Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (180 page)

   and secession,
242

   on Fort Sumter,
265
,
273

   on cotton embargo,
383

   on McClellan's nomination,
772

   opposes arming of slaves,
835
,
836

Chase, Salmon P.: founder of Free Soil party,
61

   elected senator,
670

   and Compromise of 1850,
68
,
70
,
76

   on Kansas-Nebraska Act,
124

   and Know Nothings,
142
–43

   and Kansas,
149

   1856 election,
155

   1860 election,
217
,
220
,
227

   sec. of treas.,
260

   on Fort Sumter,
268

   and war finance,
442
–44,
446
,
593

   and Hunter's emancipation edict,
499

   on McClellan,
504
,
533

   opposes colonization,
509

   and cabinet crisis of Dec. 1862,
574

   favors Negro suffrage,
701

   abortive presidential candidacy in 1864,
713
–15

   chief justice,
841
and n,
842

Chattanooga: battle of Missionary Ridge,
476
,
678
–81,
719

   Rosecrans occupies,
670

   besieged by Bragg,
676

   Grant and,
677

   battle of Lookout Mountain,
678

   significance of,
858

Cheatham, B. Franklin,
583

Chesnut, James,
238

Chesnut, Mary Boykin: on war as romance,
332
–33

   on 1st Manassas,
349

   on blockade,
381

   depressed by Confederate defeats (in 1862),
403
,
422
(in 1863),
681

   depressed by loss of Atlanta,
775

   depressed by battle of Nashville,
815

Chester, T. Morris,
847

Chicago Tribune:
on Dred Scott decision,
177

   on secession,
249
,
251

   on McClellan,
568

   discouraged with war,
590

Chickamauga, battle of,
281
,
297
,
476
,
672
–75,
676
,
681
,
684
,
745
,
812

Chickasaw Bluffs, battle of,
579
,
628

Christian Commission,
483

Christiana (Pa.), fugitive slave battle at,
84
–85

Churches,
see
Catholics

   Religion

Civil liberties,
see
Habeas corpus

Civil War, consequences and meaning of,
450
–53,
859
–62

Clausewitz, Karl von,
331
,
721

Clay, Clement C.,
763
,
766
–67,
803

Clay, Henry,
57
,
59
n,
158
,
293
,
295
,
297

   presidential aspirant,
59
,
60

   and Compromise of 1850,
70
–75

   and fugitive slave law,
83

Cleburne, Patrick: at Missionary Ridge,
678
–79

   proposal to arm blacks,
832
–33

   killed at Franklin,
812

Cobb, Howell,
67
,
68
,
258
,
835

Cobb, Thomas R. R.,
347

Cold Harbor, battles of,
733
–35,
740
,
741

Colonization, of freed slaves: Lincoln proposes,
508

   abortive efforts,
509

Colt, Samuel,
16

Columbia (S.C.), burning of,
829
,
846

Committee on the Conduct of the War,
362
–63,
424
,
797

Compromise of 1850,
8
,
70
–77,
80
,
172

   South insists on enforcement of,
87
,
117
,
118

   as precedent for Kansas-Nebraska Act,
124

Confederate States of America: formation of,
254
,
257

   four upper South states join,
278
–84

   small industrial base,
318
–19

   flags of,
342

   quest for diplomatic recognition,
387
–89,
538
,
545
–46,
553
–56;
837
–38

   economic distress and civilian disaffection,
440
–42

   food shortages,
612
–13,
616
–18

   civilian deaths,
619

   absence of political parties,
689
–92,
856

   economic destruction in,
818
–19

   war aims of, and slavery,
831
–36

   reasons for loss of war,
854
–59.
See also
Army, Confederate

   Inflation

   
names of individuals

Confiscation acts: of 1861,
353
,
356

   of 1862,
499
–502.
See also
Emancipation

Conscription in Confederacy,
427
,
429
–31

   unpopularity of,
432
–33

   substitution abolished,
603
,
718

   "20-Negro" exemption,
611
–12,
615

   election isssue in 1863,
690
,
693

   issue in 1864,
696

Conscription in Union: militia draft of 1862,
492
–94

   national conscription act of 1863,
600
–601

   defects of act,
602
–3

   substitution and commutation,
604

   bounty volunteers,
605
–06

   opposition and resistance to,
608
–9

   New York draft riots,
610
–11

   issue in 1863 elections,
684

   1864 draft call,
758

Constitutional Union party, in 1860 election,
221
–22,
232
,
689

   in secession crisis,
277

"Contrabands": origin of term,
267

   Congress forbids return of to masters,
497
–98.
See also
Freedmen

Con way, Moncure,
358

Cooke, Jay,
443

Cooke, Philip St. George,
463
–64

Cooper, Samuel,
282
,
365
–66

Cooperationists, in secession crisis,
235
,
237
,
238
–39,
242

Copperheads, antiwar faction of Democratic party: emergence of,
493
–94,
494
n,
613
,
692

   and emancipation issue,
506
–7,
595

   peace efforts in 1863,
590
–92

   economic grievances,
593
–94

   civil liberties issue,
596
–99

   and Chancellorsville,
645

   Lee's Pennsylvania invasion,
650

   in 1863 state elections,
684

   and peace sentiment in 1864,
761

   intrigues with rebel agents,
762
–65,
781
–83

   and "peace negotiations,"
766

   at Democratic convention,
771
–72

   on McClellan's nomination,
776

Corinth (Miss.): Confederate base in Shiloh campaign,
406
,
407
,
414

   Union capture of,
416
–17,
418
,
488

   battle of (Oct. 1862),
522
–23,
561
,
577

Cotton: and U.S. economy,
6
–7,
39

   boom in 1850s,
86
,
91
,
100
–102

   southern effort to develop textile industry,
94
–100

   King Cotton thesis,
100
,
195
–96

   embargo of, and Confederate foreign policy,
383
–86,
437

   cotton famine in 1862,
546
,
548
–50,
553

   illicit trade between lines,
620
–25

   growth of by freedmen in occupied South,
710

Couch, Darius,
640