Upon the Altar of the Nation

by Harry S. Stout

  at Battle of the Crater

  at Fredericksburg

  Bushnell, Horace

  bushwhackers

  Butler, Benjamin F.

  prisoner exchanges and

  Butler, William C.

  Calhoun, John C.

  Cameron, Simon

  Campbell, Jacqueline Glass

  Camp Sumter (Andersonville) prison

  Canby, E.R.S.

  Carden, William

  Carey, Isaac

  Carney, William

  Carrington, Abram

  cartoons

  caskets

  Catholics

  Catton, Bruce

  cemeteries

  Chamberlain, Joshua L.

  Chamberlain, N. H.

  Chambersburg, Pa.

  destruction of

  Chancellorsville, Va.

  battle of

  chaplains

  Charleston, S.C.

  Fort Moultrie

  Fort Sumter, see Fort Sumter

  newspapers in

  Sherman and

  Chase, Salmon P.

  Chattanooga, Tenn.

  Chauncey, William

  Cheever, George B.

  Chesnut, Mary

  Chicago Times

  Chicago Tribune

  Chickamauga, battle of

  Chickasaw Bluffs

  Child, Lydia Maria

  children

  Christ

  Lincoln compared with

  Christian, William

  Christian Commission

  Christianity, see religion

  Church Anti-Slavery Society

  civilians, in Civil War

  armed conflicts among

  in Chambersburg

  Davis and

  fast days and

  General Orders No. 11 and

  Lee on

  lithographic prints and

  military knowledge of

  Sheridan and

  Sherman and

  as spectators

  in total war ; see also total warWar as see also guerrillas

  civilians, protection of (discrimination principle)

  civil liberties, suppression of

  civil religion:

  American, see American civil religion

  Southern; see also Confederacy, national identity and nationalism of

  civil rights

  Civil War:

  American civil religion and

  assumptions of brevity of

  avoidance and unpreparedness preceding

  casualties in

  children and

  civilians in, see civilians, in Civil War

  deserters in

  end of

  generals in, see generalsWar

  histories of

  and idea of popular sovereignty

  images of

  as limited war

  meaning of

  as modern war

  moral history of; see also morality of Civil War

  national identity formed by

  paradox of

  public fascination with

  as race war

  tactics and weapons used in

  Civil War battles:

  Antietam, see Antietam, battle of

  Ball’s Bluff

  Battle of the Crater

  Battle of the Wilderness

  Brice’s Cross Roads

  Chancellorsville

  Chickamauga

  Cold Harbor

  First Bull Run (First Manassas)

  Fort Fisher

  Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

  Fort Sumter, see Fort Sumter

  Fort Wagner

  Fredericksburg

  Gettysburg, see Gettysburg, battle of

  maps of

  Milliken’s Bend

  Murfreesboro

  Palmito Ranch

  Petersburg

  Port Hudson

  Second Bull Run (Second Manassas)

  Seven Days’ Battles

  Shiloh

  Spotsylvania Court House

  Vicksburg, see Vicksburg, battle of Yellow Tavern

  civil wars

  Clark, Rufus

  Clarke, James Freeman

  Clausewitz, Carl von

  Cleaveland, Elisha

  clergy

  abolitionists as viewed by

  black soldiers and

  Bull Run and

  chaplains

  Davis supported by

  Democratic

  and destruction of South

  elections of 1864 and

  emancipation and

  fast days and

  Gettysburg Address and

  journalists vs.

  Lincoln’s assassination and

  patriotism and warlike attitudes among

  printed sermons of

  Protestant

  Republican Party and

  revivals and

  secession as viewed by

  secular criticism of

  slavery and

  see also religion; religious press

  Coffin. C.

  coffins

  coins, national motto on

  Cold Harbor, Va.

  battle of

  Cole, Thomas

  “collateral damage”

  Columbia, S.C.

  Compromise of 1850

  Confederacy

  army of

  capital of

  Constitution of

  Davis elected president of

  economic tensions in

  European recognition of

  fast days in

  flag of

  formation of

  God’s covenant with

  internal divisions and discontent in

  music in

  national identity and nationalism of

  revivals in

  surrender of

  textbooks in

  thanksgiving day in

  see also South; South, secession of

  Congress, U.S.

  emancipation and

  habeas corpus and

  and Lincoln’s call to arms

  slavery and

  Conkling, James C.

  Conrad, F. W

  Constitution, U.S.

  Beecher on

  emancipation and

  God absent from

  habeas corpus and

  preservation of

  slavery and

  Contrabands

  Cooke, John Esten

  Corinth, Miss.

  Corthell. M.

  Countryman, A.

  cowardice

  Cox, Samuel S.

  Coxe, A. Cleveland

  Crater, Battle of the

  Crounse, Lorenzo

  Cruickshanks, James

  Cullen, Rosemary L.

  Culpepper Court House

  Curran, Thomas F.

  Currier, Nathaniel

  Currier & Ives

  Curtis, Sam

  Custer, George Armstrong

  Indian campaigns and

  Dabney John Blair

  Dabney Robert Lewis

  Dalton, Ga.

  Dana, Charles

  Daniel, John Moncure

  Davis, Jefferson

  Antietam and

  Army of Northern Virginia addressed by

  Bragg and

  Bull Run (Manassas) and

  Butler and

  call to arms issued by

  civilians and

  clerical support for

  as commander in chief of army

  Confederate surrender and

  criticisms of

  and divisions and dissent within Confederacy

  Emancipation Proclamation and

  fast days proclaimed by

  flight of

  Fort Sumter and

  elected Confederate president

  Gettysburg and

  guerrilla warfare and

  habeas corpus suspended by

  Hood promoted by

  inau
gural address of

  Jackson’s death and

  Jesus Christ and

  Johnston and

  just conduct issue and

  Lee and

  Lee’s surrender and

  in peace talks with Lincoln and Seward

  religious conversion of

  religious press and

  rhetorical charisma lacking in

  Richmond riot and

  Richmond’s fall and

  soldiers assured by

  songs and

  and South as Christian nation

  thanksgiving day proclaimed by

  total war and

  as unprepared for war

  war management of

  West Point and

  women’s letters to

  Declaration of Independence

  Lincoln and

  Defrees, John D.

  DeLeon, Cooper

  Deming, Sid

  Democrats

  clerical

  draft riots and

  in elections of 1864

  Emancipation Proclamation and

  Peace (Copperhead)

  racism among

  Radical

  slavery as viewed among

  total war and

  War

  DeSaussure, William

  desertion

  Dewey, Orville

  Dick, F. A.

  Dickinson, Private

  discrimination principle (civilian protection)

  disease

  in prisons

  Doggett. S.

  Doubleday, Abner

  double effect, doctrine of

  Douglas, Stephen A.

  Douglass, Frederick

  blackprisoners and

  Emancipation Proclamation and

  Lincoln’s assassination and

  on racism

  Douglass, Lewis

  draft

  draft riots

  Dred Scott v. Sanford

  DuBois, W.E.B.

  Dunn, John

  Dunovant, Richard

  duty

  Dwinell, Israel E.

  Earle, Thomas

  Early, Jubal

  at Chambersburg

  Washington raid of

  Eddy, Zachary

  Edwards, Jonathan

  elections of 1864

  Elliott, James H.

  Elliott, Stephen

  Ellis, George E.

  Elshtain, Jean Bethke

  Elsworth, George

  emancipation

  and America as global hope

  black soldiers and

  in border states

  compensated

  draft riots and

  total war and

  Unionism and

  see also abolition, abolitionists

  Emancipation Proclamation

  embalmers

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Emmett, Daniel

  Endicott, Luis

  England, see Britain

  Ethridge, Jonathan

  Europe

  Confederacy and

  see also Britain

  evangelicals

  Evans, Shanks

  Everett, Edward

  Ewell, Richard S.

  at Gettysburg

  at Spotsylvania Court House

  Fair Oaks (Seven Pines), Va.

  Farley H. S.

  Farragut, David

  fast and thanksgiving days

  Buchanan’s proclamation for

  in Confederacy

  in North

  Thanksgiving Day

  Faulkner, William

  Fellman, Michael

  Ferrero, Edward

  Fillmore, Millard

  Fish, Henry Clay

  Fiske, John

  flag(s) blood-stained songs and

  Florida

  Foote, Andrew

  foraging

  Forbes, Edwin

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford

  Fort, George

  Fort, Martha

  Fort Donelson

  Fort Fisher

  Fort Henry

  Fort Moultrie

  Fort Pickens

  Fort Pillow

  Fort Stedman

  Fort Sumter

  patriotism following

  Fort Wagner

  Foster, Stephen

  Fourth of July

  Fox, Gustavus Vasa

  Frayser’s Farm

  Frederick, Md.

  Fredericksburg, battle of

  lithographic prints of

  Fredericksburg, Va.

  freebooters

  freedmen

  colonization of

  draft riots and

  education of, go

  see also African Americans

  freedom

  as moral justification for Civil War

  see also emancipation

  Fremont, John C.

  Fugitive Slave Law

  Gaines’ Mill, Va.

  Gallagher, Hugh

  gallantry

  Gardner, Alexander

  Garnett, Richard B.

  Garrard, Kenner

  Garrison, William Lloyd

  Gassner, James

  Gayler, Charles

  generalsWar

  hero-worship of

  just conduct determined by

  war personalized around

  Georgia

  Andersonville prison in

  Atlanta, see Atlanta, Ga.

  Sherman in

  Gettysburg, battle of

  prints of

  revivals following

  sacralization of

  Gettysburg Address

  Gibbons, James S.

  Gibbs, Wade Hampton

  Gibson, James

  Gifford, Mary

  Gleason, John Francis

  God

  American flag and

  America’s covenant with

  Confederacy’s covenant with

  Constitution and

  Lincoln on will of

  in moral identities of North and South

  national motto and

  slavery and

  see also religion

  Goddard, Martha LeBaron

  Goldsboro, N.C.

  Gooding, James Henry

  Goodrich, William H.

  Gordon, John B.

  government, religion and:

  in Confederacy

  separation of church and state

  Grant, Lewis A.

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  anti-Semitism of

  at Battle of the Crater

  black soldiers and

  at Cold Harbor

  Columbia destruction and

  at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

  as icon

  Indian campaigns and

  Lee’s proposal of peace interview with

  Lee’s surrender to

  Lincoln and

  Lincoln’s funeral and

  Lincoln’s River Queen meeting with Sherman and

  at Petersburg

  prisoners and

  Richmond occupation and

  Shenandoah Valley destruction ordered by ,

  Sherman and

  Sherman’s surrender negotiations and

  at Shiloh

  songs about

  on South, following surrender

  at Spotsylvania Court House

  at Vicksburg

  in victory parades

  at Wilderness of Spotsylvania

  wounded soldiers and

  Gray, J. Glenn

  Greeley, Horace

  Grimsley, Mark

  Grymes, Ann

  guerrillas

  bushwhackers

  and Davis’s message to Confederate Congress

  end of war and

  Lee’s surrender and

  partisans

  Quantrill’s band

  habeas corpus

  Haiti

  Halleck, Henry

  Grant’s memo to

  Halstead
, Murat

  Hampton, Wade

  Hampton Roads, Va.

  Hancock, Winfield Scott

  at Gettysburg

  at Spotsylvania Court House

  Hanks, George

  Hanscom, Simon P

  Hardee, William J.

  Hare’s Hill

  Harmon, Henry S.

  Harpers Ferry, W.Va.

  Brown’s raid on

  Harper’s Weekly

  Harris Farm

  Harrisons Landing, Va.

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel

  Hay, John

  Heg family

  Hesseltine, William

  Higgins, Henry Lee

  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

  Hill, Alonzo

  Hill, A. P

  Hill. H.

  Hindman, Thomas C.

  history(ies)

  anachronism and

  of Civil War

  moral, see moral history

  Hodge, Charles

  Hoge, Moses

  Hoge, William J.

  Holmes, Emma

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.

  Holmes, Theophilus H.

  Homer, Winslow

  Holocaust

  Holt, Daniel M.

  Hood, John Bell

  and moral conduct of war

  promotion of

  Hooker, Joseph

  at Chancellorsville

  Hopkins, John Henry

  Hovey, Horace C.

  Howard, Oliver Otis

  at Chancellorsville

  Howard, William C.

  Howe, John M.

  Howe, Julia Ward

  Howe, Samuel Gridley

  Huger, Benjamin

  Hughes, John

  Hughes. E.

  Hungerford, B. F.

  Hunter, David

  in Shenandoah Valley

  Hunter, Robert M. T

  Hutchinson, John

  Hyde, Eugenia

  Illinois

  imperialism

  Christian

  Independent

  Indians

  in Apotheosis

  campaigns against

  Sherman and

  intellectuals

  Southern

  Intruder in the Dust (Faulkner)

  Irish

  Israel

  in American civil religion

  in Confederate civil religion

  Ives, James Merritt

  Currier & Ives lithographs

  Jackson, Claiborne

  Jackson, Mary

  Jackson, Miss.

  Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall”

  at Chancellorsville

  character of

  Cult of

  death of

  funeral for

  generals arrested by

  on Lee

  Pope and

  religious faith of

  stories for children about

  James, Horace

  James, Jesse and Frank

  James, Thomas

  Jayhawkers

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jenkins, Jeremiah

  Jennison, Charles

  jeremiad(s)

  Confederate

  Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address as

  Jesus Christ

  Lincoln compared with

  Jeter, Jeremiah Bell

  Jews

  Grant and

  Johnson, Andrew

  amnesty granted to Confederates by

  assassination attempt on

  inauguration as vice president

  Lincoln succeeded by

  surrender terms and