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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
&nbs
p; Nashville campaign
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