Mexico, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, bm1.1
Michigan, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1
Michigan State Fair, 5.1
Midwest, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
Lincoln’s train route in, 3.1
see also specific places
militias, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2
in Missouri, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
in Ohio, 3.1, 4.1
volunteer fire companies compared with, 5.1, 5.2
in Washington, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1
see also specific militias
millenniarianism, 3.1
Miller, Joaquin, 6.1
Minnesota, 1.1, 2.1
Minute Men, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
Mississippi River, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8
Mississippi Valley, 6.1, 6.2
Missouri, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
Little Dixie in, 6.1, 6.2
militias in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
mob violence in, 6.1
old vs. new, 6.1
secession and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7
Missouri Compromise (1820), 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1
Missouri River, 6.1, 6.2
Missouri State Guard, 6.1
mob violence, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, bm1.1, nts.1, nts.2
Monroe, James, 2.1, nts.1
Montgomery, Ala., 3.1, 6.1
Morgan, John Hunt, nts.1
Mormons, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2
Morse, Samuel, 1.1
Motley, John Lothrop, 9.1
Mount Vernon, 5.1, 9.1
Naples, 3.1, 6.1
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Napoleon III, Emperor of France, 5.1
National Geographic, nts.1
National Museum of American History, 7.1
Native Americans, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
telegraph and, 6.1
“Natural Religion” (Emerson), 3.1
Navy, U.S., 1.1, 8.1
Navy, Virginia, nts1.1
Nebraska Territory, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1
Nevada Territory, 6.1, 6.2
New England, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1
New Lisbon, Ohio, 3.1, 3.2
New Mexico, 6.1
New Orleans, La., 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, bm1.1
New Orleans & Ohio telegraph, 6.1
New Orleans Daily Picayune, 9.1
newspapers, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 9.1
in Boston, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 3.1
Lincoln criticized in, 3.1, 4.1
Sumter and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
U.S. Zouaves in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Wide Awakes and, 1.1
“New Way of Raising Pigs,” 8.1
New York, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1
New York, N.Y., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
Ellsworth in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
enlistment in, 5.1, 5.2
firemen in, 5.1
Lincoln in, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
militias in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
mob violence in, 5.1, bm1.1, nts.1
Sumter and, 4.1, 4.2
Union Square rally in (April 20), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
U.S. Zouaves in, 5.1
Wall Street in, 2.1, 4.1
Winter Garden theater in, 8.1, 8.2
New York Atlas, 5.1
New York Commercial Advertiser, 7.1
New York Herald, 45, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, nts.1, nts.2
New York Times, 39, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, bm1.1, nts.1, nts.2
New-York Tribune, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
New York World, 79, 7.1, 8.1
Nicaragua, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1
Nicholas I, Czar of Russia, 2.1, 5.1
Nicolay, John, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, nts.1
Niederwiesser, Tony, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
North America, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
North Carolina, 1.1, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2
Northerners, the North, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 8.1
Buchanan and, 2.1
Ellsworth’s death and, 7.1, 8.1
Lincoln’s inauguration and, 3.1
slavery compromises and, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Northwestern University, 5.1
Northwest Territory, 3.1
nullification, 2.1
O’Brien, Henry, bm1.1
Official History of the War of the Rebellion, prl.1
Oglesby, Richard, 1.1, 1.2
Ohio, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, nts.1
legislature of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, nts.1, nts.2
Ohio American Anti-Slavery Society, 3.1
Ohio River, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Oliphant, Laurence, nts.1
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 3.1
115th Virginia Militia, 8.1, 8.2
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 3.1
Oola (slave), 9.1
opera, 4.1
Oregon, 1.1, 6.1
Overland Telegraph Company, nts.1
Owen, Robert, 3.1
Pacific coast, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Pacific Telegraph Act, 6.1
painting, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1
Panama, Isthmus of, 4.1, 6.1
Paris, 6.1
Parker, Theodore, 5.1
Pawnee (federal gunboat), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Peace Conference (1861), 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, nts.1
Peckham, James
Pennsylvania, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, nts.1
elections of 1860 in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Perkins, Eli, 7.1
Petigru, James L., prl.1
Phelps, John W., 8.1
Philadelphia, Pa., prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, nts.1
Philadelphia Inquirer, 5.1, 9.1
Philadelphia Press, 3.1
Phillips, Wendell, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, nts.1
U.S. flag and, 4.1, 4.2
photography, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
Pickens, Francis, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Pierce, Edward Lillie, 8.1, 9.1
Pierce, Franklin, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1
pigs, 7.1, 8.1
Pinkerton, Allan, 8.1, 8.2
Pittsburgh, Pa., 3.1, 9.1, nts.1
plants, 6.1, 6.2, bm1.1
Poe, Edgar Allan, nts.1
Point Comfort, 8.1, 8.2
Polk, James K., nts.1
Pony Express, 1.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, nts.1
Prentiss, Cyrus, nts.1
Presbyterians, 2.1, 5.1
printing, 1.1
“Progress of Revealed Thought, The” (Campbell), 3.1
Pug-o-na-ke-shick (Hole-in-the-Day), 5.1, nts.1
Puritans, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 8.1
race, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
racism, prl.1, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
railroads, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
funeral, 7.1, 7.2
Lincoln’s use of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 9.1
in Ohio, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
“Rail Splitter” clubs, 1.1, 1.2
Raymond, Henry J., 4.1
“Reconciliation” (Whitman), bm1.1
Reid, Philip, 7.1
relics, 7.1
Republican National Conventions
of 1860, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 5.2
of 1880, bm1.1
Republicans, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1
“Black,” 5, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1
in California, 6.1, 6.2
in election of 1856, 1.1, 1.2
in elections of 1860, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 9.1
“free labor” ideology of, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1
Lincoln as disappointment to, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
, 4.1
in Missouri, 6.1, 6.2
moderate, 2.1, 3.1
in Ohio, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, nts.1, nts.2
radicalism of, 2.1, bm1.1
Seward as leader of, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
slavery and, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 6.1, nts.1
Sumter and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Wide Awakes and, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1
Reynolds, Donald E., nts.1
Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 9.1
Rhoda B. Shannon (merchant schooner), 4.1
Rhodes, Harry, 3.1, 4.1
Richmond, Va., 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, nts.1, nts.2
Richmond Dispatch, 7.1, 8.1
Richmond Enquirer, 7.1
Richmond Examiner, 7.1
Richmond Whig, 7.1
“Rise, Lurid Stars” (Whitman), 4.1, nts.1
Rives, William Cabell, 2.1
Rocky Mountains, 6.1, 6.2
Rolfe, John, 8.1
Romanticism, 5.1
Royal Navy, British, 1.1, 1.2
Ruggles, Daniel, 8.1
Russell, William Howard, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, 8.2, nts.1
Russia, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2
telegraph and, 6.1, nts.1
Ryer, Randolph, 6.1
St. Domingo, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2
St. Louis, Mo., 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1
Camp Jackson in, 6.1, 6.2
flag and, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, nts.1
Germans in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
“second Baden revolution” in, 6.1
statewide convention in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Wide Awakes in, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
St. Louis Arsenal, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
St. Louis Commercial Bulletin, 6.1
St. Petersburg, 2.1, 2.2, 9.1
Salem, Ohio, 3.1
Salt Lake City, Utah, 6.1
Samana Cay, nts.1
San Bernardino, Calif., 6.1
San Francisco, Calif., 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 9.1, bm1.1
American Theatre in, 6.1, 6.2
Wide Awakes in, 1.1, 6.1
San Francisco Bay, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
San Francisco Bulletin, 6.1
San Francisco Herald, 6.1
Sanitary Commission, U.S., bm1.1
San Marino, 9.1, 9.2
Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 5.1
Schiller, Friedrich, 6.1, 8.1
Schuettner, Nicholas, 6.1
science, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 9.1, 9.2
Scott, Dred, 2.1, 6.1
Scott, George, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Scott, Harriet, 6.1
Scott, Walter, 5.1
Scott, Winfield, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, nts.1
Butler’s correspondence with, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Sumter and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 9.1
secession, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, bm1.1, nts.1, nts.2
Anderson’s views on, 4.1, 4.2
Crittenden and, 2.1
Lincoln’s views on, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2
Second Great Awakening, 3.1, 3.2
sedition, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2
self-made men, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 8.1
self-reliance, 4.1, 9.1
“Self-Reliance” (Emerson), 3.1
Senate, U.S., 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
Bibb in, 2.1
Corwin amendment and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, nts.1
Crittenden in, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Southerners’ farewells in, 2.1, 9.1
Sumner beaten in, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
see also Congress, U.S.; House of Representatives, U.S.
September 11 terrorist attacks, prl.1, prl.2
Seventh New York Regiment, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1
Seward, Frederick, 4.1
Seward, William Henry, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, nts.1
election of 1860 and, 1.1, 1.2
Emancipation Proclamation and, 8.1
Lincoln’s inauguration and, 3.1, 3.2
Lincoln’s Independence Day address and, 9.1
Lincoln’s relationship with, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
as Republican leader, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Sumter and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
Sewell’s Point, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Seymour, Truman, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 4.1
at Sumter, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Shadd, Absolom, 2.1, 2.2, nts.1
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Sherman, Willie, 6.1, 6.2
Sho-kup, Chief, 6.1
Sibley, Hiram, 6.1, 6.2, nts.1
Sierra Nevada, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Sigel, Franz, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 8.1
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, 7.1, 8.1
slavery, slaves, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, nts.1
Anderson and, prl.1, prl.2, 4.1, nts.1
Buchanan and, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
in Confederate defense, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, bm1.1
Crittenden Compromise and, 2.1, 3.1
Disciples and, 3.1
Dred Scott case and, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 8.1, 8.2
expansion of, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2
freedom vs., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
fugitive, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, nts.1
in Hampton, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
liberty cap and, 7.1
Missouri and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
in Northwest Territory, 3.1
population of, 6.1
Republicans and, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 6.1, nts.1
revolts of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
at Sumter, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, nts.1
Texas “troubles” and, 1.1, 1.2
“three-fifths” clause and, 2.1
value of, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, nts.1
war against, prl.1, 4.1, 4.2
in Washington, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1
see also abolition, abolitionists; contrabands; emancipation
slave trade, prl.1, prl.2, 2.1, 2.2
capture of ships in, 1.1, nts.1
in Virginia, 8.1, 8.2
in Washington, D.C., 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Smith, Joseph, 3.1, nts.1
Smith, Waddy, 8.1, 8.2
Snow, Beverly, nts.1
“Song of the Banner at Day-Break” (Whitman), prl.1, prl.2, 6.1, 8.1
Southampton County, Va., 8.1
South Carolina, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1
secession in, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 4.1
Southerners, the South, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
appeasement of, 4.1, 8.1
Buchanan and, 2.1
census of 1860 and, 6.1
Chivalry faction and, 6.1
economy of, 5.1
as estranged brethren, 7.1, 8.1
Lincoln’s inauguration and, 3.1
Peace Conference and, 2.1
slavery compromises and, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
telegraph and, 6.1
West and, 6.1, 6.2
Wide Awakes and, 1.1
“Southern Manifesto,” 2.1
Southwest, 6.1
sovereignty, of U.S., 4.1
Spain, 2.1, 4.1
Spalding, Albert G., nts.1
Spalding, Rufus P., 3.1, nts.1
split-rail fences (worm fences), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Springfield, Ill., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1
Springfield Grays, 5.1
Springfield Republican, 8.1
Star of the West (steamship), 4.1
State Department, U.S., 2.1, 7.1, 8.1
Staten Island, 2.1, 8.1
states’ rights, 8.1
steamboats, 2.1, 4.1, 6.
1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
Stebbins, E. F., nts.1
Stephens, Alexander H., 8.1, 9.1
stock market, 2.1, 2.2
Stoddard, William, 7.1, 7.2
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1
Strong, George Templeton, 2.1, 4.1
Sullivan’s Island, prl.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Sumner, Charles, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1, 9.1, bm1.1
beating of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1
Supreme Court, U.S., 2.1, 2.2, bm1.1
Dred Scott case and, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2
surnames, of slaves, 8.1, 8.2
Tamerlane (Poe), nts.1
Taney, Roger, 2.1, 8.1
Tarrant, Caesar, nts1.1
Taylor, Zachary, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, nts.1, nts.2
telegraph, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Great Comet and, 9.1
Russian-American, 6.1, nts.1
Sumter and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
transcontinental, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, nts.1
Tennessee, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
secession and, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 5.1
Texas, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, bm1.1
“troubles” of (1860), 1.1, 1.2, nts.1
textile manufacturing, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2
Third Massachusetts Regiment, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Thirteenth Amendment, bm1.1, nts.1
Thirteenth Amendment (Corwin’s proposed), 3.1, nts.1
Thirty-second New York Regiment, 9.1
Thirty-ninth New York Regiment, 9.1
Thomas, Lorenzo, 7.1
Thompson, John, 4.1, 4.2, nts.1
Thoreau, Henry David, 6.1
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 5.1
Todd, Kitty, 5.1
Toombs, Robert, 2.1
Townsend, James, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, bm1.1
transcendentalism, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1
Trescot, William Henry, 2.1, 8.1, nts.1
Tubman, Harriet, 4.1
Turner, Nat, 8.1
Turner Rifles, 8.1
Twain, Mark, 6.1
Tweed, William Marcy (“Boss”), 5.1
Twelfth New York Regiment, 9.1
Twenty-sixth New York Regiment, 9.1
Twiggs, David, 4.1
Two Years Before the Mast (Dana), 5.1
Tyler, John, 1.1, 1.2, 9.1, bm1.1, nts.1
Hampton house of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, bm1.1
Peace Conference and, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, nts.1
secession and, 3.1, nts.1
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 1.1, 3.1
Underground Railroad, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2
Union, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
Big Bethel and, 8.1
California and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
dissolution of, 2.1, 3.1, nts.1, nts.2
fear of undermining of, 3.1, 8.1
Fortress Monroe and, 8.1, 8.2
freedom and, 3.1, 3.2
military preparedness of, 4.1
Missouri and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
Peace Conference and, 2.1
preservation of, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, nts.1
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