, 358, 358n, 359-60, 362-63, 365-66, 366n, 367, 367n, 368-69, 379, 391-92, 392n, 942n, 1140, 1476-77, 1499; in central Virginia, 401, 407, 426n, 431, 434, 438, 441-42, 447-48, 448n, 449-50, 452, 460-62, 460n, 461n, 465, 478-80, 482, 692, 1482-83, 1485-86; Antietam campaign, 491; accusations against Genl. Butler, 1491n
Gordon, John Brown, 227
Gordon, Louise (Bringier), 765n
Gordon, Martin Jr., 763-66, 765n, 1197, 1248
Gordonsville, Virginia, 406, 411-14, 416-17
Gorgoza, Anthony de, 1334, 1336-37
Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts, 164
Goss, Thomas Joseph, 475n
Gould, Jay, 1405, 1434, 1511n
Gould family, 823
Gould, Robert Mead, 1094, 1113, 1115
Governor's Island, New York, 533
Governors, military, powers of, 559
Grace Church, Providence, R. I., 31
Grafton, Massachusetts, 1, 1487
Graham, G. W. & Co., 1221
Grand Army of the Republic, 1390n
Grand Ecore, 983, 986n, 990-91, 993, 996, 998-1000, 1003, 1005-06, 1008-10, 1021, 1033, 1116, 1389, 1512; retreat to, 1043, 1052, 1056, 1058, 1082, 1099, 1502; Union stay during retreat, 1059-62, 1064-67, 1072-76, 1091, 1099, 1238, 1526; destruction of, 1077
Grand Gulf, Mississippi, 644-45, 645n, 646, 650, 654, 657-58, 660-63, 663n, 672-75, 719, 979n, 1058
Grand Lake, Louisiana, 616, 618-20, 625, 631
Grannelli, Florita, 1322
Granite Bank, 1228n
Grant, Jesse, 1509
Grant, Julia (Dent), 826, 866, 927, 940, 1399, 1507-08, 1527
Grant, Ulysses S., mentioned, 216, 225n, 228n, 267, 273n, 306, 369, 378, 380. 381n, 395-96, 403, 443, 451, 495n, 506, 557n, 719, 826, 831, 836, 838, 854, 882-83, 886, 998n, 1045n, 1050, 1191n, 1302, 1303n, 1514; background of, personality, talents, 864-67, 950; William Butler wanted him fired, 1509; evaluation of by Genl. Halleck, 1120n, 1121n; northern Mississippi campaign (1862-1863), 506, 513, 579-80, 995, 1131;Vicksburg campaign (1863), 512-16, 594, 608, 611-14, 639-40, 647, 651, 658, 660-63, 666, 673, 675, 683, 696-97, 721, 724, 732-33, 737, 751, 758, 887, 892-94, 918-19, 930, 964, 980, 1305; decisions on forced labor, runaway slaves, 569; views on wartime civilian government, 573-74, 1161, 1172; communications with Banks's forces, 607, 643-45, 648-52, 659-61, 664, 666, 669-70, 718-21; Grand Gulf operations and proposed transfer of corps to Port Hudson operations, 645-47, 649, 655, 657-58, 660-61, 665, 668, 671, 675-76, 688, 719, 724, 979n; alleged drunkenness incidents, 647n, 662, 720, 828, 867-70; question of being removed, April 1863, 662-63; assaults on Vicksburg defenses (1863), 692, 698, 709-11, 726, 727n, 733-34, 734n, 735; during occupation of Vicksburg, 746, 756; Chattanooga campaign (1863), 919, 964, 1196; Overland Virginia campaign (1864), 731n, 733, 1019n; 1023n, 1104, 1130; siege of Petersburg, 1130, 1156, 1183; thanks of Congress, 752; requests to transfer troops to Dept. of Gulf (summer 1863), 756; intelligence operations, 761n; and Jomini, 931; and trade and confiscation and associates involved in illegal activities, 560, 761, 1172-73, 1182, 1201, 1230, 1232, 1236, 1412, 1509, 1517-18; his relatives involved in speculation, wrongdoing, 1277, 1508, 1508n, 1509-11, 1511n; question of interest in presidential nomination (1863-64), 764-65; orders involving Jews, 768, 768n, 1533n; hostage-taking, 770n; and taxes imposed, confiscations, 785, 1216; as rumored presidential candidate (1864), 832; seizes Banks's supplies, 848; interest in capturing Mobile, 849-50, 855-56, 865, 920, 932, 1072-75, 1102, 1106, 1118; meeting with Banks at Vicksburg, 863-65, 893, 1224; visit to New Orleans (1863), 865-70, 943-44, 1137; memoirs of, 921, 1137; Halleck's request to aid Banks in 1864 operations, 920-21, 932; Banks's request for gunboats, 922; meeting with Sherman in Nashville, 920-21, 927; elevation to general-in-chief and lieutenant general, 937-38, 940, 956; and Houston report, 940; hostility to Genl. McClernand and certain politician generals, 940-41, 941n, 980; interest in 1864 Red River campaign and other 1864 proposed operations, 918-20, 922, 827, 928n, 929, 933, 936-38, 937n, 939-40, 1137, 1142; relationship with Rep. Benj. Butler, 945; decisions, communications during Red River campaign, 949-51, 960, 986, 989n, 1000, 1026-27, 1060-61, 1065, 1068, 1072-75, 1092, 1102-03, 1118-21, 1123-24, 1126, 1137-38; approval of holding bases inside Confederate territory, 951n; question of double-cross by Halleck, 1137; and 1865 military operations against Louisiana, Texas, 1138-39; allows soldiers to go home to vote, 1169; dissatisfaction with Genl. Canby, 1171n; and Genl. Hurlbut, 1264, 1489; skips chain of command, 1177n; not called before Joint Committee on Conduct of the War, 1180; predilection to make poor personnel selections, 1193-94, 1398, 1434; and corruption investigation in Louisiana, 1195, 1200, 1238, 1247; and Genl. William F. Smith, 1196, 1247; his description of Lincoln, 1265n; question of blackmailing by, special favors to Ben Butler, 1196n, 1348, 1435, 1454; as postwar general-in-chief, 1298, 1375; nominated secretary of war, 1377-78; and Central American canal projects, 1332, 1337; and acquisition Caribbean islands, 1339-41, 1347, 1349n; first inauguration (1869), 1346; and Cuban issues, 1354, 1356, 1356n; and acquisition or invasion of Canada, 1363; and resolution of Alabama claims, 1364-65, 1367; takes reconstruction powers from Congress, 1373; income from Comstock Lode, 1431; presidential candidate (1872), 1434-36; at Peace Jubilee, 1440; enforcement of Ku Klux Klan legislation, 1441; favors deposing Liberal-Republican chairmen, 1442
Gravel Point Road, near Mansfield, Louisiana, 1017
Graveyard Road, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 710
Gray, Horace, 1461
Gray, John A. C., 169, 173n, 177, 545, 838, 1417-20
Gray, P. W. 1175
Gray, William C., 1205-06, 1254
Gray Jacket, 1410
Great Britain, relations with U. S. during Civil War and incidents straining relations, 541;negotiations for purchase of Alaska, 1300; Alabama claims negotiations, 1362-65, 1368
Great Famine (Ireland), 69
Great Flood of 1927, 594n
Great Lakes, 1368
Great Northern Railroad, 1424n
Great Triumvirate, 29
Greeley, Horace, 67n, 73n, 87-88, 93-94, 99n, 127, 161, 176, 180, 719-20, 779, 809n, 823, 834-35, 1198n, 1435-39, 1520
Green, A. P., 363
Green, Thomas, 227, June-July 1863 cavalry operations, 739, 756; Red River expedition, 959, 993-94, 1012, 1025, 1058, 1135
Green, William N. Jr., 867
Greene, George Sears, 352, 352n, 363, 391-92, 452-53, 462, 473
Greenhalge, Frederic Thomas, 1465
Greenleaf, Charley, 350
Greenwood, Charity Bemis 5
Greenwood, Miles, 5
Greenwood, Rebecca, 5
Greenwood, Thomas Jefferson, 5, 10-11, 15, 22-23, 35
Greenwood, Mississippi, 594n
Greer, James, 1257
Gregg, John, 674, 1194n, 1248
Gregory, Francis H., 924
Grenada, Mississippi, 962; engagement (1863), 949n
Grieff, A. D., 1531
Grieff & Barnes Co., 1531
Grierson, Benjamin Henry, 227, 655-56, 659, 664, 669-70, 680, 690, 690n, 718, 720-21, 726-27, 730, 733n, 1000, 1262n
Griffin, Samuel P., 1222, 1227, 1513
Grimes, James Wilson, 1406
Grimshaw, Jackson, 503-04
Grinnell, Henry, 190n
Griswold, George, 190n
Grove Hill Cemetery, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1, 1469
Grover, Cuvier, in Virginia, 488, 592, 621, 1278; in Louisiana, 518, 552, 592, 598, 598n, 600, 621-22, 625-26, 628-30, 658, 693, 714, 760, 770, 840, 1502; at siege of Port Hudson, 691, 700-02, 704-05, 727, 729, 744; march to Mississippi River (1864), 1128
Groveton plateau, Virginia, 486, 488, 592, 1278
Grow, Galusha Aaron, 48, 126, 143, 145, 1436
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of, 896
Guess, George W., 1232, 1519-20
Gurowski, Adam, 212
Guthrie, James, 56
Habeas corpus, suspension of writ...see Martial law issues
Hagerstown, Maryland, 1482
Hahn, Michael, mentioned, 190n, 562, 755, 767, 779n, 788n, 790, 796, 799-800, 818, 843n, candidate for governor, 808-14, 816n, 817, 817, 819, 835n, 1145, 1197; background, appearance of, 815-16, 1188; as newspaper owner, 815-16, 836, 1271; inauguration of, 820-22, 836, 1076n, 1440; assists to obtain gunboats, 925-26; at Alexandria, 991; and constitutional convention, 1147-48; and patronage decisions, 1151, 1179; and Republican (National Union) convention, 1151; as governor, 1165-66, 1171-72, 1177, 1189, 1202, 1238, 1286, 1502, 1521, 1526; and constitutional convention, 1241, 1245; and General William F. Smith issues, 1263; resignation and U. S. senator, 1267, 1505; his residence, 1276; shooting of, 1373; and railroads, 1419
Haines, William P., 1494n
Haiti, U.S. interest in acquiring, 1340
Hall, Capt., 1085
Hall, Frederic, 893
Hall, Willard Preble, 1073
Hall, William M., 1410-11
Halleck, Henry Wager, mentioned, 225n, 259, 271n, 273n, 316, 377, 396, 557n, 560, 831, 866n, 868, 882, 1134; appearance of, personality, 930-31, 937; and military operations, (1862), 400, 404, 413-17, 432, 472, 476-78, 483-84, 490, 495-96, 501-02; 509, 511, 515-16, 522, 534, 536, 611-12, 865, 931, 1022n, 1120, 1120n; and military operations in Louisiana (1863), 576, 581-82, 610-11, 611n, 612-14, 639, 650, 655, 665-67, 669, 673-74, 696, 717-18, 720, 722, 724-25, 752, 754, 756, 882n, 933; and new command for Genl. Butler, 545; and occupation of Texas via coast or Red River, 555-56, 558, 839, 847, 850-51, 854-55, 860, 893, 905, 920, 927-28, 930, 932-33, 936-38, 940, 942, 947, 950, 952-55, 1142, 1182, 1257, 1414, 1510; dislike of volunteer officers, politicians, 495, 612, 1121n; views on civilian government, 573; and Vicksburg campaign, 647, 656, 661-62, 674, 696, 718, 720-24, 933; and cotton/trade policies, 654, 1257; and prisoner exchange/parole issues, 757-58; and Jewish order, 768; and care of refugees, 784, 1215, 1215n; and black soldiers, 841, 841n; friendship with William Sherman, 918, 1120n, 1121n; and gunboats for New Orleans, 925; as chief of staff, 938, 1132, 1161, 1170; during Red River expedition, 984, 999, 1006, 1089, 1102, 1118-24, 1126, 1137-38; witness before Joint Committee on Conduct of the War, 1181; comments on Banks at White House, 1192; promotes Col. Stokes, 1194; and corruption issues, 1194-95
Halliday, William, 1514
Halliday Bros., 1514
Halsted, Oliver Jr., 1170
Halsted, William, 118
Hamburg, Germany, 1323-24
Hamilton, Alexander, 47
Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, 498, 498n, 511, 547n, 553, 553n, 557-59, 852-53, 892, 917, 1173, 1176, 1186, 1211, 1235
Hamilton, Edward, 833, 926, 1405, 1435n
Hamilton, John R., 835n, 837
Hamilton, Ohio, 134
Hamlin, Hannibal, 181, 197-99, 201, 203-04, 272, 834, 844
Hammil, Henry, 769
Hampton, Wade, 227
Hanaburgh, David, 547
Hancock, John, house, Boston, Massachusetts, 152, 152n
Hancock, Maryland, 266-67, 281, 284
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 381n
Hanks, George H., 774, 777-78, 785, 1206
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo (Mark), 180
Hanscom, Isaiah, 1384
Hanscom, Simon Parker, 88, 109, 140n, 520n, 1315, 1383-85, 1388n, 1407
Hanscom, William Cutter, 11
Hanscom, William L., 1386-89
Hanscom family, 11, 520n, 1384, 1435n
Hardee, William Joseph, 226, 271
Hardenbrook, Mr., 380n
Harding, Warren Gamaliel, 1380n
Harpers Ferry, Virginia (West Virginia), 160, 240-43, 246-47, 254, 262, 264-65, 267, 269, 280, 284-86, 299, 314, 324, 355, 362, 371-72, 375, 383-87, 389, 712, 1493; postwar development project, 1392, 1400-03
Harpers Ferry Water Power and Manufacturing Company, 1400-02, 1424
Harper's Weekly, 171, 177
Harriet Lane, 554
Harriman, Mr., 231
Harrington, Fred Harvey, 271n, 829n, 990n, 1289-90, 1485
Harrington, George P., 1176
Harris, Charles H., 772
Harris, Clara, 1192n
Harris, Ira, 1192
Harris, Israel C., 531
Harris, William Charles, 813n, 907n, 1184, 1283
Harrison, Benjamin, 89n, 1466
Harrison, John Scott, 89, 89n
Harrison, William Henry, 22, 99, 101, 168, 221n
Harrisonburg, Louisiana, 669, 967, 1260
Harrisonburg, Virginia, 312, 319-20, 323, 327, 329-30, 333-34, 339
Harrison's Island, Maryland, 257, 259-60
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 169
Hart, E. J., 1221n
Hartford (ship), 605, 607n, 679
Hartford, Connecticut, 1132
Hartmont, Edward H., 1348
Hartt, Edward, 1384, 1386
Hartwell, Charles A., 518
Harvard College, 22, 31, 54, 275, 772
Harvard Law School, 1432, 1452, 1456n, 1462
Harvard Medical School, 449
Haskell, Leonidas, 1521
Haswell, Charles H., 527
Hatch, John Porter, in Shenandoah Valley, 310, 312, 333, 338, 343, 345, 359, 363, 367, 371, 379, 391, 394; in central Virginia, 400-01, 406-07, 414, 425
Hatch, Ozias M., 1514
Hatch, Reuben B., 1126n
Haupt, Herman, 160, 160n, 228n, 384, 408-09
Havana, Cuba, 1174n, 1209, 1353, 1410
Haven, Franklin, 190, 190n
Hawaiian Islands, 1449
Hawes, M. W., 1505n
Hawkes, Charles K., 942, 1523-25
Hawkes, Pratt & Co., 1524-25
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 23
Hay, John Milton, 190n, 255, 255n, 480, 489, 495, 497, 499, 501, 916, 928n, 929n, 1068, 1167-68, 1175, 1183-84, 1196, 1260, 1284, 1374-75; in Florida, 1166; in 1888 election, 1462
Hayden, Edward Daniel, 1461
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1205, 1449-50, 1454-55
Hayes, Webb Cook, 1455
Haynes, Gideon, 21
Haynes, John L., 553n, 1211
Hazel River, Virginia, 419
Headley, Joel Tyler, 954, 954n, 1100, 1104, 1110, 1182n, 1236, 1485
Heap, Gwinn Harris, 1104-05, 1105n, 1120, 1125
Hearn, Chester G., 989n
Hecox, W. T., 1513n...see also Hicox, Warren T.
Heine, William, 1332-33, 1335-36
Heintzelman, Samuel Peter, 271n, 490, 493, 497, 500n, 507-08, 508n
Helena, Arkansas, 310
Hemphill, Texas, 855
Henderson's Hill, Louisiana, 971-72, 972n, 1130
Hendricks, Thomas Andrews, 56
Hening, Henry, 1513n
Henry VII, King, 36
Henry, William, 201, 202n
Henshaw, Daniel, 31n
Henshaw, David, 22-23, 31
Henshaw, James W., 31n
Henshaw, John Prentiss Kewley, 31
Hepworth, Charles Hughes, 772-73
Herbert, Jasper K., 558n, 794, 917, 1186
Herron, Francis Jay, 756, 842n, 867, 1219, 1267, 1490, 1530
Hertzberg, Edmond, 1348
Hewitt, Lawrence, 1529
Heyman, Max L., 1174-75
Hickman John, 196n
Hicks, Thomas Holliday, 230, 252, 544
Hicox, Warren T., 1517..see also Hecox, W. T.
Hiestand, Ezra, 1291
Higby, William, 1305
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1462
Highway 175, Louisiana, 1015n
Highway 513, Louisiana, 1015n
Hill, Ambrose Powell ("A. P."), 226, 411-13, 417, 423, 446, 456-57, 469, 473
Hill, E. N., 1450
Hill, Joel H., 589
Hill, Richard M., 533
Hill, Thomas, 31
Hill Memorial Library, LSU, 1199
Hills, A. G., 815, 815n
Hills, Agnes, 815n
Hills, Alfred C., 814-15, 815n, 1146, 1204, 1245-46, 1252
Hinks, Charles D., 232
Hinton, Richard J., 1309-10
Hirschfield, Mr., 763
Hirshon, Stanley P., 920n
History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from A.D. 1807 to A.D. 1814, 698
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 334, 336
Hoar, Ebenezer, 1411
Hoar, George Frisbie, 37, 153, 194, 1370
Hodges, William R., 784n, 1221n
Hoffman, Wickham, 841n, 1030n, 1041, 1048, 1048n, 1053n, 1092-93, 1127n, 1296
Hofgeismar, Prussia, 1319
Hohenstein, Anton, 1191n
Holabird, Samuel Beckley, mentioned , 278, 508-09, 1234, 1255, 1479, accounts for wagons lost in Va., 1477; on ship to New Orleans, 534; in New Orleans, 520-21, 564, 670-71, 901, 911, 914, 926, 956, 962; as lobbyist for Banks in Washington, 847; activities just before or on the Red River expedition, 1220, 1502, 1535; disposal of Red River cotton, 1502, 1504-05, 1522; charges of corruption, 1126n, 1194, 1197, 1207, 1212, 1238, 1251; charges of cavorting with prostitutes, 1203, 1250; supposed knowledge of Banks's wrongdoing, 1197; charges Smith commission with deliberate bias, 1202; purchases of Mexican boats, 1212-13; sale of cotton to German buyers, 1213-15; and legality of cotton sales, 1215-16; and trade stores, 1227; confiscation activities, 1237; postwar career, 1133-34, 1195...see also...Department of the Gulf, Quartermaster Dept.
Holbo, Paul, 1311, 1316n
Hollandsworth, James G., 713, 990n, 1485
Holloway, Thomas S., 1513n
Holly, E. Hamilton, 167
Holly Springs, Mississippi, 995
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 193
Holt, George Arnold & Co., 1529
Holt, Joseph, 499
Homans, John, 983, 1036, 1064-65, 1071, 1114, 1116
Honeycutt Hill, Louisiana, 1025, 1036
Hood, John (civilian), 415
Hood, John Bell, 381n, 1132, 1134, 1142
Hooker, Joseph, 226n, 259, 310, 488, 493, 506-07, 516, 639, 1023n, 1120, 1204, 1277-78, 1509
Hooper, Samuel, 141, 162, 177, 203, 211, 335, 376-77, 376n, 391-92, 490. 494, 520, 754, 892. 926, 1276-77, 1289, 1296, makes loan for war, 1493; and Andrew Johnson, 1270; and Banks's pledge re: Colfax, 1297; and possible loan for Banks, 1314-15, 1317, 1407; and Charlestown wharves, 1385n; and Union Pacific Railroad/Credit Mobilier, 1403, 1406; and cotton operations, 1493-95, 1522; financial interests of, 1494-95, 1495n
Hooper, Samuel and Company, 1407n
Hooper, William Sturgis, 520, 520n, 565, 1291
Hoosac Extension Mine, 1257
Hoosac Mine, 1457
Hoosac Mining and Milling Company, 1456
Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts, 159, 160n, 1429, 1457
Hoover, Herbert, 27
Hopeland, George W., 1394
Hornor, Charles, 1201-02, 1241-42, 1248-49, 1262-63
Hosmer, James Kendall, 638n, 737, 1076n
Hotchkiss, Jed, 365, 424, 437, 437n, 445, 455
Hotel Dieu, 71
Hottingeur & Co., 1423n
Houard, John Emilio, 1397-98
Hough, John, 1053
House of Commons, 1324
Houston, David C., 520, 669-71, 908, 911, 948, 992, 1138, 1250; background of, 933; his report on proposed Red River expedition, 933-34, 936, 940, 948-51, 1126, 1138; maps of, 1001n, 1043; career after Red River expedition, 1133
Houston, George Smith, 140
Houston, Samuel (Sam), 84, 101-03, 103n, 109, 1149n
Houston, Texas, 858-60, 863, 871-72, 874, 878-80, 907, 910, 935, 1019
Howard, Charles, 232
Howard, Jacob Merritt, 1417
Howard, John Raymond, 106n
Howard, McHenry, 1476
Howard, William Alanson, 139
Howard Committee...see U.S. House, Committee Investigating Kansas
Howard University, 1464
Howe, Elias, 1391
Howe, Frank E., 534; background of , 1532; as mediator of divergent parties in Louisiana, 810, 1145; communications with Genl. Banks, 806-07, 813-14, 838, 967, 1532; as political operative, 811, 1534; as appraiser of newspaper property, 815n; as newspaper owner, 835n; and trade, cotton issues, 1238, 1497-98, 1512, 1531; relationship with Dwights, 1495-96, 1534; wanted bank reopened, 1507; treasury job offers, 1532-33; invitation to New Orleans gala, 1534
Howe, J. C. & Co.,, 1494
Howe, Julia Ward, 1344, 1443
Howe, Sallie, 1495n
Howe, Samuel Gridley, 194, 1287, 1348
Hoyt, Mr., 1236
Hoyt, Edwin, 521n
Hoyt, Harris, 521, 522n
Hoyt, Stephen, 45, 64n, 109, 111, 191, 522n, 785, 815n, 828, 926, 1070n, 1263, 1291, 1536; as New Orleans mayor, 1145, 1163, 1194, 1242, 1246, 1248, 1271, 1279; removed as mayor, 1249, 1268; accused by Wells, 1271; supports Greeley, 1435
Hoyt & Sprague (company), 521, 521n, 522n, 1236n
Hubbard, Joseph A., 350-51
Hughes, J. F., 1061
Hughes, John, 823, 832
Hunker Democrats, 51
Hunt, Randall, 1508n
Hunt, Ruamah (Ludlow), 1508n
Hunter, David, 410n, 712n, 819, 1076n, 1092, 1102-04, 1126, 1193, 1199, 1509
Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro, 1439
Huntington, James F., 293, 310n
Huntington, William Henry, 646
Hunton, Thomas, 1229
Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus, mentioned, 222; background of, 1164,commander in Memphis, 722-24, 927, 941n, 1161; seizes Banks's supplies, 848; critic of constitutional convention, 1149; temporary commander in New Orleans, 1160-61, 1163; nominating convention delegate, 1161; and Louisiana civilian government, 1161-62, 1171-72, 1267, 1268n, 1272; involvement in corrupt practices, 1206, 1234, 1489; and Pincus incident, 1217; and Asahel Mansfield, 1223, 1228; and New Orleans banks, 1249; and 1872 election, 1200, replaced, 1264; eulogizes Lincoln, 1265; in Congress, 1448
Huse, E. B., 691
Hyattstown, Maryland, 254
Iberville,1008
Ibsen, Henrik, 1326
Illinois (ship), 527-28, 558
Illinois, immigration to, 206
Illinois cavalry regiments
2nd, 614
3rd, 614
4th, 614
6th, 614
7th, 614
15th, 614
Illinois Central Railroad, 182-86, 186n, 187, 187n, 188-93, 197, 205-08, 272, 497, 520, 751, 1194-95, 1228, 1280, 1335, 1413, 1424, 1507; terminal building, Chicago, 189
Illinois infantry regiments
30th, 1522
77th, 961n, 974
Illinois legislature, 184, 186, 189; Finance Committee, 183
Illinois River, 185
Illinois, southern, 207
Illness in the army, 263, 266, 269, 269n, 600; causes of, 600
Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, 954, 983, 1076, 1086, 1093, 1236, 1256, 1260
Independent party, 1448
Indian Bureau frauds, 1434
Indian Village, Louisiana, 845
Indiana cavalry regiments
1st, 614
4th, 614
Indiana infantry regiments
27th, 367, 367n
28th, 836
46th, 1169, 1297
49th, 1169
Indianola, 596, 985
Indianapolis, Indiana, 1124
Indianola, Texas, 854-55, 858
Infantry
tactics: or, rules for the exercise and manoeuvres of the Unites State's
Infantry / by Major-General Scott,
1076
Intelligence information, during movement to Potomac (1861), 242, 247; during pursuit of Stonewall Jackson, 302, 309, 322-23, 970; during Jackson's march to the Potomac, 339-40, 342-44, 346, 350-51, 377, 683; during second pursuit of Jackson, 387, 410; during Jackson's march to Cedar Mountain, 412-14, 413n, 415, 421; during Grant's operations, 410n, 683; during 2nd Bull Run campaign, 489, 592, 683; during Antietam campaign, 491-93; during Port Hudson campaign, 584, 584n, 585, 588, 589n, 590-91, 598, 600-02, 605n, 760; during Teche campaign, 618, 620, 695; about Avery Island, 632; during final operations toward Port Hudson, 636, 658-59, 664, 666, 672, 674, 677, 681-83, 762-63; during siege of Port Hudson, 690-91, 702, 725, 727, 735; during fall 1863, 764; about campaign against Mobile, 857; about invasion of Texas or Texas garrisons, 880, 885-86, 891, 894, 901, 904, 908; Confederate, about Red River campaign of 1864, 955-58, 969, 993, 995, 1012-13; Union, about Confederates for 1864 Red River campaign, 962, 992-93, 995, 1001, 1024, 1031, 1060, 1090, 1098
Iowa cavalry regiments
2nd, 614
4th, 614
Iowa infantry regiments
21st, 1049
32nd, 1021
Irish Bend, Louisiana, 632; battle (1863), 626-30, 645, 693, 727
Irish immigrants, 69, 71, 78-79, 83; and politics, 16, 54-55, 77-78, 147, 817, 1295; attitudes toward slavery, 74; and crime, 157
Irish independence movement, 78
Irish militia units, 83; artillerymen, 876
Irish workers, 38, 69
Irwin, John R., 1501
Irwin, Richard Biddle, background, 518; adjutant in Virginia and Washington, 494, 494n, 496; coordinator of Banks expedition, 518, 521; accounts of Union operations in Louisiana, 629n; adjutant in Louisiana, 644n, 676, 678, 691-92, 733n, 735, 839, 841, 846, 1070, 1291; Washington lobbyist, 1427-28
Isabella, Queen, 1352
Island No. 10, Mississippi River, capture (1862), 396, 486
Israelite (newspaper), 768n
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey), 1323, 1325
Ithaca, New York, 1455
Iuka, Mississippi, battle of (1862), 964, 966
J. H. Russell, 1221
Jackson, Dr., 135n
Jackson, Andrew, 15, 27-28, 101, 184, 221n, 228n, 236, 1304, 1343
Jackson, Francis Tracy, 6
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall"), mentioned, 226, 228n, 240, 242, 244, 262-3, 263n, 392, 443, 598, 688, 881, 1081; description of, 262-3, 866n, 1140; Romney campaign, 263-66, 268-70, 278, 281, 284; secrecy of, 273; campaign against Kernstown, 292-98, 298n, 381n; first retreat up Shenandoah Valley, 287-92, 300-06, 308-09, 312-15, 319, 319n, 321-24, 324n, 325, 327, 333; campaign to McDowell, 328-30, 612; Front Royal-Winchester campaign, 328, 332-34, 336, 338-41, 345-49, 351, 356-62, 364-69, 371, 373-74, 376, 378, 384, 396, 519, 616, 618, 640, 973, 975n, 1141, 1475, 1478-79; second retreat up Shenandoah Valley, 383, 385-91; movement to Culpeper Co. (July 1862), 399, 404, 406, 409-19, 421-23, 433, 481, 1019, 1023n; Cedar Mountain battle, 427, 437-39, 443, 445-47, 449, 451, 456-57, 461-62, 469, 471, 473, 477, 479, 482-83, 114, 1468, 1484-86; 2nd Bull Run campaign, 486-89, 616, 1278; Antietam campaign, 491; Fredericksburg battle, 882; Chancellorsville battle, 1023n; rumors he was at Port Hudson, 588, 601, 1267
Jackson, Louisiana, 844
Jackson, Mississippi, 584n, 646-47, 682; battle of (1863), 673, 711n, 1418
Jackson's foot cavalry, 339
Jacobs, Mr., 505
James, Charles, 88, 103-04, 104n, 112, 120, 121n, 133-34, 161, 1420
James, Edward, 105n
James River, Virginia, 318, 399
Jay's Treaty (1795), 1304, 1362
Jayhawkers, 634
Jefferson, Texas, 1415
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, 562
Jenkins Mountain, Virginia, 407
Jennings, (Mary) Emma, 1320, 1320n, 1329, 1468, 1470
Jerrard, Simon G., 770
Jesuits, 73, 77
Jews, in 1864 election, 767, 833; hostility toward, 71-72, 789, 1239, 1430
John Brown's Body [tune], 288, 288n
Johns, Henry T., 689, 712, 753, 1076n
Johnson, A. J., 1225n
Johnson, Andrew, mentioned, 801n, 837, 1148, 1198n, 1204, 1263; as Chase supporter, 834; views on black voting, 1184; at Lincoln reception, 1191n; and Smith-Brady commission, 1200; impeachment of, 1198n, 1303, 1306, 1313n, 1372, 1374-75, 1377-78, 1381; pardons, 1212, 1296, 1371; cotton permits, 1231; and Charles A. Weed, 1235; Lincoln's perception of him, 1284; sworn in as president, 1268; and white supremacy, 1268; and removal of Louisiana officeholders, 1269-74, 1277; accepts governments with Confederates, 1287; reorganizes Dept. of Gulf, 1272; conflicts with Congress, 1296; purchase of Alaska, 1300, 1303-04, 1313; and Perkins claim, 1307; and San Domingo acquisition, 1339, 1346; disinterest in foreign affairs, 1362; Reconstruction policies, 1370, 1372; attempt to remove Stanton, 1372, 1377; Banks's attempts to reconcile with, 1374-75; assumes command of generals in South, 1377; and 8-hour day, 1380; and navy yard supervisors, 1386; removes Daniel Gooch, 1394
Johnson, Bradley Tyler, 269
Johnson, Charles, 831, 833, 833n, 834, 895, 1209
Johnson, Edward, 328
Johnson, Ludwell H., 989n, 1002n, 1176, 1518n
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1051n, 1277, 1293
Johnson, Sam Ealy, 1051n
Johnson, Reverdy, 503-04, 1199
Johnson's Island, Ohio, 758
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 226
Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, 240-41, 312, 327, 328n, 338-39, 381n, 721, 725-26, 751, 844, 850
Johnston, William, 115, 117-19, 120n
Joiner, Gary D., 1002n, 1003, 1004n, 1017n
Jomini, Antoine Henri de, 379, 443n, 697, 855n, 930, 930n, 1021n, 1134
Jones, Mr., 1278
Jones, Daniel D., 464, 466
Jones, Edward Franc, 509
Jones, John Russell, 1517
Jones, William Edmondson ("Grumble"), 470
Jordan, Barbara Charlene, 21n
Jordan, March and Co., 1500
Joseph Peirce, 1499, 1500n
Josephine, Empress, 1321
Josephy, Alvin M. Jr., 629n
Journal of Commerce, 835
Juarez, Benito, 917, 1211, 1369
Judd, Norman Buel, 196, 1359n
Julian, George Washington, 59n, 1289, 1436
Justinian, 25
Kane, George Proctor, 232
Kansas cavalry regiments
1st Colored, 711n
7th, 614
Kansas civil war and rival governments (1850s), 120-22, 130, 135-41, 145-46
Kansas legislature, bribery scandal, 1434
Kansas statehood legislation, 89-90, 99, 138, 140
Kansas-Nebraska legislation (1854), 60-67, 74, 84, 87, 90, 93, 99, 102, 107, 119, 136, 308, 619, 1198
Kansas Pacific Railroad, 1413, 1522
Kapiolani, Queen, 1460
Kaskel, Cesar, 768n
Kassel, Germany, 1319n
"Kearney," 1512
Kearney expedition (1845), 1009
Keatchie, Louisiana, 1018, 1047
Keene, New Hampshire, 64n, 1487
Keitt, Laurence Massillon, 125, 129, 132
Kelley, William Darrah, 22, 1185, 1188, 1392-93
Kellogg, William Pitt, 1442
Kenedy, King & Co., 1212
Kenedy, Mifflin, 1212
Kenly, John Reese, 344-46, 348-51, 378
Kennedy, Charles W., 975
Kennedy, Hugh, 1245, 1249, 1268-71, 1527, 1536
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 92, 193
Kennedy, Robert Francis, 180
Kennedy, Rose (Fitzgerald), 829n
Kennedy family, 1445
Kenner, Duncan, 1235
Kennett, Lee B., 920n
Kentucky and Great Eastern Railroad, 1409n, 1422, 1424-26, 1436, 1443
Kentucky legislature, 1425
Kenyon College, Ohio, 1471
Kepper, 679
Kerbey, Joseph Orton, 36
Kernstown, Virginia, 296; battle of (1862), 294-99, 298n, 300, 302, 307, 320, 365, 381n, 388, 437
Kerr, Michael Crawford, 1367, 1448
Kerry, John Forbes, 1335n
Ketchum, Morris, 187, 545, 1413
Kettell, Thomas Prentice, 1182n
Key West, Florida, 1124
Kiev, Russia (now in Ukraine), 1323
Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson, 1396n
Kimball, Charles, 1169
Kimball, Nathan, 292, 295-96, 307
Kimball, William K., 753
King James version of bible, 83
King, Jennie, 1250
King, Preston, 88, 108, 110, 119n
King, Richard, 1212
King estate, 1236
King Ranch, Texas, 861, 900-01, 910-11, 1212
Kings Bridge, New York, 1469
Kinsley, Rufus, 774n, 816n, 1236n
Kirkwood, Samuel Jordan, 1049n
Kitson, Henry Hudson, 1472-73
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, 1324
Knap's battery, 459
Knight, B. B. & Co., 521n
Knight, E. Myer, 521
Knight, Nehemiah, 521n
Knights of St. Crispin, 1396
Knights of the White Camelia, 635
Knipe, Joseph Farmer, 442, 442m
Know-Nothing legislators, Massachusetts, 82-83
Know-Nothing party, 70n, 70-71, 74, 79-80, 102, 103n, 105, 141, 151n, 619, 1125, 1438, 1468; national convention (1856...as American party), 109-10; Southern American legislators, 95-96; national convention (1856...as North American party), 112, 114-17, 117n, 118-20, 529, 1523; in 1856 presidential election, 121
Know-Nothing party in Massachusetts, 67-70, 74-76, 81-84, 108, 148-51, 1146, 1296; in Louisiana, 814
Knox, Henry, 271
Knoxville, Tennessee, 329, 393
Koerner, Gustave P., 179n
Krick, Robert K., 1485-86
Ku Klux Klan, 635, 1449
Kung, Prince, 1325
La Fourche Parish, Louisiana, 562
La Scala Opera House, Milan, 1323
Labor contracts...see African Americans, labor contracts
Labor Reform party, Massachusetts, 1396, 1436, 1444, 1447
Lafayette, Louisiana, 885
Lafayette Square, New Orleans, 1265
Lake Michigan, 183, 185, 189
Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, 1226
Lake Providence, Louisiana, 645
Lady of Lyons, 21
Lake Chicot, Louisiana, 595
Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, 926
Lamb, James L., 1513n
Land grants to railroads, 183-86
Lander, Frederick West, 266-67, 287, 287n
Lane, James Henry, 1082, 1139, 1188
Lansing, Z. D., 1424
Lapene, Jules, 1251, 1256
Laredo, Texas, 912
Laurel Hill, 679, 1220
Lausanne, Switzerland, 1321
Law, George ("Live Oak"), 114-17, 529, 1342, 1349
Lawrence, Amos A., 194-95, 521-22, 1160
Lawrence, Kansas, 141, 141n
Lawrence, Massachusetts, 150, 1295
Laxalt, Paul Dominique, 180
Le Roy, New York, 1445
Leadville, Colorado, 1455
Leavenworth, Kansas, 140n
Lecompte, Louisiana, 970
Lecompton constitution, 145, 145n
Lee, Albert Lindley, 836, 1018-20, 1025-27, 1032, 1034-35, 1037, 1057, 1082
Lee, Elizabeth (Blair), 499, 1264
Lee, Robert Edward, mentioned 226, 310, 322, 327, 334, 339, 369, 378, 381n, 390, 395, 399, 404, 409, 411-12, 418, 425, 443, 452, 482-85, 509, 1341; 2nd Bull Run campaign, 486; Antietam campaign, 489-92; Gettysburg campaign, 736, 1023n; Wilderness, 1130; biography of, 1320n
Lee, Samuel Phillips, 1259
Leesburg, Virginia, 257-58, 288
Legree, Simon, 100
Leland, Mr., 588
Leslie, Mr., 1323
Letcher, John, 97
Levees, problems with breaks in, 594
Levy, Jonas, 1414-15
Levy & Detes (firm), 588
Lewiston, Maine, 498, 524n, 1494
Lexington, Massachusetts, 1461
Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, 1144
Liberal-Republican party, 1434-42; presidential convention (1872), 1434-35; in Massachusetts, 1436, 1440
Liberator (newspaper), 777
Liberty, Texas, 871-72
Liberty Hall, New Orleans, 1265
Liberty Mills, Virginia, 411, 418
Libra (pseudonym), 722n
Library of Congress, 271, 786, 1514
Liddell, St. John Richardson, 1006-07, 1100, 1261
Lieber, Francis, 519
Lieber, Guido Norman, 518-19
Life of Stonewall Jackson, 1475
Light Deep Sea Telegraph Company, 1424
Lincoln, Abraham, mentioned, 10, 12, 21n, 36, 92n, 107, 110n, 121, 133-34, 148n, 156, 163, 169, 184, 189, 202n, 205, 219, 228n, 232, 257, 259, 270-72, 277, 320-21, 395, 494, 498, 502, 509, 519, 528, 538, 558n, 560, 769, 834, 865, 866n, 916, 978n, 980, 998, 1205, 1341
personality of, 1140, 1188
and French involvement in Mexico, 498, 861; interest in
campaign in Texas to counter, 851, 854-55, 876, 893, 913
and Isachar Zacharie, 586, 588, 760, 762-67, 767n, 768;
Zacharie's peace mission, 764-66
and Louisiana
government, constitution, elections, 562, 572, 773, 779, 786, 790-800, 803-09,
812, 818-19, 883, 991n, 1122, 1144, 1148-51, 1153-54, 1156, 1164-66, 1171-73,
1177, 1183-85, 1192, 1199, 1242, 1264, 1269, 1283-85, 1292; those of other
Southern states, 801n, 803-04, 949, 1104, 1156, 1161, 1183, 1192, 1241, 1284,
1292, 1515; postwar Reconstruction plans, 1285, 1287
and
Wade-Davis Bill, 1155-57
and patronage jobs during his
administration, 1151, 1153-54, 1154n, 1160
and African
Americans, conscription of , 839, 845; and civil rights for, 1147-48, 1177,
1184, 1186, 1283-85, 1288
and Andrew Johnson, 1284
and acquisition of Caribbean islands, 1339
attitude toward corrupt practices/smuggling, 503-04,
571n
and Smith-Brady commission, 1196-97, 1199; and
similar commissions, 1199
and cotton permits and
permissions, 921, 1173, 1176, 1182, 1222, 1227, 1230-31, 1234, 1504, 1510-13,
1515, 1521, 1523, 1525, 1529; and trade in or purchase of large stores of
cotton, 1173-76, 1230, 1233, 1238
cabinet selection
activities (1860), 195-99, 201-04, 214, 221, 499; (1864) 1170
and monetary, economic policy, 1173n, 1175, 1289
assassination of, 976, 1192n, 1201, 1231-32, 1264, 1267,
1284, 1296, 1373, 1384, 1526; eulogies for, 1265-66
conferences with Banks (winter 1864-65), 1170, 1177, 1183,
1187
conversations with Banks's wartime friends, 262,
754-55, 796, 803, 831, 905, 913, 1106, 1155
discussion
about new command for Genl. Butler, 539, 542-46
Emancipation Proclamation implementation issues, 560-64,
711, 792, 1283
Gettysburg address, 998n
salary of, 1259
Illinois Central
railroad connections, 183, 190, 190n, 192
inauguration
(1861), 259; (1864), 1190, 1192
interest in Unionists
and former Whigs in the South, 498, 619, 851-52, 1283
involvement in arrest, Genl. Stone, 258n
involvement in military operations (1861), 239, 251n,
255
involvement in military operations (1862), 285-86,
305-06, 311, 315-18, 325, 327, 329, 331-32, 334, 336-37, 374-77, 382-86, 390-97,
399, 400n, 403, 405, 409, 476, 480, 492-93, 496, 497-99, 501, 513, 516, 522-23,
538, 930, 1141, 1476
involvement with Mississippi River
and Teche operations (1863), 579, 582-83, 611, 614, 639, 653, 662-63, 665,
722-23, 751-56, 762, 847, 978; with Gettysburg operation (1863), 1023n
involvement with Red River campaign (1864), 937, 948,
1102-04, 1125
martial law involvement, 234-37, 235n,
251
presidential campaign (1859-60), 171-72, 172n, 173n,
174, 174n, 178-81, 193, 830; (1863-64), 765-66, 783, 818, 825, 830, 834, 836-38,
1132, 1154, 1156-57, 1166, 1169
relations with cabinet
members, 540; with Charles Sumner, 542; with Admiral Porter, 1133
selection, placement of generals, 210, 212-15, 217, 220,
222, 226-27, 389; 506-07, 513-15, 882n, 941, 1049-50, 1102, 1119-22, 1264
Lincoln, Ezra, 141, 177, 376n, 521-22
Lincoln, Mary Ann "Molly" (Todd), 190n, 494, 530, 884n, 1168, 1171, 1192n, 1352; concern Banks was to be in cabinet, 1170
Lincoln family, 319n
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D. C.,49
Lintner, Lt., 730
Little Jenkins Mountain, Virginia, 407
Little Mattie Mine, 1457
Little Rock, Arkansas, 855, 934, 945, 996, 1061, 1090, 1118, 1122
Little Washington...see Washington, Virginia
Liverpool, England, 83, 1319, 1456n, 1497, 1529
Livingstone, David, 1325
Lloyd, Clinton, 1401n
Lloyds of London, 1423
Lobdell's Store, in Louisiana, 1203, 1217
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1462, 1464
Logan, John Alexander ("Blackjack"), 227, 927, 938, 942, 1356-57, 1379, 1388
Logan, John L., 737
Logan, Mary, 942
Loggy Bayou, Louisiana, 1006, 1017
London, England, 151, 1210n, 1214n, 1323, 1424
London Treaty (1869), 1362
Long, Huey Pierce, 541
Long Mountain, Virginia, 407
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 170, 193, 405, 997
Longstreet, James, 226, 298, 361n, 395, 412, 486, 865n, 940
"Looker On," 1250
Lord, Nathaniel J., 44-45
Loring, Edward Greely, 26, 66, 155
Loring, William Wing, 264-65, 269, 287
Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland, 53
Loudon Heights, 240
Louis XII, King of France, 828
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III), 65, 1327-28, 1330-32, 1337, 1352, 1406n, and North American involvement, 505-07, 850, 854, 892, 917, 1327
Louisa County, Virginia, 411, 413, 483
Louisa Court House, Virginia, 406
Louisiana, population of, 1187, 1187n, 1246, 1292; southwestern portion, description of, 883-884
Louisiana Belle, 1251, 1526
Louisiana cavalry regiments (Confederate)
2nd, 971
Louisiana cavalry regiments (Union)
1st, 589, 614, 786
Louisiana, congressional representation or readmission to Union, 991, 999, 1148n, 1155-56, 1178, 1181, 1183-85, 1187-90, 1262, 1264, 1267, 1359
Louisiana constitution,..see Constitution, Louisiana
Louisiana constitutional convention (1864), 1144, 1154; (1866), 1373; requests for calling and maneuvering in relation to, 789-90, 793-95, 797-99, 806-07; eligibility of voters selecting delegates or parishes represented, 790, 792, 794, 797, 808, 813, 1179; election of delegates to, 811, 991, 1145, 1179, 1187; backgrounds of delegates, 1145-46, 1294; decisions of and meeting of, 806n, 1145-49, 1163, 1239-41, 1244, 1267, 1411, 1442; alleged financial misconduct, 1171, 1244-45...see also Constitution, Louisiana
Louisiana legislature (Confederate), 655; (loyalist, 1864-65), 791, 1149, 1152, 1162, 1172, 1185, 1245, 1267
Louisiana Purchase, 60, 1286, 1304
Louisiana secession convention, 788, 788n
Louisiana State Bank, 1158, 1235, 1506n, 1507, 1528n, 1529n
Louisiana state government, 574, 788, 1283, 1286; elections (1864), 814, 817-19, 1152, 1179n, 1187, 1242-43; fraud in elections, 814, 819, 1241-42, 1244; finances and taxes, 1171-72, 1246; appropriations, 1172
Louisiana State Sugar Refinery and Rum Distillery, 550
Louisiana State University, 1199, 1208
Louisville, Kentucky, 1122, 1229, 1409n, 1417
L'Ouverture, Toussaint, 570
Lovering, Henry Bacon, 1461
Lowell, Francis Cabot, 6
Lowell, James Russell, 193
Lowell, Massachusetts, 13, 15, 19, 24, 108, 601, 853, 1490
Lowell Advertiser, 18
Lowell Democrat, 18-20
Loyalist factions in Louisiana, described, 787
Ludling, Baker & Caulderwood, 1227
Ludlow, George W., 190n
Luray Valley, Virginia, 307, 311, 319, 323, 326, 328, 330, 338-41, 343-45, 347, 352n, 377, 387, 389, 391, 400
Lyceum Bulletin, 1446
Lyceum Hall, New Orleans, 800
Lyman, Theodore, 1195
Lynchburg, Virginia, 413
Lynchburg Republican, 1476
Lynn, Massachusetts, 108, 194, 1440, 1450, 1467, 1472
MacDonald, Francis X., 1459
Machiavelli, 65
Mack, Alonzo W., 1030n, 1515, 1515n
Mackall, William Whann, 1142
Madison, Dolley, 248n
Madison County, Virginia, 412, 415, 417, 421-22, 429-30
Madison Court House, Virginia, 417-18, 421
Magruder, John Bankhead, 860-63, 872, 878, 891, 894, 900-01, 904, 907, 909, 1134
Mahan, Dennis Hart, 699, 931
Mahler, Jacob, 1208, 1504n, 1505
Maine infantry regiments
10th, 36, 364, 369, 457-58
21st,
741n
24th, 510, 741n
28th,
741n
Maine Lawites, 80
Maistre, Lee, 885n
Malden, Massachusetts, 1295
Mallard, George...see Introduction
Malone, Mr., 1238
Mals?, Thomas M., 1513n
Malvern Hill, Virginia, 436n, battle of (1862), 437n
Manassas, Virginia, 290-93, 300, 311, 340, 391, 399-400, 408, 416
Manchester, New Hampshire, 171
Mandel, Philipp, 1309
Manifest Destiny, 1339, 1347
Mann, William D., 1189
Mansfield, A. E., 1221n
Mansfield, Asahel (Asa) S., background of, 1221; involvement in cotton operations, 1206, 1208, 1217-18, 1220-23, 1225-29, 1250, 1296, 1311, 1343, 1405, 1410, 1411n, 1441, 1491, 1501, 1513; and new bank, 1226; at rally, 1273; and Shooting Star fraud, 1410-11; alleged fraud on Gov. Gardner , 1411
Mansfield, Helen Joseph, 1500n
Mansfield, Joseph King Fenno, 222, 490-91
Mansfield, Louisiana, battle near (1864), 998, 1017, 1025-39, 1041, 1051, 1057, 1063-64, 1069-70, 1099, 1122, 1140-41; Federal advance to, 993-94, 999-1001, 1003, 1005-07, 1009-10, 1012-13, 1015, 1018-25, 1043, 1051; roads in vicinity, 1015-16
Mansfield, Lovell & Co., 1221
Mansfield Road, 1009, 1016n, 1021, 1025, 1030, 1033, 1037, 1039, 1047, 1052
Mansfield and Griffin (company), 1222, 1228
Mansura, Louisiana, engagement (1864), 1127-29
March to the Sea (1864), 640, 951n, 974n, 1009n, 1019n, 1084
Marcy, William Learned, 56, 284, 289, 433n
Mardi Gras, 827-29
"Marginel" project, 1405
Maria Collins Mine, 1457
Maria Monk, 71
Mariposas estate, California, 160-61, 586n, 1413
Marmaduke, John Sappington, 850
Marshall, Alexander Keith, 76n
Marshall, Louis H., 425-28, 441, 1182
Marshall, Texas, 855, 859, 887, 1414, 1417
Marshall plantation, 1253
Marshfield, Massachusetts, 52
Martial law issues, 233-37, 233n, 547-48...see also Confiscation of New Orleans property
Martin, Capt., 1504n
Martin, D. Randolph, 1517n 1518n
Martin, George, 1310
Martin, John, 981n, 984
Martinsburg, Virginia (West Virginia), 243, 270, 286, 299, 324, 370-73, 376, 384, 387-88
Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1278
Maryland, possible secession of, 209, 230; Confederate traffic into, 239; vote on constitution (1861), 253
Maryland cavalry regiments (Union)
1st, 340, 350
Maryland Heights, 240, 247
Maryland Home Guards, 383
Maryland House of Delegates, 230
Maryland infantry regiments (Confederate)
1st, 346
Maryland infantry regiments (Union)
1st, 277, 344, 346, 348, 1478
Purnell's Legion, 1481
Maryland legislature (1861), 251-53,259
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 200
Massachusetts, economic conditions, (1857-60), 152, 194; election laws, 39, 41, 154-55, 1185n, 1374; elections (1854), 67-68, 76
Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, (1820), 52; (1853), 52, 52n, 53-54, 67; Declaration of Rights Committee, 54
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 153
Massachusetts Board of Education, 40
Massachusetts infantry regiments
2nd, 270, 276, 303, 314, 355, 369, 461, 521, 1495
4th, 730, 730n, 744-45
6th, 245
13th, 280-81
16th, 488, 1277-78
30th, 736n
38th, 1084n
41st, 535
42nd, 553
48th, 741n
49th, 741n, 753
50th, 525n, 736n, 741n
53rd,
741n
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1463
Massachusetts legislature, 39, 41, 52n, 82-83, 158, 1472; Education Committee, 40; Railroad Committee, 40
Massachusetts militia, 158-59, 174-75, 213, 215; muster (1859), 158-59
Massachusetts militia units
2nd Rifle Battalion, 158
Massachusetts state conventions, 28-29, 81-82, 121, 149
Massachusetts Valuation or Census Committee, 40
Massachusetts Veteran Delegate Convention, 1390
Massanutten Mountain, Virginia, 305, 307, 312, 324, 326-28, 330, 333, 338, 340, 343, 347, 357, 385-87, 389, 399; description, 307, 309, 315, 331, 334
Master Slender, 65
Matagorda, Texas, 530
Matagorda Bay, Texas, 858
Matagorda Island, Texas, 905-07, 909, 913
Matamoros, Mexico, 857-58, 901, 916-17, 1212-13, 1410
Maverick National Bank, 1459
Max (suitor of Mary Binney Banks), 1322
Maximilian, Archduke, 917, 1327, 1331, 1369, 1398
Maxwell, Charles B., 1029n, 1030, 1032
May, C. R., 1223
May, Thomas P.., 835n, 1148, 1148n, 1149, 1149n, 1235, 1250
Maysville, Kentucky, 1423, 1425
Maysville and Big Sandy Railroad, 1422
McAlpine, George W., 1500
McCalmont, Robert, 1431
McCartney, Francis A., 1401n
McClellan, George Brinton, mentioned, 183, 183n, 191, 192n, 205, 217, 219, 224n, 225n, 228n, 243n, 245, 249, 251, 251n, 253, 255, 255n, 263, 263n, 271n, 272, 277-78, 433n, 520, 587, 823, 882, 1170, 1277; explorer of source of Red River, 981; and Ball's Bluff, 257-61; and Romney campaign, 266-69, 287n; and movement to Winchester, 284-89; and operations against Stonewall Jackson, 291, 293,293n, 300, 302-05, 312, 315, 317, 378-80, 383; and operations on Yorktown peninsula, 306, 308, 314, 316, 326, 334, 341, 377-78, 390, 392-93, 395-97, 399-401, 403, 405, 410, 413, 476-77, 481-83, 487, 1142; return to northern Virginia and Antietam campaign, 485-86, 490-92, 494-96, 523, 709; military career ended, 493, 495n, 506-07, 518; presidential candidate (1864), 835, 1156, 1164, 1198, 1268; death of, 1460
McClelland, Robert, 56
McClernand, John Alexander, mentioned, 316n, 961, 979, 1120, 1163, 1514-16; and 1862-63 Mississippi River campaign, 508, 513-15, 612, 639, 659, 661, 663, 696, 721, 869, 892, 979, 979n, 1041; at Vicksburg siege, 710, 720, 727n, 733, 734n, 980, 1018; and cotton speculators, 550n, 1517; as commander in Texas, 940-41, 958, 1525; personality of, 941; brought to Alexandria, 1062; in Alexandria, 1096, 1098, 1105, 1118
McClure, Alexander, 834
McClure, John W., 755, 828, 839
McCollam, Andrew, 1291
McCoy's Ford, Shenandoah River, 347
McCrary, Peyton, 803-04, 806n
McDowell, Irvin, 222, 225n, 277, 306, 315-19, 321, 325, 327, 331, 335, 340, 375, 382-83, 390, 394, 398, 400, 402, 404, 406, 408, 410-11, 414, 417, 419-21, 428, 437, 438. 463-66, 469-70, 472, 482, 489, 520, 640, 1105n, 1120
McDowell, Thomas & Co., 1414
McDowell, Virginia (West Virginia), 330, 399, 412
McFeeley, William S., 869n, 950n
McGuire, Hunter, 373
McKaye, James N., 778-80
McKee, Andrew W., 1232, 1503, 1530-31
McKee, John Henry, 1197, 1223, 1232-33, 1235, 1253-54, 1503, 1504n, 1520, 1534
McKee, William, 1292
McKenzie & Williams (firm), 588
McKinley, William, 1339, 1462
McKinley Tariff, 1464
McLean, John, 114, 117-18, 181
McLean, Paul, 1217-18 1262
McLean County, Illinois, 190n
McLean Hospital, 1467
McManus, Thomas, 638n
McMichael, Morton, 104-05
McMillan, James Winning, 1049, 1057, 1105-06
McMullen, Fayette, 93
McPherson, James Birdseye, 675, 710-11, 920, 995, 1103
McPherson, James M., 99, 804n, 1484
McWilliams plantation, Louisiana, 626
Meacham, James, 126
Meade, George Gordon, 225n, 468, 751, 758, 882-83
Meade, Madame, plantation, Louisiana, 616, 619
Medford, Massachusetts, 202n
Medill, Joseph, 196, 1200
Medina, Texas, 862
Mehaffy, C. D., 1206
Mehl, J. & Co., 1315
Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham, 213, 225n, 251, 847, 1194, 1194n, 1195
Méjan, Count, 511, 1527
Melnotte, Claude, 21
Melrose, Massachusetts, 1472
Memphis, Tennessee, 221, 833, 847, 927, 938, 1161, 1172-73, 1419, 1493, 1515, 1532n; as staging area for 1862 expedition to Vicksburg, 512-13, 578; raid into (1864), 1131
Memphis and El Paso Railroad, 1414-16, 1419
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad, 1414
Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad, 1416-17, 1419-20
Menard, Joseph, 1530
Menefee Mountain, Virginia, 407
Merced Mining Co., California, 161
Merchant's Bank of New Orleans, 1518
Merchant's Exchange, New York, 121
Meridian, Mississippi, 936, 938-40, 945, 947, 953, 964, 1262n
Merriam, Clinton Levi, 1430
Merrill, Amos Binney, 1410-11
Merrill, Louis, 1491n
Merrimack River, 11
Merryman, John, 236
Metcalf, Henry B., 1390
Methodist religion, political views of members, 15, 148n
Metternich, Prince Klemens von ,1331
Mexican War, 28-29, 101, 125, 158, 217-18, 222, 224n, 225, 227-28, 247, 275, 308, 310, 344, 395, 429, 432, 451-52, 529, 683n, 687, 695, 697, 895-96, 964, 977, 1023n
Mexico, French intervention in, occupation (1860s), 498, 754n, 849-50, 852-54, 1327, 1331, 1368; American interest in annexing, 849; governors and generals of northern Mexico, 850, 861; recruitment of soldiers there, 1211
Mexico City, Mexico, 849, 1427
Michigan cavalry regiments
1st, 353, 367, 465
Michigan Central Railroad, 187, 1335
Middlesex Corporation, 1490
Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 16, 55, 1316, 1491
Middlesex Democrat, 19-20
Middlesex Mills, 219
Middlesex Reporter, 18
Middletown, Virginia, 356-60, 371, 390-91, 393-94, 1475
Midwest, U. S., economic conditions during Civil War, 208
Milan, Italy, 1323
Miles, Dixon S., 351, 1142
Militia Act (1862), 564
Mills, Charles J., 480
Military Duty, 271
Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, from April 1861, to April 1865, 921
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U.S., 1466
Militias, at begin of war, 216, 216n See also Massachusetts militia.
Mill Dam, 11
Mill workers, life of, 14
Millerites, 105
Millican, Texas, 862-63, 878
Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, 657
Millward, William, 89
Milroy, Robert Huston, 330, 330n, 419, 472
Miltenberger, A., 1506-07
Miltenberger, Aristide, 1506
Miltenberger, A & Co.,, 1506
Milton (poet), 65
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 836, 957, 1518
Minnesota land corruption, 141
Minnesota, statehood legislation, 141
Minor, William J., 1291
Missionary Ridge, battle of (1863), 699n, 711n, 755, 756n, 919, 1002n, 1127
Mississippi (ship), 607
Mississippi Delta, 594, 594n
Mississippi infantry regiments
(Confederate)
1st, 750
Mississippi River, 185, 207, changes in channels, 605n, see also specific campaigns involving the river
Missouri cavalry regiments
4th, 614
5th, 614
6th, 614
10th, 614
Missouri Compromise...see Compromise of 1820
Missouri infantry regiments
11th, 964
Missouri Pacific Railroad, 1413
Mobile, Alabama, 184-85, 601, 757, 938-39, 1536; Federal interest in capturing or rumors about, 552, 591-92, 849-51, 855-567, 907, 922, 932-33, 939, 954, 956-59, 961, 989n, 1072-75, 1102, 1118, 1136, 1171n; defenses of, 856-57, 1136; as transit point for Atlanta campaign, 1135-36; cotton there, 1262n; surrender of, 1267
Mobile Bay, Alabama, 849, 939n, 956n
Mobile County, Alabama, 632n
Model artists exhibition, 1203
Moderator, 679
Monett's Ferry, Louisiana, 987; battle of (1864), 1032, 1055n, 1077, 1079-81, 1083-85
Monk, Maria, 71
Monocacy River, Maryland, 255
Monroe, James, 501
Monroe, Louisiana, 583, 583n, 664-65, 1227
Monroe Doctrine, 1334, 1345
Monterrey, Mexico, 851, 901
Montezuma, Mexico, 20
Montgomery, R. H., 1504n
Montgomery, R. W., 1504n
Montgomery Bros., 1504n
Montreal, Canada, 160
Moore, Arad, 165, 165n, 1404n
Moore, John G., 1138
Moore, Oscar Fitzallen, 89
Moorefield, Virginia (West Virginia), 385
Morgan, Charles, 531-32, 532n, 1341-42
Morgan, Christopher A.
Morgan, Edwin Barber, 85, 97, 129, 132
Morgan, Edwin Denison, 119n, 120, 767, 1500
Morgan, Henry R., 531n-532n
Morgan, Joseph S., 638, 770
Morgan City, Louisiana, 616n...see also earlier name of Brashear City
Morganza, Louisiana, 595, 679, 1130
Morin, Charles, 1080n
Mormon religion, 71
Mormon War, 147, 687
Mormons, 73n, 144, 145n, 1300
Morrill, Justin Smith, 97-98
Morris, Gouvernor, 190n
Morrison and Doe (law firm), 1315
Morse, Charles F., 461n
Morse, Edmund, 1500n
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 73, 149
Morse women, 1500n
Morton, Marcus, 24
Morton, Oliver Hazard Perry Throck, 834
Morton, Samuel W., 1418-20, 1424, 1424n, 1435n
Mosby, John, 227
Moscow, Russia, 1323; French retreat from, 1101
Motley, John Lothrop, 1363
Mott, Lucretia, 104
Moulton, A., 1225n
Mound City, 1109-10
Mount Cenis Tunnel, 1327
Mount Jackson, Virginia, 288, 292, 296, 302-04, 312-14, 319-20, 334, 387-88, 391
Mount Vernon, 58
Mouton, Jean-Jacques Alexandre Alfred, 634, 724, 889; at Mansfield, 1013-14
Mouton family, 634, 888-9
Mower, Joseph Anthony, 227, 963-64, 1058; background of, 963-64, 966, 969; operations against Ft de Russy, 967-68, 1130; advance to Alexandria and Henderson's Hill, 970-72, 1130; at Pleasant Hill, 1051, 1130; retreat to Alexandria, 1080; at Alexandria, 1089-90, 1097; at Yellow Bayou, 1130; at Tupelo, 1131
Mud March (1863), 639
Muddy River, Maryland, 254
Murphy, Isaac, 1414
Murrah, Pendleton, 1011
Murray, John Courtney, 72
Museum of Comparative Zoology, 152, 154
Muskets...see Rifles
Mustang Island, Texas, 902-04, 906, 917
Mutinies among soldiers, (1861), 249, (1863), 599, 744, 843-44; (1864), 1053
Mystic Crewe of Comus, 827
Mystic Riding Park, 1315
N. P. Banks, 1525
Nantucket, Massachusetts, 106
Napier, William Francis Patrick, 698
Napoleon Bonaparte, 271, 271n, 289, 408, 573n, 616, 697, 824-25, 1058, 1329
Napoleon III. See Louis Napoleon.
Napoleonic Wars, 65
Narrow Passage, Virginia, 203
Nashua, New Hampshire, 11
Nashville Convention (1850), 544
Nashville, Tennessee, 751, 920-21, 925, 939, 1134; battle of (1864), 381n, 1132, 1134
Nassau, Bahamas, 1159
Natchez, 1228
Natchez, Mississippi, 572, 1103, 1195, 1205-06, 1221, 1518n, 1522, 1536
Natchitoches, Louisiana, 836, 854-55, 930, 950, 1009, 1012, 1077, 1135, 1521; description of, 991-92; Federal advance towards (1864), 970, 973, 982-83, 987-88, 991-94, 996, 1000, 1010, 1024; election there (1864), 999
Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, 1001n
Natchitoches Union, 836
Natick, Massachusetts, 75
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 375
National Americans...see Know-Nothing party
National Archives (U.S.), 1200
National Cyclopaedia, 530
National Hotel, Washington, 1512
National Intelligencer, 832
National Railroad Transportation Company, 1403
National Soldiers Convention (1880), 1455
National Soldiers Home, 1456n
National Theater, 21
Native Americans, 1371
Native Guards regiments, 846, 1147n
1st, 703-04, 713-17, 732, 1373
2nd,
713
3rd, 597, 599, 703-704, 712-17, 732
4th, 771-72
...see also African
Americans...Corps d'Afrique...United States Colored Troops
Nativism and anti-Catholic views , 69-71, 73, 78, 83, 119, 149
Naturalization laws, 77, 79, 79n
Naval History of the Civil War, 955, 967, 1086, 1089, 1093, 1110, 1115, 1236
Nay, Robert, 503, 503n, 504
Neal, David A., 190n
Nebraska, admission of, 1377
Negley, James Scott, 222
Nelson, Judge, 1457
Nelson, John A., 714-15, 742
Nelson, William, 224n
Neponsett Bank, 1228n
Nerson's Woods at Irish Bend, Louisiana, 628-29
Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1321, 1323
Neutrality laws, 1358-59
Nevins, Allan, 21, 63
New England, employment rates in during Civil War, 853
New England Conservatory of Music, 1471
New England Soldiers Relief Association, 1532n
New Englanders, 76, 153
New Falls City, 1006, 1009
New Hampshire, settlement of, late 1700s, 2
New Hampshire infantry regiments
8th, 732
15th, 741n
16th, 729
New Iberia, Louisiana, 628, 632
New Madrid, Missouri, battle of, (1861), 396
New Market, Virginia, 305, 307, 314, 317, 322, 331, 333, 338, 340
New North Church, Boston, 1488
New Orleans Bee, 814
New Orleans Customs House, 538
New Orleans Delta, 1296
New Orleans, Louisiana, battle of (1815), 58, 699n; capture of (1862), 319, 502, 977-78; French residents, 507; arrival Banks expedition (1862), 536-37; business conditions, 559, 1157-58; finances and taxes, 1247-49; voting patterns, composition, 572, 817, 1243; attitudes toward Union soldiers, 574; concern about capture by Confederates, 585, 590, 620n, 667, 724, 740, 756; underrepresented in legislature, 788, 790; city police, 800; celebrations, 1864, 827-29; cotton quantities shipped from the port, 913; banks, 1157-58, 1249; cotton shipments, 1159; sanitation efforts, 1247; riots (1866), 1373-74
New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad, 1411
New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, 1412
New Orleans Times, 814, 819, 835, 835n, 836, 1114, 1235-36, 1272, 1515n, 1521, 1533
New Orleans Tribune, 713, 775
New York and Harlem Railroad, 524
New York and New Haven Railroad, 187
New York Aqueduct, 1463
New York cavalry regiments
3rd, 276
5th, 345, 349-50
13th, 363
New York Central Railroad, 524
New York City, attempted burning of, 1373; subway system, 1463n
New York City Guard, 158
New York City National War Committee, 498
New York Evening Post, 110, 380, 814
New York Herald, 84, 116, 119, 121, 135, 171, 251n, 253, 348, 380n, 439, 474-75, 498-99, 559, 567, 598, 640, 762, 766, 799, 821, 825, 832-33, 957, 1099, 1190, 1294, 1364, 1384
New York infantry regiments
9th, 249
19th, 770
28th, 276, 441
60th, 1481, 1483
75th, 730-31
87th, 270
116th, 961n, 974
117th, 736n
128th, 730
131st, 769
133rd, 598
161st, 736n
162nd, 738
177th, 741n
[New York] Sun, 719n, 1435
New York Times, 98, 379, 498, 540n, 566, 566n, 722n, 786, 795, 837, 887, 1159, 1179n, 1477, 1525
New York Tribune, 21, 94, 203, 379-80, 380n, 381n, 464, 474-75, 498, 546, 598, 719-20, 779, 809, 980, 999n, 1053-54, 1057, 1156, 1273, 1285, 1347, 1389n, 1408, 1439, 1450, 1520-21, 1532
[New York] World, The, 380, 380n, 765, 835, 1239, 1458, 1477
New York, New York, cotton shipped through, 1159-60
Newark, New Jersey, 1359
Newburyport, Massachusetts, 108
Newell, William, 270
Newhall, D. B., 1027
Newman, John P., 1273
Newsome, Edmund, 1084
Newton, Isaac, 499
Newton, John, 247
Newtown, Virginia, 359-60, 1475-77
Niagara, 525, 527
Niagara Falls, Canada, 134
Niagara River, 1358
Niblett's Bluff, Texas, 887-89, 891
Nicaragua, operations of William Walker there, 1840s, 1341-42
Nichols, John S., 528n
Nicholson letter, 28
Nicolay, John George, 258n, 286, 808n, 1142
Nightingale, James W., 1457-58
Nims Battery, 1031, 1034-35
Nixon, Richard Milhous, 1277, 1445
Noah, Mr., 1311
Norcross, Dr., 1163
Norfolk, Virginia, 308, 308n, 334, 1415, 1419
Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1221
Norfolk County Railroad Company bill, 40
Normandy beach, France, 605
Norris, Moses Jr., 64
North American (newspaper), 105
North Americans (party)...see Know-Nothing party
North Carolina (ship), 494
North Star, 534-35, 534n, 537
Northern Pacific Railroad, 104, 1419, 1421, 1424, 1426
Northwest Ordinance, 99
Norton, Charles B., 1319, 1328, 1335, 1415
Norwich, Connecticut, 1221
Nott, Joel B., 1527n
Noyes, Ann, 1487n
Nuevo Leon State, Mexico, 916
Nunnery investigation, 83
Nutt, Haller, 1519
O'Neil, Cecil C., 1338n
Oak Grove, Virginia, battle of (1862), 1277-78
Oakham, Massachusetts, 1487
Ocean Bank, 1517n
Ocean transportation...see Transportation
Odessa, Russia (now in Ukraine), 25, 1326
Odin, Jean Marie, 822, 885n
Ohio cavalry regiments
4th, 614
5th, 614
Ohio infantry regiments
83rd, 1071
96th, 1028, 1029n
120th, 1101
Ohio River, 189
Old South Church, Boston, 1445, 1488
Olin Abram Baldwin, 219
Oliver, Mordecai, 139-40
Olmstead, Frederick Law, 883, 1000, 1021
Olustee, Florida, battle of (1864), 1166
Omaha, Nebraska, 1405
Opelousas, Louisiana, 630n, 634, 650-51, 888, 945
Opposition (the), 1859 group, 169
Orange County, Virginia, 411-13, 423
Orange Court House, Virginia, 412, 417n, 418
Orange cultivation in Louisiana, 618n
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 129
Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 221, 884, 886, 914, 928n, 942, 1262n; wife of, 884n
Oregon, statehood legislation, 141
Orleans Parish, Louisiana, 775, 817, 1291
Orr, James Lawrence, 93, 143
Orth, Godlove Stein, 1345-46, 1349, 1354-56
Osage, 1058
Osborn, William Henry, 182-83, 187n, 188-89, 190n, 191-93, 205-09, 272, 497, 520, 835, 1194
Ostend Manifesto, 144
Othello, 90
Otis, Nelly (Nellie), 1217-18, 1250
Ouachita River, Louisiana, 930, 949n, 1222, 1235, 1261-62, 1497, 1528, 1530
Ould, Robert, 757
Overall Creek, Tennessee, battle of (1864), 457
Overland Campaign, Virginia (1864), 733, 1019n
Ozark, 985, 1110
Ozark Mountains, 188
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 1427-28
Paderborn, Germnay, 1319n
Padre Islands, Texas, 899, 903
Paducah, Kentucky, 1132
Page, Harold Richard, 1472
Paige, Nathaniel, 381n, 475n, 1417
Paine, Halbert Eleazar, 702, 726-27, 729, 731-32, 732n, 1302, 1304, 1307, 1388
Paine, J. T., 704n
Painter, Uriah Hunt, 1311
Palfrey, John C., 599, 691-92, 713, 742, 844, 868, 1069, 1129
Palfrey, William, 639n
Palmer, James S., 672n, 677-78, 682, 822, 926; during siege of Port Hudson, 687; during Red River campaign, 1067, 1103
Palmer, Jeduthan, 13
Palmer, Joseph C., 105
Palmer, W. H., 105n
Palmer, William, 1266
Palmer, Cook & Co., 105n
Panama Canal projects and proposals, 1327-38, 1426
Panama Railroad, 1336, 1427
Pangborn, Z. K., 120
Panic of 1837, 157, 184
Panic of 1857, 79, 144, 150-52, 188
Panic of 1873, 1421n, 1426, 1446-47
Pannes, John B., 1053
Papal States, 72, 72n
Pardis, M., 1416
Parham, Charles, 347
Paris, Count (Comte) de, 435, 1027n, 1485, 1512
Paris, France, 1321, 1323-24, 1327, 1334n
Paris, Texas, 1415
Paris Exposition (1867), 1298, 1382
Park, Trevor W., 162
Parker, Frank, 869
Parker, Samuel Wilson, 89, 199n
Parker House, Boston, Massachusetts, 201, 1452
Parthenia (fictional character), 1470
Parton, James, 1223n, 1491n
Pascagoula, Mississippi, 764, 956
Pass Cavallo, Texas, 905, 907, 909, 913-14, 1062
Patriot, 18
Patterson, Robert, 78, 222, 231, 239, 241, 243-46, 245n, 248, 249n, 275, 277, 300, 1142
Patterson, Louisiana, 622
Pattison, William A., 1522
Patton, George Smith III, 228n
Paupers in Masschusetts, 83
Pea Ridge, battle of (1862), 306, 380, 389, 585
Peabody, Charles A., 1249
Peabody, George, 53, 754
Peace convention (1861), 207
Peace missions into Confederacy, 763-66
Peace Jubilee, Boston (1872), 1440
Pearce, Albert, 1517
Pearsall, Uri Balcom, 1093, 1111-12
Peck, Ebenezer, 199-200
Pegram, Willie, 226, 470
Pellett, Elias, 1065
Pelouze, Louis Henry, 426, 457, 1377, 1482
Pemberton, John Clifford, 584n, 602, 635, 76-63, 1142
Pendleton, Alexander Swift ("Sandie"), 1475
Peniston, Fergus, 1526-27
Peninsular War (1807-1814, Spain), 698
Pennington, Alexander Cumming McWhorter, 126
Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D. C., 95, 1370
Pennsylvania infantry regiments
28th, 429, 429n, 1481-82
29th,
1481-82
47th, 961n, 1041
111th,
1483
Pensacola, Florida, 977, 1124, 1152
People v. Illinois Central Railroad, 190n
People's party, 80
Pepperell Manufacturing Company, Maine, 1160n, 1494, 1494n, 1495n
Perkins, Benjamin W., 1307,
Perkins, Delavan D., 268, 278-79, 352, 426, 461
Perkins claim, 1307, 1313n, 1335n
Perret, Geoffrey, 869n
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 606n, 977
Perry, Raymond H., 1348n
Personal-liberty laws, 83, 156
Peters, John Andrew, 1365n
Petersburg, Virginia, siege of, (1864-65), 699, 699n, 1183, 1341
Phelps, John Wolcott, 137, 715, 1125, 1125n
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 33, 45-46, 71, 80, 88, 100, 104-05, 111, 116, 118, 198, 278, 833
Philadelphia Inquirer, 1311
(Philadelphia) Press, 380, 508n, 998, 999n, 1084, 1116n, 1178
Philadelphia Times, 1053n
Phillips, W. C., 1235
Phillips, Wendell, 10, 100, 194, 566-68, 570-71, 780, 786, 838, 846, 1184, 1186, 1293, 1436
Pierce, Edward Lillie, 194, 1455
Pierce, Franklin, 44-46, 51, 55-56, 61, 64, 66, 68, 74, 84. 93. 95, 101, 107, 120, 136, 140n, 1198
Pierce, Leonard, 1212
Pierrepont, Edwards, 1418, 1423, 1507n
Pike, William S., 1526-27
Pillaging...see Vandalism, pillaging
Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1142
Pilot (newspaper), 73
Pincus, Sam, 1114
Pincus, Theodore, 1217-18, 1220-21, 1227
Pinkerton, Allan, in Virginia, 253, 410, 482, 491-92; in New Orleans, 1197, 1199, 1223, 1225
Pipon, James Kennard, 271
Pittman, Samuel, 448n, 460n
Pittsburg, Tennessee, 316
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 110, 1390
Pius IX, Pope, 72, 72n
Plain's Store, engagement (1863), 680
Plant, George H., 1400-01, 1401n
Plaquemine Bayou, Louisiana, 595
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 562, 775
Plattsburg, battle (1814), 58
Pleasant Grove (Chatman's Bayou), battle of (1864), 1039-41, 1041n, 1042-43, 1063, 1071, 1499
Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 1000-1001, 1009, 1016n, 1018, 1021, 1024, 1039, 1041; Federal advance to, 1021-23, 1025, 1033; battle of (1864), 1021n, 1032, 1043-51, 1053, 1057, 1061, 1063, 1069, 1082, 1089, 1091, 1130, 1140-41, 1182, 1499
Plenary council (Baltimore), 73
Plumley, A. R., 781
Plumly, Major, 1226n
Plumly, Benjamin Rush, 773, 780-81, 783, 809-12, 814, 827, 830, 839, 1145, 1238, 1290; on staff of Genl. Frémont, 1206; delegate to 1864 convention, 1151; meeting with Lincoln, 1155-56; education commissioner, 1164, 1206; possible involvement in corrupt practices, 1206-07; supports Greeley,1435; candidate for special agent, 1533
Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 13
Plymouth rock, 171
Poague, William T., 1476
Poinsett, Joel, 50
Point Celeste plantation, Louisiana, 1279
Point Isabel, Texas, 908
Poland, Luke Potter, 1408
Polk, James Knox, 24, 27, 98, 1468
Polygamy, 65, 145
Pomeroy, Ralph M., 1408
Pomeroy, Samuel Clarke, 1218
Pontchatoula, Louisiana, 601
Pook, 1110
Pool, William D., 1457
Poole, Lt., 1056
Poore, Benjamin Perley, 92
Pope (Roman Catholic leader), 72, 77
Pope, John, mentioned, 225n, 895, 1120, 1509, 1514, assumes command in Virginia, 393-95; earlier history, 395-96; appearance of, 397; summer campaign in central Virginia, 398-402, 406-17, 417n, 418-22, 425, 425n, 426-28, 430, 432-33, 439, 441, 463-67, 469-73, 476-78, 480-84, 482n, 485-90, 881-82, 1182; 1481-82, 1484, 1486; proclamation on going on the offensive, 401-02; other proclamations, 403-04; Louisiana campaign (1865), 1138
Port Gibson, battle of (1863), 1002, 1041-42
Port Hudson, Louisiana, 546, 552, 995, 1103, 1267, 1518; strategic location and pre-siege Confederate resources there, 581-83, 585, 593, 595-96, 600-02, 605-06, 608, 612, 646, 649, 656, 664, 666, 672-74, 677, 681, 684-86, 1059; establishment of Confederate defensive works, 516, 583, 585, 685, 689-91, 699-701, 935; first Union march to (1863), 577, 601-04, 609, 1032; siege of (1863), 443n, 576, 597, 721, 724, 726, 729, 733, 735-37, 740, 1042, 1091, 1141; surrender of, 736, 740, 746-50, 754, 756, 908, 944, 1069, 1201n; Union strategy used in operations against, 516, 580, 585, 592, 606, 610-12, 643-44, 648, 650, 654, 667, 669, 675, 724, 1266; Union strategy during siege, 697, 724; Confederate opportunities there to damage Federals, 517, 608; Confederate operations from there, Jan. to Apr. 1863, 579-80, 584, 590-91; efforts to bypass on the western bank, 594-95, 616; Farragut's passage of, 597, 604-07, 610, 613; Federal reconnaissances of, 600, 609; naval bombardments, 614, 687, 726, 922; Grant's proposed sending of a corps there, 644-50, 656-57, 659, 661, 666, 668, 670-71, 675-76, 721, 724; encirclement operations (May 1863), 668-69, 671-73, 676, 678-83, 689; Plain's Store engagement, 680; Confederate order to evacuate, 682; first assault (May 1863), 690-92, 696, 699-711, 716-17, 720, 752, 1071, 1140, 1187; second assault (June 1863), 726-34, 742n, 1140, 1302; cavalry operations during siege, 737-38, 1032; plans for a third assault, 740-44, 746, 1081; Confederate plans to break out, 749; paroles for garrison, 749-50, 757-58; postsiege visits to by Vicksburg participants, 864, 980; trade originating there, 1219, 1221
Port Republic, Virginia, 328, 331; engagements (1862), 389-90
Port Said, Egypt, 1326
Porter, Madame, 626
Porter, Andrew, 222
Porter, David Dixon, mentioned, 591, 669, 723, 1138, 1461, 1485; appearance, personality, background of, 977-80, 1384, 1388; tendency to embellish accounts, 583n, 658, 660n, 869, 952, 954-55, 978n, 1017n, 1051n, 1084-85, 1452; sending boats past Vicksburg's batteries, 645, 649, 653-54, 924, 980, 1058; communications with Genl. Grant, 646, 660-61, 674, 719, 746; trip to Red River (1863), 651, 658, 660, 664, 981n; criticism of Butler, 978-79; criticism of McClellan, 978; criticism of McClernand, 979; criticism of Grant, 663, 1388; criticism of, hostility towards Banks, 674, 719, 735, 884, 922, 944, 973, 979, 984, 1053, 1062-63, 1104, 1168, 1255-56, 1260, 1517; praise of Genl. Steele, 1124; trapped on Deer Creek, 929-30, 979, 989n, 1062; coal crisis (May 1863), 668-69; intelligence provided to army, 677, 845; protecting Grant's supply operation (1863), 688; and Genl. Grant's drinking, 869; and gunboats requested by Banks, 922-27, 980; assists in Tennessee operations, 924; and Houston report, 936; interest in 1864 expedition up Red River, 918, 920-23. 927, 929, 1510-11; Red River campaign (1864) in general, 945-46, 952-59, 974; raid up Ouachita River, 949n; operations against Ft. de Russy, 966-67, 970; at Alexandria (1864) during Union advance, 971-72, 980, 982-83, 985, 988-89, 1062; at Grand Ecore, 983, 990, 1008, 1064-65; and cotton issues, 976-77, 980, 988, 1059; and roads to Shreveport, 1002, 1005; during advance north of Grand Ecore, 1006-07, 1016, 1043, 1051, 1055, 1058-59, 1061-62; during redeployment downriver to Alexandria, 1066-67, 1072, 1074-76, 1085-88, 1091-92, 1116; during dam construction, 1089, 1092-93, 1100-04, 1106, 1108-10, 1112, 1114, 1118, 1125; departure from Alexandria after dam finished, 1115-16; relation to Col. Bailey's promotion, 1112; Fort Fisher expeditions, 1133; relations with Lincoln, 1133; at Annapolis and navy dept., 1133; witness at congressional investigation of Red River campaign, 1181-82, 1229, 1233, 1235; and cotton speculators, 1221, 1227, 1236, 1502, 1505, 1508, 1521, 1526; his cotton gathering activities or as informer, 1254-62; his accusations against E. Kirby Smith, 1511-12; indebtedness of, 1258; and Charlestown navy yard, 1382; functions as de facto navy secretary, 1386-88; as head of naval academy, 1388-89; and Hanscom firing, 1387; attacked in Congress, 1387-88; and John S. Clark family, 1389; and Gov. Yates, 1516
Porter, Fitz-John, 243, 247, 433, 487, 493, 706
Porter, Nathan, 14, 31, 161-62
Porter, R. A., 1233
Portland, Maine, 91, 1395
Post, R. B., 1526
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 11
Potomac River, 238, 240-42, 248, 250, 254, 257, 263, 265-70, 277, 280, 284-85, 289, 302-03, 339, 359, 372-73, 375-76, 379, 384, 387, 389, 489, 494, 1401, 1478
Potomac River canal, 248, 263
Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas, 136
Potter, David Morris, 820
Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 1513
Powell, J. D. Jr., 1464
Powers, George W., 1084n
Pratt, C. N., 1455, 1456n
Pratt, Collins, 1455n
Pratt, Francis J., 1524
Preble House, Portland, Maine
Prentice, Martha Howard, 2
Prentice, Nathaniel Sartell, 1-3
Prentice, Sarah Sartell, 1
Prentice, Solomon, 1
Prentice, Susanna, 2-3
Prentiss, Benjamin Mayberry, 222
Prentiss, Sally Esther, 31n
Prescott, Thomas C., 1027
Presidential Candidates (book), 171
Presidential elections,
(1856), 120-23, 141-42, 147, 167, 168, 1384
(1860) 148n, 168-69, 179n, 192-93, 195, 198, 207, 217,
572
(1864) 148n, 807, 1169
(1872) 1434-35, 1437, 1439-41
(1876) 1449, 1454
Pretts, David, 763
Price, Sterling, 850, 993, 1033
Priest Cap, Port Hudson, 728-31, 744, 1302
Prim, Juan, 1351
Prince, Henry, 452-53, 456n, 737
Prince, William E., 519-20
Prince of Wales, 152, 821, 1324
Printing House Square, New York City, 719
Prize law, 1259...see also...Cotton, naval seizures under prize law
Probst, Henry, 1415-16
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, 804
Profiles in Courage, 92
Profit's Island, Mississippi River, 604
Prohibition movement...see Temperance movement
Prospect Hill, Waltham, Massachusetts, 164, 165n
Providence, Rhode Island, 13, 30, 1469
Prussian military training, 225
Pryme, R. S., 729
Pryor, James W., 1413
Public schools, 73
Pumfrey, George, 1036
Purcell, John, 533
Puritans in Massachusetts, 1487
Quadroon balls, 1272n
Quakers, political views of members in Massachusetts, 148n; as pacifists, 321; as abolitionists, 321, 1224
Queen of the West, 596-97, 620, 631
Queenstown, Ireland, 1323
Quincy, Josiah, 135, 146, 154, 1270n
Quincy, Samuel Miller, 841, 846, 1269-70, 1272, 1477
Quincy, Illinois, 503
Quincy, Massachusetts, 47, 1225n
Quint, Alonzo Hall, 254, 270, 322, 334, 426, 426n, 445, 448n, 633n, 1477
Quitman, John Anthony, 125
Quixote, Don, 1379
Raasloff, Waldemar R., 1324, 1340
Raccoon Ford, Rapidan River, Virginia, 409, 412
Radical Democrats, 16, 43-44, 111
Railroad passes, 206
Ralli, Benachi & Co., 1526-27
Randall, Samuel Jackson, 1310, 1393, 1450
Ranlett, Albert Sidney Johnston, 574n
Ranlett, David, 1206n
Ranlett, Eleanor (Stone), 574n
Ransom, Thomas Edward Greenfield, 902, 904, 906, 1027, 1029n, 1034, 1036, 1039, 1055, 1063, 1069-70, 1070n
Rantoul, Robert Sr., 22, 53, 191
Rantoul, Robert Jr., 22-23, 25-29, 30n, 35, 42, 44-45, 47-48, 55-56, 187-90, 190n, 191, 208, 1265n, 1339; widow of, 567
Rapidan River, Virginia, 409, 411-13, 415, 417-19, 422-23, 457, 484, 1121
Rapides Parish, Louisiana, 1503
Rappahannock River, Virginia, 317, 481, 483, 485, 485n, 495
Rathbone, Henry, 1192n
Rawlins, John, 1340, 1351, 1356, 1356n, 1443n, 1508n, 1518
Ray, John, 1513n
Raymond, Gilbert, 885
Raymond, Henry Jarvis, 566n, 823, 834, 837, 1297, 1525
Raymond, Mississippi, battle of (1863), 674
Raynor, William, 1038
Read, Charles Freeman, 1115
Reagan, Ronald, 20
Ream, Vinnie, 1324, 1392
Reconstruction, 573, 804; 819, 1184, 1286-87, 1299, 1371-73, 1381, 1468...see also Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction..see also entries under specific states, such as Louisiana, and under individuals
"Reconstruction of States," by N. P. Banks, 1188
Red River, Louisiana, as supply source for Confederates, 581-82, 646, 859; problems supplying Union forces via this route, 933-35, 947n, 949, 1126; mouth of, as strategic point, 593, 644, 677, 891, 919, 921, 980; as site of military or naval operations (1863), 596, 617, 650, 664, 666, 669, 863, 889, 891; water levels in, 665, 920, 923, 927, 929, 932, 940, 944-45, 944n, 946, 946n, 951, 975, 980-85, 989, 1003, 1006, 1008, 1020, 1058, 1067, 1072, 1074, 1087, 1091, 1117-18; the rapids, falls at Alexandria, 944n, 946n, 980-83, 985, 989n, 1091, 1108, 1140; Union dam construction and passage of dam, 1088n, 1092-96, 1100, 1106-12, 1121; course of, 1001n, 1002; changes in course of, 992; sources of water supply, 981; potable water, 1021, 1021n; diversion of water, 1004, 1007, 1117-18, 1140; Genl. Halleck's interest in as campaign route, 854-55, 931-32; Banks's dislike of as campaign route, 855; 935-36, 949, 951, 1106, 1140, 1142; question of military jurisdiction relating to, 929; Steele's proposed 1863 campaign, 930, Union campaign on (1864), 640, 836-38, 918, 921-23, 927-30, 936-37, 939-40, 942, 944-49, 952-58, 959-1143, 1193, 1194n, 1203-04, 1220, 1236, 1259-60, 1295, 1310n, 1337, 1461, 1473, 1489, 1499, 1501-02, 1506-07, 1509, 1515, 1517, 1525; theoretical other outcomes of 1864 campaign, 1135-37; Congressional hearing relating to campaign, 1180-81...see also entries under...Cotton
Redpath Lecture Bureau, 1443
Reed, Emily, 1464n
Reed, Rebecca, 71n
Reed, Thomas Brackett, 1463
Reeder, General, 943
Reeder, Andrew Horatio, 137, 140
Reid, Mr., 588
Reid, Whitelaw, 1223, 1252n
Reilly, Mr., 1501
Religious liberty, 72, 78
Remington Arms, 1132
Renaud, Admiral, 507
Reno, Jesse Lee, 273
Republican Americans, 149
Republican party, 119, 169, 831, 1299
Congressional caucus, 1370, 1442, 1450
national executive committee, 197, 1403
national convention,
(1856), 108,
111, 114-16, 118, 120, 529
(1860) 172-81, 196, 203, 830,
1514
(1864) (as National Union party), 810, 831, 837-38,
1151, 1161, 1234
(1868) 1394
(1872) 1435
Republican party in Massachusetts, 74-74, 80-82, 151, 1462
Revere House, Boston, Massachusetts, 100, 166
Revolution, 1378
Revolutions, Europe (1848), 72-73, 389
Reynaud, Admiral, 1179-80
Reynolds, Joseph Jones, 1102, 1535
Rhode Island cavalry regiments
2nd, 574-75, 613-14, 769
Rhodes, James F., 1491n
Richard III, King, 310
Richardson, James S., 308n
Richardson, John, 589
Richardson, William Adams, 1423
Richardson, William Alexander, 85-87, 90, 93, 125
Richmond, Maine, 524, 524n
Richmond, Virginia, 304, 308, 315, 317, 319-20, 326, 377, 382-84, 390, 392, 399, 413, 482, 764-65, 1209; siege of (1864-65), 468, 1183; occupation of (1865), 618n; false news about capture of, 1128
Ricketts, James Brewerton, 414, 419-20, 422, 466, 470
Riddell, John L., 805, 806n
Rifles, provided to Union soldiers, 216, 227, 241, 280, 908; shipment of Enfields to Texas, 860
Riggin, John Jr., 718, 720, 1232, 1517-19
Riggs, George Washington, 755, 1310-11
Riggs & Corcoran & Co., 1423n
Riley, Mr., 1501
Rio Atrato, 1336
Rio Grande City, Texas, 911, 1211
Rio Grande River, Union interest in occupying, 851, 894, 1139; smuggling, trade across, 851, 901, 910, 912-13, 1212; mouth of, 860, 893, 895-97, 912; Union activities there after occupation, 891, 899, 901, 912-13, 1062
River transportation...see Transportation
Rob Roy, 1208, 1217, 1222, 1222n, 1223, 1225-29
Robbins, Royal E., 1400
Robert E. Lee, 1228
Roberts, Benjamin Stone, 417, 432-35, 433n, 434n, 435n, 436-39, 441, 452, 463, 467, 474, 481, 482n, 1182, 1210
Roberts, Carrie, 530-31, 531n, 826, 1319
Roberts, John A., 1498
Roberts, Marshall Owen, 527-31, 545, 826, 1342, 1369, 1417-20, 1426-27, 1435,1533
Robertson, James I., 1485
Robeson, George Maxwell, 1443n
Robinson, Charles, 113
Robinson, Harai, 1410, 1489
Robinson, William Stevens, 36
Robinson River, Virginia, 415, 423
Rockaway carriages, 167
Rockville, Maryland, 251, 251n
Rocky Springs, Mississippi, 659
Rodrigues, Joseph, 1163
Roeher, Milton, 1229
Rolla, Missouri, 306
Roman law, 1360
Romero, Sr., 1369
Romney, Virginia (West Virginia), 263-69, 388
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 82
Roosevelt, Theodore, 460n, 1339
Roosevelt family, 823
Root, William H., 629, 731
Ropes, John Codman, 1486
Rose, Alexander Grant, 741n
Rosecrans, William Starke, 78, 222, 225n, 317-19, 495n, 506, 516, 639, 751, 856, 883, 964n, 1023n, 1142, 1193, 1509
Rosedale, Louisiana, 595
Roselius, Christian, 799n, 809, 1507
Rosemary's baby, 136
Rothschild, Baron, 1327-28
Rothschild family, 1328, 1331
Rothschild Son & Co., 1423n
Round Mountain, Virginia, 407
Roudanez, Jean Baptiste, 779, 779n, 1147n
Rousseau, Lovell Harrison, 224n, 1408
Rowlett, Mr., 1424
Rowley, William W., 426, 426n, 1206
Roxbury, Massachusetts, 108, 336
Royal Oak, Michigan, 1487n
Rozier, Joseph Adolph, 1291
Ruger, Thomas Howard, 252, 479
Ruggles, George David, 420, 429, 464, 468-69
Ruiz, Don Manuel, 915-16
Rumford Institute, 12, 21
Rumford Journal, 19
Rumford Market, Waltham, 1280
Russell, Thomas, 1399, 1405, 1435n, 1443
Russia, involvement in Alaska colonization, 1300; negotiations for sale of Alaska, 1300; interest in Korea and Amur, 1300; supportive of Union war effort, 1300, 1305; departure from Alaska, 1301, 1304; payment of Stoeckl, 1304; and Perkins claim, 307; Banks's description of population, 1325-26
Russian America, 1301
Russian American Company, 1300
Russo-American Telegraph Enterprise, 1305n
Rust, Albert, 93, 125, 608
Rutland, Massachusetts, 1487
Rutter, Master, 9
Ryan, George...see this book's Introduction
S. C. Baker, 1514
Sabine Crossroads, battle of...see Mansfield
Sabine Pass, Texas, 863; garrison at, 862-63, 880, 908; description of, area, 870-72, 874; Federal expedition and attack on, 855, 863, 870-80, 883, 891, 893, 895, 923-24
Sabine River, 858-59, 878, 880, 891, 894, 1018; smuggling through, 1176
Saccarappa, Maine, 1439
Sachem, 672n, 673n, 679, 876n
Sacramento, California, 586
Sage, Russell, 114, 126
Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana, 562, 775, 778, 843
Saint Charles, 679
Saint Charles Hotel, New Orleans, 536, 768, 827
Saint Charles Theater, New Orleans, 976
Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana, 619
Saint Croix and Lake Superior Mineral Company, 187
Saint Croix Railroad, 1421-22
Saint John, Virgin Islands, 1340
Saint Joseph Island, Texas, 906
Saint Louis, Missouri, 56, 103, 109, 110n, 178, 180, 184-85, 214, 221, 393-94, 396, 956n, 996, 1132, 1215n, 1247, 1264, 1522; arsenal, 587
Saint Louis (Missouri) Republican, 1098, 1512
Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana, 634-35
Saint Mary's Parish, Louisiana, 562-63
Saint Maurice, 679
Saint Nicholas Hotel, New York, 107, 145, 1418
Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1323, 1325, 1328
Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana, 817
Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1340
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 47
Salem, Massachusetts, 191, 1246-47
Saligny, Count Dubois de, 505
Salomon, Edward P., 1091, 1112
Salt, sources of in Confederacy, 632-33, 632n, 633n; scarcity of and smuggling, 633, 633n
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1006
Saltville, Virginia, 632
Samana Bay, as potential naval base, 1343; land owned by American speculators, 1348
Samana Bay Company, 1343
San Antonio, Texas, 859, 909-10, 912
San Diego, California, 1414, 1417
San Francisco, California, 105n, 451, 1133
San Francisco Bay, California, 163, 1391, 1393n, 1421
San Jacinto, battle of (1836), 101
San Juan Island boundary dispute, 1362
San Sebastian, 1333
Sandoval, Illinois, 189
Sandwich Islands, see Hawaiian Islands
Sandy Hook, Maryland, 254, 1482
Sanford, John F. A, 130n
Sanger, Eugene F., 1053, 1233
Santa Claus, 375
Santa Gertrudis, Texas, 900
Santo Domingo (now Dominican Republic), Spanish intervention in, 1299; efforts to acquire for U.S., 1307, 1340-41, 1343-49, 1438; American colonization efforts, 1342-43
Saratoga Springs, New York, 826
Sargent, Charles Sprague, 522, 659n
Saugerties, New York, 824
Savannah, Georgia, 767n, 1262n
Saxbury, Massachusetts, 13
Saxton, Rufus, 389
Scheffler, William, 370
Schenck, Robert Cumming, 222, 834, 1289, 1298, 1379, 1423, 1443n
Schmander, John, 1315
Schmoele, William, 1415
Schofield, John McAllister, 930, 1292
Schouler, William, 53, 87
Schroeder, J. Henry, 1214n
Schroeder & Schreiber (firm), 1214
Schü cking, P. L., 1314n
Schuller, Robert (Rev.), 21n
Schurz, Carl, 170, 179n, 390, 430, 506, 523, 1443n, 1446
Schutz, Wallace J., 1485
Schuyler, Robert L., 187, 187n, 190n
Scopini Island, Louisiana, 1004
Scott, Harvey David, 89n
Scott, Henry Bruce, 21, 352, 460n, 1483
Scott, John (Colonel), 1021, 1049, 1057
Scott, John (Senator), 1422n
Scott, Mary, map of, 1043-44, 1047
Scott, Thomas Alexander, 251, 1419-22, 1424, 1426
Scott, Walter, Sir, 441, 460
Scott, Winfield, 68, 101, 168, 210, 218, 222-23, 226, 228n, 230, 233, 241-42, 244, 246, 248, 249n, 255, 255n, 263, 271, 310, 310n, 393, 683n, 1076
Scribner's Magazine, 1320
Scuitate, Massachusetts, 13
Seaman, Emery, 46
Sears, Mr., 1251
Secession of Northern states, proposed, 207
Secession of Southern states, 195, 205, 207, 209
Secret ballot issues, 17, 39, 83
Seddon, James Alexander, 765
Sedgwick, John, 300
Seevar's House, Winchester, Virginia, 289
Seine River, France, 1133n
Selfridge, Thomas Oliver, 922, 1060, 1066-68, 1076, 1108, 1110, 1260, 1337
Sells, Miles, 1536
Sells, Sarah (Casey), 1536n
Selma, Alabama, 938-39, 1019n
Seneca Creek, Maryland, 255, 263
Seneca Sandstone scandal, 1434
Separation of church and state, 72
Seven Days Battle, Virginia (1862), 369, 399, 487, 1002n, 1277
Seville, Lieut., 350-51, 353
Seward, Fanny, 251n
Seward, Frederick William, 250n, 251n, 1299, 1301, 1343
Seward, William Henry, mentioned, 111, 118, 195n, 211-12, 212n, 250, 255n, 272, 277, 308n, 320, 376, 495, 500, 507, 520, 547, 561n, 568-69, 587, 620n, 651, 719, 753-54, 753n, 782-83, 793, 818, 837, 1125, 1163, 1168, 1299, 1363, 1418n, 1525; cabinet selection process (1860-61), 197, 200, 203-05, 221; presidential campaign (1859-60), 170-71, 173-74, 177-79, 181, 1401n; involvement in preventing further secession, 212n, 231, 234, 236, 251-53, 251n, 501; involvement in clandestine war operations, 212, 280, 493, 760-62, 764; involvement with French/Mexican relations and consuls, 502-03, 505, 507, 511, 540, 916-17; interest in obtaining Southern cotton, 638, 761-62, 761n, 1176; and Isachar Zacharie, 760, 762-63, 767; and $5 million credit for Banks, 760-62, 1176; involvement in peace efforts, 763, 767; and seizure of Banks's supplies, 848; interest in Texas invasion, 851, 853-54, 861; assists to obtain gunboats, 925; and patronage job issues, 1151; promoting Banks for cabinet?, 1170; interest in reorganizing parties, 1190-91; promotion of XIII Amendment, 1191; rumored assassination, 1265; entertains Banks, 1289; lobbies for H. J. Raymond, 1297; and purchase of Alaska, 1300-04, 1306, 1310, 1313, 1317; and purchase of Virgin Islands, 1340; and Perkins claim, 1307; visit to Santo Domingo, 1343; and Santo Domingo acquisition, 1344, 1344n, 1345; and Alabama claims, 1357, 1362; arranged trip to Mexico, 1369; and Mexican issues, 1369; and Paris exposition, 1383; and navy yard supervisors, 1386; personal expenses of, 1399
Seward, William Henry Jr., 762
Seward Regiment, 250
Seymour, Horatio, 564n, 835
Shannon, R. H., 1126n
Sharecropping, 1287
Shattuck, Lt., 844
Shaw, Alfred, 1245, 1245n
Shaw, Robert Gould, 314, 331, 335, 378-79, 479, 714, 1294
Shaw, William (Sheriff), 1373
Shaw, William Tuckerman, 968-69, 1049-50, 1373
Shenandoah River, 240, 291, 303, 303n, 317, 326, 341, 344, 346, 348, 389, 1401, 1474
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, 244-45, 277, 291-93, 302, 304, 306-10, 312, 317, 322, 329-30, 336, 344, 377-78, 382-83, 391, 398-99, 410n, 411, 413, 487, 489, 521, 640, 1104, 1130, 1133; turnpike, 291-93, 303, 355, 387, 408; crops, vegetation, 302n, 309, 313, 315, 324, 332
Shenandoah Valley campaign (1862), 288-90, 292-391, 479 [criteria for included events not well defined]
Shepard, John B., 1513n
Shepley, George Foster, 531, 562, 572, 788n, 789-92, 794-95, 797-99, 801, 803-04, 808, 822, 1178, 1230-31, 1235, 1243, 1246, 1291, 1527-28, 1531, 1536n
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 457, 640, 1104, 1120n, 1133, 1139, 1323
Sheriffs, in Louisiana, 813
Sherman, Duncan & Co., 1423
Sherman, Ellen Boyle (Ewing), 826, 946
Sherman, Isaac, 88, 110, 110n, 111-12, 114-15, 115n, 121n, 170, 176-77, 545
Sherman, John, 36, 127, 139, 139n, 140, 216n, 918, 921-22, 943
Sherman, Thomas West, recon activities, 602, 690; at Port Hudson, 683, 690-91, 701, 705-08, 708n, 709, 729, 733, 758, 1140; and telegraph office controversy, 694; garrison commander, New Orleans, 694-95, 759, 843; and black soldiers, 841; supports proslavery faction, 1270; charges against his wife, 1272
Sherman, William Tecumseh, mentioned, 140, 189, 216, 221, 225, 228n, 273-73, 316, 377, 495n, 557n, 735, 767n, 821, 826, 829, 1115, 1120, 1191n; views on trading outside Union lines, 560, 633n, 768n; views on wartime civilian government, 573-74, 755n, 949, 1119, 1161; and Chickasaw Bayou expedition, 579-80, 583-84, 611, 684, 979, 1041; at Arkansas Post, 639, 979; in Vicksburg campaign, 661, 664, 674, 676, 710-11, 711n, 716n, 727n, 733, 734n, 979, 1259; Atlanta campaign, 845, 934, 999n, 1136, 1157; march to the sea (1864), 640, 974n, 1009n, 1019n, 1084; march to Goldsboro, 975n, 1175, 1183; friendship with Admiral Porter, 674, 929-30; background of, 918-19, 947n; personality, appearance of, 695-96, 720, 919, 945; rescues Porter in 1863, 929-30; views on the French in Mexico, 755n, 854; views on black soldiers, 845, 845n; views on volunteer generals, 943; march to Chattanooga, 924-25, 973n; march to Knoxville, 974n; meeting with Grant in Nashville, 920-21, 927; testimony to Joint Committee on Conduct of the War, 921, 921n; proposes Yazoo River campaign, 919-22; interest in taking over parts of Banks's dept., 928, 944n, 1119; as administrator in Memphis, 928, 928n; raid to Meridian, 936, 938-40, 945, 947, 964, 974n, 1262n; and Houston report, 936, 1138; interest in conducting, planning a Red River operation, 921-22, 927, 928n, 929, 929n, 931-32, 936, 939-40, 942-52, 954, 967, 987, 1000, 1137, 1140; during Red River campaign, 960, 973n, 974n, 1062, 1064-65, 1087, 1102, 1119-20, 1122, 1124; Grant's proposal to Halleck about Sherman and Red River, 940; relationship with Genl. Banks, 943-46; insistence on Steele's route to Shreveport, 946-47, 1124; and operations against Forrest (1864), 1131; allows soldiers to go home to vote, 1169; not called as witness before Joint Committee on Conduct of the War, 1181; his disposition of captured cotton, 1259, 1259n, 1262n;and cotton speculator friends, 1230, 1232, 1236, 1518-19, 1523; supports Banks's pension, 1465
Shields, James, 78, 187n, 225n, 288-90, 292-95, 297-300, 941; during pursuit of Jackson (Apr. - May 1862), 301, 305, 307-08, 308n, 309n, 310-11, 314, 318-20, 326, 331, 333-34, 373, 381n; 1474; during attempted trap of Jackson (June 1862), 382-83, 386-90, 392
Shiloh, Tennessee, battle of (1862), 315-17, 319, 346, 378, 399, 415, 472, 474, 579, 585, 733, 1002n, 1045n, 1523
Ship Island, Mississippi, 535-36, 552, 597-98, 772, 849, 857, 1163
Shipley, Capt., 1210
Shooting Star, 1410
Shorey, Henry Augustus, 1040
Short mansion, New Orleans, 1276
Shreve's Cut-off, Louisiana, 1005n
Shreveport, Louisiana, 636, 858-59, 863, 940, 982n, 999, 1056, 1414, 1508, 1520; plans to capture (1863), 655, 664-65, 667, 854-55, 883, 887, 927-28, 930-31, 933, 935-36, 944-4, 950, 952, 985-86, 988, 1052, 1067, 1072, 1074, 1124, 1237, 1497, 1511, 1527-28; proposed railroad link to, 934; defenses of, 935, 935n, 985, 1002; as a proposed supply base, 935-36, 950-52, 1142; rumors of rams there, 954, 983-85; Confederate infantry units there, 993-94...for Federal advance towards...see Mansfield, Federal advance to
Shylock (Shakespearean character), 65, 71
Sibbald, J. S., 1498n
Sibley, Treat and Collidge (shop), 11
Sibley, Henry Hopkins, 724
Sickles, Daniel Edgar, mentioned, 21n, 224n, 494, 494n, 623, 1070, 1204, 1278; at Morganza, 1130; background, personality of, 1167-68; promotes Banks for cabinet, 1170; and Samana Bay Co., 1343n; as minister to Spain, 1352; supports Banks's pension, 1465
Sickles, Laura, 1168
Sickles, Teresa (Bagioli), 1167n, 1168n
Sigel, Franz, 78, 385, 389, 389n, 391, 394, 397, 400-02, 407, 409-11, 419-21, 428, 437, 466-67, 471-73, 481, 490, 493, 1120, 1478
Signal, 654n
Signal stations, in Virginia, 307, 309, 339, 343, 357, 357n, 370, 410, 429, 489
Simmesport (Simsport), Louisiana, 648, 648n, 665, 668-69, 671-72, 675, 677-78, 681, 688, 696, 738, 967
Simmons, William A., 1443, 1448, 1454
Simon Legree, 100
Simpson, Brooks, 869n, 950n
Simpson, James Hervey, 247
Simpson, Samuel, 1496-99, 1529
Simpson, William, 654n
Sims, Thomas, 44
Singapore, 250n
Sise, A. F., 1225n
Sister Francis Patrick, 71n
Sisters of Mercy, 822
Sitka, Alaska, 1302
Six Months in a Convent, 71n
Skillon, Julius, 1427
Skinner, Francis ("Frank"), 1203, 1203n, 1406
Skinner, Francis & Co., 1493, 1494, 1494n, 1500
Slaughter, Philip, Rev., 443, 444n, 710
Slaughter, Joseph, 709
Slaughter, Mary (Smith), 710n
Slaughter, Robert, 710n
Slaughter, William, 710
Slaughter, William Shewen, 709-10
Slaughter family, 709n, 710
Slaughter's Mountain, Virginia...see Cedar Mountain
Slaughter's parsonage, Cedar Mountain, Virginia, 443-45, 454
Slavery, efforts to end and abolitionism, 17, 69, 82, 322, 804, 807-09, 817, 961, 1147, 1371..see also African Americans...see also Constitution, U. S., 13th Amendment
Slaves...see African Americans
Slidell, John, 1334
Sloo, Albert G., 529
Smalley, George, 475n
Smith, Admiral, 1384-85
Smith, Andrew Jackson "Whitey," background of, personality, 960, 976, 1009, 1069, 1133, 1140; during movement to Alexandria, 960-61, 966-68, 970-71, 973, 987, 1194n; and vandalism, 975, 1114-15, 1131, 1135; at Alexandria, 986, 993, 1089, 1096-98, 1102-03, 1107, 1114, 1259; advance to Grand Ecore, 982; as "headquarters," Red River expedition, 986, 986n, 987n; at Grand Ecore, 1001, 1008, 1010, 1064-66, 1070, 1072; advance to Mansfield, 1000, 1006, 1009, 1011, 1013, 1019n, 1021-24, 1030-31, 1033; at Pleasant Hill, 1045. 1047-49, 1051, 1063, 1077, 1089; retreat to Grand Ecore, 1052-53, 1056, 1059-60, 1062, 1099, 1105; retreat to Alexandria and Monett's Ferry, 1077, 1080-81, 1083-84, 1088; operations after leaving Red River, 1049, 1052n, 1131-32; praised by Admiral Porter, 1062-63, 1104; assertions that Banks would desert the fleet, 1088; departure from Alexandria and march to Mississippi River, 1113, 1128, 1131; and disturbance in Memphis, 1132n; theoretical operations if different Red River results, 1134-36; and John Riggin, 1518
Smith, Caleb, 196
Smith, Charles, 1179
Smith, Edmund Kirby, and 1863 military operations, 635-37, 664, 883, 911; and cotton trade, 910, 912, 1175, 1222, 1497, 1510-13, 1513n, 1527-29; and Red River campaign, 947, 955-59, 962, 994, 996, 1011-13, 1016n, 1047, 1061, 1085, 1107, 1117, 1134; after Red River operations, 1134-35, 1139, 1175; postwar career, 1134; and civil administration, 1135; and Confederate supply system, 1174-75; burning of cotton orders, 1261
Smith, Gerrit, 56
Smith, Jean Edward, 950
Smith, Joe P., 1358n
Smith, Lewis school, 10
Smith, Samuel Axley, 94-95
Smith, T. D., 585
Smith, Thomas Haskell Church, 421, 425n, 436n, 466n
Smith, Thomas Kilby, 9n, 868-69, 966; at Port Hudson, 1076; operations against Ft. de Russy, 967, 969, 971; at Alexandria, 986-87, 1088; on northern Red River, 1058-59; star-struck personality, 1088; bitterness at regular officers, 1139; and John Riggin, 1518
Smith, William Farrar ("Baldy"), mentioned, 867-68, 889n; background of and personality, 1195-97; at Petersburg, 699n; New Orleans investigations, 1197-98, 1200, 1202, 1208, 1213-14, 1231-32, 1239, 1241, 1247, 1505, 1520, 1531, 1535; recommended for New Orleans posts, 1263
Smith-Brady investigative commission, 976, 1149, 1182, 1196-1251, 1262-64, 1266, 1271-72, 1279, 1489-91, 1499, 1501, 1505, 1517, 1520, 1527, 1531, 1534-35
Smithport, Louisiana, 1016, 1016n
Smuggling...see Blockade-Running
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, 1414
Snicker's Gap, Virginia, 1474
Snow, Charles, 1458-59
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, 1391
Solomon, King, 1037
Solomon, Mr., 763
Somerville, Massachusetts, 1436n, 1440, 1461, 1467
Soulé, Pierre, 144n
South, The (newspaper), 253
South Mountain, Maryland, battle of (1862), 491, 882
Southard, Samuel Lewis, 977
Southard, Thomas J., 524-27, 525n, 531
Southern Americans...see Know-Nothing party
Southern Commercial Convention, 1396
Southern International Telegraph Company, 1424
Southern Republican Association, 1450
Southern Transcontinental Railroad, 1417-20
Southern Rights [ship], 525
Spain, administration of Cuba, 1351-52, 1354-55
Spanish Lake, Louisiana, 1021
Speaker of U. S. House, election, (1849), 98; (1855-56), 85-99, 127; (1859), 93n; (1865), 1296
Speakers of the U. S. House, 98, 124
Speed, John James, 1510
Speed, Joshua, 270, 1510
Sperryville, Virginia, 399-400, 472
Sphagnum moss, in Alaska, 1308; as potential for commercial product, 1308-09
Spinner, Francis, 1311, 1409
Spooner, Mr., 117
Spotsylvania Court House, battle of (1864), 1045n
Sprague, A. W. & Co., 522n
Sprague, Bela, 1203n
Sprague, Homer Baxter, 630, 680, 730, 736, 1064, 1081, 1083, 1092
Sprague, William, 521, 1200, 1411n
Springfield, Illinois, 180, 186, 190n, 203-04, 257, 1514-15
Springfield, Massachusetts, 59-60, 80, 108, 177, 216, 834...see also, Armory, Springfield
Springfield Landing (Mississippi River), Louisiana, 603, 737; (Red River), Louisiana, 1016-17
Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican, 178, 500, 1395, 1437
Springville, Virginia, 489n
Staff of General Banks, 247-48, 250, 370
Stamford, Connecticut, 549
Stanbery, Henry, 1198
Stanley, Henry Morton, 1325
Stanton, B. H., 203-04
Stanton, D. W. , 1418-20
Stanton, Edwin
McMasters, mentioned, 182n,
217n, 330n, 449, 494n, 519, 574, 587, 662, 767n, 778, 978, 998, 1507n
and Jan-May 1862 military operations, 285, 306, 309,
311-12, 314-15, 317-20, 325, 327, 329-31, 334-37, 340, 344-45, 351, 353, 355,
362-63, 374, 376-77, 379-80, 1141
and June-Dec 1862
military operations, 387, 393-95, 403-05, 409, 476, 496, 501, 504, 511, 520
and 1863 military operations, 576, 579, 639, 720, 733, 755,
759, 846, 877, 882n, 917
and 1864 military operations,
928n, 929n, 937, 941, 1050, 1083, 1089, 1119
and 1865
military operations, 381n;
and General Stone arrest,
258-59, 258n;
and reappointment of Genl. Butler to
Louisiana, 543, 545-47; question of Sherman at New Orleans, 928
and military governors and elections in Louisiana, 797,
801-02, 812, 991, 1179
and trade regulations, smuggling,
disposition of captured cotton, 801, 1172, 1233, 1259
and recruitment, conscription of black soldiers, 839-40,
843-44
and rumors Banks would replace him, 499, 580,
754, 1170
executive style of, 501-02
attorney for Daniel Sickles, 1167
and arranging aspects of Banks expedition (1862), 508,
510-11, 523-24, 528, 531, 538
and McClernand expedition
(1862), 514-15
and confrontation with Banks, winter
1864-65, 1177-78
and recruiting of Mexican soldiers,
1211
and Smith-Brady commission, 1195, 1198-1200
and command in New Orleans, 1264
as
postwar secretary of war, 1298; Johnson's attempt to remove, 1372, 1377-78
and rumors of appointment to Grant cabinet, 722, 722n
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1378
Stanton, Frederick P., 1310-12
Stanton, Henry Brewster, 120
Stanyan, John M., 689, 715, 1076
Stapleton, Mr., 1210
Star cars, New Orleans, 846
Star Line, 1411
Star of the West, 530
Starring, Frederick A., 1136
State House, Boston, Massachusetts, 53, 152, 201, 1472
Staten Island, New York, 1318
Statue of Liberty, 1133, 1333
Staunton, Virginia, 302, 304, 328, 379, 379n
Stebbins, Henry George, 1418, 1423
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 273
Steedman, James Blair, 764n
Steele, Frederick, 804, 806n, 918, 930-32, 936, 939, 942, 946, 949, 950n, 951, 953, 957, 996, 1510; objections to route to Shreveport, 947; optimism about Red River campaign, 948; during operation toward Shreveport (1864), 957, 960, 974, 995, 1000, 1011-12, 1033, 1039, 1060-61, 1067-68, 1074, 1074n, 1117-20, 1122, 1124, 1138; proposed commander Mobile campaign, 1073; proposed commander all Mississippi River, 1119-20, 1122
Stenberg, Sten, 1308-09
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 56, 125, 143, 763
Sterling, Mary B., 1472
Sterling, Paul (Rev.)., 1471-72
Sterling, Paul Jr., 1472
Stetson, Charles A., 500
Stevens, John Austin Sr., 498
Stevens, John Austin Jr., 498, 509
Stevens, Simon, 1426
Stevens, Thaddeus, 1289, 1299, 1302-03, 1306-07, 1311, 1313, 1317, 1371, 1374-76
Stevenson, Benjamin, 821, 886n, 912
Stevenson, John A., 1527-31
Stewart, Alexander Turney, 403n, 823, 1398, 1423
Stewart, James Brewer, 1293
Stewart, Robert Marcellus, 151
Stewart, Thomas Elliott, 1386
Stewart, William Morris, 1417
Stimson, H. M., 18
Stockade Redan, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 964
Stockholm, Sweden, 1323-25
Stockton, Robert, 118
Stockton, California, 586n
Stockwell, Alden B., 1428
Stoeckl, Edouard de (Baron), 1300-01, 1304, 1309-13, 1317
Stokes, James Hughes, 1193-95, 1207, 1238, 1251
Stokes's Battery, 1193
Stone, Charles Pomeroy, 78, 255, 300, 321, personality of, 1068-69; at Ball's Bluff and arrest, 257-58, 258n, 259-60, 287, 332, 405, 759, 840, 895, 1068; in Dept. of Gulf, 260, 518, 840, 883, 889, 892, 908, 911, 942-43, 1056; at Port Hudson, 749, 759; trip to Vicksburg, 863n; and Sabine Pass expedition, 871, 877, 879; religious affiliation, 885n, 1068; and text of orders for fall 1863; central Louisiana operations (1863), 889; at Alexandria (1864), 971, 983, 986, 991, 1010, 1261, 1504; advance to Natchitoches, 992-93, 1001; at Grand Ecore, 999, 1002, 1007, 1060; advance to Mansfield, 1009, 1023, 1023n; at Mansfield battle, 1027, 1030, 1033, 1035-38, 1069; at Pleasant Hill, 1048, 1051, 1055, 1069; granting passes easily, 1068-69; and trade proposals, 1233; September resignation, 1068; kept cotton list, 1498; sent home, 1068, 1070; postwar career, 1133
Stone, Charlie, 11
Stone's River, battle of, 1193
Stonewall Brigade, 265, 269, 386
Stony Brook, Massachusetts, 11
Stony Creek, Virginia, 307
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 100
Strasburg, Virginia, 291-93, 300-02, 305, 313, 315, 320, 324, 331, 333-34, 338, 340-42, 345, 347, 349-51, 354-56, 359, 362-64, 376, 378-79, 383, 385-88, 390, 392, 447, 616, 1141, 1474-76
Strategy, Civil War, 227, 307-08, 312
Strauss, Johann, 1441n
Strikes, 194
Strong, Mr., 1210
Strother, David Hunter, views of, 1291; as topographer, 264, 264n, 267, 278, 289, 292-93, 293n, 295, 300-01, 307, 313-14, 321, 326, 332-33, 350, 356, 358, 370, 376-77, 387, 394, 397, 463-64, 466-68, 471n, 489, 497, 509, 518, 536, 1290, 1474, 1477n; as property sequestration officer and duties in Louisiana, 548, 571, 574, 591, 622, 624, 649, 692, 831, 1285
Strunke, Elias D., 715n
Stuart, David, 1410-11
Stuart, James Ewell Brown ("Jeb"), 226, 228n, 418, 465n, 473
Sturgis, Jonathan, 187n, 190n, 205, 751, 1507n
Styles, H., 1252-53, 1253n
Suez Canal, 1323, 1326-28, 1331, 1333, 1337, 1338n, 1363
Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 147, 1459
Suffrage for women, 1378-79, 1451; in Dist. Columbia, 1378; in Massachusetts, 1378, 1445
Sugar cultivation, Louisiana, 1158-59
Sullivan, Jeremiah Cutler, 328
Sumner, Alice, 520n
Sumner, Charles, mentioned, 10, 26, 34; 49, 52, 54, 59, 84, 97, 99, 107-08, 121, 136, 149n, 151, 170, 173n, 194, 195, 201, 212, 259, 321n, 405, 519, 564, 564n, 779, 831, 1275, 1348; personality, 1370; first Senate election, 42-43, 56, 1445; caning incident, 127-30, 132, 135, 557n; illness after caning, 131, 134-35, 135n; third Senate election, 500; efforts on behalf of Genl. Butler, 542-44; and wartime Southern labor arrangements, 778; and Red River campaign, 1139; and Mary Lincoln, 1170, 1347n; and terms for admitting Louisiana, 1184-86, 1189-90; at Lincoln's reception, 1191; patronage activities, 1240; relationship with, challenges to Banks, 1170, 1289, 1347, 1362, 1445; comment on Banks's 1865 nomination, 1295; as leader in Congress, 1299; attempts to control Secretary Fish, 1363; and Alaska purchase, 1301, 1311; opponent of Virgin Islands purchase, 1340; opponent of Santo Domingo purchase, 1343, 1349n, 1350; and Alabama claims, 1357-58; and Cuban issues, 1358; and neutrality laws and Fenians and expatriation laws, 1359, 1362; and acquiring Canada, 1363; and Mexican issues, 1369; and 8-hour day, 1380; and cable bill, 1397; and naval appropriations; loses chairmanship, 1364; as Liberal-Republican, 1436-38, 1441; lack of legislative accomplishments, 1445; marriage of, 520n; 1446; death, funeral of, Banks's eulogy for, 1265, 1445-46
Sun (New York newspaper), 719n
Super Bowl, 97
Sutro, Adolph, 1428-32
Sutro, Nevada, 1432
Sutro Tunnel/Mine, 1428-32
Swan, Caleb, 146
Sweeny, Thomas William, 222
Swenson, S. M., 1235
Swett, Leonard, 200, 834, 1518n
Swift, Mr., 1466
Swift Run Gap, Blue Ridge Mountains, 315, 319, 322, 326, 328, 330-31, 351, 352n, 398
Syracuse, New York, 1517
Tactics, battlefield, Civil War, 227; Napoleonic-era, 227
Tafel, Rudolph, 1309
Taliaferro, Robert W., 1294
Tamaulipas State, Mexico, 816
Tammany Hall, 1439
Tampico, Mexico, 910
Taney, Roger Brooke, 236, 1150
Tariff policies, 16, 119, 125, 143, 176, 185, 192, 207, 1392-93, 1440, 1449, 1464
Tarrytown, New York, 1426
Tasistro, Lewis Fitzgerald, 1310, 1313
Taylor, H. W., 1203
Taylor, James Wickes, 1358n
Taylor, Louise (Bringier), 765
Taylor, M., 1423
Taylor, N. B., 1517, 1517n
Taylor, O. L., 1090
Taylor, Richard (General), mentioned, 29, 320n, 366-67, 367n, 582n, 765n, 1004, 1006n; predictions about Union operations, 610; Teche operations and retreat and reorganization (spring 1863), 618, 620, 624-25, 628-31, 634-36, 640, 645, 649, 659, 664, 693, background of, 618-19; plans to capture New Orleans, 620n; concern for Avery Island, 633, 635; propensity to court-martial officers, 635, 688, 970, 1081; and Louisiana crops, 637; operations against Brashear City (1863), 687-88, 737-40, 756; with Walker's division in northeastern Louisiana, 688, 737; and black soldiers, 844-45; prisoner exchanges, 845; opposing Federal advance in Louisiana, fall 1863, 886, 892; and Federal preparations for Red River campaign, 955-57, 963; opposing Federal movement up Red River to Natchitoches (1864), 963, 968-73, 976, 987-88, 992, 994, 996, 1011; during Federal movement to Mansfield, 1000, 1011-18, 1021; at Mansfield battle, 1025-28, 1030-32, 1034, 1038; at Pleasant Hill battle, 1047, 1049, 1055; pursuit to Alexandria, 1061, 1077, 1079, 1081, 1085-86, 1090; during Union dam construction, 1095, 1100-01, 1107; during 1864 Union march to the Mississippi, 1116-18, 1127-30; after Red River campaign, 1130, 1134-35; trade, cotton issues, 1219, 1222, 1261, 1498, 1529, 1530n; burning of cotton, 1236; his plantation during war, 1252; postwar career, 1134
Taylor, Richard (Banks's servant), 1281
Taylor, Zachary, 29, 77, 101, 168, 222n, 228n, 366, 619, 683n, 765n, 1023n
Teche, Bayou...see Bayou Teche
Tehuantepec Railway, 1426
Telegraph office, New Orleans, 694-95
Temperance and prohibition legislation, 82
Temperance movement, 7, 17, 19-20, 69, 167n
Tenmile Bayou, Louisiana, 1018
Tennessee cavalry regiments (Union)
7th, 614
Tennessee River, 924
Tenure of Office Act, 1372, 1376-77
Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, 562, 1291
Terror, The, in France, 842
Terry, Alfred Howe, 1133
Terry, Joseph Randall, 1242-43, 1269
Texas, description of coastline, 857; secession convention, 1149; population statistics, 1187n; population loyalties, 862; droughts in, 981; resources in, 859; railroads in, 858-59;Germans in, 851-52; Federal campaigns in or to, occupation (late 1863-1865), 892-917, 1042, 1141; ...see also specific names, such as Galveston, Sabine Pass, Red River campaign
Texas Adventure (smuggling operation), 521
Texas cavalry regiments (Confederate)
19th, 1090
31st, 1519
Texas cavalry regiments (Union)
1st, 899, 1211
Texas infantry regiments (Confederate)
3rd, 861, 863
Texas Pacific Bill (1872), 1420-22
Texas Pacific Railroad, 1419-21, 1423, 1426
Thanksgiving meals (1861), 270
Thayer, Eli, 145
Thayer, William Makepeace, 175, 175n
Thibodeaux, Louisiana, 738
Thiers, Adolphe, 25
Thomas, Captain, 1220
Thomas, George Henry, 249, 380, 1120n, 1169, 1193
Thomas, Lorenzo, 222-23, 662-63, 713, 771, 776, 813n, 840, 843, 868-69, 961, 1285
Thomas E. Tutt, 1520
Thompson, Mr., 1207
Thompson, John Quincy, 1452
Thompson, Martha (Smith), 1452
Thornton, Edward, 1366
Thoroughfare Mountain, Virginia, 427, 429-30, 1481-82
Thorpe, Benjamin, 795
Thorpe, Thomas, 1146
Ticonderoga, battle of, 3
Timblestar Lighthouse, 1410
Tiffany's, 167
Tilden, Samuel Jones, 1408n, 1449
Time and Time, 1221
Todd, Capt., 1210
Todd, J., 1236
Tone's Bayou, Louisiana, 1003-04, 1004n
Toombs, Robert Augustus, 99
Tower, Zealous Bates, 466
Townsend, Robert, 1526
Trade regulations, Union, 559-60, 1176, 1214-15, 1231, 1238-39
Train, Charles R., 52
Train, George Francis, 151, 1409
Training of soldiers, 282-83
Trans-Mississippi Clothing Bureau, 1174
Trans-Mississippi Department, 955
Transcontinental railroad and routes, 40, 61, 557n, 1426
Transportation problems, movement to Potomac (1861), 243; crossing Potomac River, 257, 260, 267-69, 284-86, 372-73, 372n; in pursuit of Stonewall Jackson, 301-03, 305-06, 308-09, 309n, 311-15, 324, 355; central Virginia campaign (1862), 408, 408n, 413, 1479; Banks expedition to New Orleans (1862), 525-31; Port Hudson and Teche campaigns (1863), 580, 590, 594, 651-52, 654, 666, 671, 676, 679; Texas and Red River campaigns (1863-64), 846-847, 874, 876, 884, 892-93, 893n, 897, 902, 905. 908-09, 914. 925, 945, 956n, 962, 973, 1007, 1211-12; Little Rock to Texas campaign (1865), 1138
Travis County, Texas, 900
Tremont Hotel, Boston, 1168
Trenerry, Walter N., 1485
Troy and Greenfield Railroad, 160
True Delta (newspaper), 814, 1245-46
Truman, Bess Wallace, 13n
Truman, Harry S., 13n, 1293
Tuck, Amos, 199, 199n
Tucker, James Thornton, 25n, 190n, 191, 272n, 574n, 649, 719, 828, 1068; background of, 520; and Dr. Zacharie, 768, 1208; as appraiser of newspaper property, 815n; offered judgeship, 1163; complains of Canby/Hurlbut to Hay, 1166; and Col. Stokes, 1194; relationship to , partnership with A. S. Mansfield, 1226, 1228, 1410-11; witness before Smith-Brady Commission, 1243
Tucker, John, 523, 527
Tuileries Palace, 1328-30
Tulane Medical College, New Orleans, 1210
Tupelo, Mississippi, battle (1864), 1131
Turnage, Joseph, 1513n
Turner, Thomas Goodwin, 158
Twain, Mark, 12, 1168
Tweed. William Marcy ("Boss"), 1409
Two Years before the Mast, 193
Tyler, George, 1410
Tyler, John, 22-23, 27
Tyler, Robert Ogden, 222
Tyler, Texas, 859
Tyndale, Hector, 343
U. S. Hotel, Washington, D. C., 852
U.S.S...for ships beginning with this preface...see specific names
Ullmann, Daniel, 841-42, 842n, 843, 843n, 1290, 1340, 1342
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 71
Uniforms...see Clothing
Union Army
13th
Corps, 839, 884, 886-87, 892, 928n, 1023, 1029-30, 1030n, 1035-36, 1038,
1041-42, 1045-48, 1052, 1054, 1056, 1098-99, 1118, 1130
16th Corps, 96617th Corps, 966
19th
Corps, 625, 839, 884, 887, 890 1023, 1030, 1030n, 1031, 1039, 1039n, 1041,
1047-48, 1054, 1056, 1064, 1092, 1098-99, 1130
Union clubs, associations, Louisiana, 789-92, 798-800, 813, 1180; General Committee of the Union Associations, 790, 792, 795-97, 807...see also Free State Club
Union Defense Committee, 1507n
Union officers, backgrounds of, 216-17, 217n, 218-28; West Point educated, 216, 222-228, 228n, 247-48, 259, 263, 271, 274, 278, 352, 366, 395, 408, 429, 432, 452-53, 490, 508, 520, 557n, 592, 617, 687, 693-95, 751, 841, 864-65, 881, 895, 908, 960, 979, 1009, 1052, 1102, 1105-06, 1119-20, 1123, 1193, 1195, 1199, 1213, 1250-51, 1522; prewar causes of mortality, 224; duties of commanders, 226; volunteer officers, 227, 229, 344; volunteer-West Point conflicts, 228-29, 229n, 274, 557n, 619, 832, 879, 882-83, 943, 961-62, 964, 1082, 1103, 1139, 1141m 1164; training of, 229, 248, 407n; shirking officers, 258; threatened resignations, 599
Union Pacific Railroad, 1311n, 1403-06, 1408, 1413, 1415, 1422, 1495, 1499, 1531
Unions, 17
Unitarian religion, political views of members, 16, 148n
United Daughters of the Confederacy, 76
United States v. Diekelman, 1216n
Unites States v. Driscoll, 1451n
United States. v. Reese, 1198n
United States Army...see Union Army
United States Army infantry regiments
5th infantry...see Introduction to this book
12th battalion, 452
United States Colored Troops regiments, 1462,
1464
73rd, 1270
79th, 846
99th, 1093
see also...Corps
d'Afrique...Native Guards
United States Congress, brawling and dueling,
130, 133-34; salaries, 166, 1280, 1391, 1398; martial law authority, 234
33rd Congress (1853-55), 55-57, 68, 77
34th Congress (1855-57), 84, 88, 104, 124-27, 127n, 136,
141
35th Congress (1857-59), 143-44
37th Congress (1861-63), 235, 321, 524, 527, 544, 570,
782
38th Congress (1863-65), 751-52, 791, 1155, 1183-84,
1190-91, 1259, 1371
39th Congress (1865-67), 1185, 1296,
1379
40th Congress (1867-69), 1302
41st Congress (1869-71), 1349, 1415
42nd Congress (1871-73), 1367, 1392, 1429, 1440, 1442
44th Congress (1875-77), 1448
51st
Congress (1889-91), 1462-63
Conference Committee on
Civil Appropriations (1866), 1391
Joint Committee on the
Conduct of the War, 246, 258-59, 426, 921, 921n, 948, 984, 986, 988, 1071-72,
1093, 1110, 1122, 1139, 1180-82, 1236, 1516
United States House of Representatives, 52,
57, 506, 798, 937, 1306, 1328, 1334, 1347, 1358-59, 1366, 1382-83, 1385, 1410,
1415-16, 1419, 1429, 1440, 1448, 1462, 1464
Agriculture
Committee, 125-26
Appropriations Committee, 1298,
1302-03, 1451, 1462
Claims Committee, 1402
Committee investigating alleged payments for Alaska votes,
1313
Committee investigating Credit Mobilier (Poland
Committee), 1408, 1425
Committee investigating Kansas
conflict, 138-40, 1384
Committee investigating Rousseau
assault, 1408
Committee investigating S. Carolina
elections, 1449
Committee investigating Sumner caning,
130-31
Committee on Expenditures in Interior Dept.,
1463
Committee on Reconstruction, 1377
District of Columbia Committee, 57, 126
Elections Committee, 137-39, 1178, 1377
Foreign Affairs Committee, 126, 1297-98, 1304, 1339,
1345-47, 1350, 1350n, 1355, 1367, 1369, 1382, 1397-98, 1442, 1448-49
Judiciary Committee, 77, 137, 1402
Library of Congress Committee, 57, 125
Marine and Fisheries Committee, 1463
Mileage Committee, 126
Military
Affairs Committee, 57-58, 125, 190, 1298, 1306, 1402
Militia Committee, 57
Mines and
Mining Committee, 1429, 1448
Naval Affairs Committee,
57, 1212n, 1298, 1382, 1387
Post Office Committee, 202,
1311
Printing Committee, 57
Revolutionary War Claims Committee, 57, 125
Rules Committee, 1298, 1448, 1450
Select Committee on the Centennial, 1448
Select Committee on the Death of President Abraham Lincoln,
1298
Territories Committee, 57, 125-26, 137
Ways and Means Committee, 59, 125m 131, 139, 143, 1366,
1392-93, 1450, 1462
United States Mail Steamship Company, 529
United States Sanitary Commission, 1163
United States Senate, 215, 320, 377, 391,
531, 1082, 1347, 1362-63, 1382-83, 1388, 1391, 1416-17, 1429, 1442-43, 1464;
method of selecting members until 1913, 811n
Foreign
Relations Committee, 308n, 500, 542, 1297n, 1301-02, 1340, 1348, 1365
Judiciary Committee, 1180, 1187, 1366n, 1373
Military Affairs Committee, 212, 377, 391, 1139
Pensions Committee, 1465
Public
Lands Committee, 308
United States Supreme Court, 142, 161, 190, 236, 1150, 1198n, 1216n, 1427, 1451n
Universalist religion, political views of members, 148n
University of Pennsylvania, medical school, 449; dental school, 1330n
Upham, Charles Wentworth, 53
Usher, John Palmer, 1106
Ushur, Roland C., 1450
Utah, Federal expedition to, 247
Utah statehood legislation, 145
Ute Indiana Reservation, Colorado, 1455
Valley campaign...see Shenandoah Valley campaign
Valverde, New Mexico, battle of (1862), 432
Van Alstyne, Lawrence, 868, 1115
Van Brunt, Gershom J., 527
Van Buren, Martin, 15, 27, 92n, 866n
Van Truesdale, Pheleg, 1401n
Vandalism, pillaging by Union soldiers, Louisiana, 609, 769, 975, 1077, 1083-84, 1131
Vandenburgh, J. V. W., 1456, 1456n
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 187, 187n, 523-27, 529-31, 580, 1205, 1341-42, 1400, 1405, 1418, 1499
Vanderbilt family, 823
Vatican, 73
Vatican Council, 2nd, 72
Venable, Richard, 1003, 1005n, 1017
Vera Cruz, Mexico, 226, 1369, 1427
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1326
Vermillionville, Louisiana, 885, 886n, 888-89, 976
Vermont cavalry regiments
1st, 277
Vermont Volunteers (War of 1812), 58
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad, 1127n
Vicksburg, Mississippi, 189, 521n, 1073, efforts to capture (1862), 502, 515-16, 579, 611, 651, 673, 682, 960, 978, 1098; strategy used to capture, 516, 611, 639, 643-45, 647, 654, 660-64, 689n, 697, 721, 892, 930, 980; strategic location and Confederate resources there, 581-83, 593, 612, 684-86; naval activity around (1863), 596, 643-45, 688; defensive works, 689, 691, 935; assaults on defenses (1863), 692, 696-99, 709-11, 718, 726, 727n, 732-34, 741, 919, 960, 964, 966, 1041; siege events, 732, 737, 906, 964, 1101; surrender of, 735, 746-47, 749-51, 756, 897, 944, 980; paroles for Vicksburg garrison, 749-50, 756-58; visit of Genl. Banks party, 863-65
Victoria, Queen, 1205, 1328n, 1330
Victoria, Abraham, 771
Victoria, Texas, 909
Vie de Napoléon, 271
Virgin Islands, proposed sale to U.S., 1324, 1340
Virginia, secession of, 231
Virginia Central Railroad, 400, 406
Virginia City, Nevada, 1428
Virginia City, Virginia, 1415
Virginia infantry regiments
1st battalion, 450
21st, 451
42nd, 451
48th, 451
Irish Battalion, 1475
Virginia Military Institute, 240, 330
Von Clausewitz, Karl, 930n
Wade, Algernon, 1475
Wade, Benjamin Franklin, 259, 427, 542, 836, 1155-56, 1287, 1381
Wade-Davis Bill (1864), 1155-56, 1184, 1188
Wadsworth, James Samuel, 273
Wagon controversy, Mansfield battle, 1019-21, 1024-25
Wagon losses, "Winchester Races," 360, 1474-80; at Mansfield, 1037-39
Wakarusa War, 136
Waldron, George B., 1223, 1232, 1500-01
Walker, Amasa, 29
Walker, Duncan Stephen, 1310n
Walker, John (informant), 972
Walker, John George, 664-65, 688, 740, 956, 968-70, 1027-28, 1030n, 1033
Walker, Robert John, 1303, 1309-14
Walker, William, 531n, 1341-42
Wallace, George Corley, 1277
Wallace, Lewis "Lew," 1120
Wall St., New York, 121, 1434
Wallis, S. Teackle, 232
Wallridge, Hiram
Walpole, New Hampshire, 3
Waltham Light Dragoons, 158
Waltham, Massachusetts, description (1850), 38
Walton, John S., 1247
Waples, Rufus, 1227
War Democrats, 838
War of 1812, 101, 212, 233, 1224, economic effects, 5, 7; war claims, 46, 49-50, 544n, martial law, 236
War loans, 211, 498
Ward, George L., 498, 524n
Ward, Sam, 1344n
Warmoth, Henry Clay, 821, 1106, 1163, 1228, 1441
Warner, A., 1535
Warren, Edward Allen, 144
Warrenton, Virginia, 375, 403, 408, 489n
Warrenton Junction, Virginia, 317, 486, 1481
Washburn, Cadwallader Colden, 229n, 870, 888, 906-09, 913, 1024, 1106, 1131, 1250, 1302, 1304-06, 1308, 1311-12, 1388
Washburn, William Barrett, 153, 1446
Washburne, Elihu Benjamin, 222, 663n, 870, 1250, 1302-03, 1303n, 1385, 1443n
Washington, George, 3, 58, 99, 101, 164, 175n, 222n, 228n, 271, 821
Washington, D. C., description of, 48-49, 1462; concern for safety of (1862), 316, 332, 334, 374, 382
Washington, Virginia, 404, 407, 409, 412, 1483
Washington Chronicle, 1178n
Washington County, Alabama, 632n
Washington Star, 475
Washington Treaty (1871), 1364-65
Washington's Birthday, 109-10; celebrations, New Orleans, 827, 1222, 1280, 1497, 1506
Washington Mall, 49
Washington Memorial, 49, 1460
Washington Mills, 1490
(Washington) Republican, 1384
Watch factory, Waltham, Massachusetts, 164
Waterloo, Belgium, battle of (1815), 711n
Waterloo Bridge, Virginia, 489
Watertown, Massachusetts, 5, 1461
Watson, Abijah, 18
Watson, Peter H., 353, 355, 376
Watson, W. W., 1202
Watts, Thomas M., 1513n
Waukegan, Illinois, 1517
Waynesboro, Virginia, 371
Wealthy Americans, political allegiances, 166n
Webb, 984-85
Webb, William B., 1400, 1401n
Webster, Edwin Hanson, 1510, 1510n
Webster, Daniel, 25, 25n, 29, 40, 46-48, 52, 52n, 53, 65, 153-54, 500, 716, 1349, 1350n
Wederkinch, Carl O., 1429
Weed, A. C., 550
Weed, Charles A. (Louisiana entrepreneur), 549, 549n, 550-51, 835n, 836n, 1089, 1151, 1223, 1233-36, 1250, 1253-54, 1273, 1279, 1503-06, 1525, 1534-35
Weed, Charles A. (Connecticut farmer), 549n
Weed, Charles A. & Co., 1236, 1254, 1256, 1503
Weed, Thurlow, 87-88, 100, 111, 114, 119n, 121, 141, 170, 172, 176-78, 177n, 180, 200, 203, 211-12, 474, 500, 500n, 505, 547, 549, 767, 782, 783n, 823, 834, 1125, 1160, 1160n, 1170, 1190, 1289, 1401, 1406, 1409, 1507n; and cotton speculation, 1518n, 1525
Weems, Mason Locke (Parson), 175n
Weis, Franz, 1314
Weitzel, Godfrey, 593, 596-97, 616-17, 620-22, 629n, 630, 693, 714, 822, 840, 1141; appearance, background, 617; at Port Hudson siege, 691n, 699-700, 704-06, 727, 729-30, 744, 751-53; becomes major general, 753; operations against General Green (July 1863), 756; trip to Vicksburg, 863n
Welch, Deming, 1220, 1237n
Welles, Gideon, 400n, 405, 425, 765n; selection to cabinet, 196-98, 200-01, 203-04; supporter of Genl. Butler, 539-40; and Mississippi River operations, 653, 662, 924n, 978n, 980; and Texas operations, 851; and gunboats for New Orleans, 922-23, 925-26; and Red River campaign, 985, 987-89, 1087, 1093, 1104-05, 1125; attempts to oust him from cabinet, 1125-26; visited by Banks, 1168; and trade, cotton issues, 1176, 1255-56; as postwar navy secretary, 1298, 1385-86; and Charlestown navy yard, 1382, 1389; and reconstruction policy, 1382; and Paris exposition, 1382-83; and the Hanscoms, 1384; as Liberal-Republican 1436
Welles, Orson, 964
Wellington, Duke of, 171, 698, 711n
Wellington, Miss, 1202-03
Wellington, Ada J., 1203
Wellington, Edward, 1203n
Wellington, J. C., 1203n
Wellington, Seth, 164, 1203n
Wells, James Madison, 991, 1189, 1208, 1232, 1240, 1243, 1249, 1260, 1267-74, 1279, 1501-04, 1504n, 1505-06
Wells, Martha, 1504n
Wells, Thomas M., 1267, 1274
West, Richard, 1224
West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1226-27
West Point, New York, military academy, 60, 191, 224, 247, 393, 429, 544n, 699, 865, 881, 931, 1278
West Point-educated officers...see Union officers
Wheaton, George H., 1250
Wheeler, Azubah (Banks), 1488
Wheeler, William Almon, 1393n
Wheelock, Edwin M., 777, 777n
Whig party, 68, 99
Whig party, in Massachusetts (1830s-1840s), 16, 30; (1850s) 39, 41, 54, 67-68, 75-76
Whig planters in Louisiana, 572-73, 619
Whiskey Ring frauds, 267n, 1412-13
Whitaker, John S., 798-99, 799n. 814, 1291
White, Emma Josephine (Banks), 1487n
White, Maunsell, 772n
White Oak Swamp, Virginia, battle of (1862), 881, 1278
White River, Arkansas, 1258
Whitehall Point, Mississippi River, 739
Whitfield, John, 140
Whiting, Lyman, 75, 75n
Whitley, H. C., 1253
Whitney, Mrs., 980
Whitney, Charles A., 532n
Whitside, Samuel M., 518
Whittier, J. A., 1467
Wiard, Norman, 532
Wickliffe, Robert Charles, 680
Wiggin, Joshua, 1387
Wigwam building, Chicago, Illinois, 180, 180n
Wikoff, Henry, 494, 1352-53, 1364
Wilder, W. H., 575
Wilderness, battle of (1864), 1130
Wiley, Leroy, 190n
Willard, Mr., court clerk, 26
Willard, Van R., 1477
Willard's Hotel, Washington, D. C., 260, 494, 1168, 1177, 1188, 1314
Willet's Point, New York, 1133
Williams, Mr., (port collector), 23
Williams, Alpheus Starkey, 222, 272-74, 284, 287, 292, 294, 299-301, 319-21, 328-29, 333, 343, 351-53, 359-60, 363, 365, 367-68, 371, 385, 391-92, 397, 402, 428-29, 459, 948, 1476, 1478-79; at Cedar Mountain battle, 430, 435n, 438, 438n, 441-42, 447-49, 464, 477, 1482-83; period after Cedar Mountain, 485, 491; in Congress, 1448
Williams, Frank, 771
Williams, George Henry, 1403
Williams, Robert, 248, 248n
Williams, Roger, 1392
Williams, Seth, 293n
Williams, Thomas, 222
Williams, T(homas) Harry, 1293n
Williams, William B., 329
Williamsburg, battle of (1862), 1071
Williamsport, Maryland, 372-74, 387, 1482
Williamson, New York, 1245
Wilmot Proviso, 28-29
Wilson, Henry, 10, 41-42, 51-53, 75, 80-81, 84, 88, 141, 149, 172, 176, 212, 235, 377, 544, 752, 754, 831, 1289, 1394; and Red River campaign, 1139; as leader in postwar Congress, 1299, 1386; and Credit Mobilier, 1409; vice president, 1435, 1443n, 1446
Wilson, James Grant, 1092-93, 1110
Wilson, James Harrison, 647n, 847-48, 941n, 1019, 1262n
Wilson, Joseph T., 1039
Wilson, Keith, 773n
Wilson, Nathaniel, 1401n
Wilson, Woodrow, 1305
Wilson's Creek, Missouri, battle of (1861), 380
Wilson's farm, Louisiana, engagement (1864), 1018-19
Winchester, Virginia, 242-43, 245, 262, 264, 264n, 265-69, 285-89, 291-94, 296, 300, 302, 309, 313-15, 321, 328, 334, 348, 350-51, 354n, 356-64, 367-68, 370-71, 373, 376, 378-79, 382, 386-88, 392, 400, 422, 447, 452, 478, 489, 1474-78; civilians in, 288-89, 367, 367n; battle of (May 1862), 362-81, 384, 396, 402, 437, 448, 450, 459, 521, 574, 618, 1032, 1140n, 1141
Winchester-Strasburg turnpike, 356-57, 361-62, 1477
Winder, Charles Sidney, 446-47, 1141
Windy City, 177-78
Wing, Job, 1251
Winthrop, Robert, 154
Wisconsin cavalry regiments
4th, 1091
Wisconsin infantry regiments
3rd, 252, 350, 450, 460
4th,
732
Wise, Isaac M., 768n
With Charity for All, 1283
Withenbury, Wellington, 981n, 984, 990-91, 1001-02, 1005, 1503
Woburn, Massachusetts, 1450, 1461
Woinche, Mr., 1526
Wolftown, Virginia, 415n
Wood, Fernando, 1357, 1379, 1396-97, 1450
Woodbridge, Frederick Enoch, 1303n
Woodbury, Levi, 27
Woodruff, John, 132
Woods Cotton Press, 1242
Woodstock, Virginia, 301, 303, 307, 315, 317, 320, 340-41
Woodville, Mississippi, 785
Woodworth, James Hutchinson, 126
Wool, John Ellis, 158, 218-19, 226, 399, 823
Worcester, Massachusetts, 81, 108, 121, 150, 1307
Worcester Spy, 1309, 1311
Workday, limiting hours of, 17-18, 68, 83, 1379-80, 1380n
Workhouses, in Ireland, 772n
Workers' pay, 17, 68
Workingman's Party, in Massachusetts, 17
Worsham, John 1470
Wright, Clark, 1232, 1518-19
Wright, Crafts J., 1232, 1504n, 1519, 1522-23
Wright, Daniel Boone, 131, 131n
Wright, George Washington, 88, 105
Wright, J.H., 1498
Yates, Richard, 550, 663, 941, 984n, 1514-15, 1515n, 1516-17
Yazoo River, Mississippi, 647n, 664, 697, 762, 1517; proposed expedition on, 920-21
Yellow Bayou, Louisiana, 968; battle of (1864), 1130
Yellow fever outbreaks, 1244n, 1247-48
Yellowstone National Park, 1391
York County, Maine, 1384n
York, Maine,
Yorktown peninsula, Virginia, 306, 314, 317, 334, 378, 383, 393, 399, 413, 486
Young, Mr., 992, 1055, 1055n
Young, Brigham, 73n, 144n, 687
Young, John Russell, 998-99, 1029n, 1034, 1052, 1055, 1057, 1069, 1077, 1080, 1084, 1084n, 1099n, 1116n, 1388n, background of, 998n; with Grant on world trip, 1138, 1265n; and Alaska Purchase bribes, 1309
Young, William, 1099n
Young Men's Ratification Convention (1857), 150
Young's Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, 201
Zachariah family, 586n
Zachariah, Ephraim, 767n
Zachariah, Jonathan, 767n
Zacharie, Mrs., 1209n
Zacharie, Isachar, mentioned, 895; during visits to Louisiana, 545, 586-89, 601, 760, 762, 767, 1199; later meetings and communications with Lincoln and cabinet, 754-55, 761, 764, 766, 767n, 768; background, description of, 586-87; peace missions, 763-67; rumored smuggling or trading, 763, 766, 1208-09; political activities, 767; support of Banks for president, 831-34; war claims, 1209-10, 1210n, 1391; postwar activities, 1210; supports Greeley, 1435n, 1436-7
Zacharie, James W., 587, 587n
Zacharie, Theodore, 1218
Zacheriah, I., 586n
Ziegler, Mr., 588
Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk, 56
Zouaves, 270, 359, 467, 460, 708, 1081, 1476n
Zulus, 1327n