INDEX
Acquia Creek, 221
Adams, Charles Francis, 223, 258
Adams, James H., 121
Adams, John, 335
Adams, John Quincy, 26, 47, 299
Affairs of Kansas report, 13
Alban Lake, 22
Albany Evening Journal, Kansas-Nebraska Act and, 5
Alcott, Louisa May, 283
Alleged Assault upon Senator Sumner (House Report), 344
Allegheny Mountains, 175, 177
Allen, Katharine Thompson, 348
American Anti-Slavery Society, 245
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans (Child), 20
Anderson, Robert, 313–316
Andrew, John A., 206, 287, 302, 307
Arethusa Path, 327
Arnold, Benedict, 28
Arthur, Edward, 182
Arthur, E. J., 222
Associated Press, John Brown and, 281
Assumption College E Pluribus Unum Project, 349
Atchison, David Rice, 6–7, 60, 341
Augusta Constitutionalist, Dred Scott and, 244
Baker, George, 210
Banks, Nathaniel, 170, 172, 174
Barber, Thomas, 8
Baringer, William E., 353
Barksdale, William, 269
Barney, Hiram, 299
Beauregard, P. G. T., 314–316
Beecher, Henry Ward, 132–133, 283
Bell, John, 306
Benson, T. Lloyd, 219, 345–346
Bentley, Anne, 361
Bernstein, Margot, 346
Bigelow, John, 180
Bingham, John A., 69
Bird, Thomas, 100
Black, James H., 104
Blair, Francis P., 164
Bland, Hugh, 362
Bland, Lisa, 362
Blassingame, John W., 358
Bleser, Carol, 344
Blue Ridge Mountains, 88
Blue, Rose, 353
Boston Advertiser
death of Sumner and, 326
Lamar's speech on Sumner and, 331
Boston Atlas
Northern reaction to attack and, 125, 127
Sumner reception and, 198
Sumner's reelection to congress and, 209
Boston Bee, Northern reaction to attack and, 126
Boston Female Orphan Asylum, 195
Boston Globe, Lamar's speech on Sumner and, 330–331
Boston Harbor, 31, 121
Boston Latin School, 45
Boston Post
John Brown and, 283
Sumner's wounds and, 179
Boston Prison Discipline Society, 54
Boston Public Library, 342, 361
Boston Traveller, Sumner's “Barbarism of Slavery” speech and, 295
Botts, J. M., 185
Bowman, Shearer Davis, 357
Boyle, Cornelius, 115, 144–148, 179, 214–216
Bragg, Braxton, 124
Brattle Street Church, 38
Breckinridge, John C., 189, 306
Brevich, Rachel, 363
Briggs' Tavern, 84
Brooks, John Hampden “Ham”, 114, 118–119, 123, 130, 168
Brooks, Jr., Whitfield, 88, 101–102
Brooks, Martha C., 85–87, 216–217, 331
Brooks, Preston
assault on Sumner and, 109–117, 335–336
canes as gifts from well-wishers and, 122
code of honor and, 99–105
death of, 214–220, 224–225, 265
description of, 81
dueling and, 84, 99–100, 154
epitaph and, 222–223
expelled from the House and, 150
family relationships and, 85–88
funeral of, 220–222
goblet and, 362
rave of, 333
growing up in Edgefield and, 89–90
John Brown and, 140
Kansas-Nebraska Act and, 5, 14, 80
letter of apology and, 142–143
Mexican War and, 101–105 “Old ‘96
Boys” and, 101
plan to assault Sumner and, 76–77
reception in Edgefield and, 181–183
reelection to congress and, 174
regional remembering and, 332
Republican portrayal of, 188–189
reputation as a moderate and, 81–83
returning to congress and, 204
slavery and, 91–97
slaves of, 266
Southern reaction to attack on Sumner and, 118–121
Sumner's Kansas speech and, 64, 70–71, 75
trial of, 166–167, 169–173
writings of, 340
Brooks, Sallie, 86–87, 343
Brooks, Whitfield, 87–88, 99
Brooks, Zachariah, 88
Brown, Albert Gallatin, 285
Brown, E. P., 8
Brown, George Washington, 9
Brown, Jason, 138
Brown, John, 9, 116, 136–141, 143, 211–214, 280–283, 285, 287, 349–350
Brown-Séquard, Charles Edward, 255–259, 301
Buchanan, James, 156, 183, 188–190, 199–203, 218, 228–234, 240, 244, 267–268, 279, 286, 306, 311
Burlingame, Anson, 153–154, 164, 194, 205, 223, 296
Burns, Anthony, 37–40
Burton, Orville Vernon, 92, 348
Butler, Andrew, 14, 33–34, 40, 62–64, 65, 69–71, 75, 78, 89, 98, 111, 119, 146, 151–153, 171–172, 182, 216, 219, 249, 263–265, 291, 309, 331, 349, 354
Butler, Benjamin, 134
Butler, Pierce M., 101
Caesar, Julius, 219
Calhoun, Andrew Pickens, 310
Calhoun, John C., 20, 28–29, 93, 220, 263, 299, 309–310, 317, 335, 348, 354
California Gold Rush, 27
Campbell, Lewis, 144, 147, 219
canes, photograph of, 122
The Caning of Charles Sumner (Benson), 345
Cannellos, Peter, 336–337
Carpenter, Matt, 325
Carroll, J. P., 100
Carson, Kit, 160
Cass, Lewis, 67
Caswell, Lois, 197
Catton, Bruce, 335–336, 359
Catton, William, 359
Chandler, T. P., 289
Channing, Steven A., 357
Channing, William Ellery, 47
Charles River Bridge, 323
Charleston Courier
Brook's Edgefield speech and, 184–185
Brown-Séquard's fire treatments and, 260
Charleston Harbor, 313, 316
Charleston Hotel, 317
Charleston Mercury
1860 election and, 308–309
Lecompton Constitution and, 270
Chase, Salmon P., 176, 252, 261
Chesnut, James, 294–295, 315
Chesnut, Mary, 316, 321, 329, 346
Chicago Press and Tribune, Sumner's “Barbarism of Slavery” speech and, 295
Child, Lydia Maria, 20, 70, 180, 208, 282
Civil Rights Act of 1875, 324
Clariosophic Society, 84
Clarke, James Freeman, 213
Clark, James Freeman, 350
Clay, Henry, 20, 28–29, 310
Clemens, Jeremiah, 35
Clemson, Thomas Green, 93
Cleveland, Charles, 130
Cleveland, Henry R., 48
Clifton House, 154
Clingman, Thomas L., 169
Clover, Nathaniel, 186
Cobb, Howell, 144, 146, 149, 189
Colored Citizens of Boston, 164
Columbia College, 132
Congressional Cemetery, 217, 219
Congressional Globe
Dred Scott and, 351
Kansas-Nebraska Act and, 345
Lecompton Fiasco and, 269
Preston Brooks and, 344
Stephen A. Douglas and, 349
constitutional amendments
Fifteenth and, 326
Fourteenth and, 326
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bsp; Thirteenth and, 326
Constitutional Convention, 97
Cornell University, 346, 356
Corporation of Harvard College, 55
Crandall, Andrew Wallace, 353
Craven, Avery, 359
Crittenden, John J., 111, 310–311
Cuthrell, Brian, 361
Dana, Mary Rosamond, 129
Dana, Richard Henry, 40, 129, 165, 210
Darling, Nathan, 147
Davis, David Brion, 358
Davis, James, 103
Davis, Jefferson, 272–274, 285, 314–315, 354
Davis, Varina, 273
Dayton, William L., 161
DeGregorio, William A., 359
Denman, Lord (Thomas), 22
de Sismondi, Jean Charles Léonard, 22
Des Moines River, 160
de Tocqueville, Alexis, 251
Detzer, David, 357
Dew, Charles B., 355–356, 358
Dickens, Charles, 64
Disunion Convention, 211
Donald, David, 54, 193, 260–261, 311, 324, 336, 339, 347, 359
Don Quixote, 64
Douglass, Frederick, 212, 245, 282, 324, 355
Douglas, Stephen A.
1860 election and, 288, 306–307
Affairs of Kansas report and, 13
attack on Sumner and, 111, 113
canings damage to party and, 190
Charles Sumner and, 34–35
Congressional Globe and, 349
election of 1856 and, 200–201
Kansas-Nebraska Act and, 3–4, 62–63
Lecompton Constitution and, 268, 271
Lincoln-Douglas debates and, 274–279, 286, 351–353
Preston Brooks and, 183
pro-Union fervor and, 317–318
slavery and, 16
Sumner's Kansas speech and, 64–68
Sumner's theatrics and, 58
Dowdey, Clifford, 358
Dowling, George T., 324
Doyle, James, 138
Doyle, John, 138
Doyle, Mahala, 138
Drummey, Peter, 361
Duchess of Sutherland, 22
Duncan, Graham, 361
Dwight, Louis, 54–55
Edelstein, Tilden G., 357
Edgefield Advertiser
attack on Sumner and, 119–120
Brooks death and, 220, 224
dangers of abolitionism and emancipation, 96
South Carolina newspaper and, 89
Edgefield County Discovery Center, 362
Edgefield County Historical Society, 362
Edmundson, Henry, 75–79, 149, 171, 219
Egnal, Marc, 359
Election of 1856, 199, 204, 205
Election of 1860, 306–312
Eliot, Samuel A., 161
Emerson, John, 239
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 30, 155, 176, 282–283, 323–324
English Channel, 255
Evans, Josiah, 218
Evening Bulletin, Republican National Convention (1856) and, 157
Evening Journal, Northern reaction to attack and, 127
Everett, Edward, 67, 203, 309
Exchange Bank, 121
Faneuil Hall, 4, 25, 133, 223, 272–273, 304, 326, 354
Federal Union, attack on Sumner and, 120
Fehrenbacher, Don, 246, 278, 353, 358
Fellman, Michael, 356
Feltham, Helen, 362
Felton, Cornelius, 52, 55, 134
Filler, Louis, 357
Fillmore, Millard, 30, 190, 200
Fitzhugh, George, 97
Foltz, Jonathan Messersmith, 233
Ford, Jr., Lacy K., 348
Fort Sumter, 313–317, 358
Frank, Jennifer, 358
Franklin, Bruce H., 363
Frederick Douglass House, 49
Freehling, William W., 358
Free-Soilers, 5, 8–9, 12, 41, 80, 93, 137
Free State Hotel, 137
Frémont, John C., 160–163, 190–191, 193–194, 199–204, 214, 306–307, 351
Fugitive Slave Law, 28–29, 32–33, 35–36, 39–40, 66, 128, 163, 246, 295, 354–355
Fulmer, Henry, 361
Fulton, 228
Furgurson, Ernest B., 359
Furman University, 341
Furness, William H., 176, 202
Gammell, William, 134
Gardner, Henry J., 133, 196
Garrison, William Lloyd, 20, 30, 33, 35, 70, 212, 280, 282, 318
Genovese, Eugene D., 358
Gerrard, John, 362
Giddings, Joshua, 212
Gienapp, William, 188, 203, 268, 272, 336, 352
Gillette, Francis, 16
Gladstone, William, 251
Glenn, Tricia Price, 362
Graber, Mark A., 353
Gradin, Harlan, 105
Gradin, Joel Harlan, 346
Grant, Ulysses S., 324, 328
Greeley, Horace, 9, 243, 351
Greenhow, Rose O'Neal, 233–234
Greenwood, Alfred, 144, 149
Grier, Robert C., 230
Grimes, James W., 298
Grow, Galusha, 269
Hale, Edward Everett, 15–16
Hall, Lydia P., 3, 8, 11
Hammond, James Henry, 82, 269–270, 349
Hammond, John Henry, 94
Hancock, John, 335
Harpers Ferry Investigating Committee, 287
Harper's Weekly, death of Sumner and, 327
Harris, James, 138
Harvard Law School, 19, 55
Harvard University, 46, 309, 323, 332, 334
Hayward, George, 256
Herald of Freedom, George Washington Brown and, 9
Herndon, William Henry, 210
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 37, 211–212, 282, 355
Hillard, George, 26, 47, 52, 134
Hoar, Samuel, 82
Hoffer, Williamjames Hull, 167, 249, 348
Hollis, Daniel Walker, 348
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 52–53, 323
Holmes, W. F., 123
Holt, Michael F., 353, 359
Holt, R. S., 308, 354
Homer, Winslow, 111
Horwitz, Tony, 284, 350
Houghton Library, 342
Howe, Julia Ward, 204
Howe, Samuel Gridley, 16, 51, 53, 176, 180, 194, 197, 212, 253, 262, 286, 289
Hoyt, Paula, 362–363
Hudson River, 180
Hunts Hotel, 121
Illinois State Journal, Northern reaction to attack and, 125–126
Jackson, Andrew, 166, 245
Jackson, Robert M., 175, 179
Jamison, David F., 310
Jay, William, 17, 202, 255
Johnson, A. B., 226, 297
Johnson, Andrew, 285
Johnson, Linck C., 357
Jones, J. William, 359
Jones, Samuel J., 137
Jones, Seaborn, 123–124
Journal of the House of Representatives, resolution calling for Brooks's ouster and, 345
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 3–5, 13–14, 36–37, 39, 41, 56, 60, 63–65, 67, 80, 91, 109, 163, 200, 238, 264, 295, 344–345
Kansas River, 137
Keefe, Ellen, 363
Keitt, Lawrence M., xv, 76–78, 96, 111–114, 118, 149, 153, 171, 174, 201, 214–215, 218, 254, 269, 287
Kennedy, John F., 335, 346
Key, Francis Scott, 166
Key, Phillip Barton, 166–167
King, Alvy, 348
King, Charles, 132
King's Chapel, 323, 327
Klein, Maury, 309, 317, 358
Kolchin, Peter, 358
Koverman, Jill Beute, 362
Lake Leman, 252
Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, 321–322, 329–330, 346
Lander, Ernest M., 348
Lane, Elliot, 232–233
Lane, Harriet, 228
Lane, Henry, 157
Lang, Joel, 358
Lankford, Nelson D., 358
Lawrence, Amos, 6, 194, 212
Leader, William, 114
Learnard, O. E., 137
Leaside Plantation, 93
Lecompton Constitution, 267–274
Lee, Robert E., 280, 318
Lee, William L., 16
Levy, Leonard W., 357
Lewis, Walker, 353
Liberator
John Brown and, 283–284
William Lloyd Garrison and, 20, 33
Lieber, Francis, 21, 48, 56
Lillian Goldman Law Library, 356
Lincoln, Abraham
assassination of, 323–324
biography of, 359–360
convention speech and, 291–293, 298, 302
death of Taney and, 329
Dred Scott decision and, 238, 240, 243
election as president and, 303, 306–312
Fort Sumter and, 313–318
influence on the slavery debate and, 304
issues raised by the caning and, 129
James Buchanan and, 234
Lincoln-Douglas Debates and, 275–279, 286, 351–353
“lost speech” and, 116
nomination for president and, x, 289–290
Republican state convention and, 141–143
Sumner on Lincoln's election and, 305
Sumner's letter to William Henry Herndon and, 210
William Dayton and, 161
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 275–279, 351–353
Lindsly, Harvey, 148
Livermore, George, 38
Loewen, James W., 357
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 26, 52–54, 69, 131, 148, 163–164, 194–195, 205, 216–217, 253, 283, 289, 309, 323, 327
Longstreet, James, 89
Lord, Daniel, 132
Louisiana Purchase, 239
Louvre, 251
Lucas, Gloria Ramsey, 266, 344
Mann, Horace, 130
Martin, John Sella, 282
Mason, James M., 34, 40, 63, 65–66, 68, 171, 285
Massachusetts First Battalion, 326
Massachusetts Historical Society, 343, 355, 361
Massachusetts State Kansas Association, 187
Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, 212
Mathis, Robert Neil, 185
Mayer, Henry, 357
Mayflower, 299
Mayo, James, 221
McClure, Alexander K., 203–204, 359
McDuffie, George, 20–21
McKissick Museum, 362
McLaughlin, Constance, 359
McLean, John, 161
McPherson, James M., 353, 360
McQueen, John, 215–216, 218, 310
Medical College of Virginia, 255
Mexican War, 26, 55, 75, 101–102, 104, 147, 160, 331, 343, 348
Meyer, Howard N., 355
Midterm election of 1858, 278–279
Mississippi Ordinance of Secession, 321
Mississippi River, 160
Missouri Compromise, xi, 4, 36, 60, 239, 242, 246, 302
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