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by John Fabian Witt


  ending of the insurrection in, 303

  Jefferson Davis as president of, 4, 141, 143, 159–61, 163, 190, 202, 216, 223–26, 229, 244–45, 250, 274, 280, 287, 288, 292, 299, 308

  laws of war in, 223–24, 273–74

  legislation of, 196

  Lincoln’s Code condemned by, 4, 245–46

  postwar trials of leaders in, 298–303, 308

  preparation for war in, 138

  as “quasi government,” 145

  secession of states leading to, 136–37, 142–43, 263, 275

  Union blockade of ports in, 143–69, 275, 306, 366, 368, 370

  Union seizure of ships of, 147, 149–50

  Confederate War Department, 256, 273

  Congress, U.S., 45, 54, 57, 65–66, 99–100, 118, 123, 142, 202–3, 301, 312–17

  anti-imperialist faction of, 361

  debates on Reconstruction in, 304–7, 316–17

  declarations of war in, 70–71, 117

  Joint Committee of Reconstruction in, 307, 313–14

  Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War in, 289

  laws on war enacted in, 67, 86, 87, 187, 270

  1970s and 1980s legislation in, 5

  Republican majorities in, 304–6, 312

  Supreme Court legislation in, 150

  Thirtieth, 206

  Thirty-seventh, 266

  Thirty-ninth, 304–7, 313–17

  Conkling, James C., 139

  Connecticut, 39, 89

  Conover, Sanford, 295, 320

  Constitution, 56

  Constitution, U.S., 53, 71, 139, 206, 264, 270, 272, 288, 293, 308, 309–10, 312

  Article IV of, 306

  Fourteenth Amendment to, 265, 307, 313–15

  Second Amendment to, 94–95

  Thirteenth Amendment to, 304–5

  constitutional nullification, 132

  Continental Army, 41, 54

  courts-martial in, 22

  death rates in, 21

  reorganization of, 81

  Washington as commander in chief of, 13, 15, 20–23, 25–27, 35–37, 39–40, 43, 47–48, 100, 114, 126, 208

  Washington’s resignation from, 47–48

  Continental Congress, 15–16, 22–23, 26–27, 30–31, 37–40, 44, 72, 122

  continuous voyage, doctrine of, 61–62, 154–56

  contraband, 44, 46, 58–60, 87, 133

  in the Civil War, 152–55, 166–67

  slaves as, 202–3, 207, 227, 244, 268

  Convention Against Torture, 372

  Coquille River, 332

  Cornell University, 350

  Cornwallis, Charles, Lord, 31–32, 38–39, 42–43, 72, 208, 286

  Coshocton, 38

  Cowen, Esek, 114, 116

  Crawford, William H., 90, 100, 104–6

  Creek Indians, 72n–73n, 95–99, 102, 104

  Crimean War, 133, 135, 191, 339, 340

  Crittenden, John, 115

  Crockett, Davy, 95

  Cross, Truman, 119

  Croton Dam, 295

  Crozier, William R., 350–51

  Cuba, 353, 354

  Culloden, Battle of, 42

  Cumberland River, 169–71, 173, 186

  Currier, Nathaniel, 131

  Curtis, Benjamin, 217, 313

  Curtis, Samuel, 253

  Cushing, Jacob, 41

  Daily Intelligencer, 246–47

  Dakota Sioux Indians, military commission trials of, 330–34, 331, 336

  Dallas, Alexander, 81, 82, 200

  Dallas, George Mifflin, 135, 136

  Dana, Francis, 27

  Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 150, 306–7

  Dan River, 38

  Dante Alighieri, 52

  Dartmouth, Lord, 33

  David Hunter’s emancipation order, 207–8

  Brussels Declaration and, 344

  Confederacy and, 245

  Helmuth von Moltke on, 342

  Philippines and, 357

  slavery and, 211, 218–19, 238–39

  torture and, 184, 236, 357–61, 363–64

  Davis, David, 312–13

  Davis, Garret, 304

  Davis, George B., 327, 360–61, 364

  Davis, Jefferson, 249

  efforts to build treason case against, 317–23

  military training and experience of, 141, 253

  as president of Confederacy, 4, 141, 143, 159–61, 163, 190, 202, 216, 223–26, 229, 244–45, 250, 274, 280, 287, 288, 292, 299, 308

  prison sentence and pardon of, 287, 288, 321–22, 321

  retaliation urged by, 159–60, 161, 163

  Davis, Jefferson C., 329–30, 334, 337

  De Bow’s Review, 189

  decentralization, 281–83

  Declaration of Independence, 16

  Jefferson’s authorship of, 15, 28, 31, 32, 36, 89

  Declaration of Paris, 133–36, 137, 160, 200, 223, 366, 368, 372

  Defense Department, U.S., 370

  de Grasse, François-Joseph Paul, 42–43

  Deism, 41

  Delaware Bay, 73

  Delaware Indians, 90, 92

  Delaware River, Washington’s crossing of, 20

  Democratic Party, 263, 271, 307, 371

  Desha, Joseph, 103, 106

  Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 200

  Detroit, Mich., 33, 35, 36

  Deuteronomy, Book of, 17

  Dewey, George, 354

  Dexter, Samuel, 82

  Dickerson, Mahlon, 87

  Dickinson, John, 44

  Digest of the Law of Maritime Captures and Prizes, A (Wheaton), 82

  Dix, John A., 254–55, 271, 295, 297

  Dixie, 157

  Dodge, David Low, 111

  Dodge, Grenville, 298

  Donald, David, 212n

  Douglass, Frederick, 202, 261

  Drake, Joseph, 171

  Dred Scott decision, 150–51, 313

  Drew, Andrew, 112

  Droit des Gens, Le (Vattel), 16–17, 44, 101, 128n

  Dumas, Charles, 44

  Dunant, Henri, 338–42, 345

  Duncan, James, 299, 303

  Dunham, Charles, 295

  Dunmore, John Murray, 4th Earl of, 29, 31, 72, 74, 169, 199

  Dunn, William McKee, 265

  Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 81–82, 83, 269

  Du Pont, Samuel F., 164

  Durfee, Amos, 113

  Dutch Gap, Va., 255

  Ealdama, Tobeniamo, 361

  Early, Jubal, 253, 255

  Eaton, Lucien, 265

  Eggleston, Nathaniel, 205–6

  Elba, 174

  elections, U.S.:

  of 1824, 105

  of 1828, 105

  of 1848, 119

  of 1856, 198

  of 1860, 148, 180, 263

  of 1864, 210

  Electoral College, 105

  Elements of International Law (Wheaton), 82–83, 93, 199

  Elkhorn Independent, 142

  Elmira prison camp, 300

  El Mocho, 121

  Elsa (slave), 226

  Ely, Alfred, 163

  Emancipation Proclamation, 3, 139, 196, 243, 288, 310, 311, 313, 323

  justification of, 234

  Lincoln’s Code endorsement of, 2, 4, 8, 338

  Lincoln’s declaration of, 211–19, 222

  Lincoln’s evolved thinking on, 197–99, 204–8, 211–19, 310, 367–68, 373

  opposition to, 216–19, 224–25, 247, 264

  slaves behind Confederate lines declared free by, 2

  Emmet, Thomas, 82

  Encyclopaedia Americana, 176

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 176

  Enghien, Duc d’, 127

  English Civil War, 286

  Enlightenment, 41–42, 51, 182, 186, 219

  way of war inspired by, 6, 16, 19–20, 23–24, 28–29, 37, 39, 43, 53, 65, 94, 96, 129, 212–13, 278–79, 323

  Episcopalianism, 346

  Essex case, 61–62, 64, 154

  Evans, Robert K., 337
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br />   Evarts, William, 150, 161–62

  Ewing, Thomas, Jr., 274–75, 293, 296

  executions, 27

  authorization of, 4, 25

  hanging, 19–20, 25–26

  prohibition of, 2, 30, 31

  see also prisoners of war, execution of

  Exposition of the Causes of the Late War with Great Britain, An (Dallas), 82

  Fehrenbacher, Don E., 73n

  Fenton, Roger, 340

  Ferguson, Adam, 28

  Ferguson, Champ, 297, 298

  Field, David Dudley, 309

  Field, Stephen, 309

  Fiery Trial (Foner), 212n

  Finck, William, 305

  Fish, Hamilton, 241

  Fitch, Graham N., 192

  Florida, 77, 78, 97–98, 104–6, 116, 127, 141, 153, 207, 220–22, 301, 335, 366

  secession of, 136–37

  Floyd, John B., 107, 170, 263

  Foner, Eric, 207, 212n

  Foote, Andrew H., 170

  Foreign Ministry, British, 63

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 171, 248–49, 257–58

  Fort Donelson, Battle of, 170–73, 171, 186, 187, 196, 280

  Fort Hamilton, 158

  Fort Henry, Battle of, 173, 186

  Fort Klamath, 335

  Fort Lafayette, 162, 296

  Fort Mims, 95

  Fort Monroe, 202, 203, 207, 227, 310

  Davis imprisoned at, 287, 321, 321

  Fort Necessity, Battle of, 14

  Fort Pickens, 335

  Fort Pillow, Battle of, 248, 275

  race massacre at, 257–58, 258

  Fort Sumter, 263

  firing on, 142, 223, 254

  Fort Vincennes, 332

  Fort Wagner, Battle of, 223

  Fort Warren, 287

  Founding Fathers, 8, 9, 28–36, 89, 310

  military history of, 5, 7, 15–16, 366

  Fox, Henry, 112–16

  France, 14, 19, 36, 122

  Austrian wars with, 3, 52

  British wars with, 23, 52, 53–54

  military theorists of, 84–85

  Prussian wars with, 52, 173–74, 177–78, 184, 194, 231, 340, 343

  Russian wars with, 50, 52, 122, 133

  U.S. relations with, 45, 46, 53–58, 82, 133, 143, 146, 150, 156

  Francis the Prophet (Seminole), 98, 101, 105, 332

  Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, 3

  Franc-tireurs, 340, 344

  Franklin, Benjamin, 41, 59, 134

  diplomatic service of, 45–48

  program for laws of war by, 43–48, 70, 352

  treaties promoted by, 44–48, 51

  on war, 11, 16, 43–48

  wit and humor of, 43–44, 46

  Fredericksburg, Battle of, 254

  casualties of, 2

  Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, 46, 134, 184

  Fredericktown, Md., 73

  Freedmen’s Bureau Act, 304–5

  veto of, 308

  Fremont, Jessie Benton, 197

  Frémont, John C., 191, 197–99, 204–5, 207–8, 270

  French Army, 52, 95, 338

  George Washington’s attack on, 13–15

  French language, 2, 16, 174

  French Navy, 42–43, 55–58, 60, 64

  French Revolution, 53–54, 56, 60, 127, 243

  Frenchtown, N.J., 66, 73

  French West Indies, 55, 60, 61

  Funston, Frederick, 355–56, 358

  Gabriel (slave), 74

  Gadsden, James, 105

  Gage, Thomas, 15, 20, 22, 27, 33, 159

  Gallatin, Albert, 76

  gangrene, 298

  Gardner, Alexander, 340

  Garfield, James, 303

  Civil War service of, 309

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 111

  Gates, Horatio, 23

  Gee, John H., 303–4

  General Orders No. 100, see Lincoln’s Code of War

  General Parkhill, 147

  General Regulation for the Army (Calhoun), 86

  General Regulations (U.S. Army), 122

  Genesis, Book of, 52

  Genet, Edmond Charles, 53–54

  Geneva Conventions, 339–42, 349, 371

  asphyxiating gases and biological weapons prohibited by, 3

  of 1864, 3, 327, 339, 341, 357, 362, 372

  1925 Protocol of, 3

  of 1949, 3, 5, 195, 372

  1977 Protocol of, 372

  George II, King of England, 42

  George III, King of England, 15, 31, 42, 73n

  Georgia, 31, 77, 96, 207, 250–52, 276–77, 280–81, 298

  secession of, 137

  Germain, Lord George, 33

  Germantown, Battle of, 22, 24, 54

  Germany, Nazi, 112

  Germany, occupied, 363

  Geronimo (Apache), 335, 356, 359

  Gettysburg, Battle of, 255–56

  Pickett’s Charge at, 302, 340

  Glass, Maeve Herbert, 332n

  Glazier, David, 125

  Glenn, Edwin F., 359–61, 362–65, 371

  “Glenn’s Brigade,” 359–61

  Gnadenhutten, Ohio, 38, 92

  gold, 197–98

  Gospels, 111, 288

  Göttingen, University of, 19

  Grant, Ulysses S., 270, 302–3, 317

  Lee’s surrender accepted by, 285–87, 303, 322

  presidency of, 241, 329–30, 334–35

  Union Army leadership of, 170, 173, 186, 259, 261, 276–77

  Gray, John Chipman, 265

  Great Britain, 133, 354, 366

  continuous voyage doctrine of, 154–56

  French wars with, 23, 52, 53–54

  hostages taken by, 15

  Indian alliances with, 14–16, 33–36, 38, 66, 66, 69, 89, 91, 121

  laws of, 21

  in Seven Years’ War, 13–14, 60–61

  U.S. relations with, 47, 60–70, 76–77, 111–17, 135–36, 142–50, 155–56, 164–69

  see also American Revolution; War of 1812

  Great Lakes, 69, 89, 297, 302

  Greece, Turkish occupation of, 174–75

  Greek Civil War, 194

  Greeks, ancient, 30, 88, 177

  Greeley, Horace, 143, 238

  Greene, Nathanael, 25, 38–39

  Green Mountain Boys, 21

  Grenfell, George St. Leger, 296, 302

  Grenville, Lord, 61

  Grey, Sir Edward, 352

  Grier, Robert, 150–51, 161

  Griffin, Cyrus, 37

  Grotius, Hugo, 18–19, 28, 30, 92

  Groton, Conn., 40

  Grover, LaFayette, 334

  Guam, 353

  Guantánamo Bay, 372

  Guelzo, Allen, 212n

  Guerrilla Parties Considered with Reference to the Laws and Usages of War (Lieber), 193

  guerrilla warfare, 120–26, 132, 134, 188–96, 198, 229, 274–76

  in Brussels Declaration, 344–45

  Leiber’s code and, 232, 242–43, 257, 268, 298

  in military commission prosecutions, 302

  in Napoleonic Europe, 286

  in Philippines, 354–55

  summary execution and, 332

  Gulf of Mexico, 88, 152

  Hague Conventions, 3, 5, 347–50

  of 1899, 6, 362, 364, 372

  of 1907, 3, 6, 350, 352–53

  Haiti, 203, 206

  slave rebellion in, 74, 200, 367

  Haitian Revolution, 200

  Hale, Nathan, 25

  Hall, Willis, 114

  Halleck, Henry, 2, 190–96, 199, 251, 255–56, 276–78, 356

  Lieber and, 229–30, 232–33, 236–37, 240, 242, 248, 271–72, 317–21, 340

  Union forces in the West commanded by, 188, 264, 332, 334

  Haller, Granville O., 332

  Hamburg, 56, 57

  Hamilton, Alexander, 13, 24, 25, 27, 78, 269, 305

  extramarital affair of, 52

  on neutrality, 52

  on private p
roperty, 72

  as secretary of the Treasury, 53

  Hamilton, Henry, 33–37, 40, 107

  capture of, 33, 34–37, 127

  as royal governor of Detroit, 33, 36

  Hammond, James Henry, 115

  Hampton, Wade, 180, 278

  Harlan, James, 318

  Harleston, John, 162

  Harney, William S., 332

  Harper, Robert Goodloe, 81, 82

  Harper’s Ferry, Va., 230, 232, 254

  Brown’s attack on, 200

  Harper’s Weekly, 143, 189, 205, 257

  Harrison, Benjamin, 311n

  Harrison, William Henry, 115, 116

  Harrison’s Landing, Va., 210–11, 237

  Hart, Gideon, 267n

  Hartford, Conn., 149

  Hartley, David, 43–44

  Hartstuff, George L., 230

  Harvard College, 176

  Harvard Law School, 83, 109–10, 201, 205, 265, 270, 303

  Havana, 165

  Havre de Grace, Md., 73

  Hay, John, 347, 349–50, 352

  Hayne, Isaac, 38

  Heart of the Sky God, 88

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 253

  Heidelberg, University of, 327

  Heintzelman, Samuel, 253

  Henry, Patrick, 29

  Herold, David, 289, 291–92, 294

  Hessian mercenaries, 20

  Hiawatha, 147

  Hicks, Thomas Holliday, 202, 203

  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 220–22, 221, 228–29

  Hill, Benjamin Harvey, 287

  Hill, Daniel Harvey, 254–55

  Hilliard, Francis, 176

  Hindman, Thomas C., 192, 195

  Hiroshima, U.S. bombing of, 6

  History of England (Macaulay), 253

  History of the War in the Peninsula (Napier), 122

  Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 124, 230, 248, 253–55, 273, 280, 332, 347–48

  as commissioner for exchange of prisoners, 254–55, 258–60

  military teaching by, 253

  Hitchcock, Henry, 280

  Hoar, George Frisbie, 361

  Hobbes, Thomas, 253

  Hodgkins, Theodore, 261

  Hoffman, David, 82

  Hofstadter, Richard, 218–19

  Holland, Thomas Erskine, 349

  Holmes, Elias B., 142

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 187

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 187, 369

  Holt, Joseph, 198, 230, 263–67

  as Judge Advocate General, 264–67, 269–71, 274, 289–96, 301–4, 307–10, 314, 318, 323–24, 328, 356

  Lincoln assassination trial and, 289–96, 301, 314

  Homathlemico (Seminole), 98, 101, 105, 332

  Hood, John Bell, 250–51

  Hooker, Joseph, 253

  Hopi Indians, 88–89

  House of Representatives, U.S., 105, 106, 108, 117, 204, 266, 304–5, 313

  Johnson impeachment in, 316

  Military Affairs Committee of, 100–104

  Ways and Means Committee of, 146

  House of the Wood, 348

  Hovey, Alvin P., 309, 311n

  Howard, Jacob, 305

  Howard, Oliver Otis, 251, 282, 335, 336–37

  Howe, Timothy, 289

 

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