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The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power, 1848-1876

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by Nester, William

San Diego, 63

  San Francisco, 16, 56, 66, 255

  Cameron, Simon, 94, 95, 105, 109, 110, 125

  Campbell, John, 216

  Canada, 51, 61, 65, 283

  Canby, Edward, 192

  Carey, Henry, 72, 160

  Carlisle, John, 124

  Carson, Kit (Christopher), 279–80

  Cartwright, Peter, 30

  Cass, Lewis, 19, 21, 52

  Catlin, George, 275

  Chaffee, Calvin, 77

  Chandler, Zachariah, 146, 211

  Chase, Salmon, 20, 72, 94, 95, 105, 163–64, 210, 211, 230, 249

  Chesapeake Bay, 135, 138

  Child, Lydia Maria, 40

  Chivington, John, 265

  Church, Frederick, 274

  Civil Rights Act (1964), 305

  Civil War, 5, 42, 46, 50, 92, 99, 287

  Anaconda Plan, 112

  antiwar resistance

  Copperheads, 146, 183

  draft riots, 182–84

  Knights of the Golden Circle, 184

  Monster Peace Convention, 184

  Order of the American Knights, 184

  Sons of Liberty, 184

  Appomattox Court House, 219–20

  battles

  Antietam, 155, 291

  Ball’s Bluff, 120, 147

  Belmont, 132

  Bentonville, 214–15

  Big Black River, 177

  Brandy Station, 174

  Bristoe Station, 182

  Bull Run/Manassas (first), 117–18, 122, 147

  Bull Run/Manassas (second), 143–44, 154

  Cassville, 194

  Cedar Creek, 209

  Cedar Mountain, 143, 154

  Champion Hill, 177

  Chancellorsville, 173–74

  Chantilly, 144, 154

  Cheat Mountain, 119

  Chickamauga, 180–81

  Chickasaw Bluffs, 171, 176

  Cold Harbor, 192, 295

  Dalton, 194

  Drewey’s Bluff, 140, 191

  Ezra Church, 194

  Fisher Hill, 208

  Five Forks, 219

  Fort Donelson, 133, 134

  Fort Fisher, 214

  Fort Henry, 133, 134

  Fort Hindman, 172

  Fort Pillow, 134, 141, 200

  Fort Stevens, 207

  Fort Sumter, 109–11, 114, 302

  Franklin, 213

  Fredericksburg, 171

  Gaines Mill, 142, 295

  Gettysburg, 174–75, 291, 295

  Glendale, 142

  Island Number Ten, 134, 141

  Jackson, 177

  Kearsage v. Alabama, 197

  Kennesaw Mountain, 194

  Knoxville, 181

  Logan’s Crossroads, 131

  Malvern Hill, 142, 295

  Mansfield, 191

  Mechanicsville, 142

  Missionary Ridge/Lookout Mountain, 181, 295

  Mobile Bay, 196

  Monitor v. Merrimack, 135–36

  Monocracy, 207

  Nashville, 213–14

  New Hope Church, 194

  New Market, 191, 207

  Olustee, 196, 200

  Peachtree Creek, 194

  Pea Ridge, 134–35

  Perrysville, 157

  Petersburg, 219

  Philippi, 118

  Pilot Knob, 209

  Plymouth, 200

  Poison Springs, 200

  Port Gibson, 177

  Port Hudson, 178–79, 199, 300

  Pulaski, 213

  Raymond, 177

  Resaca, 194

  Rich Mountain, 119

  Roanoke Island, 135

  Savage Station, 142

  Saylor’s Creek, 219

  Seven Pines/Fair Oaks, 141–42, 230

  Shiloh, 132, 136, 137, 188

  South Mountain, 155

  Spotsylvania, 192, 295

  Stone’s River/Murfreesboro, 171

  Vicksburg, 137, 178, 300

  Westport, 208

  Wilderness, 192

  Wilson’s Creek, 122–23

  Winchester, 208, 209

  Yellow Tavern, 192

  campaigns

  Antietam (1862), 154–56, 291

  Arkansas (1862), 134–35

  Bull Run (first, 1861), 117–18

  Bull Run (second, 1862), 143–44

  Chancellorsville (1863), 172–74

  Chickamauga (1863), 180–81

  Fredericksburg (1862), 170–71

  Gettysburg (1863), 174–76

  Grant (1861), 132–33

  Grant (1862), 133–34, 136–37, 156, 171, 176–80

  Grant (1863), 176–80, 300

  Grant (1864), 192–94

  Grant (1865), 218–20

  Kentucky (1862), 157, 291

  Missouri (1861), 120–23

  Missouri (1864), 207–8

  naval coastal and ocean, 112, 129–30, 135, 135–36, 195–96, 214

  North Carolina (1862), 135

  Peninsula (1862), 137–43

  Red River (1864), 191

  Shenandoah Valley (1862), 141, 291

  Shenandoah Valley (1864), 207–9

  Sherman (1864), 194–95, 213

  Sherman (1865), 214–15

  Tennessee (1863), 179–80, 180–81

  Tennessee (1864), 213

  West Virginia (1861), 118–19

  Washington (1864), 291

  reasons for Northern victory, 289–304

  war casualties and costs, 226–27, 301

  Clay, Cassius, 92

  Clay, Clement, 204

  Clay, Henry, 5, 19, 20, 26, 29, 40, 46, 48, 49, 86, 92, 160, 232, 309

  and “American System,” 5, 20, 26

  Clayton, Powell, 65, 246

  Cody, “Buffalo Bill,” 279, 280

  Cole, Thomas, 274

  Colfax, Schuyler, 146

  Colorado, 15

  Confederate States of America, 45, 76, 98–99, 111, 114, 128–29, 301–4, 311–12

  Conklin, Roscoe, 285

  Connecticut, 39

  Hartford, 309

  Constitutional Union Party, 93–94

  Cooper, James Fenimore, 279

  Corbin, Abel, 251

  corporations

  Accessory Transit Company, 66

  Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 118

  Central Pacific Railroad, 255

  Credit Mobilier, 252

  Jay Cooke and Company, 255–56

  Memphis and Ohio Railroad, 133

  Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, 119

  Northern Pacific Railroad, 255–56, 284

  Union Pacific Railroad, 252, 255

  Cox, Jacob, 243, 268, 271

  Cox, Samuel, 259, 281

  Craft, Ellen, 50

  Craft, William, 50

  Creswell, John, 243, 271

  Crittenden, John, 97, 147

  Crittenden, William, 67–68

  Crook, George, 283–84, 285

  Cropsey, Jasper, 274

  Curtis, George, 279

  Curtis, Samuel, 234–35, 209

  Custer, George Armstrong, 283, 284, 285, 296

  Dakota Territory, 267

  Dana, Charles, 177, 254

  Dana, Richard Henry, 278

  Darwin, Charles, 278

  David, Edmund, 246

  Davies, Henry, 146, 206–7, 210

  Davis, David, 94, 105

  Davis, Jefferson, 15, 46, 59, 87, 98, 111, 142, 187, 194, 200, 204, 205, 216, 219, 226, 234, 289

  Dayton, William, 72

  Deas, Charles, 275

  Delano, Columbus, 250, 265

  Delaware, 39, 99, 149

  Democratic Party, 5, 12, 19, 21, 27, 28, 52, 54, 59, 63, 71, 72, 73, 76, 78, 79, 80, 83, 84, 86, 89, 94, 95–96, 104, 105, 106, 115, 116, 139, 150, 151, 160, 169, 170, 183, 205, 210, 211, 232, 237, 240, 241, 244, 247, 253, 258, 283, 285, 286

  Barnburners, 19

  Hunkers, 19

  Jeffersonian Republican Party, 258

  Peace Democrats, 146, 14
7, 184, 185, 206

  War Democrats, 146, 147, 205

  Dennison, William, 215

  Dent, Frederick, 243

  Dent, John, 251

  Dewey, John, 278

  Dickens, Charles, 17

  Dix, Dorothea, 204

  Douglas, Stephen, 46, 49, 52, 55–57, 73, 80, 83–86, 95–96, 146, 157, 199

  Douglass, Frederick, 18, 20, 41, 89, 288, 304, 307–8

  DuBois, W. E. B., 242, 248

  Dumont, Ebenezer, 118

  DuPont, Samuel, 135

  Durand, Asher, 274

  Eads, James, 295

  Eakins, Thomas, 275–76

  Early, Jubal, 207–9

  Eastman, Seth, 275

  Elgin, earl of (James Bruce), 65

  Ellis, Edward, 279

  Ellsworth, Elmer, 114–15

  Emerson, Eliza, 77

  Emerson, John, 77

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 89, 278, 278–79

  “empire of liberty,” 14

  Ericsson, John, 136

  Europe, 17, 105

  Austria, 283

  Belgium, 64

  Britain, 19, 45, 61, 64–65, 67, 68–69, 76, 110, 128–31, 196–97, 236, 260–61, 269, 274, 283

  Denmark, 269

  France, 62, 110, 129, 130, 197, 215, 216, 260, 261, 269, 283

  Netherlands, 69

  Russia, 76, 260, 269, 283

  Spain, 45, 64, 68, 110, 129, 130, 197, 261, 269, 271, 273

  Switzerland, 273

  Everett, Edward, 185

  Ewing, Thomas, 297

  Farragut, David, 137, 150, 196

  Federalist Party, 5, 27, 71, 160

  Fessenden, William, 146, 215

  filibustering, 47, 65–68

  Fillmore, Millard, 6, 20, 47, 49, 53, 62, 67–68, 69, 73–74, 81

  Finnegan, Joseph, 196

  Finney, Charles, 40

  Fish, Hamilton, 243, 270, 271, 309

  Fisher, George, 149

  Fisk, Clinton, 296

  Fisk, Jim, 251, 253

  Fitzhugh, George, 36, 43, 44

  Florida, 98, 149, 235, 286

  Amelia Island, 240

  Pensacola, 99, 109, 150

  Tallahassee, 196

  Floyd, John, 76

  Foote, Andrew, 133

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 133, 171, 179–80, 292

  forts

  Abraham Lincoln, 284

  Armstrong, 77

  Bent’s, 263

  Bridger, 82

  Camp Jackson, 121

  Donelson, 133, 134

  Ellis, 284

  Fisher, 214

  Henry, 133, 134

  Hindman, 172

  Kearney, 263

  Laramie, 263, 284

  Leavenworth, 121

  Monroe, 139, 148, 150

  Pickens, 99, 109, 110, 111

  Pierre, 263

  Pillow, 134

  Pilot Knob, 209

  Sill, 252

  Snelling, 77

  Stevens, 207

  Sumter, 99, 109–11, 114

  Sutter’s, 16

  Warren, 130

  Foster, Stephen, 280

  Franklin, Benjamin, 33, 38, 278, 280, 309

  Franklin, William, 197

  Free Soil Party, 20, 49, 53, 54, 59, 60, 70, 71, 72, 79–81, 88

  Frémont, John, 72, 73–74, 122–23, 141, 148–49, 210

  Fuller, Margaret, 278

  Fusion Party, 96

  Gadsden, James, 63

  Gamble, Hamilton, 122

  Gardner, John, 276

  Garnet, Robert, 119

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 36, 40–41, 50, 89, 305

  Gary, Martin, 286

  Georgia, 45, 49, 87, 98, 149, 188, 190, 239, 246, 298

  Atlanta, 179, 191, 194–95, 213

  Georgia Convention, 36

  Irwinsville, 226

  Jonesborough, 195

  Ringold, 182

  Savannah, 135

  Gibbon, John, 284–85

  Gifford, Sanford, 274

  Gladstone, William, 273

  Gold Rush, 16, 66

  Gompers, Samuel, 256

  Goodwin, Edwin, 279

  Gordon, Parke, 210

  Gott, Daniel, 48

  Gould, Jay, 251, 253

  Goulden, William, 87

  Grant, Julia, 250

  Grant, Orville, 250

  Grant, Ulysses S., 6, 11, 14, 103, 131–36, 156, 171, 176–80, 187, 188, 189–93, 194, 200, 207, 209, 210, 214, 216, 218–20, 226, 229, 241, 232–43, 246, 249, 250–53, 255, 259, 268, 270–74, 281, 283, 285, 289, 291, 292, 296, 300, 308

  Gratton, John, 263

  Gray, Robert, 61

  Great Lakes, 273

  Greely, Horace, 20, 59, 99, 117, 153, 204, 205, 210

  Greenhow, Rose O’Neal, 117

  Grierson, Benjamin, 296

  Grimes, James, 146

  Grimke, Angelina, 40

  Grimke, Sarah, 40

  Grimshaw, William, 23

  Gulf of Mexico, 195, 283

  Hale, John, 54

  Halleck, Henry, 123, 133, 134, 137, 143, 148, 175, 176, 177, 189, 190, 202, 290, 291, 297

  Hamilton, Alexander, 5, 27, 33, 38, 71, 160, 165, 278

  Hamilton, James, 126

  Hamlin, Hannibal, 95, 210, 215

  Hampton, Wade, 296

  Hanks, John, 24, 95

  Harney, William, 121–22, 263, 264

  Harrison, William Henry, 20, 72

  Hawaii/Sandwich Islands, 62, 69, 260, 273–74, 309

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 276, 278

  Hay, John, 104, 128, 175, 205, 215, 290

  Hayden, Ferdinand, 281

  Hayes, Rutherford, 245, 282, 285, 286–87

  Heade, Martin, 274

  Heintzelman, Samuel, 138

  Helm, Benjamin, 204

  Helm, Emilie Todd, 204

  Helper, Hinton Rowan, 87

  Herndon, William, 3, 13, 27, 28, 31, 51–52

  Hickok, Wild Bill, 279

  Higginson, Thomas, 88

  Hill, Ambrose Powell (A. P.), 182

  Hoar, Ebenezer, 243, 255, 271

  Holden, William, 246

  Hollins, George, 65

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 208, 277, 278

  Homer, Winslow, 275, 276

  Hood, John Bell, 188, 194–95, 213, 214

  Hooker, Joe, 172–74, 181, 293

  Houzeau, Jean, 239–40

  Howard, Oliver Otis, 230–31

  Howe, Samuel, 88

  Howells, Dean, 279

  Hunter, David, 149–50

  Hunter, Robert, 207, 216

  Illinois, 27, 39, 55, 77, 94, 118, 169, 184

  Alton, 27, 41

  Cairo, 132

  Chicago, 56, 94, 125, 210, 241, 254

  Galena, 131

  government, 2, 29

  Nauvoo, 81–82

  New Salem, 25

  Peoria, 57

  Revised Laws of Illinois (Blackstone)

  Springfield, 21, 27, 28, 29, 34, 51, 57, 104, 106

  Indiana, 27, 39, 94, 106, 118, 169, 184

  Indianapolis, 106

  Indian chiefs

  Black Hawk, 25

  Black Kettle, 265

  Conquering Bear, 263

  Crazy Horse, 284, 285

  Sitting Bull, 284, 285

  Indian tribes (Great Basin to West Coast)

  Cayuse, 264

  Goisute, 264

  Medoc, 264

  Mohave, 264

  Paiute, 264

  Pelouse, 264

  Umatilla, 264

  Walla Walla, 264

  Yakima, 264

  Indian tribes (Great Plains to Mississippi Valley)

  Arapaho, 263, 283

  Arikara, 262, 263

  Assiniboine, 263

  Cheyenne, 263, 264, 265, 283

  Comanche, 263, 264

  Crow, 263

  Dakota (Sioux) 266–68

  Gross Ventres, 263

  Kiowa, 263

  Lakota (Sioux)
263, 283–85

  Brule, 263, 264

  Hukpapa, 264, 285

  Miniconjou, 264

  Sans Arc, 264

  Two Kettle, 264

  Mandan, 263

  Nakota (Sioux)

  Teton, 264

  Yakatonais, 264

  Sauk and Fox, 25

  Indian tribes (Rocky Mountain)

  Blackfoot-Piegan, 264

  Nez Perce, 264

  Shoshone, 264

  Ute, 264

  Indian tribes (Southwest)

  Apache, 263

  Chiricahua, 264

  Gila River, 264

  Jicarilla, 264, 279–80

  Mescalero, 264

  Mimbre, 264

  Mongollon, 264

  Warm Springs, 264

  Navaho, 264

  Inman, Henry, 275

  Innes, George, 274

  Iowa, 39

  Irving, Washington, 276

  Jackson, Andrew, 5, 160, 165, 258, 278

  Jackson, Claiborne, 121, 122

  Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall), 141, 142–43, 143–44, 154, 175, 291, 292

  Jackson, William Henry, 276, 281

  James, Jesse, 297

  James, William, 278

  Jay, John, 38, 278

  Jefferson, Thomas, 5, 14, 33, 38, 165, 166, 258

  Johnson, Andrew, 6, 125, 133, 147, 210, 215, 217, 225, 226, 232–35, 236, 237, 240–41, 242, 269

  Johnson, Hershel, 96

  Johnston, Albert Sidney, 82, 136

  Johnston, Joseph, 117, 118, 138, 139, 140, 141–42, 176, 177, 194, 215, 225

  Juarez, Benito, 269

  Julian, George, 228

  Kansas, 46, 56, 59–60, 73, 79–81, 88, 93, 286, 298

  Lawrence, 60–61, 88, 297

  Lecompton, 79, 80–81

  Potawatomie Creek, 61, 88

  Topeka, 60, 79, 80–81

  Kelly, Benjamin, 118

  Kensett, John, 274

  Kentucky, 23, 39, 48, 99, 120–21, 123–24, 131, 291

  Columbus, 124, 132

  Elizabethtown, 23

  Lexington, 29

  Louisville, 133

  Paducah, 132

  Keyes, Erasmus, 138

  King Kamehameha, 62

  Know-Nothing/American/Order of the Star Spangled Banner Party, 53–54, 70, 71, 73, 94

  Lane, Fitz Hugh, 274

  Lane, Joseph, 96

  Langford, Nathaniel, 281

  Latin America/West Indies, 309–10

  Brazil, 45, 283

  Caribbean Sea, 64

  Central America, 63, 153

  Cuba, 45, 63–64, 67–68, 79, 129, 260, 270–71, 273

  Dominican Republic, 110, 260, 271–73

  Haiti, 110, 131

  Honduras, 67

  Mexico, 11–15, 19, 31, 61, 63, 65, 66, 129, 130, 191, 197, 216, 260, 261, 269

  Nicaragua, 16, 47, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67

  Panama, 16, 64

  St. John, 269

  St. Thomas, 269

  Virgin Islands, 269–70

  Lee, Robert E., 88, 116, 119, 142–43, 144, 154–56, 170, 172–74, 175, 182, 190, 192–93, 194, 200, 208, 215, 218–20, 291, 292, 301

  L’Enfant, Pierre, 17

  Leutze, Emmanuel, 275

  Liberty Party, 18, 20, 21, 52, 53, 70

  Lieber, Francis, 202–3

  Lincoln, Abraham

  administration and cabinet of, 104–6, 215

  career of, pre-1861, 2, 13–15, 21–35, 48, 51–52, 57–59, 70–74, 83–86, 92–93

 

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