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by Bruce Catton


  Newspapers: on Anaconda plan, 443; Baltimore Sun, 76, 77; campaign, 92. See also Railsplitter, The; Charleston

  Mercury. See Charleston Mercury; Chicago Tribune, 51, 61, 65, 202; Cincinnati Commercial, 7, 59, 267; Illinois State Journal, 91, 92; London Times. See London Times; Louisville Journal, 416; military secrets, 447; Mississippi Free Trader, 105; Missouri Republican, 378; Mobile Register, 109; Montgomery Post, 223; Montgomery Weekly Advertiser, 256, 270, 392; New Orleans Daily True Delta, 105, 205; New York Herald. See New York Herald; New York Times. See New York Times; Pittsburgh Gazette, 103; Rail-splitter, The, 92, 99; Richmond Dispatch, 9, 34, 40; Richmond Enquirer, 95; Richmond Examiner, 361; on St. Louis arsenal plot, 378; Wheeling Intelligencer, 410

  New York (city), 121; Cooper Institute, 20, 90; Democratic boss, 1. See also Wood, Fernando; Governor's Island, 178; independence for, 200; Lincoln in, 20, 90, 221-22; Seward in, 96

  New York (state): Baltimore Democratic conventions, 71-72, 77; election of 1860, 110, 111; legislature, 202, 221; Lincoln in, 221-22; pro-Union resolutions, 202; Republican national convention, 50, 52

  New York, U.S.S., 349

  New York Fire Zouaves, 393-94, 462

  New York Herald: comet of 1861, 428; compromise and Lincoln, 201; inaugural address, 269; inauguration of Davis, 257; Lincoln's journey, 218, 219, 222-23; mood of South, 214-15; peace convention, 240

  New York Times, 169; Charleston conventions, 40; Gosport Navy Yard loss, 351; South

  Carolina secession, 132, 135-36

  New York Tribune, 60, 115, 472; Confederate troops, 403; "Forward to Richmond," 441; peace convention, 240

  New York volunteer regiments: 7th, 348, 353-54, 354-55; 69th, 450-51

  Nicolay, John G.: Bull Run defeat, 473; election day, 110-11; on Lincoln, 115; disguise for Lincoln, 496 n.; secretary for Lincoln, 94; Washington journey, 217

  Noncombatants, fury of, 327

  Non-intervention doctrine, 18-19, 74, 76

  Non-slaveholders, 203, 204

  Norfolk, Va., 139, 178; Douglas in, 99-101; Navy Yard, 24, 349. See also Gosport Navy Yard

  North: Anderson, 199; Baltimore Democratic conventions, 73, 77; Charleston forts crisis, 175-76; compromise in, 199-200; economy of, 516 n.-7 n.; election of 1860, 113, 200; electoral votes, 9; growth, 485 n.; industrialization, 83-84; Lincoln's Washington journey, 219; Montgomery convention, 308; Negroes, 86; optimism, 199; race equality, 203; railroads, 438; Republican victory, meaning of, 123; South, attitude of, 362; Union versus slavery, 200; war enthusiasm, 332-33; war over abstraction, 172. See also Union and United States of America

  North Carolina: legislature, 194, 366; Lincoln election, 107; plebiscite, 194; secession, 193, 365, 366, convention, 194, 366; secessionism, 187-89; seizure of forts, 194; unionism, 194, 366

  Northern Democrats, 8, 11, 32

  Northwest: Charleston Democratic conventions, 38; Davis resolutions, 19; Douglas, 6-7, 102; election of 1860, 110;

  electoral votes, 9; Lincoln nomination, 66; presidential candidate from, 93. See also Middle West; Republican national convention, 47 Nullification days, 112

  Occupation, military, problems of, 416-17

  Ohio: anti-secession resolution, 271; legislature, 221; pro-Union resolution, 202

  Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, 408

  Ohio River, 371

  Ohio Valley, 216

  "Oh Isn't He a Darling," 55

  Old South, 237

  Olmstead, Frederick Law, 86

  One and Indivisible Democracy. See under Democratic party

  Ordinances of secession: cotton states, 189; Missouri, 384; South Carolina, 133, 138, 163; Tennessee, 194-95; Texas, 196, 236; Virginia, 335, 363

  Ordnance Board, 127

  Ordnance scandal, 176

  Oregon, 239

  Orr, James L., 157, 162

  Ostend Manifesto, 258

  Pacific Coast states, 73 Pacific Railroad, 30, 56, 77, 239

  Palmetto Guards, 316

  Panic, at Bull Run, first battle

  of, 486 Panic of 1857, 173 Parades, election, 89, 90-92, 95,

  97

  Parkman, Francis, 423

  Parties: American, 13. See also Know-Nothing party; Constitutional Democratic, 35, 38-40, 66, 69; Constitutional Union, 47-48, 58, 69; Democratic. See Democratic party; Know-Nothing. See American and Know-Nothing party; Republican. See Republican party

  Patronage: Buchanan, 33, 264;

  Cameron, 60, 404; as currency of politics, 53; Lincoln, 239, 266, 332, 345; Republican party, 51

  Patterson, Robert: career, 445; delay tactics of, 446, 447-48; Harper's Ferry, 454, Scott, 445-46, 517 n.-18 n.

  Paulding, Hiram, 350

  Pawnee, U.S.S., 298, 322, 323, 349, 350, 351

  Peace conference, Feb. 4, 1861, 246; members, 239-40; Michigan, 270; origin, 239; Sumner on, 241

  Pearce, James A., 265

  Peculiar institution, 5, 9, 85, 116. See also Slavery

  Pendergast, G. J., 350

  Pennington, William, 17

  Pennsylvania: elections of 1860: presidential, 110, state, 104, 106; militia, 507 n.; Republican boss, 60. See Cameron, S.; Republican convention, 57, 58; volunteers, in Baltimore riot, 343, 345, 346

  Pennsylvania, U.S.S., 349, 351

  Pensacola, Fla., 139, 276; Harbor, 119, 275

  Perry, B. F., 37

  Perry, M. S., 108

  Petersburg, 139

  Petigru, James Louis, 133-35,

  140, 283 Pettigrew, J. Johnson, 151 Pettus, John J., 107 Philadelphia, Pa., 110; Lincoln

  in, 222

  Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railway, 224, 344

  "Philippi races," 411

  Philippi skirmish, 410, 411

  Phillips, Wendell, 200

  Piatt, Donn, 118

  Pickens, Francis W., 170; Anderson, 183-84; Beauregard, 254; Buchanan, 135, 151, 186; career, 135; Confederate Congress, 251-52; dishing, 135; Davis, J., 185-86, 187, 251-53; Fort Sumter, 151-52, 174, 179, 250-54, demand for, 151, impatient for, 250-54; Fox, 281, relief expedition, 298; governor of S. C, 131; Miles, 250-51, 253; on secession, 135; Seward, 296; Simonton, 152; Trescott, 151; Yancey, 253 Pierce, Franklin, 192 Pierpont, Francis H., 411, 415 Pinkerton, Allan, 224, 225, 226 Pittsburgh, Pa., 121, 221; arsenal, 176 Pittsburgh Gazette, 103 Planters, 2, 14, 83, 84, 216, 259

  Platforms: Cincinnati convention, 1856, 29, 34, 38; Constitutional Democratic party, 38-39, 77; Constitutional Union party, 48; Democratic party, 28-30, 34, anti-Douglas group, 38-39, 77; Republican party, 55-56

  Plebiscites, 194. See also Referendum

  Plymouth, U.S.S., 349

  Plymouth Rock, 79

  Pocahontas, U.S.S., 298, 323

  Pollard, E. A., 476

  Pope, John, 218

  Popular sovereignty doctrine, 8, 29, 34, 45, 74, 99

  Population, U. S., 83

  Porter, David Dixon, 290, 300, 322

  Porter, Fitz John, 142, 143

  Portsmouth, 139

  Postmaster General. See U. S.

  Postmaster General Post offices, seizure of, 164 Potomac River, 445, 448, 467,

  469; bridges, 467, 469 Potter, John, 23 Powell, Lazarus, 423 Powhatan, U.S.S., 298, 300,

  322, 323 Presidential election, Nov. 6,

  1860. See Election of 1860 Presidents: Pierce. 192. Sec also

  Buchanan, Davis, Jefferson,

  and Lincoln Price, Sterling, 385-386, 388,

  389, 390 Prince of Fire-Eaters, 2. See

  Yancey, W. L. Prisoners, 468 Propaganda, 371-72

  Protective tariffs. See Tariffs Pryor, Roger, 23, 308, 314,

  324, 328 Pryor, Mrs. Roger, 177, 264 Pugh, George A., 32 Pugh, J. L., 190

  Race equality, 203-4

  Race problem, 85, 204

  Railroads, 79, 83; Baltimore bottleneck, 243, 343; Baltimore & Ohio, 224, 344, 354, 358, 409, 447; to California, 30, 56, 77, 239; Confederacy, 447; in Constitutional Democratic platform, 77; in Democratic platform, 30; Illinois Central, 408; Mana
ssas Gap, 445, 447, 454; in North, 438; Ohio & Mississippi, 408; Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore, 224, 344; in Republican platform, 56; in South, 438-39; to Washington, 343, 344, 348-49, 358

  Railsplitter, The, 92, 99

  Raleigh, N. C, 102

  Randall, Alexander, 270

  Randall, James R., 355

  Raritan, U.S.S., 349

  "Ratification meeting," 91-92

  Rattlesnake Shoal, 323

  Ray, Charles H., 51, 53, 202

  Raymond, Henry J., 169

  Read House, 230-31

  Reagan, John H., 259

  Reconstruction, 258

  Rector, Henry M., 196, 334

  Referendum, 237; Texas secession, 229, 236

  Reilly, James, 188-89

  Relief expeditions: Fort Pickens, 288-89, 299; Fort Sumter: Fox, 273-74, 296-98, 300-1, 322-23, 326, 327, Star of the West, 178-83

  Reno, Jesse L., 188

  Reporters: at Bull Run, 462; Charleston Democratic conventions, 9, 24; Chicago Republican convention, 49. See also Greeley, H., Halstead, M., and Russell, W. H.

  Republican convention, May

  16, 1860, 9, 34, 45, 47, 80, 95; balloting, 63, 65-66; Cameron deal, 60-61, 248, 483 n.; celebrations, 50, 64-65; dark horse, Lincoln as, 52; galleries, 54, 62; Lincoln supporters, 51, 53, 57, 58, 62; nominations, 62-63; opening session, 54-55; packing of, 62; pivotal states, 57-59, 61-62; platform, 55-56; Seward, 50, 56, 58, 59, 63, supporters, 50, 53, 56, 57, 62, 63-65; slave states, 51; as Wigwam convention, 90, 92

  Republican party, 5, 28, 39;

  abolitionists in, 57; as Black

  Republicans, 5, 8, 9; cam-

  paign of, 1860, 97-98; Chi-

  cago convention, 1860. See

  Republican convention;

  Clemens on, 248; in Congress, 421; convention of 1860. See Republican convention; election of 1860, 89, 97-98; Lincoln's status in, 20; marching clubs. See Wide-Awakes; platform, 55-56; rivalry in, 246-47; Seward, 20; slavery, 5, 116, 200; spirit of, 49; support of, 331; Wide-Awakes, 50, 90, 91, 95, 97, 106, 189, 376

  Republic of Washington, 208

  Resignations: Buchanan cabinet, 159, 173-74; federal officials, 164; Lee, R. E., 337-38, 339; Southern Senators, 112, 128, 191-92, 192-93

  Resolutions: Charleston secession convention. 133; Clark, 13; Davis, 18-19, 26, 41-45; Yancey, 26

  Resources, U. S., 83

  Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 26-27, 105, 259; Charleston Democratic convention, 39; Charleston secession convention, 131; Davis, J., 213; foreign policy, 341; Montgomery convention, 210-11; program, 26-27

  Rhett, Jr., Robert Barnwell, 117, 213, 259

  Rhoda B. Shannon, U.S.S., 305 Richardson, W. A., 25, 34, 37,

  72, 75-76 Richmond, Dean, 72, 73, 76 Richmond, Va., 77; conditions in, 403; as Confederate capital, 206, 391-92; "Forward to Richmond" efforts, 441 ff.; secessionist meeting, June 11, 1860, 40, 71, 77; Tredegar Iron Works, 438; Virginia secession convention. See under Virginia Richmond Dispatch, 9, 34, 40 Richmond Enquirer, 95, 405 Richmond Examiner, 361 Richmond House, 50, 55, 56, 62

  Rich Mountain skirmish, 413

  Ricketts, J. B., 461

  Riots: Baltimore, 343-46, 507

  n.; St. Louis, 381-83 Ripley, Roswell S., 128 Rives, William C, 241, 300,

  335

  Roanoke, U.S.S., 430, 431 Rochester, Pa., 221 Roman, A. B., 260, 294 Rosecrans, William S., 412, 467 Rost, Pierre A., 341, 436 Rowan, Stephen C, 322 Ruffin, Edmund: at Bull Run, 463, 465; election of 1860, 98; at Fort Sumter, 159, 318; legend of, 316-17, 318; secession, 98, 104-6; South Carolina secession, 134-35 Rump convention. See Charleston conventions Runyon, Theodore, 466 Russell, Charles W., 35, 73 Russell, John, 436 Russell, Majors, and Waddell, 173

  Russell, William Howard, 284-85, 286, 302; Bull Run panic, 470; Confederate commissioners, 517 n.; in Montgomery, 361-62; on North Carolina, 327

  Sabine, U.S.S., 277 St. Andrews' Hall, 35, 132-33. See also Secession Hall

  St. Louis, Mo.: arsenal plot, 374-78; Camp Jackson, 377-79; home guard, 376-77, 378, 379, 380-81, 386; riot, 381-83

  St. Paul, 96

  San Antonio, Tex., 228 ff., 328 Sanders, George, 258 San Domingo, 88, 291 Sandy Hook, N. J., 178 Santa Rosa Island, Fla., 276 Savannah, Ga., 120 Schurz, Carl, 54, 328, 358-59 Scott, Winfield: Anaconda plan, 442-43, 444; assassination plot, 225; Baltimore, occupation of, 359; Buchanan, 120, 122, 165, administration, 177; Bull Run, first battle of, 467, 472; Butler, 359; confederacies, plan for, 120; disorders, suppression of, 225; Floyd, 120, 121; Fort Moultrie, 120; Fort Pickens, 120, 278-79, 284, 285-86, 289; Fort Sumter, 120, 163, 165-66, 177, 179, 272, 285-86; forts issue, 119-20, 122, 170; Fox, 274; health, 162, 163, 165; Lee, 228, 233, 234, 337, 338; Lincoln, 170, 357, 401, government, 262, inaugural, 262; McClellan, 413-14, plan, 442; McDowell, 467; Manassas Junction plan, 444, 445; Meigs plan, 289; military preparedness, 120, 122; Patterson, 445-46, 517 n.-18 n.; secession, 120; South, Unionism in, 444-45; Texas, defense of, 235; Twiggs, 229; on Union victory, 327; war plan, 442-43, 444; Washington, disorders of, 225, occupation of, 472, railway connections, 348 Secession, 127, 187-89, 193, 236; abolitionists on, 200; Alabama. Jan. 11, 1861, 109, 187, 189, 237; Arkansas, May 6, 1861, 365, 368-69; Black on, 125-26: border states, 139, 193, 203, 238, 365-73; as bluff, 118; Buchanan administration, 123,

  129, 165, 187; Charleston conventions, 8-9, 26; Charleston Mercury, 105; in Confederate Constitution, 210; in Congress, U. S., 23; cotton states, 117, 127, 193, 236-37; conventions. See Secession conventions; Douglas on, 101, 198; in election of 1860, 97, 101, 102, 109; extremists, 127, plans of, 26; Florida, Jan. 10, 1861, 185, 187, 276; general convention, 237; Georgia, Jan. 19, 1861, 187, 237; Gist on, 106; Handy on, 139-40; importance of, 170; Kentucky, 195, 365, 370; Lincoln on, 118, 170, 267, 330; Mississippi, 187, 237; Missouri, 195; North Carolina, 194, 365, 366; ordinances of. See Ordinances of secession; as political maneuver, 166; popular support, 109, 189; purpose, 116; Rhett, R. B., 26-27; right of, 125-28, 210; Ruffin, 98, 104-6, 134; Scott, 120; Seward, 103; slave states, 193, 203; slavery and, 127; South, 93, 107-8, 193-98; South Carolina, Dec. 24, 1860, 106, 128, 133-40, 145, 237; Southern governors on, 107-8; Tennessee, 194-95, 365, 366-68; Texas, 193, 196, 228, 233, 235, 236; Virginia, May 23, 1861, 195-98, 333, 365, 392-93; Yancey, 2, 26

  Secession conventions: Alabama, 109, 189; Arkansas, 196, 368; Columbia, 130-32; election of delegates to, 237; Mississippi, 190; Missouri, 195, 373, 384; North Carolina, 194, 366; South Carolina, 130-38, at Charleston, 132-33, 136-38, at Columbia, 130-32; Tennessee, 194-95; Texas, 196, 229, 236; Virginia, 197, 239, 299-300, 328, 330, 335. See also State conventions

  Secession Hall, 134, 135. See also St. Andrews' Hall

  Secession resolutions, South Carolina, 133

  Secessionism: Arkansas, 195-96; border states, 139; Georgia, 237; Mississippi, 237; North Carolina, 187-89

  Secessionists, 139-40, 203; Arkansas, 195; as fire-eaters. See Fire-eaters; Fort Sumter crisis, 185; on Lincoln inaugural, 269; objectives, 113; Stephens on, 46

  Secrets, military, 182, 443, 447

  Sectionalism, 11, 21, 69

  Seddon, James A., 241

  Seizures of property, U. S. See under United States of America

  Senate, U. S. See U. S. Senate

  Seward, Frederick, 224-25

  Seward, William H.: Adams, 247, 288, 290; assassination plot, 224-25; Bell, 47-48; campaign supporters, 50, 53, 56, 62; Campbell and, 244-45, 246, 294-96, 301-303; Charleston conventions, 37-38; Chicago Republican convention, 50, 56, 58, 59, 63, 80; Civil War, 288, 289: on compromise, 200; Clay, Cas-sius, 66; as conciliator, 287-88; Confederate commissioners, 280, 293-94, 301-302; description, 21, 42; on disunion, 21; election of 1860, 95-96, 97; Fort Pickens, 287, 289, 289-90, 301; Fort Sumter, 279, 280, 287, 289; forts issue, 287-89, 294, 296, 301, 303; governor of New York, 58; on leadership, 243; Lincoln, 288, 290, 291-92; Lincoln cabinet, 245, 262, 265; as "Lincoln's Premier," 280; Meigs, 288-89; memorandum, 288, 290-91, 295; presidential candidate, 5; Republican party, 2
0; secession, 103; Secretary of State, 224-25, 247; in Senate, U. S., 21, 42, 287-88: slavery, 22, 58, 294; "Some Thoughts for the President's Consideration," 290-91; South, 28, 280;

  Texas, 289; on Union, 364-

  65: Union Army, 404 Sewell's Point, 430 Shenandoah Valley, 448, 454,

  457, 459 Sherman, John, 13, 15-16, 16,

  23

  Sherman, William T., 404; at Bull Run, first battle of, 457, 465; at St. Louis riot, 379, 381, 382

  Sherman's march, 79

  Sherman's ford, 461

  Silver Wave, 176

  Simonton, Charles H., 152

  Skirmishes: Big Bethel, 440-41; Boonville, 389-90; Bunker Hill, 448; Philippi, 410, 411; Rich Mountain, 413. See also Battles

  Slave code, 18, 20, 26

  Slave quarters, 5

  Slave states, 2, 16; Chicago Republican convention, 51; doubtful, 288; leaders of, 44-45; secession in, 193, 203; in Union, 236; unity, 193. See also Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia

  Slave trade, 75, 208

  Slavery: abolitionists, 85; bor-

  der states, 48, 116, 426-27;

  Buchanan, 129; Campbell,

  244;~ in Charleston, 4-5;

  Charleston Democratic con-

  ventions, 30; Cincinnati plat-

  form, 1856, 29; Columbia,

  District of, 168: compromise

  on, 200-1; Confederate Con-

  stitution, 208; Congress, 29,

  426-28; Constitutional

  amendment, 200: cotton belt, outside of, 203; Davis, J., 21, 105, 200; Davis resolution, 18-19; on decline, 244; Democratic party, 5; Douglas, 7, 11, 22, 27, 99-100; election of 1860, 119. 200, 245; farming, scientific, 134; forced labor, 81; Freeport doctrine, 7; future of, 43, 116; Gulf state, 245; Helper, 14, and industrialization, 84-85; Kansas, 44-45; Lecompton constitution, 44; Lincoln, 21-22, 114, 167 ff., 400-1; Lovejoy, 22-23; as obsolete, 83; as peculiar institution, 5, 9, 85, 116; political issue, 419; race problem, 85, 204; The Railsplitter, 92; Republican administration, 116; Republican party, 5, 200; and secession, 127; in Senate, U. S., 16-17; Seward, 22, 58, 294; South, 78, 81-82, 84-88, 116; as stalemate, 17; status, 399; Tennessee, 367; in territories, 244, Confederate Constitution, 207, Davis resolutions, 18-19, Douglas, 7, 11, 22, 72, Freeport doctrine, 7, 11, Lincoln, 93, 167 ff., in platforms, 30, 39, 48, 55; U. S. government, 43

 

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