Grant

by Ron Chernow

Life of George Washington, The (Weems), 12

  Lincoln, Abraham:

  anxiety over Burnside’s fate, 320

  anxious about Vicksburg, 279, 292

  appearance of, 352, 477, 479

  assassination of, 522–23, 526–29, 530, 531, 535–36, 538–39, 911

  and assault on Fort Donelson, 181–82

  background of, 352

  besieged by job seekers, 640–41

  in Black Hawk War, 353

  and black recruits to army, 280–81, 284

  black troops visited by, 416

  blamed for loss at Fredericksburg, 231

  Butler protected by, 372

  Butler’s Fort Fisher plan and, 460–61

  cabinet of, 296

  California preservation bill signed by, 739

  in campaign of 1856, 100

  and capture of Atlanta, 442–43

  and capture of Fort Henry, 174

  Chattanooga important to, 314

  in City Point strategy session, 483–84, 485–86

  Colfax allegedly insulted by, 615

  Colonel Dent’s opposition to, 133

  depression of, 352

  Douglas’s debates with, 103

  draft riots quelled by, 298

  dreams of, 522

  and Early in Shenandoah, 444

  and Early’s threat to Washington, 420

  and Early’s torching of Chambersburg, 431

  in election of 1860, 118, 119–20

  in election of 1864, 404–5, 420, 439, 441, 452–53, 576

  Emancipation Proclamation issued by, 223, 228, 242, 494, 661, 746

  first inauguration of, 123

  and Fort Stedman fighting, 478–79

  and Frémont’s announcement of martial law in Missouri, 146

  French interference in Mexico as concern of, 554–55

  in front rank of presidents, xxii

  funeral of, 530, 534

  as furious at McClellan, 136, 193, 211, 218, 353

  as furious at Meade, 295

  generals ordered to action by, 169

  gold standard favored by, 778–79

  Grant made major general by, 186

  Grant reinstated by, 193–94

  Grant’s behavior at Shiloh investigated by, 211

  Grant’s direct correspondence with, 292–93

  on Grant’s drinking, 165, 293–94

  Grant’s General Orders No. 11 rescinded by, 235

  Grant’s meetings with, 341–44, 352, 353, 361, 414–15

  Grant’s plan for taking Mobile vetoed by, 327

  and Grant’s plan to invade Vicksburg, 247, 253

  and Grant’s promotion to brigadier general, 142, 143

  and Grant’s promotion to District of Southeast Missouri, 145–46

  and Grant’s promotion to head of Army of the Potomac, 295, 296

  Grant’s turning down invitation from, 347

  Grant supported by, 251, 271, 292–93, 296–97, 344, 354, 374–75, 384, 386, 392, 409, 414–15, 438, 479–80

  on Grant’s victory at Corinth, 226

  Halleck as disappointment to, 220

  importance of Kentucky recognized by, 153

  impressed with Paducah proclamation, 155

  invasion of Washington as concern of, 366, 431

  invited to City Point, 477

  Julia Grant’s meeting with, 351–52

  lame-duck presidency as worry of, 441

  and Lee’s surrender, 513

  leniency toward South desired by, 485, 496

  letters to editors from, 678

  lieutenant general bill backed by, 330

  McClellan fired by, 230–31

  McClellan returned to command of armies of Virginia by, 220

  McClernand put in charge of Vicksburg Campaign by, 236–37

  and march to the sea, 449, 457–58

  Mexican War opposed by, 468

  militiamen called up by, 124, 125

  news of Chancellorsville received by, 271

  officers fired by, 357–58

  opening of Mississippi River as objective of, 238

  and peace talks, 465, 466, 467–68

  and plan for black colonization, 661

  plot to kidnap, 520

  Pope put in charge of Army of Virginia by, 220

  pressured to get rid of Grant, 217

  Rawlins promoted by, 297

  and Reconstruction, 521, 548

  on recruitment of black soldiers, 299

  Richmond toured by, 495

  Rosecrans insulted by, 305

  second inauguration of, 475–76

  as secretive, 353

  with Seward after carriage accident, 512–13

  shaken by Union defeat at Bull Run, 141

  Sherman’s presenting Savannah to, 459

  and Smith’s almost replacing of Butler, 423, 424

  and Spotsylvania casualties, 398

  temperance of, 251

  and Thomas’s victory over Hood, 457

  in trip to Washington, 122–23

  troops reviewed by, 478–79, 483

  in visit to Petersburg, 493–94

  Washburne’s campaign biography of, 130

  on Washburne’s discovery of Grant, 129, 165

  as Whig, 9

  Whitman’s praise of, xx

  Wilmot Proviso supported by, 59

  on Yates’s gubernatorial campaign, 130

  Lincoln, Eddie, 481–82

  Lincoln, Mary, 347, 351–52, 469, 477–78, 480–83, 484, 495, 519–20, 522, 523, 524, 528, 530

  Lincoln, Robert, 468–69, 477, 478, 493, 520, 530, 545, 910

  Lincoln, Tad, 414, 477–78, 493

  Lincoln, Willie, 481–82

  Lindell Hotel, 333

  Lindsay, Jack, 22

  line-item veto, 754

  Little Bighorn, battle of, 833–35, 836, 855

  Little Dorrit (Dickens), 96

  Logan, John, 138, 287, 290, 348, 456, 584, 615, 896, 899, 903, 908, 938

  Logan, Olive, 653

  London, 698, 865–66, 898

  Long, John Fenton, 185

  Long Branch, N.J., xviii, 591, 651–52, 747, 773, 800, 805, 813, 819, 909, 913, 928, 929, 930

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 627

  Longstreet, James, 638

  in battle of the Wilderness, 380, 381

  Burnside attacked by, 316, 317

  complacency as concern of, 366–67

  on Confederate advantage in Virginia campaign, 369

  on Grant, 21–22, 24, 42, 54, 304, 511, 728

  Grant lent money by, 98

  and Grant’s death, 957

  indictment against, 551

  and Lee’s surrender, 504, 506, 511

  menacing activity in Tennessee by, 332

  in Mexican War, 51

  and Othello production, 43

  prisoners exchanged by, 474

  and racial violence in New Orleans, 758–59, 761

  St. Louis praised by, 29

  at Second Manassas, 219

  surrender vetoed by, 500

  on third term for Grant, 895

  Loo Choo (Ryukyu) Islands, 879, 881

  Lookout Mountain, 314, 321, 322

  Louisiana, 245, 587–88, 751, 757, 758–59, 789, 839, 844, 845, 858, 895

  in election of 1876, 844, 845, 846–48

  fears of government overthrow in, 761–63

  political mayhem in, 791–95, 796, 843

  secession of, 122, 192

  Louisiana, USS, 461

  Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, 192

  Louisvil
le, Ky., 63, 308, 331, 339, 799, 888

  Love, Alfred H., 889

  Lovejoy, Owen, 119

  Lowe, Kate, 26

  Lowell, James Russell, 627–28, 876

  Lum, Anna, 297

  Lum, William, 297

  Lyman, Theodore, 341, 360, 380, 434, 479

  Lynch, Isaac, 12

  Lynch, John Roy, 817, 838

  Lynchburg, Va., 418, 473, 475, 499, 501

  Lyon, Nathaniel, 134

  death of, 143

  Lyons, James, 763

  Lytton, Lord, 878, 884

  MacArthur, Arthur, Jr., 324

  MacArthur, Douglas, 324

  McClellan, George B., 303, 392

  abolition hated by, 223

  in battle of Antietam, 227, 228, 271

  Crimean War observed by, 138

  in election of 1864, 328, 420, 441–42, 452, 453

  Grant’s arrest ordered by, 189

  Grant’s attempted restoration of, 358

  Grant’s request for job from, 135–36

  Halleck made military adviser to, 218

  Halleck reprimanded by, 188, 190

  lavish funding of, 192

  Lee’s praise of, 367

  Lincoln’s anger at, 136, 193, 211, 218, 353

  Lincoln’s firing of, 230–31

  in Mexican War, 50, 51

  peace plank abandoned by, 442

  in Peninsula Campaign, 218, 402, 408

  procrastination by, 182, 193, 218, 403

  put in charge of Army of the Potomac, 162

  railroad surveyed by, 80–81

  removed as general in chief, 194

  returned to command of armies in Virginia, 220

  Stanton’s annoyance with, 136, 169

  at West Point, 25

  McClellan, Hillyer & Moody, 104

  McClernand, John A., 138, 171, 172

  in assault on Fort Donelson, 179, 180, 181, 237

  background of, 237

  Bruinsburg landing of, 259

  claim to capture forts at Vicksburg, 269–70

  in clash at Champion’s Hill, 265

  firing of, 272, 296

  Grant accused of drinking by, 237

  Grant’s desire for end of service of, 455

  Grant’s disputes with, 237–39

  Halleck’s insulting of, 357

  river transport by, 250

  rousing message to Grant from, 191

  and Vicksburg Campaign, 236–37, 238, 241, 257, 259, 264, 265, 269–70, 272

  McClure, Alexander K., 211

  McCord, Louisa, 752

  McCosh, James, 625

  McCulloch, Hugh, 557

  McDonald, John, 797–98, 799, 800, 801, 802, 806

  McDowell, Irvin:

  in First Manassas, 141

  in Mexican War, 55–56

  McEnery, John, 757–58, 793

  Macfeely, Robert, 80

  Mack brothers, 233, 234–35

  McKinley, William, 940, 958

  McKinstry, Justus, 145

  McLean, James, 897

  McLean, Wilmer, 505, 506, 511, 512

  MacMahon, Patrice de, 869

  McMillan, Charles, 272–73

  McPherson, James Birdseye, 170, 186, 244, 300, 337, 347, 348

  in clash at Champion’s Hill, 265

  death of, 426

  on defense of Shiloh, 196

  Department and Army of the Tennessee commanded by, 347

  on Grant’s overworking, 253

  Union mine blown up by, 285

  in Vicksburg Campaign, 248, 257, 263, 264, 265, 285, 287

  McPherson, James M., 516, 644

  Madison Barracks, 64–65

  Magnolia, 245–46, 253

  Magoffin, Beriah, 153

  Magruder, J. B., 556

  Mahan, Dennis Hart, 22–23, 768

  malaria, 246, 278

  Malvern Hill, 482, 483

  Manassas, first battle of, see Bull Run, first battle of

  Manassas, second battle of, see Bull Run, second battle of

  Manchester, Great Britain, 864–65

  Marble, A. P., 83

  march to the sea, 443, 447–49, 455, 457–58, 670

  black troops on, 450

  fugitive slaves collected on, 470–71, 477

  Marcy, William L., 640

  Marine National Bank, 916, 921, 922, 923

  Mariposa Grove, 739

  Maritime Canal Company, 904–5

  Marsh, Caleb P., 821

  Marsh, Othniel, 831

  Marshall, Charles, 507, 510

  Marszalek, John F., 168

  Martin, T. Jefferson, 858

  Marx, Karl, 187

  Maryland, 421, 751

  in Union, 124, 153

  Mary Martin, 466

  Massachusetts, 743, 783

  Matamoros, Mexico, 43, 45

  Mathews, John, 525

  Mattoon, Ill., 132, 134

  Maximilian I of Mexico, 554, 557, 583

  Maxwell, John, 434

  Maysville Seminary, 16

  Meade, C. E., 931

  Meade, George Gordon, 341, 359, 360, 373, 428, 503, 504, 561, 627

  Army of the Potomac commanded by, 271

  in battle of Cold Harbor, 405, 421

  in battle of Gettysburg, 295, 366

  in battle of the Crater, 430

  in battle of the Wilderness, 378, 379–80

  in fighting at Petersburg, 413

  in Grand Review, 539, 540

  Grant’s meeting with, 345–47

  Lee’s surrender and, 511

  in Mexican War, 51

  in move to Spotsylvania, 385, 387–88, 390–91

  on origin of Grant’s style, 42

  and plan for mine in Petersburg, 427

  and pursuit of Lee, 292, 295, 345, 366, 494, 497–98, 499

  Smith’s criticism of, 421

  on tour of northern states, 577

  measles, 78, 246

  Medill, Joseph, 249, 410, 620, 731–32

  Meigs, Montgomery, 169, 326, 668

  Memoirs (Sherman), 168

  Memphis, Tenn, 159, 188, 233, 238, 239

  Grant honored in, 300–301

  Grant’s enforcement of laws in, 218

  Grant’s moves to, 217–18, 244

  racial strife in, 571–72, 573, 586, 590

  Union occupation of, 217

  Memphis Appeal, 895

  Memphis Avalanche, 572

  Mencken, H. L., 585–86

  merchant marine, 712

  Merrill, Lewis, 704

  Methodist Episcopal Church, 6, 7

  Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, 649

  Mexican Southern Railroad, 913

  Mexican War, 24, 38–59, 83, 315, 316, 345, 347, 367, 392, 507

  American casualties in, 56, 206

  Lincoln’s opposition to, 468

  as political war, 49

  start of, 39–40, 41, 43–44

  treaty ending, 58

  Mexico, 893–94, 897, 908, 912, 913

  European pretensions in, 300, 357, 465, 554–55, 582

  U.S. occupation of, 56–57

  Mexico, Mo., 141–42

  Mexico (soldier), 137, 140

  Mexico City, 46, 49–50, 53, 56, 57

  Scott’s march on, 53–54

  Military Division of the Mississippi, 308, 309, 347

  Military History of Ulysses S. Grant (Badeau), 637, 944

  militia, 132

  Lincoln’s call for, 124, 125

  Militia Act, 222

  Miller,
Horace, 789

  Milliken’s Bend, 251, 257, 283

  Milwaukee, Wis., 799

  Minnesota, 121–22

  miscegenation, 452

  Missionary Ridge, 305, 314, 316, 317, 319–21, 322–23, 324–25, 341

  Mississippi, 122, 221, 223, 224, 240, 291, 298, 563, 571, 621, 655–56, 684, 686, 702, 703, 707, 788–90, 791, 792, 813, 842–43, 858

  Grant considering sending troops to, 814–15

  troops sent to, 843

  Mississippi Central Railroad, 227, 239, 254

  Mississippi River, 63, 140, 145, 147, 154, 157, 161, 187, 195, 207, 217, 238, 241, 245, 247, 248, 251, 253, 254, 255, 257

  commerce on, 130, 282, 291, 299

  Vicksburg as last Confederate fortress on, 236

  Mississippi Valley, 187, 194, 207, 222, 226, 229, 281

  Missouri, 30–31, 100, 134, 140–47, 156, 159, 409, 495, 703, 751, 783, 798

  emancipation announced in, 146

  martial law declared in, 146

  in Union, 124, 130, 153

  Missouri Compromise, 90, 100

  Missouri Democrat, 572

  “Mistakes of Grant, The” (Rosecrans), 309

  Mobile, Ala., 300, 327, 330, 357, 447, 519, 895

  Mobile Bay, 357, 433

  Mobile Register, 895

  Mobile Tribune, 575

  Moccasin Bend, 314

  Molino del Rey, Mexico, 54–55, 894

  Monocacy Junction, 433

  Monocacy River, 419

  monopolies, 778

  Monroe, John, 574

  Monroe Doctrine, 555, 904

  Montana Territory, 659, 691, 834

  Monterrey, Mexico, 46, 47–48, 49, 51

  Montgomery, Ala., 122, 330

  Montgomery, Louis, 286

  Moody, Dwight, 811

  Moran, Benjamin, 726

  Morgan, Michael R., 86, 336–37, 434, 510

  Morrill, Lot, 694, 823, 825

  Morrill Act, 644

  Morris, Isaac N., 350

  Morris, Thomas, 17, 25

  Morton, Oliver P., 713, 714, 717, 723–24, 733, 779–80, 827, 857

  Mosby, John Singleton, 358–59, 524, 529, 554, 746–47, 794, 845, 879, 957

  Motley, John Lothrop, 326, 495, 682, 684, 697–98, 721

  Mount McGregor, 96, 948–49, 950, 955

  Mule Shoe, 389, 390, 393, 394

  Murphy, Robert C., 240

  Murphy, Thomas, 735–36

  Naboth’s Vineyard speech (Sumner), 713

  Nagasaki, Japan, 880

  Napoleon I, emperor of the French, 23, 52, 163, 294, 376, 432, 447, 870, 882

  Napoleon III, emperor of the French, 554–55, 556, 582, 869–70

  Nash, Christopher Columbus, 758, 759

  Nashville, Tenn., 167, 176, 182, 306, 309–10, 330–33, 335, 348, 349, 359, 455, 456

  Grant’s taking of, 187–88, 189, 263, 532

  Nast, Thomas, 576, 615, 623, 726, 741, 742, 748, 812, 850, 883