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After Lincoln

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by A. J. Langguth


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  Quarles, Benjamin. Lincoln and the Negro. New York, 1991.

  Rafuse, Ethan S. McClellan’s War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union. Bloomington, Indiana, 2005.

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  Riddleberger, Patrick W. 1866: The Critical Year Revisited. Lanham, Maryland, 1884.

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  Smith, Elbert B. The Presidency of James Buchanan. Lawrence, Kansas, 1975.

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  ———. Rutherford B. Hayes. New York, 2002.

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  Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns. New York, 2011.

  Williams, Robert C. Horace Greeley: Champion of American Fredom. New York, 2006.

  Wills, Brian Steel. A Battle From the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest. New York, 1993.

  Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore. New York, 1962.

  Woodward., C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. New York, 2002.

  Woodworth, Steven E. Davis and Lee at War. Lawrence, Kansas, 1995.

  ———. Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of the Confederate Command in the West. Lawrence, Kansas, 1990.

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  INDEX

  NOTE: Bold page numbers refer to photographs

  Act to Strengthen the Public Credit, 259–60

  Adams, Charles Francis, 253, 290, 291, 298

  Adams, Charles Francis Jr., 41, 253

  Adams, Henry, 41, 253, 338

  Adams, John, 6, 251

  Adams, John Quincy, 8, 29, 35, 38, 45, 251, 290, 299

  Akerman, Amos T., 278, 279, 282–83, 289

  Alabama

  blacks elected to Congress from, 305

  constitution for, 206

  definition of black in, 360

  Fourteenth Amendment and, 169

  Hayes tour of, 359

  Johnson’s gubernatorial appointment in, 88

  Johnson’s pardons in, 119

  KKK in, 230, 280, 282, 283–85, 289, 365

  Pinchback in, 174

  segregation in, 360, 368

  and Sumner-Johnson relations, 121

  white supremacy in, 360

  Alaska, 176–78, 209, 25
0

  alcohol

  Grant and, 241, 242, 243, 245

  Hayes and, 355

  Johnson and, 82–83, 84, 86, 118

  American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 79

  Ames, Adelbert, 77

  Ames, Oakes, 297–98, 299

  Ames, Oliver, 297–98

  amnesty, 87–89, 221, 307, 319–20. See also pardons

  Anderson, Robert, 59, 60

  Annapolis, Maryland: Butler’s seizure of, 70

  Anthony, D. R., 215, 216

  Anthony, Henry, 211, 212

  Anthony, Susan B., 204, 211, 215

  Anti-Masonic movement, 29, 32, 127

  Antietam, Battle of, 21–22, 23, 328–29

  Antoine, Caesar Carpentier, 302, 303, 308

  Appomattox, Battle at, 154, 173

  Appomattox, Lee’s surrender at, 1, 3, 28, 53, 247, 273

  Appropriations Committee, House, 132

  Arkansas, 25, 75, 88, 232, 368

  Army Appropriations Bill, 173

  Army of the Ohio, 23

  Army of the Potomac, 23, 46, 105, 246–47. See also Union Army

  Army, U.S., 340, 354, 367. See also military, U.S.

  Arnold, Samuel, 50, 92, 95, 96, 98, 100–101

  Arthur, Chester A., 346

  Ashley, James, 169, 170

  Associated Press, 294

  Atlanta College, 277

  Atzerodt, George, 2, 50, 92, 95–97, 98, 100

  Avery, James W., 283

  Babcock, Orville, 268, 270, 271, 272, 317

  Baker, Lafayette, 90, 91, 176

  Baltimore, Maryland

  Butler’s invasion of, 70, 203, 328

  riots and protests in, 43, 70

  Bancroft, George, 131, 133–34

  Bank of Gettysburg, 125

  Bank of the United States, 31

  banks, 31, 76, 259–68, 337. See also specific bank

  Banks, Nathaniel, 76, 77–78, 112, 150

  Barnett, Ross, 369

  Barnum, Phineas Taylor “P.T.,” 291–92, 294

  Beauregard, Pierre G. T., 60, 76

  Beecher, Harriet, 105, 106, 195

  Beecher, Henry Ward, 105–6, 289–90, 299

  Beecher, Lyman, 195

  Belknap, Carrie, 318

  Belknap, William, 318

  Bell, John, 81

  Bell, William, 51, 92–93

  Belmont, Battle of, 243

  Benjamin, Judah, 61, 95

  Bennett, James Gordon, 159

  Bill (Grant’s servant), 156

  Bingham, John A., 193, 206

  Birmingham, Alabama, civil rights movement and, 369

  The Birth of a Nation (movie), 235, 363, 364, 365

  Black Codes, 108–9, 133, 147, 200–201

  Black Friday (1869), 265–66, 267

  Black, Tim, KKK murder of, 278

  black vote

  congressional approval of, 171

  as essential to Reconstruction, 88

  Fourteenth Amendment and, 145

  Freedmen’s Bureau and, 275

  Grant and, 3, 252

  Hayes and, 330, 332

  increase in, 366

  intimidation and, 341, 348–49

  Jim Crow laws and, 362–63

  Johnson and, 82, 88, 118, 122, 139, 171–72, 182, 204, 232

  Liberal Republicans and, 290

  Lincoln and, 40, 77, 88

  Radical Republicans and, 143

  Reconstruction Act (1867) and, 275

  Supreme Court decisions and, 357, 363

  Union League and, 230

  See also specific person, state or election

  blacks

  as casualties of Southern white violence, 111, 112

  definition of, 360

  federal government role in punishing violations of rights of, 338

  Grant’s views about, 106, 108, 248, 252, 308, 319, 356

  Hayes and, 331, 338, 354, 359

  Johnson and, 133, 134, 171–72, 182

  as KKK target of, 364, 366

  in Liberia, 283

  Lincoln and, 40

  marriage of, 107, 256

  military recruitment of freed, 22

  as property owners, 79, 167

  as protectors of Confederate women, 307

  public whipping of, 170

  as sharecroppers, 276

  in Union Army, 25, 65, 67–68, 72–74, 78, 134, 143, 226–27, 276

  as White House visitors, 251–52

  Wormley Hotel meeting and, 351

  See also Jim Crow laws; slavery; specific person or topic

  Blaine, James G., 298–99, 338, 355

  Blair, Augustus, 283–84

  Blair, Francis P., 196

  Blair, Francis P. Jr., 196, 233

  Blair, Frank Jr., 233

  Blair, Montgomery, 196

  “bloody shirt campaign,” 341, 354

  Blyew v. United States, 356

  boot blackening story, 44

  Booth, Edmund, 46

  Booth, John Wilkes, 2–3, 48–50, 90–91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 176

  Boston, Massachusetts

  abolitionists in, 65

  Fourth of July celebrations in, 6–7

  Boutwell, George S., 254, 259–60, 261–62, 264, 265, 266, 267, 271, 298–99

  Bradley, Joseph P., 350, 351, 357–58

  Breckinridge, John, 53, 81, 95, 97

  bribery

  Belknap and, 318

  Butterfield and, 263

  Corbin and, 262

  Crédit Mobilier scandal and, 297–98, 299

  elections of 1876 and, 342, 349

  Forrest and, 227

  impeachment of Johnson, 210, 211, 216, 217–18

  by Kimball, 281

  in Louisiana, 301–2, 303

  Pinchback and, 301–2, 303, 308

  of southern legislators, 281

  and Treasury Department, 316

  See also corruption

  Bristow, Benjamin, 279, 317

  Brooks, James, 192, 299

  Brooks, Preston S., 8–9, 10, 11–16, 17, 41, 179, 192, 202, 321

  Brown, B. Gratz, 291

  Brown Brothers, 266

  Brown, James, 266

  Brown, John, 16–17, 40, 130

  Brown, Orlando, 108

  Brownlow, William, 223

  Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 355

  Bryant, William Cullen, 290

  Buchanan, James, 14, 17, 24, 38, 58, 59, 128, 164, 165, 242–43

  Buena Vista, Battle of, 56

  Bull Run, Battles of, 21, 60, 104, 154, 203, 312

  Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, U.S. See Freedmen’s Bureau

  Butler, Andrew Pickens, 9, 10–11, 12, 15, 17

  Butler, Benjamin Franklin “Beast Butler”

  Alaska purchase and, 209

  appearance of, 207–8

  Banks as New Orleans replacement for, 112

  and blacks in Union Army, 72–74

  Brown (Orlando) and, 108

  civil rights and, 323

  and Civil War, 68, 70–74, 77, 203

  criticisms of, 76

  Davis and, 70, 72, 207

  elections of 1860 and, 70

  family/personal background of, 68, 69

  and federal payroll inequities, 311

  and Fugitive Slave Act, 71, 72–73

  Grant and, 76–77

  Hayes and, 332

  impeachment of Johnson and, 207–8, 209, 210, 211, 215, 218, 279

  as Jacksonian Democrat, 69

  Johnson and, 87, 207

  KKK and, 277–78, 279–80

  and labor issues, 69–70

  Lincoln and, 71, 76, 206–7

  in Massachusetts House, 70

  and Mumford incident, 72

  as New Orleans commander, 71–73, 87

  personality and character of, 70–71

  photograph of, 69

  Pinchback and, 68

  political interests of, 69–70

  professional background of, 6
8–69

  Reconstruction and, 323

  scandals/corruption and, 316, 332

  Scott and, 70–71

  Seward and, 76, 209

  as Seward replacement at State Department, 206–7

  slavery and, 69

  states’ rights and, 70

  Wade and, 203

  Woman Order of, 71–72

  Butler, Matthew C., 344

  Butterfield, Daniel, 263, 264–65, 266, 268

  Byrd, Harry, 368

  Byrd, Robert, 371

  Byrnes, James F., 367

  cabinet

  of Davis, 61, 95

  of Grant, 249–50, 252–53, 278, 299, 324

  of Johnson, 140

  legislation about appointments to, 45

  of Lincoln, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 84, 164–65, 167–68

  salaries for members of, 311

  Cadwallader, Sylvanus, 156–57

  Calhoun, John C., 55

  California, 37, 127

  Cameron, Simon, 129, 164–65, 187, 203

  campaign financing, 341–42

  Canada, 269, 271, 272

  capital punishment, Stevens as opponent of, 123

  carpetbaggers, 147, 208, 233, 269, 275, 278, 279, 280, 281, 308, 359

  Carter, David, 189, 190, 203

  Carter, Maria, 284

  Casey, James F., 302–3

  Cass, Lewis, 11

  cemeteries, 320, 324

  Central Pacific Railroad, 286, 298

  Chamberlain, Daniel H., 353–54, 355

  Chancellorsville, Battle of, 110

  Chandler, William, 347, 350

  Chandler, Zachariah, 346, 347

  Chaney, James, 371

  Channing, William Henry, 292

  Charlotte, North Carolina, as Confederate capital, 53, 61

  Chase, Catherine Jane “Kate” (daughter), 178, 179, 197, 205, 217, 231, 315, 335

  Chase, Salmon P.

  Blair family and, 196

  as Chief Justice, 47, 78, 196–97

  Davis trial and, 180

  death of, 315

  early political career of, 195

  elections of 1860 and, 195–96, 202, 203

  elections of 1864 and, 46, 194

  elections of 1868 and, 217, 231, 335

  Emancipation Proclamation and, 21

  and expansion of federal power, 356

  and Free Soil Party, 7

  Grant and, 251, 315

  and Greeley’s funeral, 299

  Hayes and, 328

  health of, 315

  impeachment of Johnson and, 194, 205–6, 209, 212, 213, 215, 216, 217

  Johnson and, 231

  Lincoln and, 43, 47, 78, 194, 196–97

  and Lincoln’s cabinet, 45

  as Ohio governor, 195

  as Ohio senator, 195, 201

  personal life of, 194, 195, 205

  photograph of, 184

  presidential ambitions of, 180, 194, 195–97, 202, 205, 206, 217, 218, 316

 

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