by Larry Tagg
Hunter, Gen. David, 295-296
Hurlbut, Stephen A., 175
Illinois Military Units, 109th Infantry, 362; 128th Infantry, 360, 362
Illinois State Register, 440
The Independent, 387
Invalid Corps, 370
Jackson, President Andrew, 9, 19-22, 30-31, 33, 38-39, 56, 74, 80, 158, 179, 207, 215, 250, 387, 394
Jackson, Governor Claiborne Fox, 183, 273
Jackson, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 219, 274-275
Jacobin Club, 237
James, Henry, 41
Jay, John, 304
Jefferson, President Thomas, 18, 38, 41, 73, 200, 213-214, 250, 288, 292, 381
Jersey City American Standard, 145
Johnson, Andrew, 27, 402, 461, 465, 470
Johnston, Gen. Joseph E., 405
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 243-244, 255, 260, 262, 265, 267-268
Jomini, Henri, 234
Judd, Norman B., 59, 61-62, 65, 99
Julian, Senator George W., 132, 221, 255, 264, 277, 288, 298, 352, 389, 440, 446, 462
Kane, George P., 1, 249
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 37, 75
Keckley, Elizabeth, 451
Keitt, Lawrence M., 48
Kellogg, William, 99
Kemble, Fanny, 286
Kettles, William, 452
Keyes, Gen. E, 263
“King Caucus,” 18-20
King, Preston, 204-205
Knights of the Golden Circle, 80, 360, 364
Know-Nothing Party, 57, 75, 77, 166
Koerner, Gustave, 64, 436
Lamon, Ward Hill, 2, 8, 65, 70, 105, 123-125, 127, 132, 175, 179, 381, 431-432, 438, 459, 480n
Lane, Henry S., 64, 66
Lane, Jim, 188
Lanier, Sidney, 134
Lanphier, Charles H., 357
Law, George, 195
Lawrence, Amos, 411
LeConte, Emily, 468
Lee, Gen. Robert E., 273, 305, 307, 311, 369, 373-374, 404-405, 408, 442, 452-454, 460
Leslie’s Newspaper, 326
Letcher, Gov. John, 144, 183
The Liberator, 43-45, 74, 334, 344
Liberty Party, 75
Lieber, Francis, 224, 331, 429, 455
Lincoln, Abraham, vii-viii, 18, 24, 35, 38, 76, 91, 102, 112, 222, 253, 256, 273, 308, 385, 387, 391, 411, 413, 422, 469; “The Railsplitter,” vii, 16, 20, 23, 60, 61, 72, 80, 99, 122, 137, 439; unknown politician, vii; calls for 75,000 volunteers, viii, 180-181, 185-187, 218, 248; Conscription Act, viii, 363-364, 369-371; Emancipation Proclamation, viii, 225, 285-286, 290-292, 295-298, 308, 311-319, 322-323, 326, 328, 333-334, 337, 340-342, 375, 383, 421, 444; First Inaugural, viii, 139-141, 143, 146; suspends the writ of habeas corpus, ix, 199-201, 249, 323-325, 374; venom of the criticism, ix; departs Springfield, 1; smuggled through Baltimore, 1, 118; sneaks into Washington, 1-4, 8; plan to assassinate him in Baltimore, 2; reluctant to sneak into Washington, 2, 8; low presidential prestige, 8; nadir of presidential prestige, 8; breadth of the contempt for, 9; man without a history, 9, 16; government puny by design, 10-14, 16, 25; Americans feared great men, 15, 29; party politics, 16-17, 21; Andrew Jackson’s legacy, 20; wins with less than 40% of vote, 21; appears worst of the lot, 22; biased party press, 27; most famous dark horse winner, 28; voters see a disastrous culmination, 30; inherited explosion of political corruption, 32; role of party delegates, 33; “Black Republican,” 34, 73, 77, 290, 424; corruption provoked fear of, 35; election interrupts Southern rule, 38; election precipitated the flight of seven states, 39; license to practice law, 42; slavery issues, 47, 49; seen as a deadlier John Brown, 50; least qualified President ever elected, 51; Chicago Tribune endorsement, 52; nomination of 1860, 53-71; shadows Douglas, 53; Cooper Union speech, 55, 141, 380; campaign etiquette, 58-59; not on list of candidates, 58; speaks at the nomination convention, 60; hazy profile to the delegates, 61; abolitionists don’t trust him, 73; complete anonymity in the South, 73, 82; “House Divided” speech, 73, 93-94; derision of, 74; Presidential Campaign of 1860, 75, 77, 81; north did not know him either, 78; south did not know him, 78, 80; stays in Springfield, 79-80, 85, 88, 95-96, 98, 104-105; election of 1860, 82-89; vile, venomous letters, 85; attitude after the election, 90, 92, 97, 106; First Inaugural Address, 92, 141, 143-145, 159, 161-162, 169, 211, 216; doesn’t know Southern mood, 93, 103; First Inauguration, 94, 156-158, 380; must be no compromise on slavery, 98-99, 101-102, 147-148, 150; assassination fears, 104, 139, 457-459; vision he would not survive, 104; pre-Inauguration Washington, 105; not good at impromptu speeches, 106-108, 110-111; journey to Washington, 105-114, 117-118, 156; dealing with merchants, 115-116; lectured by Fernando Wood, 117; arrives in Washington, 121; impressions of his looks, 121-134, 138; storytelling, 132, 134; self-esteem, 135, 137; meeting with Charles Francis Adams, 136; easy to approach, 138; First Inaugural Ball, 138; offers Seward State Department, 146-147, 149-150; Seward obvious choice for Cabinet, 146; Union Party, 153, 168; orderly transfer of power, 154; Republican radicals, 155; Hannibal Hamlin, 158; test of wills with Seward, 158; Seward changes inauguration speech, 159; Fort Sumter, 160, 165-168, 171, 173-174, 176, 178, 181, 185, 211; “hands-off” inaugural policy, 160; fatigue, 162-163, 238-239, 246, 277, 366, 417, 451; first days in office, 164-165, 167-168; picks a cabinet, 166-167; first call for volunteers, 169; Secession Winter, 169, 257; lax administrative style, 170; disillusionment with Scott, 175; Seward suggests he abdicate authority, 176-178; fall of Fort Sumter, 179; John Brown, 180; Border States reject him, 182; Baltimore riots, 187, 189, 191-192, 194-197; Baltimore’s Mayor Brown, 191-192; portrayed as paralyzed and helpless, 192; orders blockade of Southern ports, 198, 213; free hand to use illegal means, 199; Roger Taney, 200; martial naiveté, 202, 261, 267; July 4, 1861 Message to Congress, 205, 211, 291; July 5, 1862 Message to Congress, 234; Stanton’s low opinion of, 205; “Forward to Richmond!,” 206, 219, 236; Cabinet meeting with Irvin McDowell, 207; First Bull Run, 210, 216-218; 1861 Annual Message to Congress, 211-212, 214-217; 239-242, 255, 257, 292; despised by Radical Republicans, 212-214; Seward’s avid influence, 216; Confiscation Act, 217-218, 221, 225, 250, 297, 299, 302; Wade’s opinion of, 218, 237; appoints John C. Frémont, 220; Frémont’s proclamation, 220-223, 225; replaces Frémont, 225-227; assigns McClellan to command Army of the Potomac, 228-229; McClellan’s insubordination, 230-233, 236, 242, 244-245, 280; McClellan’s talk of dictatorship, 235; 1862 Annual Message to Congress, 238, 333; Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 243-244, 255, 260, 262, 268; Democratic press, 247; mobs take over newspapers, 250; gagging of Democratic newspapers, 252; repudiates Frémont’s emancipation proclamation, 254; McClellan’s plans still unknown, 255; Peninsula Campaign, 255, 265; appoints Stanton Secretary of War, 257, 259; press lacks confidence in Seward, 257; replaces Cameron, 257; McClellan outlines plans, 260; trying to get McClellan to move, 260; watershed meeting with Lincoln, 260; disapproves McClellan’s plan, 261; General War Order No. 1, 261; orders McClellan to move, 261; death of Willie, 262, 352; General War Order No. 2, 263; General War Order No. 3, 263; McClellan plans to move the army away from Washington, 263; offends McClellan, 263; as General-in-Chief, 264-276, 280-281, 305; relieves McClellan as Generalin-Chief, 264; adds Army Board to advisors, 267; holds back McDowell’s corps, 268; not informed of McClellan’s plans, 268; popularity is low, 269; end of the Peninsula Campaign, 276-277; McClellan’s blame for defeats, 278; public losing respect for, 278; Wall Street panic, 278; McClellan’s “Harrison’s Landing Letter,” 280; visits Harrison’s Landing, 280, 282; Halleck as General-in-Chief, 281; war must be revolutionary, 281-282; draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, 282, 296, 304; slavery must not survive, 282; talks of emancipation, 282; “Testimony Law,” 288; plan to gradually emancipate the slaves, 293; Washington D.C. frees its slaves, 294; Hunter’s emancipation proclamation, 295; plan to colonize the slaves, 300-301, 303-304; “Prayer of Twenty Millions,” 301, 374; needs a general to give him a victory, 304; Second Bull Run, 308; Stanton and Chase plo
t coup, 308; restores McClellan to command, 310; press asks for resignation, 311; the Great Emancipator, 313; Antietam, Battle of, 323; Federal Militia Act, 324; first military draft, 324; Proclamation No. 1, 324; 1862 elections, 328-329, 331-332; Ambrose Burnside, 332; finally sacks McClellan, 332-333; Battle of Fred-ericksburg, 334, 337; calls for resignation, 336; Committee of Nine, 337-338; Seward offers resignation, 338-339; Chase offers resignation, 339; declines to accept Chase’s and Seward’s resignation, 340; “war powers,” 342; issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 343-349, 352-353, 357, 365; treason in the Old Northwest, 353-364, 367-369; “Copperheads,” or Peace Democrats, 356-357, 361, 365, 368-369, 372-373; desertions in the army, 362; Militia Act, 363; Burnside’s “General Order No. 38,” 364-365; Chancellorsville, Battle of 366; Vallandigham’s arrest, 366-369, 374-375, 377, 379; Battle of Gettysburg, 369, 373; New York City draft riots, 370-371; increased confidence in leadership, 374; summer 1863 victories, 374, 377-378; Conkling Letter, 375-376; Corning Letter, 375-376; Gettysburg Address, 380-383, 387, 449; replaces the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence, 381-382; 1863 Annual Message to Congress, 383, 385; Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, 385-386; “State Suicide” theory, 385, 408; 1861 Annual Message to Congress, 383, 385-386, 392-393, 508n; Radical Reconstruction, 386; Reconstruction, 386, 388, 390, 406-407, 442, 444-445, 456-457, 460, 464, 470; war powers, 386; dismissed by Radicals, 387-388; “one-term rule,” 387; 1864 Republican nomination, 388-389, 390, 394-396, 398-400, 402-403, 405-406, 411-417, 419; re-election, 388-390; Chase wants to run for President, 391-392; Pomeroy Circular, 392-393; Cleveland Four Hundred, 399; accepts Chase’s resignation, 406; Amnesty and Reconstruction Proclamation, 406-407; appoints Fessenden as Secretary of Treasury, 406; Wade-Davis Bill, 406-408; Early’s assault on Washington, 409; calls for impeachment, 412; Wade-Davis Manifesto, 412-413, 416, 418; peace proposal, 420, 422; election of 1864, 424, 426-432; 435-438; Harrison’s Landing Letter, 425-426; “Petroleum V. Nasby,” 438; wins re-election, 438-440, 442; Thirteenth Amendment, 444-445; Hampton Roads Conference, 445-446; “Meditation on the Divine Will,” 446; Second Inaugural Address, 446-451; 1864 Inauguration, 451; visits Grant at City Point, 451-452; Lee’s surrender, 453-454; visits Richmond, 453; post-war plans, 455-456; assassination of, 461-463, 465; “Black Easter,” 461, 465, 467; day of mourning, 469; martyrdom, 470, 472-473, 461-468; southern views of death, 468-469
Lincoln, Mary, 85, 451, 455, 463
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 53
Logan, Gen. John A., 436
London Evening Standard, 376, 435, 470
London Herald, 215, 441
London Morning Post, 427, 470
London Punch, 440, 470
London Spectator, 279, 317
London Standard, 442
London Times, 145, 188, 206, 224, 231, 239, 299, 317, 376, 382, 395, 442, 470
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 344
Lord, Daniel, 32
Louisville Courier, 4, 6, 73, 107, 138
Louisville Daily Democrat, 346
Louisville Daily Journal, 92, 181-182, 432
Lovejoy, Elijah, 46
Lovingood, Sut, 126
Lowell, James, 11, 16, 219, 241
Lowi, Theodore, 12
Loyal Publication Society, 429
Lyon, Gen. Nathaniel, 219
Mackay, Charles, 395
Macrae, David, 27
Madison, President James, 18, 31, 36, 41, 84, 106
Magoffin, Beriah, 182, 218
Magrath, Andrew, 87
Malvern Hill, Battle of, 276
Manchester Guardian, 184
“Manifest Destiny,” 47
Marble, Manton, 425-426
Marcy, William L., 31-32
Martindale, Gen. John H., 413
Mason, James, 238
Massachusetts Military Units, 6th Infantry, 187, 189, 194, 197, 248
May, Henry, 253
Maynard, Horace, 180
McClellan, Ellen, 230, 232
McClellan, Gen. George B., 129, 239-240, 253, 282, 322, 400, 404-405, 422, 445; summoned to Washington, 227; Mexican War, 228; early praise for, 229; gross insubordination, 230-233, 280; power goes to his head, 230; hated by the Radical Republicans, 233; contempt for politicians, 234-235; refuses to move his army, 235-237, 242, 245; beginning to lose his support, 237; has typhoid fever, 243, 245-246, 256, 259; Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 243-244, 265, 268; fears for Washington’s safety, 252; does not tell anyone his plans, 256; recommends Stanton as Sec. of War, 257-258; criticized by Stanton, 259; keeps plans to himself, 260; outlines Peninsula Campaign to Lincoln, 260; poor opinion of Lincoln, 260; watershed meeting with Lincoln, 260; Lincoln orders him to move, 261; reveals his plans, 261-262; wants to move the army away from Washington, 263; relieved as General-in-Chief, 264; starts the Peninsula Campaign, 265-266; suspected as a traitor, 265; sophisticated plans, 268; feels a beaten man, 269-270; moves so slowly, 271; siege operation at Yorktown, 271; before Richmond, 272-274; blames the government, 275, 278; retreats to the James River, 275-276; end of the Peninsula Campaign, 276, 279, 296, 299; “Harrison’s Landing Letter,” 280, 425-426; Halleck as General-in-Chief, 281, 305; at Harrison’s Landing, 305; ordered to Washington, 306-307; Peninsula Campaign, 306; refuses Halleck’s orders, 307; Second Bull Run, 308; Stanton and Chase plot coup, 308; restored to command, 309-310; Antietam, Battle of, 311; Emancipation Proclamation, 321; fails to follow up Antietam victory, 332; sacked by Lincoln, 332-333; picked as Democratic nominee, 424-429; election of 1864, 425, 435, 437; loses the election, 439
McClure, Alexander, 8, 123-124, 129, 137, 174, 193, 205, 258, 328, 393, 414, 417, 428, 436
McCormick, Cyrus, 422
McCulloch, Hugh, 439
McDowell, Gen. Irvin, 207, 223, 227, 256, 259, 263, 266, 268, 272-274, 281, 305
McGovern, George, 82
McMasters, J.A., 368
McPherson, Edward, 336
Meade, Gen. George G., 373, 404, 436
Meagher, Gen. Thomas, 332
Medary, Samuel, 340, 345, 357, 411
Medill, Joseph, 59, 61, 64, 105, 222, 292, 311, 334, 337, 349, 363, 396, 414
Meigs, Montgomery, 246, 256, 259, 322
Melville, Herman, 371, 466
Meredith, William, 71
Merryman, John, 199-200, 248-249, 329
Mexican War, 32, 37, 47, 98, 228, 235
Missouri Compromise, 37, 98, 101
“Mobtown,” 1
Monroe, President James, 18, 41
Moorhead, J.K., 331
Morgan, Governor Edwin D., 394
Morton, Governor Oliver P., 107, 354-360, 363-364, 419
Nashville Patriot, 107
Nashville Union American, 126
Nat Turner Rebellion, 45, 317
National Intelligencer, 170, 410
National Republican, 170
New England Society, 150
New London (Connecticut) Chronicle, 415
New Mexico Territory, 98
New Orleans Daily Crescent, 111
New Orleans Daily Delta, 7, 49, 106, 111, 182, 190
New Orleans Picayune, 188
New Orleans, Louisiana, 271
New York Atlas, 366
New York City draft riots, viii, 370-371, 464
New York Commercial Advertiser, 129
New York Daily News, 250-251, 370, 401, 410, 467
New York Day Book, 251
New York Evening Day Book, 247
New York Evening Express, 68, 319, 345
New York Evening Post, 52, 144, 173, 206, 226, 329, 334, 396, 450
New York Herald, 8, 27, 58, 69, 73, 85, 90, 95, 99, 101-102, 109, 114, 137, 149, 152, 163, 170, 173, 178, 205, 208, 248, 251, 259, 272, 311, 323, 345, 367, 371, 391, 400-402, 410, 412, 414, 456, 463-465
New York Independent, 391
New York Journal of Commerce, 251
New York Military Units, 1st Infantry, 322; 7th Infantry, 194-195, 203; 160th Infantry, 350
New York Sp
irit of the Times, 415
New York Stock Exchange, 115
New York Times, 4, 55, 58, 68, 95, 130, 163, 171, 173, 185-186, 195-196, 206, 216, 272, 290, 296, 328, 341, 367, 375, 416, 450
New York Tribune, 8, 21, 52, 56, 63, 71, 94, 144, 185-186, 192, 205-206, 209, 213, 222, 229, 236, 242, 248, 272, 278, 289, 295, 301-302, 315, 322, 348, 374, 396, 403, 412-413, 428, 450, 455-456, 472
New York Weekly Tribune, 55
New York Weekly Journal of Commerce, 7
New York World, 8, 319, 322, 327, 345, 371, 401-402, 412, 415, 425-426, 430-432, 450, 456, 467
New Yorker Democrat, 415
Newark Evening Journal, 410, 432
Nicolay, John G., 14, 257, 361, 413-414, 428, 437, 457
North Carolina Standard, 180
Northern Democrats, 152, 200, 252
Norton, Charles Eliot, 333
Ogden, James DePeyster, 101
Oglesby, Richard, 60
Opdyke, George, 416
Ordinance of Nullification, 12
Orme, William W., 331
Overland Campaign, 405, 426
Pacific Appeal, 301
Palmer, Albert G., 462
Panic of 1857, 76
Parker, Joel, 347
Parton, James, 33
Peace Democrats, 356, 365, 427
Peninsula Campaign, 255, 297, 306, 405, 425
Pennsylvania Military Units, 51st Infantry, 350
Petersburg Campaign, 405-406, 408, 426, 442, 452
Philadelphia Evening Journal, 69, 93, 145
Philadelphia Morning Pennsylvanian, 144
Philadelphia Press, 51, 186
Phillips, Wendell, 12, 40, 74, 210, 216, 224, 241, 278, 295-296, 299, 352, 398, 403, 406, 417, 430, 444, 462
Piatt, Donn, 89, 122, 124, 134-135, 346
Pickens, Governor Francis, 177
Pierce, Edward L., 455
Pierce, President Franklin, 28-29, 41, 75, 80, 118, 236
Pinkerton, Allan, 1-2
Polk, President James K., 27-28, 37, 400
Pomeroy Circular, 392, 395
Pomeroy, Senator Samuel, 392
Pope, Gen. John, 281, 305-308
