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    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

     


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