The Bonfire_The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
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Atlanta Grays
Atlanta & West Point Railroad
Austell, Alfred
Badger, Joshua
Badger, Robert
Badger, Roderick
Bald Hill
Baldwin, Lucy Hull
Barbering
Bassett, Isaac
Baswell, Harrison
Baswell, J. T.
Battle tourists Beach, John
Bell, John
Benjamin, Judah
Benton, Charles E.
Berry, Harrison
Black Atlantans
access to outside news
aid for Union prisoners
epidemics and
poverty of new
restriction of movement
See also Bondsmen: Slaves/slavery
Black insurrection, fear of
Blood, Joseph
Blue Back Speller
Bombproofs
Bondsmen
in Atlanta
emancipation of
Ponder family
sentiment against
underground economy and
working in hospitals
See also Atlanta: slavery in; Black Atlantans; Slaves/slavery
Boyd, David French
Bragg, Braxton
Breckinridge, John
Brown, John
Brown, Joseph
Brush Mountain
Buchanan, James
Bull Run
Burton, James Henry
Butler, Rhett
Calhoun, Catherine
Calhoun, Edward
Calhoun, Emma
Calhoun, Ezekiel
Calhoun, Ezekiel Noble
Calhoun, “Farmer Billy”
Calhoun, James
Calhoun, James Montgomery
attempts to rein in speculation
Compromise of 1850 and
Constitutional Union Party and
defense of Atlanta and
departure from Atlanta
early life
early political career
exemption from military duty
expulsion of civilian population of Atlanta and
gathering Atlanta militia
Indian wars and
intervention for dissenters
loyalty to South
as mayor
on military hospital needs
Morgan’s visit and
move to Atlanta
pardon of
postwar career
prayers for Atlanta
protests of Confederate seizure of goods
quarantine and
rebuilding Atlanta
reelection of
remaining in Atlanta
removal of Cherokees and
return to Atlanta
sending family away from Atlanta
as slaveholder
on state of Atlanta in 1864
support for Confederate cause
surrender to Union forces
Union Army guests of
as Unionist
Whig Party and
Calhoun, John C.
Calhoun, Joseph
Calhoun, Patrick
Calhoun, Patrick Henry
Calhoun, Pickens
Calhoun, Rebecca
Calhoun, William
Calhoun, William Lowndes
in Confederate Army
as mayor
organization of infantry
as war casualty
Calhoun Guards
Calico Raid
Calvalry robbers
Casualties
civilian
Confederate
Union
Chattahoochee River
Chattanooga
Cheatham, Benjamin F.
Cheatham’s Hill
Cherokee
disputes with whites
forced removal of
Long Cane massacre
Chickamauga
Cholera
Churches, interracial
Civil War
beginning of
casualties
deprivation in South from
disease and
end of
hope that war would not last long
maintaining political support for
spring campaign
Clay, Henry
Clayton, Caro
Clayton, Gussie
Clayton, Julia
Clayton, Kate
Clayton, Mary
Clayton, Sallie
Clayton family
Cleburne, Patrick R.
Clift, William
Clingan, Robert
Clingman, Thomas
Coacoochee (Seminole chief)
Cobb, Howell
Cobb, Thomas R. R.
Coburn, John
Collins, Sarah
Columbus Daily Sun (newspaper)
Comey, Henry Newton
Commonwealth (newspaper)
Compromise of 1850
Cone, Francis H.
Confederacy, surrender of
Confederate Army
confiscations by
deserters
draft
drunken soldiers
leaving Atlanta
military hospitals in Atlanta
need for troops
operations in Atlanta
persistence of
proposal to draft slaves
retreat from Atlanta
Confederate currency
Confederate prisoners
Confederate raids
Constitutional Union Party
“Cornerstone Speech”
Cotton production
Creek tribe
Creek War
land disputes
removal to West
Crew, James
Crockett, Davy
Crussell, Thomas G. W.
Cunningham, John
Cunningham, Robert
Dabney, Emma Eliza
Dade’s Massacre
Daily Constitutionalist (newspaper)
Daily Intelligencer (newspaper)
on abolitionists
on Atlanta as Union target
on Atlanta’s morale
on Atlanta’s progress
attacks on Calhoun’s mayoralty
on availability of liquor
on Calhoun’s dinner with Union army
on Chickamauga
on Confederate Army
on Confederate resistance
on early Atlanta
on earthquake
on emigration to Kansas
on hope for war
on Lincoln’s election
on loyalty to South
on manufacturing in Atlanta
on murder of Collins
on rebuilding Atlanta
on secession
on speculators
on squalor
Stewart letter
See also Steele, John H; Whitaker, Jared I.
Daily Telegraph (newspaper)
Davis, Jefferson
army seizures and
Battle of Atlanta and
Brown and
capture of
Johnston and
peace emissaries and
persistence of
visit to Atlanta
“Dead House”
DeGress, Francis H.
DeKalb County Light Infantry
Democratic National Convention
Democratic Party
Deserters
Confederate
Union
de Soto, Hernando
Disease
in Atlanta
soldiers and
Dissenters, Confederate
Douglas, Stephen
Draft, Confederate
Draft dodgers
Draft exemptions
Dug Gap
Dunning, James L.
Education
Atlanta public
of slaves
&nb
sp; Emancipation Proclamation
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emigrants for Kansas Territory
England, Atlanta’s trade with
Everett, Edward
Ewing, Philomen B.
Ewing, Thomas
Ezzard, William
Female Institute (Atlanta)
Ferguson, Samuel
Fillmore, Millard
Flipper, Festus and Isabella
Flipper, Henry Ossian
Florida, Seminole wars
Food shortages/thefts
Foote, Andrew H.
Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Fort Donelson
Fort Henry
Fort Hood
Fort McCreary
Fort Pierce
Fort Pulaski
Fort Sumter
Free Soilers
Free Trade Rifles
Frémont, John C.
Fugitive Slave Law
Fulton Dragoons
Gadsby, Bob. See also Webster, Robert; Yancey, Bob
Gadsby, John
Gadsby, William
Gate City Guardian (newspaper)
Gate City Guards
Gay, Mary
Geary, John W.
Georgia
definition of treason
emigration of whites to
establishment of legal system in
militias
racial backlash after Lincoln’s election
removal of Cherokee
secession of
Sherman’s march through
Georgia Legion
Georgia Platform
Georgia Telegraph (newspaper)
Gettysburg
Gilmer, G. R.
Glenn, Luther J.
Gold rush
Goodbrick, Charlotte
Good government
Gopher holes
Grant, Lemuel P.
Grant, Ulysses S.
Sherman and
at Vicksburg
war strategy
Great Raid of 1863
Greeley, Horace
Halleck, Henry W.
Hambleton, James P.
Hammond, James Henry
Hampton, Wade
Hardee, William J.
Hayden, Julius
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Hayne, Robert Young
Hill, Benjamin
Hill, Joshua
Holliday, Allen T.
Holliday, Lizzie
Holt, Hines
Hood, John Bell
battle for Atlanta
correspondence with Sherman
retreat from Atlanta and
second Union move on Atlanta and
on Sherman’s retreat
surrender of
Hooker, Joseph
Howard, Oliver O.
Howard, W. P.
Huff, Sarah
Huff family, return to Atlanta
Hundred Days’ Battle
Hunnicutt, E. T.
Indian Removal Act
Indians, disputes with white settlers . See also individual tribes
Inflation, in Confederacy
Irish Volunteers
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Stonewall
Jackson Guard
Jacobin Club
Jesup, Thomas
Johnson, Andrew
Johnson, Herschel
Johnston, Joseph
appointment of
building Atlanta’s defenses
Davis and
Kennesaw Mountain and
removal from command of
return of
on sham regiments
spring campaign
surrender of
tactics of
Kansas, battle over
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kennesaw Mountain Kiddoo, David
Kile, Thomas
Kilpatrick, Judson
Lafayette, Marquis de
Laurel Hill
Lay, Henry
Lee, George Washington
arrest of Unionists
conflict with civil authorities
death of
defiance of
enforcing loyalty to Confederacy
fear of black uprising and
militia and
as part-owner of Southern Confederacy
private army
resignation of
Lee, Robert E.
Lee, Stephen D.
Lincoln, Abraham
abolition and
death of
Grant and
peace offer
Southern reaction to
Long Cane massacre
Lookout Mountain
Looting
Lost Mountain
Lowe, Thomas
Luckey, Reuben
Luckie, Solomon
Lynchings
Lyttelton, William Henry
Macomb, Alexander
Macon & Western Railroad
Mallard, Mary
Manassas
Maney, George
Marion Light Artillery
Markham, William M.
Marthasville (Georgia)
Mason, James M.
Massey, Kate
McClellan, George
McIntosh, William
McPherson, James B.
Militia Act
Militias
Atlanta
Georgia
Mill Creek Gap
Milledge, John
Minutemen
Missionary Ridge
Monroe, James
Montgomery & West Point Railroad
Morgan, John Hunt
Morse, Charles Fessenden
on Atlanta as target
occupation of Atlanta and
Motte, Jacob
Myers, Michael
National American (newspaper)
National Democracy convention . See also Democratic
Party
National Hotel
Neal, Andrew Jackson (A. J.)
on army’s readiness for war
on battle at Kennesaw Ridge
battle for Atlanta and
on battle for Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain
on Chickamauga
death of
on looting of Atlanta
on lull in fighting
on refugees
on removal of Johnston
spring campaign and
on status of war
waiting to defend Atlanta
Neal, Emma
Neal, James
Neal, John and Mary Jane
Newcomb. S.
New Hope Church
New Orleans, capture of
Newspapers, advertising in
New York Herald (newspaper)
New York Times (newspaper)
New York Tribune (newspaper)
New York World (newspaper)
Niles, Dexter
O’Reilly, Thomas
Pass system
Patten, James Comfort
Peace Democrats
Pemberton, John
Petersburg
Pickett’s Mill
Pittenger, William
Pittman, Daniel
Poe, O. M.
Polk, James K.
Polk, Leonidas
Ponder, Ellen
Ponder, Ephraim
Ponder, Prince
Ponder, William
Poverty
in Atlanta after Union occupation
relief for, in Atlanta
southern
Powell, Chapman
Puntenney, George
Quarles, Joseph
Race laws
Railroads
Atlanta and
Civil War strategy and
destruction of
repair of
Randolph, George W.
Rawson, E. E.
Rawson, Mary
Reconstruction
Refugees
Rep
ublican convention
Republican Party, realignment of Whigs and
Richards, Alice
Richards, Jabez
Richards, Samuel P.
in Atlanta militia
avoiding army service
on Battle of Atlanta
on Confederate currency
on Confederate withdrawal from Atlanta
on day of prayer
on diseases
distrust of Sherman’s retreat
on likelihood of fight in Atlanta
on looting/vandalism
on martial law
move to Atlanta
in New York
on refugees
purchases slaves
remaining in Atlanta
return to Atlanta
secession and
on shelling
shot striking house of
on spring campaign
on status of war
support for South
on surrender of Atlanta
on survival of Confederacy
Richards, William
Ringgold Gap
Rocky Face Ridge
Rogers, G. C.
Root, Sidney
Rosencrans, William
Rowdy Party
Safe Guards
Schley, William
Schofield, John M.
Scofield, Lewis
Scott, Henry M.
Scott, Winfield
Secession
calls for
of Georgia
silencing opposition to
Seddon, James
Seminoles
Semmes, Anne
Semmes, Ralph
Semmes, Spencer
Seven Years’ War
Sharpsburg (Antietam)
Shepherd, William
Sherman, Ellen
Sherman, John
Sherman, Maria
Sherman, William Tecumseh
after Confederate withdrawal from Atlanta
attack on railroads
battle for Atlanta
Battle of Shiloh and
chasing remaining Confederates
Chattahoochee River and
Confederate evacuation of Atlanta and
conquest of Savannah
correspondence with Hood
on difficulty of operating in Tennessee
expulsion of civilian population of Atlanta and
Kennesaw Mountain and
knowledge of South
march through Georgia
on McPherson
on meaning of secession
Mississippi campaign and
on pillaging
postwar career
preparation for Georgia assault
preparation to get to Atlanta
promotion of
racism of
retreat of
return to Atlanta postwar
second Union move on Atlanta and
Seminole wars and
spring campaign and
strategy for war after Atlanta
surrender of Johnston to
in Union-occupied Atlanta
waiting to hear of Atlanta’s fate
on war
Sherwood, Asa
Shiloh, Battle of
Shinplasters
Shivers, Thomas