Missouri River, 160
Morgan, Edwin D., 113–115, 157
Mount Auburn Cemetery, 323, 327–328, 333
Murphy, Tracee M., 349–350
Murray, Ambrose, 113
Musical Fund Hall, 156
Naden, Corinne J., 353
National Era, Preston Brooks and, 83
National Hotel, 228, 232–233
Nevins, Allan, 32, 57, 135, 187, 200, 360
New England Emigrant Aid Company, 6, 15, 17, 61, 137, 212, 350
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 341
New Orleans Bee, election of 1856 and, 201
New Orleans Daily Crescent, election of 1856 and, 201–202
New Orleans Picayune, Dred Scott and, 244
New York Chamber of Commerce, 327
New York Evening Post
Brooks-Burlingame dustup and, 154
Northern reaction to attack and, 128
slavery and, 274
New York Times
attack on Sumner and, 112
Brooks at village of Ninety Six and, 183–184
Child's overall affection for Sumner and, 208
health of Charles Sumner and, 175
National Hotel Disease and, 233
Northern reaction to attack and, 126, 128
Preston Brooks and, 83, 205
Southern violence and, 189
Sumner's reelection to congress and, 209–210
New York Tribune
Brown-Séquard on Sumner's health and, 256
death of Sumner and, 327
Dred Scott and, 243
fire treatments and, 259
Horace Greeley and, 9
James Buchanan and, 231
Kansas fundraising effort and, 192
Northern reaction to attack and, 133
Sumner's Kansas speech and, 69
New York Young Men's Republican Club, 228
Nullification Acts, 302
O'Connor, Thomas H., 360
Old Edgefield Grill, 362
Oregon Trail, 160
Orr, James L., 76, 169–170, 204, 214–217, 269, 310
Page, P. L., 299
Palmer, Beverly Wilson, 343
The Papers of Charles Sumner, 1811–1874, 342
Parker, Theodore, 12, 15, 39, 177, 212, 227, 252–255, 261–262, 282, 343, 361
Partridge, Alden, 45
Pease, Jane H., 357
Pennington, Alexander, 170, 172
Pennington, William, 144–145
Perry, Marshall S., 145–148, 164, 179
Pettus, John J., 308
Phillips, S. R., 131
Phillips, Wendell, 191–192, 254, 283–284
Pickens, Andrew, 317
Pierce, Edward Lillie, 297, 347
Pierce, Franklin, 3, 9, 12, 14, 60–62, 158, 179, 183, 218–219, 228
Pinkerton, Allan, 311
Pittsburgh Gazette, Northern reaction to attack and, 126–128
Polk, James K., 24–25, 160
Potter, David M., 353, 360
Potter, John “Bowie Knife”, 269
Potter, John F., 243
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 346
Puleo, Rose, 364
Putnam, George, 133
Quincy, Edmund, 32
Quitman, John A., 228, 232–233
Rainsford, Bettis, 362
Ratner, Lorman A., 348
Redpath, James, 228
Reeder, Andrew, 61
Republican National Convention (1856), 156–162
Revere, Paul, 335
Reynolds, David S., 138, 350
Rice, Alexander H., 194
Rice University, 354
Richmond Enquirer
attack on Sumner and, 120, 122
Lincoln-Douglas debates and, 276
potential consequences of attack and, 124
Sumner's Kansas speech and, 70
Richmond Whig, Sumner shamming illness and, 178
Rogers, John, 257
Ropes, Hannah, 3, 11
Rosen, Robert, 358
Ruggles, Samuel, 132
Russell, LeBaron, 17
Russell, William C., 131
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection, 346
Sanborn, Franklin B., 212
Sanford, John F. A., 239
Savage, John, 219
Savannah River, 88, 99
Scott, Dred, 230–231, 234, 237–238, 240, 242–243, 246, 249–250, 266, 272, 274, 279, 286, 329, 351–353
Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond (Bleser), 344
The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner, 343
Sellers, Jr., Charles Grier, 348
Seward, William Henry, 16, 58, 63, 143, 165–166, 210, 289, 301
Sherman, John, 297
Sherman, William T., 138, 324
Simms, William Gilmore, 102
Simons, Lewis R., 84
Simonton, James W., 112
Sims, Thomas, 30–32, 37–38, 42, 355
Slave Records of Edgefield County, South Carolina (Lucas), 344
slavery
South Carolina and, 93
statistics for, 92
Sumner's “Barbarism of Slavery” speech and, 291–297
Slidell, John, 114–115
Sloan, Irving J., 351
Smith, Gerrit, 83, 212
Smith, Jr., Charles W., 354
South Carolina College, 21, 83, 85
South Carolina Palmetto Regiment, 331
South Carolina State Museum, 332
Southern Quarterly Review, Preston Brooks and, 344
Spinner, Francis E., 144
Stamp Act, 40
Stampp, Kenneth M., 360
Stearns, George Luther, 187, 212
St. Louis Morning Herald, John Brown and, 139–140
Stone, James, 130
Story, Joseph, 47
Story, William, 52
Stowe, Steven M., 348
Stringfellow, Benjamin Franklin, 7–8
Strong, George Templeton, 190
Sumner, Albert, 51
Sumner, Catherine, 51
Sumner, Charles
1860 election and, 288–289, 307, 310
Affairs of Kansas report, 13
Andrew Butler and, 151
antislavery philosophy and, 22
arrival in Washington and, 226–227
as symbol of unrepentant Southern violence and, 208
“Barbarism of Slavery” speech and, 291–297, 300, 302
“Bleeding Kansas” and, 57
Brook's attack and, 109–117, 220
coffin-shaped memorial and, 328
constitutional argument against slavery and, 302
“Crime Against Kansas” speech and, 279
Daniel Webster and, 56
dark side of, 18
death of, 261, 323–327, 329–330
debate over the Massachusetts petition and, 40
Dred Scott and, 351
early years of, 43–52
elected to senate and, 32
emancipation as virtuous in the eyes of God and, 95–96
essential components of his character and, 17
European trip and, 21, 251–252
fire treatments and, 256–259
Free-Soilers and, 12
friendship with Longfellow and, 195
Fugitive Slave Act and, 36
growth of the Republicans on a national scale and, 41
Hannah Ropes and, 3, 11
health of, 145, 163–166, 175, 177, 192, 206, 251–254
hostilities with Mexico and, 26
John Brown and, 212–213, 286–287, 350
jurisdiction of the rebel region and, 330
Kansas-Nebraska Act and, 11, 14–15
Lecompton Constitution and, 268
Lydia P. Hall and, 8, 11
Northern reaction to attack and, 125, 128–134
on seeing his fi
rst slaves and, 19
personal attacks on public figures and, 54–55
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and, 260
profound influence on the slavery debate and, 304
protective measures for, 297
rancor in the nation's capital and, 287–288
reaction to “Barbarism of Slavery” speech and, 297–299
reelection to congress and, 209–210
reflecting on Brooks death and, 217
regional remembering and, 332
relationship with women and, 53–54
results of 1856 election and, 205
second trip to Europe and, 254–255
shamming illness and, 177–183
social justice issues and, 23
South's deep desire to secede and, 309
speech at State House and, 196–197
speech on Kansas and, 58–71
speech to Young Men's Republican Union and, 300–301
statue of, 334
Stephen A. Douglas and, 5, 34–35
stopping slavery and, 24
testimony about attack and, 146
Third Battalion of Massachusetts Rifles and, 320
Washington Star article and, 38
William Lloyd Garrison and, 33
Works and, 335, 339–340, 343
Sumner, George, 49–50, 55, 145, 147–148
Sumner, Henry, 50
Sumner, Horace, 49, 51
Sumner, Jane, 49–50
Sumner, Julia, 50
Sumner, Mary, 48, 51–52
Sumner, Matilda, 43, 48, 50
Sumner, Relief Jacob, 43
Sumner Tunnel, 334
Sumner, William, 334
Sumter Watchman, Brooks's death and, 224
Sunstein, Cass R., 353
Supreme Court, Dred Scott and, 237–246, 249–250, 286, 329, 351–353
Swanson, John, 123
Swisher, Carl B., 247
Swisshelm, Jane G., 175
Taney, Alice, 247–249
Taney, Anne, 247
Taney, Roger B., 166, 230, 237–238, 240–247, 249, 279, 329, 351
Taylor, Zachary, 25–26, 30, 101
Teeter, Jr., Dwight L., 348
Thackeray, William, 251
Thayer, Eli, 6, 17
Third Battalion of Massachusetts Rifles, 320
Thoreau, Henry David, 283–284
Tompkins, S. S., 222
Toombs, Robert, 111, 113, 184, 218–219
Tremaine, Lyman, 330
Tutela, Joy, 364
Twelfth Baptist Church, 164
Tyler, John, 24
Tyler, Samuel, 351
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 246
United States Bureau of Pensions, 331
University of Pennsylvania, 352
University of South Carolina, 341, 343, 361
Vanderbilt, 254
Venet, Wendy Hamand, 357
Von Drehle, David, 357
Vose, Caroline E., 357
Wade, Ben, 69
Waldo, Daniel, 219
Walther, Eric, 202
Walther, Erich H., 360
Ward, Julia, 53
Washburn, Cadwallader, 269
Washington Board of Health, 233
Washington Monument, 222
Washington Star
Charles Sumner and, 38
Dred Scott and, 239–240
Sumner's Kansas speech and, 70
Washington Union, Sumner's wounds and, 179
Washington University, 351
Waters, Henry P., 12
Webster, Daniel, xvi, 20, 27–30, 32, 34–35, 39, 42, 56, 207, 317, 335, 352, 354–355
Weilling, J. C., 210
Weller, John, 35
Wellman, Paul I., 142, 360
West, Elizabeth Cassidy, 348
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 205–206, 286, 323, 327
Wigfall,, 100
Wigfall, Louis T., 83, 99–100
Wildgrove, Carola, 197–198
Wilkinson, Allen, 139, 140
Wilkinson, Louisa Jane, 139
Willowbrook Cemetery, 222, 362
Wilson, Henry, 69, 143, 151–153, 158–159, 162, 196, 210, 216, 223–224, 296, 323
Winthrop, Robert C., 55, 203
Wood, John, 229
Works (Sumner), 335, 339–340, 343
Worth, Beth, 362
Worth, Tim, 362
Yafa, Stephen, 358
Yale Law School, 356
Yorkville Enquirer, Brooks's death and, 224
Young Men's Republican Union of New York, 300–301