by Ron Chernow
Republican National Committee, 441, 838
Republic Party:
as business oriented, 645
creation of, 77
Douglass’s support for, 746
in election of 1856, 99
southern violence against, 621, 760–61, 788, 793, 813, 842, 843
Resaca de la Palma, battle of, 45
reservations, Indian, 658, 659–60, 738, 855
retirement bill, 938–39
Revels, Hiram, 684, 816
Revolutionary War, 4, 206
Reynolds, Joseph J., 97, 107
Richard III (Shakespeare), 347, 365, 537
Richardson, Albert D., 10, 147
Richardson, Clarence, 578
Richardson, William A., 776, 778, 779, 782
Richmond, 877, 880
Richmond, Va., 135, 178, 338, 352, 356, 362, 370, 372, 375, 376, 384, 385, 386, 388, 391, 392, 396–404, 410–11, 414, 416, 437, 470, 471, 474, 475, 476, 477, 479, 485, 488, 495, 496, 497, 515, 529, 537
Grant’s plan to choke, 418, 424, 431, 436, 445, 446, 457, 463
Lee’s evacuation of, 491–92, 493, 494
Lincoln’s tour of, 495
Sheridan’s aid in capture of, 487
Richmond Examiner, 569
Rienzi (horse), 432
Rio Grande, 40, 41, 43, 45, 54, 58, 555, 556, 557, 582
River Queen, 467–68, 477–78, 484, 495, 498, 512
Robertson, William H., 908–9
Robeson, George M., 628, 780–81
Robespierre, Maximilien, 882
Robinson, Mary, 35, 95, 96, 133
on Grant’s desire to free slaves, 101
on Grant’s smoking, 98
Rocky Mountains, 144, 770, 885, 904
Romania, 643
Romero, Matías, 555, 893, 912, 913, 925
Roosevelt, Franklin, 778
Roosevelt, Theodore, 641
Root, Elihu, 939
Rose, John, 721
Rosecrans, William S., 224, 225–26, 312, 428, 522
in battle of Chickamauga, 304–5
and plans to abandon Chattanooga, 309–10
rescue of, 305–6
Ross, Edmund G., 611
Ross, Ishbel, 70, 87
Rowley, William R., 902
on bayonets at Shiloh, 199
on drinking by members of Grant’s staff, 250
at Galena meeting on Civil War, 126
on Grant’s drinking, 166, 209
on importance of Rawlins, 339
southern fighting skills mocked by, 120–21
volunteers for war raised by, 128
Rucker, Daniel, 525
Ruger, Thomas H., 844, 846
Rusling, James, 330
Russia, 484
Sackets Harbor, N.Y., 64–65, 68, 69–70, 77, 90–91
Sackett, Delos B., 350
Sage, Russell, 785
St. Augustine, Fla., 892–93
St. Louis, 178, 179
St. Louis, Mo., xviii, 29, 30–31, 35, 36, 39–40, 60–61, 62–63, 67, 68–69, 87, 91, 94, 98, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107–8, 109–10, 144, 145, 167–68, 217, 225, 300, 301, 332–34, 350, 414, 560, 579–80, 618, 620, 768, 784, 797–99, 801, 802–3, 804–5, 828, 861, 885, 924
division of, in Civil War, 134
proslavery sentiment in, 99, 105, 106
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 799, 901
St. Petersburg, 875–76
Salomon, Edward S., 642–43
Samaná Bay, 660, 663, 664, 691, 693
Sanborn, John, 257, 782
San Cosme gate, 55–56
San Francisco, Calif., 75, 79, 88–89, 192, 883, 884–85
Sanitary Commission, U.S., 246, 464
San Jerónimo, Mexico, 53
Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 52–53, 56
Santo Domingo, 660–62, 663–65, 666, 691–99, 703, 712–13, 715, 719–20, 732, 742, 755, 851
commission on, 712–16, 718–19
Saratoga Springs, 948–50
Sartoris, Algernon, 772–75, 867–68
Satartia, Miss., 272–76
Saturday Club, 627–28
Savannah, Ga., 447–48, 458, 459, 470
Savannah, Tenn., 195, 197
Saxton, Rufus, 568
Sayler’s (Sailor’s) Creek, battle of, 498, 551
Scandinavia, 875
Schenck, James Findlay, 72–73
Schenck, Robert C., 698
Schofield, John M., 333, 456, 473, 475, 477, 483, 557, 585, 612, 633
Schurz, Carl, 454, 563–64, 566, 640, 693, 694, 695–96, 715, 740–41, 853
Scott, Dred, 101, 107
Scott, Robert K., 702, 704, 752
Scott, Walter, 23, 66
Scott, Winfield, 159, 162, 166, 330, 507, 558, 561
in election of 1852, 77
first-rate team of, 50–51
Grant’s praise of, 20
in march on Mexico City, 53–54
Mexico given generous terms by, 56–57
Taylor replaced by, 49, 50
as Union army commander, 141
Veracruz invaded by, 49–50, 51
Wellington’s praise of, 56
Sea Islands, 471, 564
Second Bank of the United States, 8–9
Second Confiscation Act, 222–23
Second Reconstruction Act, 587
Seddon, James A., 271, 278, 436
Sedgwick, John, 360, 379, 388–89
Seligman, Henry, 65
Seligman, Jesse, 65
Senate, U.S.:
Foreign Relations Committee of, 636, 665, 688, 693, 696, 713, 714, 717, 722
Johnson’s impeachment trial in, 610–11
Military Affairs Committee of, 602, 603
retirement bill in, 938–39
Stanton restored as secretary of war by, 602
vote on Santo Domingo treaty in, 696–97
Seward, Fred, 661
Seward, William, 38, 77, 105, 342, 344, 363, 479, 564
and Alabama case, 683
assassination attempt against, 528, 539
carriage accident of, 512–13
and expansion of U.S., 661
and Grant-Johnson meeting on Tenure of Office Act, 605
and issuing of Emancipation Proclamation, 228
and Lee’s surrender, 513
and peace talks, 466–68
and plot to kill Lincoln, 123
and talk of action against Mexico, 555–57, 582, 583
on tour of northern states, 577
Seymour, Horatio, 617, 619, 620, 623, 747
Shakespeare, William, 130, 191
Shanghai, China, 879
Sharp, Alexander, 148
Sharpe, George, 434
Sharpsburg, battle of, see Antietam, battle of
Shaw, Eliza, 639, 653, 728, 767
Sheffield, Delia, 73–74, 78–81
Shenandoah Valley, 357, 374, 397, 402, 411, 418, 420, 431, 432, 433, 436, 444, 445–46, 449, 459, 463, 473, 476
Sheridan, Philip H., 219, 258, 325, 348, 353, 401, 427, 546, 568, 582, 583, 793, 803, 862, 893
action taken against Sitting Bull by, 832, 833
in battle of Cold Harbor, 401–2
in battle of the Wilderness, 376–77
in battles with Early, 431, 445–47, 476
in battles with Indians, 657
in charge of cavalry, 346, 361
in final stage of war, 487–88, 489–90
Fred Grant on staff of, 770
Grant’s conference with, 443–44
at Grant’s funeral, 956
on Gr
ant’s post-presidential career, 891
Grant’s relationship with, 432–33
Johnson insulted by, 616
and Lee’s surrender, 504–5, 506
Lincoln impressed with, 487
McLean’s table purchased by, 512
as military district commander, 585, 587–88, 596
in move to Spotsylvania, 387–88, 392
Native Americans denounced by, 657, 830, 855
and New Orleans violence, 575, 576, 763, 791–92, 794, 795, 846
nominated as lieutenant general, 627
postwar action against Mexico as viewed by, 557
in pursuit of Lee, 494, 496–98, 503
in Shenandoah Valley, 431, 432, 433, 444, 449, 459
troops transferred to Petersburg by, 463
on western tour, 618
Sherman, John, 329, 351, 578, 847, 892, 901
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 649
accused of insanity, 192, 201
as acting secretary of war, 669
background of, 191–92
Banks’s Red River campaign disdained by, 357
in battle of Chattanooga, 320–21, 322, 324
in battle of Shiloh, 201–2, 207
in battle of the Wilderness, 378
in battles with Indians, 657
on Belknap’s downfall, 823
and burning of Columbia, 472–73
on capture of Fort Donelson, 184, 186
in City Point strategy session, 483–84, 485–86
Cox suggested as war secretary by, 603
depression of, 192
as deputy to injured Grant, 302
and election of 1876, 844, 845
engraving of, 546
Fayetteville captured by, 477
foraging parties of, 297–98
Fred Grant attached to staff of, 770
in Grand Review, 539
on Grant’s acceptance of ceremonial sword, 349
Grant’s friendship with, 191, 192–93, 201, 317, 329, 443, 484, 862
at Grant’s funeral, 956, 958–59
on Grant’s humor, 958
on Grant’s lost reputation, xviii
and Grant’s political ambitions, 329, 331
on Grant’s post-presidential career, 891
Grant’s presidency criticized by, 637, 705–6, 784, 809
and Grant’s promotion to command Army of the Potomac, 295
and Grant’s proposed leave of absence, 215–16
Grant’s strategy applauded by, 356, 517–18
and Grant’s window-shopping, 547
Grant teased over initials by, 20
Grant visited in final illness, 933–34
and groundswell for Grant’s presidency, 574
on Halleck’s style, 167
at Hamlet, 348
Jews denounced by, 233
Johnson’s attempt to control military through, 607, 609
on Johnson’s Reconstruction policies, 549
Knoxville siege broken by, 326–27
as lieutenant general, 574
Lincoln presented with Savannah by, 459
and McPherson’s death, 426
march on Atlanta, 257, 349, 396, 424–25, 442, 459
on march through Carolinas, 470–73
on march to the sea, see march to the sea
as Military Division of the Mississippi commander, 347
in mission to Mexico, 582–83
money earned by, 546
in move to Memphis, 305
Native Americans denounced by, 657, 855
nominated as general of army, 627
pension for Grant sought by, 938
on plan for capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, 168
plan for Missionary Ridge attack of, 317, 319–20
plan to merge army with Schofield, 473, 475, 477, 483
politics loathed by, 337–38, 622
proposed by Grant for presidency, 439
in pursuit of Johnston, 349, 374, 396, 425, 488, 494, 521–22, 529, 533
on Rawlins’s aid to Grant, 671
and Rawlins’s death, 668, 669
Rawlins’s praise of, 373
Reconstruction opposed by, 622
refusal to be appointed above Grant, 596–97
remorseless warfare by, 353
on Sheridan, 432
and Sheridan’s mission in Shenandoah Valley, 433
and son’s death, 305
southern supply bases eradicated by, 470
speech praising Grant by, 862
Stanton’s feud with, 534–38, 541
surrender terms offered to Johnston by, 533–38
in Vicksburg Campaign, 236, 239–41, 245, 254, 262–64, 266, 267, 268, 270, 285, 295, 297
as western armies commander, 346, 348
on western tour, 618
at West Point, 20, 24
as worried about Grant’s trip to Washington, 337–38
on Zachary Taylor, 41
Sherman, Willy, 305
Shiloh, 196–97
Shiloh, battle of, xxviii, 199–204, 237, 265–66, 383, 481, 519, 670, 671, 701, 740
casualties of, 201, 202–3, 204, 208, 211, 216
Confederate preparation for, 198
debates over, 199–200
first day of, 199–205
Grant blindsided in, 197–98, 199–200, 208–9, 212
Grant’s article on, 929
Grant’s belief in Union victory at, 207, 211–12
national debate over, 208
Reid’s account of, 209
second day of, 205–8, 209
Shrady, George Frederick, 931, 933, 936, 941, 949
Sickles, Daniel, 571, 585
Sierra Nevada, 90
Sigel, Franz, 357, 397, 455
Halleck’s insulting of, 357
Shenandoah invaded by, 374, 397
Singapore, 878, 891
Sitting Bull, 832–33, 835
Six Nations, 117
Sixth Corps, 389, 500
Sixty-Third United States Colored Infantry Regiment, 304
Sixty-Fourth United States Colored Infantry Regiment, 304
slaves, slavery, 645
colonization plan for, 661
as Confederate advantage, 517
in Cuba, 665–66, 667
of Dent family, 31, 32, 34, 36, 62, 101, 133, 884–85
and Dred Scott decision, 100–101, 106
and Emancipation Proclamation, 223, 228, 230, 242–44
ending of, as Civil War goal, 228
fall in price of, 470
in Grant’s camps, 228–29, 299
Grant’s relationship with, xxii, 45, 99, 101, 106, 139, 222, 229–30, 242–43, 440, 563–64, 875
Grant’s worry about revolts of, 132
Jesse Grant’s opposition to, 5, 8, 9, 25, 39
Lee’s condoning of, 368
on march to the sea, 470–71, 477
and new territories, 121
Peter Grant’s denunciation of, 5
possible demands for compensation for, 839
runaway, 8, 142, 162, 222, 223, 243
in Second Confiscation Act, 222–23
in territory won from Mexico, 58–59
Vicksburg campaign impeded by, 248
smallpox, 78, 246
Smith, Charles F., 167, 171, 172
in assault on Fort Donelson, 179, 181, 182, 188, 195, 196
death of, 213
Halleck’s treatment of Grant denounced by, 195–96
injury of, 196, 213
put in command of expedition up the Tennessee River,
189, 190
Smith, Edmund Kirby, 510, 555
Smith, Gerrit, 715, 746
Smith, James W., 768–69, 770
Smith, John E., 115, 363, 670
Smith, Roswell, 930, 936–37
Smith, Sidney, 56
Smith, William Farrar “Baldy”:
in battle of Chattanooga, 313, 314, 318, 421
in battle of Cold Harbor, 404
Butler almost replaced by, 423–24
in fighting at Petersburg, 412, 415
on Grant’s drinking, 422
Tennessee River plan of, 313–15
Smith, William H., 702
Smith, William Wrenshall, 212, 217, 317–18, 323, 406, 558, 838
Sons of Temperance, 69–70, 91
South Carolina, 123–24, 125, 459, 470, 471–72, 563, 571, 600, 621, 623, 686, 702, 704, 707, 708–10, 742, 752, 761, 789, 839–42, 845–46, 857, 858
election of 1876 in, 844, 845–46, 849
secession of, 121, 532
South Side Railroad, 418, 485
Spain, 665, 666, 667
Special Field Order No. 15, 471
Specie Payment Resumption Act, 779–83, 825
specie payments, 778–82
Speciman Days (Whitman), ix
Speed, James, 553, 573
Spencer, George, 669, 922–23
Sphinx, Grant’s visit to, 872
spoils system, 624, 635, 688, 733
Spotsylvania, battle of, 388–95, 396–98
casualties at, 394–95
Confederate prisoners at, 393
Spotsylvania Court House, 385, 387
Springfield, Ill., 128, 132, 134–35, 136, 139, 530
Stalwart Republicans, 733–34, 736, 882, 900, 903
Stanbery, Henry, 589
Standing Rock, 820
Stanford, Mrs. Leland, 166
Stannard, George, 920
Stanton, Benjamin, 208–9
Stanton, Edwin, 304, 306, 348, 350, 354, 377, 400, 405, 433, 438, 448, 452, 453, 473, 493, 496, 501, 529, 552, 572, 584
anxiety over Burnside’s fate, 320
background of, 307
on battle of the Wilderness, 382
blamed for loss at Fredericksburg, 231
Butler protected by, 372
Dana sent to monitor Grant by, 251–53
death of, 688–89
and Early’s threat to Washington, 420
firing of, 594–95, 602–7, 609, 611–12
as furious at McClellan, 136, 169
Grant ordered to transfer troops from the West by, 306
Grant’s behavior at Shiloh investigated by, 211
Grant’s drinking reported to, 225
Grant’s meetings with, 306–8, 352
and Grant’s nomination as major general, 186
and Grant’s nomination for presidency, 616
Grant’s plan for taking Mobile vetoed by, 327
