Grant

  Drewry’s Bluff, 396

  Drexel, Anthony J., 774, 777, 913–14

  Drexel, Joseph W., 948

  Drexel, Morgan, 861

  Driver, Randall, 843

  due process, 614

  Dyer, Alexander, 581

  Dyer, David P., 802, 803, 808

  dysentery, 246

  Eads, James B., 170

  Early, Jubal, 418–20, 431, 438, 444, 445–46, 476, 556

  Eaton, John, 222, 228, 239, 244, 293, 300–301, 303–4, 439–40, 547, 656, 951–52

  made superintendent of contrabands, 229, 281

  Eckerson, Theodore J., 78

  Eckert, Thomas T., 466–67, 526–27

  Eckstein, David, 620

  Edmunds, George F., 902

  Edmunds, Newton, 835–36

  education, 569, 588, 811–12, 873, 894–95

  Egypt, 871–72

  Elderkin, J. D., 42, 45, 46, 74

  on Grant’s lack of womanizing, 78

  on Grant’s slovenliness, 89

  elections, Georgetown:

  of 1830, 9

  of 1832, 9

  elections, Illinois, 1858, 103

  elections, Louisiana, 791

  elections, Mississippi, 816–17

  elections, Ohio:

  of 1863, 306

  of 1869, 817

  elections and campaigns, U.S., 554

  of 1840, 25

  of 1844, 39

  of 1848, 51, 64

  of 1852, 77

  of 1856, 99–100, 107

  of 1860, 118–21, 125

  of 1862, 230

  of 1864, 328, 404–5, 420, 439, 441–42, 452–53, 576

  of 1866, 581

  of 1868, see elections and campaigns, U.S., of 1868

  of 1870, 703

  of 1872, see elections and campaigns, U.S., of 1872

  of 1874, 783–84

  of 1876, 826–27, 838–39, 842, 843–50

  of 1880, 890–91, 899–908

  elections and campaigns, U.S., of 1868:

  blacks and, 620–21

  Deomocratic Convention in, 616–17

  Grant nominated in, 607–8, 611–12, 614–15, 616

  Grant’s isolation in, 618–19, 621–22

  Grant’s victory in, 623

  Jewish issue in, 620

  Ku Klux Klan in, 588

  elections and campaigns, U.S., of 1872, 642, 739–52

  black voters in, 745–46

  Grant’s renomination in, 739–40

  Reconstruction in, 741, 744, 748–49, 752

  Electoral Commission, 848–49

  Elements of Military Art and Science (Halleck), 163

  Elevator, 745

  Eleventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, 128

  Eliot, Charles W., 732

  Ellenton, S.C., 841–42

  Ellison, Andrew, 87

  Emancipation Proclamation, 223, 228, 230, 242–44, 281, 282, 293, 494, 532, 617, 661, 746

  Emerson, John W., 105

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, xx, 58, 452, 551, 627

  Enforcement Acts, 786–87

  first, 703–4

  second, 704

  third, 706, 707, 708–10, 741

  Erie Canal, 117

  Erie Railroad, 672, 674

  Essex, 171

  Evans, Eliza F., 638

  Evans, John S., 821

  Evarts, William, 610, 611, 724, 727, 853

  Ewell, Richard S., 379, 498, 499

  Ewing, Thomas, 191–92

  Fabens, Joseph W., 660, 695

  Falkland Islands, 722

  Farmville, Va., 496, 499

  Farragut, David, 236, 351, 433, 577

  Felt, Katherine, 893

  Fenton, Reuben, 454, 735–36

  Ferrero, Edward, 398, 429

  Ferry, Thomas W., 779, 837

  Fessenden, William Pitt, 567

  Field, Cyrus, 780

  Fifteenth Amendment, xxii, xxiii, 632, 634, 656, 744, 745, 749, 839, 848, 851, 856, 957

  adoption of, 685–87

  Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry, 473

  Fillmore, Millard, 99

  financial panic of 1837, 16, 17

  First Reconstruction Act, 585–86, 587

  Fish, Hamilton, 635, 643, 648–49, 688, 699, 709, 715, 716, 723–24, 734, 737, 747, 758, 762, 765, 766, 780, 782, 783, 784, 792, 823, 826, 848, 853, 855–56, 862

  and Alabama affair, 683–84, 721, 722, 723, 727

  Grant’s desire to see as president, 826

  and Grant’s drinking, 749

  and Motley’s firing, 697, 698

  retirement considered by, 723–25

  and Santo Domingo treaty, 660, 663–65, 666, 692, 694, 696, 715

  and whiskey scandal, 805–6, 808

  Fish, James D., 915, 918, 922, 924, 939, 950

  Fish, Nicholas, 697

  Fishback, George W., 93, 108–9, 799

  Fisher’s Hill, 445

  Fisk, James, Jr., 672–79, 807

  Five Forks, 488, 490

  Fletcher, Thomas C., 800

  Florida, 122, 471, 563, 601, 703, 839

  in election of 1876, 844, 845, 846–47

  Floyd, John B., 121, 177

  in Fort Donelson, 179, 182

  Foner, Eric, 856

  Foot, Solomon, 423

  Foote, Andrew Hull, 166–67

  in assault on Fort Donelson, 178, 179, 180, 188, 200

  in assault on Fort Henry, 169–70, 172

  and plan to capture Fort Henry, 168–69

  Ford, John T., 529

  Ford’s Theatre, 522, 523, 524, 525, 528, 530, 531

  Forney, John, 597, 692

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 239, 621, 707

  and assault on Fort Donelson, 178, 182

  Fort Pillow massacre of, 373

  in Ku Klux Klan, 588

  as president of National Union Convention, 576

  raids by, 218, 258

  Fort Darling, 396

  Fort Donelson, 167–69, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176–86, 188, 189, 190, 195, 196, 198, 200, 206, 213, 286, 377, 671, 700, 938, 942, 951

  Fort Fisher, 460–62, 465

  Fort Heiman, 172

  Fort Henry, 167–74, 176, 186, 190–91, 195

  Fort Hindman, 241

  Fort Humboldt, 81, 82–84, 86, 87, 88

  Fort Laramie, Treaty of, 829, 830, 831

  Fort Leavenworth, 618, 904

  Fort Monroe, 371, 423, 431, 535

  Fort Peck, 820

  Fort Pillow massacre, 373, 575, 576

  Fort Stedman, 478–79

  Fort Stevens, 420

  Fort Still, 821

  Fort Sumter, 123, 124, 125, 521, 522

  Fort Vancouver, 76, 79, 81

  Fourteenth Amendment, xxii, 573, 583–84, 585, 614, 685, 744, 759, 848, 856

  Fourth Infantry Regiment, 28–29, 30, 63, 81

  in cholera epidemic, 74

  in Mexican War, 43, 47, 57

  in move to Sackets Harbor, 68

  in move to West Coast, 72–76

  Fourth Military District, 655

  Fox, Gustavus, 254, 431, 449

  France, 228, 357, 465, 555, 557, 869–71, 873

  Franco-Prussian War, 869–70

  Franklin, battle of, 455

  Franklin, Benjamin, 829

  Franklin, William B., 22, 302–3, 421

  Franz Joseph I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, 876

  Frazier, Willis, 843

  Fredericksburg, battle of, 231, 366, 369, 428

  Frederick the Great, 23, 432

  Freed
men’s Bureau, 475, 562, 565, 569, 588, 768

  Free-Soilers, 100, 107, 118

  free trade, 741

  Frelinghuysen, Frederick T., 698, 912

  Frémont, Jessie, 146

  Frémont, John C., 144, 155, 162, 192, 358, 561

  in battle against Price, 156

  on Cairo, 148

  in election of 1856, 99, 100

  and election of 1864, 439, 442

  emancipation order of, 223

  and Grant’s promotion to District of Southeast Missouri, 145–46

  and Grant’s protection of Paducah, 154

  martial law declared in Missouri by, 146

  plan to dissect Confederacy, 147

  French and Indian War, 4

  Fry, James B., 27, 729, 923

  Fugitive Slave Act, 229, 372

  Fuller, J. F. C., 407

  Galena, Ill., xviii, 25, 45, 92–93, 102, 109, 113–14, 116, 119, 120, 135, 143, 149, 150, 151, 156, 349, 362, 409, 559–60, 592, 618–19, 621–23, 853, 861, 885–86, 896, 904

  divided over Civil War, 125

  militia volunteers raised in, 126–27, 128, 134

  Galena City Council, 349

  Galena Gazette, 129, 560

  Galena Wide Awakes, 119, 120, 125

  Gallatin, Albert, 3

  Galt House, 306–8

  Galveston, Tex., 462, 894–95, 913

  Gambetta, Léon, 870

  Garfield, James, 336, 638, 705, 731, 736, 753, 778, 781, 842, 847, 908, 931

  assassination of, 909–11

  in election of 1880, 901, 902, 903–4, 905–7

  Garfield, Lucretia, 909–10, 911

  Garland, John, 46, 47

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 9, 16, 473, 553, 565, 632, 742, 745–46

  Garrison Station, 570

  General Grant National Memorial, 958

  General Orders No. 3, 568

  General Orders No. 11, 233–36, 301, 620, 642, 643, 836

  General Orders No. 44, 572

  General Orders No. 48, 706

  George III, king of England, 9

  Georgetown, Ohio, 7–9, 10, 14, 16, 18, 25

  Georgia, 122, 314, 325, 326, 356, 357, 374, 424, 438, 443, 447, 448, 450, 459, 460, 471, 488, 491, 492, 564, 568, 588, 601, 687, 690, 700, 703, 751, 840, 895

  German immigrants, 31, 107–8

  Germanna Ford, 377–78

  Getty, George W., 380

  Gettysburg, battle of, 292, 294–95, 366, 369, 412, 505, 522, 725

  Pickett’s Charge in, 25, 295, 392, 407

  Gettysburg Address, 292

  Gibbon, John, 499, 521

  Gilded Age, 637, 644, 729, 735, 774, 821, 887, 913, 919

  Gilder, Richard Watson, 934, 935

  Girard College, 20

  Gladstone, William, 683, 687, 725–26, 866, 941

  Godkin, E. L., 741, 761–62, 764, 835, 892

  gold, 672, 673–78, 755, 776, 807, 913

  in Black Hills, 830, 835–36

  Golden Gate, 75

  Gold Rush, 70, 71, 73, 75, 78

  Goldsboro, N.C., 472, 477, 483, 536

  gold standard, 778–79, 782–83

  Goode, Simon S., 136, 137

  Gordon, John B., 382, 384

  Gore, John H., 60

  Gorgas, Josiah, 292

  Gough, John B., 69

  Gould, Jay, 672–79, 710, 807, 874, 912, 913

  Governors Island, 71

  Grace, William R., 955

  Grand Gulf, 257, 258–59, 261–62, 280

  Grand Junction, Tenn., 226–27, 230, 952

  Grand Review, 539–42

  Grant, Clara Rachel, 7, 476

  Grant, Elizabeth Chapman, 914–15

  Grant, Ellen (Nellie), 93, 97, 106, 294, 374, 444, 632, 652, 653, 756, 771–75, 867–68, 919–20, 925

  Grant, Fannie Josephine Chaffee, 913

  Grant, Frederick Dent, 106, 463, 652, 653, 729, 768, 772, 773–74, 804, 872, 877, 897, 900, 905, 911, 914, 915–16, 930, 937, 942, 944, 947

  birth of, 67

  Cadwallader urged to write memoirs by, 274

  childhood illness of, 68

  debt of, 925

  education of, 102–3, 105

  on father’s reading, 96

  and General Orders No. 11, 236

  on Grant’s mental state, 114

  and Grant’s move to California, 70

  injury of, 266

  Jesse’s scolding of, 234

  marriage of, 770–71

  naming of, 67, 72

  in racist incident, 768–70

  in trip to Washington, 340, 341, 343

  typhoid fever of, 102

  in Vicksburg Campaign, 255, 258, 261, 263, 266, 277, 332

  West Point entered by, 558, 570

  Grant, Hannah Simpson, 591, 639, 768

  absent from inauguration, 630–31

  concerned about Grant in Mexico, 52

  death of, 919

  as Democrat, 8

  emotional reserve of, 6, 7, 10, 19, 26

  and Grant’s army resignation, 92

  on Grant’s generosity, 96

  on Grant’s love for horses, 13

  Grant’s wartime visit to, 349–50

  Julia disliked by, 103

  Julia’s canceled visit to, 106

  marriage of, 6

  in move to Bethel, 25

  and naming of son, 3

  on Orvil, 898

  refusal to attend Grant’s wedding, 62

  religion of, 6, 7, 349

  slavery opposed by, 62, 103

  and son’s fame, 560

  as welcoming to Julia, 63

  wine sent to Grant by, 318

  Grant, Ida Marie Honoré, 770–71, 914

  Grant, Jesse Root, Jr. (son), 102, 106, 116–17, 277, 303, 350, 524, 525, 545, 558, 652, 751, 771, 801, 809, 850, 862, 864–65, 866–67, 873, 883, 914–15, 925, 942, 950

  Grant, Jesse Root, Sr. (father), 301, 591, 639, 898

  appearance of, 4, 16

  in attempt to borrow money from Julia, 234

  as braggart, xvii, 4, 6, 12–13, 25

  cotton-trading permit sought by, 234, 235

  death of, 767–68

  as Democrat, 8–9

  drinking by, 10

  elected mayor of Bethel, 25

  on father’s poverty, 4–5

  Fred scolded by, 234

  Grant allowed to run Galena store by, 109–10

  Grant asked for help by, 161–62

  Grant lent money by, 91

  Grant offered employment in store by, 92–93

  Grant overpowered by, 12–13, 17, 67

  Grant pressured to quit army by, 42, 51, 53

  Grant pushed into West Point by, 17–18

  on Grant’s abolitionism, 243

  Grant’s actions at Shiloh defended by, 212–13

  Grant’s asking for loan from, 99

  Grant’s farm funded by, 93

  Grant’s letter on rejoining military to, 127–28

  Grant’s letter published by, 49

  on Grant’s love of horses, 13–14

  Grant’s resignation from army opposed by, 87, 92

  and Grant’s run for presidency, 608, 615

  Grant’s scalding letter to, 234

  Grant’s wartime visit to, 349–50

  on Hannah’s concern for Grant, 52

  happy with Lincoln’s nomination, 119

  health problems of, 5–6, 109

  hounded by office seekers, 630

  at inauguration, 630

  insurance work of, 16

  John Brown known to, 5, 108


  journalism of, 8

  Julia as viewed by, 116

  Julia’s canceled visit to, 106

  made postmaster of Covington, 548, 638

  marriage of, 6

  and naming of son, 3

  political ambition of, 9

  reading learned by, 5

  refusal to attend Grant’s wedding, 62

  refusal to fund Grant’s hardware business, 109

  religious views of, 6, 7, 25

  secession denounced by, 122

  slavery opposed by, 5, 8, 9, 25, 39, 62

  and son’s fame, 548, 560

  on Stanton’s rudeness, 604

  as striver, 4, 6, 9

  tannery work of, xviii, 4, 5–6, 7–8, 15, 25, 92, 109–10, 114

  Texas annexation opposed by, 39

  wealth of, 109

  as welcoming to Julia, 63

  Grant, Julia Dent, 603, 944

  ambitious for Grant, 95, 143, 160, 161, 608, 614

  ambivalent attitude toward slavery of, 120

  apparition of Grant seen by, 160–61

  appearance of, 33

  celebrity status of, 301

  childhood of, 31–32

  Civil War opposed by, 125

  and collapse of Grant & Ward, 925–26

  courtship of Grant and, 32–34, 36–37, 39–40

  death and burial of, 958

  Democratic roots of, 120

  East and Midwest toured by, 558–60

  on European trip, 863–77

  eye infection of, 350

  and father’s death, 768

  General Orders No. 11 denounced by, 236

  given use of slaves, 101, 106, 243

  Grant doted on by, 95–96

  Grant joined in City Point by, 436, 463–64, 473–74

  and Grant’s death, 955

  and Grant’s drinking, 70, 86, 87, 97, 166, 211, 244, 277, 464, 546, 619

  at Grant’s first inauguration, 633

  Grant’s first meeting with, 29–30, 31

  and Grant’s move to California, 70, 72

  Grant soothed in presidency by, 652–53

  on Grant’s political enemies, 720

  and Grant’s promotion to brigadier general, 143

  at Grant’s second inauguration, 754, 756

  and Grant’s sixty-third birthday, 947

  Grant’s teasing of, 32–33, 96

  and Grant’s throat and tongue cancer, xviii, 930, 931–32, 934, 936, 937, 942

  Grant suggested to visit father by, 109

  Grant’s worry for the future of, 930, 932

  Grant urged to visit Richmond by, 515

  Grant visited in Cairo by, 160–61

  Grant visited in Paducah by, 155–56

  and growing poverty, 106

  in Hardscrabbble, 94–95

  Henrietta’s meeting with, 884–85

  on honeymoon, 62–63

  on Indian Ring, 823–24

  insulted by Mary Grant, 116