183. J. G. Holland, Life of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, MA: G. Bill, 1866), 429.
184. Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington (Boston: J. E. Tilton, 1865), 96.
185. Elias Nason, Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States: Delivered before the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston, May 3, 1865 (Boston: W.V. Spencer, 1865), in Chesebrough, No Sorrow Like Our Sorrow, 6.
186. John E. Todd and Warren H. Cud-worth in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Lincoln, 82, 200.
187. George Dana Boardman, Addresses, Delivered in the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, April 14th, 16th, and 19th, 1865 (Philadelphia: Sherman, 1865), 52.
188. Richard Edwards, The Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: An Address Delivered at the Hall of the Normal University, April 19th, 1865 (Peoria, IL: N. C. Nason, 1865), 3.
189. Charles Carroll Everett, A Sermon in Commeration of the Death of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States (Bangor: Benjamin A. Burr, 1865), 5, 21–22.
190. Isaac Eddy Carey, Abraham Lincoln: The Value to the Nation of his Exalted Character, Rev. Mr. Carey’s Fast Day Sermon, Preached June 1, 1865, in the First Presbyterian Church of Freeport, Ill. ([Freeport? IL]: n.p., 1865), in Chesebrough, No Sorrow Like Our Sorrow, 7.
191. Unidentified clipping in Ford’s Theatre archive, in Thomas Goodrich, The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), 237; sermon by William Ives Buddington, in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln: Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn (New York: Tibbals and Whiting, 1865), 111.
192. Sermon by Cuyler in Our Martyr President, 168, 171.
193. Sermons Preached in Boston, 348.
194. A Tribute of Respect by the Citizens of Troy, to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln (Troy, NY: Young & Benson, 1865), 154, 44–45.
195. Wallace Shelton, Discourse upon the Death of Abraham Lincoln (Newport, KY: W. S. Bailey, 1865), 4, in Chesebrough, No Sorrow Like Our Sorrow, 4, and Charles Joseph Stewart, “A Rhetorical Study of the Reaction of the Protestant Pulpit in the North to Lincoln’s Assassination” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, 1963), 112.
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199. Edward Searing, President Lincoln in History: An Address Delivered in the Congregational Church, Milton, Wisconsin, on Fast Day, June 1st, 1865 (Janesville WI: Veeder & Devereux, 1865), 18–19.
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203. Boardman in Addresses Delivered in the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, 39.
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3. David Donald, Lincoln’s Herndon (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948), 195.
4. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 21–24.
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7. Ibid., x, 28.
8. Ibid., 32.
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13. Donald A. Ritchie, Doing Oral History (New York: Twayne, 1995), 92.
INDEX
Entries for newspapers may appear under the newspaper’s title or the place of publication.
Abell, Oliver G., 83
Ableman vs. Booth, 533
abolition, 229, 335, 347–50, 356
abolitionists, 65, 97, 235, 334, 432, 659, 811
on AL’s gradual emancipation plan, 336–39, 355
on AL’s reelection, 635–41, 683–88
criticism of, 396–97
on war, 366–67
Adams, A.H., 788, 790
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., on AL’s second inaugural, 771
on Gettysburg Address, 575
on Seward, 98–99, 116
Adams, Charles Francis, Sr., 54, 76, 226, 450
on AL, 62, 79, 258, 367
on AL’s speeches, 19–20
on Baker, E.D., 60
as minister to Court of St. James, 95, 160–62
on MTL, 62, 258
patronage and, 79, 84, 94–95
on prospective cabinet members, 58
Adams, Christopher, 78
Adams, Henry, 40, 47–48, 56, 97
Adams, Henry A., 123
Adams, John, 518
Adams, John Quincy, 171–72, 258, 362, 583, 756
African Americans, 586, 659, 675, 781–82
on AL’s congressional messages, 235
AL’s death and, 811, 820, 823–24, 829–31
AL’s reelection and, 684
colonization of, 235, 387–88
free, 684–85
regiments/troops, 463–67, 520–25, 527, 561, 648, 653–54, 703, 789–90, 822, 832
representation of, 351
San Francisco, 684
schools for, 583–84
suffrage, 598, 605–8, 802–3
U.S. Congress and colonization of, 384–86, 392
voting rights of, 773
in Washington, D.C., 345, 383–84, 394
at White House, 384–90
AL. See Lincoln, Abraham
Alabama, 472
Mobile, 192
Mobile Bay, 688
Montgomery, 192
Albany (New York) Atlas and Argus, 698
Albany (New York) Evening Journal, 63, 677
on AL’s speeches as president-elect, 22
articles, 119, 393
Albany, New York, AL speaks at, 23–26
Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom, 223
Aldrich, Cyrus, 482
Allen, William H., 165–66, 420, 699
Alley, John B., 89–90, 95, 353–54
Altoona (Pennsylvania) Conference, 413–14
Amendment(s): antislavery, 641
Fifth, 174
First, 507
to Militia Act of 1795, 464
by Seward, W.H., 47–48, 56, 97
Thirteenth, 47–48, 67–68, 745–51, 757, 759, 772, 803
American Bank Note Company, 268
American Colonization Society, 384
American Revolutionary War, 141, 387, 467, 533, 820
Ames, Charles Gordon, 324
Ames, Mary Clemmer, 258, 270, 271, 283
An Appeal from the Colored Men of Philadelphia to the President of the United States, 390
“Anaconda Plan,” 180
Anderson, Robert, 68, 504
at Fort Sumter, 99–100, 104–6, 120, 122–24, 129
loyalty of, 110–11, 132
as military commander, 156, 202, 426
Andrew, John A., 54, 619, 635
on AL’s reelection, 665–66, 667
on Emancipation Proclamation, 411
as governor, 125–26, 159, 162–63, 327, 413–14, 467, 736
Andrews, Israel D., 184
Andrews, Rufus, 78, 706
Angell, James Burrill, 575
Anglo African Institute for the Encouragement of Industry and Art, 389
Anthony, Susan B., 474, 635, 640, 688
Antietam, battle of, 380–83, 407, 414, 424, 430, 448, 496, 513, 562, 656, 806
Arguelles, Don Jose Augustin, 686–87
Arkansas, 472, 525, 598, 774–75
incorporation of, 535
military governor for, 582, 586, 591
militia proclamation and, 136
Pea Ridge, 314, 479
Unionists, 594
Army of the Cumberland, 555, 557
Army of the Potomac, 305, 328, 452, 499, 503, 515, 527, 631
attacks by, 294–95
command of, 580, 648
corps, 302, 557
division commanders of, 302, 309, 370, 376–77
at Fair Oaks, 319
during grand offensive, 653
losses of, 319, 382, 649–50, 652, 779
McClellan and, 192, 195, 199, 217
at Norfolk, 311–13
Peninsula campaign and, 308–11, 333, 371
reinforcements for, 319, 322, 330, 381
Urbanna strategy, 294, 302–3, 305–6
victories of, 382
withdrawal of, 371
at Yorktown, 312
Arnold, Isaac N., 330, 356, 359–60
AL and, 402, 434, 507, 666, 750
Ashley, James M., 97, 441, 500, 554, 613, 666–67, 747–48, 750, 773–75, 777
Ashmun, George, 137, 633
Atkinson, Edward, 762, 763
Atlanta, fall of, 688, 689
Atlantic Monthly, 412, 673
Atzerodt, George, 811
Badeau, Adam, 781–82
Bailey, Joshua F., 622
Bailhache, William H., 476
on AL’s inaugural address, 49
as quartermaster, 268–69
Baker, Edward D., 180, 438, 476, 798
as AL’s friend, 44, 59–60, 79, 226
corruption and, 81
death of, 200, 271, 650
as senator, 81–82
Baker, Edward L., 268
Baldwin, John B., 120–22
Baldwin, Joseph G., 247
Ball, Black & Company, 702
Ball’s Bluff, battle of, 199–200, 211, 213, 222
Baltimore, 313
Baltimore (Maryland) American, 39, 66, 339
Baltimore (Maryland) South, 812
Baltimore (Maryland) Sun, 21, 66
Baltimore, Maryland, 38, 41
1864 Republican Convention, 611, 641–45
detour around, 137, 141–47
Baltimore Sanitary Fair (1864), 577
Bancroft, George, 204, 229
AL and, 230, 233, 436
on MTL, 259, 267
Banks, Nathaniel P., 148–49, 188, 474, 520, 551, 611, 731, 773
appointment of, 435
campaigns of, 435, 448, 454, 516–20, 558, 591
escape by, 316, 318
forces of, 317, 320, 372, 467, 741
as general, 295, 303, 311, 380–81, 415
during grand offensive, 646–47
Louisiana Reconstruction and, 602–8, 776, 802
as military commander, 588–90
plans of, 602–3
replacement of, 176
retreat by, 316
Port Hudson campaign and, 519–20
Barlow, S.L.M., 238, 329, 747
Barnard, John G., 302, 431
Barnes, John S., 778, 782, 785
Barnett, T.J., 240, 530–31, 558–60
Barney, Hiram, 78, 143, 241, 510, 622–23, 706
on emancipation, 400
reports by, 311
Barringer, Rufus, 795
Barron, Samuel, 114
Barstow, Wilson, 314
Bartlett, D.W., 111, 222, 246, 484, 674
AL and, 290, 299, 319, 322, 324, 351, 375, 625
on Emancipation Proclamation, 423
MTL and, 264, 277
remarks of, 343
reports of, 467, 497–98
Bartlett, William O., 673–74
Bates, Edward, 52, 59, 370, 524–25, 553–54, 609, 611–12, 619, 692, 731, 733
advice of, 109, 209–10, 352–53, 598
AL and, 253, 257–58, 363, 549, 655, 694, 763
on AL’s gradual emancipation plan, 339
as attorney general, 77, 102, 153, 158, 532, 538, 540
on cabinet crisis, 453, 456
on cabinet shake-up, 239, 247
criticism of, 215
on Emancipation Proclamation, 409
family members of, 535
on Lincoln, W., 298
on McClellan, 375, 376
opinions of, 395, 544, 669
on port blockades, 150
re
commendations of, 394
on West Virginia, 460
Bayard, James A., 173, 231
Beall, John Yates, 739, 761, 812
Beason, John, 23, 484
Beauregard, P.G.T., 126, 128, 321
attacks on forces led by, 181–82
victories of, 192
Beck, William, 86
Bedell, Grace, 17–18
Beecher, Henry Ward, 288, 345, 362, 379, 666
AL and, 397, 609, 753, 821
on AL’s reelection, 687
appeal by, 651
Bell, John, 43, 96, 682
Bellows, Henry W.: AL and, 311, 339, 379, 499
McClellan and, 192
Belmont, August, 245, 530
Benjamin, Judah P., 752
Bennett, James Gordon, 62, 221, 263, 673–75
as editor, 274
MTL and, 275
wife of, 283
Benton, Thomas Hart, 205
Bernays, Charles L., 93–94
Berret, James G., 57
Berry, John S., 661
Bertinatti, Chevalier, 256, 257
Bertonneau, Arnold, 606
Biddle, Charles John, 236
Big Bethel, Virginia, battle at, 180
Bigelow, John, 143, 475
on AL’s speeches as president-elect, 20
as consul to Paris, 92, 95
on MTL, 259
Bingham, John A., 44
on AL, 215
on AL’s inaugural address, 48
Binney, Horace, 152
Bird, Frank W., 478, 643
Birney, James G., 694
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, 74
Bissell, Richard, 388
Bixby, Lydia, 736–38
Black Republican (New Orleans), 777
Blaine, James G., 240, 663–64
Blair, Francis P., Sr., 54, 58, 139, 201, 387, 391–92, 664
AL and, 402, 430, 617, 658, 690–91, 694, 732, 747
missions, 751–53
MTL and, 264
remarks by, 164
support of, 384–85
as Unionist, 158–59
Blair, Frank, 205, 327, 329, 690, 694
AL and, 451, 540, 592–93, 628
and AL’s gradual emancipation plan, 340–41
on Chase, S.P., 619–21
on colonization, 387
election of, to Congress (1862), 421
on Frémont, 207–8
Blair, Jacob B., 461
Blair, Montgomery, 92, 99, 106, 179, 202, 450, 598, 657, 731–32, 749
AL and, 220–21, 253, 303–4, 363, 593
on cabinet crisis, 456
on cabinet shake-up, 239, 241, 244, 247
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