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The Bonfire_The Siege and Burning of Atlanta

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by Marc Wortman


  Atlanta Grays

  Atlanta & West Point Railroad

  Austell, Alfred

  Badger, Joshua

  Badger, Robert

  Badger, Roderick

  Bald Hill

  Baldwin, Lucy Hull

  Barbering

  Bassett, Isaac

  Baswell, Harrison

  Baswell, J. T.

  Battle tourists Beach, John

  Bell, John

  Benjamin, Judah

  Benton, Charles E.

  Berry, Harrison

  Black Atlantans

  access to outside news

  aid for Union prisoners

  epidemics and

  poverty of new

  restriction of movement

  See also Bondsmen: Slaves/slavery

  Black insurrection, fear of

  Blood, Joseph

  Blue Back Speller

  Bombproofs

  Bondsmen

  in Atlanta

  emancipation of

  Ponder family

  sentiment against

  underground economy and

  working in hospitals

  See also Atlanta: slavery in; Black Atlantans; Slaves/slavery

  Boyd, David French

  Bragg, Braxton

  Breckinridge, John

  Brown, John

  Brown, Joseph

  Brush Mountain

  Buchanan, James

  Bull Run

  Burton, James Henry

  Butler, Rhett

  Calhoun, Catherine

  Calhoun, Edward

  Calhoun, Emma

  Calhoun, Ezekiel

  Calhoun, Ezekiel Noble

  Calhoun, “Farmer Billy”

  Calhoun, James

  Calhoun, James Montgomery

  attempts to rein in speculation

  Compromise of 1850 and

  Constitutional Union Party and

  defense of Atlanta and

  departure from Atlanta

  early life

  early political career

  exemption from military duty

  expulsion of civilian population of Atlanta and

  gathering Atlanta militia

  Indian wars and

  intervention for dissenters

  loyalty to South

  as mayor

  on military hospital needs

  Morgan’s visit and

  move to Atlanta

  pardon of

  postwar career

  prayers for Atlanta

  protests of Confederate seizure of goods

  quarantine and

  rebuilding Atlanta

  reelection of

  remaining in Atlanta

  removal of Cherokees and

  return to Atlanta

  sending family away from Atlanta

  as slaveholder

  on state of Atlanta in 1864

  support for Confederate cause

  surrender to Union forces

  Union Army guests of

  as Unionist

  Whig Party and

  Calhoun, John C.

  Calhoun, Joseph

  Calhoun, Patrick

  Calhoun, Patrick Henry

  Calhoun, Pickens

  Calhoun, Rebecca

  Calhoun, William

  Calhoun, William Lowndes

  in Confederate Army

  as mayor

  organization of infantry

  as war casualty

  Calhoun Guards

  Calico Raid

  Calvalry robbers

  Casualties

  civilian

  Confederate

  Union

  Chattahoochee River

  Chattanooga

  Cheatham, Benjamin F.

  Cheatham’s Hill

  Cherokee

  disputes with whites

  forced removal of

  Long Cane massacre

  Chickamauga

  Cholera

  Churches, interracial

  Civil War

  beginning of

  casualties

  deprivation in South from

  disease and

  end of

  hope that war would not last long

  maintaining political support for

  spring campaign

  Clay, Henry

  Clayton, Caro

  Clayton, Gussie

  Clayton, Julia

  Clayton, Kate

  Clayton, Mary

  Clayton, Sallie

  Clayton family

  Cleburne, Patrick R.

  Clift, William

  Clingan, Robert

  Clingman, Thomas

  Coacoochee (Seminole chief)

  Cobb, Howell

  Cobb, Thomas R. R.

  Coburn, John

  Collins, Sarah

  Columbus Daily Sun (newspaper)

  Comey, Henry Newton

  Commonwealth (newspaper)

  Compromise of 1850

  Cone, Francis H.

  Confederacy, surrender of

  Confederate Army

  confiscations by

  deserters

  draft

  drunken soldiers

  leaving Atlanta

  military hospitals in Atlanta

  need for troops

  operations in Atlanta

  persistence of

  proposal to draft slaves

  retreat from Atlanta

  Confederate currency

  Confederate prisoners

  Confederate raids

  Constitutional Union Party

  “Cornerstone Speech”

  Cotton production

  Creek tribe

  Creek War

  land disputes

  removal to West

  Crew, James

  Crockett, Davy

  Crussell, Thomas G. W.

  Cunningham, John

  Cunningham, Robert

  Dabney, Emma Eliza

  Dade’s Massacre

  Daily Constitutionalist (newspaper)

  Daily Intelligencer (newspaper)

  on abolitionists

  on Atlanta as Union target

  on Atlanta’s morale

  on Atlanta’s progress

  attacks on Calhoun’s mayoralty

  on availability of liquor

  on Calhoun’s dinner with Union army

  on Chickamauga

  on Confederate Army

  on Confederate resistance

  on early Atlanta

  on earthquake

  on emigration to Kansas

  on hope for war

  on Lincoln’s election

  on loyalty to South

  on manufacturing in Atlanta

  on murder of Collins

  on rebuilding Atlanta

  on secession

  on speculators

  on squalor

  Stewart letter

  See also Steele, John H; Whitaker, Jared I.

  Daily Telegraph (newspaper)

  Davis, Jefferson

  army seizures and

  Battle of Atlanta and

  Brown and

  capture of

  Johnston and

  peace emissaries and

  persistence of

  visit to Atlanta

  “Dead House”

  DeGress, Francis H.

  DeKalb County Light Infantry

  Democratic National Convention

  Democratic Party

  Deserters

  Confederate

  Union

  de Soto, Hernando

  Disease

  in Atlanta

  soldiers and

  Dissenters, Confederate

  Douglas, Stephen

  Draft, Confederate

  Draft dodgers

  Draft exemptions

  Dug Gap

  Dunning, James L.

  Education

  Atlanta public

  of slaves

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sp; Emancipation Proclamation

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Emigrants for Kansas Territory

  England, Atlanta’s trade with

  Everett, Edward

  Ewing, Philomen B.

  Ewing, Thomas

  Ezzard, William

  Female Institute (Atlanta)

  Ferguson, Samuel

  Fillmore, Millard

  Flipper, Festus and Isabella

  Flipper, Henry Ossian

  Florida, Seminole wars

  Food shortages/thefts

  Foote, Andrew H.

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford

  Fort Donelson

  Fort Henry

  Fort Hood

  Fort McCreary

  Fort Pierce

  Fort Pulaski

  Fort Sumter

  Free Soilers

  Free Trade Rifles

  Frémont, John C.

  Fugitive Slave Law

  Fulton Dragoons

  Gadsby, Bob. See also Webster, Robert; Yancey, Bob

  Gadsby, John

  Gadsby, William

  Gate City Guardian (newspaper)

  Gate City Guards

  Gay, Mary

  Geary, John W.

  Georgia

  definition of treason

  emigration of whites to

  establishment of legal system in

  militias

  racial backlash after Lincoln’s election

  removal of Cherokee

  secession of

  Sherman’s march through

  Georgia Legion

  Georgia Platform

  Georgia Telegraph (newspaper)

  Gettysburg

  Gilmer, G. R.

  Glenn, Luther J.

  Gold rush

  Goodbrick, Charlotte

  Good government

  Gopher holes

  Grant, Lemuel P.

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Sherman and

  at Vicksburg

  war strategy

  Great Raid of 1863

  Greeley, Horace

  Halleck, Henry W.

  Hambleton, James P.

  Hammond, James Henry

  Hampton, Wade

  Hardee, William J.

  Hayden, Julius

  Hayes, Rutherford B.

  Hayne, Robert Young

  Hill, Benjamin

  Hill, Joshua

  Holliday, Allen T.

  Holliday, Lizzie

  Holt, Hines

  Hood, John Bell

  battle for Atlanta

  correspondence with Sherman

  retreat from Atlanta and

  second Union move on Atlanta and

  on Sherman’s retreat

  surrender of

  Hooker, Joseph

  Howard, Oliver O.

  Howard, W. P.

  Huff, Sarah

  Huff family, return to Atlanta

  Hundred Days’ Battle

  Hunnicutt, E. T.

  Indian Removal Act

  Indians, disputes with white settlers . See also individual tribes

  Inflation, in Confederacy

  Irish Volunteers

  Jackson, Andrew

  Jackson, Stonewall

  Jackson Guard

  Jacobin Club

  Jesup, Thomas

  Johnson, Andrew

  Johnson, Herschel

  Johnston, Joseph

  appointment of

  building Atlanta’s defenses

  Davis and

  Kennesaw Mountain and

  removal from command of

  return of

  on sham regiments

  spring campaign

  surrender of

  tactics of

  Kansas, battle over

  Kansas-Nebraska Act

  Kennesaw Mountain Kiddoo, David

  Kile, Thomas

  Kilpatrick, Judson

  Lafayette, Marquis de

  Laurel Hill

  Lay, Henry

  Lee, George Washington

  arrest of Unionists

  conflict with civil authorities

  death of

  defiance of

  enforcing loyalty to Confederacy

  fear of black uprising and

  militia and

  as part-owner of Southern Confederacy

  private army

  resignation of

  Lee, Robert E.

  Lee, Stephen D.

  Lincoln, Abraham

  abolition and

  death of

  Grant and

  peace offer

  Southern reaction to

  Long Cane massacre

  Lookout Mountain

  Looting

  Lost Mountain

  Lowe, Thomas

  Luckey, Reuben

  Luckie, Solomon

  Lynchings

  Lyttelton, William Henry

  Macomb, Alexander

  Macon & Western Railroad

  Mallard, Mary

  Manassas

  Maney, George

  Marion Light Artillery

  Markham, William M.

  Marthasville (Georgia)

  Mason, James M.

  Massey, Kate

  McClellan, George

  McIntosh, William

  McPherson, James B.

  Militia Act

  Militias

  Atlanta

  Georgia

  Mill Creek Gap

  Milledge, John

  Minutemen

  Missionary Ridge

  Monroe, James

  Montgomery & West Point Railroad

  Morgan, John Hunt

  Morse, Charles Fessenden

  on Atlanta as target

  occupation of Atlanta and

  Motte, Jacob

  Myers, Michael

  National American (newspaper)

  National Democracy convention . See also Democratic

  Party

  National Hotel

  Neal, Andrew Jackson (A. J.)

  on army’s readiness for war

  on battle at Kennesaw Ridge

  battle for Atlanta and

  on battle for Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain

  on Chickamauga

  death of

  on looting of Atlanta

  on lull in fighting

  on refugees

  on removal of Johnston

  spring campaign and

  on status of war

  waiting to defend Atlanta

  Neal, Emma

  Neal, James

  Neal, John and Mary Jane

  Newcomb. S.

  New Hope Church

  New Orleans, capture of

  Newspapers, advertising in

  New York Herald (newspaper)

  New York Times (newspaper)

  New York Tribune (newspaper)

  New York World (newspaper)

  Niles, Dexter

  O’Reilly, Thomas

  Pass system

  Patten, James Comfort

  Peace Democrats

  Pemberton, John

  Petersburg

  Pickett’s Mill

  Pittenger, William

  Pittman, Daniel

  Poe, O. M.

  Polk, James K.

  Polk, Leonidas

  Ponder, Ellen

  Ponder, Ephraim

  Ponder, Prince

  Ponder, William

  Poverty

  in Atlanta after Union occupation

  relief for, in Atlanta

  southern

  Powell, Chapman

  Puntenney, George

  Quarles, Joseph

  Race laws

  Railroads

  Atlanta and

  Civil War strategy and

  destruction of

  repair of

  Randolph, George W.

  Rawson, E. E.

  Rawson, Mary

  Reconstruction

  Refugees

  Rep
ublican convention

  Republican Party, realignment of Whigs and

  Richards, Alice

  Richards, Jabez

  Richards, Samuel P.

  in Atlanta militia

  avoiding army service

  on Battle of Atlanta

  on Confederate currency

  on Confederate withdrawal from Atlanta

  on day of prayer

  on diseases

  distrust of Sherman’s retreat

  on likelihood of fight in Atlanta

  on looting/vandalism

  on martial law

  move to Atlanta

  in New York

  on refugees

  purchases slaves

  remaining in Atlanta

  return to Atlanta

  secession and

  on shelling

  shot striking house of

  on spring campaign

  on status of war

  support for South

  on surrender of Atlanta

  on survival of Confederacy

  Richards, William

  Ringgold Gap

  Rocky Face Ridge

  Rogers, G. C.

  Root, Sidney

  Rosencrans, William

  Rowdy Party

  Safe Guards

  Schley, William

  Schofield, John M.

  Scofield, Lewis

  Scott, Henry M.

  Scott, Winfield

  Secession

  calls for

  of Georgia

  silencing opposition to

  Seddon, James

  Seminoles

  Semmes, Anne

  Semmes, Ralph

  Semmes, Spencer

  Seven Years’ War

  Sharpsburg (Antietam)

  Shepherd, William

  Sherman, Ellen

  Sherman, John

  Sherman, Maria

  Sherman, William Tecumseh

  after Confederate withdrawal from Atlanta

  attack on railroads

  battle for Atlanta

  Battle of Shiloh and

  chasing remaining Confederates

  Chattahoochee River and

  Confederate evacuation of Atlanta and

  conquest of Savannah

  correspondence with Hood

  on difficulty of operating in Tennessee

  expulsion of civilian population of Atlanta and

  Kennesaw Mountain and

  knowledge of South

  march through Georgia

  on McPherson

  on meaning of secession

  Mississippi campaign and

  on pillaging

  postwar career

  preparation for Georgia assault

  preparation to get to Atlanta

  promotion of

  racism of

  retreat of

  return to Atlanta postwar

  second Union move on Atlanta and

  Seminole wars and

  spring campaign and

  strategy for war after Atlanta

  surrender of Johnston to

  in Union-occupied Atlanta

  waiting to hear of Atlanta’s fate

  on war

  Sherwood, Asa

  Shiloh, Battle of

  Shinplasters

  Shivers, Thomas

 

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