by Ron Chernow
Here: Portrait of Major General John A. McClernand, officer of the Federal Army. Library of Congress, Selected Civil War photographs 1861–1865, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-06457
Here: Portrait of Major General Henry W. Halleck, officer of the Federal Army, by J. A. Scholten.
Here: G. W. C. Lee, Robert E. Lee, Walter Taylor. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-06233.
Here: Lieutenant General Jas. Longstreet. Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-38007.
Here: Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, traditionally called “last photograph of Lincoln from life,” by Alexander Gardner. 1865. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-12380.
Here: Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president, looking at a photo album with his son Tad Lincoln, Feb. 9, 1864, by Anthony Berger. 1864. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-19199.
Here: Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait. Library of Congress, Brady-Handy Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-8341.
Here: Andrew Johnson, full-length portrait, by Mathew B. Brady. Library of Congress, Brady-Handy Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-B8184-10690.
Here: Portrait of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, officer of the United States government. Library of Congress, Selected Civil War photographs 1861–1865, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-06437.
Here: President Grant at his cottage by the sea. 1872. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-90234.
Here: Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, full-length portrait, standing. Library of Congress, Brady-Handy Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-25791.
Here: Engraving of General Grant’s children. From Harper’s Weekly, April 1885.
Here: Hamilton Fish. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-37517.
Here: Etching of A. T. Akerman, by Max Rosenthal. 1891. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ6-308.
Here: Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, by George Francis Schreiber. 1870. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-15887.
Here: Horace Greeley, 1811–1872. Library of Congress, Hoxie Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-47450.
Here: Susan B. Anthony, by Mathew B. Brady. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-30742.
Here: Charles Sumner. Library of Congress, Brady-Handy Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-00477.
Here: Roscoe Conkling, 1829–1888. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-79522.
Here: General Grant and Li Hung-chang, viceroy of China, taken at Tientsin, Jan. 1879, by Shitai Liang. 1879. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ds-08332.
Here: Going for a 3rd Term. Published by Hastings & Hannerty, St. Louis, Mo. 1880. Library of Congress, American cartoon print filing series, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-90670.
Here: Engraving of Ferdinand Ward, courtesy of Geoffrey C. Ward.
Here: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, three-quarter-length portrait. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-112728.
Here: General U. S. Grant writing his memoirs, Mount McGregor, June 27, 1885. 1885. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-7607.
INDEX
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abolitionism, 120, 139, 746
absentee ballots, 452
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 318, 360, 383, 399, 402, 413, 753
Adams, Charles Francis, Sr., 679, 724, 726, 740
Adams, Henry, 294, 556, 616, 624, 628, 678–81, 682, 873, 943
Adams, John Quincy, 629
Adams Express Company, 885
Adas Israel synagogue, 836–37
Aiken, S.C., 843
Akerman, Amos T., 700, 704, 707–8, 710–11, 786–87, 823, 855
Alabama, 122, 187, 218, 316, 327, 510, 538, 600, 601, 623, 702, 703, 706, 761, 785, 789
Alabama, CSS, 682–84, 697, 721, 722–27, 749, 856, 869, 880, 889
Alaska, 661
Alcatraz Island, 170, 883
alcoholism, xxiii
Whig opposition to, 10
See also Grant, Ulysses S., drinking by
Alcorn, James, 655
Alcott, Louisa May, 750
Alexander II, Czar, 875–76
Allen, Robert, 89
Alvord, Benjamin, 80
Robert Buchanan warned about Grant’s drinking by, 84
Amelia Court House, 494, 496, 498
American Colonization Society, 663
American (Know-Nothing) Party, 99, 108
American System, 9
American Telegraph Company, 526
Ames, Adelbert A., 655, 684, 709–10, 745, 753, 785, 788, 789–90, 813–14, 815–16, 817
Ames, Blanche, 89, 842
Ames, Jesse, 790
Ames, Oakes, 753
Ammen, Daniel, 375, 440, 578, 649, 863
Ammen, David, 8
Ammen, Jacob, 198
Ampudia, Pedro de, 43, 47, 48
Anderson, Robert, 521
Anderson, Thomas M., 85, 86
Andrews, Byron, 893
Anna, Ill., 132
Anthony, Susan B., 749, 750, 751, 764
Antietam, battle of, 227–28, 271, 369, 522
Antrobus, John, 341
Appomattox Campaign, 486
Appomattox Courthouse, xix–xx, 62, 98, 495, 505–12, 520, 521, 527, 551, 552, 564, 593
Grant’s article on, 929
Appomattox River, 396, 412, 413, 488, 493
Appomattox Station, 499, 501, 504, 510
Arizona, 58, 659, 892, 904
Arizona, Department of, 626
Arkansas, 124, 245, 291, 538, 789, 791
Arkell, W. J., 948
Army and Navy Journal, 595
Army Corps of Engineers, 367
Army of Georgia, 539
Army of Invasion, 49
Army of Northern Virginia, 365–66, 368, 395, 399, 401, 457, 498–501, 552
food shortages of, 370–71
surrender of, 502, 512, 514, 515
unraveling of, 469, 515
Army of Observation, 38, 40, 45
Army of the Cumberland, 226, 304, 308, 313, 326
Army of the James, 371, 374, 397, 410
Army of the Mississippi, 213, 219
Army of the Ohio, 213, 308
in battle of Shiloh, 205, 206
Longstreet’s attack on, 316
Army of the Potomac, xxi, 86, 162, 194, 321, 326, 344, 372, 488, 539
Burnside put in charge of, 231
cavalry of, 361
disbanding of, 561
Grant’s visit to, 344–47
Hooker put in charge of, 231
Meade put in charge of, 271
replenishing of, 418
in winter quarters, 359–61
Army of the Tennessee, 196, 213, 267, 308, 326, 457, 539, 811, 887
in battle of Shiloh, 207
disbanding of, 561
Army of Virginia, 220
Arnold, Benedict, 21
Arnold, George M., 937
Arnold, Matthew, 866, 953
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne), 862
Arthur
, Chester, 736, 903, 906, 911–12, 918, 920, 932, 938–39, 956
Arthur, Prince, 647
Ashley, James M., 691–92
Astor, John Jacob, III, 908
Astor, William B., 561, 599
Astor, William Waldorf, 912–13
Astor House, 454
Atlanta, Ga., 330, 436, 447
evacuation of, 442
Sherman’s march on, 349, 357, 424–26, 442–43, 448
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, 874
Atzerodt, George A., 527, 528, 539
Augur, Christoper C., 844
Avery, William O., 803
Babcock, Annie, 804
Babcock, Orville, 466, 504, 507, 542, 545, 558, 564, 588, 599, 636, 637, 646, 669, 716, 726, 736, 795, 823, 850
Santo Domingo treaty worked out by, 663–64, 665, 691, 692, 695–96
and whiskey scandal, 798, 799, 800–801, 803–9, 821
Badeau, Adam, 348, 351, 355, 364–65, 378, 398, 402, 416, 423–24, 439, 446, 447, 454, 462, 468, 481, 482, 524, 535, 536–37, 545, 548, 558, 562, 564, 577, 581, 583, 594, 595, 602, 606, 608, 609, 618, 623, 624, 631, 636, 648, 652, 656, 680, 682, 685, 697, 698, 726, 852–53, 862, 864, 866, 867, 873, 877, 892, 904, 911, 912, 920, 922, 941, 942–43
as Grant’s editor, 932, 933, 943–45, 947
and talk of Grant’s third term, 896, 897
Báez, Buenaventura, 660, 663, 664, 691, 693, 695, 712, 739
Bailey, G. Bartlett, 17
Bailey, George, 17
Bailey, Mrs., 17, 19, 39
Baja California, 58
Baker, Eugene M., 659
Balling, Ole Peter Hansen, 449
Baltimore, Md., 118, 123, 356, 409, 418, 419, 420, 743–44, 750
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 525, 868
banks, failures of, 683–84, 776–77, 926
Banks, Nathaniel:
on arming black troops, 284
division diverted to, 300
Halleck’s insulting of, 357
Mobile as aim of, 257
Port Hudson captured by, 291
Red River campaign of, 357, 373
Texas occupied by, 357
and Vicksburg Campaign, 248, 261–62, 279
Barker, B. Fordyce, 929
Barnard, William D. W., 801
Barnes, George W. “Bill,” 642, 863
Barnes, Joseph, 578, 579
Bartholdi, Frédéric, 870
Bassett, Ebenezer D., 642
Bates, Edward, 220, 615
Baton Rouge, La., 217, 263
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant:
attack on Pittsburg Landing desired by, 197
in battle of Shiloh, 200, 204, 205, 206
Corinth evacuated by, 216
Fort Sumter ordered shelled by, 123
Johnston succeeded by, 203
in march to Kentucky, 169
in Mexican War, 50, 51
and Sherman’s march to the sea, 458
Shiloh attack planned by, 198
trenches laid by, 396–97
Beck, James B., 705
Beckwith, Samuel, 151, 252, 289, 290, 383, 406, 442–43, 453–54, 456–57, 522–23, 526–28
Beecher, Henry Ward, 16, 749, 750
Belgium, 868
Belknap, Amanda “Puss,” 823–24
Belknap, Carrie, 821
Belknap, William W., 669–70, 769–70, 781, 784, 791
action against Sitting Bull taken by, 832, 833
and Indian Ring, 820–25
Bell, Alexander Graham, 829
Bell, John, 118
Bell, Philip A., 745
Bellows, Henry W., 464
Belmont, August, 744
Belmont, battle of, 156–60, 168, 200, 237
Bendell, Herman, 659
Ben-Hur (Wallace), 202
Benicia Barracks, 75
Benjamin, Calvin, 55
Benjamin, Judah, 470
Bennett, James Gordon, 328
Benton, Thomas Hart, 120, 192
Berlin, 874–75
Bermuda Hundred, 397, 412
Bethel, Ohio, 25–26, 28, 61–63, 68, 72
Big Black River, 260, 266, 285
Bigelow, John, 698
Bill of Rights, 573
Bismarck, Otto von, 874–75
Black, Jeremiah S., 824
Black Codes, 562–63, 571
Black Fort, 47
Black Hawk War, 237, 353
Black Hills, 770, 829–30, 831, 832–33
gold in, 830, 835–36
blacks, xxii, 567, 877
citizenship of, 511, 570, 573, 588, 614, 685
considered for Confederate army, 450, 470
education of, 569, 588, 894–95
and election of 1868, 620–21
Grant adulated by, 299–300, 620–21, 632–33
Grant aided in Vicksburg Campaign by, 247
and Grant’s death, 957
at Grant’s second inauguration, 755
at Lincoln’s funeral, 530
at Lincoln’s second inauguration, 475
in militia, 222
named to federal positions, 641, 749, 855
as postal workers, 629
prisoner exchanges and, 373, 450–51
Reconstruction violence against, 568, 571–72, 573, 574–76, 583, 584, 586, 613–14, 621, 701–2, 705, 758–60, 761–62, 763, 786, 788, 789–92, 795, 813–16, 839–43
rights in southern constitutions, 614
Sheridan’s columns joined by, 476
in Union army, 244, 280–81, 282–85, 298–99, 303–4, 332, 373, 398, 415–16, 428, 429–30, 441, 450, 475, 530, 561, 565, 642
voting rights of, xxii, xxiii, 511, 513, 549, 553–54, 568–69, 585, 590, 592, 600–601, 610, 616, 632, 655–56, 685–87, 815
in Washington, D.C., 654
White House access of, 684–85
see also Fifteenth Amendment; Fourteenth Amendment; Thirteenth Amendment
Blaine, James G., 688, 705, 753, 783, 827, 892, 900, 901, 908, 932
Blair, Francis P., Jr., 134, 617, 619–20
Blair, Francis P., Sr., 465
Blair, Montgomery, 617
and Grant’s promotion to District of Southeast Missouri, 145–46
Bleeding Kansas, 100
Blight, David W., 620
Bliss, William W. S., 81
Block, L., 301
Bloody Angle, 394
Blow, Henry T., 225
Blow, Taylor, 101, 107
Board of Indian Commissioners, 657
Boggs, Harry, 104, 105, 106, 350
Grant cursed at by, 144–45
Boggs, Julia, 103
Boggs, Louisa, 62, 93, 107, 294, 350
on Dent’s anger at Grant, 134
on Grant’s administrative skills, 104
on Grant’s drinking, 105
Bolles, Charles, 526
Bombay, India, 877–78
Bond, Hugh Lennox, 628
bonds, Treasury, 777
Bonner, Robert, 678
Bonneville, Benjamin L. E., 72, 73
Booth, Edwin, 341, 347, 365, 416, 447, 602
Booth, John Wilkes, 365, 513, 520, 525–26, 528, 530, 539, 602
Borie, Adolph E., 628, 634, 635, 877, 883
Boston Daily Advertiser, 563, 566
Boutwell, George, 632, 634–35, 674, 675, 677–78, 687, 692, 714, 776, 779, 899, 900
Bowen, John, 286, 287
Bowers, Theodore, 222, 430, 433–34, 436, 509, 570
Bowman House, 264
Bradley, Joseph P., 689, 848
Brady, Mathew, 3
50–51, 410
Bragg, Braxton, 304, 316, 317, 405
in Mexican War, 51
pushed into Georgia, 325
Sheridan’s pursuit of, 325
Brand, Robert, 125
Brandy Station, 344–47
Brazil, 722, 744, 829, 932
Breckinridge, John C., 118, 119, 371, 491
Brent, Thomas Lee, 76
Brinton, John H., 147, 177, 190
Bristow, Benjamin Helm, 701, 711, 751, 753, 764, 766, 782, 787–88, 819, 825, 855, 951
and election of 1880, 826
and whiskey scandal, 798–99, 800, 801, 802, 805, 806–8
British-American Joint High Commission, 722–23, 724, 725–26
Brooks, Noah, 292, 342, 386, 439, 513, 523
Brooks, Preston, 100
Bross, William, 164–65
Brough, John, 306
Brown, B. Gratz, 741, 744
Brown, John, 5, 100, 108, 532
Brown, John Milton, 815
Brown, Owen, 5
Browne, E. B. M., 956
Browning, Orville Hickman, 580, 595, 596–97, 603–4, 622, 649, 809, 823
Browning, Robert, 866
Brown’s Ferry, 314, 315, 320
Bruce, Blanche K., 877
Bruinsburg, Miss., 259–60, 261
Bryant, Javan, 707
Bryant, William Cullen, 100–101, 792
Bryce, James, xxii
Buchanan, James, 179, 307, 713, 714
election of, 99–100, 107
in secession crisis, 121
Buchanan, Robert C., 88, 613
Grant harassed by, 30, 81, 85–86
strictness of, 83–84
warned about Grant’s drinking, 84
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 184, 951, 956
Fort Donelson defended by, 179, 182, 183, 286
Grant’s expenses vouched for by, 91, 179
in Mexican War, 57
at West Point, 24
Buell, Don Carlos, 187, 214, 358
in approach to Nashville, 188
in battle of Shiloh, 203, 205, 206, 209
in charge of Department of the Ohio, 162
in eastern Tennessee fighting, 221
Grant’s army merged with army of, 195, 196, 197, 203
on Grant’s drinking, 97
Halleck’s dispute with, 169
western army under control of, 218
Buena Vista, battle of, 51, 159
Bull Run, first battle of (First Manassas), 141, 142, 192, 198, 655
Bull Run, second battle of (Second Manassas), 219, 220, 227, 366, 369
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 66
