Convention of 1860
elections of 1862 and
Emancipation and
in key positions
McClellan and
Supreme Court and
Democratic Unionists
Derickson, Charles
Derickson, David
Dix, Dorothea
Dix, John A.
Doughty, John
Douglas, Stephen A.
Douglass, Frederick
Douglass, Lewis
Dred Scott decision
Drouyn de L’Huys, Edouard
Duke, Basil
Eads, James
eastern theater. See also specific armies and battles
Eckert, Thomas
Edmunds, James M.
Eggleston, Mr.
elections
of 1832
of 1860
of 1862
of 1864
of 1868
Ellsworth, Elmer
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
emancipation. See also slavery; slaves, escaped
compensated gradual
Frémont orders
Hunter orders
Lincoln moves toward
Lincoln overrules
Lincoln reveals decision on, to Seward and Welles
McClellan and
military and, in enemy lands
pressure for
self-liberating slaves and
Taney and
transcontinental railroad and
Union divisions over
Washington, D.C., and
Emancipation Proclamation
attack by Greeley and
announcement of
cabinet and
divine will and
elections of 1862 and
Europe and
impact of
signed
written
Ericsson, John
Europe
Ewing, Philemon
Ewing, Thomas
Ewing, Thomas, Jr.
Fair Oaks, Battle of (Seven Pines)
Farragut, David
federal government bonds
federal spending
Fessenden, William P.
Fields, David Dudley
Fisher, George
Florida
Floyd, John
Foote, Andrew
Foote, Shelby
Foreman, Amanda
Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Fort Donelson
Fort Heiman
Fort Henry
Fort Magruder
Fort Monroe
Fort Pulaski
Fort Ridgely raid
Fort Sumter attack
Fox, Gustavus
France
Franklin, William B.
Frederick, Maryland
Fredericksburg, Battle of
free blacks. See also emancipation; Emancipation Proclamation; slavery; slaves, escaped
citizenship rights of
deportation proposed
enlistment of, in Army
Frémont, John C.
French, Benjamin
Frietchie, Barbara
Front Royal, Battle of
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
Gaines’ Mill, Battle of
Gardner, Alexander
Garrett, Thomas
Gassendi (French warship)
Gatling, Richard
Gay, Sidney Howard
General Land Office
George III, King of England
Gettysburg, Battle of
Gettysburg address
Gibbon, James Sloan (poet)
Gibbon, John (general)
Gilbert, Benjamin
Gillespie, Joseph
Gladstone, William Eward
Gloire, La (French ship)
Goethe, Johann W. von
Goldsborough, Louis
Goodell, William
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Gordon, Nathaniel
Grant, Julia
Grant, Ulysses S.
background of
communications cut
Corinth and
cotton and
foraging and
Forts Henry and Donelson and
future victories of
Halleck vs.. 166–67
Jewish merchants and
Lincoln’s admiration for
moves toward Jackson and Vicksburg
Nashville and
Oxford and
public opinion of
retreat from Mississippi and
Sherman and
Shiloh and
slaves and
western victories and
Gravelet, Jean-François
Great Britain
Greeley, Horace
Green, Horace
Grimes, James
Grow, Galusha
Guelzo, Allen
Gurley, Phineas
Gurowski, Adam de
Hagerstown, Maryland
Haiti
Hall, William
Halleck, Henry Wager “Old Brains”
background of
Buell and
Corinth and
as general-in-chief over McClellan
Grant and
Lincoln’s disregard for
McClellan and
public opinion and
Shiloh and
slavery and
Tennessee campaign and
western strategy and
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamilton, James
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hamlin, Hannibal
Hampton Roads
Battle of Ironclads at
Lincoln’s Norfolk campaign and
Hartford (Union warship)
Harpers Ferry
John Brown’s raid on
McClellan and
Harper’s Weekly
Harris, Ira
Harrison, Benjamin, IV
Harrison’s Landing
Hatch, Ozias
“Haunted House, The” (Hood)
Haupt, Herman
Hawes, Richard
Hay, John
Hay, Milton
Heintzelman, Samuel
Henry, Joseph
“Hermann, Herr” (sleight-of-hand artist)
Herndon, William
Hill, A. P.
Hill, Daniel H.
Holland, J. G.
Holly Springs
Battle of
Van Dorn raid on
Holt, Joseph
Homestead Act (1862)
Honduras
Hood, Thomas
Hooker, Joseph
Howe, Julia Ward
Howe, Samuel Gridley
Huger, Benjamin
Hunter, David
Hurlbut, Stephen
Hyde, Joshua
Il Trovatore (Verdi)
Ile à Vache colony
Illinois
Interior Department
internal revenue system
ironclad gunboats
Battle of
destruction of Virginia
Ironside (British ship)
Isacks, A. J.
Island No. 10, Battle of
Iuka, Mississippi
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall”
James River
Jay, John
Jefferson, Thomas
Jewish merchants
Johnson, Andrew
Johnson, Oliver
Johnson, Reverdy
Johnston, Albert Sidney
Johnston, Joseph E.
Jomini, Antoine-Henri
Jones, Catesby
Julian, George
Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Kaskel, Cesar
Keckly, Elizabeth
Kentucky
Confederates invade
Key, John
Key, Thomas
Keyes, Erasmus
King, Preston
King John (Shakespeare)
Knights of the Golden Circle
Laird Brothers
Lamon, Ward Hill
land-grant colleges
Lane, Harriet
Lee, Fitzhugh
Lee, Mary Custis
Lee, Robert E.
Antietam and
commands Confederate Army
estates of, seized
Fredericksburg and
Maryland drive of
McClellan’s firing and
McClellan’s Peninsula campaign vs.
Pope’s advance and
retreat of, post-Antietam
Seven Days’ battles and
Union foraging and
Leopold I, King of Belgium
Lewis, Sely
Liberator (newspaper)
Liberia
Lincoln, Abraham
abolitionists and
achievements of, in 1862
advisors and
annual message to Congress of 1861
annual message to Congress of 1862
Antietam and
anti-slave trade treaty and
appearance of
Aquia Creek visits by
Army and, in early 1862
Army and, in early 1863
Army hospital conflict and
Army of the Potomac commanders and
assassination threats and
Banks reassigned by
becomes own general in chief, over McClellan
bodyguards and
border states and
Browning’s friendship with
Buell fired by
Burnside appointed by, to replace McClellan
Burnside’s North Carolina expedition and
Butler’s offense to British and
cabinet and
cabinet presses, to fire McClellan
Chase’s rivalry with
Clay’s influence on
colonization and
commitment of, after Richmond defeat
compensated emancipation and
confiscation by Army and
Congress and
contrabands and Army and
Cooper Union speech by
cotton trade and
coup threats vs.
death of friends and
death of son Willie and
Derickson’s friendship with
desertions and
Douglas debates and
early biographers on
early life of
economic opportunity and
election of
elections of 1862 and
Emancipation Proclamation and
Emerson and
Europe and
Fair Oaks and
fault lines in Confederacy and
Fort Sumter and
Fredericksburg and
free blacks meet with
freed blacks and
Front Royal and
General Land Office and
generals’ inaction and
generals under McClellan appointed by
General War Order No. 1 and
Grant and
Greeley criticizes
habeas corpus and
Halleck appointed general in chief by
hard war philosophy and
“House Divided” speech by
humor and storytelling by
Hunter’s emancipation order and
Inaugural Address by, First
Inaugural Address by, Second
Ironclad Battle and
Jersey City speech by
Jewish merchants and
leadership of, doubted
legislation and
letter to Quintin Campbell by
literature and poetry and
marriage and family and
McClellan appointed by, as general in chief
McClellan appointed by, as head of army in Washington
McClellan as problem for
McClellan at Second Manassas and
McClellan at Yorktown and
McClellan fired by
McClellan in Maryland and
McClellan placed under Halleck by
McClellan post-Antietam and
McClellan’s conflict with, after Shenandoah losses
McClellan’s misjudgment of Lee
McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign vs. Richmond and
McClellan’s Potomac bridge fiasco and
McClellan’s retreat from Peninsula and delay in firing
McClellan-Stanton dispute and
McClellan treason rumors and
McClellan visited by
military commissions and courts-martial and
military draft and
military tactics and strategy and
Minnesota Sioux and
Mississippi River command and
New Orleans and
New Year’s Day of 1862 and
New Year’s Day of 1863 and
Norfolk campaign by
patronage jobs and
personality of
Pope and
power of
principles of
public opinion and
recruitment and
religion and
Scott advises, on reorganization of command
séances and
secretaries Nicolay and Hay and
Seven Days and
Seward resignation crisis and
Seward’s relationship with
Shenandoah and
Sherman and
Shiloh and
slavery and emancipation and
slavery outlawed in U.S. territory and
slavery outlawed in Washington and
social life and
son Robert and
son Tad and
Stanton appointed Secretary of War by
Stones River and
Supreme Court and
taxes and
technology and
transcontinental railroad and
Trent crisis and
Union preservation as goal of
Union rally of August 6 and
Virginia theater reorganized by
war council and
war expanded by
war powers and
Washington attack feared by
western campaign and
West Virginia statehood and
White House quarters of
Wood demand for negotiation with South and
wounded soldiers visited by
Lincoln, Edward “Eddie” (son)
Lincoln, Mary Todd
Bennett and
children and family life and
Christmas and
death of Willie and
deaths of half-brothers and
Emancipation Proclamation and
emotional problems of
freed slaves and
French and
personality of
relationship of, with husband
scandals and
Seward and
shopping and
social life and
Soldiers’ Home cottage and
son Bob and
spiritualism and
wounded soldiers and
Lincoln, Robert “Bob” (son)
Lincoln, Thomas “Tad” (son)
Lincoln, William Wallace “Willie” (son)
death of
scrapbook of
Lindsay, William
Little Crow, Chief
Livermore, Mary
London Times
Longstreet, James
“Lost Heir, The” (Hood)
Louisiana
black Union troops in
Emancipation Proclamation and
Louisiana Purchase
Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), Emperor of France
Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell, first Viscount
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Macomb Eagle
Madiso
n, James
Magruder, John
Mallory, Stephen
Malvern Hill, Battle of
Manassas
captured by Union
First Battle of (First Bull Run)
Second Battle of (Second Bull Run)
Manassas (Confederate ironclad)
Marble, Manton
Marcy, Randolph
Maryland
Confederate drive to
escaped slaves and
Lee and
Lincoln visits McClellan in
Mason, James
Mason, Rodney
Maximilian, Archduke of Austria
Maynard, Nettie Colburn
McCall, George
McClellan, George B.
aftermath of firing and
Antietam and
Antietam and, delays following
appointed general in chief
appointed to head army in Washington
appointed to lead Union Army
cabinet and
cabinet and, demand for firing of
Confederate property and
corps commanders and
desertions and
eastern theater and
Emancipation Proclamation and
fired
firing of, demanded
Front Royal and
Grant and
Halleck replaces, as general in chief
Hampton Roads Ironclad Battle and
Harrison’s Landing bivouac of
leaks and
Lee misjudged by
Lincoln delays firing
Lincoln removes, as general in chief
Lincoln reorganizes forces under
Lincoln’s early relationship with
Lincoln’s war council and
Maryland campaign and
military dictatorship threat and
Peninsula campaign vs. Richmond and
Peninsula retreat and
Pope and
presidential ambitions of
reinforcements and
Second Manassas and
secret plans of
Seven Days’ battles and
Shenandoah losses and
slavery and
soft- vs. hard-war policy and
Stanton and
treason rumors and
western generals and
Yorktown and
McClellan, Mary Ellen
McClernand, John
McClure, Alexander
McCoy, Benjamin
McCullough, William
McDowell, Irwin
McPherson, James
Meade, George
Meagher, Thomas
Medill, Joseph
Meigs, Montgomery
Memphis, capture of
Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Mercier, Henri
Merrimack. See Virginia
Mexican War
Mexico
France and
slave colonies and
Miami (Union cutter)
Michigan
military conscription (draft)
Militia Act (1794, 1862)
Miller, Samuel
Mill Springs, Battle of
Minnesota, Sioux war in
Minnesota (Union warship)
Mississippi
Mississippi (Confederate ironclad)
Mississippi River
Missouri
Missouri Compromise
Mitchell, Barton
Mobile, Alabama
Monitor (Union ironclad)
Monroe Doctrine
Moorhead, J. K.
Moran, Benjamin
Morgan, John Hunt
Morrill, Justin
Morse, Freeman
Mumford, William
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