1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 283–84
1st Regiment, Kansas Colored Volunteers, 242
1st Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment, 342
1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 236–37, 241–42, 248, 437
Fish, Hamilton, 481, 482, 488, 492, 568
Fisher, David, 3
Fisk, James “Jubilee Jim,” 477–80
Fitch, Thomas, 549
Fitzhugh, George, 157
Five Forks, Battle of, 360–61
Florida, 166, 178, 185, 187, 233, 397, 435–37, 445–47, 497–98, 578–79, 580
Floyd, John B., 183, 184
Foner, Eric, 383
Foote, Henry S., 19, 50, 54, 112
Foote, Shelby, 280
Forbes, Edwin, 218
Forbes, Hugh, 131–32
Forbes, John Murray, 436, 443
Ford’s Theatre, 368, 370, 373, 379
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 298, 311–15, 328, 422, 446, 559–62, 589
Fort Baxter, 330
Fort Bridger, 110
Fort Cobb, 541
Fort Corcoran, 206
Fort Donelson, 231, 253
Fort Fetterman, 547
Fort Fisher, 352, 358
Fort Harker, 540
Fort Hays, 511, 540
Fort Henry, 231, 253
Fort Kearny, 511
Fort Laramie, 557
Fort Laramie Treaty (1868), 536, 552
Fort Lyon, 531, 532
Fort Moultrie, 182–84, 192, 236
Fort Phil Kearny, 534
Fort Pillow massacre (1864), 311–15, 327, 417, 422, 446, 503, 560, 561
Fortress Monroe, 224–27, 344, 352, 499
Fort Riley, 540
Fort Stedman, 360
Fort Stevens, 369
Fort Sumter, 19, 55, 182–84, 192, 199–201, 209, 210, 216, 224, 236, 250, 255, 262, 285, 312, 343, 377, 395, 407, 430, 514, 579
Fort Wagner, 247, 248–49, 284, 311, 435
45th Regiment U.S. Colored Troops, 346
“4th Missouri Cavalry,” 367. See also Quantrill, William Clarke
Fourteenth Amendment, 421, 438, 444, 453–54, 467, 490, 492, 499, 537–38, 576, 584–85, 592
Fowler, Lorenzo, 143
Fox, George, 41
Fox, Kate, 38–40, 41, 42, 103, 132
Fox, Leah, 38–39
Fox, Maggie, 38–40, 41, 42, 84, 103, 132
France, 60, 61, 63, 234–35, 354–55, 523
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 164, 214, 215, 225, 423
Franklin, Battle of, 357–58
Franklin, Benjamin, 41, 100
Franklin, John, 84
Frederick Douglass’ Paper, 126
Fredericksburg, Battle of, 258–61, 264, 266, 267, 274, 287, 311, 395
Freedmen’s Bureau, U.S., 11, 345–46, 386, 394–96, 399, 400, 401, 404–5, 406, 416, 419–20, 436–37, 438, 440, 497, 544, 550
Freedmen’s Bureau Act (1865), 345–46, 420
Freedmen’s Memorial Monument, 592
Freedmen’s Savings Bank, 400, 405
Free Flag of Cuba, The (Pickens), 36
“free love,” 465, 468–73
Freeport Doctrine, 118–20, 127
Free Soil movement, 10, 28, 44, 58, 66, 67, 73–76, 87–88, 90, 93–98, 132, 486
Fremon, Anne Beverley Whiting Pryor, 85
Fremon, Jean-Charles, 85
Frémont, Jessie Benton, 85–86, 228
Frémont, John C., 85–87, 89, 107, 227–29, 233, 234, 236, 310, 311, 317, 432–33, 448, 456, 520
French Geographical Society, 523
Frugal Housewife, The (Child), 143
Fugitive Slave Act (1850), 26, 33–34, 35, 44, 46, 56, 58, 59, 72, 136, 159, 166, 169, 177, 186, 191, 225, 243, 310, 425
Fuller, Margaret, 43, 71, 256, 318, 463
Fullerton, James, 401, 404–5
Fullerton, Joseph S., 416
Fulton, Robert, 100
Galaxy, 488–89
Gale, George, 507
Gallery of Illustrious Americans, The (Brady), 41
gangrene, 272, 378
Gardiner, James Terry, 512, 516
Gardner, Alexander, 163, 218–19, 243, 273–74, 311, 379, 382, 510, 521
Garfield, James A., 304, 442, 470, 490–91, 504, 580, 561, 582, 590
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 131
Garner, George, 475–76
Garner, Margaret, 326
Garnet, Henry Highland, 129
Garrett, Richard, 374
Garrison, William Lloyd, 27, 39, 53, 72, 79–80, 87, 88, 125, 126, 136, 181–82, 230, 244, 246, 302, 303, 323, 325, 383, 447, 459, 464, 501, 546, 570, 586, 587
Gatling guns, 216, 496, 552
Gayle, John, 50
General Amnesty Act (1872), 501
General Order No. 11, 329
General Order No. 14, 359
General Order No. 28, 224
General Order No. 38, 287
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, U.S., 525
Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel, U.S., 516–23
George III, king of England, 499
Georgia, 27, 32, 73, 75, 95, 123, 124, 154, 166, 167, 169, 178, 182, 233, 247, 332, 335, 351, 356, 379, 395, 397, 398, 400, 405, 407, 408, 446–47, 475, 563–64, 572, 573, 588–89
Georgia Central Railroad, 336
German Americans, 213, 263, 308, 407
Gettysburg, Battle of, 11, 211, 268, 272–80, 290, 294–95, 298, 311, 335, 340, 388, 395, 407, 432, 435, 529, 574
Gholson, Thomas S., 356, 358
Gibbon, John, 554
Gibson, James, 218
Giddings, Joshua, 4, 39, 50, 67–68
Gilded Age, 308, 458, 507, 552
Gilded Age, The (Twain and Warner), 308, 507
Gillmore, Quincy Adams, 248–49
Gilmore, James R., 239, 321–22
Gladstone, William, 481
Gleason, Frederick, 214
Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, 214
Globe, 87
Gloucester, James N., 130
Godkin, Edwin L., 434, 500
gold, 26, 71, 85, 86, 227, 433, 444, 458, 477–80, 512, 525–26, 552, 557, 583
Golden Spike, 433
Gold Exchange Bank, 479–80
Gonzales, Ambrosio José, 18–19, 22, 199–200
Goodell, William, 173
Gordon, George H., 436, 447
Gordon, John B., 360, 363, 364, 365
Gorgas, Josiah, 352
Gorsuch, Dickinson, 57
Gorsuch, Edward, 55–57
Gould, Jay, 477–80, 491–92
Goupil Gallery, 508
Graham’s Magazine, 214
“Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Circus,” 489
Grant, Julia, 479–80
Grant, Orvil, 554
Grant, Ulysses S., 11, 42, 215, 231, 245, 275, 280–84, 290, 292, 293, 299, 318–19, 328, 335, 338, 339, 340–41, 342, 343, 348, 351, 352, 358, 359–60, 361, 363–66, 369, 374, 380, 387, 423, 429, 439, 441, 443, 445, 448–49, 462, 476, 477–505, 506, 522, 529, 533, 540, 542–45, 547, 548, 550, 551, 552–53, 554, 556, 585, 650n
“Grant’s Quaker Policy,” 543
Great Britain, 15, 16, 60, 61, 63, 100, 106, 121, 123, 126, 151, 234–35, 244, 353, 354–55, 481–82, 484, 488
Great Sioux Reservation, 536, 550
Greeley, Horace, 11, 37, 39, 42, 64, 73, 87, 97, 113, 136, 143, 154, 163, 172, 206, 210, 212, 239–40, 257, 283, 317–21, 322, 435, 454, 455, 459, 469, 470, 475–76 479, 489–90, 493, 499–505, 567
Greeley, Mary, 504
Green, Shields “Emperor,” 138, 139
“greenbacks,” 309, 444, 478–79
Grier, Robert, 90
Grierson, Benjamin, 281
Griffith, D. W., 427
Grimes, James, 420, 441
guerrilla warfare, 131, 137, 138–39, 227, 247–48, 385
Gulf States, 285, 407, 412
Gurle
y, R. R., 7
habeas corpus, writ of, 254, 288, 308, 310–11, 378, 443, 490–92
Hagood, Johnson, 249
Hahn, Michael, 415, 416
Haiti, 4, 63, 484–86
Hale, Edward, 288
Hale, John, 50, 54, 181, 186, 198
Hall, Benjamin, 243–44
Halleck, Henry W., 211–12, 237–38, 245, 279–80, 283, 311, 332, 336
Hallowell, Norwood Penrose, 246
Halstead, Murat, 493
Hamburg, S.C., 562–65, 568–69, 572, 573, 574, 575, 576, 579
Hamilton, Alexander, 327
Hamilton, Gail, 163–64
Hamlin, Hannibal, 185, 304, 316–17, 414
Hampton, Wade, 337, 574–78, 582–83, 589–90, 591
Hampton Roads Conference (1865), 352–53, 383
Hampton’s Legion, 574
Hanway, Castner, 57
Harding, Rebecca, 269–71, 310
Harper, Frances Watkins, 454–55
Harper’s Bazaar, 472
Harpers Ferry raid (1859), 20, 130–32, 138–48, 157, 161, 166, 186, 392
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 160, 522, 551
Harper’s Weekly, 107, 151, 164, 203, 214–15, 219, 229, 264, 269, 271, 423, 489, 567, 572–73
Harrison’s Landing, 232
Harte, Bret, 388, 521, 529
Havana, Cuba, 23, 24, 62
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42–44, 47, 48, 49, 51, 71, 88, 146–47, 163, 172, 231, 255, 256, 257, 270, 327, 379, 426, 433, 457
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 35–36, 48, 88, 146
Hay, John, 119, 128, 202, 243, 299–300, 301, 308, 320, 512–13, 527
Hayden, Lewis, 246
Hayes, Rutherford B., 578–90, 665n
Hayne, Paul, 575
Hazen William B., 541
Headley, Joel, 336
Hearn, Lafcadio, 560
Heavy Runner, 545
Helper, Hinton, 155–56, 157, 159, 161, 172, 182, 252, 525
Henderson, John, 22, 305
Henry, Patrick, 221
Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare), 319
Herndon, William, 162
Herold, David, 374–75
Herrick, Anson, 343–44
Heth, Henry, 275, 276
Heth, Joice, 77
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 35, 39, 49–50, 88, 93, 131, 142–43, 180, 223, 233, 241–42, 247–48, 358, 437, 464, 465, 563, 573
“higher law,” 31–33, 42, 43, 48, 49, 55, 64, 65, 73, 81, 83, 91, 128, 134, 136, 160–61, 186, 189, 194, 239–40, 244, 256, 348, 468–69, 592
Hill, Ambrose P., 232, 258, 275–76, 277, 360
Hill, Daniel H., 232, 258
Hillen, John F. E., 215
Hilton Head, S.C., 236, 246, 401
Hindman, Thomas C., Jr., 156–59, 330, 331–32, 333, 356
Hindman, Thomas C., Sr., 158
History of the Condition of Women, The (Child), 143
Hobomok (Child), 143
Hofstadter, Richard, 303
Holcombe, James, 320
Holden, William, 397, 497
Holmes, Isaac, 5–6
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 319, 326, 369, 425, 508
Holt, Joseph, 375, 377, 378
Homer, Winslow, 215–16
Homestead Act, 176, 179, 431
homesteaders, 74–76, 93–98, 124, 130, 170, 176, 179, 431, 516
Hood, John Bell, 335–36, 337, 357
Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 47, 466–67
Hooker, Joseph “Fighting Joe,” 210–11, 257, 267, 274, 275, 299, 395
“Horatius at the Bridge” (Macaulay), 357–58
Horton, Reverend Dr., 413, 414
Hospital Sketches (Alcott), 261
House of Representatives, U.S., 1–11, 27, 28, 50–51, 55, 61, 88, 95–96, 97, 98, 123, 155, 159, 167, 177, 227–28, 285–86, 305, 315, 343–46, 419, 422, 425, 439–40, 467, 475, 544, 550, 571, 580–81, 582, 592, 647n
Appropriations Committee of, 425
Judiciary Committee of, 467, 475
Military Defense Committee of, 227–28
Reconstruction Committee of, 315
Ways and Means Committee of, 425
see also Congress, U.S.
House of the Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne), 40, 42, 379
Houston, Sam, 171, 178–79, 327
Howard, Oliver Otis, 386, 394–96, 550
Howe, George, 153, 154
Howe, Julia Ward, 51, 464, 471
Howe, Samuel Gridley, 51, 131, 142
Howell, Rufus K., 412, 416
Howells, William Dean, 265, 520, 580, 583
Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson, 517
Hunkpapa Sioux Indians, 545, 548
Hunt, Jane, 41
Hunter, David, 233–37, 239, 241, 242, 246, 256, 303, 339, 340, 342, 377, 378
Hunter, Robert M. T., 65, 219–20, 254, 344, 352, 353
Huntington, Collis, 491–92
Hurlbert, William Henry, 207–8, 212
Hutchings, James Mason, 507–8
Hutchings’ Illustrated California Magazine, 507–8
Hutchinson Family Singers, 230
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 515
“Hymn of Liberty” (Whittier), 230
Illinois, 68–69, 81, 104–6, 107, 111–20, 136, 325–26, 433–34
Illinois Central Railroad, 206
Illinois Staats Anzeiger, 213
immigration, 88, 123, 137, 150, 213, 263, 291, 308, 386–87, 407, 415, 591
Impartial Citizen, 35
Impending Crisis of the South, The (Helper), 155, 156, 157, 159, 172, 525
Impressment Act (1863), 268
Independent, 314, 457, 465, 471
Indiana, 468–69, 488
Indian Appropriations Act (1871), 542
Indian Peace Commission, 534–36, 542
“Indian Ring,” 535, 550
Indian Wars, 529–58, 583
Inspector of Settlements and Plantations in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, 393–96
Interior Department, U.S., 536, 544
Irish Americans, 123, 150, 291, 308, 386–87, 415
ironclad warships, 215, 216, 252
Iroquois Indians, 543–44
Iverson, Alfred, 181
Jackson, Andrew, 40–41, 44, 58, 60, 77, 166, 179, 181, 238, 317, 327, 396, 510, 574
Jackson, Claiborne Fox, 74
Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 147, 205, 222, 232, 251–52, 256–57, 258, 259, 267–68, 276, 339, 392, 395
Jacobin Club, 308
Jacobs, Harriet, 39, 328, 592
James, Alice, 434, 435, 514
James, Garth Wilkinson “Wilkie,” 246, 249, 435–37, 445–47, 449, 514, 565–66, 649n
James, Henry, Jr., 47, 78, 131, 304, 434, 435, 514, 649n
James, Henry, Sr., 234, 246, 469, 649n
James, Robertson “Bob,” 435–36, 447, 514, 649n
James, William, 435, 514, 649n
Jaquess, James, 321
Jay Cooke & Co., 551
“jayhawkers,” 328, 330, 331, 532
Jefferson, Thomas, 26–27, 66, 189, 201, 221, 492, 542
Jesup, Morris K., 472
Jesus Christ, 102, 103, 128, 421–22
Jews, 253–54, 291, 477, 543
Joan of Arc, 304
Job, Book of, 7
“John Brown’s Body,” 202–3, 349, 388
Johnson, Andrew, 122, 165, 179, 300, 316–17, 347, 370, 373, 374, 378–79, 381–82, 386, 487, 542
Johnson, Herschel, 166, 174
Johnson, Reverdy, 377
Johnson, William Henry, 163
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 110–11, 253, 275
Johnston, Joseph E., 279, 281, 282, 335, 360, 364, 369, 375, 381, 385, 388, 575
Jones, Iredell, 249
Jones, John, 130
Jones, Thomas L., 557
Julian, George W., 384
Justice Department, U.S., 491–92, 585
Kane, Elisha Kent, 84
Kane, Thomas L., 110
“Kansas Emigrants, The” (Child), 143
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), 65–76, 81, 88, 97, 112, 433–34, 498
Kansas Territory, 11, 65–76, 79, 81, 84, 88, 89, 93–98, 101, 102, 108, 112, 113, 115, 122, 124, 128, 129, 131, 132, 137, 144, 153, 176, 242, 308, 328–29, 433–34, 447, 455–60, 464, 486, 498, 532, 538, 539, 540, 573
Kautz, August V., 377
Kearney, Stephen Watts, 86
Kearney Herald, 534
Kelley, William, 426
Kellogg, William Pitt, 569, 571
Kemble, Fanny, 460
Kennedy, John F., 588
Kenner, Duncan F., 354–55, 356, 415–16
Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of, 335
Kentucky, 25, 166, 200, 234, 243, 310, 326, 367, 369, 405
Key, Francis Scott, 326
Key, Philip Barton, 326
Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 54
“Kidnap Act,” 35
King, Clarence, 11, 511–28, 549, 659n
King, Ronald F., 665n
King, Thomas Starr, 86, 508, 510
Kintpuash (Captain Jack), 550–51
Kiowa Indians, 530, 538
Kirtland, Ohio, 103–4, 106
Kirtland Safety Society, 103
Klamath Indians, 550
Kline, Henry H., 56–57
Knickerbocker Fire Company, 101
Knights of the Golden Circle, 289, 290
Know-Nothings, 88, 89, 137, 155, 158, 159, 167, 308
Kossuth, Louis, 71
Ku Klux Klan, 446–47, 482, 489–92, 494, 495, 497–98, 499, 502, 503, 517, 560, 563, 571
Ku Klux Klan Act (1871), 490–92, 502
Ladies’ Gunboat Societies, 266
Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de, 6
Lakota Sioux Indians, 555
Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, II, 573, 582, 587, 588–91
land grants, 97–98, 121–23, 124, 176
Lane, James, 242
Lane, Joseph, 166–67
Larcom, Lucy, 152
Las Mariposas gold mines, 86
Lawrence, Abbot, 152–53, 155–56, 513
Lawrence, Amos, 72, 153, 167
Lawrence, D. H., 327
Lawrence, Kansas Territory, 75, 76, 328–29, 330
Lawrence, Mass., 149–58, 159, 160, 379, 431
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 80–84
Lecompton constitution, 93, 113, 115, 124, 132, 137
Lee, Elizabeth Blair, 214, 229, 343, 345
Lee, Robert E., 11, 19, 139, 218, 232, 238, 243, 250–51, 252, 258, 259, 263, 268, 275, 276–80, 290, 292, 314, 319, 331, 336, 338, 339, 343, 355–56, 358, 360, 361, 363–66, 382, 429, 495, 529, 540
Lee, Stephen Dill, 313–14
Leslie, Frank, 219
Letcher, John, 252, 269, 339
Leutze, Emanuel, 510
Lewis, Elijah, 57
Libby Prison, 378
Liberal Republicans, 475–76, 486, 489–90, 498–505, 510, 567, 570–71, 578, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 589, 590
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