Murphy, R. C.
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nashville
fall of
Nast, Thomas
National Intelligencer
Native Americans
Navy Department
Nelson, William “Bull”
New Madrid, Missouri
New Orleans
capture of
Order No. 28 and
New Ulm raid
New York Democrats
New York Evening Post
New York Herald
New York State
New York Times
New-York Tribune
Nicolay, John
Nightingale, Florence
Noell, John
Norfolk, Lincoln and capture of
nullification
Odell, Moses
Ohio
Ohio River
Ohio volunteers
Orange and Alexandria Railroad
Oreto (Confederate warship)
Oxford, Grant in
Pacific Railroad
Paducah, Kentucky
Paducah Union League
Palmerston, Lord (Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount)
Panama
paper money
Pea Ridge, Battle of
Peninsula Campaign. See also Richmond; and specific battles
casualties and
retreat from
termination of, at Harrison’s Landing
Pennsylvania
Perry, Matthew
Perryville, Battle of
Philadelphia City Bounty Fund
Pierce, Edward
Pierce, Franklin
Pillow, Gideon
Pittsburg Landing
Planter (steamer)
Polk, Leonidas
Pomroy, George
Pomroy, Rebecca
Pope, John
fired
Sioux War and
Porter, David Dixon
Porter, Fitz John
Port Republic, Battle of
Port Royal, South Carolina, contrabands
Potomac River
Prentice, George
Prentiss, Benjamin
Price, Sterling
Quakers
radical Republicans
railroads
Ramsey, Alexander
Rappahannock River
Rawlins, John
Raymond, Henry
Reid, Whitelaw
Republican Party
elections of 1862 and
Seward resignation demanded by
Reynolds, John
Richmond
Jackson’s campaign to divert troops from
McClellan advance on (Peninsula campaign)
McDowell advance on
POWs in
Seven Days’ battles for
Richmond Examiner
Riggs, George W.
Rivas, Jose Maria
Roanoke Island, capture of
Robertson, George
Roelofson, William
Rosecrans, William
Royce, Josiah
Russell, Lord John (1st Earl)
Russia
Savannah
Schimmelfennig, Alexander
Schurz, Carl
Scott, Winfield
Sea Islands
secession
Seven Days’ battles
Seven Pines, Battle of. See Fair Oaks, Battle of
Seward, Frederick
Seward, William
background of
Britain and
cabinet discord and
Chase and
compromise proposed by
cotton trade and
critics of
Emancipation Proclamation and
Europe and
Lincoln’s commitment to war and
Lincoln’s friendship with
McClellan and
Norfolk trip and
patronage jobs and
personality of
recruitment and
resignation of, demanded by Republicans
slavery and
Sewell’s Point
Seymour, Horatio
Shakespeare, William
Sharpsburg. See Antietam, Battle of
Shenandoah Valley
Sheridan, Philip
Sherman, John
Sherman, William T.
Shiloh and
Shields, James
Shiloh, Battle of
Shipley, William
Shirley (plantation)
Sioux
Slade, William
slavery. See also slaves, escaped; emancipation; Emancipation Proclamation; free blacks
1862 as key year for
banned in Federal territories
Britain and
colonization and
Confederate war effort and
conflict made inevitable by
Congress passes act ending
Constitution and
Dred Scott and
eastern vs. western Confederacy and
Greeley vs. Lincoln on
legislation restricting
Lincoln’s middle course on
range of opinions on, in North
Washington, D.C., and
slaves, escaped (contrabands). See also free blacks
camps and aid for
Union Army lines and
as Union soldiers
slave trade
smuggler executed
treaty banning
slave uprisings
Slidell, John
Smalls, Robert
Smith, Caleb
Smith, C. F.
Smith, Edmund Kirby
Smith, James
Sneden, Robert
South Carolina
Southern ports
blockade of
seizure of
Southern Unionists
Spectator, The (London weekly)
Speed, Joshua
Sprague, William
Stackpole, Thomas
Stanton, Edwin M.
appointed Secretary of War
Aquia Creek trip to consult with McDowell and
cabinet discord and
censorship and
death of son
Emancipation Proclamation and
Front Royal and
habeas corpus and
Hampton Roads and
Lincoln’s bodyguards and
McClellan and
McClellan firing and
McClernand and
military bureaucracy and
military strategy and
Norfolk campaign and
recruitment and
Sea Islands and
Seven Days’ battles and
Seward resignation and
Shiloh and
slavery and
State Department
states rights
Staunton, Battle of
Sterne, Laurence
Stevens, Thaddeus
St. Louis, Missouri
Stoddard, William O.
Stones River, Battle of
Stuart, J.E.B.
Sturgis, Samuel D.
Sumner, Charles
Emancipation Proclamation and
Shiloh and
Sumner, Edwin “Bull Head”
Swayne, Noah H.
Swett, Leonard
Switzerland
Taft, Bud
Taft, Holly
Taft, Horatio
Taft, Julia
Taney, Roger B.
taxes
Tennessee
Buell push into
cotton and
ex-slaves in
Grant drives Confederates from
Tennessee and Ohio Railroad
Tennessee River
Texas
Thomas, Benjamin Franklin
Thomas, Edward
Thomas, George
Thouvenel, Edouard
Todd, Alexander “Aleck” (Mary’s half-brother)
Todd, David (Mary’s half-brother)
Todd, Elizabeth (Mary’s sister)
Todd, Samuel (Mary’s half-brother)
transcontinental railroad
Treasury Department
Trent crisis
Trumbull, Lyman
Turner, Levi
“Twenty Years Ago” (song)
ultras
Underground Railroad
Union
cabinet and
differences within, and slavery
economic advantages of
first victories of Grant and
hope for easy restoration of
Lincoln’s goal of preserving
Union armies. See also Army of the Cumberland; Army of the Ohio; Army of the Potomac; Amy of the Tennessee; Army of Virginia; western armies; and specific battles, campaigns, and commanders
condition of, in early 1862
condition of, in early 1863
demoralization and
desertions and
Emancipation Proclamation and
fissures in position of
foraging and
funding of
Lincoln as commander in chief and
Lincoln grilled by Congress on
McClellan firing and
medical care and
multiple used, vs. Confederate line
New York and
recruitment and
reinforcements and
supply depots of, plundered
size of
slaves flee to
troops on leave from
Union League
Union Navy. See also specific battles, commanders, and ships
Union rallies
United States, survival of, as republic
U.S. Army, pre–Civil War
U.S. Congress
abolitionists and
achievements of
colonization and
elections of 1862 and
emancipation and
Emancipation Proclamation and
homestead act and
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
Lincoln’s annual message to, of 1861
Lincoln’s annual message to, of 1862
Sioux executions and
Trent affair and
U.S. Constitution
president’s war powers and
slavery and
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Sanitary Commission
U.S. Senate
anti-slave trade treaty and
Committee on Naval Affairs
Foreign Relations Committee
Seward resignation demanded by
West Virginia and
U.S. Supreme Court
appointments to
Vallandigham, Clement
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Vanderbilt (Union ship)
Van Dorn, Earl
Vicksburg
Grant move on
Victoria, Queen of England
Vinton, Francis L.
Virginia. See also Peninsula Campaign; Richmond; and specific battles and locations
Confederate retreat into
reorganization of armies in
McDowell and McClellan advances in, post-Yorktown
Virginia (Confederate ironclad, formerly Merrimack)
burning of
Hampton Roads Battle vs. Monitor
Voorhees, Daniel W.
Wade, Benjamin “Bluff Ben”
Wadsworth, James A.
Ward, Artemus
War Department
Stanton replaces Cameron as secretary
Warrior (British armored ship)
Washburne, Elihu
Washington, George
Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis
Washington, D.C.
Confederate retreat from
condition of, in early 1862
defenses of
emancipation in
free blacks in
Fugitive Slave Act and
McClellan heads defense of
McClellan stays near, during Second Manassas
rumor mills of
society of
Union rally of August 6
wounded soldiers and
Washington Evening Star
Watson, Peter
Watt, John
Waud, Alfred
Weed, Thurlow
Welles, Gideon
Welles, Hubert
Welles, Mary Ellen
Wellington, Duke of
West, settlement of
western armies. See also specific battles and commanders
western Virginia
West Point
West Virginia, statehood and
Whig Party
White House
midnight ball of February 5
New Year’s Day open house of 1862
New Year’s Day open house of 1863
presidential quarters in
White House (Custis family mansion)
Whiting, William
Whitman, Walt
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Wickliffe, Charles
Wikoff, Henry “Chevalier”
Wilkes, Charles
Wilkinson, Morton
Willard’s Hotel
Williamsburg, Battle of
Willis, Nathaniel Parker
Wilson, Henry
Wilson’s Creek, Battle of
Winchester, Battle of
Wisconsin, University of
Wood, Fernando
Wood Lake, Battle of
Wool, John
Worden, John
Yates, Richard
York River
Yorktown Siege
Zacharie, Isachar
Zachringer, Conrad
Zollicoffer, Felix
ALSO BY DAVID VON DREHLE
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(with the Political Staff of The Washington Post)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DAVID VON DREHLE is the author of three previous books, including the award-winning Triangle, an account of the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire that The New York Times called “social history at its best.” An editor-at-large at Time magazine, he lives with his family near Kansas City, Missouri.
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Von Drehle, David.
Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year / David Von Drehle. — 1st ed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8050-7970-8
1. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865. 2. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865—Military leadership. 3. Political leadership—United States—History—19th century. 4. United States—Politics and government—1861–1865. 5. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865. I. Title. II. Title: Abraham Lincoln and the making of America.
E457.45.V67 2012
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First Edition 2012
Maps by Gene Thorp
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