Auburn, N.Y.
Audubon Society, 12.1, 13.1
Augur, Christopher C.
Austin, Tex.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The (Holmes)
Averell, William W., 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 8.2
Avery, Miss
Babcock, Orville, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Bacon, Daniel, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1
illness and death of, 10.1, 10.2
Bacon, Edward
Bacon, Harriett
Bacon, Rhoda Wells Pitts, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1
Bacon, Sophia (baby)
Bacon, Sophia (mother)
Baker, Jean
Baliran, Augustus, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2
Ball, John H.
Balloon Corps:
aerial observation by, 2.1, 3.1
GAC’s dream about
Ball’s Bluff, Battle of
Baltimore, Md., 1.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 13.1, 15.1
Baltimore Sun
Bancroft, George
bands, military, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 15.1, 15.2
Banker, James H.
Bank of New York
Banning, Henry B.
Baring Brothers
Barker, Kirkland C., 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1
Barlow, Samuel Latham Mitchell, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 8.1, 10.1, 13.1, 16.1
Barnard, John, 3.1, 3.2
Barnett, Louise, prf.1, 13.1, 15.1
Barnhart, Levant W.
Barnitz, Albert, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6
Barnitz, Jennie Platt, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6
Barnum, P. T., 15.1, 16.1
American Museum of, 2.1, 6.1
Barrett, Lawrence, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Barreyre, Nicolas
Barrows, Samuel, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Bates, Agnes
Bates, Elliot
Bayard, Thomas F.
Beauregard, P. G. T.
Beaver Dam Creek, Battle of (Mechanicsville)
Beaver Dam Station
Belknap, Amanda, 16.1, 16.2
Belknap, Carrie Tomlinson, 16.1, 16.2
Belknap, William W., 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6
“Belknap’s Anaconda,”
Bell, James
Belmont, August, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Beloir, Mitchell
Benet, Steven V., 1.1, 1.2
Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Benny Havens’s tavern
Benteen, Frederick W., 11.1, 16.1, 16.2
GAC hated by, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, epl.1, epl.2
at Little Bighorn, epl.1, epl.2
“Benzine Boards,” 13.1, 13.2
Berdan Sharpshooters
Berryville Canyon
Bierce, Ambrose, prf.1, 4.1, 14.1, 14.2
Bierstadt, Albert, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
Big Creek, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
Big Head (Curly Head), 12.1, 13.1
Big Horn Mountains
Bill of Rights
Bingham, John A., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2
Bismarck, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Bismarck Tribune
bison, see buffalo
Blackburn’s Ford, Va.
“black codes,” 9.1, 10.1
Blackfeet nation, 15.1, 15.2
Black Hawk
Black Hawk War (1832)
Black Hills, 11.1, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, epl.1
illegal prospecting in, 16.1, 16.2
plans for development of, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Black Hills expedition, 16.1, 16.2
Black Kettle, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
Blair, Austin, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 8.1
Blair, Francis P., 10.1, 10.2
Blair, Frank, Jr., 10.1, 10.2, 12.1
Blair, Montgomery, 10.1, 10.2, 16.1
Blinn, Clara and Willie, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Bloody Knife, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, epl.1
Blue Ridge Mountains, 4.1, 5.1
Boonsboro, Md., charge at, 3.1, 5.1
Booth, Edwin
Booth’s Theater
“Boots and Saddles,” or Life in Dakota with General Custer (E. B. Custer)
Boston, Mass., 3.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2
Boston Advertiser, 10.1, 16.1
“Both Sides and the Cause,”
Bowen, Nicolas
Boyd, E. J. and Sarah C., 4.1, 5.1, 12.1
Bozeman Trail, 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
Braden, Charles
Brady, Mathew, photography studio of
Brandy Station, Battle of, 4.1, 6.1, 14.1
Brazos River
Breckinridge, John C.
brevets, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 15.1
Brewster, Daniel, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Brisbane, Benjamin
Bristoe Station Campaign
Bristow, Benjamin H., 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Broad Run
Brock, C. W. P., 9.1, 9.2
Bronxville, N.Y.
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostovesky)
Brown, Eliza, see Davison, Eliza Brown
Brown, John (abolitionist), 1.1, 1.2, 3.1
Brown, John (E. Brown’s son), 5.1, epl.1
Brulé Lakotas, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1
Bryant, William Cullen
Buchanan, Edward
Buchanan, James, 1.1, 8.1, 12.1
Buckland Mills
Buell, Don Carlos
buffalo:
diminishing numbers of, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
hunts, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1
in Native American culture, 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
study of
Buffalo, N.Y.
Buford, John
buglers, 3.1, 4.1, 11.1, 11.2
Bulkley, John
Bull Bear
Bull Run, First Battle of (Manassas), 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 14.1
Bull Run, Second Battle of (Manassas), 3.1, 4.1, 5.1
Bull Run Mountains
Bureau of Colored Troops
Burnham, A. V.
“Burning, the,”
Burnside, Ambrose, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2
Burton, Robert
Butterfield, Daniel
Butterfield Overland Despatch
Buttermilk Falls, N.Y.
Cadiz, Ohio, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1, 10.1
Cain, A. B., 14.1, 14.2
Caldwell, Charles, 14.1, 14.2
Calhoun, Fred
Calhoun, James T., 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1
Calhoun, Margaret Custer “Maggie,” 6.1, 8.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 16.1, epl.1, epl.2
California, 1.1, 3.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1
Gold Rush, 11.1, 16.1
Cammack, Addison
Camp, Walter
Camp Cliffburn
Camp Sandy Forsyth
Camp Supply, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7
Capehart, Henry
Capitol building, 2.1, 9.1
Carnegie, Andrew, 13.1, 13.2
Carpenter, Arthur B.
Carr, Eugene A., 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1
Castel, Albert
Catch-1.1 (Heller), 11.1
Cavalier in Buckskin (Utley)
Cavalry, U.S. Army, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 14.1
organizational structure of
see also 7th Cavalry, U.S. Army
Cedar Creek, Battle of, 8.1, 8.2
Cemetery Hill
Cemetery Ridge, 4.1, 4.2
census (1860)
Centerville, Va.
Central Park
&
nbsp; Chambers, Merritt
Chambers, Willis, 9.1, 9.2
Chambersburg, Pa.
Chancellorsville, Battle of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Chandler, Francis, 5.1, 5.2
Chandler, Robert, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
Chandler, Zachariah, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Chantilly, Va.
“Chapter of Erie, A” (C. F. Adams)
Charleston, S.C.
Democratic convention in
Chase, Salmon P., 3.1, 9.1
Chattanooga, siege of, 6.1, 7.1
Cherokees
Chesapeake Bay
Cheyennes, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1, epl.1
Hancock Expedition’s meeting with
Northern, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 16.1, epl.1, epl.2
Southern, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 15.1
Chicago, Ill., 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1
Reno Court of Inquiry held in
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Inter-Ocean, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Chicago Times, Reno Court of Inquiry covered by, epl.1, epl.2
Chicago Tribune, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Chickahominy River, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
child labor
children:
mortality of, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1
in slavery, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1
Chinese, civil rights denied to, 10.1, 13.1
Chipman, J. Logan
Chivington, John M.
cholera, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2
Christiancy, Henry Clay, 3.1, 4.1
Christiancy, Isaac P., 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 16.1
Christiancy, James, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
Christiancy, Mary
Christianity
African American, 5.1, 9.1
Evangelical, prf.1, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2
GAC’s acceptance of, 8.1, 11.1
GAC’s rejection of, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Church, Francis P., 13.1, 14.1
Church, Frederick Edwin
Church, William
Churchill, B. F.
Cincinnati, Ohio, veterans conference in
Cincinnati (horse)
Cisco, Johnny, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, epl.1
civil rights, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2
federal legislation and protection for, prf.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 16.1, 16.2
historical perspective of
Civil Rights Act (1866)
Civil Rights Act (1875)
Civil War:
African Americans transformed by
casualties of, prf.1–xviii, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, epl.1
collision of civilian and military worlds in, 3.1, 8.1
ecological damage of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1
end of, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 16.1
final battles of
GAC’s career in, see Custer, George Armstrong, Civil War years
as imminent, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
intelligence inaccuracies in, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
onset of, 1.1, 2.1
pillaging and foraging in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1
public support for
role of women during
roots and causes of
“total war” strategy in
unfinished business of
Union ascendancy in
victory celebration following, 9.1, 9.2
see also specific campaigns and battles
Claflin, Tennessee
clairvoyants
Clark, Benjamin, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
Clark, Horace F., 10.1, 13.1
Clayton’s Store
Cleveland, Ohio, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1
Soldiers and Sailors Convention in
Cleveland Herald
Clover Hill house
Clymer, Hiester
Coates, Isaac, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
Cody, Buffalo Bill, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
Wild West Show of, 15.1, epl.1
Coffman, William
Coinage Act (1873)
Cold Harbor, Battle of, 7.1, 7.2, 14.1
colleges, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1
Colorado, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
gold rush
“Colored Member, The,”
Colored soldiers, U.S.
Columbia, Ky.
Columbus, Christopher
Comanches, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 15.1, 16.1, epl.1
Commodore
Compromise of 1850
Comstock, “Medicine Bill,” 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
Comte, Elise, 5.1, 5.2
Comte, Victor, map.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 8.1
Confederate States of America, founding of, 1.1, 1.2
Congress, U.S., 2.1, 2.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1
A. Johnson vs., 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 12.1, 12.2
civil rights legislation in, 10.1, 14.1
Grant attacked by
Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 10.1, 10.2
congressional investigations, 16.1, 16.2
Connell, Evan
Connelly, James
Constitution, U.S., 1.1, 14.1
Fifteenth Amendment, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
Fourteenth Amendment, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1
Thirteenth Amendment
Constitutional Union Party
contrabands (escaped slaves), 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
in GAC’s photograph
hardships of
seized by Confederate troops
Union army aided by, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
Cooke, Jay, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Cooke, William W., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1.1, 14.1, 14.2
Cooper, Wyckliffe, 11.1, 11.2
Copeland, Joseph
Copperheads, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 12.1
Corbin, Abel
Corbin, Jack
Corkhill, George, 16.1
corporations:
debate over government regulation of
rise and growth of, prf.1–xviii, 8.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2
Couch, Darius, 10.1, 10.2
Council Grove, Kans.
Council of Forty-Four, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1
courts-martial, 9.1, 15.1
of GAC, prf.1, prf.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2
Cox, Charles C.
Cranky Man
Crawford, Samuel J.
Crazy Dogs
Crazy Horse, 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, epl.1
Crédit Mobilier scandal, 15.1, 16.1
Creeks
Crescent Silver Mining Company, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1, 16.1
Cress’s Ridge
Crimean War
Crook, George, 8.1, 16.1, 16.2, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Crooked Run
Crosby, J. Schuyler
Crows, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, epl.1, epl.2
Crow’s Nest
Cullom, Shelby
Culpeper Court House, 4.1, 5.1
Culp’s Hill
cult of domesticity
Curtis, William E.
Cushing, Alonzo
Custer, Boston, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1, epl.2
Custer, Elizabeth Clift Bacon “Libbie,” 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 16.1
abolition opposed by
ambivalent courtship of GAC and, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 12.1
ambrotype portrait of
appearance and personal style of, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 16.1
as attractive to men, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 13.1, 15.1
> and Eliza Brown, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, epl.1
complexities of
courage and endurance of
dangers faced by, 11.1, 11.2
death of
diary of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
as embodiment of emerging modern woman
family background and childhood of
GAC’s correspondence with, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1, epl.2
GAC’s love for, 4.1, 13.1, epl.1
and Grant, 7.1, epl.1
Grant’s writing table given to
intellect of, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
marriage of, see Custer, George Armstrong, marriage of Libbie and
Monahsetah and
political savvy of, 10.1, 10.2, 16.1
privilege of, 9.1, 9.2
as public figure
racist sentiments of, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, epl.1
rumored affair of, 11.1, 12.1
in support and promotion of GAC’s career, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 15.1
widowhood of
as writer, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Custer, Emmanuel H., prf.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 13.1, epl.1
Democratic politics of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 12.1
religious zeal of, prf.1, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2
Custer, George (uncle)
Custer, George Armstrong:
appearance and personal style of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
birth of, 1.1
celebrity of, prf.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5
changing public perceptions of, prf.1, prf.2, prf.3, 1.1, 10.1, 10.2, epl.1, epl.2
concussion and traumatic brain injury of, 6.1, 7.1
death contemplated by, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
death of, prf.1–xvi, 14.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3, epl.4
education of, see West Point, GAC’s education at
estate of, 16.1, 16.2, epl.1
family background of, prf.1, prf.2, 1.1, 4.1, 14.1
financial stresses on, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, epl.1
hand-colored photograph of, 6.1, 6.2
horse stolen by, see Don Juan
illnesses of, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 15.1, 16.1
luck of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1
military career ambition of, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 13.1
notoriety of, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2
poor choices made by, 16.1, epl.1
private vs. public persona of
racial ambiguity of, 9.1, 13.1
racist sentiments of, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2
vacillating reputation of, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1
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