corruption and scandals in administration of
failings of
in final Civil War battles
GAC as problematic to, 16.1, 16.2, epl.1, epl.2
GAC compared to, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1
on GAC’s court-martial, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 16.1
GAC’s testimony against
GAC supported by, 10.1, 16.1
as general, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 12.1
hostility between GAC and, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1
in Lee’s surrender
personal qualities of
post–Civil war career of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
presidency of, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, epl.1
grapeshot
Graves, Samuel R.
Great Depression (1873), 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2
Great Lakes
Great Migration
Great Plains, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 13.2
GAC’s writing about
geology and natural history of, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Native American conflicts on, see Indian conflicts and wars
Northern, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1; see also Dakota Territory
settlement on
Southern, 11.1, 11.2
Great Sioux Reservation, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Greeley, Horace, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Greenback Party
Greene, Jacob, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 12.1
Greene, Jerome, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Greene, Nettie Humphrey, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 9.1
death of
marriage of
Greene, O. D.
Gregg, David, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
Grierson, Benjamin, 11.1, 12.1
Griffin, Charles, 2.1, 2.2
Grimsley, Mark
grizzly bears
Grosevenor, Ira
Guerrier, Edmund, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
gunfights, 11.1, 14.1
Hagerstown, Md.
Hahn, Steven, 5.1, 8.1
Half-Yellow Face
Hall, Jairus W., 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1
Halleck, Henry W., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
Hämäläinen, Pekka
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamilton, Alexander J.
Hamilton, H. M., 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Hamilton, Louis, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
hammer-and-anvil operation
Hampton, Wade, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 2.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Hancock expedition, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1
Hannah (servant)
Hanover, Pa.
Hanson, M. P.
Hard Rope, 12.1, 12.2
Hare, Luther
Harlem Railroad, 13.1, 13.2
Harney, William S.
Harper and Bros.
Harper’s Courant
Harper’s Ferry, Va., 3.1, 3.2, 8.1
John Brown raid at, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2
Harper’s Weekly, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1
Harris, Samuel
Harrisburg, Pa.
Harrisburg Weekly Patriot & Union
Harrison’s Landing, 3.1, 3.2
Harry (horse)
Harte, Bret
Harvard University, 1.1, 3.1
Haw’s Shop, Va., battle at
Haxall’s Landing
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Hays City
Hazen, William B., 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
in GAC’s first court-martial, 1.1, 1.2, 12.1
Heart River
heckling
Hedrick, John
Heller, Joseph
Hempstead, Tex.:
Custers in, 9.1, 9.2
race relations in
Henderson, John B.
Henry (teamster)
Henry IV, king of France
Hickok, James Butler “Wild Bill,” 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 13.1, 14.1
Hill, Aunt Beck
Hill, Robert C.
Hill House, 14.1, 14.2
Hitler, Adolf
Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood
Hoffman, William, 1.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Holladay, Ben, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1
Holland, Alexander
Holland, Mary Jane “Mollie,”
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 3.1, 4.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.
Holt, Joseph, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Honsinger, John, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Hood, John B.
Hooker, Joseph, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
horse racing, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 16.1
horses, 2.1, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4
“coloring” of
GAC’s accidental shooting of, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
in Native American culture, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
seized as trophies of war, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1
slaughter of
toll of cavalry on, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 15.1, epl.1, epl.2
see also specific horses
Hotel Brunswick, 16.1, 16.2
House of Representatives, U.S., 1.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5
Committee on Expenditures
Committee on Military Affairs
Committee on Roads and Canals
congressional investigations by
Houston, Tex., 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Howard, Jacob, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1
Hudson River and Valley, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 6.2
Hudson River Railroad, 6.1, 13.1
Huff, John A.
Huger, Frank
Huguenots
Humphrey, Nettie, see Greene, Nettie Humphrey
Humphrey House hotel, 4.1, 6.1
costume ball at
Humphreys, Andrew A., 4.1, 4.2
Hunkpapa Lakotas (Uncpapas), 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, epl.1
Hunter, David, 7.1, 8.1
Hunter, Joseph
Hunterstown, Pa., 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Huntington, Collis
Hutton, Paul, prf.1, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1
Illinois, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1, 10.2
immigrants
impressment
Independence Day, 7.1, 12.1
Independent, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1
Indianapolis, Ind.
Indian Bureau, 12.1, 16.1
Indian conflicts and wars, prf.1, prf.2, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 16.1
African American troops in
casualties of, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
“final solution” for, 15.1, 16.1
GAC in, see Custer, George Armstrong, Indian fighter
Hancock expedition in
as imminent, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
Lakotas in, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Little Bighorn as turning point in
Native American strategies in, 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
roots of, 11.1, 15.1
“total war” strategy in
winter campaign in
Yellowstone expedition in, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8
see also Little Bighorn, Battle of the; specific battles
Indian Question
“Indians,” use of term, 11.1, 11.2
“Indians not taxed,” rights denied to, 10.1, 13.1
industrialization
Infantry, U.S. Army, 4.1, 4.2
1st Michigan
4th Michigan
7th Michigan, 2.1, 4.1
expendability of, 7.1, 7.2, 14.1
New York regiments
“Inflation Bill,”
Interior Department, U.S.
Internal Revenue Bureau, 14.1, 16.1
Intrepid
Iowa, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1
Irish
Isenberg, Andrew
Jackson, Andrew, 1.1, 10.1, 12.1, 16.1
Jackson, Henry
Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
Jacksonian democracy, prf.1, prf.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 8.1, 10.1
James, Jesse and Frank
James River, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
James River Canal
James-Younger gang, 14.1, 14.2
Jay Cooke & Co.
Jerome, Leonard W.
Jews, bias against, 13.1, 13.2
jockey (Custers’ boy servant), 11.1, 11.2
Johnson, Andrew:
combative nature of
corruption under
death of
GAC’s alignment with, 10.1, 16.1
impeachment of, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2
presidency of, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1
Republican Party vs., 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 12.1, 12.2
Southern sentiment of, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 11.1
supporters of, 10.1, 12.1
“Swing Around the Circle” tour of, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 16.1
Johnson, Charles, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Johnston, Joseph E.
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
Joinville, François, Prince de, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
Jones, Annie E., 6.1, 6.2
Juárez, Benito
Juaristas
Julius Caesar
Junction City, Kans., 11.1, 11.2, 13.1
Justh, Emil, 16.1, 16.2, epl.1
Kansas, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, epl.1
GAC’s departure for, 10.1, 11.1
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), 1.1, 11.1
Kansas Pacific Railroad, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1
Kansas River
Kaw tribe
Kearney, Philip, 2.1, 3.1
Keedysville, Md.
Keegan, John, map.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2
Kellogg, Clara Louise, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Kellogg, Francis W., 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1
Kendall, Charles
Kendall, Mary Richmond
Kentucky, 3.1, 9.1, 16.1, epl.1
as border state
emancipation in
GAC’s Reconstruction mission in, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 16.1
lawlessness and violence in
Kentucky Association
Kentucky National Legion
Keogh, Myles, 11.1, 16.1
Kershaw, Joseph B.
Key, Thomas
Kidd, James H., 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Kidder, Lyman, 11.1, 11.2
Kilpatrick, Judson, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 13.1
GAC reprimanded by
King, John H.
Kiowas, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, epl.1
Kip, Lawrence
Kirby Smith, Edmund, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Kirkpatrick, David
Kirkpatrick, General, 6.1
kissing contest
Kit Foxes
Kossuth, Lajos
Ku Klux Klan, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2
Ku Klux Klan Act (1871), 14.1, 14.2
Kyle, John
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Lake Shore stock
Lakotas (Teton Sioux), 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1
in battles on Yellowstone expedition
containment plan for
culture of, 15.1, 16.1
importance of Black Hills to
at Little Bighorn
offensive against, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
seven tribes of
see also specific subtribes
Lamar, L. Q. C.
Lancaster, L. L.
Lane, Joseph
Larned, Charles W., 8.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1
Laurel Brigade
Lea, John “Gimlet,” 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 8.1
Leavenworth, Jesse H., 11.1, 11.2
Leavenworth Bulletin, 12.1, 13.1
Leckie, Shirley, prf.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, epl.1
lecture circuit
Lee, Fitzhugh, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Lee, Jesse M., epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Lee, Robert E.:
in command of Confederate forces, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 8.1, 8.2
in final battles, 8.1, 8.2
“Lost Order” of
surrender of, 8.1, 9.1
Legacy of Conquest, The (Limerick)
Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
Lewis, James T.
Lewis, Patrick
Lewis and Clark expedition, 15.1, 16.1
Lexington, Ky., 14.1, 14.2
Liberal Republican Party
Limerick, Patricia Nelson
Lincoln, Abraham
assassination of, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1
candidacy and elections of, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1
Civil War policy of, 3.1, 4.1
Emancipation Proclamation of
Libbie’s meeting with
McClellan’s contempt for, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
Native American delegation to
presidency of, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1
Linkins, W. D.
Literary World
Little Beaver, 12.1, 12.2
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, prf.1, epl.1
casualties of, epl.1, epl.2
GAC at, see Custer’s Last Stand
GAC blamed for, epl.1, epl.2
inquiry into
Little Bill (antelope)
Little Heart River, 16.1, 16.2
Little Rock, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2
Little Round Top
Little Women (Alcott)
livestock business
Livingston, David, 11.1, 16.1
Locke, David (Petroleum V. Nasby)
Locke’s Ford
Lockwood, LeGrand
Logan, John
Lomax, Lunsford
London, England, 13.1, 13.2
London Times
Lonergan, Jerry
Lone Wolf
Longstreet, James, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1
“Looking for Gold—Custer’s Exploring Expedition,”
Lookout Station
attack on
Lorillard, Eva, 12.1
Lorillard, Pierre, III
“Lost Order,”
Lotos Club
Loudoun Valley
Louisa Court House, 7.1, 7.2
Louisiana, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2
secession of
Louisville, Ky., 9.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1
Lowe, Thaddeus
Ludlow, William, 1.1, 1.2
Lyman, Theodore
Lynch, John B.
magazines
see also specific publications
Maggie (Mrs. Lea’s cousin)
Maguire, Edward, epl.1, epl.2
Maheo (the All Being)
Mahwissa, 12.1, 12.2
Maida (dog)
Maine, 1.1, 14.1
Malvern Hill, Battle of, 3.1, 3.2
Mammoth Cave
Manassas, Va., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1
Mandans
Manhattan Club, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 16.1
Mankato, Minn.
Mann, William D.
Mansfield, Josephine, 13.1, 13.2
Man Who Breaks the Marrow Bones
maps
inadequate
see also topographical engi
neering, specific maps
Marcy, Randolph
Marcy, William L.
Mariah (GAC’s girlfriend), 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 6.1
Marine Court
Mark, Gospel of
Marsh, Caleb
Marshall, John
Martin, John
Maryland, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 14.1
as border state
Maryland Campaign
masked balls, 10.1, 13.1
Mask of Command, The (Keegan), map.1, 9.1
Massachusetts
abolitionism in
Massachusetts Ploughman
Mathey, Edward, 12.1, 13.1
Maxmilian I, emperor of Mexico, 9.1, 10.1
McCall, George A.
McClellan, Arthur
McClellan, Ellen, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 6.1
McClellan, George B., 3.1, 4.1, 10.1, 10.2
as commander of Army of the Potomac, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1
as controversial, 3.1, 6.1
fall of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1
final, comprehensive report of
flawed command style of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
GAC on staff of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 14.1
GAC’s admiration for, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 16.1
GAC’s friendship with, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
GAC’s repudiation of, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2
Lincoln despised by, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
paranoia of
political intrigue of
prejudice of
presidential run of
slavery supported by, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 8.1
McCrea, Tully, map.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2
McDougall, Thomas
McDowell, Irwin, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
McFeely, William, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
McLean, William
McLish (drunk)
McNutt, John
McPherson, James M., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 8.1
Meade, George, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 13.1
Medal of Honor, 8.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1
media, rise of
Medicine Arrows
Medicine Lodge Treaty, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 16.1
Medicine Woman Later (Woman Here After)
Meeker, Ralph, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Meigs, Montgomery, 8.1, 16.1
Melville, Herman
Memphis, Tenn., 14.1, 14.2
race riot in, 10.1, 10.2
Memphis Daily Appeal
Menand, Louis, 14.1, 14.2
Merington, Marguerite, 4.1, 13.1
Merrill, Lewis
Merritt, Wesley, 1.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 13.2, epl.1
Methodists, 1.1, 5.1
evangelical
Metropolitan Hotel, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1
Mexican War, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Mexico, 1.1, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1
French occupation of, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
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