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  CHAPTER 42

  1. Star, April 22, 1859.

  2. Vermont Chronicle, 1859.

  3. Herald, April 22, 1859.

  4. Times, April 14, 1859.

  5. Albany Journal, March 8, 1859.

  6. Sun, April 22, 1859.

  CHAPTER 43

  1. Frederick Douglas’s Paper (NY), April 22, 1859.

  2. Reprinted in Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, April 22, 1859.

  3. Herald, April 23, 1859.

  4. Herald, April 23, 1859.

  CHAPTER 44

  1. Milwaukee Sentinel, April 22, 1859.

  2. Marvel, 108.

  3. Herald, April 24, 1859.

  CHAPTER 46

  1. Morning Advertiser, May 10, 1859.

  2. Herald, April 27, 1859.

  3. Morning Advertiser, May 10, 1859.

  4. Morning Advertiser, May 10, 1859.

  5. Herald, April 27, 1859.

  6. New York Times, April 27, 1859.

  7. Morning Advertiser, May 10, 1859.

  8. New York Times, April 27, 1859.

  9. Edwards Clarke, “James T. Brady,” The Galaxy, May 1, 1869: 716–29.

  CHAPTER 47

  1. Herald, April 28, 1859.

  2. Crawford to Ellis Lewis, April 28, 1859. Crawford papers, Yale.

  3. Herald, May 7, 1859; Boston Journal, April 28, 1859; Star, April 30, 1859; Star, May 16, 1859.

  4. Herald, May 27, 1859.

  5. Dollar Weekly Mirror, June 18, 1859.

  6. Alexandria Gazette, May 7, 1859.

  7. Boston Post, May 2, 1861.

  8. Herald, July 19, 1859.

  9. Daily Confederation, August 14, 1859.

  10. Herald, July 12, 1859.

  11. Daily Confederation, August 14, 1859.

  12. New York Times, July 21, 1859.

  CHAPTER 48

  1. Mary Chestnut, Mary Chestnut’s Civil War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 379.

  2. London Daily News, August 22, 1859.

  3. Keneally, 204-05.

  4. New York Times, January 8, 1861.

  5. Keneally, 211.

  6. New York Times, December 14, 1859.

  7. Keneally, 219.

  8. Keneally, 284.

  CHAPTER 49

  1. Star, April 27, 1859.

  2. Ireland, 130.

  3. Sun, February 13, 1859; April 8, 1843; Maine Cultivator and Hallowell Gazette, July 1, 1843; Daily Atlas, May 8, 1843.

  4. American and Commercial Advertiser, September 29, 1859; Spirit of Jefferson, October 23, 1846 and October 30, 1846.

  5. Intelligencer, January 2, 1858; Herald, January 21, 1858 and January 22, 1858; Sacramento Daily Union, December 19, 1857.

  6. Herald, January 22, 1858.

  7. Sacramento Daily Union, June 20, 1856; National Intelligencer, July 29, 1856.

  8. George Alfred Townsend, Washington Outside and Inside, 309.

  9. Robert Ireland, “Insanity and the Unwritten Law,” The American Journal of Legal History, vol. 32, no. 2 (April 1988), pp. 157-172.

  10. Remarkable Trials of All Countries, 345.

  11. Lawrence M. Friedman and William E. Havemann, “The Rise and Fall of the Unwritten Law: Sex, Patriarchy, and Vigilante Justice in the American Courts,” 61 Buffalo Law Review 997 (2013); Daily Argus, April 24, 1868; Ireland, 31.

  12. “Murder by Gaslight,” http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/07/richardson-mcfarland-tragedy.html; records of the Library of Congress.

  13. “The Black-McKaig Homicide,” http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2013/03/the-black-mckaig-hommicide.html.

  14. Robert Ireland, “The Libertine Must Die: Sexual Dishonor and The Unwritten Law in the Nineteenth Century United States,” Journal of Social History, v. 23, no. 1 (Autumn 1989), pp. 27-44, 27 (Ireland 1); Friedman 1017, 1018; Kansas City Times, October 29, 1909.

  15. Friedman, 1010-11.

  16. Friedman, 1032, 1036, 1044.

  17. Virginia Law Register, June 1907, 107.

  18. Friedman, 998, 1024.

  19. Friedman, 1021-22.

  20. Friedman, 999.

  21. Richmond Times Dispatch, October 1, 1916.

  22. Friedman, 1030.

  23. Friedman, 1018-20, 1025, 1036, 1040.

  24. Friedman, 1026.

  25. Oregonian, October 16, 1949.

  26. Friedman, 1047.

  27. Friedman, 1045-46.

  28. Friedman, 1003.

  29. Clark, 38-39.

  30. Clark, 50-51.

  EPILOGUE

  1. New York Times, February 15, 1862.

  2. Thomas Kirwan, History of the Seventeenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers; William Kerrigan, Johnny Appleseed and the American: A Cultural History, 169; Cincinnati Daily Gazette, October 17, 1871.

  3. Charleston Mercury, April 5, 1862; Daily Naitonal Republican, August 11, 1862.

  4. Los Angeles Herald, September 5, 1875, reprinting from S. F. Bulleton of 6th inst; Daily Post (San Francisco), May 7, 1875.

  5. New York Times, December 29, 1886.

  6. Stephen Fiske, “Offhand Portraits of Famous New Yorkers,”, 284.

  7. Fiske, 287; Tribune, January 6, 1882.

  Index

  A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.

  A

  adultery, 118, 195–96, 236–39, 242, 258, 265, 275–77, 283–85, 287, 292, 308

  Albany Evening Journal, 147, 255, 269

  Alexandria Gazette, 32, 218

  Arnold, Rezin, 169, 289

  Atlas and Daily Bee (Boston), 210–11

  Aurelius, Marcus, 199

  Austin, John, 191–92

  B

  Bacon, Charles G., 229, 256

  Bacon, Marshal, 59–62, 126, 204

  Bagioli, Antonio, 11, 18, 123

  Baltimore Exchange, 122

  Baltimore Sun, 102, 120, 296, 306

  Beauchamp, Jereboam, 305

  Beecher, Henry Ward, 129–30, 309

  Beekman, Stephen, 59–62, 65, 71, 74, 125–26, 204, 245, 264

  Bell, Lewis, 148, 239

  Bennett, James Gordon, 2–3, 100, 122, 155, 192,

  Bennett, Mrs. James Gordon, 252

  Benton, Thomas Hart, 72

  Berrett, James, 8, 90

  Black, Jeremiah, 42, 86–87, 113

  Black, Myra, 310

  Bonitz, William, 86–87

  Boston Journal, 93, 102–103, 121, 153, 221

  Boston Recorder, 255

  Boston Traveler, 135

  Brady, James Topham, 157–60, 166, 174, 181, 184, 188–89, 204–206, 210, 217, 219, 223, 226, 228, 231, 234, 236–38, 243, 244–45, 250, 252–53, 257–60, 262, 265–66, 268, 270–71, 274, 277, 279–81, 283, 289, 291–93, 308–309, 319

  Branch, Lawrence, 88

  Brien, Joseph P., 168

  Brodhead, Richard, 274

  Brooks, Preston, 37–38, 40, 261

  Brown, Aaron, 137

  Brown, George, 70

  Brown, Nancy, 119, 235–36, 242–44

  Buchanan, James, 1–2, 21–24, 27, 38–43, 56, 63–64, 66, 82, 86–87, 103, 113, 122, 148, 213, 319

  Bulkley, Rev. C.H.A., 234

  Burlingame, Anson, 4

  Butler, Abraham, 169

  Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 13

  Butterworth, Samuel, 41, 82–86, 88–91, 103, 107, 115–16, 141, 149–50, 182, 211, 222, 253, 263, 267, 274, 320, 332

  C

  Calhoun, John C., 45

  Carlisle, James, 34, 71, 108, 117, 168, 170, 205–206, 210, 216, 219, 222–23, 227–29, 231, 234–38, 246, 258, 260, 262, 266, 270–71, 275–76, 289

  Chestnut, Mary, 301

  Children’s Aid Society, 101

  Chilton, Samuel, 114, 159, 289, 292

  Cincinn
ati Commercial Tribune, 102

  Clarendon Hotel, 24

  Clark, Champ, 315–17

  Clay, Clement, 88

  Clay, Henry, 45, 98, 154

  Clay, Virginia, 4–5, 57, 88

  Club House, 70–72, 83–90, 115–16, 131, 141, 183–84, 188, 197, 210, 222, 224, 229, 265–66, 310

  Cole, George, 308–309

  Congregationalist, 141

  Congressional Globe, 59, 213, 271

  Coolidge, Richard, 87, 188–89

  Cooney, John, 252, 257

  Cox, Richard, 35

  Crawford, Thomas (judge), 35, 38–39, 150, 159, 166–67, 170, 172–74, 178, 181, 190, 198, 218, 220, 224, 228–29, 242, 253, 262, 270, 275, 277, 279, 285–88, 290, 295, 307

  Curry, David, 143

  Cuyler, John, 228

  D

  Da Ponte, Lorenzo (father), 11, 18, 209,

  Da Ponte, Lorenzo (the younger), 11–13, 234

  Daily Confederation (Alabama), 204, 297

  Daily Journal (North Carolina), 103

  Daily Pennsylvanian, 102

  Daily Standard (Louisville), 133

  Daily Union, 23, 177

  Davis, Jefferson, 65, 87, 221, 320

  Davis, Verina, 221

  Daw, William, 87, 89–90, 267

  Decatur House, 291, 295

  Decatur, Stephen, 47

  Delafield, Edward, 182, 271

  Democrats, xii, 21–22, 25–27, 41, 63, 213

  Derringer, 38, 116, 183, 187, 189, 190, 210, 280, 286, 292, 308

  Dougherty, Daniel, 209–210

  Douglas, Frederick

  Douglas, Stephen, 22, 25, 38, 42, 57, 78, 213, 247, 269, 273

  Doyle, Francis, 86, 88, 184, 265, 270

  Drayton, Daniel, 33–35, 37, 168

  Dudrow, Joseph, 182, 270

  Duffy, Bridget, 75, 79, 82, 216, 222, 250

  E

  Emerson, George, 251–52

  Evening Post, 102, 123, 241

  Evening Star (Washington), xii, 90, 103, 120, 121, 207, 221

  Ewell House, 2–3, 46–47, 57, 61, 82–84, 88, 90, 131, 210, 244–45

  Ewell, Thomas, 46

  F

  Forney, John, 21, 23, 27, 38, 66

  Foster, John, 123

  Franklin, Benjamin, 9, 97

  Fremont, Jesse Benton, 32, 72, 122

  Fremont, John C., 39

  Fullalove, James, 170

  G

  George III (king), 200

  Glens Falls Academy, 9

  Graham, John, 43, 159–60, 174, 177, 191–94, 198, 203, 204, 211, 243, 258, 268, 271, 289, 305, 309

  Greenhow, Rose O’Neal, 257, 263

  Gwin, Mary, 57, 63, 65

  Gwin, William, 66, 82, 88, 116

  H

  Hadfield, James, 200

  Haley, Rev., 92–93, 107, 130, 167, 171, 227, 258, 292, 296, 320

  Hall, David, 33

  Hamilton, Alexander, 102

  Hanchett, David, xii

  Hanscombe, Simon, 210, 292

  Harper’s (New York), 91, 139, 141, 293, 320

  Harrison, William Henry, 31, 97

  Hart, Emanuel, 107, 119, 160, 207, 215

  Haskin, John, 59, 70, 101, 206, 241, 243, 245–46

  Heberton, Mahlon, 306

  Herbert, Philemon, 39–40

  Holden, Arthur, 143

  Hood, Alfred, 144

  Hoover, Jonah, 42–43, 60–61, 71, 77, 204, 213

  Hopkins, Major, 235, 292

  Howard, Charles, 259, 266

  Hudson River, 10, 319

  I

  Iago, 227, 263, 265

  Independent Democrat, 241

  insanity defense, 200, 308

  J

  Jackson, Andrew, 3, 10, 13, 22–23, 31–32, 38, 46, 72, 100,

  Jarboe (legal case), 217, 237, 285,

  Jarboe, Daniel, 307–308

  Jefferson, Thomas, 46

  Jones, Charles Lee, 233, 259–60

  Jones, Laura Crawford, 17, 103, 126, 154, 221, 225

  Journal of the Assembly of New York, 122

  K

  Kansas-Nebraska Act, the, 25

  Keating, Thomas, 38

  Key, Barton, II, xi, 5-6, 29-30, 33, 37, 39, 41-42, 46, 51, 59, 64, 70, 72, 75, 88, 91, 97, 102, 108, 117, 151, 153, 165, 168, 177-79, 196, 282, 286, 301, 307-8, 317, 321

  Key, Ellen, 36

  Key, Francis Scott, 29-30

  Kiltberger, Charles, 173

  L

  Lafayette Square, 45-47, 70, 78, 81, 103, 131, 133, 137, 140, 153, 210, 214, 222, 226, 228-29, 256, 267, 274, 291, 309, 316

  Lane, Harriet, 24, 122

  Leslie, Frank, 139-40

  Libertine, 50

  Lincoln, Abraham, 246, 324

  Lincoln, Mary Todd, 302, 316

  London Daily News, 172

  Lott, Rev. D.G., 144

  Louisville Daily Courier, 102, 187

  M

  M’Naghten, Daniel, 199-201

  Madison Place, 181-83, 235, 256-57

  Madison, Dolly, 45

  Magnetic Telegraph Company, The, 98

  Magruder, Allen, 111, 114

  Mann, Charles, 244

  Manning (legal case), 285

  Martin, Thomas, 86, 183

  McBlair, John, 267, 291

  McCluskey, Felix, 255-56

  McCormick, Cyrus, 10, 183

  McDonald, John, 257

  McElhone, John, 59, 213

  McFarland, Daniel, 309

  McKaig, William, 310

  McNulty, Caleb, 112

  Meagher, Thomas, 215, 258, 319

  Megaffey, Albert, 71

  Mercer, Sarah, 306

  Miller, Thomas, 224

  Mills, Robert, 91

  Millson, John, 51

  Milwaukee Sentinel, 273

  Mohun, Francis, 216, 281

  Morse, Samuel, 98

  N

  Nally, Rufus, 307

  New York Herald, 2, 103, 107, 123, 165, 174, 261, 296-97, 307

  New York Post, 241

  New York Sunday Courier, 15

  New York Times, 1-2, 39, 100, 104, 126, 139, 154, 241, 263, 295, 296, 309, 320

  O

  O’Flaherty, Edmund, 104, 320

  Oregonian, 314

  Ould, Robert, 148, 168, 177, 211, 283, 320

  P

  Parker, S.S., 81, 229

  Pendleton, Alice Key, 64

  Pendleton, George, 32, 225, 258

  Philadelphia Despatch, 120

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 165, 204

  Phillips, Philip, 172, 205, 223, 238-39, 289, 305

  Piccolomini, 207

  Pierce, Franklin, 2, 21-23, 25

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 11

  Polk, James K., 14, 22

  Poore, Benjamin Perley, 148

  Prim, Orrin, 144

  Pyne, Rev. Smith, 214

  Q

  Queen against Fisher (legal case), 237

  R

  R. P. G., 6, 52, 230, 252-53, 262-64

  Rapley, William, 230

  Ratcliffe, Daniel, 111, 113, 168, 242

  Reed, James, 181, 189

  Republicans, xii, 4, 25, 27, 40-41, 63, 171, 301,

  Richmond Dispatch, 119

  Richmond Whig, 306

  Ridgeley, C.M., 79

  S

  Schouler, William, 273

  Scott, Winfield, 21

  Seeley, John, 73

  Sharp, Solomon, 305

  Shea, Timothy, 191

  Sickles Trial, 126, 174, 218, 221, 225, 246, 249, 253, 255, 295-96, 308, 314, 320

  Sickles, Daniel, xi-xii, 9, 18, 41-42, 46, 67, 100, 114, 122, 140, 144, 147, 149, 151, 182, 193, 207, 222, 242, 296, 308, 315,

  Sickles, George, 218

  Sickles, Laura, 214, 302

  Sickles, Teresa, 41, 56, 64, 66, 71, 104, 154, 173, 203, 264, 297

  Simmons, Richard, 170

  Skippen, Charles, 168

  Slidell, John, 42

  Slidell, Mathilde, 57

  Smith, Thomas
Washington, 306

  Stanton, Edwin, 111, 159, 319

  Star Spangled Banner, 25, 30-32, 36, 64, 103

  Stuart, William, 2, 100, 104, 133, 149, 166, 198, 219-20, 288, 293

  Suit, James, 87, 267

  Sumner, Charles, 36

  Swanberg, William, 263

  Swinton, William, 69

  T

  Tammany Hall, 26, 40

  Taney, Roger, 32

  The Pearl, 33, 35

  The Unwritten Law, 305, 307-17

  Thompson, John, 65, 250

  Tidball, Edward, 184

  Treasury Department, 182-83

  Tribune (New York), 40, 100, 102, 104, 108, 116, 125-26, 130, 143, 151, 172, 204, 218, 264, 309

  U

  Upperman, William, 35

  Usher, Abel, 184

  V

  Van Buren, Martin, 10, 45

  Van Wyck, Philip, 182

  Vermont Chronicle, 261

  Victoria, Queen, 17, 24, 27, 122

  W

  Wagner, Jacob, 231-32

  Walker, Robert, 82, 89

  Waltham Sentinel, 118

  Washington Reporter, 39, 148

  Watterson, Henry, 2, 66, 119, 166, 264,

  Webster, Daniel, 13, 45, 158, 171,

  Western, Helen, xii

  Western, Lucile, xii

  Whig Party, 10, 21

  White, Fanny, 14-15, 122

  Wikoff, Chevalier Henry, 3

  Willard Hotel, 38, 81

  Wilson, Jesse, 173

  Winder, Charles, 270

  Wirt, William, 168

  Woodward, Thomas, 88, 187

  Wooldridge, George, 49, 222, 225

  Worthington, Reuben, 170

  Y

  Yankees, 4

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