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The 20 Most Significant Events of the Civil War

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by Alan Axelrod


  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

 

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