made general-in-chief, 251, 272, 273
resignation of, 281
Burroughs, John, 394, 555
Burtenett, H. C., 331–332
Butler, Benjamin F., 28, 33, 69, 77, 82, 94–95, 97–98, 103, 172, 293, 394–395, 397, 403, 406, 428, 527, 528, 530, 537
Butterfield, Daniel, 110, 284, 286
Cabinet
Buchanan’s, 28, 31, 112, 155
Kitchen, Jackson’s, 46
Lincoln’s, 30, 46, 48–49, 59, 62, 63, 64, 74, 97, 134, 146, 170, 223, 234, 240–241, 243, 247, 250, 278, 289–290, 348, 390–391, 452, 453, 454, 458, 498, 510
Calhoun, John C., 167
Cameron, Simon, 48, 75, 82, 87, 89, 98, 104, 116, 146, 148, 155, 156–157, 348, 530
and military affairs, 111, 114, 142
Campbell, John A., 20, 59, 62, 64
Capitol, 6–7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 47, 50, 53, 54, 103, 273–274, 344–345, 467
as barracks for soldiers, 74, 81, 82–83
as hospital, 255
prepared for attack, 71, 79
war meeting in, 223, 228
Carnegie, Andrew, 83, 103, 128, 530
Carpenter, Francis B., 389–390
Carrington, Edward C., 332
Carroll Prison, 183, 195, 307, 339, 434, 438
Cartter, David K., 311, 468
Cedar Creek, 432, 433
Cedar Mountain; see Slaughter Mountain
Censorship, 116, 144, 199–200, 218, 275, 368, 392, 429, 501
Centralization of Federal authority, 515
Centreville, 118, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 129, 130, 143, 202, 213, 237, 242, 268, 427
retreat to, 236, 334
Chambersburg, 250, 315, 425
Chancellorsville, 286, 287, 312
Chandler, Zachariah, 22, 23, 25, 31, 109, 124, 126–127, 145, 156, 202, 215, 307, 530–531
Channing, William H., 492
Chantilly, 196, 239
Charleston, 25, 29
evacuation of, 440, 473
siege of, 333
Chartres, Duc de, 140, 152, 244, 366
Chase, Kate, 63, 84, 253, 351, 366, 442, 496, 551
marriage of, 347–349
Chase, Salmon P., 46–47, 60, 98, 160, 162, 237, 253–254, 278, 289, 406, 531, 534, 551
as candidate for Presidential nomination, 49, 311, 389
as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 436, 453, 454
hatred of slavery of, 46
and labor strike, 337–338
and McClellan, 154, 155, 217, 234, 241, 248
and McDowell, 101, 114
and Mrs. Lincoln, 353, 357
as Secretary of the Treasury, 48, 225, 391
Chattanooga, 320, 333, 335, 346, 384, 385, 513
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 99, 136, 160, 412
Chicago Zouaves, 24, 40
Chickahominy River, 212, 213, 215, 216, 246, 403
Chickamauga, 333, 406, 438
Christian Commission, United States, 269–270, 351, 399–400, 401
Clarke, J. S., 450
Clay Battalion, 71
Clay, Brutus, 380
Clay, Cassius M., 69, 71
Clay, Clement C., 25, 499, 531
Clay, Mrs. Clement C., 21, 22, 37, 531
Clemens, Thomas, 454
Clement, Andrew J., 124, 129, 427
Clendenin, Colonel, 508
Clephane, Lewis, 370
Cobb, Howell, 4, 20, 28, 531
Cochrane, John, 279, 281
Cold Harbor, 403, 404
Colfax, Schuyler, 346–347, 350, 381, 453, 458, 478–479, 531–532
Colver, Vincent, 269
Commissary Department, 86, 96, 152, 231, 262, 274
Common Council of Washington, 47, 300, 349, 500
Communications
between Washington and Confederate States, 115–119, 121, 143, 167, 168–169, 170, 188, 421
resumed, 87
severed, 75, 77, 232, 233, 408, 409, 419
Conciliation, tendency toward, 29, 30, 31, 35–37, 61–62, 76, 293
Conduct of the War, Committee on, 151, 154, 156–157, 161, 202, 208, 210, 281, 360–361, 497
Confederacy (see also Secession)
capital of, 106
collapse of, 469–470
gestures toward peaceful settlement, 61
information supplied to, 64, 116–119, 121, 142, 167, 168, 169, 170, 188, 420; see also Espionage
invasion of North by, 113
linked with Lincoln’s assassination, 491, 493, 498–499, 500
military position of, 112, 143
preparations for war, 58
rage against, 497–500
recognized as belligerent by England, 151
sympathy for, 53, 60; see also Washington, secessionist sympathy in
Confiscation Act, 294, 295
Conger, E. J., 502, 503
Congress, 2
Confiscation Act of, 294
disunion sympathizers in, 59
and emancipation in District of Columbia, 226, 299
Enrollment act of, 285
impotence of, 156
medical bill of, 266
oath of allegiance act of, 178
prohibition act of, 135
and slavery, 298–299, 301–302, 437–438
special session of, 103, 108, 110
Connecticut regiments, 87, 115, 229
Conscription, 285, 316, 335–337, 351, 429, 430–431, 459
resistance to, 318, 388, 396, 426
Constitution, 33
Constitution, United States, 48, 49, 55, 210
amendment to abolish slavery, 437–438
supsension of guarantees of, 176
Constitutional Union, 481, 491
Contrabands, 175, 184, 194, 283, 293, 304, 306, 307, 308, 310, 406, 407
in the army, 302, 312–314, 336, 514
camp for, 310–311, 313–314
“Contract surgeons,” 263
Convalescents, 229, 274, 277, 310, 393, 416
Cooper, Samuel, 59
Copperheads, 318, 382, 388, 428, 429, 430, 438
Corcoran, Fort, 115–116, 310
Corcoran, Michael, 87, 115, 131, 532
Corcoran, W. W., 17, 20, 29, 87, 254, 255, 532
Couch, Darius N., 284–285
Cox, “Sunset,” 122
Crawford, Thomas, 22
Crime, 321–332
Crittenden, Senator, 25
Crook, Thomas, 442
Crook, William, 457, 464, 479, 482, 483, 484
Cross Keys, 215
Culpeper Court-House, 228, 251
Cumberland, Army of the, 280, 320, 333, 335, 346, 391
Currency, 225
Curtin, Governor, 69
Curtis, Samuel R., 208
Cushman, Charlotte, 14, 343–344
Custer, George A., 244, 432, 511, 532
Dahlgren, John A., 75, 162, 164, 216, 532
Dahlgren, Ulric, 286, 532–533
Dana, Charles A., 421, 533
Dancing, vogue for, 351
Darling, Fort, 403
Davenport, E. L., 343, 344, 462–463
Davenport, Jean M.; see Lander, Jean D.
Davis, Henry Winter, 438, 554
Davis, Jefferson, 20, 25, 26, 29, 32, 37, 40, 59, 90, 91, 114, 173, 183, 192, 193, 205, 216, 328, 439, 468, 498, 499, 507, 528, 529, 530, 531, 533, 535, 542, 553
Dean, John, 303, 311, 377
Deane, Julia, 106, 326
Democratic party, 3, 24, 249
campaign, 430, 433–434
split in, 299, 428, 429
Demoralization of troops, 125–130, 132–133, 243–244, 245, 279, 283
Dennis, Fannie, 321
Dennison, William A., 454, 533, 545
De Russy, Fort, 422
Desertion from the army, 243–244, 280, 337, 350, 397, 402, 440–441, 446
Detective system, 181–182, 183, 186, 191, 195–196
Discipline, army, 96, 137, 138
Disunion
agitation for, 3–4, 22, 29, 33, 59, 62
Calhoun’s prophecy of, 167
Diven, Congressman, 228
Dix, Dorothea L., 260–262, 264, 270, 277, 278
Dix, John A., 30, 112, 139, 177, 179, 181, 188–189, 190, 192, 396, 533, 543, 556
Donellan, 119, 168–169
Donelson, Fort, 158, 159, 208, 219, 384, 385, 513
Doster, William E., 180, 183, 184, 186, 188, 191, 194, 196, 207, 236, 323, 339, 420, 421, 506, 508
Douglas, Adele Cutts, 21, 23, 191
Douglas, Stephen A., 20, 21, 24, 25, 46, 54, 56, 66–67, 108, 130, 405, 544
Douglass, Frederick, 456
Downing, Andrew J., 370
Draper, Simeon, 372
Dred Scott case, 21, 49, 431
Duff, Green’s Row, 304, 307
D’Utassy, Colonel, 105
Duvall, Amon, 296
Duvall, Bettie, 118
Early, Jubal, 407, 412, 414, 417, 419, 420, 421, 424, 425, 426, 428, 429, 431–432, 529, 533–534, 535, 537
East, Department of the 3, 51, 396
Eckert, Thomas T., 199, 435, 437, 483, 488, 501, 504, 534
Edwards, Mrs. Ninian, 50, 57, 378, 544
Ellsworth, Elmer E., 24, 40, 45, 49, 61, 89–90, 91, 99–101, 203, 288
Elsie Dinsmore, 267
Elsie Venner, 61
Ely, Alfred, 124, 127, 132, 152, 192
Emancipation
compensated, 298, 299, 316
in Department of the South, 305
in District of Columbia, 226, 298–299, 300–301, 302, 303, 309
in Maryland, 431
popular demand for, 211, 222, 295, 297
Proclamation, 249, 290, 306, 308, 309–310, 318, 381, 389, 390
in territories, 298
Emerson, E. A., 484
England recognition of Confederacy as belligerent by, 151
threat of war with, 151
Enrollment Act, 285
Ericsson, John, 162, 164
Espionage, 64, 117–119, 166–196, 420
Etheridge, Annie, 132
Ewing, Thomas, 508
Excelsior Brigade, 138, 219
Execution in the army, 138, 153, 337
Executive mansion; see White House
Exile of mutineers, 137
Extravagance; see Washington, society, and Lincoln, Mary, extravagance of
Fairfax Court-House, 104, 106, 118, 120, 121, 123, 125, 128, 142, 143, 196, 201–202, 234, 239, 271, 315, 333
Fair Oaks, 215, 218, 285
Falls Church, 333, 414
Falmouth, 280, 281, 284, 286
Farragut, David G., 211, 212, 429, 453, 458, 530, 534
Felton, Samuel M., 41
Fessenden, William P., 25, 108, 210, 534, 550
Finance, Committee on, 108
Finley, Clement A., 267
Finley, Martha, 267
Fire Zouaves, 90–92, 94, 99, 100, 101, 104, 129
Fish, Hamilton, 170
Fisher, Fort, 439–440, 464
Fisher’s Hill, 430
Fitzpatrick, Honora, 460, 500
Florida secession of, 29
Union forts in, 32
Florida, 440
Floyd, John B., 5, 28, 534–535
Foote, Commodore, 158
Ford, John T., 341, 342–343, 447, 448, 479, 535
Ford, Thomas H., 332
Ford’s Athenaeum, 279, 342
Ford’s Theatre, 342–344, 373, 381, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450, 460, 461, 463, 465, 466, 477, 478, 479, 480, 484, 488, 489, 494, 501, 507
Foreign Relations, Committee on, 108
Forney, John W., 200, 332, 440, 452, 453
Forrest, Edwin, 14, 450
Foster, Augusta, 132
Fox, Gustavus, 162, 163
Franklin, M. I., 131
Franklin, William B., 70, 138, 154, 155, 159, 161, 207, 212, 219, 233, 235, 237, 239, 240, 242, 274, 279, 281, 285, 535
Frederick, 248
Fredericksburg, 194, 213, 236, 271, 273, 274–275, 278, 279, 280, 281, 285, 286, 287, 308, 398, 399, 400, 401
Freedman’s Aid Society, 302, 304
Freedman’s Village in Arlington, 310–311
Free-Soil men, 18, 21, 46
Frémont, Jessie, 366
Frémont, John C., 4, 112, 151, 205, 212, 214, 220–221, 223, 272, 294, 331, 336, 337, 429, 528, 535–536
French, B. B., 19, 48, 53, 225, 353, 363–364, 370, 371, 376, 380, 381, 420, 451, 454, 455, 457, 467, 474, 515, 536, 544
Front Royal, 193, 214, 259
Fry, James B., 336
Frontier Guards, 71, 73, 74
Fugitive Slave Law, 294, 296, 303, 311
repeal of, 311
Gaines’s Mills, 216, 218, 285, 403
Galveston, 280
Garfield, James A., 438, 527, 536, 540, 545
Garibaldi Guard, 104–105, 109, 115
Gautier, 18, 27, 56, 135, 273
Gay, James D., 72
Georgetown, 17
College, 87
as hospital, 255
Heights, 99
militia of, 66
street railway to, 227, 345
Georgia
Army of, 513
secession of, 29
Gerolt, Baron, 77, 244, 285
Gettysburg
Battle of, 316–317, 318, 325, 333, 334, 340, 350, 392, 415, 472, 512
Address, 319, 348
Giesboro’ Point, 99, 321, 414, 505
Gillmore, Quincy A., 406, 418, 421, 422, 532, 536–537, 540
Goldsborough, Louis M., 158, 421, 537
Goodloe, Daniel R., 450
Grant, Fred, 386
Grant, Ulysses S., 223, 319, 391, 394, 426, 428, 443, 465, 469, 471, 473, 475, 492, 493, 510, 512, 530, 531, 535, 537–538, 540, 542, 544, 545, 547, 549, 550, 551, 552, 554, 556
at Chattanooga, 335, 346
at Fort Donelson, 158
and Lincoln, 384, 395, 426, 435, 464, 476–478, 495, 496
made general-in-chief, 356–357
at Petersburg, 404, 407, 409
and Sheridan, 392
at Shiloh, 208–209
southward advance of, 397, 401–402
at Vicksburg, 280, 317
war plans of, 391–392, 394, 396, 429
in Washington, 386–388
youth of, 384–385
Greeley, Horace, 106, 295, 299, 548
Greenhow, little Rose, 166–167, 168, 169, 173, 184–185, 191, 192, 538
Greenhow, Robert, 23, 538
Greenhow, Rose O’Neal, 22–23, 117–119, 131, 369, 515, 538, 540
imprisonment of, 166–174, 182, 184–186, 188–189, 191–192
transfer of, to Confederacy, 192–193
Grimes, James W., 25, 33, 41, 127, 296, 538
Grimsley, Mrs., 50, 57, 354, 356, 357
Grover, Leonard, 341, 342, 343, 381, 382, 387, 489
Grover’s Theatre, 340, 349, 373, 381, 387, 445, 447, 450, 460, 462, 464, 467–468, 473, 474, 477, 479, 480, 482
Gurley, Phineas D., 492, 496
Gurowski, Count Adam, 71, 135, 220, 375
Gwin mansion, 65, 188, 220, 236
Gwin, William M., 20, 22, 60–61, 539
Habeas corpus, writ of, suspended, 97, 136, 176–177, 178
Hackett, James H., 343
Hagerstown, 408
Hale, Bessie, 443–444, 454
Hale, John P., 25, 108, 444, 491
Haliday, James F., 300
Hall, Andrew, 311
Halleck, Henry W., 3, 229, 294, 348, 386, 387, 408, 409, 527, 539, 541, 549, 550
as adviser on military affairs, 223–224
and Burnside, 230
criticism of, 421
and defense of Washington, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 418
and Grant, 386, 392, 429–430
and Hammond, 268, 269
and Hooker, 315, 333–334
inactivity of, 232, 233, 238
and Lincoln, 240, 243, 24
5, 247, 280, 452
and McClellan, 248
and military operations in the West, 208, 232
Hamlin, Hannibal, 46, 53, 63, 453
Hammack’s Restaurant, 90, 135, 213, 273
Hammerstein, 237, 240
Hammond, William Alexander, 267–269, 271, 400, 539
Hampton Roads, 162, 163, 164, 213
peace conference at, 439
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 138, 334, 394, 395, 505, 532, 539–540
Hardin, Martin D., 414, 422
Harlan, James, 472, 540, 545, 555
Harper’s, 194
Harper’s Ferry, 21, 22, 97, 315, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412
attacked by Virginia militia, 73, 79
besieged by Lee, 248
recapture of, 111
retreat to, 406
Harriet Lane, 24
Harris, Ira, 379, 483
Harrisburg, 40, 43, 68, 315, 316
Harrison’s Landing, 217, 218, 219, 220, 233, 248, 404
Hartnett, Catharine, 335
Hartranft, John F., 505
Harvey, T. M., 457
Harvey’s Oyster Saloon, 61, 143, 436
Hatteras, Fort, 149, 280
Haupt, Herman, 231, 232, 234
Havelock, Sir Henry, 88
Hawk, Harry, 484
Hay, John, 49, 50, 73, 84, 90, 148, 161, 199, 210, 236–237, 240, 243, 246, 320, 335, 343, 354, 356, 360, 361, 371, 372, 416, 434, 526, 540–541, 545, 548
Hayes, Rutherford B., 231, 232, 239, 531, 541, 547, 548, 550
Health, Board of, 95
Heintzelman, Samuel P., 101, 115, 138, 161, 220, 230, 237, 274, 316, 410
Helm, Ben Hardin, 376
Helm, Emilie, 378–380
Henry, A. G., 284
Henry, Fort, 158
Henry, Joseph, 104, 295
Hermann, Professor, 158
Herold, Davy, 447, 460, 461, 462, 482, 501, 502, 503, 507, 509, 510
Hess, C. D., 342, 473–474, 489
Hickman, John, 368, 369
Hicks, Governor, 67, 77
High-handed Outrage at Utica, 290
Highland regiment, 125, 137
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 204–205, 207, 210–211, 541
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 423
Holt, Joseph, 28, 32, 35, 42, 179, 499, 504, 508, 541
Home—guard regiments, 79, 228
Home Journal, 357, 358
Hooker, Joseph, 3, 138, 159, 219, 230, 253–254, 272, 273, 279, 281, 283, 284, 285, 286–287, 315, 316, 333–334, 346, 396, 453, 541–542, 547, 548, 552
made general-in-chief, 281
Horse racing, 320–321
Horses, treatment of, 139, 230, 231
Hospitals, 86, 128, 213, 237, 239, 264–265, 267–268, 269, 273, 275–278, 398–399
administration of, 256–257, 401
churches used as, 255, 259
defects of, 256–257
Walt Whitman’s work in, 282–283
women in, 260–262
Howard, Oliver O., 285, 513, 542, 545, 548
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