Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

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by Stiles, T. J.


  Mexico City

  Michie, Peter, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

  Michigan, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 16.1

  Michigan State Fair

  Miegs, John R.

  Miles, Nelson, 13.1, epl.1

  Miller, Marie, 3.1, 9.1

  Miller, Samuel

  Milner, Moses “California Joe,”

  Mine Run Campaign

  Miniconjou Lakotas, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3

  mining, 15.1, 16.1

  GAC’s venture in, see Stevens Lode Silver Mine

  illegal, 16.1, 16.2

  Minneapolis Tribune

  Minnehaha Falls

  Minnesota, 1.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2

  Minnesota River

  mirages

  Missionary Ridge, Battle of

  Mississippi, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1

  secession of

  Mississippi River, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1

  bridge over

  Missouri, 1.1, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1

  as border state, 3.1, 11.1

  Missouri, Department of the, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1

  Missouri, Military Division of the

  Missouri Compromise (1820)

  Missouri River, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8, 15.9

  Mitchell, Hattie “Gloria,”

  Mitchell, Maggie

  Mittie Stephens

  Mobile Bay, Battle of

  modernity:

  literary

  U.S. transformation to, –xxi

  Modoc War

  Monahsetah (Young Grass That Shoots in the Spring; Meotzi), 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1

  Monitor

  Monroe, Mich., 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1

  Custer family in, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 15.1, 15.2

  Custer’s friends from, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 12.1, 15.1

  social class in, 5.1, 6.1

  Monroe Commercial, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 9.1

  Montana Territory, prf.1, 12.1, 15.1

  Monterey Pass

  Morgan, Anna Brewster, 12.1, 12.2

  Morgan, J. P.

  Morphy, Paul

  Morrill, Henry L., 9.1, 9.2, 10.1

  Morrison, James, 1.1, 1.2

  Morrissey, John, 13.1, 13.2

  Morton, Bliss & Co.

  Morton, Levi P., 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  Morton, Samuel George

  Mosby, John Singleton, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2

  Moylan, Myles, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, epl.1

  Mueller, James E.

  murder:

  act of war vs.

  GAC charged with

  by Ku Klux Klan, 14.1

  by Native Americans, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  muskets, 4.1, 4.2

  mutiny, 9.1, 15.1

  of volunteers

  Myers, Edward, 12.1, 12.2

  Myers, Jasper

  “My Life on the Plains” (G. A. Custer), 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

  Namozine Church

  Nantes, Edict of

  Naohavose (Bear Butte)

  Napoleon III, emperor of France

  Napoleon Bonaparte, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Nasby, Petroleum V. (David Locke)

  Nashville, Tenn.

  Nast, Thomas, 10.1, 16.1

  Nation, 14.1, 14.2

  National Hotel, 7.1, 9.1

  National Intelligencer

  National Union Party, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  National Woman Suffrage Association

  Native Americans:

  accommodationist stance of, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  agencies for, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4

  appearance of, 11.1, 11.2

  atrocities committed by, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1, epl.1

  betrayal of, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2

  captives taken by, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 14.1

  captured, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1

  civil rights issue of, 10.1, 13.1

  current state of

  in Dakota Territory, 15.1, 15.2

  displacement of, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1

  dispossession and conquest of, prf.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

  eradication of culture of, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1

  GAC’s writing about

  Grant’s Peace Policy for

  Little Bighorn as turning point for

  massacres of, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 16.1

  militant stance of, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1

  nomadic culture of, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1

  as outside of American culture

  peace conference with

  prejudice against, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2

  surrender of, 12.1, 12.2

  “treaty” and “non-treaty,”

  tribal names of

  tribal warfare among, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1

  U.S. government policy toward, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2

  various societies of

  warfare with, see Indian conflicts and wars

  see also specific tribes

  Nauman, George, 1.1, 1.2

  Nebraska, 1.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1

  nepotism, 4.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1

  Nettleton, Alvred B., 12.1, 15.1

  Newark, Ohio

  New Bridge, skirmish at

  Newby’s Crossroads (Battle Mountain), clash at

  New Jersey, 2.1, 15.1

  New Market, Ohio

  New Mexico Territory, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1

  New Orleans, La., 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 15.1

  race riot in, 10.1, 12.1

  Newport, R.I.

  New Rumley, Ohio, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 13.1

  newspapers, 14.1, 14.2, epl.1

  erroneous reports in

  GAC denounced in, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2

  GAC mocked in

  GAC praised in, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 16.1

  GAC’s criticism of court-martial in, 12.1, 16.1

  hunt for Don Juan in

  military expeditions covered by, 16.1, 16.2

  partisan political role of, 3.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1

  sensationalist

  see also specific publications

  New Year traditions:

  Libbie and Nettie’s tradition of, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 12.1

  in Washington

  New York, N.Y., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2

  Custers’ honeymoon trip to

  customs collector for

  financial scene in, 13.1, 16.1

  GAC’s stays in, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2

  Libbie’s widowhood in

  literary scene in, 14.1, 16.1

  modernity of, 6.1, epl.1

  patrician society in, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 12.1, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2

  political scene in, 3.1, 12.1, 16.1

  social scene in, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 16.1

  New York & Harlem Railroad

  New York Central & Hudson River Railroad

  New York Central Railroad, 6.1, 13.1

  New York Herald, 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7

  New York Life

  New York Observer and Chronicle

  New York State, 1.1, 4.1, 13.1

  New York Stock Exchange, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1

  New York Times, prf.1, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4

  New York Tribune, 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1

  New York World, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1

  Niblo’s Garden theater, 4.1, 6.1, 11.1, 13.1

  Nims, Fred, 8.1, 9.1, 15.1<
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  Nomad (GAC’s pseudonym), 11.1, 12.1

  North:

  Confederate campaign into, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

  military superiority of

  racial attitudes in, 3.1, 9.1, 14.1, 14.2

  North American Review, 14.1, 14.2

  Northern Pacific Railroad, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8, 16.1

  Northfield, Minn.

  North Platte River, 15.1, 16.1

  Northwest Ordinance

  Norvell, Edwin

  Nott, Josiah

  Nuremberg trials

  “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An” (Bierce)

  O’Conor, Charles

  Oglala Lakotas, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2

  Ohio, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, epl.1, epl.2

  Ohio River

  Ojibwe tribe

  Oklahoma

  “Old Major Explains, The” (Harte)

  Omaha, Nebr., 11.1, 15.1

  Omahas

  Onondaga, N.Y.

  Opequon Creek

  Oregon Trail

  Orr, James L.

  Osages, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 13.1, 15.1, epl.1

  Osborn, Charles J.

  Osceola

  Overland Campaign, 7.1, 8.1, 14.1

  Overland Mail route

  Owen County, Ky., 14.1, 14.2

  Pacific Mail Steamship Company

  Paget, Berkeley

  Paige, Nathaniel

  Palmer House hotel, 16.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3

  Pamunkey River

  panics, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2

  paper money

  Parker, Ely S., 8.1, 13.1, 16.1

  Parker, James P.

  Parsons, Charles C., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5

  Partisan Rangers, 5.1, 8.1

  par value, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1

  patronage system, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

  weakening and reduction of

  see also nepotism

  Paul, E. A.

  Pawnee Fork, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  Pawnee Killer, 11.1, 11.2

  Pawnees, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 15.2, epl.1

  Payne, George

  Peace Commission (1867)

  peace pipe ritual, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1

  Peace Policy

  Pelham, John

  Peninsula Campaign, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 12.1, 16.1

  Pennington, Alexander, 1.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1

  Pennsylvania, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 11.1, 16.1, epl.1

  Pennsylvania Railroad

  Pennsylvania Reserves

  Petersburg, Va., siege at, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  petroglyphs

  Petroleum and Mining Board

  Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

  Phelps, William, 15.1, 15.2

  Philadelphia, Pa., 3.1, 10.1, 15.1

  Centennial Exhibition in

  National Union convention in

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 2.1, 5.1

  phrenology

  pickets

  Pickett, George, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1

  Pickett’s Charge, 4.1, 4.2

  Pierce, Robert H., 5.1, 5.2

  Pierce, William

  Piermont, N.Y.

  Pierrepont, Edwards

  Pinkerton, Allan, 3.1, 3.2

  Plains Apaches, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2

  plantation system

  Platte, Department of the

  Platte River, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2

  Pleasonton, Alfred, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1

  plebes:

  “devilment” of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1

  political pressure on

  “pledge” (temperance), 2.1, 5.1

  Pocahontas

  politics:

  African American involvement in

  bureaucracy of

  in Civil War policy, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1

  corruption in

  divisive

  GAC’s involvement in, prf.1, 1.1, 3.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, epl.1

  polygenism

  Pompey’s Pillar

  Pope, John, 3.1, 4.1

  popular sovereignty, 1.1, 1.2

  Porter, Fitz-John, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5

  Potawatomis

  Potomac River, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 9.1

  Powder River

  Presbyterian Church, Monroe, 6.1, 8.1

  Presbyterians, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

  Price, Robert Newton

  prisoners of war, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5

  E. Brown as, 7.1, 7.2

  paroled, 3.1, 3.2

  Pry, Philip

  Puget Sound

  “put,”

  Putnam, George Palmer

  Putnam’s Monthly, 14.1, 14.2

  Quakers

  quantitative easing

  race riots

  racism, prf.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7

  see also white supremacy

  “Raid, The” (Tolstoy)

  Railroad Gazette

  railroads, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1

  corporate structure of, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2

  default of

  federal support for

  stocks

  transcontinental, prf.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4

  travel by

  western expansion of, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3

  see also specific lines

  Rain in the Face

  Raisin River, 2.1, epl.1

  Ramseur, Stephen, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  rape:

  of African American women, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1

  by military

  by Native Americans, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  stereotype of African Americans in, 11.1, 11.2

  Rapidan River, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

  Rappahannock County, Va., 5.1, 5.2

  Rappahannock River, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2

  Rawlins, John A., 12.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4

  Raymond, Henry J., 10.1, 16.1

  rebel yell

  Reconstruction:

  army in, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, epl.1

  civil rights in

  ideals of

  opposition to, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1

  political battle over, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 12.1, 12.2

  rights denied to African Americans in, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 14.1, 16.1

  Reconstruction Act (1867), 12.1, 14.1, 14.2

  Red Bead

  Red Cloud, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1

  Red Jacket

  Red Nose

  Redpath Lyceum Bureau

  Red River, 9.1, 12.1

  Red River War (1874–1875)

  Reed, David, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 9.1

  Reed, Emma

  Reed, Harry Armstrong “Autie,” 16.1, epl.1, epl.2

  Reed, Lydia Ann “Ann,” 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 14.1, 16.1

  GAC’s correspondence with, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  Register of Delinquencies

  Reid, Whitelaw

  Reno, Marcus A., 13.1, 16.1

  at Little Bighorn, epl.1, epl.2

  Reno, Mary

  Reno, Robert

  Reno’s Creek (Sundance Creek)

  Republican Party, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7, epl.1

  A. Johnson vs., 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2

  antislavery stance of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1
/>   ascendancy of, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1

  formation of

  Free Labor policy of, prf.1, 14.1

  in Michigan, 4.1, 4.2

  in Mississippi

  Radical, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1

  Reconstruction policy of, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 14.1, 14.2

  Republican River, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 13.1

  reservations, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, epl.1

  Reynolds, Charley

  Reynolds, Joseph

  Rhode Island

  Rice, Elliott

  Richardson, Heather Cox

  Richardson, Israel B.

  Richardson, William

  Richmond, Rebecca, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2

  Richmond, Va. (Confederate capital), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2

  Richmond and York River Railroad

  Riley, D. L.

  Rio Grande

  Ristori, Adelaide

  Roanoke (horse), 4.1, 4.2

  Roberts, William Milnor

  Rochester, N.Y.

  Rockefeller, John D.

  Rockingham County

  Rocky Mountains

  Rogers, A. J.

  Roman Nose

  Romero, Raphael, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4

  Roosevelt, Robert

  Rorabaugh, W. J.

  Rosa, Joseph

  Rosebud River

  battle at, epl.1, epl.2

  Rosedale

  Rosser, Thomas, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4

  Rothschilds

  Round Top Mountian

  Rowland, Thomas

  Royal, William B.

  Running Antelope

  Russell, William

  Russia, Russians

  Ryerson, Peter M., 1.1, 1.2

  Sage, Russell

  St. Louis, Mo., 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  St. Louis Democrat

  St. Paul, Minn., 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1

  Saline River, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 13.2

  San Antonio, Tex

  Sanborn, John B.

  Sand Creek Massacre, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  Sandusky Register, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1

  San Francisco, Calif., 11.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2

  San Francisco Chronicle

  Sans Arc Lakotas, 15.1, 15.2

  Santee tribe (Dakotas), 9.1, 15.1, 15.2

  Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), 16.1, 16.2

  Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  Satanta, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1

  Savage’s Station

  Sayler’s Creek (Sailor’s Creek), Battle of

  scalpings, 11.1, 15.1, 16.1, epl.1

  Schaff, Morris, map.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6

  Schell, Augustus, 10.1, 13.1, 16.1

  Schofield, John M.

  Schuyler, Montgomery

  science of race

  Scofield, David

 

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