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by Harold Holzer


  Bromley & Company, 504

  Brooklyn Eagle, 155, 302, 345, 352, 492, 494, 619

  Brooks, Erastus, 491

  Brooks, Noah, 449, 478–82, 480, 487, 544, 551–52, 564, 591, 651

  Brooks, Preston, 165–66

  Brown, John, 206–7, 207, 248

  Lincoln’s criticism of, 208–9, 219

  newspapers on, 207, 210–14

  Browne, Junius Henri, 92, 438–39

  Browning, Orville H., 309, 333, 370, 398, 411, 470, 475–76

  Brownlow, William “Parson,” 357

  Brown’s Indian Queen Hotel, 69

  Bryant, Jane, 593

  Bryant, William Cullen, 20, 116, 175, 225, 242, 406, 432, 492, 500–501

  campaign advice to Lincoln from, 239–40

  death of, 561

  Lincoln advised by, 239–40, 267

  Lincoln campaign song composed by, 251

  Lincoln introduced at Cooper Union by, 218, 218, 219

  Buchanan, James, 170, 210, 269, 308, 342, 404

  Bennett’s support in 1860 for, 239, 255

  Douglas’s break with, 169

  Greeley’s opposition to, 174

  presidency won by, 164

  Buckingham, James Silk, 41–42

  Buena Vista, Battle of, 72, 98

  Buffalo Advertiser, 125

  Buffalo Times, 273

  Bull Run, First Battle of, 314–16, 318–19, 320, 322–24, 328–29, 330, 333, 335, 337, 343, 346, 351, 353, 355, 358, 361, 366, 381, 511

  censorship of news of, 323–24

  Bull Run, Second Battle of, 406

  Bunn, Jacob, 189, 469

  Bureau of Ordnance, 373

  Burke, Edmund, 143

  Burnside, Ambrose, 412, 414, 423, 432, 489

  Chicago Times shut down by, 424–26, 425, 431, 561

  Butler, Benjamin F., 419, 464, 497

  slaves considered “contraband” by, 332, 389

  Butterfield, Daniel, 459

  Cadwallader, Sylvanus, 326

  Calhoun, John C., 13, 142

  California, 72, 141

  Calixtus III, Pope, 407

  Callender, James Thomas, 576

  Cameron, Simon, xxiii, 265, 310, 374, 497

  in bid for nomination of 1860, 226, 230

  made secretary of war, 274

  ousted from cabinet, 322, 367

  suppression of Maryland press ordered by, 339, 356

  and treason accusation against Raymond, 361

  Camp, Benjamin F., 277–78, 279, 498

  Campbell, A. W., 273

  Camp Douglas, 425

  canals, 12, 41

  Canisius, Theodor, xxii, 186–94, 190, 274, 410, 604

  as consul to Samoan Islands, 564

  death of, 565

  Lincoln biography by, 564–65

  made consul to Vienna, 193, 194, 196

  Cape Girardeau Eagle, 339

  Cape Hatteras, 462

  Capitol, U.S., 76

  Carman, Caleb, 15

  Carpenter, Francis Bicknell, 396, 466–67, 470, 471, 477, 518, 592

  Cass, Lewis, 94, 99–100, 592

  “Castine,” see Brooks, Noah

  Catholics, Bennett’s hatred of, xxvi

  Cedar Creek, Battle of, 652

  censorship of the press, xxiv

  in Civil War, 323, 343–48, 354–56, 357–58, 419–22, 424–26, 425, 435–37, 507–8

  in early nineteenth century, xvii

  Central Illinois Gazette, 202, 274

  Central Park, New York, 198, 442

  Cerro Gordo, Battle of, 72, 89–90, 119

  Chancellorsville, Battle of, 432, 460

  Chappaqua, N.Y., 201, 314

  Charge of the Police at the “Tribune” Office, 447–48, 447

  Charleston, S.C.:

  alleged capture of, 474–75

  1860 Democratic convention in, 210, 225, 239

  secession convention at, 260

  Charleston Courier, 22

  publication suspended by, 459

  at Republican Convention of 1860, 225

  Charleston Harbor, 272

  Charleston Mercury, 139, 201, 211, 290

  Lincoln’s first inaugural address in, 293

  secession advocated by, 258, 261–62

  Chase, Lucien Bonaparte, 163

  Chase, Salmon P., 390, 408, 497, 498, 501, 523

  in bid for nomination in 1860, 226, 234

  cabinet post sought by, 245

  emancipation plan of, 395

  at Greeley’s lecture, 378

  Lincoln visited in Secession Winter by, 265

  Villard’s visit to, 304

  Chester, Thomas Morris, 549–50

  Chester County Times, 223, 273

  Chester Picket Guard, 509

  Chicago, Ill., xxvi

  newspapers in, xxii

  Chicago & Galena Railroad, 423

  Chicago Daily Democrat, 159

  Chicago Daily Democratic Press, 173

  Chicago Daily Journal, 153

  Chicago Daily Times, 143, 164

  Chicago Democrat, 143

  Chicago Evening Post, 560

  Chicago Fire, 160

  Chicago Historical Society, 560

  Chicago Journal, 466

  Chicago Morning Post, 422

  Chicago Post, 561

  Chicago Press and Tribune, xxxi

  Davis supported by, 174

  1858 election in, 175

  formation of, 173

  Lincoln-Douglas debates in, 179–80, 180, 182

  in Lincoln photograph, xxxii, 159

  Lincoln’s Dred Scott speech praised in, 168

  Lincoln’s praise for, 203–4

  Chicago River and Harbor Convention, 224

  Chicago Times, xxxi, 157, 216, 328, 409, 422, 424, 430, 431, 463, 466

  Burnside’s censorship of, 424–26, 425, 431, 561

  as Douglas campaign organ, 241

  Douglas’s manifesto on Brown published in, 209

  Emancipation Proclamation denounced by, 418

  Gettysburg Address attacked in, 454

  Lincoln-Douglas debates in, 180, 181, 182, 183

  Lincoln’s troop supply vote in, 174

  National Intelligencer’s condemnation of, 428

  Chicago Tribune, 159, 160, 161, 230, 309, 362, 408, 431, 462, 466, 467, 488, 560–61

  1860 Republican Convention reported in, 226, 229–30, 229

  emancipation accepted by, 406

  First Bull Run Battle in, 316

  freedom of the press questioned by, 355

  Gettysburg Address praised in, 454

  “House Divided” speech in, 173

  Lincoln-Douglas debates in, 176, 181–82

  Lincoln endorsed by, 216–17, 222

  Lincoln profile in, 242

  Lincoln’s Corning letter praised in, 429

  Lincoln’s defense of Davis in, 174

  Lincoln’s nomination supported by, 230

  Lincoln’s train ride to D.C. covered by, 282

  Lincoln’s visit to, 161–62

  on McClellan, 386

  Medill’s purchase of, 160–61

  as necessary for Lincoln in 1860 campaign, 204

  Russell’s insulting of, 321

  steam press at, 160–61

  see also Medill, Joseph

  Chickasaw Bluffs, Battle of, 437

  cholera, 9

  Christian Observer, 343–45, 349, 420

  Church, Francis Pharcellus, 464

  Church, William Conant, 464

  Cincinnati Chronicle, 125

  Cincinnati Commercial, 229, 358–60, 466, 488

  Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 242, 282, 404, 466, 474

  Cincinnati Enquirer, 211–12, 236, 516

  censorship of, 430

  circulars, xx

  City Hall Park, 198, 445

  Civil War, U.S.:

  Blair’s peace initiative in, 542

  draft riots in, 441–48, 491, 532

  end of, 550


  Greeley’s peace initiatives in, 510–19, 512, 529–30, 532, 540, 544

  Hampton Roads conference in, 544–45

  Lincoln memorabilia sold to raise funds in, 221

  memoirs of reporters in, 328

  Civil War, U.S., newspapers in, xvi

  black troops and, 418–19, 456, 473–74, 475–76, 485

  censorship of, 323, 343–48, 354–56, 357–58, 419–22, 424–26, 425, 435–37, 507–8

  collapse of, in South, 457–58

  commanders’ relationships with, 358–59

  cost of reporting by, 326–28

  criticism of, 325–26

  draft and, 441

  editors’ declaration and, 427–28

  Emancipation Proclamation and, 408

  false call for volunteers in, 489–96

  First Bull Run Battle in, 315–16, 318–19, 322–24, 328–29

  and military control of telegraphs, 337, 364–69, 368, 372

  read by soldiers, 461–65

  reliance on New York correspondents in, 326–27

  Sabbath editions in, 328

  sacking of offices of, in 1864, 509, 646

  Sherman criticized in, 359–60

  Southern unionist, 259–60

  Stanton’s strict censorship of, 373–75, 385, 386, 419

  suppression of, in border states, 338–42, 345

  telegraphs used by, 322, 326, 328

  Western reports from, 325

  Clay, Cassius Marcellus, xxiii

  Clay, Clement Claiborne, 516

  Clay, Henry, 13, 42

  colonization supported by, 144

  death of, 140, 144

  in election of 1832, 16

  in election of 1844, 57, 58

  in election of 1848, 98–99

  Herald’s opposition to, 74

  as Lincoln’s hero, 13, 43, 65, 98, 140, 591

  Raymond praised by, 123

  slavery bill of, 141

  Clayton, John M., 118–19

  Clephane, Lewis, 308, 620, 631

  Cleveland, Grover, 562

  Cleveland Herald, 236

  Cleveland Leader, 273

  Cleveland Morning Leader, 160

  Cleveland Plain Dealer, 284

  Clinton, DeWitt, xxi

  Codding, Ichabod, 242

  Coffin, Charles C., 316, 549–50

  Colfax, Schuyler, 414

  colonization, 144, 398

  Colorado, 72

  Colored American, 109

  Colored Orphan’s Asylum, 442, 446

  Columbia City, Ind., 423

  Columbus, Ohio, 283

  Columbus Crisis, 424, 454, 463

  Common Council, 200

  communes, 55

  Compromise of 1850, 141, 143

  Comstock, Elon, 428

  Concord, Battle of, 303

  Concord Democratic Standard, 353

  Confederacy:

  creation of, 275–76

  Lincoln’s blockade of ports of, 299, 312

  reporters arrested by, 438–39

  War Department of, 274

  Confederate, 438

  Confederate News Association, 328

  Confederate press, xxvii

  collapse of, 457–58

  Lincoln’s first inaugural criticized in, 292–93

  pro-Union dailies in, 458

  Confederate Press Association, 459

  Confederate States Almanac, 345, 457–58

  Confiscation Act, 395, 404

  Congress, U.S., “transient” papers banned by, 17

  Conkling, James C., 472, 473, 474, 518, 528–29, 650

  Connecticut, 352–53

  conscription, 422, 423, 430, 467–68

  Conscription Act, 422, 423, 641

  Constitution, U.S.:

  Garrison’s attack on, 108

  Lincoln’s study of, 216

  Constitutional Union Party, 239, 343

  conventions, political, xix–xx

  Converse, Amasa, 343–44, 344

  Cook, Isaac, 164–65

  Cook, Thomas, 433

  Cooper, James Fenimore, 63

  Cooper, Peter, 217

  Cooper Union, 498

  Lincoln’s speech at, 63, 214, 215–16, 217–23, 220, 224, 234, 273, 285, 378, 563

  Copperheads, 423, 441, 485, 486, 488, 502, 516, 561

  copyright laws, 12

  Corning, Erastus, 428–30, 448, 518

  Corning letter, 428–29, 448, 518

  Correspondence (Walpole), 23

  Cort, Charles Edwin, 462

  Corwin, Thomas, 98

  Corwine, Richard M., 251, 526

  Coshocton Republican, 160

  Courier des Etats-Unis, 352

  Cowan, Edgar, 405

  Cox, Jacob D., 301

  Cox, Samuel “Sunset,” 489, 542

  Crawford Democrat, 509

  crime, 27

  Crimean War, 316

  Croffut, William A., 327, 376, 378

  Croly, David G., 504

  Cropsey, Edward, 434

  Crounse, Lorenzo Livingston, 325, 327

  Cullom, Shelby M., 511

  Currier, Nathaniel, 164

  Currier & Ives, 252, 253, 253, 254, 255

  Curtin, Andrew, 421

  Curtis, George William, 150, 225–26, 314

  Customs House, U.S., 501

  Cuyler, Theodore, 62, 558

  Dana, Charles A., 61, 138, 151, 317, 327, 434, 528

  made assistant secretary of war, 365

  photograph of, 62

  Daniel, John Moncure, 145–46

  Dart, William A., 628

  Davis, David, 174, 175, 277–78

  Davis, Henry Winter, 524–25, 529

  Davis, J. C. Bancroft, 317

  Davis, Jefferson, 299, 303, 314, 348, 349, 376, 420, 439, 448, 457, 477, 511, 513, 519, 526, 539, 542, 548

  black troops considered by, 535

  elected Confederate president, 276

  Gilmore’s interviews with, 508–9, 510

  Davis, John G., 174

  Davis, Theodore, 321

  Dawson, George, 273

  Day, Benjamin, 17–19, 18, 21, 24, 28, 30, 73, 565

  business plan of, 19–20

  Day, Clarence, 17

  Dayton, William, 274

  Dayton Daily Journal, 273

  Dayton Empire, 424

  Dayton Journal, 424

  Deckart, Daniel, 339

  Declaration of Independence, 167, 168, 176, 216, 409, 415

  Defrees, John D., 266, 313, 494, 621, 638

  patronage job of, 270

  Delahay, Mark, 233, 426

  Delane, John T., 321

  Delaware, 347, 541

  Democratic Convention, of 1856, 163

  Democratic Convention, of 1860, 210, 225, 238–39

  breakup of Democratic Party at, 239–40

  Democratic National Committee, 523

  Democratic Party, U.S., xxxi

  breakup of, 239–40

  in election of 1840, 27

  internal improvements opposed by, 95

  newspapers of, xiv, xix, xxi, 23, 24, 38–39, 78, 102–3, 112–13, 116, 142–44, 240–41, 283, 302, 312, 441, 456, 463–64, 500, 530

  in New York election of 1837, 26

  Democratic-Republican Party, U.S., Federalist opposition to, xvii

  Department of the Ohio, 423, 425

  Department of the West, 332

  Depew, Chauncey M., 511

  Derby, James Cephas (J. C.), 50, 521–22

  Dicey, Edward, 197–98, 320, 333–34

  Dickens, Charles, 50, 70, 77, 316

  Dill, Benjamin, 435, 459

  Diller, Isaac, 143

  Dix, John Adams, 365, 491, 492, 494, 653

  Dodsworth, William, 562

  Dole, William P., 265

  Dominican Republic, 563

  Douglas, Martha Martin, 68

  Douglas, Stephen A., xiv, 45, 103, 119, 160, 299, 308, 309, 422, 469, 595

  advice to Linc
oln on first inaugural, 290–91

  anti-secession editorial of, 260

  as antislavery, 69

  background of, 40

  in break with Buchanan, 169

  D.C. bill negotiated by, 111

  D.C. social circle of, 71

  death of, xxvi, 306–7, 428

  Early case and, 583

  in 1852 presidential race, 144, 145–46

  in 1856 election, 164

  elected to Senate, 65, 67, 68

  in election of 1858, 169–70

  Francis’s fight with, 45–46, 195

  Greeley’s support for, 169, 171–72, 174, 178, 185

  Harper’s article on Popular Sovereignty in, 215–16, 218

  Herndon’s meeting with, 170–71

  Illinois party press control of, 142–44, 146, 164

  and inheritance of plantation, 69, 142

  on John Brown, 209

  Kansas-Nebraska Act masterminded by, 149–50, 151–53, 156, 165, 204, 215

  Lanphier flattered by, 120

  Lanphier recruited to choose delegates for 1860 convention by, 210

  Lecompton Constitution opposed by, 169, 174

  Lincoln’s debates with, see Lincoln-Douglas debates

  at Lincoln’s inauguration, 306

  marriage of, 68

  Mary Todd allegedly courted by, 71

  Medill’s support for, 170

  Mexican War supported by, 76, 82–83, 84, 120–21

  Popular Sovereignty of, 150, 166, 169–70, 204, 215–16, 239, 266

  public debate enjoyed by, 75

  Register’s support for, 40, 42

  secession worries of, 260, 262–63

  Senate Committee on Territories chaired by, 93–94

  slavery compromise revived by, 141–42

  Tribune’s support for, 169–70, 171

  Van Buren championed by, 43

  Webster’s disputes with, 94

  Western antiwar tour of, 306

  see also Lincoln, Abraham, Douglas’s rivalry with

  Douglas, Stephen A., in campaign of 1860, 238–39, 247

  circuitous campaign trip of, 240

  official newspaper organs of, 240–41

  Douglass, Frederick, 40, 110

  abolition advocated by, 398

  alleged support for Brown from, 213–14

  black troops recruited by, 563

  colonization mocked by, 144

  D.C. Emancipation bill praised by, 384

  death of, 563

  Emancipation Proclamation and, 408

  Emancipation Proclamation news spread by, 526

  European tour of, 60, 109–10

  Greeley criticized by, 224–25

  Greeley praised by, 60

  on lecture tour, 60, 109–11

  Lincoln criticized on slavery by, 398

  on Lincoln’s freedom from prejudice, 485

  on Lincoln’s habeas corpus suspension, 313–14

  Lincoln supported by, 238

  North Star launched by, 110

  at post-inaugural reception, 545–46

  Seward supported by, 238

  Douglass’ Monthly, 110, 110, 214, 238, 563

  Doyle, Alexander, 559

  Drake, J. R., 282

 

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