Liberator, 53, 72, 240, 349–50, 383
Liberty Party, 87, 133, 173, 296
“Life in the Iron Mills” (Harding), 269
Life of James Brown (Redpath), 371
Lily, 103
Lincoln, Abraham
as abolitionist, 33, 47, 68–71, 76, 91–92, 108, 111–20, 125, 126, 127, 128, 160–62, 180, 182, 190–94, 223, 224, 239–44, 300–301, 303, 304–5, 310–11, 314–16, 323
assassination of, 367–80, 381, 382, 385, 387, 388, 394, 396, 407, 415, 427, 429, 430, 441, 445
assassination plots against, 191, 233, 346, 362–63, 367–80, 381, 427, 592
black suffrage supported by, 372, 382, 383, 415
“blind memorandum” of, 322–23
cabinet of, 190–91, 239, 297, 309, 314–15, 317, 322–23, 384, 441, 444, 590
Civil War role of, 11, 47, 177, 178, 180, 184–85, 187, 190–94, 199, 206, 208, 210, 212, 213, 223, 224, 227–29, 233, 234–35, 237, 239, 254, 257
colonization supported by, 229–30, 243
Douglas debated by, 69, 111–20, 125, 127, 136
1860 presidential campaign of, 159–77, 180, 182, 184, 190, 223, 233, 295, 318, 407
1864 presidential campaign of, 289, 300, 307–11, 315–17, 322–24, 331, 344, 367, 415
emancipation as viewed by, 227–30, 234–35, 237, 239–41, 243, 314–15, 317, 322, 362–63, 372, 382, 383
Emancipation Proclamation issued by, 239, 243–45, 268, 286, 292–94, 339, 344–45, 347, 356, 370, 398, 459
Gettysburg address of, 274, 275, 278, 294–95
at Hampton Roads Conference (1865), 352–53, 383
as Illinois congressman, 7, 35, 39, 68–69
military situation as viewed by, 257–58, 259, 274, 278–80, 283, 293–94, 299, 319–20, 322, 324, 329, 336, 340, 346–50, 351, 380, 392, 423
peace negotiations as viewed by, 320–21, 352–53, 383
pocket veto used by, 315–16
political opposition to, 243–44, 284–90, 296–300, 305, 307–11, 315–17, 320–24
popular support for, 322–24, 346–50, 367–79
as president, 254, 257, 284, 308, 346–50, 431–32, 509
as president-elect, 190–94, 322–23
press coverage of, 187, 239–40, 295, 298, 309, 316, 321, 346, 349–50, 353, 368, 369, 423
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction issued by, 300–301, 304, 315
Reconstruction policies of, 300–301, 305, 382–84, 392, 393, 394, 396, 415, 425–26
as Republican leader, 190–91, 223, 292–94, 296–300, 304–5, 307–11, 315–17, 318, 321, 322–24, 415, 425–26
Richmond visited by, 362–63
speeches of, vii, 81, 126, 135–36, 160–62, 180, 191–94, 293, 294–95, 346–50, 372, 382, 383, 415, 548
in Springfield, Ill., 184, 191, 233, 293, 376, 377
as Unionist, 190–94, 239–41
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 304, 319
Lincoln, Robert, 159
Lincoln, Willie, 295
Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858), 69, 111–20, 125, 127, 136
Lind, Jenny, 79, 132
Little Big Horn, Battle of the, 554–57
Little Dorrit (Dickens), 143
Little Women (Alcott), 265
Livermore, Mary, 464
Lloyd, John, 373
Locke, David Ross, 423–24
Loguen, Jermain W., 35, 129
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 36, 187, 246, 255, 418
Longstreet, James, 232, 238, 258, 259, 275, 276–77, 278, 298, 363, 364, 366, 495, 589
Lookout Mountain, Battle of, 299
López, Narciso, 15–25, 33, 35, 36, 37, 62, 120, 199
Lost Cause, The (Pollard), 428
Louisiana, 166, 178, 224, 245–46, 307, 315, 351, 383, 411–17, 435, 437, 446–47, 475, 495–97, 529, 538, 569–71, 578–79, 580, 581, 585, 665n
Louisiana Purchase, 65
Lovejoy, Elijah, 128, 129, 303, 325–26
Lowell, Charles Russell, 340
Lowell, Francis Cabot, 151
Lowell, James Russell, 36–37, 170, 197, 198, 229, 424, 425, 477
Lowell, John, 153
Lowell, Mass., 151, 224
Lowell Lectures, 513
Lowell Offering, 152
Luther, Martin, 230
Lyell, Charles, 523–24
Lynchburg Republican, 169
Lyon, Nathaniel, 228, 391–92
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 357–58
Mackenzie, Ranald, 557
Madison, James, 27
Maine, 3, 35, 135, 221
malaria, 261, 519, 525, 559
Mallory, Charles, 225
Mallory, Shepard, 225
Malvern Hill, Battle of, 232, 388
Manassas Junction, Va., 204, 217, 238
Manifest Destiny, 16–18, 20, 59–60, 63, 74, 80, 84, 85, 106–11, 116–17, 482–88, 506–7, 557
Mann, Horace, 50–55, 58, 59, 146
“Man without a Country” (Hale), 288
Marcy, William L., 61, 63, 66
Margret Howth (Harding), 269, 270
Maria Cristina, queen of Spain, 17
Mariposa Big Tree Grove, 508–9
marriage, 42, 105, 151–52, 406, 453, 463–64, 465, 468–69, 471–73
Marx, Karl, 257, 468
Marye’s Heights, 259, 271
Maryland, 55–57, 126, 166, 177, 185, 191, 200, 243, 255, 300, 308, 316
“Maryland, My Maryland” (Randall), 255
Mason, James M., 30, 144, 235
Mason, John Y., 61, 62, 63, 64
Mason, Margaretta, 144
Mason-Dixon Line, 173, 504
Massachusetts, 2, 5, 7, 35, 51, 72–73, 74, 75, 76, 88, 114, 144, 149–58, 159, 160, 262, 302, 447, 473, 549
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 72–73, 125–26, 175, 302
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, 74
“Massacre of the Innocents, The” (Nash), 423
Mather, Cotton, 325
May, Samuel, 464
Mayo, Joseph, 362
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 71
McClellan, George B., 206–8, 209, 218, 230–33, 234, 237–38, 239, 242–43, 244, 250, 257, 258, 274, 279, 302, 310, 311, 323–24, 338, 344, 391–92, 432
McClintock, Mary Ann, 41
McDowell, Irvin, 204–5, 206
McDowell, James, 6
McFarland, Abby Sage, 468–69
McFarland, Daniel, 468–69
McFeely, William, 482–83
McKinstry, Justus, 212
McLean, Wilbur, 364
McPherson, James, 221, 301
Meade, George Gordon, 274–75, 276, 278–80, 364, 385, 522
Mechanics’ Institute, 411–17
Medicine Arrows, 554
Medicine Lodge Treaty (1867), 535, 538
Meigs, Montgomery C., 209
Melville, Gansevoort, 46
Melville, Herman, 11, 44–47, 48, 71, 84, 120, 128, 175–76, 206, 337–38, 351, 424, 427, 506, 530, 587
Memphis, TN, 179, 232, 312, 313, 414–15, 428, 503, 560, 562
Memphis Daily Avalanche, 442
Mennonites, 340
Men of Color, to Arms! (Douglass), 246
Meridian, Miss., 332–34
Merrimack, 215, 252
Methodists, 105–6
Mexican Gulf Railroad Company, 19
Mexican War, 3–4, 20, 26, 59, 60, 97, 158, 206, 216, 274, 318
Mexico, 20–21, 86, 120, 289, 352, 415, 432, 485, 525–26
Midwest, 168, 173–74, 287–88, 289
Miles, Nelson, 557
Military Reconstruction Act, 443, 448
Military Telegraph Corps, U.S., 209
Miller, Joaquin, 507
Miller, William, 102
Milligan decision (1866), 443
Milliken’s Bend, Battle of, 283–84
Milton, John, 30, 44, 115
Minerva, 346–47
Miniart, Albert, 564
Miniconjou Indians, 534, 555
&n
bsp; minié balls, 216, 311
Mining Industry (King), 516
Mississippi, 50, 54, 158, 166, 178, 185, 187, 258, 325, 397, 398, 402, 407, 475, 489, 491, 569, 572, 573, 588, 589, 664n
“Mississippi plan,” 572
Mississippi River, 23, 84, 158, 208, 227, 253, 280, 290, 299, 312, 326, 330–31, 332, 559
Missouri, 3, 73–74, 75, 89, 93–94, 104–5, 128, 166, 190, 200, 221, 227, 228, 243, 300, 310, 328–29, 331, 486, 498, 573
Missouri Compromise (1820), 33, 26, 65–68, 70–71, 76, 90, 178
Mobile Bay, Battle of, 324
Moby-Dick (Melville), 44–47, 48, 84, 530
Modoc Indians, 550–51
Monitor, 215, 252
monopolies, 286, 309, 491–92, 503–4, 552
Monroe, James, 19
Monroe, John T., 412–13, 438
Monroe Doctrine, 352
Montana Territory, 493, 545, 549
Montauk, 379
Montgomery, Ala., 169, 188, 201
Montgomery, James, 247–48
Montreal, Canada, 371–72
Morgan, Edwin D., 133, 135, 317
Mormons, 11, 102–11, 172, 176, 326, 583
Moroni, 102
Morrill, Lot M., 533
Morris, 72
Morse, Samuel F. B., 100
Morton, Oliver Perry, 487–88
Mosby, John Singleton, 337–40, 373
“Mosby’s Confederacy,” 338
Mosses from an Old Manse (Hawthorne), 44
“Mother of the Forest,” 507
Motley, John Lothrop, 481, 485
Mott, Lucretia, 41–42, 464, 467
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (King), 520
Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857), 109
Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Shaw), 472
Mudd, Samuel A., 373, 374–75, 378
Murfreesboro, Battle of, 275, 298, 311
“My Country, ’Tis of Thee,” 245
My Wife and I (Stowe), 470–71
Napoleon I, emperor of France, 130, 206, 231, 278, 283
Napoleon III, emperor of France, 61, 355
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, The (Douglass), 126
Nashville Banner and Whig, 171
Nast, Thomas, 423–24, 466, 489, 502–3, 572–73
Natchez, 85
Nation, 203, 434, 445, 567, 587
National Anti-Slavery, 143
National Banking Act (1863), 286
national debt, 309, 315, 316, 318, 419, 477–78, 485, 494, 495, 647n
National Era, 47, 52, 66, 67–68
National Labor Union, 463
National Photographic Art Gallery, 216
National Union Party, 422
National Woman Suffrage Association, 463–65, 469, 473
Native Americans, 74, 85, 86, 103, 107, 109, 110, 143, 158, 298, 308, 325, 432, 506–7, 511, 518–19, 529–58, 569–70, 583, 591, 593, 659n
Nature (Emerson), 32
Nauvoo Expositor, 105
Navy, U.S., 121, 236
Nebraska Territory, 65–76, 81, 88, 97, 102, 106, 112, 433–34, 498, 549, 550
Neptune, 18
Neutrality Act (1818), 21, 22, 62, 121–22
Nevins, Allan, 157
Nevins, David, 153, 154, 169
New England, 35, 44, 59, 74, 129, 149–58, 159, 160, 174, 180, 263, 284–85, 316, 327, 395, 464
New England Emigrant Aid Society, 153
New-England Labor Reform League, 546
New England Society for the Promotion of Manufacture and the Mechanic Arts, 153
New England Society of Charleston, 566
New Hampshire, 32, 58, 302
New Mexico Territory, 26, 29, 185, 377
New Orleans, 15–17, 19, 21–25, 54, 55, 61–62, 224, 232, 253, 292, 411–17, 420, 421–22, 423, 428, 438, 460, 467, 497, 503, 529, 569, 574, 580, 584–85
New Orleans, Battle of, 574
New Orleans, Jackson & Mississippi Railroad, 432
New Orleans Daily Crescent, 417
New Orleans Daily Delta, 16–17, 19, 255
New Orleans Picayune, 24
New Orleans Tribune, 306
New York, N.Y., 7–8, 18, 21, 49, 73, 79, 82, 99–101, 135, 143, 160, 168, 173, 213, 219, 265, 290–92, 326, 327, 445, 460, 476–80, 489, 526, 547–48
New York Anti-Slavery Society, 55
New-York Evening Post, 61, 175, 493
New York Fire Department Zouaves, 217
New York Herald, 64, 89, 101, 135, 154, 156, 200, 201, 203, 210, 212, 269, 285, 306, 309, 422, 537, 580
New-York Illustrated News, 214
New York Independent, 440
New York State, 31, 102, 105, 123, 129–30, 132, 136, 141, 160, 173–74, 229, 444–45, 468–69
New York Sun, 21, 37, 42, 445, 503
New York Times, 60, 83–84, 107, 108, 113, 210, 213, 219, 248, 269, 290, 305, 318, 368, 376, 377, 381, 405, 422, 425, 441, 470, 556, 570
New-York Tribune, 8, 37, 42, 64, 73, 83, 113, 136, 154, 163, 172, 201, 204, 206, 210, 212, 213, 239–40, 248, 257, 283, 291, 316, 318, 398–99, 435, 468, 470, 489–90, 493, 494
New York World, 203, 207, 285, 349
Nez Perce Indians, 530
Niagara, 99–100
Nicaragua, 120–22, 506
Nicolay, John George, 119, 128, 243
Nightingale, Florence, 264
9th Louisiana Volunteers of African Descent, 283–84
Nordhoff, Charles, 567, 591
North American Review, 584, 590
North Carolina, 73, 155, 166, 190, 201, 253, 336, 352, 360, 364, 366, 395, 397, 405, 406, 438, 446, 497
Northern Pacific Railroad, 391, 432, 551
North Star, 39, 126
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 26–27
Noyes, John Humphrey, 103
Nullification Crisis (1832), 180–81, 182
Nye, James, 486
oaths of allegiance, 225, 300–301, 315, 365, 396–97
O’Conor, Charles, 173
Office of Correspondence with the Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army, 272–73
Oglala Sioux Indians, 534, 547, 550
Ohio, 103–4, 285, 287–88, 289, 296, 297, 300, 326, 367, 579
Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, 206, 432
Oklahoma (Indian Territory), 531, 535, 551
O’Laughlen, Michael, 373, 374–75, 378
Old Arsenal Penitentiary, 374, 376
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 207, 509
Olson, Charles, 120
Opdyke, George, 292
Order of American Knights, 289, 290
Oregon Steam Navigation Company, 432
Oregon Steamship Company, 432
Oregon Territory, 85, 166, 580
Oregon Trail, The (Parkman), 506
Orphan Asylum for Colored Children, 291
Orwell, George, 47
Ostend Manifesto (1854), 63–64, 66, 74, 76
O’Sullivan, John, 20, 22, 36, 37, 38, 41, 44, 59, 65, 67, 80, 163, 173, 255, 506, 659n
O’Sullivan, Timothy, 510, 521–23
Our American Cousin, 368
“Outcasts of Poker Flat, The” (Harte), 521
Pacific Railway Act (1862), 431
Pacific Railway Act (1864), 432
Painter, Uriah, 210
Paiute Indians, 109
Palmer, Maurice, 150
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Lord, 355
Pampero, 15, 19–20, 23, 36
Panic of 1857, 109, 122, 153
Panic of 1873, 447, 452, 551–52, 571
Park, Trenor, 508
Parker, Eliza Ann, 56
Parker, Ely, 543–44, 547, 550
Parker, Theodore, 2, 31, 35, 43, 131, 135
Parker, William, 55–57, 71–72
Parkman, Francis, 506–7, 518
Parks, Moses, 564
Parrington, Vernon, 434
Parrott guns, 281, 31
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Partisan Ranger Act (1862), 330
Partisan Rangers, 330, 337–40
“Passage to India” (Whitman), 433
Patent Office, U.S., 52, 262
Paulding, Hiram, 121
Peace Democrats, 287–88, 290, 291, 292–93, 320–21
Pearl affair (1848), 11, 50, 51–55
Pember, Phoebe Yates Levy, 266
Pemberton, John C., 281, 282
Pemberton Mill Collapse (1860), 149–58, 159, 160, 379, 431
Pendleton, George, 344
Penn, William, 41
Pennington, William, 159
Pennsylvania, 55–57, 130, 170, 221, 270, 275, 292, 294, 303–4, 317, 444
Pennsylvania Railroad, 209
Pennsylvania State Republican Party, 303–4
Perkins Institute for the Blind, 131
Perry, Benjamin F., 174, 397, 403
Perry, Matthew C., 84
Petersburg, Siege of, 319, 339, 343, 352, 360, 361, 363
Petigru, James, 174
Pettigrew, James, 275
Philadelphia, 7, 25, 326, 523, 555–56, 562
Philadelphia Inquirer, 210
Philadelphia Press, 361
Philippi, Battle of, 206
Phillips, Ann Terry Greene, 302–3
Phillips, David, 564
Phillips, Sampson, & Co., 49
Phillips, Wendell, 88, 128, 142–43, 175, 225, 246, 256, 296, 301–3, 304, 310, 323, 406, 422, 423, 450, 454, 455, 457, 459, 462, 494, 501, 537–38, 541, 546, 552, 565, 570, 586, 588, 590, 591, 593
photography, 40–41, 163, 214–18, 243, 507–10, 521–23
Piatt, Donn, 63
Pickens, Francis, 183, 199, 250
Pickens, Lucy Holcombe, 36, 37
Pickett, George, 11, 276, 277–78, 360–61
Pickett’s Charge, 277–78
Piegan Indians, 545
Pierce, Benjamin, 59
Pierce, Edward L., 226, 230, 233–34, 253
Pierce, Franklin, 34, 58–61, 62, 63, 64, 65–66, 67, 68, 84, 88, 93, 121, 137, 158, 173, 200, 346, 486
Pike, James Shepherd, 567, 573, 591
Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 60
Pillsbury, Parker, 239, 460, 465
Pinchback, P. B. S., 497
Pittsburgh Division, 209
Planter, 236, 566
pneumonia, 248, 260, 272
Poe, Edgar Allan, 36
“Political Portraits with Pen and Pencil,” 41
Polk, James K., 6, 7, 21, 61
Pollard, Edward A., 235, 255, 256, 396, 428
poll taxes, 475, 583–84
polygamy, 105, 107–8, 468–69
Pomeroy, Samuel C., 308–9
“Pomeroy Circular,” 308–9
“Pomeroyism,” 308
Poore, Benjamin Perley, 375
Pope, John, 237–38, 256
popular sovereignty, 93–98, 107–8, 111–12, 113, 114, 117–20, 144, 160, 165–66, 181, 326
Porter, David Dixon, 281, 362–63, 383