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Living Hell

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by Michael C. C. Adams


  Corcoran, Michael, 20

  Corliss, Joseph H., 98

  corporate leaders, 194–95

  corpses on the battlefield, 100–103, 153–54

  burial of, 92, 101–3, 106–7

  hogs’ consumption of, 83, 88, 92

  Courtney, Edward Henry, 166

  Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage (Jim Conklin), 3, 4, 86, 212

  Crimean War, 22

  Crittenden, George B., 112

  Cross, Charlotte, 191

  Cross, Edward, 71

  Crowell, Joseph E., 15, 18, 27, 42, 71–72, 90, 92, 113

  Crummer, Wilbur, 87

  Cumberland Gap, Battle of, 114

  Cumming, Kate, 94, 99, 142

  Cupp, Daniel, 114

  Custer, Elizabeth (Libbie), 121, 191

  Custer, George Armstrong, 52, 170

  at Little Big Horn, 208–9

  Dabney, R. L., 88

  Daly, Marcia L., 145

  Davidson, William Lott, 47, 138

  Davis, Charles E., 76

  Davis, Jefferson, 8, 54, 65, 159, 190

  Davis, Richard Harding, 213

  Davis, Varina Howell, 8, 159

  Dawson, Sarah, 139

  death. See casualties, Civil War

  corpses on the battlefield

  medical treatment

  DeForest, John William, 46, 50, 114, 150, 199

  dehydration, 56–57. See also water

  DeLeon, Thomas, 152

  desertions, 27, 29, 31

  encouraged by soldiers’ families, 141–42

  punishment for, 130–32

  related to psychological trauma, 110, 115, 119–20, 128

  Dewey, William, 112

  diarrhea, 23–24, 25, 43, 45

  Dickens, Charles, 9

  diet and nutrition, 8, 79–80. See also food

  Diltz, Joseph H., 26

  disease: borne by insects, 37, 47–50

  officers afflicted by, 52–55

  prevalence of, 8–9, 158

  prisoners of war afflicted by, 179

  soldiers afflicted by, 20, 22–27, 42–43, 44–45, 51, 55, 79–80. See also dysentery

  typhoid fever

  typhus

  venereal disease

  yellow fever

  dissociation, 118

  Divine, Michael, 71

  Doctorow, E. L., 137

  Dooley, John, 56, 71, 115

  Dornblaser, Thomas F., 136

  Doubleday, Abner, 57, 74, 127, 162

  Douglas, Henry Kyd, 3, 85, 172

  Douglas, William, 22

  Drennan, William A., 177

  dress, 8

  drug use, 9–10

  by Civil War veterans, 199, 202. See also laudanum

  opium

  Duke, Basil, 121

  du Picq, Ardant, 62, 113

  Dyre, John C., 98

  dysentery, 23–24, 25, 45, 49, 69, 80

  Early, Jubal, 55, 56, 169

  Eaton, Clement, 7

  Eaton, John, 148

  Echols, John, 53

  Edwards, John, 88

  8th Illinois, 47

  8th New Jersey, 141

  8th Ohio, 104

  8th Virginia, 128

  18th Pennsylvania, 123

  80th Ohio, 143

  83rd New York, 152

  85th Illinois, 118

  86th Illinois, 44, 116–17

  Eisenschiml, Otto, 171

  elephant, as introduction to battle, 60, 69, 115, 218

  11th Connecticut, 128

  11th New York Artillery, 19, 112, 115, 137

  11th North Carolina, 50, 67

  Elmira, New York, prison at, 177, 179

  Elmore, Grace Brown, 57, 150

  Elwell, John, 65

  Emancipation Proclamation, 34

  divided feelings about, 18, 167–68

  Engels, Friedrich, 193

  enlistment: age requirements for, 28

  bounties offered for, 29–30

  reluctance regarding, 27–28

  Enrollment Act (Union), 29, 34

  erysipelas, 2, 4–25

  Estes, John B., 119

  Estes, Lewellyn G., 52

  ether, 150–51

  Ewell, Richard S., 78–79, 121–22

  Fall, Albert, 20–21

  Farnsworth, Elon J., 74

  Farragut, David G., 160

  Faulkner, William, 216

  Fay, Edwin, 129

  Featherstone, Daniel, 70

  Fehrenbacher, Don, 202–3

  Fern, Fanny, 8

  field hospitals, 51, 86, 89–92, 106

  surgery performed in, 89–93

  15th Alabama, 57

  15th Amendment, 186

  15th Arkansas, 72

  15th Georgia, 46

  15th Iowa, 20, 22, 72, 89, 112, 200

  15th Massachusetts, 87–88

  15th New Jersey, 23, 120

  5th Indiana Cavalry, 200–201

  5th Iowa, 113

  5th Kentucky Artillery (U.S.), 20, 57, 74, 88, 127

  5th New Hampshire, 71

  5th New Jersey, 103

  5th Texas, 47, 67, 71, 137, 138, 178

  52nd Georgia, 66

  54th Massachusetts, 34, 36, 65, 187–88, 197

  54th Pennsylvania, 50

  55th Illinois, 66

  55th Massachusetts, 35, 129

  58th Indiana, 172

  58th Ohio, 92

  1st Kentucky Brigade (U.S.), 55

  1st Minnesota, 67

  1st Missouri Cavalry, 173

  1st South Carolina (U.S.), 53, 148, 188–89

  1st South Carolina, 102–3

  1st Tennessee (C.S.A.), 48, 137–38

  1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, 217–18

  1st Virginia (C.S.A.), 56, 71, 115

  1st Virginia Cavalry, 104

  Fisk, George, 95

  Fisk, Jim, 194

  Fisk, Wilbur, 22, 56, 114, 116

  Fisk, William, 45

  Fletcher, William A., 47, 67, 71, 137, 178

  flies, 48, 49

  Fogle, Theodore, 19

  food: poor quality of, 41–43

  for prisoners of war, 179

  shortages of, 37, 40–43, 135, 136

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 168, 187

  Forten, Charlotte L., 145, 147

  “For the Union Dead” (Lowell), 189

  40th Georgia, 16

  40th New York, 19, 30, 69, 177, 202

  42nd New York, 42

  42nd Ohio, 55

  44th Georgia, 119

  45th Illinois, 87

  46th Ohio, 151

  47th Ohio, 39, 59, 88

  48th Pennsylvania, 30, 50, 71

  4th Alabama, 67, 205

  4th Louisiana, 138

  4th Michigan, 69

  4th Ohio, 44

  4th Pennsylvania, 129

  4th Texas, 112

  14th Amendment, 185–86, 190–91

  14th Illinois, 41, 44

  14th New York, 98

  14th Wisconsin, 16

  Foy, Eddie, 142

  Frank, Albert, 125

  Fredericksburg, Battle of, 18, 46, 54, 64, 71, 104, 112, 119, 206

  freedmen, 146–47, 148

  Freedmen’s Bureau, 185

  Fremantle, Arthur, 121–22

  French, Samuel, 66

  Gale, W. D., 104–5

  Galwey, Thomas, 15, 104

  gambling, 21

  gangrene, 68, 89, 92, 95

  Gardner, W. H., 160

  Garfield, James, 55

  Garland, Samuel, Jr., 77

  Garnett, Richard Brooke, 53, 74

  Garrard, Kenner D., 48

  gender roles, 10

  Gettysburg, Battle of, 40, 50, 53, 56, 57, 162

  casualties at, 63–64, 67, 68, 70–71, 86, 86, 100–101

  injuries suffered at, 69, 77, 78, 79, 87, 89–90, 97, 104

  Gettysburg Cyclorama, 213

  Gibbes, Robert W., 92, 155

  Gibbon,
John, 74, 167

  Gieseke, Julius, 112

  Gilded Age, 196

  Gillmore, Quincy A., 161

  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 96

  Girardeau, Thomas, 142

  Glory, 189

  Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 196–97

  gonorrhea, 22. See also venereal disease

  Gooding, James Henry, 34

  Goodloe, Albert Theodore, 117–18

  Gordon, John B., 23, 77–78

  Gorgas, Josiah, 183

  Gould, Charles, 18, 24

  Gould, Jay, 194

  Graham, Charles K., 74

  Graham, James, 143

  Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), 187, 193, 201

  Granger, R. S., 21

  Grant, Harriet, 158

  Grant, Ulysses S., 3, 35, 55, 110, 113, 117, 124, 130, 168–69, 208

  as president, 195, 196, 207

  Greene, William B., 17

  Greenwood, Berry, 43

  Griffith, D. W., 189

  Grover, William, 131

  “guillotining” (in amputation), 91

  gun violence, 197–98

  Haley, John W., 41, 44

  Hall, George, 112

  Halleck, Henry W., 65, 130

  Hamilton, William, 92

  Hammond, James Henry, 10

  Hammond, William Alexander, 40–41, 96

  Hampton, Frank, 156

  Hampton, Wade, 74

  Hancock, Cornelia, 21, 45, 89, 93, 128, 147

  Hancock, Winfield Scott, 74, 78

  Hanna, Abe, 69

  Harding, Vincent, 146

  Harris, Joel Chandler, 151

  Hartford (ship), 82

  Haskell, Alexander, 58

  Haskell, Frank, 167

  Hawk, Esther Hill, 35–36, 41–42, 148

  Hay, John, 217

  Haydon, Charles B., 18, 22, 143

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 50, 193, 194–95

  Heintzelman, Samuel P., 19, 85

  Hersey, Frank, 70

  Higginson, Henry Lee, 15

  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 53, 188–89

  Hight, John H., 172

  Hightower, H. J., 128

  Hildebrand, Sam, 199

  Hill, A. P., 22

  Hill, Daniel H., 52, 121

  Hill, James J., 194

  Hoffman, Lucas, 201

  Hoffman, William, 179

  hogs, corpses consumed by, 83, 88, 92

  Holmes, Emma, 136, 150, 151, 153, 164, 178

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 69, 115, 130, 211

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 153

  Homer, The Iliad, 167

  Homer, Winslow, 129

  Hood, John Bell, 64–65, 79, 123–24, 156, 157

  Hook, Elizabeth, 106

  Hooker, Joseph, 127–28

  Hopley, Catherine, 163

  Houghton, James, 44

  Howard, Anna, 142

  Howard, Oliver Otis, 176

  Howe, W. W., 14

  Howells, William Dean, 12, 217

  Hughes, Margaret, 146

  Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, 41

  human rights, 11, 166

  Hunt, Sallie, 162–63

  Hunt, Sanford B., 188

  Hunter, Alvah, 80

  Hunter, David, 147, 169

  Hurriston, Amos, 86

  Hurst, Samuel, 87

  Hyatt, Thaddeus J., 126

  Hyde, Thomas, 66, 73

  hygiene. See sanitation and hygiene

  Iago, Jack, 45

  I’ll Take My Stand, 196

  Imboden, John, 94

  immigrants: hostility toward, 10

  as soldiers, 15–16

  income tax, federal, 204

  industrial safety, 11

  inflation, 134, 143

  insects, as carriers of disease, 37, 47–50

  Jackson, Andrew, 37–38

  Jackson, Benjamin F., 41, 130–31

  Jackson, Stonewall, 39, 76, 85, 169

  health problems of, 54, 95

  James, Alice, 10

  James, Garth, 197, 211

  James, Henry, 197

  James, Robinson (Bob), 129, 211

  James, William, 211

  Janet, Pierre, 118

  Jett, Mrs. Edward, 143

  “Jim Crow” segregation, 186

  Johnsen, Charles, 68–69

  Johnson, Andrew, 185

  Johnson, Ben C., 50

  Johnston, Albert Sidney, 77

  Johnston, J. Stoddard, 77

  Johnston, Joseph, 65

  Jones, John B., 51, 54, 134, 140, 206

  Jones, William, 32

  Jordan, Thomas, 175

  Joyce, W. J., 42

  Kean, Robert, 135, 140

  Kearsage (ship), 81

  Keen, W. W., 90

  Keitt, Laurence, 10

  Kemble, Frances Ann “Fanny,” 10

  Kemper, James L., 53, 74

  Kennedy, John F., 211

  Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of, 67, 68, 77, 116–18

  Keokuk (ship), 81

  Kepler, C. W., 44

  Kershaw, Joseph B., 58, 150

  Key, Thomas J., 88

  Keyes, P. T., 19

  Kilpatrick, Judson, 52

  Kilpatrick, Madison, 146

  King, Edward, 188

  Kinney, John C., 82

  Knights of the White Camelia, 187

  Kozol, Jonathan, 190

  Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 187, 189

  labor movement, 192–94

  labor relations, 185

  Lanaghan, Dennis, 129

  Lanier, Sidney, 85–86, 149, 180

  Latrobe, Osmund, 167

  laudanum, 9–10, 150, 156–57

  Lazear, Bazel, 173–74

  LeConte, Emma, 135–36, 164, 173, 184

  Ledlie, James, 124

  Lee, Mary, 8

  Lee, Raymond, 118

  Lee, Richard, 128

  Lee, Robert E., 8, 20, 28, 118, 119, 122, 137, 187, 215

  at Gettysburg, 63–64

  health problems of, 54–55

  reflections of, 215

  Yankees as viewed by, 164

  Lenoir, Walter, 94

  Letcher, John, 163, 169

  lice, 47–48, 49

  Lincoln, Abraham, 6, 8, 11, 122, 134, 197

  war powers assumed by, 160–61

  Lincoln, Mary Todd, 8, 147–48, 202

  Little Big Horn, battle of, 63, 208–9

  Littlefield, Milton, 35, 36

  Little Round Top, 57, 123

  Livermore, Mary A., 111, 190

  Long, A. L., 56

  Longstreet, James “Pete,” 40, 54, 64, 79, 109, 122, 206

  Lonn, Ella, 131

  Loughborough, Mary Ann, 162

  Lowell, James Russell, 193

  Lowell, Robert, 189

  Lucas, Mrs. Henry, 142

  Lusk, William, 18

  Lyman, Theodore, 196

  lynchings, 197

  Macedonian (ship), 83

  Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell, 131

  maggots, 48, 89

  Magruder, John B., 53–54

  malaria, 49–50, 55, 80

  Mallory, Silas, 41

  Malvern Hill, 64, 67, 78, 85, 121

  Manassas, First Battle of (First Bull Run), 67, 85

  Manassas, Second Battle of (Second Bull Run), 18, 65, 69, 71, 73, 98, 114, 116, 121

  Marks, A. D., 97–98

  Marmaduke, John S., 162

  Martin, Alberta, 205

  Martin, Jasper, 205

  Martin, William, 101

  Marx, Karl, 193

  Maxfield, Lucy, 199

  Maxwell, Henry, 187

  McCarty, Patrick, 22

  McClellan, George B., 53, 55, 64, 67, 122

  McCook, Daniel, 57

  McCook, Robert, 161

  McCord, Cheves, 156

  McCrumb, Sharyn, 214–15

  McDermott, Anthony, 205

  McEntire, J., 109

  McGavock, Carrie, 104–5, 106–7

>   McGuire, Judith, 159

  McIntosh, James, 24–25

  McIntyre, Benjamin F., 137

  McMurray, John, 201

  McNaughton, J. H., 152–53

  McRae, D. K., 116

  McVeigh, Cornelia, 173

  Meade, Charles, 148

  Meade, George Gordon, 19, 119, 121, 124, 130, 165

  Meagher, Thomas F., 112–13

  measles, 20, 23

  medical practice, primitive nature of, 8–10

  medical treatment: inadequacy of, 24, 26–27, 40, 49–51, 85–86. See also ambulances

  field hospitals

  surgery

  medicines, shortages of, 136, 160

  Melton, James, 119

  Melville, Herman, 80, 82

  Bartleby the Scrivener, 15

  Moby Dick, 14–15

  Memphis, Battle of, 82

  mental illness. See psychological trauma

  Mexican War, 23, 53, 63, 204

  Meyer, Thomas, 100

  military discipline, 18–20, 130–32

  military leaders, infighting among, 18. See also officers

  military service: class discrimination in, 30, 31–32

  disillusionment with, 16–18, 36

  initial enthusiasm for, 13–16

  racial discrimination in, 34–36. See also officers

  soldiers

  Militia Act (Union), 29, 34

  Miller, William Bufton, 167

  Minié, Claude E., 62

  minnie balls, injuries inflicted by, 68–69, 98

  Minor, William Chester, 19

  Missionary Ridge, 88–89

  Mitchel, Ormsby M., 53

  Mitchell, Mary B., 43

  Mitchell, Weir, 96–98, 109–10

  Moge, Benjamin, 174–75

  Monroe Doctrine, 216

  Montfort, Theodorick, 16–17

  Moore, Edward, 207

  Moran, Lord, 120

  Morgan, George, 152

  Morgan, Gibbes, 152

  Morgan, J. P., 194

  Morgan, John Hunt, 121, 199

  Morgan, Sarah, 139, 152, 153

  morphine, 10, 53, 97–98, 200

  Morton, Oliver P., 134

  Mosby, John Hunt, 170

  mud, as obstacle for soldiers, 39, 45

  Mud March, 119

  Mulligan, James A., 69, 93

  mumps, 23, 24

  Mundy, Sue, 198–99

  Murphy, Audie, 3, 4

  Myers, John, 66–67

  Nahant (ship), 80

  Napoleon III, 213

  Napoleonic Wars, 26, 63

  Native Americans, war on, 217

  naval combat, 79–83

  hazards of, 80–82

  Nelson, Annie, 174

  neuralgia, 97, 122

  Nevin, Wilberforce, 116

  Nevins, Allan, 5

  Newton, James, 128

  Nichols, N. K., 116

  9th Indiana, 117

  9th Kentucky, 23

  9th New York, 111

  9th Ohio Cavalry, 22, 161

  19th Amendment, 191

  19th Iowa, 137

  19th Michigan, 126

  19th Virginia, 113

  97th Indiana, 151

  99th New York, 147

  Nood, Arthur, 174

  Norris, Sherman, 100–101

  nostalgia (illness), 25–27, 110, 180

  Noyes, George Freeman, 127

  Nunnally, Matthew, 45

  nurses: as caregivers and comforters for soldiers, 46–47, 51, 58, 93, 94, 98–99, 128

 

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