by Ron Chernow
Nation, 685, 736, 741, 761–62, 764, 767, 779, 792, 820, 835, 854, 884, 892
National Banks Act, 644
National Convention of the Colored Men of America, 641–42
national debt, 625, 631, 654, 748, 749
National Intelligencer, 350, 605
National Labor Convention, 684
National Palace, 56
National Union Convention, 576–77
National Union Party, 409
National Woman Suffrage Association, 749
Native Americans, 24, 876
congressional pursuit of genocide threats to, 657–58
in election of 1862, 230
Grant on, 78, 631–32, 658–59, 738–39, 755
Grant’s Peace Policy with, 657, 658, 659, 738, 832, 836, 855
Grant’s proposal for absorption of, 658–60, 738
and Indian Ring, 657, 819–25
named to federal positions, 641, 749, 855
reservation system and, 658, 659–60, 738
see also Oglala Sioux
Nebraska, 90, 831–32, 885
Nellie (horse), 48
Nelson, Samuel, 722, 764
Nelson, William “Bull,” 188
Nevada, 58, 657–58, 885
New Deal, 778
New Jersey, 120, 783
in election of 1862, 230
Newman, John P., 649, 837, 941–42, 950
New Market, battle of, 397
New Mexico, 54, 58, 904
New Orleans, La., 217, 236, 301–4, 327, 372, 568, 596, 638, 706, 745, 793, 846
desegregation in, 589
violence against blacks in, 574–76, 586, 613–14, 761, 790–92, 794–95
New Orleans Times, 589
News and Courier, 956
New York, 20, 90, 91, 103, 365, 441, 486, 703, 561–62, 577, 675, 742, 752, 777, 783, 900, 912–14, 955–58
in election of 1862, 230
New York City draft riots, 298, 517, 617
New York Custom House, 735, 736–37
New York Evening Post, 909
New York Herald, 146, 273, 326, 328, 344, 820, 822, 863, 870
New-York Illustrated News, 185
New York Ledger, 608, 678
New York Standard, 863
New York Stock Exchange, 777, 906
New York Sun, 666, 752, 863, 884, 926
New York Times, 160, 185, 235, 238, 249, 267, 366, 516, 557, 574, 585, 590, 597, 698, 713, 731, 735, 753–54, 819, 826, 846, 881, 894, 898, 899, 937, 949, 957
New York Tribune, 148–49, 174, 252, 384, 444, 606, 736, 741, 767, 784, 820, 851, 863
New York World, 245, 430, 638, 643, 663, 693, 737, 792, 943
Nicaragua, 75, 102, 904–5
Nicolay, John, 267, 343, 481, 523
Nordhoff, Charles, 584
North Anna River, 399–400
North Carolina, 124, 356, 460, 462, 471–78, 485, 487, 493, 510, 521–22, 533, 571, 701, 710
North Carolina, 51
Northern Pacific Railway, 81, 776–77, 919
Northwest Confederacy, proposal of, 237
Northwest Territory, 8
Nueces River, 40, 41, 43
Nye, James W., 958
Odyssey (Homer), 31, 871
O’Fallon family, 31
Ogden, Richard L., 89, 885
Oglala Sioux, 739, 829–37
Custer vs., 833–35, 855
Oglesby, Richard J., 147, 156
Ogontz, 776–77
Ohio, 3–18, 28, 106, 208, 327, 329, 597, 622, 783
creation of, 8
runaway slaves to, 8
Ohio, 71–72
Ohio River, 63, 147, 153, 154, 163, 306
O’Laughlen, Michael, 520, 539
Old Arsenal Penitentiary, 539, 600
Old Point Comfort, Va., 371, 920
Oliver Twist (Dickens), 96
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 91, 955
Opdyke, George, 441
Opelousas, La., 621
Orange Turnpike, 379
Orchard Knob, 320, 321
Ord, Edward O. C., 224, 272, 287, 461, 465, 474, 482–83, 491, 494, 499, 507, 529, 530, 585, 610
Ord, Mrs., 482–83, 512, 519, 524
Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, 108
Oregon Territory, 39, 76, 78, 282
Osterhaus, Peter J., 563
Othello (Shakespeare), 43
Our American Cousin (Taylor), 522
Overland Campaign, 374–410
Smith’s criticism of, 421
see also specific battles
Oxford, Miss., 232
Packard, Stephen B., 848
Paducah, Ky., 154–56, 171, 235–36
Palmyra, Ill., 140
Palo Alto, battle of, 44–45
Panama, 70, 71, 72–75, 102, 660
Panama Canal Company, 904
Panama City, 74
Panic of 1873, 776–79
Paris, 869–71, 873, 877
Parker, Ely S., 117, 124, 185, 325, 338–39, 362, 391, 414, 435, 509–10, 514, 545, 558, 636, 656–57, 658, 668, 737–38, 820
Parker, Frank, 151, 291
Patrick, Marsena R., 360, 435–36
Peace Democrats, 441, 584
Peace Policy, 657, 658, 659, 738, 832, 836, 855
Peixotto, Benjamin Franklin, 643–44
Pemberton, John, 245, 256, 258, 262–63, 268, 270
in aftermath of Vicksburg siege, 290–91
in clash at Champion’s Hill, 264–65
in Mexican War, 51, 55
personality of, 286
Vicksburg defended by, 268, 269, 278, 285–86, 287, 299
Pendleton, William, 500
Pendleton Act, 733
Peninsula Campaign, 218, 402, 408
Penn, D. B., 761, 793
Pennsylvania, 103, 295, 407, 421, 597, 622, 657, 675–77, 783, 793, 810, 900
People’s Party, 788
Pepper, George W., 517
Perry, Raymond, 695
Perryville, battle of, 316
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (Grant), 952–53
account of quitting military in, 84, 85
argument with Prentiss in, 147
Badeau as editor of, 932, 933, 943–45, 947
battle of Molino del Rey in, 54
bullfight in, 57
burning of Columbia in, 472–73
on church by San Cosme, 55
Democratic Convention of 1864 denounced in, 441–42
discussion of fear in, 140
drinking absent from, 85, 958–59
on election of 1860, 119
fears of secession in, 100
on feeling demeaned, 215
Grant’s writing of, xvii, xviii–xix, 928, 932–36, 946–47, 949–50, 952
Hannah in, 7
Hooker disdained in, 321
Jesse in, 7
Lee praised in, 367
Lee’s surrender in, 507–8
Lincoln’s strategy session in, 344
order expelling Jews absent from, 236
painful composition of, xix
plan to blow up Petersburg mine in, 427
Rawlins’s absence from, 274, 671
reception of, 953
on Sherman’s surrender terms, 534
on slavery, 99
style of, xviii–xx, 952–53
Texas annexation criticized in, 38
on ties with England, 684
Twain’s praise for, xx, 946–47, 953
Twain’s publishing of, xix, 934–37, 939, 946–48, 953
worst years skipped over in
, 103
Petersburg, Va., 372, 376, 403, 410–11, 412–13, 417, 418, 438, 439, 457, 475, 484
Lee’s abandoning of, 488, 491
Lincoln’s visit to, 493–94
plan to blow up mine at, 426–29
Sheridan’s troops transferred to, 463
storming of, 491, 492–93
Peter the Great, 876
petroleum, 776
Philadelphia, Pa., 19, 20, 256, 295, 463, 482, 492, 545–46, 596, 527, 559, 626, 638, 743, 750, 828, 844, 862, 888–89, 932
Philadelphia Press, 889
Philadelphia Public Ledger, 651
Phillips, Wendell, 570, 579, 702, 742, 746, 748, 792, 854
Pickett, George E., 488, 489, 490
in Mexican War, 54
at West Point, 25
Pickett’s Charge, 25, 295, 392, 407
Pickwick Papers, The (Dickens), 96
Piegan Blackfeet, 659
Pierce, Franklin, 661, 713, 714, 765
elected president, 77
in Mexican War, 57, 77
Pierce, James H., 842
Pierrepont, Edwards, 611, 781, 787–88, 803, 804, 813–16, 823, 825, 848, 939
Pike, James Shepherd, 784
Pillow, Gideon J., 154, 157
in Fort Donelson, 177, 179, 181, 182
Grant’s joke about, 183
Pilot Knob, Mo., 143
Pinkston, Henry, 843
Pitman, James E., 67–68, 650–51
Pittsburgh Telegraph, 838
Pittsburg Landing, 196, 197–98, 200, 202, 212
Halleck’s arrival at, 213
Pius IX, Pope, 872
Pixley, F. M., 402–3
Planter’s House, 97, 98
Platt, Thomas C., 909
Pleasants, Henry, 426–27
pneumonia, 246
Point Isabel, Mexico, 49
Point Pleasant, Ohio, 3, 6, 7
Polk, James K., 532, 660–61, 688
furious with Taylor’s generous armistice, 48–49
Mexican crisis brought to head by, 43, 44, 59
peace with Mexico negotiated by, 54
Taylor replaced with Scott by, 49
Polk, Leonidas, 153–54, 159
Poore, Benjamin Perley, 85
Pope, Charles A., 332
Pope, John, 188, 214, 601
Army of Virginia commanded by, 220
arrival in Pittsburg landing, 213
Camp Yates quit by, 131
Grant put in charge of three infantry units by, 142
Island Number Ten taken by, 207
at Second Manassas, 220, 366
at West Point, 24
Popocatépetl, 57–58
Porfirio Díaz, José de la Cruz, 893, 913
Porter, David D., 236–37, 239, 254–55, 258–59, 261, 285, 293, 314–31, 494, 628, 661
attempt to purchase Samaná Bay by, 661
in City Point strategy session, 483–84
Fort Fisher attacked by, 461
Grant criticized by, 462
Lincoln informed of Vicksburg victory by, 292
Vicksburg shelled by, 268–69
Porter, Fitz-John, 187
Porter, Horace, 222, 312–13, 342, 363–64, 377, 387, 414–16, 434, 438, 446, 450, 456, 463, 473–74, 482, 489, 490, 500, 503, 509, 519, 526–27, 541, 545, 558, 588, 636, 736, 797
in battle of Spotsylvania, 389, 393, 394, 395
in battle of the Crater, 429, 430
in battle of the Wilderness, 382, 383
Gould’s attempted bribery of, 675
and whiskey scandal, 805
Porter, Theodoric, 43
Port Gibson, Miss., 260–61
Port Hudson, La., 248, 262, 279, 291, 365
Port Royal, Va., 530
Potts, Benjamin F., 692
Powell, Lazarus W., 235
Powell, Lewis, 528, 539
Pratt & Boyd, 787
Pratte, Bernard, 62
Prentiss, Benjamin M., 144, 147
Benjamin Stanton’s diatribe against, 209
Grant accused of drinking by, 237
in preparation for battle of Shiloh, 199, 203
Presbyterian Academy, 16
press:
Confederate, 458
coverage of Grant’s cancer in, 937–38
and Grant-Johnson meeting on Tenure of Office Act, 605–6
Grant’s children in, 651–52
Grant vilified in, 208, 211, 212, 245, 249–51
McClernand’s boast in, 272
plans for Vicksburg Campaign leaked to, 238
Sherman’s moves in, 473
Price, Sterling, 145, 556
in battle of Iuka, 223–25
Corinth invaded by, 225
Frémont’s battle with, 156
prisoner exchanges, 373, 450–51, 474
Prometheus, 90
Prostrate State, The (Pike), 784
Protestants, 108
Providence, 674
Prussia, 869–70, 874–75
Puerto Rico, 695, 715, 744
Quakers, 657, 659, 820
Quartermaster’s Ranch, 76
Quincy, Ill., 138–39, 140
racial discrimination, in public accommodations, xxiii, 568, 570–71, 573, 589, 795
Radical Democracy, 439
Radical Republicans, 441, 549, 565, 566, 580, 605, 607–8, 733
civil rights bill of, 568–69, 570–71
Fourteenth Amendment passed by, 573
Grant praised by, 606
Grant’s move to, 581, 583–85, 589, 590, 591–92, 596–98, 600
and Grant’s run for presidency, 619–20
Hoar’s opposition to, 688
Johnson vs., 550, 567, 569, 573, 576, 578, 579, 585, 586–87, 590, 591, 594
railroads, 108, 356, 357, 418, 436, 442, 444, 485, 644, 738, 752, 776, 778, 781, 914–15
Raleigh, N.C., 470, 533, 535, 536–37, 564
Randall, Alexander, 579
Rankin, John, 16
Rankin, R. C., 210
Rapidan River, 366, 374, 375, 376, 377–78, 382, 385, 386, 391, 394, 396, 413
Rathbone, Henry R., 523
Rawlins, Emily, 128–29, 148, 149
Rawlins, John, 118, 119, 121, 124–25, 156, 190, 239, 277, 297, 303, 306, 318, 328, 343, 348, 360, 373, 412, 419, 424, 433, 435, 436, 439, 489, 497, 504, 524, 538, 545, 546, 560, 573, 595, 617, 619, 635, 637, 678
alcohol eschewed by, 149–50, 301, 318–19, 333, 428, 578–79
as anxious about Vicksburg Campaign, 254
on arrival in Chattanooga, 312
as assistant adjutant general, 148
background of, 149
in battle of Belmont, 157, 160
in battle of Shiloh, 201, 202
in battle of Spotsylvania, 391, 398
as brigadier general, 338–39, 515
Cadwallader’s relationship with, 274
and capture of Fort Donelson, 182
Cuban insurgency supported by, 665–68
and Dana’s monitoring of Grant, 252
death of, 668–69, 670–71
enraged at Johnson, 609
at Fort Monroe, 371
on Fort Pillow massacre, 373
General Orders No. 11 opposed by, 234
on gloom in Nashville, 331
Grant chastised by, 151, 272–73, 276, 318–19
Grant influenced by, 151–52, 337
Grant’s army report and, 561
on Grant’s emotions in battle of the Wilderness, 383
on Grant’s move to Memphis, 217
and Gran
t’s proposed leave of absence, 215
on Grant’s reform of army, 358
Grant’s reputation protected by, 210
on Grant’s trip to Washington, 339–40
Grant supported in battle with Johnson by, 606
illnesses of, 297, 361–62, 435–36, 449–50, 561, 626
in inaugural parade, 630
kept as Grant’s chief of staff, 361–62
and McClernand’s firing, 272
on Oxford, 232
and plan to capture Fort Henry, 169, 170
on preparation for Shiloh, 199
promoted to brigadier general, 297
Reconstruction speech of, 592
and reinstatement of Grant, 193
as secretary of war, 626
speech to Galena crowd on militia by, 126–27, 148
and surrender terms to Lee, 502–3
Vicksburg report delivered to cabinet by, 296
volunteers raised by, 128
Washburne’s letter on Grant’s drinking to, 165–66
and wife’s illness, 128–29, 148–49
worried about Grant’s trip to Washington, 337, 338, 339
Rawlins, Mary E. Hurlbut (Emma), 297, 319, 334, 338, 339, 362, 372–73, 391, 405, 422, 428, 435, 496, 595, 626, 666, 668
Raymond, Henry J., 441, 597
Reconstruction, 521, 638, 784
army in, 561
associated with corruption, 740, 856
black justice important in, xxii
black office holders in, 686
country divided over, 538
and election of 1872, 741, 744, 748–49, 752
end of, 839, 849, 853–54, 857–58
Grant’s retreat from, 814–18
Johnson’s pledge not to interfere with Congress on, 612
Johnson’s refusal to call session of Congress on, 549
Johnson’s refusal to enforce laws of, 609–10
Johnson’s revealing of plan for, 550
Morrill’s support for, 825
retreat from, xxiii
revisionist historians on, 856–57
Sherman’s opposition to, 622
Tilden’s opposition to, 828
viewed as error, 856
violence against blacks during, 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
waning faith in, 752
see also Congressional Reconstruction
Red Cloud, 739, 832
Red Cloud Agency, 831
Red River, 248, 262, 357, 373
Red Shirts, 841
Redstone, Albert, 780
Reid, Whitelaw, 209, 740
Republican Convention:
of 1860, 118–19
of 1864, 409
of 1868, 607–8, 614–16, 747
of 1876, 827
of 1880, 897, 899, 900–904
Republicanism vs. Grantism, 742–43
