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by H. W. Brands


  Indian Bureau and, 55.1, 66.1

  poverty of

  Quakers and

  reservation system and

  Sand Creek massacre and

  Sherman and

  traders and, 55.1, 66.1

  transcontinental railroad and

  inflation

  Ingalls, Rufus, 8.1, 8.2

  Interior Department, U.S., 55.1, 65.1, 66.1

  Irving, Washington

  Italy, 80.1, 80.2

  Iuka, Battle of

  Jackson, Andrew, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 9.1, 13.1, 45.1, 57.1, 76.1, 81.1

  Jackson, Battle of

  Jackson, Claiborne, 16.1, 18.1

  Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall”, 18.1

  Jackson, William

  Japan

  Jefferson, Thomas, 1.1, 76.1

  Jennie (servant girl)

  Jews, 27.1, 29.1, 29.2, 56.1

  Johnson, Andrew, 42.1, 50.1, 52.1, 53.1, 53.2, 55.1, 56.1, 56.2, 57.1, 60.1, 60.2, 61.1, 64.1, 64.2, 65.1, 65.2, 66.1, 76.1

  amnesty proclamation of

  character of

  civil rights bill of 1866 vetoed by

  1866 election and

  French occupation of Mexico and

  Grant’s conflict with

  impeachment of, 54.1, 54.2, 54.3, 56.1, 58.1

  and jealousy of Grant

  Reconstruction Act and, 53.1, 54.1

  reconstruction policy of

  Sherman-Johnston surrender agreement and

  Stanton ousted by, 54.1, 54.2

  Johnson, Bushrod

  Johnson, Eliza

  Johnson, Reverdy

  Johnson, Robert

  Johnson administration

  Johnston, Albert Sidney, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1

  death of

  Johnston, Joseph E., 25.1, 31.1, 32.1, 35.1, 39.1, 41.1, 48.1, 48.2, 49.1, 50.1, 51.1, 87.1

  Jones, Russell, 41.1, 65.1

  Jones, William

  Julesburg massacre

  Julian, George W.

  Justice Department, U.S., 63.1, 76.1

  Kansas, 9.1, 12.1, 45.1

  slavery conflict in, 9.1, 80.1

  Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, 9.1, 11.1

  Lincoln’s criticism of

  Kearney, Stephen

  Kellogg, William, 73.1, 79.1

  Kelton, John

  Kemp, John

  Kennedy, Surgeon

  Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of

  Kentucky, 14.1, 20.1, 21.1, 24.1, 45.1, 56.1, 65.1

  King Philip’s War

  Know Nothing movement

  Ku Klux Klan, prl.1, 56.1, 63.1, 64.1, 67.1, 71.1, 74.1, 75.1, 80.1

  and enforcement of Fifteenth Amendment

  Grant’s military campaign against, 63.1, 63.2

  prosecutions of

  violence and lawlessness of

  Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, 62.1, 63.1, 65.1, 75.1

  Kung, Prince of China

  Lauman, Jacob

  Lawler, Michael

  LeConte, Emma

  Lee, Fitzhugh

  Lee, Robert E., 8.1, 25.1, 33.1, 38.1, 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 44.1, 47.1, 47.2, 50.1, 50.2, 51.1, 57.1, 74.1, 80.1, 87.1

  amnesty question and

  at Antietam

  in Appomattox campaign, 49.1, 49.2

  army shortages and desertions and

  becomes Confederate commander in chief

  at Chancellorsville

  at Cold Harbor

  at Gettysburg, 33.1, 33.2

  Grant contrasted with, 48.1, 49.1, 87.1

  Grant’s correspondence with

  in invasion of Maryland, 27.1

  John Brown raid and

  McClellan’s misjudgment of

  in Mexican War, 5.1, 6.1

  siege of Petersburg and, 48.1, 48.2, 49.1

  Southern cause joined by

  surrender of

  at the Wilderness

  Leggett, M. D.

  Liberal Republican Party, U.S., 65.1, 65.2, 65.3

  Liberty Party, U.S.

  Li Hung-chang

  Lincoln, Abraham, prl.1, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 23.1, 23.2, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 28.1, 28.2, 29.1, 30.1, 33.1, 36.1, 36.2, 37.1, 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 39.4, 41.1, 43.1, 45.1, 46.1, 48.1, 48.2, 50.1, 51.1, 51.2, 56.1, 64.1, 64.2, 67.1, 70.1, 74.1, 75.1, 76.1, 86.1, 87.1

  assassination of, 50.1, 79.1, 80.1

  “better angel” speech of

  Chattanooga operations and

  Confederate peace feelers and

  congressional war message of

  Cooper Union address of

  descriptions of, 13.1, 41.1

  Douglas’s debates with

  Early’s raid and

  1858 election and

  1860 election and, 23.1, 80.1

  1864 election and, 37.1, 42.1, 42.2, 45.1

  Emancipation Proclamation and

  on Fort Pillow massacre

  Fort Sumter crisis and, 15.1, 17.1

  Frémont’s emancipation decree and

  Gettysburg’s aftermath and

  on Grant

  Grant’s City Point meeting with

  Grant’s correspondence with, 34.1, 48.1

  Grant’s first meeting with

  Grant’s Jewish Traders Order and

  Greeley’s open letter to

  Kansas-Nebraska Act criticized by

  McClellan as viewed by

  on meaning of Civil War

  Mexican War criticized by

  as public speaker

  Republican Party and

  secession crisis and

  second inaugural address of, 50.1, 57.1

  Seward’s co-presidency proposal and

  Sherman’s encounters with, 18.1, 18.2

  slavery question as viewed by

  on Sumner

  Thirteenth Amendment and

  Vicksburg campaign and

  Lincoln, Mary Todd, 38.1, 50.1

  Lincoln, Robert

  Lincoln administration, 27.1, 46.1

  Little Big Horn, Battle of the

  Logan, John, 47.1, 47.2, 56.1, 82.1, 83.1

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  Longstreet, James, 27.1, 33.1, 33.2, 36.1, 36.2, 36.3, 36.4, 37.1, 44.1, 48.1, 49.1, 84.1, 87.1

  Loochoo (Ryukyu) Islands

  Lookout Mountain, 36.1, 57.1

  Louisiana, 2.1, 14.1, 35.1, 56.1, 65.1, 79.1, 79.2

  Colfax massacre in, 73.1, 75.1

  Coushatta massacre in, 73.1, 75.1

  1876 election in

  electoral conflict and insurrection in, 73.1, 75.1

  Ku Klux Klan violence in

  reconstruction in, 35.1, 50.1

  secession of

  Sheridan’s command in

  White League of

  Louisiana Purchase, 2.1, 2.2

  Lowell, James Russell

  Loyal Leagues, 63.1

  Lunt, Dolly Sumner, 46.1, 46.2

  Lunt, Orrington

  Lynchburg, Battle of

  Lyon, Francis

  Lyon, Nathaniel

  McClellan, George B., 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 16.1, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1, 24.1, 30.1

  at Antietam

  1864 election and, 42.1, 42.2, 45.1

  Peninsula campaign and

  McClernand, John, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 30.1, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 32.1

  McClure, Alexander

  McCook, Alexander M.

  McCosh, James

  McDonald, John, 76.1, 76.2

  McDowell, Irvin, 18.1, 21.1

  McDowell, John A.

  Mack & Brothers

  McLean (farmer)

  McMillan, Dr.

  McPherson, James, 24.1, 28.1, 31.1, 35.1, 38.1, 43.1

  death of

  Madison, James

  Maine, 2.1, 73.1

  Manifest Destiny, 2.1, 60.1

  Marine National Bank

  Maryland, 21.1, 56.1, 53.1, 58.1, 65.1

  Battle of Antietam in, see Antietam, Battle of

  invasion of

  Mason, Rich
ard

  Mason-Dixon Line, 11.1, 87.1

  Massachusetts, 58.1, 65.1

  Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico

  Meade, George Gordon, prl.1, 33.1, 33.2, 36.1, 39.1, 39.2, 41.1, 44.1, 48.1, 53.1

  Medical Record

  Meigs, Montgomery, 36.1, 36.2

  Memphis & Charleston Railroad, 28.1, 36.1

  Memphis Avalanche

  Meridian campaign

  Merritt, Wesley

  Mexican Southern Railroad

  Mexican War, prl.1, 11.1, 60.1, 80.1, 84.1

  California issue and, 2.1, 4.1

  crossing of Rio Grande in

  Grant as quartermaster in, 4.1, 5.1

  Grant in aftermath of

  Grant’s assessment of

  Grant’s first action in, 3.1, 4.1

  Grant’s initial deployment in

  Grant’s leadership and initiative in, 3.1, 6.1

  Lincoln’s criticism of

  Manifest Destiny and

  Mexico City campaign in, 6.1, 6.2

  peace treaty in

  San Cosme attack in

  U.S. declaration of war in

  U.S. politics and, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

  Vera Cruz landings in

  see also specific battles

  Mexico, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1, 57.1, 81.1, 85.1

  Maximilian’s regime in

  railroad industry of

  Spanish conquest of

  U.S. annexation of Texas and

  Military Division of the Mississippi, U.S.

  Military History of Ulysses S. Grant (Badeau)

  Miner, James

  Missionary Ridge, 36.1, 57.1

  Mississippi, 35.1, 56.1, 75.1, 79.1

  electoral conflict in

  Ku Klux Klan violence in

  Meridian campaign in

  new constitution of

  secession of

  Mississippi Central Railroad

  Mississippi Department, U.S.

  Missouri, 2.1, 9.1, 14.1, 17.1, 21.1, 65.1

  Missouri Compromise of 1820, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 60.1

  Molina del Rey, Battle of

  Monroe Doctrine, 51.1, 60.1

  Cuban insurgency and

  Montana

  Monterrey, Battle of, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

  Moore, George

  Moore, Thomas Overton, 13.1, 18.1

  Morales, Juan

  Morgan, John Hunt

  Morgan, J. P., 83.1, 86.1

  Morrill, Lot M.

  Morris, Isaac, 37.1, 56.1

  Morris, Thomas

  Morton, Oliver, 65.1, 69.1, 71.1, 71.2

  Mosby, John, 39.1, 44.1, 79.1

  Moses, Adolph

  Motley, John

  Murphy, Colonel

  Murphy, Thomas

  “Naboth’s Vineyard” (Sumner)

  Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 2.1, 11.1, 46.1

  Napoleon II, Emperor of France, 51.1, 64.1, 80.1

  Nashville, Battle of

  National Labor Council

  National Union Party, U.S.

  Navy, U.S.

  Navy Department, U.S.

  Nebraska, 9.1, 66.1

  Nevada, 45.1, 55.1, 82.1

  New England Emigrant Aid Company

  New Jersey, 45.1, 56.1, 82.1

  New Jersey Central Railroad

  New Mexico, 7.1, 9.1

  New Orleans, Battle of, 2.1, 2.2

  New York City, draft riots in, 34.1, 45.1

  New York Herald, 65.1, 67.1, 80.1, 80.2, 84.1

  New York State, 2.1, 33.1, 56.1, 56.2, 58.1, 67.1

  New York Sun

  New York Times, 9.1, 21.1, 25.1, 37.1, 50.1, 53.1, 65.1, 67.1, 69.1, 69.2, 72.1, 84.1, 85.1, 86.1, 86.2, 86.3

  New York Tribune, 9.1, 23.1, 27.1, 34.1, 60.1

  New York World

  Nicolay, John, 38.1, 38.2

  Ninth Corps, U.S.

  North American Review

  North Carolina

  North Carolina (ship)

  Northern Pacific Railroad, 69.1, 85.1

  Ohio, 58.1, 82.1

  Ohio Department, U.S.

  Ohio Life and Trust Company

  Oklahoma

  Ord, Edward, 28.1, 29.1, 48.1, 49.1, 50.1, 53.1, 62.1

  Oregon

  Oregon Territory, 7.1, 8.1, 13.1

  O’sullivan, John L.

  Outlaw, Wyatt

  Pacific Mail Steamship Company

  Page, Captain

  Palmer, Colonel

  Palo Alto, Battle of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Panama

  panic of 1837

  panic of 1857, 11.1, 59.1

  panic of 1873, 69.1, 85.1

  Pemberton, John, 6.1, 30.1, 30.2, 31.1, 31.2, 35.1, 74.1

  Pendleton Act of 1883

  Pennsylvania, 33.1, 58.1

  Pennsylvania Railroad

  Perry, Raymond

  Petersburg, siege of:

  evacuation of Richmond in

  fall of Fort Fisher and, 47.1, 47.2

  final Union offensive in

  Grant-Lincoln correspondence and, 48.1

  Grant-Sherman-Sheridan meeting in

  Phillips, Wendell, 52.1, 53.1

  Pickett, George Edward, 33.1, 49.1

  Pickett, LaSalle Corbell

  Pierce, Franklin, 5.1, 9.1, 70.1

  Pierrepont, Edwards, 65.1, 71.1, 76.1, 79.1, 80.1, 83.1

  Pike, Corporal

  Pillow, Gideon J., 22.1, 22.2

  Pinkerton, Allan

  Plessy, Homer

  Plunkitt, George Washington

  Polk, James, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 15.1

  Lincoln’s criticism of

  Pontiac’s Rebellion

  Pope, John, 19.1, 19.2, 27.1, 27.2, 65.1, 84.1

  Porter, Captain

  Porter, David, 29.1, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 30.4, 30.5, 31.1, 31.2, 32.1, 42.1, 47.1, 87.1

  Porter, Fitz John, 84.1, 87.1

  Porter, Horace, 39.1, 40.1, 41.1, 44.1, 48.1, 48.2, 59.1, 70.1

  Port Gibson, Battle of

  Port Hudson, 34.1, 35.1

  Pottawatamie massacre

  Prentiss, Benjamin, 24.1, 24.2, 31.1

  Grant’s rank dispute with

  Price, Sterling, 20.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3

  “Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The” (Twain)

  Prussia

  Pulitzer, Joseph

  Quakers (Society of Friends)

  Quinby, Isaac

  Radical Republicans, 52.1, 52.2, 52.3, 53.1, 53.2, 54.1, 56.1, 58.1, 58.2, 62.1

  1866 election and

  reconstruction and, 51.1, 52.1, 52.2, 53.1, 56.1, 56.2

  railroads, 1.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 32.1, 69.1, 80.1

  labor strike of 1877 and

  panic of 1873 and

  scandals and

  transcontinental, see transcontinental railroad

  Randolph, B. F.

  Rawlins, John, 15.1, 22.1, 30.1, 33.1, 36.1, 39.1, 42.1, 56.1, 58.1, 60.1

  death of, 60.1, 60.2

  Grant’s relationship with

  Rawlins, Mary

  Raymond, Battle of

  reconstruction/Reconstruction, 35.1, 58.1, 78.1, 79.1

  amnesty question and, 51.1, 51.2, 53.1

  black citizenship issue in

  black codes and

  civil rights bill of 1866 and

  former slaves and

  Grant’s tour of South and

  Johnson’s policy for

  Lincoln’s assassination and, 50.1, 50.2

  Lincoln’s policy for

  in Louisiana, 35.1, 50.1

  military rule in

  modern view of

  Radical Republicans and, 51.1, 52.1, 52.2, 53.1, 56.1, 56.2

  restoration of Southern states and

  Sherman on

  state constitutions and, 53.1, 56.1

  suffrage and, 51.1, 52.1

  violence and, 52.1, 62.1

  Reconstruction Act of 1867, 53.1, 54.1, 56.1, 56.2, 62.1

  Red Clo
ud, 55.1, 55.2, 66.1, 77.1, 77.2

  Redstone, Albert

  Reid, Whitelaw

  Republican National Convention:

  of 1860

  of 1868, 56.1, 56.2

  of 1872

  of 1880

  Republican Party, 15.1, 27.1, 44.1, 52.1, 53.1, 53.2, 54.1, 58.1, 60.1, 62.1, 63.1, 65.1, 65.2, 71.1, 72.1, 79.1, 80.1, 80.2, 81.1

  anti-Johnson mission of

  capitalist vs. conscience wings of, 65.1, 65.2, 87.1

  Conklin-Blaine feud in

  enforcement acts and

  Johnson impeachment and, 54.1, 54.2, 54.3

  Lincoln and

  origin of

  postwar economic recovery and

  reconstruction and

  see also Radical Republicans; specific elections

  Resaca, Battle of (1864)

  Resaca de la Palma, Battle of (1846), 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Resumption Act of 1875

  revolution of 1848

  Reynolds, Joseph

  Richardson, Alfred

  Richardson, William, 69.1, 76.1

  Richmond & Danville Railroad

  Richmond Dispatch

  Richmond Examiner

  Robeson, George, 71.1, 76.1

  Robinson, Mary, 2.1, 2.2, 10.1

  Rosecrans, William, 28.1, 36.1

  Grant’s firing of

  Rousseau, Lovell H.

  Russia, 62.1, 68.1, 80.1

  Rust, Albert

  Ryan, W. A. C.

  Ryukyu (Loochoo) Islands

  St. Louis Democrat

  Sampson, Henry

  Sand Creek massacre

  Sanford, John

  Santa Anna, Antonio Lopéz de, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

  Sartoris, Algernon, 68.1, 72.1, 83.1

  Sartoris, Edward John, 68.1, 72.1

  Schenk, Robert

  Schofield, John M., 43.1, 56.1

  Schurz, Carl, 56.1, 63.1, 65.1, 65.2

  1872 election and, 65.1, 65.2

  at Gettysburg

  Grant criticized by, 63.1, 65.1

  Grant’s criticism of

  Scott, Dred, 11.1, 52.1

  Scott, John

  Scott, Thomas

  Scott, Winfield, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1, 21.1

  “anaconda plan” of

  Taylor contrasted with

  secession crisis, 17.1, 80.1, 87.1

  Constitution and, 13.1, 15.1

  Fort Sumter crisis and

  Grant on

  Lincoln and

  in St. Louis

  South Carolina and, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2

  Second Corps, U.S., 33.1, 40.1

  Sedan, Battle of

  Sedgwick, John

  Seminole Wars

  Senate, Mexican

  Senate, U.S., 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 6.1, 14.1, 58.1, 65.1, 70.1, 85.1

  Alabama claims and

  Brooks’s attack on Sumner in, 9.1, 51.1

  Civil Rights Act of 1875 in

  Dominican annexation treaty in, 61.1, 84.1

  1866 election and

  1874 election and

  Foreign Relations Committee of, 61.1, 64.1

  Grant’s campaign against Ku Klux Klan and

  Johnson’s impeachment in

  Judiciary Committee of

  Kansas-Nebraska Act in, 9.1

  slavery issue in

 

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