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

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by Stiles, T. J.

Scott, Thomas A.

  Scott, Walter

  Scott, Winfield, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 9.1

  scurvy, 11.1, 11.2

  Sears, Stephen W., 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  Sebastopol Sketches, The (Tolstoy)

  secession:

  of Southern states, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 8.1, 9.1

  threat of

  as treason

  secessionists

  pardons for

  Second Great Awakening

  segregation

  Seip, Robert C., 16.1, 16.2

  Seligman, Joseph

  Seminole War (1836–1838)

  Senate, U.S., 2.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2

  in confirmation debate over Custer’s promotion, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  impeachment trial in, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  Military Affairs Committee

  Senecas, 8.1, 13.1, 16.1

  Sevastopol

  7th Cavalry, U.S. Army, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1

  at Little Bighorn, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3, epl.4

  Seven Days’ Battles, 3.1, 5.1

  Seward, William Henry, 1.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  sexuality:

  in Custers’ marriage, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 15.1

  of GAC, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 5.1, 10.1, 12.1

  in GAC’s alleged infidelity, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2

  in nineteenth-century mores, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 12.1, 13.1

  at West Point, 1.1, 6.1

  Seymour, Horatio

  Sharpsburg, Va., 3.1, 3.2

  Sheldon, Isaac

  Sheldon & Company

  shells, 2.1, 2.2

  Shenandoah Valley, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 12.1

  Sheridan, Philip, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1

  GAC favored by, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1, 16.1

  in Indian conflicts, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5

  in Texas expedition, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 12.1

  Sherman, John, 10.1, 14.1

  Sherman, William T., 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

  in Indian conflicts and wars, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, epl.1

  Shiloh, Battle of, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 15.1, 16.1

  Shirt Wearers

  short selling, 16.1, 16.2

  Shoshones

  Shreveport, La., 9.1, 9.2

  signal smokes

  sign language

  Sihasapa Lakotas (Blackfeet)

  Sioux, 1.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5

  historical perspective of

  unceded territory of

  see also specific tribes

  Sioux City Journal

  Sioux Uprising (1862), 10.1, 15.1

  Sitting Bull, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, epl.1

  Skiffe’s Creek

  slave rebellion, Civil War as

  slavery:

  in basis of Civil War, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1

  in Caribbean

  conditions of, 5.1, 6.1

  end of, prf.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1

  evolving sentiment against

  families parted by, 5.1, 9.1, 11.1

  GAC’s ambivalent stance toward, prf.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1

  GAC’s evolving view of

  Lincoln’s dilemma over, 3.1, 3.2

  in Native American culture

  in western expansion, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1

  slaves, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1

  considered to be sub-human

  E. Brown as

  effect of Civil War on, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1

  effect of Emancipation Proclamation on, 3.1, 5.1

  escaped, see contrabands

  marriage, family and community life of, 5.1, 5.2

  mistreatment of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 11.2

  population of

  quarters

  self-emancipation of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2

  Slotkin, Richard, prf.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2

  Small House at Allington, The (Trollope)

  smallpox, 11.1, 15.1

  Smith, Algernon

  Smith, Andrew Jackson, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 12.1, 12.2

  Smith, Edward, 16.1, 16.2

  Smith, John, 13.1

  Smith, William F. “Baldy,”

  Smoky Hill River, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9

  Society of Decorative Arts

  Soldiers and Sailors Convention

  solid shot

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

  Some Corrections to “My Life on the Plains” (G. A. Custer)

  South:

  “chivalry” of, 4.1, 11.1, 14.1

  in Civil War, see Confederate States of America

  GAC’s sympathies with, prf.1, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 14.1, 16.1

  postwar discrimination in

  slave-based economy of

  South, Department of the, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2

  South Canadian River, 12.1, 12.2

  South Carolina, 1.1, 4.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 16.1

  secession of

  Southern Hotel, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2

  Southern Plains War (1868–1869)

  Southern Relief Organization fair

  South Mountain, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1

  Spain, New World colonization by

  Spanish-American War

  “Special Report to the Department of Justice on Outrages in Kentucky,”

  Spencer rifle, Spencer carbine, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 11.1

  Spiker’s Hill

  Spirit of Old West Point, The (Schaff)

  spiritualism, 10.1, 15.1

  Spotsylvania Court House, battle at, 7.1, 7.2

  Spotted Tail, 15.1, 16.1

  Spotts, David

  Sprague, Kate

  Sprague, William

  Springfield Mo.

  Stahel, Julius

  Standing Rock agency

  Stanley, David S., 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1

  Stanley, Henry Morton, 11.1, 16.1

  Stanton, Edwin M., 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

  “Star of the Washita,”

  states’ rights, federal government vs., 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1, 16.1

  steamboats, steamships, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1

  Stedman, Edmund C.

  Steubenville, Ohio

  Stevens, Thad, 10.1, 10.2

  Stevensburg, Va., 6.1, 6.2

  Stevens Lode Silver Mine, GAC’s investment in, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1, 16.1

  stock market:

  in corporate economy, 13.1, 15.1

  GAC’s involvement with

  GAC’s personal investment in, 13.1, 13.2

  GAC’s speculation in, prf.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1

  manipulation and corruption in, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2

  panic and crisis in

  political influence of, 10.1, 16.1

  railroad speculation in

  women in

  Stone, William M.

  Stone Calf

  Stoneman, George, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1

  Stover, George

  Strong, George

  Strong, George Templeton, 7.1, 8.1

  Stuart, J. E. B., 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

  Sturgis, Samuel D., 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, epl.1

  Sully, Alfred, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  Sully,
Thomas

  Summers, Mark Wahlgren

  Summit Springs, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1

  Sumner, Charles, 10.1, 16.1, 16.2

  Sumner, Edwin “Bull,”

  sun dance ritual

  Supreme Court, U.S., 9.1, 16.1

  Swearengen, Ellis Albert

  Sweeney, James

  Sweet Medicine

  Sweetwater Creek, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1

  Swett, Laura, 16.1, 16.2

  Swett, Leonard

  Swett, Leonard Herbert “Bert,” 16.1, 16.2

  “Swing Around the Circle” tour, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 16.1

  Taft, Alphonso, 16.1, 16.2

  Tall Bull, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2

  Tammany Hall, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1

  Taney, Roger B., 9.1, 16.1

  Tappan, Samuel F.

  Taylor, Nathaniel G.

  Taylor, Richard

  Tecumseh

  telegraph, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4

  temperance movement

  Ten Bears

  Tennessee, 8.1, 16.1

  Tenting on the Plains (E. B. Custer), 11.1, epl.1

  Tenure of Office Act (1867), 12.1, 12.2

  tepee, as GAC’s trophy of war

  Terrail, Pierre

  Terry, Alfred H., 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3, epl.4, epl.5

  Teton Sioux, see Lakotas

  Texas, 1.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, epl.1

  de facto slavery in, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1

  emancipation in

  Panhandle, 12.1, 16.1

  secession of

  Texas, Department of

  Texas expedition, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1

  GAC’s cruel command and discipline in, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1

  Texas Longhorns

  theater, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1

  Third Winchester, Battle of (Opequon), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  This Republic of Suffering (Faust)

  Thomas, George

  Thompson, William

  Thomson, J. Edgar

  Thurbur, Edward

  Toledo, Ohio, 4.1, 5.1, 15.1

  Tolliver, Barney

  Tolstoy, Leo, epi.1, 4.1, 11.1

  Tom’s Brook, Battle of

  Tongue River

  topographical engineers, GAC as scout for, 2.1, 15.1

  Torbert, Alfred, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

  torpedoes (hidden artillery shells)

  torture, mock executions as

  “total war” strategy

  Totten, Joseph

  Town, Charles

  trading posts

  corruption in, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4

  Travers, William R., 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1

  Traverse City, Mich.

  travois

  Treasury Department, U.S.

  Tredegar Iron Works

  Trevilian Station, Battle of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  Trollope, Anthony, 9.1, 13.1, 14.1

  Trumbull, Lyman

  tuberculosis

  Turf, Field and Farm, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5

  Tutt, Dave

  Tuttle, John H., 15.1, 15.2

  Twain, Mark, prf.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1

  Tweed, William “Boss,” 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

  Twenty-Third Street Party

  Types of Mankind (Gliddon)

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin (play)

  unemployment

  uniforms, 4.1, 11.1

  of GAC, see Custer, George Armstrong, Civil War years, unique uniform crafted by

  Union Pacific–Central Pacific railroad axis, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2

  Union Pacific Railroad, 15.1

  Eastern Division, see Kansas Pacific Railroad

  universal manhood suffrage, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2

  Upper Arkansas, District of the, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2

  Upton, Emory

  Utley, Robert M., prf.1, 6.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1

  Valley Pike

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius “Commodore,” 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7, 13.8, 15.1, 16.1

  Vanderbilt, George Washington

  Van Wormer, Nellie, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Varnum, Charles

  Vicksburg, Battle of, 7.1, 9.1

  Virginia, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1

  slavery in

  Virginia Central Railroad, 7.1, 8.1

  Volunteers, U.S., 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 15.1, 16.1

  GAC’s advancement in, 4.1, 8.1

  Massachusetts

  Michigan

  political nature of

  popular initiative for

  recruiting of

  resignations and mustering-out of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 11.1

  see also Texas expedition

  Waddell House hotel

  Wade, Benjamin

  Wainwright, Charles S.

  Wainwright, Charles W., 2.1, 3.1, 7.1

  Wallace, George D., epl.1, epl.2, epl.3

  Wall Street, see stock market

  War and Peace (Tolstoy)

  Ward, Augusta

  GAC’s correspondence with

  War Department, U.S., 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2

  Ordnance Office

  warfare:

  civilian victims of, 5.1, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4

  effect of command in

  guerrilla, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 11.1, epl.1

  horrific reality vs. romantic heroism of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 14.1

  incompetent commanders in

  mementos of

  Native American tribal, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, epl.1

  orders vs. personal responsibility in

  soldiers’ hardships in, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  thrill of battle in, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 12.1

  unjustified

  see also specific conflicts

  Warner, Charles Dudley, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1

  War of 1812, 2.1, 3.1

  Warrenton, Va.

  Washburne, Elihu B., 9.1, 10.1

  Washington, D.C., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2

  corruption and extravagance of

  Custers’ honeymoon trip to

  Custer’s testimony against Grant in

  federal government in, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2

  flag presentation ceremony in

  GAC in, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 13.1

  Libbie’s residency in, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 15.1, 16.1

  military threat to, 3.1, 8.1

  social scene in, 9.1, 16.1

  sordid atmosphere of, 7.1, 8.1

  victory celebration in, 9.1, 9.2

  Washington, George

  Washington, James B.

  Washington, Treaty of

  Washington Chronicle, 10.1, 12.1, 16.1

  Washington Star, 9.1

  Washita, Battle of the, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, epl.1

  controversies over, 12.1, epl.1

  Waterpark, Lord

  Watkins, E. C.

  Waud, Alfred

  Waynesboro, Va., battle at

  Way We Live Now, The (Trollope)

  Webb, Thomas

  Weir, Thomas B., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, epl.1, epl.2

  Welles, Gideon, 10.1, 10.2

  Wells, T. M.

  Wells, William, 8.1, 8.2

  Wells Fargo stage line

  Wert, Jeffry, prf.1, 12.1

  West:

  African Americans in

  Civil War in, 2.1, 3.1
, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1

  expansion into and settlement of, 1.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2

  frontier anarchy and violence in

  political battle for, 1.1, 1.2

  post–Civil War army in, 10.1, 11.1

  West, Elliott, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  West, Robert M., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4

  Western Union

  West Point, U.S. Military Academy at:

  campus at

  Custers’ honeymoon trip to

  effect of secession on

  GAC’s appointment to and enrollment at, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4

  GAC’s court-martial at, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1

  GAC’s education at, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1

  GAC’s friendships formed at, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1

  GAC’s poor academic standing at, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2

  GAC’s statue at

  GAC’s transgressions at, prf.1, prf.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 12.1

  graduates of, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1

  internal hierarchy of, 1.1, 1.2

  military training at, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 4.1

  temperance “pledge” at

  Wharton, Edith

  Wharton, G. C.

  Whig party, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 16.1

  Whiskey Ring

  White, Richard, 15.1, 15.2

  White, Sarah, 12.1, 12.2

  White Bull

  White Horse, 11.1, 11.2

  White House, 7.1, 9.1

  White House Landing

  White Oak Swamp

  white supremacy, prf.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4

  Whitley, Hiram C.

  Whittaker, Frederick, 4.1, 8.1, epl.1, epl.2

  whooping cough

  Wichita Mountains, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  Wigwam hall

  Wilderness, Battle of the, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 14.1

  Wild West show, 15.1, epl.1

  Wilkinson, Morton

  Williams, George H., 10.1, 10.2

  Williamsburg, Battle of, 2.1, 3.1, 11.1

  Williamsburg, Va.

  Wilmington, N.C.

  Wilson, Edmund

  Wilson, Henry

  Wilson, James H., 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 11.1

  Wilson, William

  Winans, Frazey M., 4.1, 6.1

  Winchell, Newton, 16.1, 16.2

  Winchester, Va., 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

  Wing, Helen and Kate

  “Winning of the West, The” (R. White)

  Wolf Soldiers

  wolves, 11.1, 13.1

  “woman question,”

  women:

  African American, 5.1, 13.1

  educational opportunities for, 4.1, 15.1

  evolving status of, prf.1, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 15.1

 

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