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by David Von Drehle


  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

  Triangle:

  The Fire That Changed America

  Deadlock:

  The Inside Story of America’s Closest Election

  (with the Political Staff of The Washington Post)

  Among the Lowest of the Dead:

  Inside Death Row

  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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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Von Drehle, David.

  Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year / David Von Drehle. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  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

  973.7092—dc23

  [B] 2012013053

  First Edition 2012

  Maps by Gene Thorp

  eISBN 978-0-8050-9608-8

 

 

 

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