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by C. Brian Kelly


  Randall, Ruth Painter. Mary Lincoln, Biography of a Marriage. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953.

  Riddle, Albert G. Recollection of War Times. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895.

  Roberts, Nancy. Civil War Ghost Stories and Legends. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1992.

  Robertson, James I. Jr. The Stonewall Brigade. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1963.

  ______. General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior. New York: Random House, 1987.

  Roscoe, Theodore. The Web of Conspiracy. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1959.

  Ross, Ishbel. First Lady of the South: The Life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958.

  ______. The President’s Wife: Mary Todd Lincoln—A Biography. New York: Putnam, 1973.

  Ryan, D. David. Four Days in 1865: The Fall of Richmond. Richmond, Virginia: Cadmis Marketing, 1993.

  Sandberg, Carl. Mary Lincoln, Wife and Widow. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co, 1932.

  Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts on File, 1988.

  Simmons, Dawn Langley. A Rose for Mrs. Lincoln: A Biography of Mary Todd Lincoln. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970.

  Simon, John Y., ed. The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (introduction by Bruce Catton), including First Lady as an Author, by Ralph Newman. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois Press, Carbondale, 1975.

  Snyder, Louis L. and Richard B. Morris, eds. A Treasury of Great Reporting. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.

  Sterkx, H.E. Partners in Rebellion, Alabama Women in the Civil War. Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970.

  Taylor, L. B. Jr. The Ghosts of Fredericksburg…and Nearby Environs. Copyright 1991 by L. B. Taylor, Jr.

  ______. The Ghosts of Charlottesville and Lynchburg…and Nearby Environs. Copyright 1992 by L. B. Taylor, Jr.

  Taylor, Richard. Destruction and Reconstruction, with introduction by Edwin C. Bearss. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

  Turner, Justin G. and Linda Levitt Turner. Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters. New York: Knopf, 1972.

  Vaughan, Mary C. and L. P. Brocker. Women at War: Civil War Heroines. Reprint of 1867 edition by Longmeadow Press, Stamford, Connecticut. Woodbury, New York: Platinum Press, 1993.

  Wamsley, James S., with Anne M. Cooper. Idols, Victims, Pioneers: Virginia’s Women from 1607. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, 1976.

  Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, 1901.

  Waugh, John C. The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall, McClellan and Their Brothers, with foreword by James M. McPherson. New York: Warner Books, 1994.

  Wert, Jeffrey. General James Longstreet, The Confederacy’s Most Controversial General. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

  Wheeler, Richard. Lee’s Terrible Swift Sword. New York: HarperCollins, 1952.

  Wiley, Bell Irvin, ed. Letters of Warren Akin, Confederate Congressman. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia, 1959.

  Williams, Frederick D., ed. The Wild Life of the Army: Civil War Letters of James A. Garfield. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1964.

  Wills, Brian Steel. A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forest. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

  Woodward, C. Vann, ed. Mary Chesnut’s Civil War. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1981.

  Zeitlin, Richard. Old Abe the War Eagle. Madison, Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1986.

  INDEX

  A

  Abingdon, Virginia, 229, 230, 231, 233

  Abolition, 44, 248, 276, 292

  Adams, Armaci, 244–246

  Adams, Isabella, 97

  Akin, Elbert, 195

  Akin, Mary, 43, 44, 192–195

  Akin, Warren, 43, 44, 69, 70, 71, 192–195

  Alabama, 63

  Albermarle, CSS, 131, 133

  Alcatraz Island, 22

  Alcott, Louisa May, 148

  Alexander, Edward Porter, 22–24, 88, 90, 203

  Alexandria, Virginia, 51, 67, 141

  American Red Cross, 247

  Anaconda Plan, 170

  Anacostia River, 66

  Anderson, Robert, 9, 10, 11, 19, 26, 32

  Anderson’s Brigade, 194

  Andersonville National Cemetery, 247

  Andersonville prison, 111–113, 134, 181, 212, 247

  “Angel of Truth,” 263

  Annapolis, 262

  Anthony’s Hill, Virginia, 181

  Antietam, 107, 110, 134, 135, 142, 143, 144, 148, 166, 177, 195, 196, 205, 222, 254, 309

  Appalachicola, Florida, 28

  Appomattox, 24, 38, 46, 174, 195, 201, 207, 210, 213, 219, 226, 250, 255, 261, 274, 307, 310

  Aqueduct Bridge, 67

  Arkansas, 62

  Arlington Heights, 67

  Arlington House, 33–35, 41, 42, 67, 85, 168, 255, 257–259

  Arlington National Cemetery, 67, 176, 258, 259

  Armistead, Lewis, 165

  Army of Northern Virginia, 85, 157, 196, 219, 250, 258, 307, 310

  Army of Tennessee, 75, 181, 193, 197, 234

  Army of the James, 220

  Army of the Potomac, 153–154, 175

  Army of Virginia, 213

  Arsenal Prison (Washington, D.C.), 141

  Arthur, Chester, 111, 224

  Assassinations, 37, 160, 211, 262, 274, 308, 310

  Athens, Alabama, 151

  Atkinson, J. M., 107

  Atlanta, Georgia, 69, 173, 192

  Atlanta campaign and battles, 24, 82, 102, 121, 169, 172, 177, 195, 197, 223, 224, 310

  Atlanta Cyclorama, 192

  Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 173, 212

  Atwater, Dorence, 246–247

  Aunt Rose (slave), 245

  Aylett, W. R., 158

  B

  Bacon, Henry, 262

  Badeau, Adam, 220

  Bailey’s Cross Roads, 67

  Baker, Edward Dickinson, 288

  Baker, Lafayette, 37

  Ballard House (Richmond), 94

  Ball’s Bluff, Battle of, 135, 177, 309

  Baltimore, Maryland, 63, 260, 261, 262, 294

  Barksdale, William, 6

  Barlow, Francis C., 158

  Barnum, P. T., 306

  Barton, Clara, 247

  Bartow, Francis S., 43, 44

  Bartow County, Georgia, 194

  Baton Rouge, Battle of, 114

  “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” 87

  Bear Inlet, North Carolina, 180

  Bear Willow, Kentucky, 180

  Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 11, 25, 30, 31, 32, 37, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 51, 72, 83, 129

  Beauvoir estate, 277, 278

  Bee, Barnard, 46, 47

  Beemer’s Woods, 210

  Bell, John, 17

  Benjamin, Judah, 17, 271

  Bennett, James Gordon, 298, 300

  Bentonville, Battle of, 134

  Berkowitz, Louis J., 98

  Berryville, Virginia, 210

  Bibb, George, 282

  Birckham, William D., 119

  Blacks during the war, 161–164

  Blatt, William, 258

  Bliss farm, 160

  Blue Licks, Kentucky, 280, 282

  Blue Ridge Mountains, 207

  Booker, 235–236

  Boone, Daniel, 280

  Boonesboro, Maryland, 212

  Booneville, Missouri, 101

  Booth, John Wilkes, 37, 134, 139, 141, 159, 243, 254

  Boyd, Belle, 233–234

  Boyd’s Landing, Virginia, 37

  Boys in military service, 120–122

  Bragg, Braxton, 113, 114, 115, 119, 123, 179, 198, 229, 233

  Branch, A. M., 70

  Brandy Station, 94, 111, 150, 166, 246, 309

  Breckinridge, John C., 17, 26, 95, 113, 114, 115

  Breckinridge, Robert, 7
7

  Brentwood, Tennessee, 180

  Brewer, Charles, 237

  Brierfield estate, 277

  Brooks, Preston Smith, 6

  Brown, Albert Gallatin, 136–137

  Brown, John, 34, 44, 83, 86

  Bruce, Philip Alexander, 105, 215

  Buchanan, James, 8, 9, 24, 26, 114, 147, 213, 248, 249, 270, 297

  Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 124

  Buell, Don Carlos, 75, 101

  Bull Run Creek, 46, 51

  Burlington, New Jersey, 241, 244

  Burnside, Ambrose, 23, 36, 47, 212

  Butler, Benjamin, 203

  C

  Cable, George W., 71, 72

  Cairo, Illinois, 80

  Calhoun, John C., 3, 147

  California, 63

  Camden, South Carolina, 181

  Campbell, F. M., 209

  Camp Colorado, Texas, 25

  Camp Dennison, Ohio, 80

  Camp Douglas, 239

  Cape Fear, 180

  Cape Fear River, 173

  Carter House (Franklin), 200

  Cary, Constance, 92

  Cary, Hetty, 214

  Cashtown, Pennsylvania, 154

  Cass, Lewis, 290

  Cassville, Georgia, 69, 195

  Castle, Henry A., 116

  Castle Pinckney, 24

  Casualties, 186–187

  Cavalry Battalion, 123

  Cedar Creek, 211, 222, 310

  Cedar Mountain, 246

  Centreville, Virginia, 49, 50, 51, 128, 129

  Chain Bridge (Washington, D.C.), 129

  Chambers, Henry Cousins, 122–123

  Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 152

  Champion Hill (Mississippi), 169

  Chancellorsville, Battle of, 24, 90, 107, 109, 111, 134, 135, 166, 169, 177, 205, 246

  Chantilly, 246

  Charleston, South Carolina, 24, 25, 29, 31, 63, 84, 181, 212

  Charleston, West Virginia, 235

  Charleston Harbor, 3, 9, 19, 27, 29, 31, 44, 162, 181, 262

  Chase, Kate, 67, 127–130, 298

  Chase, Salmon P., 67, 127, 130, 136, 298

  Chattanooga, Battle of, 114, 150, 172, 173, 198, 250, 309

  Cheatham, Benjamin, 115, 197

  Chesapeake and Ohio canal, 66, 67

  Chesapeake Bay, 40, 262

  Chesnut, James, 181–185

  Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 10, 93, 94, 95, 102, 103, 167, 181–185, 271, 272

  Chester Court House, South Carolina, 185

  Chesterfield County, Virginia, 219

  Chicago, Illinois, 293

  Chickahominy River, 39, 88, 89

  Chickamauga, Battle of, 77, 102, 114, 121, 129, 172, 197, 198, 223, 239, 309

  Chile, 300

  Chimborazo Hill (Richmond), 224, 225

  Chimborazo Hospital, 224–226

  Christman, William Henry, 258

  Christmas, 68, 116, 168, 179–181, 192–195, 291

  Cincinnati, Ohio, 80, 211

  City Point, Virginia, 220, 229, 241, 306

  Claiborne, John H., 202, 204

  Claiborne (slave), 185

  Clarke, James Freeman, 86

  Clay, Clement C. Jr., 69, 182

  Clay, Henry, 77, 289

  Clay, Virginia, 183

  Cleburne, Patrick, 150

  Clem, Johnny, 120–121

  Cleveland, Grover, 224

  Cobb, Howell, 17

  Cocke, Elizabeth Randolph, 255

  Cocke, Randolph, 255

  Colchester, 304

  Cold Harbor, Battle of, 24, 107, 110, 114, 169, 174, 175, 218, 310

  Coleman, Lewis M., 107

  Coles, Isaac, 170

  Coliseum Place (New Orleans), 71

  College of William and Mary, 44

  Columbia, Tennessee, 123

  Committee of Twelve, 17

  Confederate Navy, 56

  Conkling, James, 285

  Conrad, Holmes, 106

  Conrad, Thomas N., 36

  Conrad, Tucker, 106

  Constitution, Confederate provisional, 16–18

  Cooke, Flora, 237

  Cooke, Jay, 136

  Cooke, Phillip St. George, 237

  Corbett, Boston, 134

  Corby, William, 158

  Corinth, Mississippi, 82, 190

  Cortissoz, Royal, 263

  Cotten, Joseph, 202

  Cotten, Whitford, 202

  Cousin James (slave), 183

  Covey, Edward, 3

  Covington, Kentucky, 120

  Covington, Tom, 61

  Crater, The, 201, 202, 310

  Crawford, J. Marshall, 207

  Crawford, Samuel Wylie, 8, 11, 32, 165

  Crittenden, John J., 77

  Crittenden, Thomas, 102

  Cross, Warren L., 112

  Crounze, Lorenzo, 154

  Cuba, 115, 277

  Cummings Point, 30, 45

  Cunningham, Francis N., 228

  Cushing, William B., 130–133

  Cushman, Pauline, 233

  Custer, George Armstrong, 37–39, 209, 215, 228

  Custer, Lydia Ann, 39

  Custer, Tom, 228

  Custis, George Washington Parke, 33, 67, 237, 257

  Custis, Mary Anna Randolph.

  See Lee, Mary Custis

  Cynthiana, Virginia, 230

  D

  Dabney (slave), 137–139

  Daggett, George H., 117

  Dahlgren, John A., 212

  Dahlgren, Ulric, 212

  Dahlgren gun, 212

  Dale, Sam, 3

  Dan River, 250

  Danville, Virginia, 70, 250–251

  Davis, Benjamin F. (“Grimes”), 110–111

  Davis, Billie, 273

  Davis, Charles Henry, 111

  Davis, David, 111

  Davis, Edmund J., 111

  Davis, George (North Carolina), 110

  Davis, George (Vermont), 110

  Davis, Hasbrouck, 110

  Davis, Henry, 111

  Davis, Jeff, 271, 273, 278

  Davis, Jefferson, 5, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 29, 30, 34, 40, 42, 48, 52, 83, 92, 93, 95, 104, 109, 114–115, 135, 136, 137, 167, 170, 181, 184, 194, 197, 212, 216, 229, 234, 237–238, 249, 262, 266–278, 301, 309, 310

  Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 101, 102, 109–110

  Davis, Joseph, 271, 272

  Davis, Joseph Robert, 5, 110, 266, 267

  Davis, Margaret, 273, 277

  Davis, Sam, 111, 269, 271

  Davis, Varina Howell, xi, 19, 92, 93, 95, 181, 183, 184, 238, 266–278, 301

 

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