Scott, Thomas A.
Scott, Walter
Scott, Winfield, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 9.1
scurvy, 11.1, 11.2
Sears, Stephen W., 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Sebastopol Sketches, The (Tolstoy)
secession:
of Southern states, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 8.1, 9.1
threat of
as treason
secessionists
pardons for
Second Great Awakening
segregation
Seip, Robert C., 16.1, 16.2
Seligman, Joseph
Seminole War (1836–1838)
Senate, U.S., 2.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2
in confirmation debate over Custer’s promotion, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
impeachment trial in, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Military Affairs Committee
Senecas, 8.1, 13.1, 16.1
Sevastopol
7th Cavalry, U.S. Army, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1
at Little Bighorn, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3, epl.4
Seven Days’ Battles, 3.1, 5.1
Seward, William Henry, 1.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
sexuality:
in Custers’ marriage, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 15.1
of GAC, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 5.1, 10.1, 12.1
in GAC’s alleged infidelity, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
in nineteenth-century mores, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 12.1, 13.1
at West Point, 1.1, 6.1
Seymour, Horatio
Sharpsburg, Va., 3.1, 3.2
Sheldon, Isaac
Sheldon & Company
shells, 2.1, 2.2
Shenandoah Valley, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 12.1
Sheridan, Philip, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1
GAC favored by, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1, 16.1
in Indian conflicts, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5
in Texas expedition, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 12.1
Sherman, John, 10.1, 14.1
Sherman, William T., 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
in Indian conflicts and wars, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, epl.1
Shiloh, Battle of, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 15.1, 16.1
Shirt Wearers
short selling, 16.1, 16.2
Shoshones
Shreveport, La., 9.1, 9.2
signal smokes
sign language
Sihasapa Lakotas (Blackfeet)
Sioux, 1.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5
historical perspective of
unceded territory of
see also specific tribes
Sioux City Journal
Sioux Uprising (1862), 10.1, 15.1
Sitting Bull, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, epl.1
Skiffe’s Creek
slave rebellion, Civil War as
slavery:
in basis of Civil War, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1
in Caribbean
conditions of, 5.1, 6.1
end of, prf.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1
evolving sentiment against
families parted by, 5.1, 9.1, 11.1
GAC’s ambivalent stance toward, prf.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1
GAC’s evolving view of
Lincoln’s dilemma over, 3.1, 3.2
in Native American culture
in western expansion, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1
slaves, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1
considered to be sub-human
E. Brown as
effect of Civil War on, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1
effect of Emancipation Proclamation on, 3.1, 5.1
escaped, see contrabands
marriage, family and community life of, 5.1, 5.2
mistreatment of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 11.2
population of
quarters
self-emancipation of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2
Slotkin, Richard, prf.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2
Small House at Allington, The (Trollope)
smallpox, 11.1, 15.1
Smith, Algernon
Smith, Andrew Jackson, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 12.1, 12.2
Smith, Edward, 16.1, 16.2
Smith, John, 13.1
Smith, William F. “Baldy,”
Smoky Hill River, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9
Society of Decorative Arts
Soldiers and Sailors Convention
solid shot
Solomon River, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 13.2
Some Corrections to “My Life on the Plains” (G. A. Custer)
South:
“chivalry” of, 4.1, 11.1, 14.1
in Civil War, see Confederate States of America
GAC’s sympathies with, prf.1, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 14.1, 16.1
postwar discrimination in
slave-based economy of
South, Department of the, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
South Canadian River, 12.1, 12.2
South Carolina, 1.1, 4.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 16.1
secession of
Southern Hotel, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
Southern Plains War (1868–1869)
Southern Relief Organization fair
South Mountain, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1
Spain, New World colonization by
Spanish-American War
“Special Report to the Department of Justice on Outrages in Kentucky,”
Spencer rifle, Spencer carbine, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 11.1
Spiker’s Hill
Spirit of Old West Point, The (Schaff)
spiritualism, 10.1, 15.1
Spotsylvania Court House, battle at, 7.1, 7.2
Spotted Tail, 15.1, 16.1
Spotts, David
Sprague, Kate
Sprague, William
Springfield Mo.
Stahel, Julius
Standing Rock agency
Stanley, David S., 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1
Stanley, Henry Morton, 11.1, 16.1
Stanton, Edwin M., 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
“Star of the Washita,”
states’ rights, federal government vs., 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1, 16.1
steamboats, steamships, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1
Stedman, Edmund C.
Steubenville, Ohio
Stevens, Thad, 10.1, 10.2
Stevensburg, Va., 6.1, 6.2
Stevens Lode Silver Mine, GAC’s investment in, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1, 16.1
stock market:
in corporate economy, 13.1, 15.1
GAC’s involvement with
GAC’s personal investment in, 13.1, 13.2
GAC’s speculation in, prf.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1
manipulation and corruption in, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
panic and crisis in
political influence of, 10.1, 16.1
railroad speculation in
women in
Stone, William M.
Stone Calf
Stoneman, George, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Stover, George
Strong, George
Strong, George Templeton, 7.1, 8.1
Stuart, J. E. B., 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Sturgis, Samuel D., 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, epl.1
Sully, Alfred, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Sully,
Thomas
Summers, Mark Wahlgren
Summit Springs, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Sumner, Charles, 10.1, 16.1, 16.2
Sumner, Edwin “Bull,”
sun dance ritual
Supreme Court, U.S., 9.1, 16.1
Swearengen, Ellis Albert
Sweeney, James
Sweet Medicine
Sweetwater Creek, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1
Swett, Laura, 16.1, 16.2
Swett, Leonard
Swett, Leonard Herbert “Bert,” 16.1, 16.2
“Swing Around the Circle” tour, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 16.1
Taft, Alphonso, 16.1, 16.2
Tall Bull, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Tammany Hall, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1
Taney, Roger B., 9.1, 16.1
Tappan, Samuel F.
Taylor, Nathaniel G.
Taylor, Richard
Tecumseh
telegraph, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
temperance movement
Ten Bears
Tennessee, 8.1, 16.1
Tenting on the Plains (E. B. Custer), 11.1, epl.1
Tenure of Office Act (1867), 12.1, 12.2
tepee, as GAC’s trophy of war
Terrail, Pierre
Terry, Alfred H., 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3, epl.4, epl.5
Teton Sioux, see Lakotas
Texas, 1.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, epl.1
de facto slavery in, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
emancipation in
Panhandle, 12.1, 16.1
secession of
Texas, Department of
Texas expedition, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1
GAC’s cruel command and discipline in, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1
Texas Longhorns
theater, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1
Third Winchester, Battle of (Opequon), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
This Republic of Suffering (Faust)
Thomas, George
Thompson, William
Thomson, J. Edgar
Thurbur, Edward
Toledo, Ohio, 4.1, 5.1, 15.1
Tolliver, Barney
Tolstoy, Leo, epi.1, 4.1, 11.1
Tom’s Brook, Battle of
Tongue River
topographical engineers, GAC as scout for, 2.1, 15.1
Torbert, Alfred, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
torpedoes (hidden artillery shells)
torture, mock executions as
“total war” strategy
Totten, Joseph
Town, Charles
trading posts
corruption in, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Travers, William R., 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1
Traverse City, Mich.
travois
Treasury Department, U.S.
Tredegar Iron Works
Trevilian Station, Battle of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Trollope, Anthony, 9.1, 13.1, 14.1
Trumbull, Lyman
tuberculosis
Turf, Field and Farm, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5
Tutt, Dave
Tuttle, John H., 15.1, 15.2
Twain, Mark, prf.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1
Tweed, William “Boss,” 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Twenty-Third Street Party
Types of Mankind (Gliddon)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (play)
unemployment
uniforms, 4.1, 11.1
of GAC, see Custer, George Armstrong, Civil War years, unique uniform crafted by
Union Pacific–Central Pacific railroad axis, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2
Union Pacific Railroad, 15.1
Eastern Division, see Kansas Pacific Railroad
universal manhood suffrage, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2
Upper Arkansas, District of the, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2
Upton, Emory
Utley, Robert M., prf.1, 6.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1
Valley Pike
Vanderbilt, Cornelius “Commodore,” 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7, 13.8, 15.1, 16.1
Vanderbilt, George Washington
Van Wormer, Nellie, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Varnum, Charles
Vicksburg, Battle of, 7.1, 9.1
Virginia, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1
slavery in
Virginia Central Railroad, 7.1, 8.1
Volunteers, U.S., 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 15.1, 16.1
GAC’s advancement in, 4.1, 8.1
Massachusetts
Michigan
political nature of
popular initiative for
recruiting of
resignations and mustering-out of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 11.1
see also Texas expedition
Waddell House hotel
Wade, Benjamin
Wainwright, Charles S.
Wainwright, Charles W., 2.1, 3.1, 7.1
Wallace, George D., epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Wall Street, see stock market
War and Peace (Tolstoy)
Ward, Augusta
GAC’s correspondence with
War Department, U.S., 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2
Ordnance Office
warfare:
civilian victims of, 5.1, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
effect of command in
guerrilla, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 11.1, epl.1
horrific reality vs. romantic heroism of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 14.1
incompetent commanders in
mementos of
Native American tribal, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1
orders vs. personal responsibility in
soldiers’ hardships in, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
thrill of battle in, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 12.1
unjustified
see also specific conflicts
Warner, Charles Dudley, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1
War of 1812, 2.1, 3.1
Warrenton, Va.
Washburne, Elihu B., 9.1, 10.1
Washington, D.C., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2
corruption and extravagance of
Custers’ honeymoon trip to
Custer’s testimony against Grant in
federal government in, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2
flag presentation ceremony in
GAC in, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 13.1
Libbie’s residency in, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 15.1, 16.1
military threat to, 3.1, 8.1
social scene in, 9.1, 16.1
sordid atmosphere of, 7.1, 8.1
victory celebration in, 9.1, 9.2
Washington, George
Washington, James B.
Washington, Treaty of
Washington Chronicle, 10.1, 12.1, 16.1
Washington Star, 9.1
Washita, Battle of the, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, epl.1
controversies over, 12.1, epl.1
Waterpark, Lord
Watkins, E. C.
Waud, Alfred
Waynesboro, Va., battle at
Way We Live Now, The (Trollope)
Webb, Thomas
Weir, Thomas B., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, epl.1, epl.2
Welles, Gideon, 10.1, 10.2
Wells, T. M.
Wells, William, 8.1, 8.2
Wells Fargo stage line
Wert, Jeffry, prf.1, 12.1
West:
African Americans in
Civil War in, 2.1, 3.1
, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1
expansion into and settlement of, 1.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2
frontier anarchy and violence in
political battle for, 1.1, 1.2
post–Civil War army in, 10.1, 11.1
West, Elliott, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
West, Robert M., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Western Union
West Point, U.S. Military Academy at:
campus at
Custers’ honeymoon trip to
effect of secession on
GAC’s appointment to and enrollment at, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
GAC’s court-martial at, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1
GAC’s education at, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1
GAC’s friendships formed at, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1
GAC’s poor academic standing at, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2
GAC’s statue at
GAC’s transgressions at, prf.1, prf.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 12.1
graduates of, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1
internal hierarchy of, 1.1, 1.2
military training at, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 4.1
temperance “pledge” at
Wharton, Edith
Wharton, G. C.
Whig party, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 16.1
Whiskey Ring
White, Richard, 15.1, 15.2
White, Sarah, 12.1, 12.2
White Bull
White Horse, 11.1, 11.2
White House, 7.1, 9.1
White House Landing
White Oak Swamp
white supremacy, prf.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Whitley, Hiram C.
Whittaker, Frederick, 4.1, 8.1, epl.1, epl.2
whooping cough
Wichita Mountains, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Wigwam hall
Wilderness, Battle of the, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 14.1
Wild West show, 15.1, epl.1
Wilkinson, Morton
Williams, George H., 10.1, 10.2
Williamsburg, Battle of, 2.1, 3.1, 11.1
Williamsburg, Va.
Wilmington, N.C.
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Henry
Wilson, James H., 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 11.1
Wilson, William
Winans, Frazey M., 4.1, 6.1
Winchell, Newton, 16.1, 16.2
Winchester, Va., 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Wing, Helen and Kate
“Winning of the West, The” (R. White)
Wolf Soldiers
wolves, 11.1, 13.1
“woman question,”
women:
African American, 5.1, 13.1
educational opportunities for, 4.1, 15.1
evolving status of, prf.1, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 15.1
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