Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction

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by Allen C. Guelzo


  Ile-a-Vaches, 182

  Illinois, 48–49, 88, 90, 97, 99–100, 102, 216, 188, 189, 211, 217, 284, 446, 451, 507, 519

  Importing & Exporting Co. of South Carolina, 311

  Impressment Act, 320

  Indiana, 116, 124, 217, 226, 235, 236, 346, 462

  Indianapolis, Indiana, 234, 354

  Industrial Revolution, 14, 24, 43

  Ingraham, Joseph H. 35

  Innes, John Randolph, 525

  Internal Revenue Act (1862), 221

  international law, 224–25, 283

  and “laws of war,” 176

  Iowa, 77, 116, 236, 519

  Ireland, 233, 238

  ironclad warships, 195–96, 396

  and HMS Warrior, 196

  See also C.S. Navy: ships: CSS Virginia;

  Hampton Roads, Virginia, battle of; U.S.

  Navy: ships: USS Monitor

  Iroquois (nation), 387

  Irwinville, Georgia, 489

  Isherwood, Benjamin, 299

  Island No. 10, 203

  Ives, Joseph, 337

  Jackman, John, 233

  Jackson, Andrew, 7, 19, 21–22, 60, 115, 130, 147, 219, 221, 223, 226, 227, 494

  Jackson, Claiborne F., 191–92

  Jackson, Henry Rootes, 23

  Jackson, Mary, 326

  Jackson, Mississippi, 506

  Jackson, Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall,” 166, 168, 169, 238, 243, 256, 263, 271, 291, 330, 333, 335–36, 339, 344, 412, 413, 438, 528

  and death of, 339–40

  Jacksonville, Florida, 286

  James, Robertson, 420

  James River, 154, 162–63, 307, 329, 339, 425, 426, 433, 435, 467, 470, 474, 476

  Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 15, 16, 43, 45, 46, 51, 53, 56, 57, 102

  Jewett, Charles, 266

  Jews, 236, 382, 388

  John Brown’s Body, 529

  John Fraser & Co., 279, 310

  Johnson, Andrew, 184, 227, 455, 464, 488–502, 506, 507, 510, 514, 524

  and African Americans, 489, 490, 494–95, 496

  and impeachment, 499–502

  as president, 489–92, 494–99

  and “swing round the circle” (1866)

  as vice-president, 488–89

  Johnson, Herschel V., 491–92

  Johnston, Albert Sidney, 151, 203–4, 205, 211, 280, 337, 338

  Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, 155, 162, 164, 336, 339, 349, 440, 441, 442, 443, 470, 476, 480, 481, 487–88, 490

  Johnston, William Preston, 337–38

  Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 498, 500

  Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 453–54

  Jomini, Antoine Henri, 146–47, 148, 201

  Jones, Catesby, 307

  Jones, E. J., 419

  Jones, John B., 366

  Jones, John William, 245

  Juarez, Benito, 292

  Judson, Amos, 171, 237–38, 277

  Kansas, 78, 80, 81, 83, 93, 97, 114, 116, 122, 378, 398, 520

  and “Bleeding Kansas,” 80, 83

  and “border ruffians,” 80

  Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854), 76–77, 78, 80, 83, 86, 106, 108, 121, 191, 218

  and “Appeal of the Independent Democrats,” 77

  Kant, Immanuel, 405

  Kearny, Philip, 276

  Keen, William W., 272

  Keene, Laura, 467, 481

  Kelley, Abby, 49, 140

  Kellogg, William Pitt, 218

  Kemble, Fanny, 138

  Kendall, Amos, 51

  Kennebec (gunboat), 301

  Kennedy, John Pendleton, 18, 63–64, 408

  Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, battle of (1864), 441

  Kentucky, 98, 100, 142, 158, 159, 161, 190, 192–93, 195, 203, 209, 217, 294, 360, 421, 439, 493

  and Bullitt County, 233

  Key, Thomas, 140

  Kimball, William, 384, 385

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 535

  “Kingdom Comin’” (song), 529

  Kiowa (tribe), 388

  Kirby Smith, Edmund, 209, 377

  Knights of the White Camellia, 510

  “Know-Nothings” (American party), 83, 85

  Knox, James, 482

  Knoxville, Tennessee, 356

  Knoxville Whig, 204

  Kock, Bernard, 182

  Ku Klux Klan, 505, 510

  Ladies’ Gunboat Fair (Charleston, South Carolina), 395

  Ladies’ Springfield Aid Society, 395

  Laird Brothers, 293

  Lamon, Ward Hill, 213, 466, 481–82

  Lancashire (Great Britain), 297

  Lathe, Hiram, 273, 273

  Law, Evander, 428

  Lawrence, Kansas, 80, 81

  Lawson, Thomas, 266

  Lawton, Alexander, 322

  Leale, Charles A., 483

  Lecompton, Kansas, 114–16, 117, 120

  Lee, “Light–Horse Harry,” 165

  Lee, Anne Carter, 165

  Lee, Annie, 340

  Lee, Custis, 428

  Lee, Mary Custis, 340

  Lee, Philip Lightfoot, 233

  Lee, Robert Edward, 118, 119, 151, 164–66, 168, 169, 170, 244, 257, 259, 266, 290, 291, 294, 295, 325, 328, 329, 330, 335, 342–45, 346, 352, 360, 371, 421, 423, 425–26, 428–29, 431–32, 433, 435, 438, 448, 467, 468, 469, 476, 477, 504, 513, 515, 526–29, 532

  and appearance of, 334–35

  and command style of, 336–37

  and health of, 360, 428

  and slavery, 336

  and surrender of, 478–79, 488

  Lee, Samuel Philips, 301

  Legal Tender Act (1862), 221, 474

  and “greenbacks,” 221–22

  LeGrand, Julia, 393

  Lemon, George, 30

  Letcher, John, 144

  Letterman, Jonathan, 268

  Libby Prison, 373

  liberalism, 14, 51, 106, 289, 407, 532–33

  Lieber, Francis, 31

  Lincoln, Abraham, 88–89, 93, 95, 98–99, 103–4, 116, 122, 127–29, 132, 134, 136–37, 141, 143, 150, 155, 157–62, 165, 166, 167, 168–69, 171–72, 173, 177–82, 189, 190, 192, 213, 223, 224, 226, 228–30, 236, 251, 296, 297, 305, 306, 314, 321, 327, 328, 330, 331–32, 334, 336, 338, 345, 351

  and assassination, 481–83

  and black soldiers, 381

  and blockade proclamation (1861), 280–81

  and campaign of 1858, 107–13, 122, 174

  and civil rights, 382, 453, 456

  and Constitution, 406

  and Cooper Institute, 123–24

  and Declaration of Independence, 406, 407

  and election of 1864, 462–64

  and Emancipation Proclamation, 172–80, 184, 296, 297, 299, 347, 375, 440, 455, 471, 474, 516, 530

  and Gettysburg Address, 407

  and “House Divided” speech, 108, 109, 123

  as lawyer, 101, 102, 321, 347, 353, 354, 360–361, 375, 388, 390, 413, 422, 425, 430, 434–35, 439, 440, 445, 446, 451, 452–54, 457, 459, 462–63, 478, 488, 494, 506, 517, 530, 531, 539

  and liberalism, 407

  and natural law, 406–7

  and “Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction” (1863), 455–56

  and Reconstruction, 474, 484

  and Second Inaugural, 3–5, 472–73

  and slavery, 104–6

  and superstition, 465–66

  and 13th Amendment, 471–72

  Lincoln, Mary Todd, 100, 104–5, 214, 465–66, 483

  Lincoln, Robert Todd, 103, 215, 465

  Lincoln, Sarah Bush Johnston, 98, 101

  Lincoln, Thomas and Nancy, 98, 101

  Lincoln, Thomas “Tad,” 466

  Lincoln, William Wallace “Willie,” 214, 466

  Lincoln Portrait, A (Aaron Copland), 529

  Lindsay, William, 294–95

  Livermore, Mary Ashton, 403

  Liverpool (Great Britain), 293, 310

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, 505

  Logan, Stephen Trigg, 99, 105

  London
Times, 289

  Long, Alexander, 228

  Long, Henry, 73

  Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 408

  Longstreet, James, 264, 335, 336, 344, 345, 352–53, 356, 428, 429, 442, 469, 476, 504–5

  “Lost Cause,” the, 525–27, 532

  Louisiana, 130, 188, 236, 245, 313, 346, 376, 382, 421, 422, 437, 455, 456, 472, 484, 498, 500, 503, 509, 511, 535

  Louisiana “Tigers,” 152, 276, 335–36

  Louisiana Native Guard, 379

  Louisiana Purchase, 53, 56, 71, 76, 77, 187

  Louisiana State Military College, 437

  Louisville, Kentucky, 153, 188, 192

  Lovejoy, Elijah P., 49, 453

  Lovejoy, Owen, 174, 230, 453

  Lowell, Francis Cabot, 43

  Lyman, Theodore, 423

  Lynchburg, Virginia, 239, 468, 477

  Lyon, Nathaniel, 191–92

  Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell (1st Viscount), 287–88

  Madison, James, 8, 18

  Madison, Wisconsin, 532

  Maffitt, John Newland, 278–80

  Magoffin, Beriah, 192–93

  Magruder, John Bankhead, 164

  Mahan, Dennis Hart, 148–49, 160

  Maides, J. F., 370

  Maine, 57, 124, 230, 526

  Mallory, Charles King, 176

  Mallory, Stephen Russell, 303, 305

  Manassas Junction, Virginia, 154, 162, 240

  Manchester (Great Britain), 291, 297

  “Marching Through Georgia” (song), 529

  Marcy, William L., 282–83

  Marshall, John, 8–9, 100

  Martineau, Harriet, 35

  Marx, Karl, 255

  Maryland, 142, 144, 158, 175, 223, 224, 338, 339, 448, 456, 477

  Mason, James Murray, 69, 78, 286–88, 294

  Massachusetts, 8, 20, 21, 36, 43, 44, 57, 69, 70, 77, 81, 84, 88, 132, 153, 180, 227, 235, 236, 243, 425, 451, 507, 530

  Matrau, Henry C., 237

  Maury, Matthew F., 308

  Mayo, Joseph, 326

  McClellan, Ellen Marcy, 157

  McClellan, George Brinton, 155–56, 156–58, 159–63, 165–67, 168, 169, 170, 171, 185, 193, 194, 195, 201–2, 204, 210, 255, 266, 259, 288, 295, 307, 314–15, 317, 327, 328, 331, 343, 347, 424, 433, 434, 454, 462–64, 467, 501

  and Military Commission (1854), 256

  McClernand, John A., 211

  McClure, Alexander K., 354, 449

  McClure, John, 236

  McCormick, William, 519

  McCormick Reaper Co., 314, 518

  McCown, John Porter, 349

  McCullough, Henry E., 380

  McDowell, Irvin, 151, 154–55, 161, 163, 166, 240

  McFarland, J. E., 287

  McGrath, Andrew, 126

  McIlvaine, Samuel, 235

  McLane, John, 240

  McLaws, Lafayette, 428

  McLean, Wilmer, 478–79

  McPherson, Edward, 492

  McPherson, James B., 440

  Meade, George Gordon, 332, 343–45, 379, 422, 423, 426, 429, 433, 435, 469, 475

  Means, John Hugh, 397

  Meigs, Montgomery, 161, 169, 259, 315–16, 317, 319

  Melville, Herman, 207

  Memminger, Christopher, 120, 361–62, 365, 366, 491

  Memphis, 301

  Memphis, Tennessee, 186, 208, 442, 511

  Merryman, John, 223–24, 230

  Mescalero (tribe), 388

  Mexican Cession, 64, 68, 71, 72

  Mexican War, 61–63, 105, 141, 147, 150, 161, 241, 268, 328, 478

  and Buena Vista, battle of, 62, 67, 147

  Mexico, 59, 61–62, 209, 292, 298, 389, 422

  Michigan, 244, 451

  and Wayne County, 240

  Militia Act (1795), 142, 184, 451, 458, 459

  militia, 148, 150, 367, 373

  Mill, John Stuart, 289

  Milligan, Lambdin P., 226, 230

  Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana, 380, 381

  Mills, George Henry, 334, 336, 479

  Milton, John, 366

  Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 461

  mines (torpedoes), 308

  Minié, Etienne-Claude, 250, 271–72

  Minnesota, 116, 188, 387

  Mississippi, 129, 130, 190, 208, 398, 408, 440, 442, 447, 490, 491, 492, 503, 506–7, 509, 513

  and Adams County, 35

  and Jones County, 368

  Mississippi River, 5, 34–35, 49, 53, 56, 153, 186–88, 191, 192, 196, 203, 210, 211, 212, 302, 346, 370, 378

  Missouri, 56, 77, 90, 110, 117, 131, 158, 175, 187, 190, 191–92, 217, 452, 466, 472

  Missouri, Department of the (U.S.), 194

  Missouri Compromise, 57, 62, 64, 66, 71, 77, 83, 89, 96, 98, 106, 132

  Mitchell, Charles T., 311

  Mitchell, Mary Bedinger, 270

  Mobile, Alabama, 153, 286, 302, 308, 311, 421, 423, 425

  and battle of (1864), 444, 463

  and bread riot of 1863, 326–27

  Monroe, James, 57, 284

  Montana (territory), 505, 520

  Montgomery, Alabama, 131, 137, 141, 159, 358, 363

  Moody, Dwight L., 523

  Moore, Andrew Barry, 119, 129

  Moore, Henry D., 506

  Moore, William G., 488

  Morgan, Edwin B., 82

  Morgan, J. Pierpont, 222

  Morgan, John Hunt, 209, 210

  Morgan, Sarah, 393, 398, 401

  Morrill, Justin S., 230

  Morrow, Henry, 240

  Morton, John Watson, 350

  Mosby, John Singleton, 261, 337, 356

  Moses, Franklin J., 503

  Mott, Lucretia, 392

  Mulholland, St. Clair, 261

  Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 209, 383, 408

  and battle of (1862/3), 348–49, 351

  Myers, Abraham, 319, 322

  Napier, Sir Charles, 254

  Napoleon III, 201, 255, 257, 263, 291–92, 294, 297–98

  Napoleonic Wars, 149

  Nashville, Tennessee, 195, 320, 347, 423, 447

  Nassau, Bahamas, 279, 286, 311

  Natchez, Mississippi, 187

  National Conventions of Soldiers and Sailors (veterans’ organization), 523

  National Era, 75, 77, 122

  National Reform Association, 415

  National Women’s Rights Convention, 392

  Navajo (tribe), 388

  Neblett, Elizabeth, 400

  Nelson, Samuel, 225

  Nevins, Allan, 94

  New Baltimore, Virginia, 373

  New Brunswick (Canada), 288

  New England Emigrant Aid Society, 80

 

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