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by Brenda Wineapple


  economics of, 16, 67, 96, 171–72, 198, 225–26, 252

  emancipation of, 18, 27–28, 39, 70, 75–76, 90, 123, 126, 129, 136, 229–30, 239, 243–45, 268, 286, 292–94, 339, 344–45, 347, 356, 370, 382, 383, 388, 392–93, 395, 398, 408, 431, 495, 487–88

  equal rights and, 55–57, 69–72, 91–92, 112, 114, 115–17, 125–27, 128, 134, 147, 167, 180, 188–90, 229, 305–6, 310–11, 314–15, 317, 334, 451

  financial compensation for, 73, 112, 114, 115–16, 117, 125–27, 178, 229–30, 243

  freed (“freedmen”), 11, 22, 55–57, 62–63, 88, 90, 111, 125–30, 132, 138–41, 154–55, 175

  fugitive or runaway, 11, 26, 27, 32, 33–34, 39, 45, 50, 51–57, 75, 76, 89–90, 130, 138, 139, 140, 178, 224–27, 237, 285–86, 296, 303, 326, 327, 328, 362

  as institution, 16, 67, 96, 171–73, 177–78, 180, 198, 252, 359–60

  insurrections of, 11, 16, 20, 37, 60, 62–63, 73, 130–32, 138–48, 170–71, 180, 182, 243, 398

  intermarriage of, 117, 143, 252, 427, 526, 527

  legality of, 69–70, 75–76, 89–92, 116–17, 126–27, 134–35, 136, 146, 186, 191

  liberty as issue in, 33–34, 70, 71–72, 76, 111–12, 126, 137, 244, 245, 301, 305–6, 310, 375

  literature on, 37, 47–50, 54, 79–80, 126, 155, 253

  lynchings of, 52, 129, 170–71, 291

  as moral and religious issue, 9–11, 26–35, 39, 42, 43, 48, 49, 52–53, 55, 59, 64, 65, 69–70, 73, 76, 81, 83, 87–88, 91, 92, 96, 114, 117, 128, 134, 136, 138–48, 160–61, 186, 189, 194, 239–40, 244, 253, 256, 296–97, 348, 425–27, 468–69, 592

  Native Americans compared with, 537–38, 545–46, 547, 551, 591

  Northern opposition to, 5–6, 20, 26, 27–35, 41, 44, 48, 50, 64, 65–71, 85, 89–98, 112–13, 122–24, 135, 136–48, 154–60, 161

  owners of, 33, 48, 51–57, 66, 74, 77, 84, 117–18, 138–40, 141, 157, 171–72, 224–29, 252, 328, 353–54, 358, 403, 406–10, 415–16, 424, 440, 494, 514

  on plantations, 16, 20, 21, 27, 135, 233, 241, 247, 253, 358

  political impact of, 20–21, 25–26, 69, 87–98, 111–27, 132–38, 156–57

  posses and vigilante gangs for, 55–57, 169–71, 225

  press coverage of, 32–33, 37, 39, 47, 52, 53, 54, 57, 64, 66, 67–68, 89, 111, 113, 126, 133, 135, 154–56, 161, 163, 169, 239, 306

  price for, 225–26

  as property, 51–57, 70, 165–66, 224–25, 268, 300, 358–60

  racism in, 48, 69, 112, 115–16, 117, 123, 154–55, 157, 180, 182, 188–90, 198, 244–45, 248–49, 284, 286, 291–92, 306, 312–13, 526, 527

  Southern support for, 4–6, 9, 15–25, 26, 27–37, 41, 44, 48, 50, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64, 65–71, 85, 88, 93–98, 112–13, 118–24, 129, 134–48, 154–60, 161, 165–71

  state legislatures and, 74–76, 84, 93–98

  in territories, 16, 26, 28, 29, 33, 34, 58, 59–60, 62, 63, 65–71, 85, 88, 89, 90, 91–98, 102, 108, 113–24, 134–35, 137, 144, 160–61, 162, 165–66, 167, 180, 182, 185, 188, 192, 198, 237, 307, 482

  Thirteenth Amendment for, 198, 305–6, 315–16, 322, 343–46, 355, 375, 383, 412, 418, 451

  trade in, 20, 26, 27, 29–30, 50, 51–55, 85, 94–95, 135, 166, 178, 225–26

  trials for, 11, 50, 51–55

  as warfare, 75–76, 113–14, 126–27, 129, 132–38, 147–48, 223–24

  white violence as basis of, 52, 55–57, 73, 74–76, 112, 114, 115–16, 117, 125–48, 170–71, 178, 229–30, 291, 325–26

  white workers compared with, 149–58, 159, 160, 171–72, 290–91

  women as, 54, 115, 117, 146, 175

  Slidell, John, 62, 122, 235, 354

  Smalley, George W., 210–11, 244

  smallpox, 248, 257, 261, 378, 545

  Smalls, Robert, 236, 566, 573, 591–92, 593

  Smith, Caleb B., 191

  Smith, Edmund Kirby, 387

  Smith, Gerrit, 126–27, 129–30, 131, 142, 310, 314, 450, 455, 464, 499

  Smith, Green Clay, 343

  Smith, James McCune, 306

  Smith, Joseph, 102, 103–6, 107, 326

  “Snow-bound: A Winter Idyll” (Whittier), 420–21, 449

  “Song of Myself” (Whitman), 433

  Soule, Silas, 532

  Soulé, Pierre, 61–63, 64

  South Carolina, 27, 75, 95, 108, 114, 166, 171–72, 173, 174–75, 178, 180–84, 187, 199–200, 233, 234, 236–37, 241–42, 245, 247, 307, 336, 337, 342–43, 351, 395, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 405, 407, 408, 432, 438, 475–76, 489–90, 491, 493, 494–95, 562–69, 572, 573, 574, 575–79, 580, 581, 582–83

  Southern Homestead Act (1866), 402

  Southern Illustrated News, 267

  Spain, 15–20, 23–24, 33, 58, 60, 61, 62–64, 407, 482

  Spangler, Edmund “Ned,” 373, 374–75, 378

  Spectator, 422

  Speed, James, 374

  Speed, Joshua, 228

  spiritualism, 38–40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 50, 84, 103, 132, 146, 165, 473

  Spotsylvania Courthouse, Battle of, 319, 326, 335

  Spotted Tail, 547

  Springfield Republican, 146, 493

  Stalwart Democrats, 567–68, 572, 577

  Stampp, Kenneth, 90, 198

  Stanford, Leland, 433

  Stanton, Edwin M., 42, 184, 212, 217, 231, 235, 241, 260, 283–84, 292, 299, 315, 326, 346, 347, 370, 377, 381, 392, 516, 517, 522, 584

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 11, 41–42, 303, 310, 343, 450–55, 457, 459–61, 463–67, 471, 473, 474, 494

  Stanton, Henry Brewster, 450

  Star of the West, 184

  “Stars and Stripes,” 157, 183, 184, 199, 224, 236, 271, 280, 412, 423, 531–32

  “Star Spangled Banner, The,” 34

  Stearns, Charles, 447

  Stearns, George Luther, 131, 142, 146, 246

  Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 202–3, 210, 217, 257, 284, 285, 469

  Steedman, James B., 404–5

  Stegner, Wallace, 86, 525–26

  Stein, Gertrude, 452, 558

  Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 96–97, 123, 124, 167, 171, 182, 188–90, 192, 198, 245, 253, 326, 344, 352, 590

  Stephens, Hampton, 564

  Stephens, John, 446

  Stevens, Thaddeus, 29, 304, 317, 418, 422, 423, 425–27, 429, 439–40, 442, 444, 467, 584

  St. Louis, Mo., 74, 227, 228, 460, 498

  St. Louis Republican, 212

  Stockton, Robert, 86

  Stone, Lucy, 451, 456–57, 459, 463–66, 469, 470, 473, 474

  Stones River, Battle of, 60, 221

  Stowe, Calvin, 47

  Stowe, Frederick, 435

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 47–50, 54, 55, 79–80, 252, 318, 327–28, 435, 470–71, 587

  Strong, George Crockett, 247, 248–49

  Strong, George Templeton, 58, 76, 79, 95, 101, 107, 140, 141–42, 147, 151, 175, 194, 208, 218, 235–36, 290, 291, 292, 301, 341, 376, 384, 438, 480, 500, 551

  Stuart, J. E. B. “Jeb,” 139, 140, 232, 276, 338

  Sumner, Charles, 53, 66, 75, 76, 84, 123, 142–43, 144, 181, 186, 247, 296, 301, 303, 304, 305–6, 307, 316, 383, 409, 418–19, 422, 423, 454, 459, 481–88, 489, 500–501, 502, 504, 506, 571, 584, 588

  Supreme Court, U.S., 4, 6, 89–91, 118, 135, 297, 301, 304, 305, 382, 443, 561, 581, 584–85, 589, 650n

  Surratt, John, 371–73

  Surratt, Mary, 372–79

  “Swing Around the Circle,” 421–22

  Switzerland of America, The (Bowles), 510–11

  Systematic Geology (King), 523

  Tammany Hall, 489

  Taney, Roger, 89–90, 133, 301, 317

  “Taps,” 478

  tariffs, 170, 180–81, 442, 476, 492, 500, 502

  taxation, 172, 286, 309, 396–97, 475, 485, 494, 566, 575, 579, 583–84

  Taylor, Zachary, 21, 22, 31, 33, 34, 41

  technology, 40–41, 99–102, 119, 216

  telegraph, 40, 99–102, 119, 433, 532–33

  temperance movement, 103, 230, 451, 452

 
; Tennessee, 32–33, 60, 77, 139, 158, 166, 179, 190, 201, 221, 245, 253, 275, 298, 300, 307, 310, 313, 317, 357–58, 405, 438, 475, 560

  Tenure of Office Act (1867), 438–43

  Terry, Alfred, 554, 556

  Texas, 16, 19, 26, 33, 166, 169, 171, 178–79, 187, 300, 325, 330, 360, 387, 397, 405, 412, 506

  Texas and Pacific Railroad, 581–82

  3rd Colorado Cavalry Regiment, 530–32

  Third Enforcement Act (1871), 490–92, 502

  3rd Louisiana Native Guards, 245–46

  3rd Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 226

  3rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 283–84

  Thirteenth Amendment, 198, 305–6, 315–16, 322, 343–46, 355, 375, 383, 412, 418, 451, 493, 499, 576, 592

  13th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, 312

  Thomas, Eleazer, 551

  Thomas, George H., 298, 299, 360

  Thomas, Lorenzo, 439

  Thoreau, Henry David, 72, 73, 78, 82–83, 85, 128, 256–57, 271, 433, 507

  Ticknor & Fields, 255

  Tiffany, Charles, 101, 102

  Tilden, Samuel J., 444, 578–82, 590, 665n

  Tilton, Elizabeth, 471–73

  Tilton, Theodore, 440–41, 453, 455, 457, 464–65, 466, 471–73, 493, 500

  Timbucto community, 129–30

  Times (London), 203, 208, 220, 346

  Timrod, Henry, 254–55, 267, 428, 429

  “Tom Thumb,” 78

  Tonawanda Reservation, 543–44

  Toombs, Robert, 29, 123, 124, 147, 166, 171, 175, 178, 182, 184, 253

  Tourgée, Albion, 446

  Towne, Laura, 400–401

  Townsend, George Alfred, 362

  Townsend, James, 225

  Train, George Francis, 457–60, 464, 466, 470, 472

  transatlantic cable, 99–102, 119

  transcendentalism, 32, 128, 256–57, 513

  transcontinental railroad, 431–32, 433, 499, 510–11, 516, 551

  Trans-Mississippi District, 330–31

  treason, 141, 157, 175, 177, 184, 199, 287–89, 302, 305, 307, 352, 370, 374–75, 384–85, 407–8, 425

  Treasury Department, U.S., 297, 309, 392, 399–400, 405, 444, 478

  treaties, Indian, 531, 533, 534, 535, 536, 542–43, 547, 548, 550, 552–53

  Treaty of Washington (1871), 488

  Tredegar Iron Works, 201, 268

  Trent affair (1861), 235, 354

  Trescot, William Henry, 403

  Trollope, Anthony, 178

  Trumbull, Lyman, 122, 305, 306, 491, 494

  Truth, Sojourner, 73, 454

  Tubman, Harriet, 130, 464

  Turner, Nat, 325

  Turner, William, 517

  Twain, Mark, 84, 308, 449, 458, 476, 507, 549

  Tweed, William M. “Boss,” 445, 476–77, 489, 502–3, 573, 580

  25th Corps (Colored) Infantry Regiment, 362

  Twenty Negro Act (1862), 254

  22nd U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment, 387

  “Two Armies, The” (Timrod), 267

  Tyler, John, 61, 200

  Tyler, Robert, 108

  Tyndale, Sarah, 82

  typhoid fever, 260, 263, 272, 334

  Ulm, Battle of, 283

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly (Stowe), 47–50, 54, 79–80, 252, 327–28, 587

  Underground Railroad, 39, 130, 136

  uniformitarianism, 523–25

  Unión, 25

  “Union Drama, Anderson and Patriots at Sumter in ’61,” 199

  Union Hotel Hospital, 259–61

  Unionism, 30–31, 33, 34–35, 71, 81, 89, 98, 112–13, 116, 123, 124, 132–38, 167, 168–69, 170, 171

  Union League, 451

  Union Pacific Railroad, 101, 102, 431 432, 433, 458, 503–4, 510, 516

  United States Indian Commission, 546

  United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 20, 36–37, 41, 60, 64

  United States Sanitary Commission (USSC), 207, 263, 273, 509, 546

  United States v. Cruikshank, 585

  Usher, John Palmer, 315

  Utah Territory, 26, 102, 106–11, 172, 433

  Utah War, 110–11

  Ute Indians, 530

  Valdés, Jerónimo, 17–18

  Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 284–88, 289, 290, 300, 422, 498

  Van Buren, Martin, 200

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 121, 432, 466, 467–68, 472, 477–78, 499

  Vanity Fair, 154

  Verdad, 37

  Very, Jones, 256

  Vicksburg, Battle of, 213, 275, 280–84, 290, 298, 332, 544

  Victoria, queen of England, 78, 100

  Villard, Henry, 203, 210, 217, 432

  Virginia, 54, 55, 73, 130, 131, 132, 138–48, 166, 171, 185, 188, 190, 199, 201, 205, 206, 209, 221, 224–27, 233, 237–38, 242–43, 245, 250–51, 310, 321, 325, 337–40, 358, 360–61, 365, 405

  Voltaire, 41

  Voorhies, Albert, 413

  Wade, Benjamin, 39, 122–23, 178, 186, 202, 297, 308, 311, 315–16, 327, 384, 427, 442, 532, 584

  Wade-Davis bill, 315–16

  Wakefield, James, 369

  Walden (Thoreau), 72, 83, 256, 433

  Walker, Francis Amasa, 536–37

  Walker, Robert J., 93, 94, 95, 96

  Walker, William, 120–22, 175

  Wallace, Lewis “Lew,” 377

  Wall Street, 466, 477–80, 551–52, 557

  Ward, Samuel Ringgold, 35

  War Democrats, 297, 305–6, 310–11, 316–17

  War Department, U.S., 209, 212, 234, 382, 438–39, 544, 546

  Warmoth, Henry Clay, 495–97, 499

  Warner, Charles Dudley, 308

  War of 1812, 216, 543

  Washington, DC, 1–11, 21, 26, 34, 50, 51–55, 79, 85, 86, 96, 178, 191, 201, 202, 203–4, 208, 210, 212–13, 216, 218, 219–20, 231, 233, 237, 238, 243, 256, 257, 260, 264–65, 271, 276, 283, 306, 340, 341, 343–46, 367–82, 384, 400, 406, 452, 489–90, 516–17, 546–47, 551, 553, 592

  Washington, George, 4, 6, 20, 41, 44, 77, 146, 221, 234, 268

  Washington Republic, 33

  Washington Union, 135

  Waterloo, Battle of, 361

  Watkins, Carleton, 507–10

  Waynesborough, Battle of, 343

  Webster, Daniel, 6, 30–31, 32, 33, 41, 51, 59, 79, 97, 187, 510

  Webster, Noah, 460

  Weed, Thurlow, 31, 32, 186

  Weekly Anglo American Magazine, 37

  Weekly Montgomery Mail, 169

  Weitzel, Godfrey, 362

  Welles, Gideon, 191, 238, 297, 315, 318, 320–21, 347, 352, 383, 387, 421, 423, 494

  Wells, J. Madison, 412, 416–17

  Welsh, William, 543, 550

  West, 11, 20, 66–67, 85–87, 103, 106–11, 155–56, 170, 176, 284–85, 286–87, 318, 431–34, 499, 500, 506–58, 583, 584, 593

  see also specific territories

  West Point, U.S. Military Academy at, 24, 206, 233, 241, 251, 257, 274, 341, 362, 391, 395, 412, 483, 516, 572

  West Virginia, 206, 269–71, 284

  “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” (Gardner), 510

  Whaley, William, 403

  Wheeler, George Montague, 659n

  Wheeler, William A., 579

  “When This Cruel War Is Over,” 255

  Whig Party, 7, 8, 21, 27, 29, 32–33, 41, 51, 59, 66, 68, 72, 87, 88, 89, 96, 97, 155, 159, 167, 174, 213

  Whistler, James McNeill, 412

  White Antelope, 532

  White Leagues, 569, 570, 571, 587

  Whitman, George, 264–65

  Whitman, Walt, 11, 36, 77, 78, 79, 80–84, 86, 92, 191, 200, 202, 205, 216, 264–65, 338, 368, 371, 376, 386, 427, 433, 476, 507, 532

  Whitney, Eli, 100

  Whitney, Josiah, 509–10, 515–16

  Whittier, John Greenleaf, 27–28, 36, 186–87, 229, 230, 311, 420–21, 449, 464–65, 501–2, 562, 575, 587

  Wigfall, Louis, 168

  Wilberforce, William, 2, 176, 296

 
Wilderness, Battle of the, 319, 529

  Wilentz, Sean, 168

  Wilkes, Charles, 235

  Wilkeson, Bayard, 211

  Wilkeson, Samuel, 210, 211

  Williamson, Hugh, 27

  Wilmot, David, 28

  Wilmot Proviso, 28

  Wilson, Edmund, 338

  Wilson, Henry, 132, 181, 264, 304, 306, 504

  Wilson, James, 305

  Wilson’s Creek, Battle of, 228

  Winchester, Battle of, 341–42

  Winthrop, Robert C., 2–3, 5, 174

  Wirz, Heinrich Hartmann “Henry,” 379–82, 427

  Wise, Henry, 140, 141, 144, 146, 327

  Woman’s Journal, 469, 472, 473

  Women’s Bible (Stanton), 474

  Women’s National Loyal League, 343, 451

  women’s suffrage, 11, 41–42, 43, 47, 48, 49–50, 71, 103, 126, 302, 304, 306, 310, 318, 442, 450–74, 475, 498, 591

  Wood, Fernando, 173, 257

  Woodbridge, Frederick E., 343

  Woodhull, Victoria Claflin, 466–74, 475, 476–77, 500

  Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, 467–73

  Woodhull-Beecher scandal, 471–73

  Woodward, C. Vann, 581

  World’s Anti-Slavery Convention (1840), 41–42, 451

  Wright, Martha Coffin, 41

  Wynkoop, Edward, 531, 542

  Yancey, William L., 166, 171, 174, 188, 327

  “Yankee Doodle,” 221, 362

  Yellowstone River, 536, 554

  Yorktown, Battle of, 221

  Yosemite Book (Whitney and Watkins), 509–10

  Yosemite Valley, 507–10

  Young, Brigham, 104–11, 130, 172

  Young America, 59, 80

  Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), 472

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  BRENDA WINEAPPLE is the prizewinning author of several books, including White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. She teaches in the MFA programs at the New School University and Columbia University, and is the Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies at Union College. She lives in New York City.

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  ALSO BY BRENDA WINEAPPLE

  White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Hawthorne: A Life

  Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein

  Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner

  John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems (editor)

 

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