Soldiers and Sailors Leagues (veterans’ organization), 523
“Sons of Liberty,” 226
South Carolina, 24, 43, 82, 126, 129, 130, 131, 135–36, 143, 144, 159, 217, 233, 254, 336, 361, 364, 373, 385, 396, 398, 408, 440, 470, 491, 492, 498, 504, 506, 509, 510, 513
South Mountain, battle of (1862), 170
Southampton (Great Britain), 288
Southern Illustrated News, 388
Southern Literary Messenger, 408
Southern Loyalists Convention, 496
Southern Quarterly Review, 408
Southern Review, 408
“Southron’s Chaunt of Defiance, The” (song), 411
Spanish-American War (1898), 268
Speed, James, 483
Spencer, Christopher Miner, 250
Spencer, Eliphaz, 502
Spiegel, Marcus, 236
spies, 395
Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, battle of (1864), 431–32
Sprague, William, 449
Spratt, Leonidas, 40, 85
Springfield, Illinois, 88, 100, 103, 107, 124, 216, 242
Springfield, Massachusetts, 317
St. Gaudens, Augustus, 530
St. George, Bermuda, 279
St. Louis (gunboat), 198
St. Louis, Missouri, 70, 187, 191–92
Stanbery, Henry, 500
Standard Oil of Ohio, 521
Stanly, Edward, 455
Stanton, Edwin M., 160, 166, 214, 227, 228, 314–18, 321–22, 353–54, 422, 430, 459, 466, 482, 483, 487, 488, 489, 501, 504, 535
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 49, 392, 403
Star of the West, 136
states’ rights, 28, 327, 358, 359, 368
steamboats, 15, 32, 188, 189, 194, 195, 198, 204, 206, 211, 239, 301, 346, 421
Stearns, George Luther, 117
Stephens, Alexander H., 9, 63, 128, 129, 342, 356, 359, 364, 366, 368, 474, 491
Stevens, Thaddeus, 173, 221, 452, 486, 493, 494, 495, 498, 499, 505–6
Stillé, Charles, 406
Stockwell, Elisha, 236, 237
Stoddard, William O., 382, 434
Stone, Charles P., 454
Stoneman, George, 331
“Stonewall Jackson’s Way” (poem) 411
Storrow, Samuel, 234
Story, Joseph, 44
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 74–75, 139, 232, 391
strategy, 147, 154, 155, 163, 337, 346–47, 439, 448
Strong, George Templeton, 126, 215, 406, 413, 414, 463, 503
Strother, David Hunter, 183
Stuart, James Ewell Brown, 259, 261, 291, 342
Stuart, John Todd, 100
Sturgis, Samuel, 442
Sumner, Charles, 81–82, 84, 175, 177, 179, 215, 296, 386, 451, 452, 453, 456, 490, 493, 494, 495, 505–6, 509
and “The Crime Against Kansas,” 81–82
Susquehanna River, 339
Sweden, 238
Swett, Leonard, 101, 216
tactics, 146–51, 161–63, 200, 201, 232, 246, 252, 438, 350
and “interior lines v. exterior lines,” 149, 151
Taft, Charles Sabin, 483
Tallmadge, James, 56
Taney, Roger Brooke, 90–92, 93, 108, 124, 128, 157, 175, 179, 223–25, 448, 455, 473
and ex parte Merryman, 224
Tappan, Arthur and Lewis, 47, 49, 50
tariffs, 20–21, 52, 84, 122, 230, 281, 357–58
and Morrill Tariff, 230
and “Tariff of Abominations,” 22
Taylor of Caroline, John, 16–17, 25
Taylor, Joseph P., 315, 316
Taylor, Richard, 33, 244, 259, 377, 524
Taylor, Zachary, 61, 67–68, 70, 92, 105, 122, 147, 209, 244
Tebe, Mary, 394
telegraph, 200–201
Tennessee, 146, 159, 184, 190, 193, 194, 195, 204, 205, 209, 210, 211, 217, 267, 346, 350, 363, 384, 397, 400, 422, 428, 439, 445, 447, 455, 464, 488, 490, 497
and Bedford County, 385
and Rutherford County, 385
Tennessee, Department of the (U.S.), 210
Tennessee River, 187, 190, 195, 196, 203, 204, 210, 211, 248, 351, 352, 353, 355, 364, 438
Tenure of Office Act (1867), 498, 500–501
Texas, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 129, 233, 346, 389, 422, 490, 497, 500, 507, 511
Thayer, John, 441
Thayer, William S., 133
Thomas, Edward M., 181
Thomas, George Henry, 348, 353, 354, 355, 424, 440, 445, 447
Thomas, Lorenzo Dow, 501
Thompson, David L., 247, 276–77
Thompson, Lucy Matilda, 393
Thornwell, James Henley, 87, 409, 412
Three Places in New England (Charles Ives), 529
Tilden, Samuel J., 228, 510–11
Tilton, Theodore, 493
Tompkins, Sally, 402
Toombs, Robert, 62, 63, 361
Topeka, Kansas, 114
Tourgee, Albion, 505
Transcendentalists, 405, 413
Trimble, Isaac, 342
Troy, New York, 377
Trumbull, Lyman, 107, 176–77, 451, 491, 492, 494
Truth, Sojourner, 383
Tubman, Harriet, 395
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 408, 409
Tullahoma, Alabama, 351
Turner, Nat, 36, 46, 50, 118
Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 186, 521, 522
Tyler, John, 61, 134, 139
Tyler, Robert, 139
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (novel), 74–76, 139
United Confederate Veterans (veterans’ organization), 526, 532
United Daughters of the Confederacy, 526
University of Pennsylvania, 406
Upshur, Abel, 61
Upton, Emory, 431
Urbanna, Virginia, 161
U.S. Army (“Regulars”)
12th U.S. Infantry, 248
13th U.S. Infantry, 437
U.S. Christian Commission, 268, 415
U.S. Colored Troops, 184, 377, 436, 451
and Bureau of Colored Troops, 376, 379
and 6th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery, 378
U.S. Navy, 286, 299–310, 480
and North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 301, 304
and Potomac Flotilla, 301
and South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 300
U.S. Navy, ships:
USS Brooklyn, 210, 299
USS Colorado, 299
USS Congress, 304
USS Cumberland, 304
USS Hartford, 210, 299, 444
USS Housatonic, 308–9
USS Kearsarge, 309–10
USS Magnolia, 301
USS Merrimack, 299, 303, 305–6 (and CSS Virginia, 303–9)
USS Minnesota, 299, 304, 305, 306–7
USS Monitor, 305–8
USS New Ironsides, 308
USS Niagara, 299, 300
USS Pensacola, 210
USS Richmond, 210, 299
USS Roanoke, 299, 304
USS San Jacinto, 286
USS Tecumseh, 444
USS Wabash, 299
U.S. Quartermaster’s Department, 316
U.S. Sanitary Commission, 268, 402, 403, 414–15
U.S. Supreme Court, 9, 46, 72, 95, 97, 100, 102, 110, 111, 127, 157, 189, 223, 226, 365, 386, 448, 450, 455, 500, 505, 507–8
and Civil Rights Cases (1883), 508
ex parte Milligan, 224, 226
and Prize Cases (1863), 224–25
and Scott v. Sanford (1857), 90–93, 96–97, 106, 108, 110, 114, 176, 470–71, 484–85
and Slaughterhouse Cases (1873), 508
and U.S. v. Cruikshank (1875), 508
Utah, 62, 67, 68, 76
Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 228–30
van Buren, Martin, 60, 67
van Dorn, Earl, 212
Vance, Zebulon, 260, 298, 327, 367, 369, 489
Vermont, 461
Vesey, Denmark, 36
Vest, George, 363
Vicksburg, Mississippi, 211–13, 345, 346, 346, 353–54, 356, 424, 434, 438
Virginia, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 16, 20, 22, 23, 25, 29, 32, 34, 36, 39, 41, 43, 46–47, 50, 120, 131, 144, 146, 161, 163, 171, 194, 317, 323, 301, 335–36, 338, 339, 340, 342, 345, 363, 364, 366, 370, 381, 393, 400, 410, 412, 421, 423, 463, 467, 469, 474, 491, 492, 498
Virginia Military Institute, 166, 364
vivandiére, 394
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), 13, 14
Volunteers, 143, 148, 202, 255–56, 261
Volunteers: and Confederate regiments
21st Alabama, 253, 272
24th Alabama
1st Arkansas, 233
2nd Florida, 428
3rd Georgia, 152, 334
19th Louisiana, 152, 207, 270, 441
16th North Carolina, 275, 479
18th North Carolina, 393
23rd North Carolina, 396
37th North Carolina, 334
1st South Carolina Rifles, 233
2nd South Carolina, 238
3rd Virginia, 240
28th Virginia, 239
33rd Virginia, 275
Volunteers: and Union regiments
5th Connecticut, 248
29th Connecticut, 184
21st Kentucky, 273
14th Illinois, 248
8th Iowa, 272
5th Maine, 410
8th Maine, 502
17th Maine, 240
20th Maine, 344, 479
6th Massachusetts, 144
11th Massachusetts, 276
13th Massachusetts, 242
19th Massachusetts, 239, 252
20th Massachusetts, 235, 237, 535
44th Massachusetts, 234
54th Massachusetts, 184, 420, 530 (attack on Battery Wagner [1863], 380–81, 389, 406)
55th Massachusetts, 184, 419
1st Michigan, 267
3rd Michigan, 395
24th Michigan, 235, 240, 246
125th Michigan, 394
1st Minnesota, 266
2nd New Hampshire, 266
9th New Hampshire, 273
9th New York, 247
19th New York, 234
39th New York (“Garibaldi Guard”), 242
51st New York, 253, 263
64th New York, 394
79th New York, 143
121st New York, 241
132nd New York, 384
154th New York, 262, 267
7th Ohio, 261
11th Ohio, 239
23rd Ohio, 239
45th Pennsylvania 248
72nd Pennsylvania, 143
83rd Pennsylvania, 171, 237, 240, 271
114th Pennsylvania, 394
116th Pennsylvania, 261
143rd Pennsylvania, 266
1st Rhode Island, 328, 394–395
2nd Vermont, 233
9th Vermont, 273
6th Wisconsin, 237, 276
14th Wisconsin, 235, 237
von Moltke, Helmuth, 201
Wade, Benjamin F., 78, 84, 216, 451, 452, 453, 454, 456, 488–89, 490, 493, 498, 499, 505–6
and Wade-Davis Bill, 456–457
and Wade-Davis Manifesto, 457
Wadley, William R., 323
Wainwright, Charles S., 244, 245
Wainwright, Rev’d Jonathan, 42
Walker, David, 47
Walker, James, 33
Walker, Leroy Pope, 232, 323, 361
Walker, Mary, 401
Walker, Quok, 44
Walker, Robert J., 114
Wallace, W. H. L., 206
Walton, Claiborne, 273
Wanamaker, John, 523
War of 1812, 18–20, 240, 266
Warneford, Robert, 311
Warner, Charles Dudley, 521
Warren, Gouveneur K., 514
Washburne, Elihu, 215–16, 506
Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 385–86
Washington, D.C., 267, 305, 307, 313, 342, 343, 351, 382, 383, 397, 421, 422, 426, 430, 432, 433, 437, 448, 451, 449, 483, 488, 492, 499, 501, 531
Washington, George, 149, 165, 422, 438
Washington College, 527
Washington Morning Chronicle, 177
Waterloo, battle of (1815), 258, 263
Wayland, Francis, 10
weapons, 248–61, 353
and bayonet, 249, 254–55
and “Brown Bess” musket, 249, 254
and Colt Patent Firearms Co., 250, 317
and Enfield rifle, 250, 254, 311
and Henry repeating rifle, 251
and Lorenz rifle, 250
and Model 1861 U.S. Rifle Musket “Springfield”), 249–50
and New Haven Arms Co., 251, 317
and Remington, 317
and Sharps rifle, 250
and Smith & Wesson, 317
and Spencer breechloader, 250–51, 260
See also artillery
Webster, Daniel, 21, 61, 69, 70, 71, 83, 92, 389, 408, 533
Weed, Thurlow, 462
Weekly Anglo–African, 183, 376
Welles, Gideon, 148, 287, 300, 301, 303, 306
West Point, 23, 63, 146, 148, 151, 160, 165, 194, 197, 200, 206, 256, 328, 347, 360, 437
West Virginia, 367
Wheaton College (Illinois), 523
Wheeler, Joseph, 443
“When Johnny Comes Marching Home” (song), 529
Whig Party, 18–20, 51, 60, 65, 67, 70, 83, 84, 85, 86, 99, 100, 105, 106–7, 113, 122, 187, 216, 218, 231, 284, 413, 451, 455, 471, 503, 518
and “internal improvements,” 84, 187, 231
White Boys in Blue (veterans’ organization), 523
White House, Virginia, 166
White League, 510
White, Edward Douglass, 535
Whitman, George Washington, 253, 263, 330, 400, 423
Whitman, Walt, 155, 234, 405, 522, 529, 536
and Democratic Vistas, 522
and Drum Taps, 529
Whitney, Eli, 24
Whitney, Henry Clay, 102
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 528
Wickham, Charlotte, 340
Wickliffe, Charles, 178
Wightman, Edward King, 235, 262, 267, 275, 416
Wilcox, Cadmus, 254
Wilder, John T., 251
Wilderness, the, 332, 333, 426, 431, 433, 440
and battle of (1864), 428–29, 514
Wilkes, Charles, 286–287
Wilkeson, Frank, 247, 274, 276, 424, 430, 435
Williams, Euphemia, 73
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