Grant

  and Grant’s promotion to head of Army of the Potomac, 295

  Grant’s relationship with, 593, 689

  Grant supported by, 344, 375

  Grant urged to defend Washington by, after Lincoln’s assassination, 529

  invasion of Washington as worry of, 366

  Johnson’s desire to oust, 586, 593–95, 599

  Kountz appointed to aid McClernand by, 250

  and Lee’s surrender, 513

  Lincoln warned about assassination threats by, 522–23

  McClellan’s insult about, 218

  and New Orleans riot, 575

  orders to McClernand on Vicksburg from, 238

  and peace talks, 465, 466, 468

  placed on Supreme Court, 688–89

  pressed by Grant to cut military, 519

  Reconstruction plan of, 521

  restored as war secretary, 604

  Rosecrans rescued by, 305–6

  and Rosecrans’s plan to abandon Chattanooga, 309

  rumored replacement of, 439

  Sherman’s feud with, 534–35, 536–38, 541

  and Third Reconstruction Act, 590

  and Thomas’s victory over Hood, 457

  truculence of, 307–8

  on Union loss at Chancellorsville, 271

  Washington sealed off by, after Lincoln’s assassination, 528

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 113, 749

  Stanton, Ellen, 481, 524, 689

  Stars & Stripes Association, 847

  State, War, and Navy Building, 646

  State Department, U.S., 716–17

  State Guard, Kentucky, 153

  states’ rights, 550, 553, 565, 613, 705

  Statue of Liberty, 829

  Stebbins, Rufus P., 609

  Steele’s Bayou, 248–49

  Stephens, Alexander H., 465, 466, 468

  Stevens, Thaddeus, 336, 567, 570, 574, 579

  Grant praised by, 606

  Stevens, Thomas H., Jr., 88–89, 90

  Stevenson, Ala., 310–11

  Stewart, Alexander, 599, 626, 627, 634

  stock market, 678, 726, 776, 777, 779, 807, 926

  Stoddard, William O., 353, 354

  Stoneman, George, 571–72

  Stones River, battle of, 316, 522

  Stonewall Brigade, 956

  Stoughton, Edwin W., 876

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 16, 742

  Strong, George Templeton, 190, 212, 309, 326, 366, 417, 432, 439, 492, 531, 561–62, 570, 571, 585, 624, 673, 737, 749, 792

  Strong, William, 689

  Stuart, George H., 832

  Stuart, Gilbert, 646

  Stuart, J. E. B., 387, 388

  Suez Canal, 877, 904

  Sumner, Charles, 58, 564, 570, 602, 611, 619, 636, 637, 640, 654

  and Alabama affair, 683–84, 697, 722, 723, 725

  Brooks’s attack on, 100

  Civil Rights Act supported by, 795

  deposed as head of Foreign Relations Committee, 717

  Grant’s dispute with, 681, 691–92, 694, 695, 698, 699, 710, 712–18, 719–20, 723, 742–43, 745, 746

  greenbacks denounced by, 654

  new political party sought by, 77

  and Santo Domingo treaty, 665

  and Stanton’s dispute with Johnson, 609

  Sunday Times, 365

  Sunken Road, 203

  Supreme Court, U.S., 100–101

  Stanton placed on, 687–89

  Surratt, Mary, 539

  Sutherland Station, 494

  Swayne, Noah, 766

  Swiss Confederation, 722

  Switzerland, 253

  Tacubaya, Mexico, 57

  Taft, Alphonso, 823, 825, 842

  Taft, William Howard, 823

  Taj Mahal, 877, 878

  Tammany Hall, 617, 787, 828

  Taney, Roger B., 100–101, 689

  Tappan, Samuel, 738

  Taussig, William, 34, 94, 107, 185

  taxes and tariffs, 645, 748, 796

  Taxpayers’ League, 789

  Taylor, George, 67

  Taylor, Richard, 510

  Taylor, Zachary, 40, 159, 192

  Buena Vista victory of, 51

  as darling of Whig press, 49

  death of, 64

  elected president, 45, 51, 64

  generous terms given to Ampudia by, 48–49, 51

  Grant’s study of, 41–42

  Mexican crisis brought to head by, 43–44

  replaced by Scott, 49, 50

  Tecumseh, 191

  telegraph network, 443, 644, 657

  temperance, xxiii, 10, 16, 25, 67, 69–70, 892–93

  Tennessee, 124, 146, 147, 153–90, 194, 207, 218, 223, 225, 226, 239, 300, 304, 311–27, 332, 455, 459, 538, 564, 623, 703, 751

  Fourteenth Amendment ratified by, 585

  Johnson made military governor of, 532

  racist terrorism in, 613, 621

  Tennessee River, 147, 154, 166, 167, 170, 172, 176, 191, 195–96, 198, 202, 204, 314, 320

  Tenure of Office Act, 586, 593–94, 595, 610, 611

  Johnson and Grant’s meeting about, 602–3, 604–6

  Terrell, Harrison, xix, 933, 945, 953–54

  Terrell, Robert, 945–46, 948

  Terry, Alfred, 462, 571, 803, 833

  Texas, 122, 245, 291, 510, 538, 555, 587–88, 655, 658, 684, 742, 751, 760, 894

  annexation of, 16, 38–44, 54, 58, 121

  Banks’s occupation of, 357

  division diverted to, 300

  Grant’s desire for marital law in, 584–85

  slavery legalized in, 38

  Thailand, 879

  Thayer, John M., 144, 293–94, 597

  Third Reconstruction Act, 590

  Thirteenth Amendment, xxii, 467, 564–65, 644, 685, 744, 856

  Thomas, George H., 214, 309, 316, 320, 322, 447, 448, 561

  in battle of Chattanooga, 312–13, 320–24

  in battle of Chickamauga, 304, 312, 317

  in battle with Hood, 455–57, 459

  made district military commander, 596

  in Mexican War, 51

  as military district commander, 585

  at West Point, 24–25

  Thomas, Lorenzo, 194, 280–81, 284, 298, 300–301, 609

  Thompson, M. Jeff, 146–47

  Thompson, Richard W., 877

  Thoreau, Henry David, 58

  Thornton, Edward, 721

  three-fifths rule, 848

  Thurman, Allen, 916

  Tigress, 191, 200

  Tilden, Samuel J., 828, 843–46, 847, 849, 850

  Tilghman, Lloyd, 171, 173, 174

  Tilton, Theodore, 442, 609, 740

  Times (London), 475, 683, 684, 890

  Tippecanoe, battle of, 25

  Tod, David, 208, 212

  Totopotomoy Creek, 401

  Traveller (horse), 393, 400, 498, 506, 510

  Treasury bonds, 777

  Treasury Department, U.S., 117, 232, 634, 675

  Tripler, Charles S., 71

  Trist, Nicholas P., 54

  Trobriand, Philippe R. de, 791, 793

  Trollope, Anthony, 866

  Trounstine, Philip, 236

  Trumbull, Lyman, 740

  Tunnel Hill, 320

  Turner, James Milton, 642

  Twain, Mark, 573, 672, 871, 905–6, 919, 939, 942, 943, 946, 947, 950–51, 958–59

  on Butler, 371

  at Chicago reception for Grant, 886–88

  in Confederate company, 141

  Grant’s memoirs published by, xix, 934–37, 939, 946–48
, 953

  on Grant’s riding accident, 303

  on Grant’s writing process, xix

  Tweed, Boss, 617

  Twenty-First Illinois Infantry, 134, 136–37

  Twenty-Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 229

  Tyler, John, 25, 38, 39

  Tyner, James N., 826

  typhoid, 246

  Ulke, Henry, 822

  Ulm, battle of, 294

  Ulysses, 3

  Umberto I, king of Italy, 873

  Uncle Jason (slave), 101

  Uncle Sam, 171

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 16, 953

  Underground Railroad, 16

  Underwood, John C., 551–52

  Union Pacific Railroad, 710, 752

  United States v. Cruikshank, 759, 839

  Universal Peace Union, 889

  Upton, Emory, 389–90, 408

  Utah, 58

  Utah Territory, 885

  Valley of Cuernavaca, 57–58

  Van Buren, Martin, 617

  Vance, Joseph, 134, 138

  Vandalia, 871, 872

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 749

  Vanderbilt, William H., 921–22, 924, 948

  Van Dorn, Earl, 224, 226

  Corinth invaded by, 225

  Grant’s supply line damaged by, 239–40

  Vatican, 873

  Vaux, Calvert, 955

  Veracruz, Mexico, 49–50, 51, 60

  Verne, Jules, 862

  Versailles, 870

  Vest, George, 914

  Vicksburg, Miss., 217, 316, 788–89, 815, 896

  damaged in siege, 290

  as last Confederate fortress on Mississippi River, 236

  strategic value of, 294

  Union occupation of, 290–92

  Vicksburg, siege of, xxix, 268–83, 285–88, 294, 297, 363, 481, 522, 670, 671, 788–89

  casualties of, 269, 278, 290

  Confederate soldiers paroled after, 288, 289, 291

  contrabands used in, 280

  divisions dispatched to McClernand by, 269–70

  explosion of Union mine in, 285, 426, 427

  first shelling in, 268–69

  Grant’s drinking in, 272–77

  Lincoln’s anxiety about, 279, 292

  McClernand’s boast about, 272

  roads to Vicksburg obstructed, 285

  surrender terms of, 286–88, 942

  Vicksburg Campaign, 232, 332

  African American aid in, 247

  canal and levee projects in, 247–49

  casualties in, 240–41, 265–66, 267, 270

  clash at Champion’s Hill in, 264–66

  Confederate attack in, 255–56

  Dana’s monitoring of, 251–53, 255–56, 259, 261, 265, 273, 274–75, 276–77, 290–91

  diseases in, 246, 249

  Grand Gulf reached in, 261–62

  Grant’s army marched down Mississippi bank in, 257

  Grant’s article on, 929–30

  Grant’s Bruinsburg landing in, 259–61

  as Grant’s masterpiece, 294

  Grant’s plans for, 52, 226–27, 231, 238–39, 245, 246–47, 253–54, 257–58, 259

  Grant’s report to cabinet on, 296

  Grant stuck in Louisiana in, 245–46

  gunboat accident in, 253

  McClernand put in charge of, 236–37, 238

  march to Jackson in, 262–63

  Porter’s attack on Confederate batteries in, 258–59

  Port Gibson captured in, 260–61

  Scott’s Veracruz strategy imitated in, 52

  Sherman’s anxiety about, 254, 297

  slaves in, 248

  sophistication of, 289–90

  Union capture of arms in, 289–90, 298–99

  Vicksburg Whig, 256

  Victoria, queen of England, 722, 725, 772, 866, 867

  Villard, Henry, 214, 532

  Vincent, John Heyl, 122, 129, 811, 954

  Virginia, xxi, 8, 36, 123, 124, 129, 135, 351–513, 521, 529, 554, 564, 571, 601, 655, 747

  Virginia Central Railroad, 411, 476

  voting rights:

  of African Americans, xxii, xxiii, 511, 513, 549, 553–54, 568–69, 585, 590, 592, 600–601, 610, 616, 632, 655–56, 685–87, 815

  of women, 749–51

  Wade, Benjamin, 591, 596, 715, 718

  as next in line for presidency, 610, 611

  Wagner, Richard, 829, 868

  Wainwright, Charles, 360, 413

  Waite, Morrison R., 766–67, 824, 852

  Walker, Gilbert C., 655

  Wallace, Lew, 561

  in assault on Fort Donelson, 179, 180

  in battle of Shiloh, 202, 205, 209

  on capture of Corinth, 216

  at Crump’s Landing, 197

  Early’s defeat of, 419

  Halleck’s insulting of, 357

  Wallen, Henry D., 64, 79

  Walnut Spring, 47

  Ward, Ella, 920–21, 922

  Ward, Ferdinand, xvii–xviii, 915–27, 929, 940, 942, 951–52, 957

  Ward, Ferdinand Grant, 921

  Ward, William, 758–59

  War Democrats, 409

  War Department, U.S., 71, 74, 272, 307, 340, 519, 562, 593, 657, 668, 670, 820, 833

  Warmoth, Henry Clay, 757

  War of 1812, 50, 206

  Warren, Gouverneur, 379, 408, 430, 490

  Washburn, Cadwallader, 254, 303, 336

  Washburne, Elihu B., 120, 123, 125, 126, 184, 186, 200–201, 209, 219, 243, 249, 254, 303, 327, 338–39, 376, 410, 440, 559, 562, 599, 609, 621–23, 634, 685, 689, 691, 727, 744, 752, 869, 881, 892, 894, 951

  background of, 129–30

  at battle of Spotsylvania, 390, 391

  and calls for Grant’s removal, 217

  on capture of Port Gibson, 260

  at Convention of 1880, 901–2, 903

  and criticisms of Grant, 250

  at Fort Monroe, 371

  General Orders No. 11 praised by, 235

  Grant boasted of by, 151, 160, 165, 336

  Grant coached on advancing in military by, 223

  Grant defended on drinking accusation by, 210–11

  Grant introduced to Yates by, 129, 130

  Grant’s first meeting with, 129

  and Grant’s promotion to brigadier general, 142

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

  Grant touted for major general by, 155

  Grant touted for president by, 296

  illness of, 627

  investments of, 776

  and Jesse Grant’s address to Republican Convention, 615

  letter to Rawlins on Grant’s drinking, 165–66

  lieutenant general rank brought back by, 329–30, 336

  Lincoln’s campaign biography written by, 130

  on Lincoln’s faith in Grant, 211

  on Lincoln’s vigorous prosecution of war, 221

  made minister to France, 635

  militia training on front lawn of, 128

  and reinstatement of Grant, 193

  speech to crowd on militia by, 126–27

  on third term for Grant, 894

  on Union defeat at Bull Run, 141

  on Vicksburg Campaign, 258, 260–61

  Washington, Booker T., 641, 946

  Washington, D.C., 71, 337–40, 356

  Early’s threat to, 418–20

  end of war celebrated in, 519, 523

  equal rights for blacks in, 654

  Grant’s defense of, 358, 418–19, 420–21

  growth of, 645–46


  Lincoln’s concerns about invasion of, 366, 431

  Washington, George, 313, 367, 454, 546, 573, 574, 646, 754, 810, 829

  in front rank of presidents, xxii

  as lieutenant general, 330, 336

  Whitman’s praise of, xx

  Washington, Martha, 367

  Washington, Treaty of, 722–23, 724, 856

  Washington Chronicle, 801

  Washington College, 553

  Washington Daily Chronicle, 597

  Washington Post, 926

  Washington Territory, 76, 282, 642–43

  Waterloo, battle of, 881–82, 906

  Watkins, Sam, 320

  Webster, Amos, 883–84

  Webster, Charles, xix, 936–37, 948

  Webster, Daniel, 192

  Webster, Joseph D., 189, 209

  Weir, Robert Walter, 23

  Weitzel, Godfrey, 461, 492

  Weld, Stephen M., 187

  Welles, Gideon, 163, 220, 237, 238, 408, 416, 521, 522, 528, 534, 590, 595, 599, 605, 610, 615, 629, 641

  and attacks on Fort Fisher, 462

  capture of Wilmington desired by, 460

  Grant criticized by, 430–31, 449, 464, 557, 579, 581, 584, 585, 586, 597, 599–600

  on Grant’s drinking, 449

  on Rawlins, 296

  on swing around the circle, 577, 579

  and Vicksburg victory, 292

  Wellington, Duke of, 52, 56, 508, 546, 865, 882, 906

  Wells, James M., 589

  Welsh, William, 737–38

  West, Joseph Rodman, 843

  Western Department, 144

  West Point, 17, 392, 558, 570

  curriculum of, 22–23

  entrance exams of, 20

  natural beauty of, 21

  pledge of, 21

  racist incident at, 768–70

  rigors of, 22

  see also Grant, Ulysses S., at West Point

  West Virginia, 418, 444, 687, 703

  Wham, Joseph H., 136, 138

  Wheeler, William A., 827

  Whig Party, U.S., 532

  in election of 1852, 77

  and election of 1860, 118

  ideology of, 9

  Kansas-Nebraska Act and, 90

  whiskey scandal, 796–809, 819, 821

  whiskey tax, 796

  Whistler, William, 40

  White, Andrew, 715, 718

  White, Chilton, 49

  White, David, 135

  White, Harry, 810

  White, John D., 12

  White, Patrick, 199–200

  White Haven, 29–31, 36, 72, 81, 92, 93, 104, 114, 133, 618, 796, 810–11

  Grant’s farming at, 93–94, 98–99, 102

  Grant’s renting of, 99

  Grant’s wartime visit to, 168

  White House, renovations in, 646–47

  White League, 760–61, 789, 790, 791–92, 793

  White Line, 789, 813, 815–16, 843