Mexico City
Michie, Peter, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Michigan, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 16.1
Michigan State Fair
Miegs, John R.
Miles, Nelson, 13.1, epl.1
Miller, Marie, 3.1, 9.1
Miller, Samuel
Milner, Moses “California Joe,”
Mine Run Campaign
Miniconjou Lakotas, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
mining, 15.1, 16.1
GAC’s venture in, see Stevens Lode Silver Mine
illegal, 16.1, 16.2
Minneapolis Tribune
Minnehaha Falls
Minnesota, 1.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Minnesota River
mirages
Missionary Ridge, Battle of
Mississippi, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1
secession of
Mississippi River, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1
bridge over
Missouri, 1.1, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1
as border state, 3.1, 11.1
Missouri, Department of the, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1
Missouri, Military Division of the
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Missouri River, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8, 15.9
Mitchell, Hattie “Gloria,”
Mitchell, Maggie
Mittie Stephens
Mobile Bay, Battle of
modernity:
literary
U.S. transformation to, –xxi
Modoc War
Monahsetah (Young Grass That Shoots in the Spring; Meotzi), 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Monitor
Monroe, Mich., 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1
Custer family in, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 15.1, 15.2
Custer’s friends from, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 12.1, 15.1
social class in, 5.1, 6.1
Monroe Commercial, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 9.1
Montana Territory, prf.1, 12.1, 15.1
Monterey Pass
Morgan, Anna Brewster, 12.1, 12.2
Morgan, J. P.
Morphy, Paul
Morrill, Henry L., 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Morrison, James, 1.1, 1.2
Morrissey, John, 13.1, 13.2
Morton, Bliss & Co.
Morton, Levi P., 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Morton, Samuel George
Mosby, John Singleton, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2
Moylan, Myles, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, epl.1
Mueller, James E.
murder:
act of war vs.
GAC charged with
by Ku Klux Klan, 14.1
by Native Americans, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
muskets, 4.1, 4.2
mutiny, 9.1, 15.1
of volunteers
Myers, Edward, 12.1, 12.2
Myers, Jasper
“My Life on the Plains” (G. A. Custer), 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Namozine Church
Nantes, Edict of
Naohavose (Bear Butte)
Napoleon III, emperor of France
Napoleon Bonaparte, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Nasby, Petroleum V. (David Locke)
Nashville, Tenn.
Nast, Thomas, 10.1, 16.1
Nation, 14.1, 14.2
National Hotel, 7.1, 9.1
National Intelligencer
National Union Party, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
National Woman Suffrage Association
Native Americans:
accommodationist stance of, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
agencies for, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
appearance of, 11.1, 11.2
atrocities committed by, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1, epl.1
betrayal of, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2
captives taken by, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 14.1
captured, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1
civil rights issue of, 10.1, 13.1
current state of
in Dakota Territory, 15.1, 15.2
displacement of, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1
dispossession and conquest of, prf.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
eradication of culture of, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1
GAC’s writing about
Grant’s Peace Policy for
Little Bighorn as turning point for
massacres of, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 16.1
militant stance of, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1
nomadic culture of, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1
as outside of American culture
peace conference with
prejudice against, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
surrender of, 12.1, 12.2
“treaty” and “non-treaty,”
tribal names of
tribal warfare among, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1
U.S. government policy toward, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
various societies of
warfare with, see Indian conflicts and wars
see also specific tribes
Nauman, George, 1.1, 1.2
Nebraska, 1.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1
nepotism, 4.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1
Nettleton, Alvred B., 12.1, 15.1
Newark, Ohio
New Bridge, skirmish at
Newby’s Crossroads (Battle Mountain), clash at
New Jersey, 2.1, 15.1
New Market, Ohio
New Mexico Territory, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1
New Orleans, La., 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 15.1
race riot in, 10.1, 12.1
Newport, R.I.
New Rumley, Ohio, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 13.1
newspapers, 14.1, 14.2, epl.1
erroneous reports in
GAC denounced in, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2
GAC mocked in
GAC praised in, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 16.1
GAC’s criticism of court-martial in, 12.1, 16.1
hunt for Don Juan in
military expeditions covered by, 16.1, 16.2
partisan political role of, 3.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1
sensationalist
see also specific publications
New Year traditions:
Libbie and Nettie’s tradition of, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 12.1
in Washington
New York, N.Y., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2
Custers’ honeymoon trip to
customs collector for
financial scene in, 13.1, 16.1
GAC’s stays in, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2
Libbie’s widowhood in
literary scene in, 14.1, 16.1
modernity of, 6.1, epl.1
patrician society in, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 12.1, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2
political scene in, 3.1, 12.1, 16.1
social scene in, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 16.1
New York & Harlem Railroad
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
New York Central Railroad, 6.1, 13.1
New York Herald, 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7
New York Life
New York Observer and Chronicle
New York State, 1.1, 4.1, 13.1
New York Stock Exchange, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1
New York Times, prf.1, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
New York Tribune, 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1
New York World, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1
Niblo’s Garden theater, 4.1, 6.1, 11.1, 13.1
Nims, Fred, 8.1, 9.1, 15.1<
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Nomad (GAC’s pseudonym), 11.1, 12.1
North:
Confederate campaign into, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
military superiority of
racial attitudes in, 3.1, 9.1, 14.1, 14.2
North American Review, 14.1, 14.2
Northern Pacific Railroad, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8, 16.1
Northfield, Minn.
North Platte River, 15.1, 16.1
Northwest Ordinance
Norvell, Edwin
Nott, Josiah
Nuremberg trials
“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An” (Bierce)
O’Conor, Charles
Oglala Lakotas, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2
Ohio, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, epl.1, epl.2
Ohio River
Ojibwe tribe
Oklahoma
“Old Major Explains, The” (Harte)
Omaha, Nebr., 11.1, 15.1
Omahas
Onondaga, N.Y.
Opequon Creek
Oregon Trail
Orr, James L.
Osages, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 13.1, 15.1, epl.1
Osborn, Charles J.
Osceola
Overland Campaign, 7.1, 8.1, 14.1
Overland Mail route
Owen County, Ky., 14.1, 14.2
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Paget, Berkeley
Paige, Nathaniel
Palmer House hotel, 16.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Pamunkey River
panics, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
paper money
Parker, Ely S., 8.1, 13.1, 16.1
Parker, James P.
Parsons, Charles C., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
Partisan Rangers, 5.1, 8.1
par value, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1
patronage system, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
weakening and reduction of
see also nepotism
Paul, E. A.
Pawnee Fork, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Pawnee Killer, 11.1, 11.2
Pawnees, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 15.2, epl.1
Payne, George
Peace Commission (1867)
peace pipe ritual, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Peace Policy
Pelham, John
Peninsula Campaign, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 12.1, 16.1
Pennington, Alexander, 1.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1
Pennsylvania, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 11.1, 16.1, epl.1
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Reserves
Petersburg, Va., siege at, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
petroglyphs
Petroleum and Mining Board
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, William, 15.1, 15.2
Philadelphia, Pa., 3.1, 10.1, 15.1
Centennial Exhibition in
National Union convention in
Philadelphia Inquirer, 2.1, 5.1
phrenology
pickets
Pickett, George, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1
Pickett’s Charge, 4.1, 4.2
Pierce, Robert H., 5.1, 5.2
Pierce, William
Piermont, N.Y.
Pierrepont, Edwards
Pinkerton, Allan, 3.1, 3.2
Plains Apaches, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
plantation system
Platte, Department of the
Platte River, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2
Pleasonton, Alfred, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1
plebes:
“devilment” of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1
political pressure on
“pledge” (temperance), 2.1, 5.1
Pocahontas
politics:
African American involvement in
bureaucracy of
in Civil War policy, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1
corruption in
divisive
GAC’s involvement in, prf.1, 1.1, 3.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, epl.1
polygenism
Pompey’s Pillar
Pope, John, 3.1, 4.1
popular sovereignty, 1.1, 1.2
Porter, Fitz-John, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Potawatomis
Potomac River, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 9.1
Powder River
Presbyterian Church, Monroe, 6.1, 8.1
Presbyterians, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1
Price, Robert Newton
prisoners of war, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
E. Brown as, 7.1, 7.2
paroled, 3.1, 3.2
Pry, Philip
Puget Sound
“put,”
Putnam, George Palmer
Putnam’s Monthly, 14.1, 14.2
Quakers
quantitative easing
race riots
racism, prf.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7
see also white supremacy
“Raid, The” (Tolstoy)
Railroad Gazette
railroads, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
corporate structure of, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
default of
federal support for
stocks
transcontinental, prf.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
travel by
western expansion of, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
see also specific lines
Rain in the Face
Raisin River, 2.1, epl.1
Ramseur, Stephen, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
rape:
of African American women, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1
by military
by Native Americans, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
stereotype of African Americans in, 11.1, 11.2
Rapidan River, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
Rappahannock County, Va., 5.1, 5.2
Rappahannock River, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2
Rawlins, John A., 12.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Raymond, Henry J., 10.1, 16.1
rebel yell
Reconstruction:
army in, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, epl.1
civil rights in
ideals of
opposition to, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1
political battle over, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 12.1, 12.2
rights denied to African Americans in, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 14.1, 16.1
Reconstruction Act (1867), 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
Red Bead
Red Cloud, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
Red Jacket
Red Nose
Redpath Lyceum Bureau
Red River, 9.1, 12.1
Red River War (1874–1875)
Reed, David, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 9.1
Reed, Emma
Reed, Harry Armstrong “Autie,” 16.1, epl.1, epl.2
Reed, Lydia Ann “Ann,” 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 14.1, 16.1
GAC’s correspondence with, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Register of Delinquencies
Reid, Whitelaw
Reno, Marcus A., 13.1, 16.1
at Little Bighorn, epl.1, epl.2
Reno, Mary
Reno, Robert
Reno’s Creek (Sundance Creek)
Republican Party, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7, epl.1
A. Johnson vs., 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2
antislavery stance of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1
formation of
Free Labor policy of, prf.1, 14.1
in Michigan, 4.1, 4.2
in Mississippi
Radical, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1
Reconstruction policy of, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 14.1, 14.2
Republican River, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 13.1
reservations, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, epl.1
Reynolds, Charley
Reynolds, Joseph
Rhode Island
Rice, Elliott
Richardson, Heather Cox
Richardson, Israel B.
Richardson, William
Richmond, Rebecca, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Richmond, Va. (Confederate capital), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2
Richmond and York River Railroad
Riley, D. L.
Rio Grande
Ristori, Adelaide
Roanoke (horse), 4.1, 4.2
Roberts, William Milnor
Rochester, N.Y.
Rockefeller, John D.
Rockingham County
Rocky Mountains
Rogers, A. J.
Roman Nose
Romero, Raphael, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Roosevelt, Robert
Rorabaugh, W. J.
Rosa, Joseph
Rosebud River
battle at, epl.1, epl.2
Rosedale
Rosser, Thomas, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
Rothschilds
Round Top Mountian
Rowland, Thomas
Royal, William B.
Running Antelope
Russell, William
Russia, Russians
Ryerson, Peter M., 1.1, 1.2
Sage, Russell
St. Louis, Mo., 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
St. Louis Democrat
St. Paul, Minn., 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1
Saline River, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 13.2
San Antonio, Tex
Sanborn, John B.
Sand Creek Massacre, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Sandusky Register, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1
San Francisco, Calif., 11.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
San Francisco Chronicle
Sans Arc Lakotas, 15.1, 15.2
Santee tribe (Dakotas), 9.1, 15.1, 15.2
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), 16.1, 16.2
Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Satanta, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1
Savage’s Station
Sayler’s Creek (Sailor’s Creek), Battle of
scalpings, 11.1, 15.1, 16.1, epl.1
Schaff, Morris, map.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
Schell, Augustus, 10.1, 13.1, 16.1
Schofield, John M.
Schuyler, Montgomery
science of race
Scofield, David
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