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emancipation and, 346, 365, 366, 375, 379, 407, 422
foreign relations and, 413–15
Fort Sumter crisis and, 286, 287, 288–92
at Hampton Roads Conference, 558–60
irrepressible conflict doctrine of, 209, 232, 240, 246
Lincoln assassination plot and, 596, 598
Lincoln’s inauguration speech and, 283–84
Lincoln’s relationship with, 426–27, 478–79
Mary Lincoln and, 427
in mediation crisis, 414–15
in Peterhoff affair, 413–14
Radicals’ dislike of, 425
in Trent affair, 322, 323
war threat memorandum of, 289–90, 321
Seymour, Horatio, 381, 382, 383, 421, 422, 442, 448, 458, 484
draft riots and, 449–50
Seymour, John, 422
Shakespeare, William, 15, 31, 41, 47, 569, 580
Shaw, Robert Gould, 455
Shenandoah campaign, 355
Shepley, George F., 485, 486
Sheridan, James B., 214
Sheridan, Philip, 497, 520, 544, 555, 572, 575–76
Sherman, John, 305, 481–82, 546
Sherman, William T., 308, 409, 432, 445, 468, 469, 490, 496, 498, 499, 500, 501, 512, 513, 515, 517, 528, 532, 553, 555, 573, 574, 581, 583, 592
City Point Conference and, 579, 580, 682n
Shibley, John, 148
Shields, James, 84, 90–91, 92, 139, 172, 179–80, 355, 356
Shiloh, battle of, 349
Short, James, 55
Shutes, Milton H., 651n
Siam, 412
Sickles, Daniel, 475
Sigel, Franz, 476, 498, 499, 512, 519
Simeon, Francis, 70
Simmons, James F., 281
Singleton, James W., 556, 559
Singleton, John P., 148
Sinking Spring Farm, 22
Sioux Indians, 392–95, 396, 399
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, U.S., 297, 298
Slater, Hannah, see Lincoln, Hannah Slater
slaves, slavery, 23–24, 31, 63, 64, 80, 81, 120, 187–88, 424, 453, 455
Alton riot and, 82
border states and, 344–45, 347–48, 355, 362, 365
colonization scheme and, 166–67, 221, 343–45, 355, 365, 367–68, 396, 417–418, 430, 469, 534, 583, 652n
compensated emancipation idea and, 348, 355, 362, 396, 397, 566
Congress and, 133, 162, 175, 345–48, 355
Constitutional amendment and, 128, 396–98, 503–4, 509, 523, 554, 555, 558, 560, 561–63
as “contrabands,” 343, 383, 417
Declaration of Independence and, 176, 199, 201–2, 222, 224, 226, 233
Delaware emancipation scheme and, 345
Dred Scott decision and, see Dred Scott decision
1848 election and, 127, 131, 133
1854 debates and, 175–77
emancipation idea and, 362–64
expansion of, 133–34, 162, 170, 175, 177, 270, 417
free economy compared with, 234–35
Frémont proclamation and, 314–17, 363, 479
fugitive, 343–45
Great Britain and, 342
Greeley letter and, 368–69
Hampton Roads Conference and, 558, 559
Hunter’s proclamation and, 363
Illinois and, 103–4
Kansas-Nebraska Territories and, 167–168
in Lincoln-Douglas 1858 debates, 214–224
Lincoln’s “abolition” message to Congress and, 346–48
Lincoln’s conspiracy theory of, 207–9, 220, 221
Lincoln’s popularity and, 458–59
Lincoln’s views on, 14–15, 34–35, 104, 165–67, 180–81, 302, 342–43, 625n
Louisiana reorganization and, 485–87
Matson case and, 103–4, 157
Mexican War and, 122, 162
Missouri Compromise and, 167–68, 170
peace negotiations and, 523, 526–27, 532, 556, 558, 560
and proposed arming of slaves, 326, 367–68, 430, 583
Republican party platform and, 189–90, 192
Second Confiscation Act and, 364–65
Wade-Davis bill and, 510–11
in Washington, D.C., 135–37, 218, 269, 348
Wilmot Proviso and, 122, 127–28, 134, 162
Slidell, John, 320, 322, 323, 328
Slocum, Henry W., 440
Smith, Caleb B., 122, 249, 265, 286, 289, 344, 366, 372, 379, 390, 393, 400, 401
Smith, C. M., 271
Smith, Thomas P., 72
Smith, William F., 409, 411
Smithers, Nathaniel B., 345
Smoot, Coleman, 53
Society of Friends, 20, 514
Sociology for the South (Fitzhugh), 187
Soldiers’ Home, 449, 457, 518, 548, 549
South Carolina, 156, 192, 268, 283, 287, 288, 292, 293, 363, 430, 433, 503, 565, 589
secession of, 257, 267
South Mountain, battle of, 386
Spain, 289, 592–93
Spalding, Rufus P., 496
Spangler, Edman, 596
Sparks, Thomas W., 97
Sparrow, Elizabeth Hanks, 26
Sparrow, Thomas, 26
Spears, George C., 51
Spectator, 352
Speed, Fanny Henning, 89, 93
Speed, James, 88, 299, 461, 550, 551, 579, 589, 590–91
Speed, Joshua F., 66, 72, 79, 81, 85, 86–87, 88, 93, 95, 109, 112, 119, 138, 189, 299, 316, 335, 377, 514, 568
background of, 69–70
marriage of, 89–90
Speed, Mary, 88
Speed, Mrs., 88–89
Spinner, Francis E., 463
Spirit of the Times, 525
Spotsylvania, battle of, 500, 501
Sprague, William, 459, 476
Sprigg, Ann G., 119–20, 121, 135, 136
Springfield, 111., 75, 143
blacks in, 167
description of, 67
1863 rally in, 457
Herndon as mayor of, 160
as state capital, 62, 63–64
Springfield (Mass.) Republican, 465
Stackpole, W. H., 648n
Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 339, 340, 341, 349, 350, 351, 352, 358, 363, 365, 369–70, 372, 373, 375, 383, 384, 399, 410, 411, 417, 419, 421, 424, 430, 432, 455, 457–58, 463, 471, 476, 489, 491, 509, 534, 535, 543, 549, 551, 557, 579, 591, 682n
appointed to War Department, 333–34
cabinet crisis and, 400–401, 404, 405
Early’s raid and, 518
Grant and, 497, 500–501
habeas corpus and, 380
Lincoln’s death and, 598–99, 686n
Lincoln’s security as concern of, 548, 571, 576, 594
Lincoln’s working relationship with, 334
McCormick reaper case and, 186–87
personality of, 333–34
Virginia reconstruction plan opposed by, 589–90
Stanton, Mrs., 536, 394
Star of the West, USS, 267–68
State Bank of Illinois, 76–78, 81, 90
State Department, U.S., 263, 265, 314, 335, 390, 425
Stearns, George Luther, 564
Steele, Frederick, 484
Stephens, Alexander H., 121–22, 126, 134, 276, 456, 555, 557–59, 560, 641n
Stevens, John Austin, 531
Stevens, Thaddeus, 130, 302–3, 342, 378, 395, 424, 425, 470, 477, 480, 504–5, 510, 553, 554
Still Waters Run Deep (play), 588
Stoddard, William O., 310
Stone, Charles P., 319
Stone, Daniel, 63–64, 134
Stone, Robert King, 598, 686n
Stoneman, George, 435
Stones River (Murfreesboro), battle of, 408, 592
Storey, Wilbur F., 421, 465–66
Story, Joseph, 55
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 542
Stratton, Charles Sherwood “General Tom Thumb,” 427
/> Strong, George Templeton, 276, 279, 373, 525, 546
Stuart, James E. B. “Jeb,” 388
Stuart, John Todd, 45–46, 52–53, 64, 78, 88, 94, 98, 101, 104, 111, 119, 156, 160, 190, 245, 381, 382, 383
Lincoln’s law partnership with, 70–71, 73–74, 86, 95–96
Stuart, Mrs. John Todd, 197
suffrage, 487–88, 541, 562, 563, 585, 683n
Lincoln’s view on, 59
Summers, George W., 290
Sumner, Charles, 168, 190, 302, 314, 323, 362, 414, 415, 419, 457, 477, 479, 506, 512, 524, 525, 531, 536, 543, 548, 554, 562, 589, 598, 599
Brooks’s attack on, 194
cabinet crisis and, 400, 403, 405
City Point conference and, 579, 580
Emancipation Proclamation and, 345, 346, 347, 363, 364, 366, 367, 378, 473–74
Lincoln as viewed by, 285, 290, 328
Lincoln’s relationship with, 321–22, 564–65
Louisiana filibuster by, 564–65
Mary Lincoln and, 476, 565, 584
Peterhoff affair and, 413
reconstruction debate and, 470–71
use of black troops urged by, 425, 430
Sumner, E. V., 273, 278, 341, 352, 411
Supreme Court, Illinois, 99, 103, 104, 143, 147, 152, 155–56, 168–69, 183
Supreme Court, U.S., 143, 280, 381, 450, 554
Chase appointed to, 535–36, 551–52
Dred Scott decision of, see Dred Scott decision
Surratt, John, H., 587, 596
Surratt, Man, 587
Swaney, James, 29
Swayne, Noah, 536, 551
Swett, Leonard, 105, 149, 181, 183, 203, 242, 244, 246, 248, 249–50, 265–66, 366, 381, 382, 383, 428, 534
System of Geometry and Trigonometry with a Treatise on Surveying (Flint), 51
Taft, Bud, 309–10
Taft, Charles S., 598
Taft, Holly, 309
Taft, Julia, 309–10
Talisman, 43–44
“Tam O’ Shanter” (Burns), 47
Taney, Roger B., 199–200, 201, 207, 208, 283, 299, 304, 313, 536, 551
tariffs, 110, 122, 236, 246, 247, 253, 260, 266, 331, 417, 424
Taylor, Bayard, 164, 301
Taylor, James, 34
Taylor, Walter H., 677n–78n
Taylor, Zachary, 119, 122, 123, 126–29, 130, 131, 132, 133, 138, 140, 260
Lincoln’s eulogy on, 164–65
Taylor administration, 137–39
Tazewell Whig, 113, 125
Ten percent plan of Reconstruction, 471–472
Tennessee, 256, 281, 297, 335, 378, 379, 397, 407, 408, 431, 433, 435, 437, 468, 469, 483, 484, 505, 510, 539, 553, 563, 565
Texas, 122, 123, 134, 208, 267, 276, 484, 486, 556
Thanksgiving Day, 471
Thayer, Eli, 188
Thomas, George H., 335, 384, 457, 458, 468, 501, 553, 555
Thomas, Lorenzo, 316, 431, 471
Thompson, Ambrose W., 344
Thompson, Jacob, 521
Tilton, Lucian, 272
Tilton, Theodore, 525, 531, 532
Times (London), 311–12, 418
Tippecanoe, battle of, 78
Tod, David, 444, 508
Todd, Mary, see Lincoln, Mary Todd
Todd, Robert S., 84, 96, 166
Toombs, Robert, 6l8n
“To Whom It May Concern” letter, 522–523, 526, 559
Treasury Department, U.S., 136, 264, 266, 281, 301, 325, 346, 352, 479, 480, 481, 482, 502, 507, 591
Treat, Samuel H., 73, 144, 146, 156
Treatise on Practical Surveying (Gibson), 51
Trent affair, 320–23, 346, 413
Trenton Union League, 481
Trumbull, Julia Jayne, see Jayne, Julia
Trumbull, Lyman, 173, 174, 183, 184, 204, 211, 213, 216, 219–20, 221, 226, 231, 241, 254, 261, 262, 264, 267, 269, 270, 288, 318, 324, 325, 332, 342, 343, 425, 441, 493–94, 564, 582
Truth, Sojourner, 541
Turner, Thomas J., 182
Turnham, David, 47
“Twenty Years Ago” (song), 387
Twiggs, David E., 276
Tyler, John, 122, 139
Ullmann, Daniel, 431
Underground Railroad, 541
Union Congressional Committee, 534
Union League, 480, 481, 506–7
Union party, 381
Usher, John P., 393, 463, 550
Utah, 168, 181
Vallandigham, Clement L., 214, 313, 423, 437, 441–42, 443, 444, 450, 455, 530
arrest of, 419–21
1863 election and, 458
House of Representatives addressed by, 416
Van Buren, Martin, 58, 62, 78, 80, 122, 127, 129, 131, 266
Vance, John C., 48
Vance, Mariah, 167
Vance, Zebulon B., 556, 683n
Vandalia Free Press, 63
Van Santvoord, C., 391, 392
Van Wyck, Charles H., 325
Vermont, 248, 279, 548
veto power, as used by Lincoln, 331, 510–512, 650n
Vestvali, Felicita, 569–70
Vickery, Marmaduke, 54
Vicksburg campaign, 409, 432–33, 435, 437, 445–46, 455, 457, 459, 460, 469
Victoria, Queen of England, 120
Viele, Egbert L., 350
Villard, Henry, 217, 235, 399
Virginia, 256,’281, 283–84, 288, 290, 298, 397, 498–99, 597
partition of, 300–301, 405
Pierpont regime in, 579
reconstruction debate and, 578–79, 580, 581, 584, 589–90, 591
secession of, 297, 306
Virginia, CSS, 339–40
Voorhees, Daniel, 514
Wade, Benjamin F., 204, 237, 314, 326–27, 331, 332, 378, 477, 524, 525, 531, 533–34, 535, 564
Wade-Davis bill, 510–12, 524, 533–34, 535, 561–62
Wade-Davis Manifesto, 524, 533
Wadsworth, James S., 350, 381, 401, 548, 683n
Wakeman, Abram, 528, 533
Walker, Robert J., 203
Walker Tariff, 122
Wallace, Frances, 84, 94–95, 159
Wallace, Lew, 518, 519
Wallace, William H., 594
Wallace, William S., 84, 94–95, 273
Ward, Artemus, 374
War Department, U.S., 123, 266, 281, 285, 307, 329, 349, 361, 363, 364, 370, 372, 380, 383, 388, 392, 419, 433, 435, 439, 446, 458, 479, 499, 500, 522, 549, 551
Cameron’s ouster from, 325–26
censorship by, 512
congressional investigation of, 325–26
Stanton appointed to, 333–34
War of 1812, 45, 126, 129
Warren, Gouverneur K., 576