The 20 Most Significant Events of the Civil War
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Jackson, Julia Laura, 187
Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison, 187
Jackson’s Corps, 52
James, Captain George S., 40
James, Frank, 248–249
James, Jesse, 248–249
James River, 229
Jefferson, President Thomas, 32
Johnson, Gen. Bushrod, 61
Johnson, President Andrew, 67, 90, 108, 113, 115, 246–248
Johnston, Gen. Albert Sidney, 162–168
Johnston, Gen. Joseph E., 2–3, 59–60, 122–124, 126, 134, 151–152
Johnston, Maj. A.V.E., 249
Jones, J. B., 99
Judd, Norman, 23–27
K
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854, 12, 20, 208–209, 211
Keene, Laura, 103, 112
Keitt, Laurence M., 13–15
Kent, William, 111
Key, Francis Scott, 80
Key, Philip Barton, 80
King, Brig. Gen. Rufus, 205
King, Dr. Albert F.A., 111–112
“King Lincoln,” 100
Ku Klux Klan, 246
L
Lamon, Ward H., 26–27
Leale, Charles Augustus, 112–113
Leale, Dr. Charles Augustus, 111–112
Lecompton Constitution, 212
Lee, Gen. Fitzhugh, 60, 63
Lee, Gen. George Washington Custis, 61
Lee, Gen. Robert E. see also Army of Northern Virginia; Battle of Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862); Battle of Appomattox (April 9, 1865); Battle of Chancellorsville (April 30-May 6, 1863); Battle of Fredericksburg (Dec. 11-15, 1862); Bull Run, Second Battle (Aug. 28-30 1862); Seven Day Battles (June 25-July 1, 1862); Spotsylvania Court House
Army of Northern Virginia, 84–85, 196–197
Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, 75–85
battles of Civil War and Confederate army, 3–6
becomes Confederate top commander, 128–138
Bull Run, Second Battle, (Aug. 28-30 1862), 87–88
and Chancellorsville, 178–188
defeated Grant advances, 151–158
and Gettysburg, 68–71
leads army to Maryland, 49–53
Lee Divides and Conquers at the Second Battle of Bull Run, 201–207
“lifts his sword” for Virginia, 95
and prisoner exchange, 237
raid on Harper’s Ferry. see Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863)
significant acts of Civil War, 2–6
surrender at Appomattox, 22, 56–67, 249
surrender to Grant, 59–63
tintype of, 103
Lee, Gen. William Henry Fitzhugh “Rooney,” 60
Lee, Henry III, 129
Lee, “Light-Horse Harry,” 129
Lee, Maj. Gen. Henry “Light-Horse Harry,” 190
Lee, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, 130
Lee Surrenders to Grant, 56, 64–67
Lee’s farewell to troops, 66–67
Lee’s Legion, 129
“Lee’s Masterpiece,” 4, 178
Lincoln, Edward “Eddy,” 72
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 21, 27, 72, 102, 106–107, 110, 115–116
Lincoln, President Abraham. see also abolitionist movement; Booth, John Wilkes; Confederate States, birth of; Emancipation Proclamation
and abolition, 21–22
annuls Frémont’s and Hunter’s orders on grounds of due process, 44–45
assassination of, 102–116, 246–248
authorizes blockade, 121
and the Battle of Gettysburg, 68
choses Ambrose Burnside, 191
at Davis residence after fall of Richmond, 59
death of, 67
defense of Grant “he fights,” 150–151
desire for quick Reconstruction, 246–247
and “diplomats” to England, 234–236
evolution of beliefs on slavery, 22–23
farewell speech in Illinois, 19–20
Gettysburg Adress, 5, 71–75, 84–85
and Homestead Act, 175–176
inaguration address of, 28–30
inaguration of, 2, 18
journey from home to White House, 23–27
on McClellan, 87–88
McClellan’s telegram on state of the troops, 202–203
“negroes” as inferior race, 48
“Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation,” 4, 48–49, 53–54
reelection of, 86, 89–92
relieves Burnside, 200
and the Republican Party, 16
returns command to McClellan, 50
to Sherman’s advice to prepare for war, 120
Lincoln, Robert, 102–103, 112–113, 115
Lincoln, Tad, 72, 102
Lincoln, William “Willie,” 72
Little Crow, 240
Little Round Top, 56, 78–82
Little Sayler’s Creek, 61–62
Livingstone, Dr. David, 162
Longstreet, Gen. James “Old Pete,” 51–52, 62, 69, 75–76, 79–83, 136, 196–197, 201–207. see also Army of Northern Virginia; Battle of Chancellorsville (April 30-May 6, 1863); Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863); Bull Run, First Battle of (July 21, 1861); Bull Run, Second Battle (Aug. 28-30 1862); Seven Day Battles (June 25-July 1, 1862)
Lord Dundreary, 106–107
Louisiana, 22
Louisiana Purchase, 209
Louisiana Territory, 11–12
Lovejoy, Elijah P., 211
lunettes, 142
Lyons, Lord Richard, 235
M
Macbeth, 159–160
Mahone, Gen. William “Little Billy,” 62
Manassas Gap, 122
manufacturing, North vs. South, 220–221
March to the Sea (Nov. 15- Dec. 21, 1864), 91–92
Marshall, Colonel Charles, 58
Marye’s Heights, 197–198
Maryland, 50–52
Mason, James M., 234–236
Mason-Dixon Line, 216
Matthews Hill, 125–126
May 22, 1856, 7–17
McClellan, Ellen Mary Marcy, 86–87
McClellan, Maj. Gen. George Brinton. see also Army of the Potomac; Battle of Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862); Bull Run, First Battle of (July 21, 1861); Peninsula Campaign; Seven Day Battles (June 25-July 1, 1862)
Army of the Potomac, 127
Battle of Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862), 190
controlling territory as way to win, 150
fails to capture Richmond, disappoints as general, 46–53
and First Battle of Bull Run, 201–202
and General Order 182, 195
greatest weakness of, 181
Lincoln on McClellan, 179
messiah complex of, 86–89
Peninsula Campaign, 134
runs for president, 101
Seven Day Battles (June 25-July 1, 1862), 134–136
as West Point graduate, 149
McDowell, Maj. Gen. Irvin, 2, 86, 122–127, 149, 190, 206. see also Bull Run, First Battle of (July 21, 1861)
McGuire, Dr. Hunter Holmes, 184–188
McLean, Wilmer, 58, 64, 103
McNair, Dunning R., 15
McPherson, Brig. Gen. James B., 144–146
McPherson’s Ridge, 76–78
McPherson’s Woods, 77
Meade, Gen. George, 72, 75–76, 78, 98, 105, 149, 153–155. see also Army of the Potomac; Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863)
Memoirs, 119–120
military forts, 32–33
Mississippi Central Railroad, 142–143
Missouri, 44
Missouri Compromise, 11–12, 16–17, 209–211, 213–214
Missouri State Guard, 249
Missouri State Militia, 249
Missouri Territory, 209
Mitchell, Private W. B., 51
Mobile Bay (Aug. 23, 1864), 101
Moon Lake, 144
Morgan, Edwin, 15
Morgan, John Hunt, 49
Morrill, Justin S., 28
Morrill Land-Grant Act, 1862, 172
Morrill Tariff Act, 28
Morris Island, 35
“Mud March,” 179, 199–200
Mudd, Dr. Samuel, 115
Mule Shoe, 156–157
Mumford, William, 237
Murray, Ambrose, 15
Murray, Mary, 96–101
Myers, Sarah A. Cook “Sallie,” 72–74
Myrick, Andrew, 239
N
Namozine Church, 60
Napoleon III, 226
National Union Party, 90
nationalist/non-nationalist sentiment, 95–96
“negroes” as inferior race, 47–48
New York Draft Riot, 93–101
New York Draft Riots, 243
New York Herald, 162
New York Times, 26–27, 45
New York Tribune, 99
Nicolay, John G., 25–26
North Carolina Expeditionary Force, 192
Northern Democratic Party, 20
Northwest Ordinance, 16–17
Northwestern Confederacy, 100–101
O
“Old Brains,” 141
“Old Fuss and Feathers,” 37, 140
“Old Gentlemen’s Convention,” 28
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 234
Orange & Alexandria, 122
Our American Cousin, 103, 109
Overland Campaign, 59, 158
P
Pacific Railroad Acts, 1862 and 1863, 172
Paine, Lewis (Louis Thornton Powell), 108–110, 114
Palmito Ranch, 67
pardons, 105
Parker, John F., 106–107, 110, 115
Parker, Pvt. Henry, 168
Patterson, Maj. Gen. Robert, 122–123
“Peace Democrats,” 99
“Peach Orchard,” 81
Pemberton, Lt. Gen. John C., 142, 147
Pender, Maj. Gen. William Dorsey, 78
Pendleton, Maj. Sandy, 186
Peninsula Campaign, 134, 201–202
“Peninsular War” (1807-1814), 201–202
Pennsylvania Reserves, 205–206
Per Article 1, Section 7, Constitution, 246–248
Personal Memoirs, 62–64, 145, 160–161, 194
Petersen, William, 112
Pettigrew, Brig. Gen. J. Johnston, 34, 68, 70, 84
Peyster, Johnston de, 59
Pickens, Francis Wilkinson, 37–43
Pickett, Maj. Gen. George, 61, 83–85
“Pickett’s Charge,” 82–84, 132
Pierce, President Franklin, 132
Pillow, Gen. Gideon, 245
Pinkerton, Allan J., 23–27
Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, 162–163
Plains Indian Wars, 238
plantation economy, 220–221
Polk, Gen. Leonidas, 169
Pollard, Edward, 59
Pomeroy, Senator Samuel C., 87–89
Pope, Maj. Gen. John, 49–50, 87, 135–136, 143, 149, 201–207
“popular sovereignty,” 12, 210–211
Porter, Admiral David Dixon, 41–42, 144–145
Porter, Horace, 157
Porters, Maj. Gen Fitz John, 206
Possum Creek, 72–73
Pottawatomie River, 212
“Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation,” 44, 53–54
Prentiss, Brig. Gen. Benjamin M., 166–168
Price, Maj. Gen. Sterling, 140–141, 202–204, 248–249
prisoner exchange, 237–238
Pryor, Roger, 40
Q
Quantrill, William, 248
Quantrill’s Raiders, 248
Queen Victoria, 236
R
race riot, New York, 93, 96–101
Radical Democracy Party, 90
Radical Republican Congress, 115
Radical Republicans, 16, 45, 99, 246–248
Ramsey, Gov. Alexander, 240
Rapidan River, 152
Rathbone, Major Henry, 106–107, 110–111, 115
Reconstruction, 6, 103–104, 175, 246–248
Red River, 144
Reno, Maj. Gen. Jesse L., 206
Republican Party, 12, 16, 20, 48–49, 90
“Resolution to Call the Election of Abraham Lincoln as US President a Hostile Act,” 231–232
Reynolds, Maj. Gen. John, 77
Rice Station, 61
Richmond Ambulance Committee, 233
Richmond Examiner, 59
Roosevelt, President Franklin D., 171
Rosecrans, Gen. William S., 140–141
Round Top, 78–79, 81–82
Rowlands, John, 162
Ruffin, Edmund, 40
Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), 219
S
Safford, Henry S., 112
Sanborn, Franklin, 214
Sanders, Thomas Bradford, 111
“Sanitary Fairs,” 234
Santee Sioux, 238–240
Savannah, Georgia, capture of (Dec. 21, 1864), 91–92
Scott, Dred, 16–17, 213
Scott, Maj. Gen. Winfield, 37, 120–121, 130–133, 139–140, 214–215
“Scott’s Anaconda,” 121, 140, 240
secession movement
and abolition, 21–23
and “Black Lincoln,” 31
declared illegal by Buchanan, 232
and Dixie, 27
fire-eaters and, 33, 40
Jefferson Davis and, 38
Lincoln on, 29–30
and “Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation,” 47
secession of 7 states, 21
start of, 18
Second American Revolution, Civil War as, 233
Second Boer War (1899–1902), 236
2nd US Cavalry Regiment, 132
Sedgwick, Maj. Gen. John, 180–181
Seminary Ridge, 83–85
Seven Day Battles (June 25-July 1, 1862), 134–137, 201–202
Seventeenth Amendment, 12
Seward, Frederick, 103, 109
Seward, Major Augustus, 109
Seward, Secretary of State William H., 37, 41, 48–49, 86–89, 103–108, 115, 235
“Seward’s folly,” 115
Shakespeare, William, 159–160
Shaw, Col. Robert Gould, 243–244
Shenandoah Valley, 122
Sheridan, Maj. Gen. Philip, 60, 63
Sherman, Gen. William Tecumseh. see also Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862); Grant, Gen. Ulysses S.; Vicksburg, siege of; Yazoo Pass Expedition
Army of Tennessee surrenders to, 67
defeated Grant advances, 151–158
fall of Atlanta, 90–92
on Forrest, 245
“I was to go for Joe Johnston.,” 152–153
predicts long, bloody war, 219–220
rebels fall at Bull Run, 117–120
at Shiloh, 166
Vicksburg, siege of, 142–145
Shotwell, Anna, 96–101
Shotwell, Hanna, 96–101
Sickles, Maj. Gen. Daniel, 80–81
Sigel, Gen. Franz, 205–206
16th New York Cavalry, 114
“Slave Power,” 7, 13
slavery issue. see also abolitionist movement
abolition movement, 10–12
and the Constitution, 9–10
South Carolina, 231–232
Sumner and Preston, 13–17
Slidell, John, 234–236
Smith, Gerrit, 212, 214
Smith, Maj. Gen. Edmund Kirby, 67, 114, 140
sodbuster, 176
South Carolina, 37–43, 231–232
South Carolina Secedes from the Union, December 20, 1860, 231–232
Southern Democratic Party, 20
Southern Homestead Act, 175
Southern Press, 134
Special Order No. 191, 50–52
Spotsylvania Court House, 154–157
Square Fort, 142
Stanley, Pvt. Henry Morton, 162–169
Stanton, Edwin M., 80, 87, 103–104, 113, 11
5, 195, 237–238
Star of the West, 35
“Star-Spangled Banner,” 80
State Box (Ford’s Theatre), 106–107
Stearns, George L., 214
Steele’s Bayou, 145
Stephens, Alexander, 21
Stockade Redan, 142
Stone, Dr. Robert K., 113
Stone Bridge, 122–125
Stoneman, Brig. Gen. George, 181
Strong, Colonel Vincent, 81–82
Stuart, Gen. J. E. B., 49, 70, 154, 156, 181–182, 202–203, 216
Sudley Ford, 125
Sullivan’s Island, 33
Sumner, Charles, 1, 7–9, 12–16
Sumner, Gen. Edwin V., 195
Sumner, Maj. Gen. Edwin “Bull,” 52
Sumner, Sen. Charles, 113
Surratt, Mary, 115
surrender of Lee, 22
T
Taft, Dr. Charles Sabin, 111–112
Tallahatchie River, 144
Tallmadge, James, 209
Tallmadge Amendment, 209
Taltavull’s Saloon, 110
Taney, Chief Justice Roger B., 16–17, 29, 213–214
Taylor, Lt. Gen. Richard, 67
Taylor, Zachary, 67
Tensas River, 144
terms of parole, Grant’s to Lee, 65–66
Texas
annexation of, 10
Congress assumes debts of, 12
3rd Louisana Redan, 142
Thirteenth Amendment, 21, 55, 246–248
33rd Missouri Infantry Regiment (Mounted), 249
Thompson, Jacob, 101, 105–106
Tilden, Samuel J., 175
Toombs, Robert, 15
Topeka Constitution 1855, 212
Toutant-Beauregard, Gen. Pierre Gustave, 162
Trans-Mississippi Theater, 121
Tredegar Iron Works, 223
Trent, 235
“Trent affair,” 235–236
Trimble, Gen. Isaac Ridgeway, 83–85
Twain, Mark, 64
Twentieth Amendment, 23
20th Maine Regiment, 56, 81–82
27th Indiana, 51
Twiggs, Brevet Maj. Gen. David E., 133
Two Minutes at Gettysburg, 68
Tyler, Brig. Gen. Daniel, 123–125
Tyler, John, 27–28
U
Unconditional Surrender Grant, 147
Union Eastern Theater, 193
United States Christian Commission, 234
United States Colored Troops (USCT), 244
United States Sanitary Commission, 234
The United States Sanitary Commission Is Authorized, June 8, 1861, 232–234
URSC Harriet Lane, 38–40
US Mint, 237–238
US-Mexican War (1846-48), 10–12, 119, 131–132, 139, 191–192, 209–210
USS Congress, 225
USS Cumberland, 224
USS Housatonic, 221–222
USS Kearsarge, 240–243