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by Jack Hurst

faulty strategy at Pittsburg Landing

  Forrest’s promotion

  Halleck’s timidity hobbling Union advance

  intelligence of Union movements at Pittsburg Landing

  Pittsburg Landing battle plan

  withdrawal of the Kentucky defense line

  Beech Creek, Tennessee

  Belknap, William W.

  Bell, Tyree

  Bennett, Charles

  Benton, William

  Bethel, Tennessee

  Biffle, Jacob B.

  Big Black River (Vicksburg)(fig.)

  Black River Bridge (Vicksburg)

  Blair, Frank

  Bloodgood, Edward

  Blue Wing (supply boat)

  Bolivar, Tennessee

  Bowen, John S.

  Bragg, Braxton

  Buell allowing escape of

  bungling at Browns Ferry

  Chalmers’s admiration for

  Chattanooga

  Chickamauga

  Confederate defeat at Pittsburg Landing

  defeat in Kentucky

  dismounting Kentucky cavalry

  engendering insubordination toward Forrest

  false information on Federal escape from Pittsburg Landing

  Forrest’s insubordination after Chickamauga

  Forrest’s meeting at Sparta

  Forrest’s need for replacement horses and men

  Forrest’s resignation

  Forrest’s West Tennessee raids

  Glasgow meeting with Forrest

  Kentucky strike proposal

  military incompetence

  Missionary Ridge

  Morton’s abortive promotion by Bragg

  northward drive toward Middle Tennessee

  Pittsburg Landing

  plans to engage Rosecrans and Sherman

  promoting Forrest to Van Dorn’s job

  social and military background

  Wheeler’s promotions

  Breckinridge, John C.

  Bragg’s enmity

  Chickamauga

  Confederate attempt to retreat from Shiloh

  Fallen Timbers

  lack of assistance in Kentucky

  Murfreesboro command

  Pittsburg Landing

  Pittsburg Landing battle plan

  progress toward Corinth

  shaky position at Chattanooga

  Brent, George

  Brentwood, Tennessee

  Browns Ferry, Tennessee

  Bruinsburg, Louisiana (fig.)

  Bryant, George

  Buckner, Simon Bolivar

  anti-immigrant feelings

  Chickamauga

  Forrest’s performance at Donelson

  Henry-Donelson campaign

  military incompetence

  petition to sack Bragg

  Buell, Don Carlos

  Confederate withdrawal from Pittsburg Landing

  Forrest’s psychological warfare

  Grant and

  Grant’s conference at Pittsburg Landing

  Grant’s dislike of

  Grant’s political and military reputation

  Grant’s preparations at Pittsburg Landing

  Grant’s promotion above

  lies and controversy surrounding Shiloh

  march along the Tennessee River

  northward to Kentucky

  Pittsburg Landing

  Pittsburg Landing assault

  railroad repair near Chattanooga

  reinforcements at Pittsburg Landing

  response to Murfreesboro raid

  supply lines

  Thomas replacing

  Union attack at Shiloh

  Buford, Abraham

  Buford, Napoleon B.

  Bull Run, Battle of

  Bullock, Lee

  Burbridge, Stephen

  Burnside, Ambrose

  Cadwallader, Sylvanus

  Canal at Vicksburg

  Carr, Eugene

  Carroll Station, Mississippi

  Casualties

  Arkansas Post

  Big Black River

  Bolivar-Jackson campaign

  Champion Hill

  Chattanooga

  Chattanooga-Knoxville

  Chickamauga

  Corinth

  Dover

  Fallen Timbers

  Hartsville, Tennessee

  Iuka

  Jackson

  Morrison stockade

  Murfreesboro raid

  Parker’s Crossroads

  Pittsburg Landing

  Vicksburg

  Cavalry

  Bolivar-Jackson campaign

  dismounting and fighting as infantry

  Fallen Timbers

  Forrest’s East Tennessee command

  Forrest’s raid on Murfreesboro

  reestablishing Morgan’s Kentuckians

  Thomas’s command

  Wheeler’s command of Forrest’s

  Wheeler’s incompetence

  See also Forrest, Nathan Bedford

  Chalmers, James R.

  Champion Hill (Vicksburg)(fig.)

  Chase, Salmon

  Chattanooga, Tennessee

  battles for(fig.)

  Bragg-Forrest meeting

  Bragg’s command

  Bragg’s drive toward

  Bragg’s retreat to

  Browns Ferry

  Buckner falling back to

  Corinth armies’ movement toward

  Forrest’s cavalry command

  Grant’s command structure and orders

  Grant’s perilous journey and cold reception

  Grant’s pressure to hold

  importance to the Union

  Orchard Knob, Lookout Mountain, Tunnel Hill, and Missionary Ridge

  railroad supply chain

  Rosecrans and Crittenden flanking Bragg

  Sherman’s perilous march

  Cheatham, Frank

  Chicago Times

  Chicago Tribune

  Chickamauga, Battle of(fig.)

  Alexander’s Bridge

  Army of the Cumberland

  Forrest’s pursuit of Federals toward Rossville

  Horseshoe Ridge

  information reaching Grant

  LaFayette Road

  Reed’s Bridge

  Chickasaw Bluffs/Chickasaw Bayou

  Cincinnati Gazette

  Citizen-soldiers. See Volunteer soldiers

  Clanton, James

  Class-consciousness

  Bragg and Forrest

  Forrest’s East Tennessee subordinates

  Forrest’s resignation

  Forrest’s upward aspirations

  Forrest’s West Tennessee subordinates

  Grant, McClernand, and Wallace

  Grant and Thomas

  McClernand’s unpopularity

  Wheeler and Forrest

  Cleburne, Patrick R.

  Clifton, Tennessee(fig.)

  Coburn, John

  Coldwater River

  Conscription

  Corduroy bridge

  Corinth, Battle of

  Forrest’s West Tennessee raids

  Grant’s command

  Halleck’s timidity hobbling Union advance

  keeping Van Dorn and Price from supporting Bragg

  Rosecrans taking credit for

  Shiloh wounded

  Union occupation

  Corruption in Grant’s postwar administration

  Corse, John

  Cotton profiteering

  Courts-martial

  Forrest ignoring Bragg’s order to dismount cavalry

  Illinoisan deserters

  mistreating black soldiers

  reporter Thomas Knox

  Van Dorn

  Cowan, J. B.

  Cox, N. N.

  Crittenden, George

  Crittenden, Thomas T.

  Crittenden, Thomas L.

  Crocker, Marcellus M.

  Crockett, Leroy

  Croxton, John


  Crump’s Landing (Shiloh)

  Cumberland Plateau

  Cumming, Kate

  Damascus sword, Forrest’s

  Dana, Charles A.

  Davidson, H. B.

  Davies, Thomas A.

  Davis, David

  Davis, Jefferson

  Bragg’s boasting to

  Bragg’s military incompetence

  criticism of Beauregard

  death of black soldiers

  demotion of Van Dorn

  Forrest’s gambit between Cairo and Vicksburg

  Forrest’s resignation

  Forrest’s West Tennessee command

  Mississippi’s listless despondency

  petition to sack Bragg

  slave conscription

  Day’s Gap, Alabama

  Death, Forrest’s fear of

  DeCourcy, John F.

  Deitzler, George

  DeMoss, William

  Dentalwork, Grant’s

  Deserters

  Dibrell, George

  Beech Creek

  Browns Ferry

  Chickamauga

  Humboldt

  Kentucky Army

  Parker’s Crossroads

  Disease

  death of Sherman’s son

  Forrest’s decline

  Grant’s death

  malaria

  Smith’s erysipelas

  Dodge, Grenville

  Donelson, Daniel S.

  Donelson-Henry campaign

  Buford’s incompetence

  criticism of Forrest after

  Forrest’s frustration with Confederate command

  Forrest’s losses

  Grant’s political, personal and military reputation

  importance of victory to Grant

  leaving Nashville defenseless

  Logan’s distinction

  McPherson’s relationship with Grant

  Sherman’s diatribe on

  Dover, Battle of

  Drunkenness, Grant’s

  after Chattanooga

  concerns about increase before Vicksburg

  Grant’s resignation

  Kountz’s retaliation

  McClellan’s ire over

  media criticism

  military competence despite

  Rawlins challenging

  riding injury

  Shiloh rumors and lies

  DuBois, John V.

  Duck River

  Duffield, William W.

  Dunham, Cyrus

  Eaton, John

  Economy

  decline after Vicksburg and Gettysburg

  destruction of the Southern system

  Grant uprooting South’s economic base

  Ector, Matthew

  Ellet, Alfred

  Emancipation Proclamation

  Erysipelas

  Espionage: Murfreesboro reconnaissance

  Ewing, Andrew

  Ewing, Hugh Boyle

  Fair Play (gunboat)

  Fallen Timbers, Battle of

  Fearlessness, Forrest’s

  Featherston, Winfield S.

  Flooding at Vicksburg

  Floyd, John B.

  Foote, Andrew

  Forrest, Bill (brother)

  Forrest, Jeffrey (brother)

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford

  amassing wealth

  Confederate supply shortages following Vicksburg

  death of

  family, business, and temperament

  fearlessness

  Klan affiliation

  military skill and experience

  on loss of life

  personal losses at Henry-Donelson, and Nashville

  social class and background

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford: Chickamauga

  LaFayette Road

  pursuing Federal troops toward Rossville

  Reed’s Bridge

  Wheeler’s Tennessee Valley raid

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford: Mississippi and Kentucky

  Bragg meeting at Sparta

  Buell’s ambush at Woodbury

  dissatisfaction with Bragg and Polk

  friction with Bragg

  Glasgow meeting with Bragg

  hip injury

  Morton assignment by Bragg resisted by

  Murfreesboro(fig.)

  northward movement to join Bragg

  promotion to brigadier general

  reconciling squabbling colonels in East Tennessee

  reviving and strengthening Tennessee and Alabama troops

  Union skirmishes near Sequatchie Valley

  Wheeler’s friction with

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford: Shiloh

  assignment to Breckinridge

  capture of Federals

  challenging Cheatham’s orders at Pittsburg Landing

  Confederate defeat

  Confederate intelligence of Union movements

  Fallen Timbers

  Maney’s assault on the Unionists at Pittsburg Landing

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford: Tennessee and Alabama

  accusation of cowardice

  advancing southward from Jackson

  Crittenden’s vulnerability at Chickamauga

  Day’s Gap

  death of brother Jeffrey

  Dover

  Dover aftermath

  Gadsden

  Gould’s fight with

  hip injury

  increasing African American casualties

  injury at Dover

  Jackson raid

  McLemoresville raid

  Parker’s Crossroads(fig.)

  petition to sack Bragg

  placating Forrest after Streight capture

  protecting supply lines in Alabama

  railroad vandalism

  repairing Bragg’s military damage

  resignation

  Thompson Station

  trickery

  Union City capture

  Van Dorn and

  West Point skirmish

  West Tennessee raids

  Wheeler’s promotion and raid on Palmyra

  Forrest, Willie (son)

  Fort Donelson, Battle of. See Donelson-Henry campaign; Dover, Battle of

  Fort Henry, Battle of. See Donelson-Henry campaign; Dover, Battle of

  Fort Pillow, Tennessee

  Fort Sill, Oklahoma

  Fortification of Vicksburg(fig.)

  “Forty Thieves”

  Franklin, William B.

  Fredericksburg, Virginia

  Freeman, S. L.

  Fry, Jacob

  Fugitive slaves

  amphibious attack on Vicksburg

  Grant’s General Orders No.

  Lincoln’s plan to enlist

  Union’s Louisiana garrisons

  warning Federal troops of Confederate movements

  Fuller, John

  Gadsden, Alabama

  Gallaway, Matthew

  Galloway, William

  Geary, John

  General Orders No. 4 (Grant)

  General Orders No. 11 (Grant)

  General Orders No. 13 (Grant)

  Gilmer, Jeremy

  Glasgow, Kentucky

  Gorman, Willis A.

  Gould, A. Wills

  Government reorganization after Vicksburg

  Graber, H.W.

  Gracey, Frank

  Grand Gulf, Louisiana

  Granger, Gordon

  Grant, Fred (son)

  Grant, Jesse (father)

  Grant, Julia (wife)

  evacuation from Louisiana

  living quarters during Memphis occupation

  rejoining Grant in Memphis

  removal from Memphis

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  aftermath of the war

  anti-Semitic actions

  background and career of

  Chattanooga

  countercharge after Pillow’s withdrawal at Fort Donelson

  financial status

  Henry-Donelson victory

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  racial tension over black soldiers

  scandals associated with

  Sherman as peer-confidant

  Sherman’s attachment to

  treatment of slaves

  See also Drunkenness, Grant’s

  Grant, Ulysses S., Jr. (son)

  Grant, Ulysses S.: Chattanooga

  advance on Missionary Ridge

  Browns Ferry

  dismissing Granger

  orders and command structure

  perilous travel to Chattanooga

  pressure to hold Chattanooga

  relieving pressure on Sherman

  Sherman confabulation

  Tunnel Hill

  Grant, Ulysses S.: Mississippi and Tennessee

  Arkansas Post attack

  Bragg’s plans to engage Rosecrans and Sherman

  civilian resentment of Memphis occupation

  connections to Price and Van Dorn

  Corinth

  departure from Memphis

  Forrest at Obion River

  Forrest’s West Tennessee raids

  frustration with Halleck’s timidity

  Halleck’s reorganization of the Corinth forces

  horseback injury after Vicksburg

  increasing dissatisfaction with Rosecrans

  intelligence on Confederate movements

  Iuka

  Lamar

  McClernand’s attempt at transfer

  McClernand’s friction with Halleck and

  McClernand’s unpopularity

  mistreatment of black soldiers

  railroad repair across Tennessee

  Rosecrans’s military career

  Rosecrans’s poor handling of Iuka and Corinth

  squabbling colonels

  western movement from Corinth

  See also Grant, Ulysses S.: Vicksburg

  Grant, Ulysses S.: Shiloh

  Buell and

  Confederate assault

  Confederate retreat from Pittsburg Landing

  holding Pittsburg Landing

  lies about Pittsburg Landing

  Pittsburg Landing assault

  Pittsburg Landing fortification

  reinforcements at Pittsburg Landing

  Union assault

  waiting for aid at Pittsburg Landing

  Wallace’s failure to appear at Pittsburg Landing

  Grant, Ulysses S.: Vicksburg

  amphibious approach

  Big Black River Bridge

  Buford’s incompetence

  command of

  Confederate complacency over

  court-martial of Illinoisan deserters

  disrupting supply routes in Tennessee

  importance of victory

  increasing popularity after

  May 1 attack

  May 19 assault

  May 22 assault

  McClernand impugning leadership of

  McClernand’s abandonment of Black River Bridge

  McClernand’s friction with

  media ban

  Pemberton’s cease-fire proposal

  Pemberton’s engagement

  political and career crisis

  professional and military frustrations

  relieving McClernand of command

  strategy for attack

  targeting the Southern economic base

  Van Dorn and Forrest disrupting plan for

 

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