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Beran, Carl, xiii
Beran, Father Joseph, xiii-xiv
Bernhardi, Theodor von, 292
Bernstoff, Count Albrecht von, 120
Bezdna, Russia, 84-85
Biarritz, France, 114, 116, 213, 244, 245, 247
Bible, the, 67-68, 87, 144, 211-212, 236n, 252, 329, 335
Bincak, Vojteck, xiv
Birth of Tragedy, The (Nietzsche), 339
Birth of Venus, The (Cabanel), 179, 180
Bismarck, Ferdinand von, 45
Bismarck, Johanna von Puttkamer von, 88, 114, 115, 354
Bismarck, Mary Elizabeth Johanna von, 71
Bismarck, Nicholas Ferdinand Herbert (Herbert) von, 71, 271
Bismarck, Otto von, xiii, 28, 134, 156, 163, 206, 263, 329
Alexander II and, 72, 262
as ambassador to France, 105-106
as ambassador to Russia, 43, 47, 69-72
ambition of, 106, 107
ancestry of, 44-45
assassination attempt on, 256-257
Augusta and, 87-88
Austria and, 173-174, 190, 247, 252-254, 256-259, 264-267, 272-274
Bavaria and, 349, 355
becomes Count, 244
Bible and, 87
as Chancellor, 273-274, 371-373
character and personality of, 43-44, 119, 226-227, 331
childhood of, 45
children of, 71, 373
Concert of Europe, hatred of, 120
constitutional crisis and, 173-175
Danish War and, 189, 191, 192, 213, 215
death of, 1, 6, 373
decline of power of, 6
as delegate to Bundestag, 46-47
Disraeli and, 107
education of, 45
eisen und blut (blood and iron) and, 7, 131, 278, 341
Ems Telegram and, 306, 309
England and, 214-215
family estate of, 45
Franco-Prussian War and, 311, 330-332, 348, 351-354
Wilhelm II and, 5-6, 373
Gladstone and, 315, 316
on Gramont, 317n
Grant and, 366
health of, 47, 107, 244, 277, 279, 291
industry under, 7
as “Iron Chancellor,” 331
Kathi Orlov and, 116, 118-119, 132, 213, 244, 245, 373
languages spoken by, 71, 87
last years of, 6, 373
Lincoln and, 226, 242
“living” Germany, myth of, 278, 350
in London, 106-107
on Manteuffel, 77
marriage of, 114, 115, 373
Metternich and, 119-120
military duty, evasion of, 265
as Minister-President, 131-132, 135-138, 169, 173-176, 213-215, 252-254
Moltke and, 332, 349-350, 359-360, 372
Napoleon III and, 105-106, 245, 247, 252, 271-272, 274-276
opposition to, 72, 76, 174-176, 213-214, 277, 372
orders given to, 213, 277
parents of, 45
physical appearance of, 107, 144
postwar settlement and, 349-350, 359
as practitioner of Realpolitik, 226, 358
as public speaker, 131
publicity machine of, 311-312, 354
religion and, 115, 227, 228, 252
residence in Wilhelmstrasse, 300, 304, 305
revolt of 1848 and, 45-46
Romanov family and, 71-72
at Sadowa, 265, 266, 271
Shakespeare and, 46, 87
Spanish Crown issue and, 292, 295, 300, 302, 304-306, 309
Tolstoy on, 276
travel home from Russia, 86-87
travels in Europe by, 114, 116, 118, 213, 244-245, 247
unification issue and, 131-132, 301, 349, 355
in United Diet, 115-116
at Versailles, 348, 358
Wilhelm I and, 74, 87, 88, 105, 106, 120-121, 132, 135-137, 215, 254, 272-273, 304, 311, 359
Bismarck, Wilhelmine von, 45, 57
Bismarck, William Otto Albert (“Bill”) von, 71
Bistritz River, 265
Black Codes, 318
Black Eagles, 5, 58
Black Hawk War, 68
Black Horse riders, 85
Black Sea, 154, 287
Bloody Angle, 225
Boatswain’s Swamp, Virginia, 113
Bohemia, 252, 258, 264
Bolsheviks, 70n, 369, 371
Booth, Edwin, 357
Booth, John Wilkes, 242, 357
Borcke, Heros von, 219, 226, 258, 277, 377
Boston Daily Advertiser, 4
Bourbaki, Charles, 303, 344
Boykin, James William, 218
Bradford, Lady (Selina, Countess of Bradford), 287
Bragg, Braxton, 194, 222
Brandenburg, 46
Breckinridge, John Cabell, 220
Breech-loading guns, 212
Brewster, Henry Percy, 194-195
Bright, John, 257
Briullov, Alexander, 27
Brooks, Noah, 177
Brooks, Peter Chardon, 294
Brooks, Preston, 24, 34
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 83, 236n, 260, 328, 370
Brown, John, 24, 122-123
Brown Decades, 357-358
Buchanan, James, 15-18, 22, 59, 65, 220
Bull Run, Virginia, 74, 342
Bülow, Cosima von. See Wagner, Cosima
Bülow, Hans von, 138, 202, 288
Burckhardt, Jacob, 278
Burden, Henry, 74
Burke, Edmund, 206
Burnside, Ambrose, 75, 186, 196
Busch, Moritz, 301, 330
Butler, Benjamin F., 224
Byron, Lord, 199, 206, 318
Byzantium, 14, 367
Cabanel, Alexandre, 179, 180
Caesar, Julius, 69, 77, 94, 274, 331, 348
Camden, South Carolina, 34, 78-79, 148-150, 165, 166, 218, 283-284
Cameron, James, 65
Carlsbad Decrees, 119
Carlyle, Thomas, 361
Carter, Anne Hill, 239
Carter, Charles Shirley, 195
Carter family, 121-122
Cass, Lewis, 16
Castilians, 44
Catherine Palace, 287
Catherine the Great, 13, 28, 29, 61, 63, 153-154, 251n, 263
Cato the Younger, 331
Caucasus, 263
Cavaliers, 17, 22, 36, 74, 77-78, 85, 86, 122, 151
Cavendish family, 125
Cavour, Camille Benso di, 7n, 128
Cecil, Lord Robert, 147, 191n, 213, 214, 293
Cecil family, 125
Cemetery Hill and Ridge, Gettysburg, 185, 192
Chaikovskists, 328-329, 346
Chaikovsky, Nicholas, 328, 346
Châlons-sur-Marne, France, 336, 337
Chamberlain, Neville, 191n
Chancellorsville, Virginia, 177
Charlemagne, 20
Charles-Antoine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 302, 305, 309
Charles I, King of England, 77, 122, 136
Charles V, Emperor, 246
Charleston, South Carolina, 33-34
Charlotte, Archduchess (Carlotta, Empress of Mexico), 246, 275-276
Charnwood, Lord, 235, 236
Chase, Kate. See Sprague, Kate Chase
Chase, Salmon P., 59, 66, 69, 74, 203-205, 228, 235, 307-309, 375
Chassepot (rifle), 331
Chattanooga, Tennessee, 222
Chernyshevsky, Nicholas, 329
Chesapeake Bay, 101, 102, 107
Chesnut, James, Jr., 35, 79-81, 85, 148-150, 164-165, 192, 218, 219, 283-284, 376
Chesnut, James, Sr., 35, 78, 148, 166, 231-232, 283
Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 33, 36, 77-81, 85, 164-166, 192-194, 231-232
ancestry of, 34-35
Buck Preston and, 152, 194, 220, 249-250, 284, 317
death of, 376
on gloom, 215-217
invalidism of, 165-166
ma
rriage of, 165
postwar life of, 283-284, 317-318, 376
Preston family and, 151-152
slaves and, 79, 148-150, 165, 218
travels to Black Belt, 218-219
Varina Davis and, 80, 81, 85, 151-35
Chesnut, Mary Cox, 78-79, 231-232
Chester, South Carolina, 248
Cheves, Edward, 164
Chicago Tribune, 4
Chicherin, Boris, 98
Chickahominy River, 110, 112
Chickamauga, Georgia, 194
China, 263, 297
Cholera, 244
Christian IX, King of Denmark, 176, 190, 213
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 175
Churchill, Winston Spencer, 175, 374
Cincinnati (Grant’s horse), 224
Civil liberties, 197
Civil War. See American Civil War
Clarendon, Earl of, 36, 255
Clausewitz, Carl von, 57, 223
Clay, Henry, 17, 18, 25
Clemenceau, Georges, 362
Code Duello, 24, 39
Coercion, philosophy of, 13-14, 51-52, 145, 152, 192
Cohen, Ferdinand, 256
Cold Harbor, Virginia, 226
Cold War, 366
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 206
Collamer, Jacob, 24
Columbia, South Carolina, 150-151, 164, 232
Commodus, 90
Communards, 362, 363
Compromise of 1850, 25
Concert of Europe, 120, 190, 214, 254
Confederate Army. See American Civil War
Confessions (Rousseau), 123
Congress of Berlin, 287
Congress of Princes, 173-174
Conkling, Roscoe, 375
Constantine, Grand Duke, 38, 39, 54, 153, 155
Constantine’s Eagles, 155
Constitution of the United States, 16, 101, 133, 235, 320
Fourteenth Amendment, 320
Copperheads, 206, 229, 233
Corcoran, Michael, 65
Corneille, Pierre, 327
Corps of Pages, Russia, 97-99, 103
Cotton, 17, 128
Cotton, John, 235-236
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), 340n
Crimea, 154-155, 287
Crimean War, 251n, 285
Crittenden, John, 22, 23, 25, 40
Crittenden Committee, 22-24, 26, 40
Cromwell, Oliver, 122, 132, 145
Dagmar, Princess of Denmark. See Mary, Grand Duchess (former Dagmar of Denmark)
Dana, Charles Anderson, 233
Danish War, 189-192, 212-215, 224, 255, 263
Darboy, Georges, Archbishop of Paris, 321, 322, 362, 363
Darby, John, 192-194
Darwin, Charles, 96
Davis, Jefferson, 35, 80, 128, 167, 192, 315
on Crittenden Committee, 23
death of son, 231
domestic troubles of, 216
flight of, 239, 240, 248
Manassas Junction and, 85
Seven Days before Richmond and, 112
unpopularity of, 217
Davis, Joseph Evans, 216, 231
Davis, Varina, 35, 80, 81, 85, 216, 231, 248
Dawes, Rufus, 142
Death’s-Heads, 5, 58
Decembrists, 97-98
Declaration of Independence, 17, 53, 211
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon) 58
Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Le Bain) (Manet), 179-180, 181
Delane, John, 128
Democratic Vistas (Whitman), 361, 375
Devil’s Den, Gettysburg, 185, 207
Diary from Dixie, A (Chesnut), 376
Dickens, Charles, 166
Disraeli, Benjamin, 106-107, 140, 158, 159, 166, 175, 206, 287, 289, 312-313, 338n, 361, 367
Dixie School writers, 318
Dolgorukaya, Princess Ekaterina Mikhailovna (“Katya”) (Princess Yurievskaya), 1-3, 119n, 263-264, 279, 285-287, 313-314, 368, 369
Dolgorukov, Prince, 103, 110, 111
Dolgoruky, Prince Michael, 263
Döllinger, Ignatz von, 199
Doolittle, James Rood, 24
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 236n, 328, 340n, 358
Douglas, Stephen A., 22-23, 40, 50, 51
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), 24
Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia, 193
Drum-Taps (Whitman), 279
Du Bois, W. E. B., 319, 320
Dumas, Alexandre, 329
Duperré, Captain, 322
Durnovo, Colonel, 111
Eakins, Thomas, 376
Ecce Homo (Nietzsche), 341
Editorial Commission, Russia, 31
Edmondson, Henry, 24
Education of Henry Adams, The (Adams), 375
Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, 190
8th Battalion of Rhenish Jaegers, 258
Eisenhower, Dwight David, 369
Ekaterinburg, Siberia, 369
Electorate of Hesse, 257, 258, 273
11th Regiment New York Volunteers (1st Fire Zouaves), 85
Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, 256, 344
Elysée Palace, 284
Emancipation of serfs (Russia), 14-15, 29, 31, 37-39, 53-55, 63, 83. See also Alexander II, Tsar
implementation of law, 62-63
Petrov and, 84-85, 89
reactions to, 89-90
signing of manifesto, 54-55
Tolstoy and, 62, 63, 160
Emancipation of slaves (U.S.), 6, 7, 132-135, 143-147, 149, 150, 167, 197-198. See also Lincoln, Abraham
Emancipation Proclamation, 144-147, 156, 167, 229
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 53, 122, 186, 188, 313
Ems Telegram, 306, 309
English civil war, 36
English Tory Socialism, 175
Enlightenment, 261
Enrollment Act of 1863, 196
Epaminondas, 77
Essays (Montaigne), 370
Eugène Onegin (Pushkin), 98
Eugénie, Empress, 57, 268-269, 274-275, 285, 303, 304, 309
death of, 371n
as Empress-Regent, 325-327, 333, 337, 338, 341-343
flight of, 344, 364
physical appearance of, 106, 114
son of, 321-322, 326
Evans, Thomas, 344
Everett, Edward, 207
Ewell, Robert Stoddert, 178, 185
Exalted Order of the Black Eagle, 213, 277
I Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, 185
Fair Oaks, Virginia, 112
Farragut, David Glasgow, 222
Fathers and Children (Turgenev), 98, 103
Favre, Jules, 332-333, 349, 359
Ferrières, France, 330
Fessenden, William Pitt, 203-204
Feudalism, 17, 18, 320, 321
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 207
51st New York Volunteers, 186
Fire Eaters, 18, 23, 24, 33-35, 79, 149, 150, 163, 166, 192, 206, 249
First Army of Prussia, 258, 265, 266
1st Rhode Island Regiment, 66
1st U.S. Artillery, 76
1st Virginia Cavalry, 85
Fisk, Jim, 293, 357, 376
V Corps, Army of the Potomac, 185
Flemming, Count, 88
Foch, Ferdinand, 323
Fontainebleau, château at, 106
Forbach forest, Lorraine, 325
Ford’s Theatre, Washington, 242
Fort Donelson, Tennessee, 222
Fort Henry, Tennessee, 222
Fort Sumter, fall of, 64, 69
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 320
4th Texas Infantry, 113, 116-117, 178, 192
Franco-Prussian War, 296-297, 309-311, 321-323, 330-332, 335-338, 342, 348, 351-354
Franco-Russian Alliance, 56n
Frankfurt, 273
Frankfurt, Treaty of, 359
Franklin, W. B., 110, 130
Franz Josef, Emperor, xiii, 174, 190, 245, 252, 255-256, 264, 265, 269-271, 297
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nbsp; Frederick, Maryland, 141
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, 45, 76, 189
Frederick VII, King of Denmark, 176, 190
Fredericksburg, Virginia, 186
Free blacks, 240-241, 318-319
Free Soil movement, 25
Free-state principles, 98, 119, 120, 136-137, 140, 155, 174-176, 213, 348
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 335
French Government of National Defense, 349, 352
French Revolution, 42, 350, 361
Friedrich, Crown Prince “Fritz,” 88, 120 259, 265-267, 273, 373
Friedrich Karl “the Red Prince,” 212, 224, 258, 265, 266
Friedrich Wilhelm, the “Great Elector,” 42
Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia, 43, 46, 115
Froeschwiller, France, 325
Frossard, Charles Auguste, 246, 325
Gaines’s Mill, Virginia, 112-113, 116, 117, 178
Galliéni, Joseph, 373
Gambetta, Léon, 343, 352, 359
Garfield, James A., 204, 376
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 7n
Garrison Church, Potsdam, 76, 77
Gates of Baidar, 287
General Staff (Prussian), 56-58
General Union of German Workers, 176
General War Order No. 1, 96
Gorge “Gogo” (son of Alexander II and Katya), 2, 314
George III, King of England, 78
George V, King of Hanover, 258, 311
German Confederation (Bund), 46, 173, 256, 273
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 178, 185-186, 192, 194, 207
Gettysburg Address (Lincoln), 205, 207, 211-212, 377-378
Gibbon, Edward, 58
Gladstone, William Ewart, 157-159, 167, 168, 191, 315-316, 360-361
Glendale, Virginia, 117
Glorious Revolution of 1688, 358
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 87, 142, 190, 355
Golden Age, 17
Goltz, Robert von der, 271-273
Goodloe, William, 89
Gorchakov, Prince Alexander, 70, 156
Gould, Jay, 293, 294, 357, 376
Gramont, Duc de (Antoine-Alfred Agénor), 296-297, 302-303, 309, 317
Grant, Fred, 221, 222
Grant, Ulysses S., 233, 294, 331, 341, 353
background of, 221-222
Bismarck and, 366
Cold Harbor and, 225
Lee and, 225
Lee’s surrender to, 249
Lincoln and, 222-225
Mexico and, 246
physical appearance of, 221
strategy of, 223-224
Wilderness and, 224-225
Granville, Earl, 12
Gravelotte, France, 336
Gravière, Jurien de la, 327
Great Reforms, 155
Gregg, Maxcy, 113
Grimes, James Wilson, 24
Gros, Baron, 182
Gulf of Finland, 88
Habeas corpus, writ of, 146
Hahn, Michael, 197
Hamilton, Alexander, 17, 182, 236
Hamlin, Hannibal, 235
Hampton, Frank, 215
Hampton, Kate, 248
Hampton, Wade, III, 151, 217