Grant

  in battle of Spotsylvania, 389, 392, 393, 394

  in battle of the Wilderness, 379, 380, 382

  in fighting at Petersburg, 412

  in Mexican War, 51

  Hanovertown, Va., 399, 401

  Hardee, William J., 138

  Ironton threatened by, 143

  Hardie, James A., 28

  Hardscrabble, 94–95, 99, 105, 463, 797

  Harlan, James, 209, 498

  Harney, William H., 813

  Harpers Ferry, Va., 108, 418, 443, 532

  Harper’s Weekly, 597, 640, 760, 767, 777, 788, 795

  Harris, Clara, 523

  Harris, Thomas A., 140

  Harrisburg, Pa., 356, 888

  Harrison, Benjamin, 902

  Harrison, Carter, 886

  Harrison, William Henry, 25

  Hartford Courant, 694

  Hatch, Davis, 695–96

  Hatch, Joseph T., 758

  Hatch, Lieutenant Colonel, 465–66

  Hatcher’s Run, 488

  Hatter, John, 520

  Hawaii, 661

  Hawkins, Albert, 642

  Hawkins, Louise, 798

  Hawley, Joseph R., 694, 705

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 340

  Hay, John, 257, 340, 679, 734

  on Halleck, 162, 163

  Hayes, Lucy, 853

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 501, 547, 625, 696, 712, 733, 743, 748, 781, 817, 823, 884, 888–89, 890, 892, 903, 956

  in election of 1876, 827–28, 838–39, 844, 846–47, 848, 849

  in move into White House, 852, 853

  troops removed from South by, 853–54

  Haynes’ Bluff, 247, 268, 274–75, 280

  Hazlitt, Robert, 48

  Henderson, John B., 609, 802, 803

  Hendricks, Thomas, 956

  Henrietta (former slave), 884–85

  Henry Clay, 256

  Herndon, William, 480

  Herold, David, 539

  Hershberger, Henry, 27

  Heth, Henry, 395

  Hewitt, Abram S., 846, 851

  Hewitt, James, 63

  Hill, A. P., 379, 380

  Hill, C. H., 767

  Hillyer, William S., 105, 148, 222, 670

  in assault on Fort Donelson, 180

  in battle of Shiloh, 200, 201

  Grant’s actions at Shiloh defended by, 212

  in pledge not to drink, 150

  Hitchcock, Henry, 534–35

  Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, 627–28, 634, 636, 679, 687–88, 699–700, 701, 702, 730

  Hoar, George F., 690, 717, 808

  Hodges, Henry C., 80, 81, 85

  Hogan, John, 580

  Holden, William W., 701, 704

  Holly Springs, Miss., 231, 239–40, 245

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 207, 627, 628

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 394, 397, 400, 402, 420

  Holmes, Theophilus, 286

  Holy Land, 871, 872

  Home Guard, Kentucky, 153

  Homer, 871

  Homestead Act, 644

  Hong Kong, 879

  Honoré, Henry H., Jr., 915

  Hood, John Bell, 425–26, 447, 448, 455–57, 459

  Hooker, Joseph, 353, 561

  arrival in Chattanooga of, 315

  in battle of Chancellorsville, 271, 366, 378

  in battle of Chattanooga, 321, 322

  drinking by, 238

  in Mexican War, 51, 321

  put in charge of Army of the Potomac, 231

  Hornets’ Nest, 203

  Hoskins, Charles, 47

  House of Representatives, U.S., 467, 920

  Appropriations Committee of, 130

  Commerce Committee of, 130

  Commitee on Banking and Currency of, 678

  Democratic control of, 783–85

  Johnson impeachment resolution in, 609

  Judiciary Committee of, 590, 598, 787

  Military Affairs Committee of, 71, 130

  retirement bill in, 938

  Hovey, A. P., 265

  Howard, Oliver Otis, 310–11, 562, 583–84

  and Rawlins’s death, 668

  Howe, Julia Ward, 715, 750

  Howe, Samuel Gridley, 715, 718

  Howe, Timothy, 692

  Howells, William Dean, 11, 679, 886, 888, 934, 953

  Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 934, 936

  Hudson, Peter, 389

  Hudson’s Bay Company, 76

  Hugo, Victor, 31, 869, 881

  Humphreys, Andrew, 345, 491

  Hunt, Lewis Cass, 84, 85, 86

  Hunt, Ward, 764

  Hunter, David, 223, 319, 397, 411, 418, 433

  Hunter, Robert M. T., 465, 468

  Huntington, Collis P., 710, 912

  Hurlbut, Mary E., see Rawlins, Mary E. Hurlbut (Emma)

  Huxley, Thomas, 866

  Iliad (Homer), 31

  Illinois, 100, 106, 120, 130, 132, 135, 143, 145, 166, 184, 349, 452, 559, 783, 885, 900

  election of 1858 in, 103

  in election of 1862, 230, 237

  Illinois Central Railroad, 113

  Illinois Colonization Society, 661

  Independent, 442

  Independent Order of Good Templars, 893

  India, 877–78, 880

  Indiana, 103, 106, 622, 703

  Indiana, 862, 863–64

  Indianapolis Daily Journal, 249

  Indian Ring, 657, 819–25

  industry, heavy, 781

  inflation bill, 779–82, 825

  Ingalls, Rufus, 22, 23, 76, 361, 696

  on Grant facing court-martial, 85–86

  Innocents Abroad, The (Twain), 871

  Internal Revenue, first commissioner of, 634

  international fair, 828–29

  Iowa, 109, 117, 121–22, 208, 327, 812

  ironclads, 170

  Ironton, Mo., 143, 144, 147

  Irving, Washington, 23

  Island Number Ten, 207

  Ismail the Magnificent, 871

  isthmus canal, 75, 662, 690, 785, 883, 904–5

  Italy, 105, 871

  Itasca, 113

  Iuka, battle of, 223–25

  Jackson, Andrew, 120, 439, 629, 747

  Jesse Grant’s defense of, 8–9

  veto of charter of Second Bank of United States, 8–9

  Whig denunciations of, 9

  Jackson, Claiborne Fox, 134

  Jackson, Miss., 254, 260, 263–64

  burning of, 264

  Grant’s march to, 262–63

  Joseph Johnston’s evacuation from, 298

  Jackson, Stonewall, 258, 516

  death of, 271, 355, 399

  at Second Manassas, 219

  at West Point, 24

  Jackson, William H., 217–18

  Jacobs, George, 837

  Jalapa, Mexico, 53

  James, Henry, 679, 772, 774, 953

  James River, 357, 371, 372, 385, 396, 401, 406, 411–12, 413, 416, 419, 434, 438, 458, 482, 485, 487, 492, 495, 513

  James River Canal, 411, 473, 476

  J. & W. Seligman, 861

  Japan, 877, 879–81, 890, 897, 908

  Jay Cooke & Company, 77

  Jeff Davis (pony), 388, 394, 415

  Jeff Davis Guards, 563

  Jefferson, Thomas, 3, 120, 646

  in front rank of presidents, xxii

  Jefferson Barracks, 28, 29, 30, 35, 81, 91, 97, 104

  Jefferson City, Mo., 145

  Jerusalem, 872

  Jetersville, Va., 496

  Jewell, Marshall, 762, 782
, 785, 787–88, 826

  Jewish Record, 956

  Jews, 233–36, 301, 659

  and election of 1868, 620

  exiled by Grant, 233–36, 301, 620, 642, 643, 836

  named to federal positions, 641, 642–43, 749, 855

  pogroms against, 643

  Jim Crow, 562–63, 815

  Jo Daviess County, Ill., 327, 349

  Jo Daviess Guards, 126–27, 128

  John (slave), 101

  Johnson, Andrew, 284, 621, 626, 628, 645, 649, 688, 690, 713, 714, 724, 742, 796, 906

  acquittal of, 611–12, 613

  amnesty proclamation of, 550

  assassination plot against, 527, 539

  in attempt to control military through Sherman, 607, 609

  in attempt to send Grant to Mexico, 582–83

  background of, 531–32

  chosen as Lincoln’s vice presidential candidate, 409

  civil rights bill vetoed by, 571

  defiant message to Congress of, 598–99

  as drunk at Lincoln’s second inauguration, 475–76, 531

  and election of 1868, 616–17

  end of presidency of, 629–30

  Fourteenth Amendment opposed by, 573, 581, 583–84

  Freedmen’s Bureau bill vetoed by, 569–70

  at Grand Review, 540

  and Grant’s inauguration, 629

  Grant’s optimism about, 532–33

  Grant’s relationship with, 548–49, 565, 571, 576–81, 582–83, 591, 597–99, 602–7, 613

  and Grant’s report from southern states, 565–66

  Grant visited in War Department by, 597

  Grant welcomed to Nashville by, 310

  at Hamlet, 348

  Hispaniola annexation as aim of, 661

  impeachment of, 598, 609–12, 645

  made military governor of Tennessee, 532

  made president, 527, 528, 531

  in meeting with black leaders, 568–69

  in meeting with Grant on Tenure of Office Act, 602–3, 604–6

  National Union Convention welcomed by, 576–77

  pledge not to interfere with Congress on Reconstruction, 612

  prosecution of Lee favored by, 550–53

  racism of, 532, 550

  Reconstruction plan revealed by, 550

  replacing Grant as war secretary considered by, 603

  Sheridan reprimanded by, 589

  and Sherman’s surrender terms to Joseph Johnston, 534

  slaves of, 531

  southern violence against blacks ignored by, 613, 621

  southern whites allowed to recapture land by, 562

  Stanton’s ouster desired by, 586, 593–95, 599

  and Stanton’s restoration as war secretary, 603–5

  and talks of action against Mexico, 555, 582

  Third Reconstruction Act vetoed by, 590

  on tour of northern states, 577–79, 581

  and trial of Lincoln conspirators, 539

  as vindictive toward Confederates, 496, 531, 532, 548, 549–50

  Johnson, Benjamin, 210

  Johnson, Edward, 393

  Johnson, Eliza McCardle, 531, 547

  Johnson, Robert Underwood, 929–30, 934

  Johnson, Samuel, 31

  Johnson-Clarendon Convention, 683

  Johnston, Albert Sidney, 937

  in battle of Shiloh, 200, 202–3, 214

  and capture of Fort Henry, 174

  death of, 202–3

  in Fort Donelson assault, 167, 186, 198

  giant force consolidated by, 195

  in Mexican War, 51

  ordered to attack Pittsburg Landing, 197

  Pemberton blamed for Vicksburg by, 291

  Shiloh attack planned by, 198

  southern denunciation of, 187

  and Vicksburg siege, 270, 273, 278–79, 285

  Johnston, Joseph, 348, 417, 431, 478, 493, 510, 956

  appointed to oversee Confederate forces in Carolinas, 472

  indictment against, 551

  Jackson evacuated by, 298

  Lee’s hope of converging army with, 494

  in Mexican War, 51

  Sherman’s pursuit of, 349, 374, 396, 425, 488, 494, 521–22, 529, 533

  Sherman’s surrender terms offered to, 533–36

  and Vicksburg Campaign, 263, 264, 268

  Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 567–68, 570

  Jomini, Antoine-Henri, 22

  Jones, Charles H., 529

  Jones, Jesse A., on Grant’s drinking, 97–98

  Jones, John, 370–71, 437, 470, 473, 495

  Jones, J. Russell, 186, 328, 341, 886

  Jones, William, 101, 106

  Joyce, John A., 799, 800, 801

  J. S. Morgan & Co., 862

  Juárez, Benito, 554, 582–83

  Julia (slave), 101

  Julius Caesar, 23, 947

  Justice Department, U.S.:

  creation of, xxiii, 700–701

  Ku Klux Klan fought by, 701–3, 707–11

  Kangaroo (horse), 275

  Kansas-Nebraska Act, 90, 99

  Kearny, Stephen, 29

  Keckley, Elizabeth, 481

  Keegan, John, xxi

  Keene, Laura, 522

  Kelley, William, 609–10

  Kellogg, William Pitt, 757, 758, 760, 761, 762–63, 791, 792–93, 795

  Kelly, Officer, 652

  Kemble, Fanny, 772

  Kent, Robert T., 827

  Kentucky, 3, 5, 16, 64, 103, 109, 122, 146, 187, 192, 207, 422–23, 455, 701, 751

  Confederate invasion of, 153–55

  as pivotal in Civil War, 153

  runaway slaves from, 8, 16

  in Union, 124

  Keyes, E. D., 350

  Kinkead, John H., 885

  Kirkham, Ralph W., 91

  Kittoe, Edward, 150, 307, 311, 333, 515

  Knights of the White Camellia, 701

  Know-Nothing (American) Party, 99, 108

  Knox, Kilburn, 520

  Knoxville, Tenn., 304, 316, 317, 320, 325, 326, 331

  rations running low in, 326–27

  siege broken in, 326–27

  Kountz, William J., 163–65, 166, 237

  McClernand aided by, 250

  Ku Klux Klan, xxii–xxiii, 588, 613, 662, 686, 704, 745, 749, 782, 795, 845, 857

  and election of 1868, 621, 623

  Grant vs., xxii–xxiii, 702–3, 704, 705–10, 711, 712, 856, 957

  prosecution of, 701–2, 707–8, 709–10

  Ku Klux Klan Act, 706, 707, 708–10, 741, 786

  Kung, Prince, 879–80

  labor unions, 644

  Lafayette Park, 560

  Lagow, Clark B., 148, 318

  in pledge not to drink, 150

  La Grange, Tenn., 229, 258

  Lancaster, 253

  Lane, S. E., Mrs., 702–3

  Law, Evander M., 366, 405

  Lawler, Michael, 266

  Ledlie, James H., 428, 429, 430

  Lee, Henry “Light-Horse Harry,” 367

  Lee, Mary Custis, 367

  Lee, Robert E., 313, 348, 396, 431, 459, 590, 862, 906, 937

  advantages in Virginia campaign of, 369

  background of, 367

  in battle of Antietam, 227, 228, 369

  in battle of Chancellorsville, 271, 295, 366, 369, 378

  in battle of Cold Harbor, 402, 405, 406–7

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

  in battle of Gettysburg, 292, 294–95, 366, 369, 407

  in battle of Spotsylvania, 388, 389, 393??
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  in battle of the Wilderness, 377, 378, 379, 380–81, 384

  black soldiers considered by, 450

  Brown’s raid ended by, 108

  casualty rate in armies of, xxi

  converging with Johnston as hope of, 494

  death of, 656

  decision to fight for Confederacy, 123

  on desertion, 469

  desire to bring South back into Union, 514

  in fighting at Petersburg, 412, 413

  Fort Stedman overrun by, 478

  Grant as viewed by, 367, 517

  Grant’s attacks foreseen by, 374, 375, 377–78, 387, 392

  Grant’s opinion of, 517–18, 573

  Grant’s pursuit of, 349, 351, 356, 365–66, 398–401, 403, 407–8, 434, 436–37, 459, 473, 496–99

  Grant’s surrender terms to, 5, 499–503, 504, 508–10, 529, 536

  Grant visited in White House by, 656

  guerrilla idea squelched by, 503–4, 512

  health problems of, 370

  indictment against, 551

  and issue of prisoner exchange of black soldiers, 450–51

  McClellan praised by, 367

  as man of narrow focus, 369–70

  Meade respected by, 345

  Meade’s pursuit of, 366

  in Mexican War, 51, 52, 53, 56, 58

  offered command of Union army, 368

  in Peninsula Campaign, 402

  personality of, 367–68

  Petersburg abandoned by, 488, 491

  possible treason prosecution of, 550–54

  poverty of, 514

  as president of Washington College, 553

  promised leniency by Grant, 521, 548, 551–52

  promoted to brevet colonel, 56

  promoted to brevet major, 52

  at Second Manassas, 219, 227, 366, 369

  shattering the myth of, 294–95

  and Sheridan’s crossing of James River, 485

  Sherman’s criticism of, 471

  slavery condoned by, 368

  southern veneration of, 219

  as South’s premier military man, 198

  Spotsylvania fortifications built by, 387

  strategy of, 518

  stretched lines of, 417, 447

  supplied by Petersburg, 410–11, 417

  surrender of, xix–xx, 98, 504–13, 514–15, 519, 520, 521, 533, 536

  West Point oath violated by, 21

  Lee, Samuel Phillips, 416

  Leet, George K., 736–37

  Leo XIII, Pope, 873

  Leopold II, king of Belgium, 868

  Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 904

  Lewis and Clark expedition, 29

  Lexington, Ky., 331

  Liberal Republicans, 743–45, 761–62, 782, 791, 805, 809, 827, 854

  Liberator, 9, 473, 565

  Liberia, 642, 661, 663

  Library of Congress, 353

  lieutenant general bill, 329–30, 335–36