by Alan Axelrod
Army of Tennessee, 66–67, 151, 162–170
Army of the Ohio, 166–199
Army of the Potomac. see also Battle of Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862); Battle of Chancellorsville (April 30-May 6, 1863); Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863); Buford, Maj. Gen. John; Bull Run, Second Battle (Aug. 28-30 1862); Burnside, Maj. Gen. Ambrose; McClellan, Maj. Gen. George Brinton; Pope, Maj. Gen. John; Seven Day Battles (June 25-July 1, 1862)
Buford holds high ground, 75–80
Burnside chosen to lead, 4, 189–200
Chancellorsville, 180–183
defeated, Grant advances, 149–158
McClellan training, 192–193
McClellan underestimates numbers, 46–52
as McClellan’s “bodyguard,” 87–88
naval support for, 229
ordered to restore order at New York riots, 98
Army of the Potomac Cavalry Corps, 156
Army of Virginia, 87, 134–136, 178–188, 202–207. see also Pope, Maj. Gen. John; Seven Day Battles (June 25-July 1, 1862)
Association for the Relief of Maimed Soldiers, 233
Atlanta (Sept. 2, 1864), 101
Atlanta Campaign (May 7-Sept. 2, 1864), 91–92
Atzerodt, George A., 108, 114–115
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Baltic, 38–40
Banks, Brig. Gen. Nathan, 144
Banks, Nathaniel P., 15
“Barbarism of Slavery,” 16
Barnes, Surgeon Gen. Joseph K., 113
Bartow, Gen. Francis, 125–126
Battery C, Independent Pennsylvania Artillery, 112
Battle of Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862), 69, 87–88
Battle of Appomattox (April 9, 1865), 6, 60–67, 249
Battle of Bull Run, First, 1861, 2
Battle of Cerro Gordo (April 18, 1847), 131
Battle of Chancellorsville (April 30-May 6, 1863), 4, 69, 75, 136–137, 178–188
Battle of Chapultepec (Sept. 12-13, 1847), 131
Battle of Drewry’s Bluff (May 15, 1862), 229
Battle of Five Forks, (1862), 60
Battle of Fredericksburg (Dec. 11-15, 1862), 69, 75, 179, 195–199
Battle of Gaines Mill (June 27), 135
Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), 56, 68–71, 75–84, 132, 137–138, 149. see also Buford, Maj. Gen. John; Chamberlain, Maj. Gen. Joshua Lawrence; Pickett, Maj. Gen. George; “Pickett’s Charge”
Battle of Groveton (1862), 205
Battle of Hampton Roads (March 8-9, 1862), 219
Battle of Hastings, 1066, 68
Battle of Malvern Hill (July1, 1862), 135, 201–202
Battle of Megiddo, 1469 BC, 68
Battle of New Bern (March 14, 1862), 192
Battle of Oak Grove (June, 25, 1862), 135
Battle of Seven Pines (1862), 134
Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862), 150, 159–170
Battle of White Oak Swamp Creek (June 30, 1962), 135
Battle of Wood Lake (Sept. 23, 1862), 240
Battle of Yellow Tavern (May 11, 1863), 156–157
Battle of Yorktown, 1781, 68
Bayou Baxter, 144
Bayou Macon, 144
Beauregard, Gen. P. G. T., 2, 7, 37–43, 122–124, 126–127, 168. see also Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862); Bull Run, First Battle of (July 21, 1861); Fort Sumter
Bee, Brig. Gen. Barnard, 124–125
Bell, John, 20
Bellows, Henry Whitney, 234
Ben-Hur, 162
Bethel Station, 162
Bill of Rights, 214
Bittersdorf, August, 105
“Black Hat Brigade,” 77, 205
“Black Lincoln,” 31, 107
“Black Lincoln” is Inaugurated, 18
Black River, 144
Blackburn’s Ford, 122–125
Blair, Postmaster Gen. Montgomery, 37, 48–49
“Bleeding Kansas,” 12, 17, 209
Bliss, Dr. Willard, 113
Bloody Angle, 156–157
Bloody Bill Anderson Leads the Centralia Massacre, September 27, 1864, 248–249
Bloody Lane, 52, 56
Bolton, Lt. James, 111
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 201–202
Booth, John Wilkes, 6, 22, 107–111, 113–114, 116
border states, challenge of, 45–47
Bowdoin College, 56
Brady, Mathew, 190
Bragg, Gen. Braxton, 140, 169
Breckenridge, Gen. John C., 20, 169
British Sanitary Commission, 234
Brooks, Preston, 1, 7–9
Brooks assaults Sumner, 7
Brown, John, 1, 107–108, 132–133, 208–218
Brown, Oliver, 216
Brown, Watson, 216
Buchanan, Capt. Franklin, 224–225
Buchanan, President James, 18, 20, 23, 28, 37–43, 212, 214–217, 232
Buckingham, Catharinus Putnam, 194–195
Buell, Maj. Gen. Don Carlos, 49, 140, 166, 169–170
Buford, Maj. Gen. John, 70, 75–80
Bull Run, 49, 58
Bull Run, First Battle of (July 21, 1861), 86–87, 117–122, 136, 149, 179, 190
Bull Run, Second Battle (Aug. 28-30 1862), 49, 87, 136, 201–207
Burns, George H., 25
Burnside, Maj. Gen. Ambrose, 4, 52, 100, 125–126, 149, 179, 189–200. see also Army of the Potomac; Battle of Fredericksburg (Dec. 11-15, 1862); “Mud March”
Burroughs, Joseph “Johnny Peanuts,” 110–111
Butler, Andrew, 13
Butler, Maj. Gen. Benjamin F., 143, 237–238
Butler’s Ditch, 143
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Calhoun, John C., 10–11, 210
California, 11–12
Cameron, Simon, 38
Canby, Maj. Gen. Edward R. S., 67, 114
Cannae, 216 BC, 51
Cashtown, 70
Cass, Lewis, 210
Castle Pinckney, 34
casualties, Gettysburg, 71–72
Cemetery Hill, 79, 82–85
Cemetery Ridge, 78, 132
Centreville, 122
Chalmers, Brig. Gen. James R., 245
Chamberlain, Maj. Gen. Joshua Lawrence, 56–58, 82
Chamberlain holds Little Round Top, 78–82
Champion Hill, 145
Charles L. Webster and Company, 64
Charleston Harbor, 32–33
Chase, Salmon P., 53, 87–89
Cheat Mountain, 134
Chesnut, James, 40
Chew, Robert L., 38
Chickahominy, 158
Chickasaw Bluffs, 143
Chinn Ridge, 126
The Citadel, 35
citizenship of Americans, mid-nineteenth century, 95
City of Louisiana, 234
Civil War Timeline
#1 Preston Brooks assaults abolitionist Charles Sumner, 1
#2 “Black Lincoln” Is Inaugurated, 2
#3 General Beauregard Opens Fire on Fort Sumter, 2
#4 Lincoln Issues the “Preliminary” Emancipation Proclamation, 4
#5 Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, 6
#6 Two Minutes at Gettysburg, 5
#8 New York Draft Rioters Set Fire to the Orphan Asylum for Colored Children, 5
#9 John Wilkes Booth Assassinates Abraham Lincoln, 6
#10 The Rebels Win at Bull Run, 2
#11 Lee Rises to Top Command in the Confederacy, 3
#12 Vicksburg Falls to Grant, 5
#13 Defeated, Grant Advances, 5–6
#14 Shiloh Creates a New American Reality, 3
#15 Congress Passes the Homestead Act of 1862, 3
#16 Stonewall Jackson Falls to Friendly Fire at Chancellorsville, 4
#17 Lincoln Chooses Burnside to Lead the Army of the Potomac, 4
#18 Lee Divides and Conquers at the Second Battle of Bull Run, 4
#19 John Brown Raids Harpers Ferry, 1
#20 The Ironclads Clash at Hampton Roads, 3
The 54th Massachusetts Inf
antry Regiment Assaults Fort Wagner, 5
Bloody Bill Anderson Leads the Centralia Massacre, 6
Confederate “Diplomats” Mason and Slidell Are Seized from the British-flagged Trent, 2
Congress Passes the Wade-Davis Bill, 6
CSS Alabama Is Commissioned by the Confederate States Navy, 4
The Dix-Hill Prisoner Exchange Is Signed, 3
The Great Santee Sioux Uprising Begins in Minnesota, 3
Nathan Bedford Forrest Leads the Fort Pillow Massacre, 5
South Carolina Secedes from the Union, 1
The United States Sanitary Commission Is Authorized, 2
Clarke, John Sleeper, 108
Clay, Henry, 11–12, 210–211
Clemons, Samuel Langhorne, 64
coastal forts, 32–33
code of chivalry, 13–14
Cold Harbor, 158
Coldwater River, 144
Colored Orphan Asylum, 96–101
“commutation fee,” 95
compensated emancipation, 22, 45–47, 54
Compromise of 1850, 211
Confederate Army of Tennessee, 151
Confederate “Diplomats” Mason and Slidell Are Seized from the British-flagged Trent, November 8, 1861, 234–236
Confederate States, 18
Confederate States, birth of, 21. see also abolitionist movement; Army of Northern Virginia; Lee, Gen. Robert E.; slavery issue
Confederate War Department, Richmond, Virginia, 99
“Confederate White House,” 59
Conger, Col. Everton J., 114
Congress Passes the Wade-Davis Bill, Mandating a Punitive Reconstruction Policy, July 2, 1864, 246–248
Conscription Act, 99
conscription law, 94–95
Constitutional Union Party, 20
“Convention of the People of South Carolina,” 232
Cook, Elmira, 72–73
Cook’s Mill, 72–73
Copperheads, 99–101
Corbett, Sgt. Corbett, 114
“Crime Against Kansas,” 13
Crimean War (1853-56), 234
Crittenden, John J., 14–15, 23
Crittenden Compromise, 14, 23
Crump’s Landing, 162
CSS Alabama, 3, 240–243
CSS Alabama Is Commissioned by the Confederate States Navy, August 24, 1862, 240–243
CSS H. L. Hunley, 221–222, 230
CSS Sumter, 240–243
CSS Virginia (Merrimack), 219, 224–230
Culp’s Hill, 78–79, 82
Curtin, Governor Andrew Gregg, 71–72
Custer, Brevet Maj. Gen. George Armstrong, 60, 63
Custis, George Washington Parke, 130, 132
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Dana, Charles A., 105–106
Davis, President Jefferson. see also Lee, Gen. Robert E.
appoints Davis as personal military advisor, 134
appoints Lee, 128, 132
and Battle of Shiloh, 168
and Bull Run, 122–123
and Dix-Hill Cartel, 237
evacuates Richmond, 59
and Fort Sumter, 38
as interim president of the Confederate states, 21, 93–94
Mason and Slidell named “diplomats,” 234
offers to negotiate with Lincoln for peace, 24
Davis, Rep. Henry Winter, 246–248
Deer Creek, 145
Democratic National Convention, 1864, 101
Democratic Party, 20, 87–89
Department of East Louisana, Mississippi and Alabama, 67
Devil’s Den, 81
Dix, Maj. Gen. John A., 237–238
Dix-Hill Cartel, 237–238
The Dix-Hill Prisoner Exchange Is Signed, July 22, 1862, 236–238
Dixie, 26–27
“Dixie Greys,” 163–169
Dixon, Elizabeth, 112
Dixon, James, 112
Doubleday, Capt. Abner, 41, 78
Douglas, Frederick, 90
Douglas, Stephen A., 20–22
draft riot, 96–101
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 16–17, 213
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Early, Maj. Gen. Jubal, 70, 77–78, 126, 182
East Cemetery Hill, 78
Eastern Theater, 150, 238
Edmundson, Henry A., 13–15
8th Wisconsin Regiment, 142–143
Elmira (Hellmira), 64–65, 236–237
Elzey, Gen. Arnold, 126
Emancipation Proclamation, 55, 72, 96, 99, 243
Emerson, Dr. John, 16–17
Emmett, Dan, 26–27
Enrica, 241
Ericsson, John, 226–227
“Evacuating Lee,” 134
Evans, Col. Nathan “Shanks,” 125
Everett, Edward, 71–74
Ewell, Maj. Gen. Richard Stoddart, 61, 78–79
Ewell’s Corps, 156
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Fairfax Court House, 122
Farey, Lieutenant Henry S., 40
54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment Assaults Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, 243–244
Fifth Amendment, 17, 214
54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 101
“fire-eaters,” 33, 36, 40
1st Cavalry, 133
1st Artillery, 34
1st Division (Forrest’s Cavalry Corps), 245
1st Rhode Island Volunteer Regiment, 192
Flexner, James Thomas, 128
Florence Trenchard, 106–107
Ford, Frank, 108
Ford, Gen. John Salmon “Rip,” 67
Ford, Harry Clay, 108
Ford’s Theatre, 103, 106–108, 115
Forrest, Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford, 5, 49, 143, 244–246
Fort Calhoun, 130
Fort Donelson (falls to Grant on Feb. 11, 1862), 140–141, 147, 160–161
Fort Hamilton, 130
Fort Henry (falls to Grant on Feb. 6, 1862), 140–141, 160–161
Fort Hill, 142
Fort Monroe, 130
Fort Moultrie, 33–35
Fort Pemberton, 145
Fort Pickens, 41
Fort Pillow Garrison, 245–246
Fort Pillow Massacre, 246
Fort Pulaski, 44–45, 130
Fort Sumter, 7, 32–35, 37–43, 103, 120
Fort Wagner, 2nd Battle (July 18, 1863), 101
Fort Warren, 235
Fox, Gustavus V., 37, 41
Franklin, Maj. Gen. William B., 135, 195, 197–198
“Free Soil Militia,” 211
Free Soil Party, 12
Freedman’s Bureau, 175
Frémont, Gen. John Charles, 20, 44, 90
fugituve slave law, 12
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Garnett’s & Golding’s Farms (June 27–28), 135
Gen. Beauregard Opens Fire on Fort Sumter, 31
Gen. Order 9, 66
Gen. Order Number 38, 100
General Order No. 182, 194–195
Georgia Relief and Hospital Association, 233
Gettysburg Address, 5, 68, 72–75
G.I. Bill, 171
“Gibraltar of the Chesapeake,” 130
“Gibraltar of the Confederacy,” 93
“Gibraltar of the West,” 141
Goodman, Sgt. Thomas, 248–249
Gordon, Brig. Gen. John Brown, 52, 56–57, 61–63
Gosport Navy Yard, 221–222
gradual emancipation, 45–46
“Grand Divisions,” 195–198
“Granny Lee,” 134
Grant, Gen. Ulysses S. see also Appomattox Court House, Virginia; Army of the Potomac; Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862); Cold Harbor; Fort Donelson (falls to Grant on Feb. 11, 1862); Fort Henry (falls to Grant on Feb. 6, 1862); Overland Campaign; Vicksburg, siege of; Yazoo Pass Expedition
Appomattox Court House, Virginia, 249
Booth plans to shoot, 109
on Burnside, 194
declines Ford’s Theatre invitation, 103–105
and Draft Riots, 93
Pe
rsonal Memoirs, 63–64, 140, 160–161, 194
surrender at Appomattox, 22
at Vicksburg, 56–67
Vicksburg, siege of, 5–6
Grant, Julia, 105
Great Redoubt, 142
The Great Santee Sioux Uprising Begins in Minnesota, August 17, 1862, 238–240
Great Sioux Nation, 238
Great Western Depot, 18
Greeley, Horace, 45
Greene, Lt. Samuel Dana, 228–229
Grover’s Theatre, 108
Gurley, Rev. Phineas T., 112–113
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Habana, 240
“Hail to the Chief,” 107
Hale, Lucy Lambert, 103
Hale, Senator John P., 103
Halleck, Maj. Gen. Henry Wager “Old Brains,” 140–141, 145–146, 149–150, 155, 199
Hall’s Rifle Works, 214
Hamlin, Hannibal, 48
Hammond, James Henry, 222
Hancock, Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott, 78, 156
Hannibal, 51
Hanson, Alexander Contee, 129
Hardee, Gen. William J., 169
hardtack, 180
Harlem & New Haven Railroad, 96–97
Harpers Ferry, 208–218
Harper’s Weekly, 97–98
Harris, Clara, 106–107, 110, 115
Harrison, Henry Thomas, 75
Harrison’s Landing, 49
Hawk, Harry, 109–111
Hay, John, 105
Hayes, President Rutherford B., 175
Hayne, Isaac W., 36
Headley, Joel T., 96–97
Heintzelman, Maj. Gen. Samuel P., 206
Henry House Hill, 125–127, 206
Herold, David, 108–109, 114–115
Heth, Gen. Henry, 68, 75, 77
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 214
High Bridge, 62
Hill, Gen. A. P., 77
Hill, Maj. Gen. Daniel Harvey, 51–52, 70–71, 75, 237–238
HMS Trent, 2
Homestead Act, 1862, 3, 171–177
Hood, Maj. Gen. John Bell, 81–82
Hooker, Gen. Joseph “Fighting Joe,” 52, 136–137, 149, 152, 178–188, 195. see also Battle of Chancellorsville (April 30-May 6, 1863)
Hope, John, 192
Hornet’s Nest, 163–166
Hough, Private Daniel, 43
Howard, Gen. O. O., 77, 182
Howard, Joseph, Jr., 26–27
Howe, Samuel Gridley, 214
Hunter, Maj. Gen. David, 44–45
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I Corps, 77–79, 193, 205
Iberian Peninsula, 201–202
II Corps, 79
III Corps, 79–81
Illinois, 18
Inaugural Address, Second, 91–92
The Indispensable Man, 128
Irish immigrants, New York, 96–97
“Iron Brigade,” 77, 205
ironclads, clash of, 219–230
Island No. 10, 143, 203
IX Corps, 193, 206
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Jackson, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 2–4, 49–51, 124–127, 130–131, 178–188, 216. see also Battle of Chancellorsville (April 30-May 6, 1863); Battle of Fredericksburg (Dec. 11-15, 1862); Bull Run, First Battle of (July 21, 1861); Bull Run, Second Battle (Aug. 28-30 1862)
