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Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Volume 2

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by Michael Burlingame


  on colonization, 335

  dismissal of, 690–95

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 408–9, 419, 463

  on Frémont, 207–8

  at Gettysburg Address, 570

  MTL and, 264

  opinions on Fort Sumter, 101–3, 108, 111, 124

  as prospective postmaster general, 54–55, 57, 97

  reputation of, 55

  speeches of, 566

  on Trent affair, 223

  on West Virginia, 460

  Blake, John B., 276–77

  Blatchford, Richard, 163

  Blenker, Louis, 304

  Blow, Henry T., 538, 596

  Boernstein, Henry, 93

  Bohlen, Henry, 438

  Boker, George H., 283

  Bond, Hugh Lennox, 372

  Bookstaver, David S., 33

  Booth, Edwin, 812, 814

  Booth, John Wilkes, 770, 803, 807

  assassination plot of, 810–11, 816–17

  biases of, 813

  parents of, 813–14, 815, 816

  views of, 812–13

  Booth, Junius Brutus, 813–14, 815, 816

  Booth, Marie Christine Adelaide Delannoy (Mrs. Junius), 816

  Booth, Mary Ann Holmes, 813–14, 815, 816

  Border States, 340, 384, 390, 416, 442, 463, 465, 708, 805

  AL’s proposal to abolish slavery in Washington, D.C., and, 333–48, 355–57

  armies of, 405

  Confederacy and, 102, 122, 124, 126–27

  confrontation with, 135–36

  Delaware as, 128–29, 230, 335–36

  Emancipation Proclamation and, 422–23

  Kentucky as, 128–29, 230, 335–36

  lawmakers, 340–43, 361

  Maryland as, 128–29, 230, 335–36, 342, 346–47

  Missouri as, 128–29, 230, 335–36

  objections of, 403

  in Union, 131, 335–36, 338. See also Kentucky

  Boston (Massachusetts) Atlas and Bee, 63

  Boston (Massachusetts) Commonwealth, 411, 463, 500, 597–98

  Boston (Massachusetts) Daily Advertiser, 6

  Boston (Massachusetts) Daily Courier, 577

  Boston (Massachusetts) Journal, 275, 518, 570, 789

  Boston (Massachusetts) Post, 477

  Boston (Massachusetts) Transcript, 673, 771

  Boteler, Alexander R., 44

  Botts, John Minor, 120, 125, 566

  on AL’s 1861 proclamation calling up militia, 136

  Bouligny, John, 66, 587

  Boutwell, George, 414, 554, 586, 589, 596, 603, 735

  Bowen, Henry C., 288

  Bowles, Samuel, 286, 303

  Boyce, William W., 742

  Boyer, Benjamin M., 278

  Bradford, Augustus W., 148, 346–47, 414, 568

  Bragg, Braxton, 127, 432, 484, 545

  at battle of Chickamauga, 555, 557

  forces, 579

  Bramlette, Thomas, 709–10

  Breckinridge, John C., 171, 243, 353, 508, 640

  Briggs, James A., 265–66, 617, 622

  Bright, Jesse D., 173

  Bright, John, 226, 250

  Brinkerhoff, Jacob, 204, 344

  Bristow, Francis, 66

  Bromwell, Henry P.H., 352, 826

  Brooklyn (New York) Daily Eagle, 651

  Brooklyn Navy Yard, 115, 707

  Brooks, Erastus, 332

  Brooks, James, 232, 245, 560, 569

  Brooks, Noah, 458, 486, 629, 715, 717, 722, 724, 727, 729, 774, 801

  AL and, 489–92, 495, 498, 503, 596, 653, 657, 663, 734–35, 744, 768, 805, 808

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 469

  as journalist, 55, 259

  remarks of, 370, 446

  on war, 423–24

  Bross, William, 668

  Brough, John, 564–65, 623–25

  Brown, Austin, 532

  Brown, B. Gratz, 537, 549, 554–55, 613, 635, 777

  Brown, George W., 141–42, 145

  Brown, Henry, 825

  Brown, John, 395, 399, 424, 526, 676–78, 771, 812, 816

  Brown, Joseph E., 742

  Brown, Peter, 252

  Brown, William G., 461

  Brown, William Wells, 395, 522

  Browning, Orville H., 56, 150, 344, 598, 664, 700, 754, 764, 827–28

  as AL’s friend, 69, 130, 154, 165, 205–6, 229–30, 308, 320, 330, 351, 356–57, 430, 443, 464–66, 738

  on AL’s inaugural address, 45–47

  on AL’s work habits, 72–73

  on cabinet crisis, 452, 456

  during elections, 421

  on emancipation, 400, 440–41, 468, 478

  on Lincoln, W., 298

  on MTL, 263, 274

  on Trent affair, 224

  Brownson, Orestes, 383, 403–4, 449

  Bryant, William Cullen, 213, 232, 423, 449, 649, 673–74, 707, 732

  Buchanan, Franklin, 508

  Buchanan, James, 22, 32, 640

  administration of, 40, 52, 59–61, 70, 131, 204, 243, 731, 739, 804

  corruption and, 70, 175

  on Fort Pickens, 104

  on Fort Sumter, 100

  patronage and, 79

  Buckingham, William A., 399, 488, 666

  Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 128, 156, 508

  Buell, Don Carlos: as commander, 218–20, 221, 248, 330, 437

  conflicts with, 582

  dismissal of, 458

  on emancipation, 436

  failure to fight by, 423, 432–33

  at Perryville, 438

  reinforcements of, 309, 321

  Buffalo (New York) Courier, 204

  Buffalo, New York, AL speaks at, 17–19

  Buford, Napoleon B., 320

  Bull Run, 212, 222, 242, 404, 496, 625, 806

  early war skirmishes and, 176–89

  first defeat at, 182–84, 190, 200, 361

  McDowell at, 182–85

  Nicolay on, 182

  Scott, Winfield, on, 182–84

  Second Battle of, 371–76, 378–79, 504. See also Manassas

  Bullitt, Cuthbert, 406–7, 586

  Burbridge, Stephen G., 719

  Burgess, James M., 2

  Burke, Francis P., 278–79

  Burlingame, Anson, 91

  as minister to Austria, 94

  as minister to China, 92, 95

  Burnett, Henry C., 66

  Burns, John, 577

  Burns, Thomas, 252

  Burnside, Ambrose E., 197, 212–13, 323, 380, 522, 564, 579

  as commander, 444–48, 484–87, 500

  conduct of, 556

  defeats, 444–48

  division of, 319

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 418

  at Falmouth, 370

  as general, 290, 303, 330, 368, 583

  General Order Number 38, 505–6

  during grand offensive, 648

  as head of Department of Ohio, 503–10

  recommendations of, 583–84

  replacement of, 484–87

  victories, 297

  Burritt, Elihu, 338

  Burton, Benjamin, 229

  Butler, Andrew J., 81–82

  Butler, Benjamin F., 81, 147–48, 475, 519–20, 540, 556, 600, 611, 694

  AL and, 544, 587

  on AL’s reelection, 683

  as commander, 212, 237, 438, 529

  dispatch of seven regiments by, 180

  “fugitive slave law” of, 351

  during grand offensive, 646, 648, 652, 654

  potential candidacy of, 631–32, 634, 666–67, 680

  Reconstruction and, 585–86, 590–91

  replacement of, 434–35

  support of, 612, 619

  Butler, William, 87, 100, 431

  Butterfield, Daniel, 498

  Butterfield, Justin, 530

  Butz, Caspar, 635

  Cabinet crisis (1862), 448–57

  Cadwallader, Sylvanus, 779, 787

  Cairo, Illinois, 163, 207

 
mortar fleet at, 291–92

  reinforcement of, 137, 201

  Union troops at, 155

  Camden and Amboy Railroad, 748

  Cameron, Simon, 59, 98, 188, 194, 277, 279, 329, 720–21

  AL and, 617–18, 710

  on AL’s militia proclamation, 134, 140

  on AL’s reelection, 644, 669

  annual reports by, 237–40

  criticism of, 175–76, 184–85

  Frémont, J., and, 209

  opponents/supporters of, 52–53

  as prospective cabinet secretary, 52–56

  on relief of Fort Sumter, 99, 102, 105

  removal of, 240–43, 244, 285

  replacement of, 176

  on Trent affair, 220, 226

  unsavory reputation of, 53–54

  on war, 194, 199, 219

  as war secretary, 83, 85, 86, 98, 160, 162–65, 240

  Camp Dick Robinson (Kentucky), 157

  Camp Hamilton, 313

  Campbell, James H., 272–73

  Campbell, John A., 64, 106–7, 111, 113, 742, 753, 758, 791–92

  Campbell, Lewis D., 666

  Campbell, Thomas M., 268

  Campbell, William B., 582

  Canada, 227–28, 507, 761, 804

  Confederate agents in, 754–55

  developments in, 738–39

  Canby, Edward R.S., 647, 762–63, 776

  Canisius, Theodore, 83

  Cannon, LeGrand, 299

  Capen, Francis L., 497

  Captured and Abandoned Property Act, 754

  Carlile, John S., 159

  Carnegie, Andrew, 182

  Carney, Thomas, 666

  Carpenter, Francis B., 260, 333, 363–64, 807

  Carr, Joseph R., 313

  Cartter, David K., 58

  Casey, Samuel L., 343, 403, 442

  Castle Thunder Prison (Richmond), 792

  Catto, William T., 390

  Centreville, troops at, 199, 295, 304

  Chace, Elizabeth Buffum, 687

  Chamberlain, Daniel H., 750

  Chambrun, Marquis de (Charles Adolphe Pineton), 795–98

  Chancellorsville, battle of, 502, 649, 800

  Chandler, Albert B., 512

  Chandler, William E., 618, 717

  Chandler, Zachariah, 87, 413, 560, 660, 766, 820

  AL and, 215, 377, 378, 449, 531, 554, 593, 691–93

  opinions of, 450, 457–58, 566, 752–53

  on war, 194–95, 428, 431, 695

  Channing, William Henry, 334

  Chapman, Augustus H., 270

  Chapman, Maria Weston, 337–38, 640–41

  on AL’s reelection, 686, 687

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 470

  Charleston (South Carolina) Mercury, 64

  Charleston, South Carolina, 192

  1863 campaign against, 487–91

  Chase, Kate, 784

  Chase, Salmon P., 1, 179, 236, 237, 308, 383–84, 420, 486, 504, 533, 565, 635, 705–6, 720, 771, 804

  AL and, 312–14, 317, 348, 350, 361–63, 393, 464, 523, 611–12, 801

  Blair, F., on, 619–21

  cabinet crisis and, 451–59

  on cabinet shake-up, 239–40, 243–44

  as chief justice, 731–36

  criticism of, 185, 198, 215

  Davis, D., on, 732

  diary accounts of, 391–92

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 407–9, 463, 471

  on Frémont, 209–10

  on government’s finances, 297

  Halleck and, 370–71

  Hay on, 623–24, 626

  on McClellan, 375, 376–78, 381

  MTL and, 55, 264, 265–66, 732

  partisans, 553

  patronage and, 77–78, 95, 96

  presidential candidacy of, 609–19, 689

  as prospective treasury secretary, 52–58, 65

  Radicals and, 589–90, 592–93, 619–20

  recommendations of, 320, 371, 503, 598

  on relief of Fort Sumter, 102, 109

  resignation of, 619–26, 691, 693

  Sumner, C., on, 733

  as treasury secretary, 106, 201, 214, 220–21, 429, 605–8

  at war council, 556

  on West Virginia, 460

  Chattanooga, battle of, 579

  Cheever, George B., 335, 411, 589, 633, 635, 637, 667, 689, 697

  Cheever, Henry T., 320, 397, 635, 637

  Chicago (Illinois) Journal, 38, 184

  Chicago (Illinois) Times, 346, 477, 507, 559, 576–77, 698

  Chicago (Illinois) Tribune, 87, 210, 235, 239, 246, 295, 476, 600, 665, 777

  on AL, 470, 562, 825

  on AL’s gradual emancipation plan, 338

  on colonization, 391

  editorials, 423

  on Gettysburg Address, 575

  on war, 370

  Chickamauga (Georgia), battle of: Bragg at, 555, 557

  Rosecrans at, 555–58

  Child, Lydia Maria, 65, 204, 233, 354, 715, 777

  on AL, 337, 345, 350, 610, 640–41, 728

  on AL’s reelection, 687

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 410, 471

  on MTL, 272

  opinions of, 450, 637

  on war, 424

  Chiriqui Improvement Company, 391, 392–93

  Chittenden, Lucius E., 41

  Chrisman, Herring, 120

  Church, Sanford E., 402

  Cincinnati (Ohio) Commercial, 179, 283, 446, 572–73

  on AL’s congressional messages, 232

  on AL’s gradual emancipation plan, 339

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 472

  on patronage, 88, 91

  Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, 478, 599, 629, 671, 697, 751

  on AL’s administration, 245

  on AL’s speeches as president-elect, 19

  Cincinnati (Ohio) Gazette, 39, 210, 439, 575, 666, 736

  on AL’s war orders, 294

  on AL’s work habits, 71

  Cincinnati, Ohio, 210

  AL speaks at, 7–10

  Cisco, John J., 622

  City Point: AL’s visit to, 778–81, 786

  hospitals, 796–98

  Clark, Daniel, 359

  Clarke, Enos, 545

  Clarke, James Freeman, 463, 617, 828

  Clarkson, Thomas, 353

  Clay, Cassius M., 92, 140

  on AL’s Indianapolis speech, 6

  as minister to Russia, 241, 290

  Clay, Clement C., 670, 754

  Clay, Henry, 120, 132, 155, 345, 457, 694

  “Clay Battalion,” 140

  Clemens, W.W., 788–90

  Clements, Sherrard, 97

  Clephane, Lewis, 96, 693

  Cleveland, Charles Dexter, 92

  Cleveland, Ohio, AL speaks at, 15–17

  Cleveland Convention (1864), 635–37, 640

  Clifford, John H., 682

  Clingman, Thomas, 66

  Clipper (Baltimore), 66

  Cobden, Richard, 226, 415

  Cochrane, John, 237–38, 418, 485–86, 636–37, 640, 687

  Coffey, Titian J., 733

  Coffin, Charles C., 789–90

  Coffroth, Alexander, 749

  Coggeshall, William T., 368, 611

  Colfax, Schuyler, 54, 180, 459, 488, 733–35, 807, 809

  AL and, 473, 592–93, 617, 649–50, 652, 804

  on MTL, 267

  as prospective cabinet member, 55

  Collamer, Jacob, 356–57, 452, 454, 456, 665

  colonization, 345, 355, 408

  Africa and, 387

  African Americans on, 235, 387–88

  Chicago (Illinois) Tribune on, 391

  emancipation and, 363

  in Haiti, 235, 236, 395–96

  in Liberia, 387–89

  plans, 336

  proponents of, 387–88

  Radicals’ support for, 235–37

  schemes, 383–95

  U.S. Congress and, 384–86, 392

  Columbus, 78
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  Columbus (Ohio) Crisis, 420, 576, 651

  Columbus, Ohio, AL speaks at, 10–12

  Compton, William B., 145

  Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor, 668

  Cone, Charles F., 278

  Confederacy. See Confederate States of America

  Confederate Navy, 114, 739

  Confederate States of America (Confederacy), 24, 145, 358, 361, 726–27, 800–801

  advantages of, 135

  agents, 754–55

  battles, 290–91

  Border States and, 102, 122, 124, 126–27

  capture of Lexington, Missouri, 201–2

  commissioners, 64–65, 106, 111, 113, 116, 124, 128

  confiscation of property and, 154, 174, 205, 334, 357–60, 366

  defeat of, 314, 646

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 417

  entrenchments, 304–5

  European recognition and support of, 135, 160–62, 214, 739–40

  fatalities, 371

  forces, 371, 435

  forts, 415

  leaders of, 63, 127, 669

  objections to, 103–4

  peace with, 756–57

  ports, 150

  raid on Washington, D.C., 655–58

  recognition of, 106, 144, 415

  slaveholders, 365

  slaves escaping from, 237–38

  in St. Louis, 201

  Upper South States and, 102, 106, 124, 126–27

  in Virginia, 199

  war deaths of, 131

  Confiscation Act, First, 174, 202, 205, 334, 366, 439

  Confiscation Act, Second, 357–60, 439, 595

  appropriations for, 385–86, 536

  debates over, 432

  provisions of, 385–86, 472

  Conkling, James C., 54, 87, 234

  AL’s letter to, 560–63, 568–69, 834

  Conkling, Mercy Levering, 281

  Conkling, Roscoe, 707–8

  Conrad, Robert Young, 121

  Conscription Act, 561

  Constitutional Union Party, 20

  Conway, Martin F., 215, 232, 476

  Conway, Moncure D., 211, 448, 477–78, 632, 760–61

  AL and, 334, 337, 351, 359, 441, 519, 729

  on AL’s reelection, 686

  The Rejected Stone, 236

  Conway, Thomas W., 777

  Cook, Burton C., 642

  Cooke, Jay, 429, 613, 619

  Cooke, Philip St. George, 139

  Cooper and Hewitt firm, 291–92

  Cooper Institute, 686, 829

  Copperheads, 547, 559, 668, 677, 813

  Corbin, Abel Rathbone, 746

  Corneau, Elizabeth Ridgewell, 84

  Corning, Erastus, 2, 507, 510, 834

  Corwin, Thomas, 93, 666

  Cottman, Thomas, 588

  cotton: Europe and, 135, 150, 415, 478–79

  shortage, 478

  trading policies, 761–64

  Couch, Darius N., 496, 500, 510, 514

  Covode, John, 52–53

  demands of, 554

  as congressman, 103–4, 297

  Cow Island, 395. See also Haiti

  Cox, Jacob D., 380, 418

  Cox, Samuel S., 173, 420, 697, 720, 747

  Coxe, Robert E., 754

 

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