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INDEX
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Abbott, John Stevens, 219
abolitionism, 9, 11–12, 22, 49, 56, 167
See also emancipation
African-American regiments, 154, 167, 178–79
See also African-American soldiers
African-Americans
Confederate mistreatment of, 111
refugees from slavery, 152–53, 180, 191–92, 197, 304n35
African-American soldiers
Battles of Fort Wagner and, 154, 189
Confederate execution threats, 107–8
Confederate opinions on, 173
Emancipation Proclamation and, 45, 166–67
Potter’s Raid and, 189, 191
racism and, 177–78
Seymour’s Florida expedition and, 167, 179
volunteer recruitment and, 21
African Brigade, 154
alcohol, 40, 46, 131, 159–60, 177
Allen, William, 162, 182
“America,” 234
Ames, Adelbert
appointment of, 109, 284n7
Battle of Gettysburg and, 121–22, 123, 131
Meyer and, 127, 145, 146, 148
war histories and, 221
amputations
Battle of Gettysburg, 139, 140
Jackson, 97
pension claims and, 213
veteran experiences and, 206–7
Vignos, 14, 123, 127, 142, 160
Anderson, Dick, 84
Antietam, Battle of, 109, 111–12, 119
Appomattox, Battle of, 197
Appomattox, 197, 217, 218
Arlington Heights, 48–49
Armistead, Lewis A., 140
Armstrong, James, 140
army corps, 24
See also Eleventh Corps
Army of East Tennessee, 38
Army of Northern Virginia, 54, 193
See also Chancellorsville, Battle of; Gettysburg, Battle of
Army of Tennessee, 175, 193
Army of the James, 175
Army of the Potomac
Battle of Gettysburg and, 114, 126
Burnside as commander of, 50
Hooker appointment, 66–67
Lee’s northern invasion and, 111
morale and, 63, 269n24
Mud March and, 63–65
winter encampments, 68, 72–74, 273–74n19
See also Eleventh Corps; 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment; specific battles
Army of Virginia, 56
Arnold, Charles, 26
Articles of War (1806), 146
Ashby, Charles, 86
Atlanta, fall of, 183, 184
Atlantic, 67
Aultman, Cornelius, 27
Auswanderung, 5, 17
See also ethnic Germans
Avery, Isaac, 119, 130
Bachelder, John Badger, 233
Backer, Andrew, 222
Baker, Frank, 152
Banks, Nathaniel, 175
Barlow, Francis Channing, 109–10, 114, 117, 118, 122, 284n7
Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 21
Barquet, Joseph, 166
Bechtel, William, 6
Beck, Albert, 214, 215
Beck, Thomas, 47
Berghofer, Adam, 209–10, 213
Biddle, Daniel, 204, 206–7
Billow, Anna, 230
Billow, George, 231
background of, 5–6
Battle of Chancellorsville and, 104
Battle of Gettysburg and, 14, 135, 143
Brooke’s Station encampment and, 272n15
demobilization, 206
elections of 1863 and, 163
on eman
cipation, 45
enlistment, 6
Gettysburg regimental monument and, 227
homefront support and, 58
memorial plaque, 239
morale of, 43
Mud March and, 63, 64
on officer drunkenness accusations, 46
on Pennsylvania treatment, 48
pension claim, 232
regimental society and, 232
Siege of Charleston Harbor and, 156, 158
Stafford Court House march and, 53
training, 33
travel to Washington and, 47
typhoid fever and, 158
veteran experiences, 209, 230–32
volunteer recruitment and, 6, 31
on war opposition, 51–52
on war progress, 50
Bise, Jacob, 33, 136
Black soldiers. See African-American soldiers
Blocher, Theodore, 213
Blocher’s Knoll, Battle for, 120
advance to, 1–2, 5, 8, 118, 286n23
battlefield vestiges of, 238
casualties, 142–43, 157
fighting, 10, 118–19, 121–24
injuries, 13–14
Meyer’s behavior at, 127, 145–46, 147–49
regimental monument and, 227, 228–29, 229
retreat from, 14, 124–26
Boardman, William Jarvis, 204–5
Bohrer, Casper, 139, 206
Bonner, Robert E., 264n35
Booth, John Wilkes, 200
Boroway, Jacob, 123–24
Bow, Franklin, 96
Boyer, Martin, 225
Boykin’s Mill, Battle of, 198
Breckenridge, John, 175
brigades, 24
Brinker, Henry, 135
Brobst, Jacob, 194–95
Brooke’s Station, 68–70, 76–77, 100, 104, 108–10, 272n15
Brooks, Noah, 97, 147
Bross, Frederick, 211
Brough, John, 160–61, 162, 163, 164, 165
Brown, Alvin, 58, 69
Brown, Campbell, 119
Brown, John, 22
Brown, John Marshall, 123, 148
Brown, Philip Perry, Jr., 189
Brunny, John
background of, 10
Battle of Gettysburg and, 14
Cole’s Island encampment and, 165
enlistment, 12–13, 31
Gettysburg regimental monument and, 227
morale and, 40–42
Seymour’s Florida expedition and, 174
Sherman’s March to the Sea and, 187
Siege of Charleston Harbor and, 153, 156
special orders and, 109
training, 33
Buchanan, James, 29
Budd, Joshua, 47
Buford, John, 115
Burnside, Ambrose
appointment of, 50
Battle of Marye’s Heights and, 54, 63
General Order No. 38, 161
McLean and, 109
Mud March and, 63, 64, 65–66
removal of, 66
Sigel and, 53
Butler, Benjamin F., 152, 175, 191
Caldwell, John W., 192–93
Calhoun, John C., 200
Camp Cleveland, 32, 34–37, 239
Camp Delaware, 42, 43–47, 48, 239
Camp Finegan, skirmish near, 178
Camp Judah, 41–42
Camp Milton, 178–79, 238
Camps and Campaigns (Smith), 18–19, 225
Carroll, Samuel Sprigg, 135
Cass, Lewis, 28
casualties
Battle of Chancellorsville, 2, 13, 17, 92–94, 97, 100, 101, 107, 108, 118
Battle of Fredericksburg, 54–55
Battle of Gettysburg, 31, 121, 125–26, 127, 136, 138–42, 139, 141–44, 157
Charleston and Savannah Railroad operation, 185, 186
Potter’s Raid, 192
psychological impact of, 61–63, 157–58, 270n1
quarters construction and, 69–70
South Carolina feint, 169
war opposition and, 54, 75, 182
Whitman on, 61–62
See also injuries
Cemetery Hill, 116, 126, 128–33, 132, 134, 135–37, 228–29, 288n40
Central Ohio Insane Asylum, 211
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 157
Chancellor, Melzi, 80
Chancellorsville, Battle of, 91
battlefield vestiges of, 237
beginning of, 89–90
casualties, 2, 13, 17, 92–94, 97, 100, 101, 107, 108, 118
Confederate strategy at Gettysburg and, 113
ethnic German soldiers as scapegoat for, 2–3, 7, 17–18, 102–4, 102, 105–7, 149, 218–19, 220–21
Jackson’s flank march, 86, 87, 89, 220
Jackson’s injury, 96–97
morale and, 101–2
prisoners of war, 14, 94–95, 97–99, 98, 99, 107–8, 122–23
psychological impact of, 95–96, 99–101, 112
See also Chancellorsville Campaign
Chancellorsville Campaign, 78–80, 82–86, 83, 87, 88–89
See also Chancellorsville, Battle of
Chapin, Herman M., 204
Charleston. See Siege of Charleston Harbor
Charleston and Savannah Railroad operation, 184–87
Chase, Salmon, 162
Christian Examiner, 67
Chronicle, 67
Cincinnati, Ohio, 38
Cincinnati Commercial, 38, 50
civilian life. See veteran experiences
Civil War
chronicles and histories, 18–19, 217–22, 225, 233–34, 235–36, 240–41
day of prayer and thanksgiving (Aug. 6, 1863), 149
demobilization, 202, 203–4
Lee’s surrender, 197
military justice system, 145–46, 147–49, 177
neorevisionism and, 311–12n43
1864 progress, 175–76, 183
pension claims, 212–15, 230, 232, 309n20
refugees, 180
veterans’ interpretations of, 224
See also Civil War soldiers; war opposition
Civil War soldiers
historical portrayals of experiences, 15–16
homefront gap and, 51, 267n17
pay, 32, 77
seasoning of, 50–52, 266–67n16
training of, 32–33, 32, 34–37, 43–44, 263n28
voting rights, 49–50, 162–65
Clarendon Banner, 193
Clarendon Banner—Of Freedom, The, 193, 197
Clark, Charles, 35
Clay, Henry, 27
Cleveland Daily Herald, 207
Cleveland Daily Leader, 70, 204
Coastal Division, 184–87
Cole’s Island encampment, 165–66
Complete History of the Great Rebellion (Moore), 218–19
Conner, Albert Z., Jr., 273n19
Conrady, John, 202
conscientious objectors, 13, 307n10
Continental, 67
contrabands, 152–53
See also refugees from slavery
Converse, George, 75
Cooper, John Snider, 185, 191, 194, 199, 202, 205, 206
Copperheads, 23–24, 74, 161, 162, 183
See also war opposition
Cordier, Charles, 211–12
Corl, James M., 223–24, 232, 239, 240
Coster, Charles, 125
Couch, Darius, 85
Covington, Kentucky, 37–40
Cowles, Edwin, 70
Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 23, 49, 162
Cramer, Daniel, 45
Cross Keys, Battle of, 56
Culp’s Hill, 129, 136–37
Daily Cleveland Herald, 31, 49, 141, 204
Daily Cleveland Leader, 22
Daily National Intelligencer, 2
Damkoehler, Ernst, 93
Davis, Jefferson, 99, 108, 110, 111, 183–84
deaths. See casualties
Declaration of Indep
endence, 202
Defiance Democrat, 94
Democrat, 29
Democratic Party
election of 1862, 49–50
election of 1864 and, 181–82
ethnic Germans and, 17
Meyer and, 27–28
military leadership and, 5
in Ohio, 22–23, 49–50
slavery and, 8–9
volunteer recruitment and, 29
war opposition and, 274n19
See also newspapers
Dennison, William, 21, 24
Department of the South, 149–50, 151, 155
Dependent and Disability Pension Act (1890), 215
desertions, 45, 47, 96, 145
Deveaux’s Neck. See Charleston and Savannah Railroad operation
Devens, Charles, 86, 88, 109, 220
DeVinney, Phoebe, 229
Dewaldt, August J., 31, 35–36, 94, 101
Dieckmann, Julius, 86
diet, 35, 67
Dingle’s Mill, Battle of, 194–97, 195, 197, 214, 304n36
disease. See illness
disillusionment. See morale
divisions, definition of, 24
Doles, George, 121, 220
Dorman, Rodney, 173
Douglas, Stephen A., 28
Douglas Hospital, 164
Douglass, Frederick, 16–17
Dowdall’s Tavern, 80, 88
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 56
Drewry’s Bluff, Battle of, 175
dysentery, 158
Early, Jubal Anderson, 113, 119, 130, 131
Edward Potter’s Raid, 190
Eighteenth Corps, 154
election of 1860, 8, 9, 28, 56
election of 1862, 49–50
election of 1864, 161, 181–83, 302n19
elections of 1863, 160–65
Eleventh Army Corps Association, 221
Eleventh Corps
Ames’ Brigade, 109, 118
Chancellorsville Campaign and, 78–80, 82–86, 88–89
corps badges in, 67
Department of the South transfer, 149–50
Howard as commander, 80–81
march to Gettysburg, 110, 111–13, 114–15
McLean’s Brigade, 55, 84, 86, 92, 95, 97, 103, 104, 220
Meyer court-martial and, 149
as scapegoat for Battle of Chancellorsville, 2–3, 7, 17–18, 102–4, 102, 105–7, 149, 218–19, 220–21
Sigel as commander, 53
Sigel resignation, 81–82
See also Chancellorsville, Battle of; Gettysburg, Battle of
Ellwood, James, 31–32
emancipation
African-American soldiers and, 45, 166–67
announcement of, 44–45
election of 1864 and, 181
refugees from slavery, 152–53, 180, 191–92, 197, 304n35
Republican party and, 161
seasoning of soldiers and, 267n16
soldiers’ opinions on, 45, 74, 177, 224, 274n19, 276n25
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