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The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln

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by Larry Tagg


  Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.

  Williams, Kenneth. Lincoln Finds a General. 5 vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

  Williams, T. Harry. Lincoln and the Radicals. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965.

  Lincoln and His Generals. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.

  Wilson, Douglas L. Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

  Winik, Jay. April 1865: The Month That Saved America. NY: Harper Collins, 2001.

  Zornow, William Frank. Lincoln & the Party Divided. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954.

  Index

  1861 Annual Message to Congress, 239

  1862 Annual Message to Congress, 333

  1862 elections, 329-331

  1863 Annual Message to Congress, 385-386, 392, 508n

  1864 Annual Message to Congress, 443

  1864 elections, 437-438

  1864 Republican nomination, 388, 395-396, 399-400, 402-403, 412-417

  Abbot, Henry, 350

  abolition, 34, 37, 40, 44, 77, 83-84, 86, 218, 241, 254, 286, 291, 321, 328, 357-358, 382, 400, 407, 410

  Abolitionism, 73, 211, 321

  abolitionist, 12, 43-48, 50, 73-75, 77-78, 83-84, 115, 147, 166, 204, 208, 210, 212, 226, 238, 240, 260, 263, 267, 278, 291-293, 296, 298-301, 306, 315, 319, 323, 326, 328, 334, 343-345, 352, 355, 361-362, 389, 399, 411, 425, 430, 464

  Adams, Charles Francis, 135, 155, 158, 163, 171, 353

  Adams, Jr., Charles Francis, 109-110, 136, 143

  Adams, Henry, 90, 99, 101-102, 138, 143, 152, 155-157

  Adams, President John, 14, 18, 36, 41

  Adams, President John Q., 19

  “Age of Jackson,” 9, 24-25, 28, 30, 40, 43, 50-51, 58

  Albany Atlas and Argus, 69, 75

  Albany Evening Journal, 56, 115, 147

  Alexandria (Virginia) Gazette, 181

  Alien and Sedition Acts, 11

  American Party (see also “Know-Nothing Party”), 75

  American Revolution, 34

  Ames, Mary Clemmer, 127

  Amnesty and Reconstruction Proclamation, 406-407

  “Anaconda Plan,” 203

  Anderson, Maj. Robert, 160, 168, 170

  Andrew, Governor John A., 295-296, 310, 314, 333, 388, 416

  Anthony, Susan B., 286, 444

  Antietam, Battle of, 311, 323, 332, 380, 425

  Anti-Masonic Party, 75

  Anti-Slavery Society, 224, 241

  Appomattox Court House, Virginia, 453

  Ariel, USS, 280

  Army Board, 267

  Army of the Potomac, 245, 262-264, 267, 269-271, 273, 276, 278, 306, 309, 311, 322, 332, 334, 349, 350, 364, 366, 373, 404, 409, 425, 452

  Army of Virginia, 281

  Arnold, Isaac, 389, 353

  Aspinwall, William, 425

  Association of the Democratic Editors of the State of New York, 250

  Astor, John Jacob, 425

  Atlanta Campaign, 406, 428, 439

  Atlanta Southern Confederacy, 84

  Atlantic Monthly, 11, 315, 385

  Bagehot, Walter, 41

  Baker, Col. Edward, 236

  Baldwin, John B., 177

  Ball’s Bluff, Battle of, 236-237, 243

  Baltimore American, 69

  Baltimore Convention, 398, 401-403, 437

  Baltimore Exchange, 144, 251

  Baltimore Riots, 187, 189-192, 195-197, 199-201, 248

  Baltimore Sun, 3-4, 111, 118, 196; “Mobtown,” 1; Lincoln smuggled through, 1-3, 16; plan to assassinate Lincoln, 2

  Bancroft, George, 278, 331

  Bangor (Maine) Democrat, 247, 250, 366

  Banks, Gen. Nathaniel, 253, 267, 273-274, 281, 305

  Barbour, James, 151

  Barlow, Francis, 205

  Barlow, Samuel L.M., 269, 275, 306, 425-426

  Barnard, Gen. John G., 263

  Barnwell, William H., 34

  Barton, Clara, 141

  Bates, Edward, 57-61, 64-65, 67, 69-70, 169, 224, 232, 235, 237, 255, 261, 309, 402; picked for Lincoln’s cabinet, 166-167; Baltimore riots, 191; Lincoln is unequal to his duties, 245-246; McClellan restored to command, 310; Emancipation Proclamation, 314, 342; Chase wants to run for President, 391

  Bayard, Senator James A., 479n

  Beecher, Henry Ward, 34, 54, 287, 308, 387, 391, 414, 460, 464-465

  Bell, John, 77, 82

  Belmont, August, 99, 424-425

  Bennett, James Gordon, 27, 248, 400, 402, 412, 427

  Bigelow, John, 204-205, 218

  Birney, James, 399

  “Black Easter,” 461, 465, 467

  “Black Republican Party,” 16, 34, 73, 77

  Blackford, William W., 182

  Blair, Governor Austin, 8, 71

  Blair, Sr., Francis P., 179, 220

  Blair, Jr., Frank, 219, 289, 292

  Blair, Montgomery, 158, 169, 179, 219, 259, 260, 271, 292, 310, 406, 413, 417; picked for Lincoln’s cabinet, 166-167; gagging of Democratic newspapers, 251-252; Emancipation Proclamation, 314, 342; Com mittee of Nine meeting, 338; resigns, 429

  Blenker’s division, 265-266

  Booth, Edwin, 159

  Booth, John Wilkes, 457, 468-469

  Border States, 57, 82, 138, 144, 150, 156, 158-159, 166, 179, 180-182, 184, 198, 201, 203, 211, 218, 241, 254, 291, 293, 296-297, 299, 302, 340, 342, 379

  Boston Advertiser, 156

  Boston Courier, 69, 96

  Boston Evening Courier, 467

  Boston Pioneer, 415

  Boston Post, 69

  Botts, John, 180

  Bowles, Samuel, 110, 145

  Brady, Matthew, 80

  Breck, Lt. George, 322

  Breckinridge, John C., 77, 82

  British Spectator, 11

  Brodhead, John, 101

  Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 8, 249, 251, 272, 279, 288, 295, 380, 432

  Brooks, James, 324, 338

  Brooks, Noah, 366, 404-406, 408-409, 412, 417, 437-438, 444-445, 447, 451-452, 454-455, 459-460

  Brooks, Preston, 75

  Brough, John, 377, 379

  Brown, John, 50, 56-57, 77, 83, 88, 164, 179-181, 296

  Brown, Mayor George W., 191-192, 201, 213, 253

  Browning, Senator Orville, 224-225, 261, 277, 294, 324, 327, 337-338, 346-347, 350, 352, 358, 389

  Brownson, Orestes, 340, 396-397

  Bryant, William Cullen, 52, 55, 226, 329, 396

  Buchanan, President James, 27, 29, 33, 41, 51, 76, 80, 103, 118, 139-140, 146, 153, 155, 157, 162, 166, 171, 188-190, 208, 241, 412

  Bull Run, First Battle of, 210, 216-218, 222, 227, 239, 243, 249, 260, 281, 291, 307

  Bull Run, Second Battle of, 307-309

  Burnham, J. H., 122

  Burnside, Gen. Ambrose, 272, 332-334, 337, 364-365

  Bushnell, Horace, 31

  Butler, Gen. Benjamin, 248, 278, 390, 396, 413, 416, 426, 437, 446, 452, 457

  Calhoun, John C., 12, 21, 27, 45

  Cameron, Simon, 58, 61-62, 64, 67, 158, 169, 213, 237, 251; picked for Lincoln’s cabinet, 166-167; poor choice as Secretary of War, 202; McClellan, 232; inadequate as Sec. of War, 238; orders arrest of Baltimore police board, 248, 253; absent from war councils, 256-257; replaced by Lincoln, 257, 259; 1864 Republican nomination, 394, 419; replaced as party boss, 436

  Campbell, John A., 174, 177, 181, 453

  Campbell, Lewis D., viii, 440

  Carlyle, Thomas, 11

  Carpenter, Francis, 132, 485n-486n

  Carr, Clark E., 380-381

  Carrington, Henry B., 360, 364

  Cass, Lewis, 27

  Cedar Creek, Battle of, 430, 437

  Chancellorsville, Battle of, 310, 366, 383

  Chandler, William E., 394

  Chandler, Zachariah, 115, 204, 213, 218, 223, 228, 235-237, 242-243, 257, 265, 336, 387, 391, 407, 428-430, 446, 462

  Charleston Courier, 73, 170

  Charleston Mercury,
29, 39, 73, 82-83, 87, 111, 144, 170

  Charleston, South Carolina, 88, 163-164, 167, 170, 174-175, 178-181, 366

  Chase, Salmon P., 67, 69, 135, 137, 158, 164, 171, 196-197, 202, 207, 222, 256, 259; radical anti-slavery wing of the Republican Party, 57; picked for Lincoln’s cabinet, 166-167; Baltimore riots, 192; Treasury is broke, 246; recommends Stanton as Sec. of War, 257; trying to get McClellan to move, 260; public losing respect for Lincoln, 278; Emancipation Proclamation, 299, 304, 315, 342-343; Second Bull Run, 308; working on regime change, 308; McClellan restored to command, 309; plotting coup against Lincoln, 309-310; anti-Seward stance, 337; Committee of Nine meeting, 338-339; offers resignation, 339; Lincoln declines resignation, 340; 1864 Republican nomination, 388, 411, 416; wants to run for President, 390-393, 395-396; Pomeroy Circular, 392-393; offers resignation, 406 Chattanooga, Battle of, 383, 404-405

  Chesnut, Mary, 87, 113

  Chicago Democratic Convention, 416

  Chicago Evening Journal, 289

  Chicago Times, 144-145, 223, 226, 238, 253-254, 318, 345, 357, 382, 400-402, 450, 467

  Chicago Tribune, 7, 52, 59, 61, 89, 105, 137, 144, 186, 210, 222, 240, 243, 299, 334, 349, 411, 414, 468

  Child, Lydia Maria, 286, 440

  Cincinnati Commercial, 62, 239, 331

  Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 54, 128, 200, 249, 378, 402

  Cincinnati Daily Times, 171

  Cincinnati Gazette, 226, 359, 414

  City Point, Virginia, 451-453

  Clay, Cassius, 188

  Clay, Henry, 12, 22, 27-28, 218, 289, 292, 301, 399

  Clemens, Sherrard, 134

  Cleveland Four Hundred, 399

  Cobb, T.R.R., 143

  Cochrane, John, 329, 398

  Cold Harbor, Battle of, 403, 405

  Colfax, Schuyler, 224

  Collamer, Jacob, 67

  Collum, Shelby, 389

  Columbus Crisis, 357, 377

  Columbus Daily Capital City Fact, 171

  Combe, George, 25, 40

  Committee of Nine, 337-338

  Commodore, 268

  Compromise of 1850, 37, 88

  Confiscation Act, 217-218, 221, 225, 238, 250, 254, 297, 299, 302

  Conkling, Edgar, 413

  Conkling, James C., 375

  Conscription Act of March 3, 1863, viii, 363-364, 370

  Constitutional Convention, 36

  Constitutional Union Party, 77

  Cooper Union, 55, 80, 90, 93, 141, 226, 369, 380, 398, 426

  “Copperheads,” 356-357, 361, 365, 367-369, 372-373, 375, 377-378, 382, 387, 427, 465, 467

  Corning Democrats, 374

  Corning, Erastus, 374-375

  Corwin, Tom, 67-68

  Cotton States, 83, 88, 94, 97, 115, 150-152, 157, 170, 175-176, 183-184, 355

  Cox, Samuel “Sunset,” 358

  Crawford, Martin J., 169-170

  The Crisis, 291-293, 319, 340, 345, 367, 378, 411, 443, 468

  Crittenden Compromise, 101-102, 149, 155

  Crittenden Resolution, 241

  Crittenden, John J., 101-102, 182, 217

  Crook, William, 458, 460

  Cross Keys, Battle of, 274

  Curtin, Andrew, 64

  Curtis, Benjamin R., 347, 358

  Curtis, George W., 315

  Cutler, William P., 349

  Dahlgren, Adm. John, 246, 352

  Daily Chicago Herald, 66

  Dallas Herald, 468

  Dana, Charles, 409, 436, 438

  Dana, Richard Henry, 353

  Davenport Democrat, 145

  Davis, David, 59, 62, 64

  Davis, Garrett, 218, 407-408

  Davis, Henry Winter, 158, 240, 333, 347, 406-407, 412-413, 416, 418, 422, 429-430, 440, 443-444, 462

  Davis, Jefferson, 3, 46, 107, 114, 164, 177, 187, 192, 208, 228, 235-236, 242, 244, 252, 300, 360, 370, 420-422, 463-464, 466

  Dawes, Henry, 8, 34

  de Tocqueville, Alexis, 20, 39-40, 116, 285-286

  Declaration of Independence, 6, 200

  Delahay, M.W., 424

  Democracy in America, 20

  Democratic National Committee, 424

  Democratic Convention of 1860, 33, 424, 426-427

  Democratic Party, 21-22, 26, 32, 38, 44, 51, 54, 77, 138, 166, 179, 355, 425, 427, 464

  Democratic Standard, 250

  Democratic Union Association, 324

  Detroit Free Press, 324, 357, 390

  Dicey, Edward, 11, 122-123, 127, 279, 287-288

  Dickens, Charles, 15, 24, 26

  Dix, Gen. Jacob, 253

  Dix, Gen. John, 102, 205

  Dodge, William L., 117

  Donaldson, Capt. Francis, 128

  Doniphan, Alexander, 134

  Doolittle, Senator James R., 347

  Douglas, Stephen A., 12, 51-54, 75, 77, 82, 88, 126, 155-156, 170, 380

  Douglass, Frederick, 216, 287, 289-290, 296, 300-301, 303, 314, 344-345, 449

  Dow, Neal, 170

  Dred Scott decision, 37, 43, 76, 83, 200, 288, 347

  Dummer, Henry E., 132

  Early, Gen. Jubal A., 144, 408-410, 430, 437

  Election of 1864, 424, 426-432, 435-438

  Elements of Military Art and Science, 305

  Ellis, John W., 182

  Ellsworth, Col. Elmer, 205

  Emancipation Proclamation, viii, 225, 282, 285, 291-292, 311, 313-319, 321-323, 326-328, 333-334, 337, 340-358, 365, 375, 381, 383, 420-421, 444

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 40, 71, 344, 376

  Everett, Edward, 110, 380

  Ewing, Thomas, 326, 347, 350

  Farnsworth, John, 443

  Federal Militia Act, 324

  Federalist Party, 18

  Fell, Jesse, 65

  Fessenden, Senator William Pitt, 162-163, 265, 324, 386, 406, 464

  Field, David Dudley, 329, 416, 422, 426

  Fillmore, President Millard, 29, 41

  Fisher, Sidney George, 71

  Fitzhugh, George, 48

  Forbes, J.M., 340

  Ford’s Theatre, 460

  Forsyth, John, 169-170

  Fort Delaware, Delaware, 468

  Fort Donaldson, Tennessee, 271

  Fort Hamilton, New York, 249

  Fort Henry, Tennessee, 271

  Fort Jefferson, Florida, 160

  Fort Lafayette, New York, 324, 432

  Fort McHenry, Maryland, 199-200, 248, 253

  Fort Monroe, Virginia, 265-266, 306

  Fort Pickens, Florida, 160, 170, 175-176

  Fort Stevens, Maryland, 409

  Fort Sumter, South Carolina, viii, 88, 160, 165, 167-171, 173-175, 177, 239, 248, 281, 346, 408, 460

  Fort Sumter, fall of, 151, 178-179, 181-182, 185, 211-212, 216

  Fort Taylor, Florida, 160

  Fort Warren, Massachusetts, 365

  Founding Fathers, vii, 10, 17-19, 23, 36, 43, 82, 93, 382

  Fox, Gustavus, 175-176, 261

  Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 364

  Franklin, Benjamin, 36

  Franklin, Gen. William B., 256, 259

  Fredericksburg, Battle of, 334, 337, 349, 364

  Free Soil Party, 75

  Frémont, Gen. John C., 67, 220-224, 238, 244, 267, 272, 274, 281, 305, 311, 333, 390, 396-399, 411, 429-430, 452; replaced by Lincoln, 225-227; McClellan’s contempt for, 234; Lincoln repudiates his emancipation proclamation, 254; Mountain Department, 265-266; emancipation proclamation, 291, 296

  French, Benjamin B., 352

  Fugitive Slave Law, 12, 37-39, 83

  Fuller, Reverend R.F., 196, 456

  Gadsden Purchase, 98

  Garfield, Gen. James A., 114, 349

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 43-44, 46, 73, 224, 240, 293, 296, 301, 304, 334, 344-345

  Gettysburg Address, 381-383, 387, 449

  Gettysburg, Battle of, 369, 373-374, 380-381

  Giddings, Joshua, 212

  Gilmer, John A., 103, 144, 180

  Gilmore, Governor Joseph A., 394

  God
win, Parke, 416

  Goldwater, Barry, 82

  Gould, Jay, 101

  Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., 261, 271-272, 276, 305, 373, 390, 396, 403-405, 409, 426, 436, 442, 451-454

  Greeley, Horace, 52, 55, 57, 63, 65, 79, 94-95, 102, 129-130, 138, 141, 179, 205-206, 209, 213, 221-222, 236, 240, 242, 244, 278, 289, 301-304, 315, 348, 374, 391, 396, 398, 402, 411-412, 414-416, 428, 450-451, 472-473

  Grimes, Senator James W., 239, 411, 427, 462

  Grinnell, Moses, 99, 116

  Gurowski, Count Adam, 165, 196, 204, 206, 216, 228, 235, 245, 260, 278, 293-295, 299, 310, 314, 333, 388-389, 401, 422, 427-428, 440, 462, 465

  Hale, John P., 349

  Halleck, Gen. Henry, 225, 239, 272, 322, 364, 409; ordered to Washington, 281; Elements of Military Art and Science, 305; promoted to Generalin-Chief, 305-306; Halleck orders McClellan to leave the Peninsula, 306-307

  Halstead, Murat, 62-63, 65-68, 359, 391

  Hamilton, Gen. Schuyler, 417

  Hamlin, Hannibal, 137, 157, 316, 336, 345

  Hampton Roads Conference, 445-446

  Hancock, John, 11

  Hanks, John, 60

  Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 57, 188, 206, 408

  Harper’s Weekly, 4, 33, 86, 186, 216, 270, 272, 335, 387, 435, 465

  Harris, Isham G., 183

  Harrisburg Daily Patriot and Union, 110

  Harrison, President William H., 22-23, 38, 79

  Harrison’s Landing Letter, 425-426

  Harrison’s Landing, Virginia, 276-277, 280, 282, 305

  Hartford Convention, 11

  Hartford Times, 144

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 123-124, 127, 211

  Hay, John, 14, 132, 135, 174, 190, 193-194, 198, 202-203, 233, 237, 265, 291, 321, 328, 377, 383, 393, 408, 413-414, 437-438, 485n, 508n

  Heintzelman, Gen. Samuel, 233, 263, 270

  Henry, Patrick, 12

  Herbert, J.K., 412-413, 429

  Herndon, William, 104, 109, 123-125, 130, 133-134, 179, 222, 485n

  Hickman, John, 294

  Hitchcock, Gen. Ethan Allen, 267-268

  Hoadly, George, 222

  Hoar, Rockwood, 204

  Hodges, Albert G., 444

  Holden, William, 180

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 229, 344, 462

  Holmes, Jr., Capt. Oliver Wendell, 349, 409

  Holmes, W., 360

  Holt, Joseph, 324

  Hood, Gen. John B., 405

  Hooker, Gen. Joseph, 333, 366

  Hoover, President Herbert, 82

  Houston Telegraph, 469

  Howard, F. Key, 251, 253

  Howard, Jr., Joseph, 4

  Howe, Julia Ward, 237

 

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