Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (181 page)

Cox, Jacob D., military operations in western Virginia,
299
–302

Cox, Samuel S.,
507
,
593
,
594

Craft, Ellen and William,
81
,
82

Crampton's Gap, battle of,
537

Crater, battle of the,
758
–60

Crittenden, John J.: and slavery expansion,
52
,
59

   and Crittenden Compromise,
115
,
252
–54,
256
,
257
,
293

   threatens secession,
230

   and brothers' war,
297

   Crittenden-Johnson resolutions of 1861,
312
,
354
,
358

   opposes confiscation act,
355
–56

Crittenden, William J.,
106
–7

Cross Keys, battle of,
458
,
460

Cuba: movements to acquire,
104
,
119
,
194
–95,
215
,
251
,
253

   filibustering and,
105
–10,
203
,
212

   and Ostend Manifesto,
110

Cumming, Kate,
478
–79,
479
–80n

Curtis, Benjamin R., and Dred Scott case,
171
,
173
,
175
,
176

Curtis, Samuel R.,
404
–5,
668

Custer, George Armstrong,
739

Dana, Charles A.,
138
,
589
–90,
621
,
634

Daniel, Peter,
174

Davis, Garrett,
294

Davis, Henry Winter,
706
n,
709
,
713
,
717

Davis, Jefferson,
before Civil War:
244

   in Mexican War,
5

   and slavery expansion,
66
,
68
,
69

   and compromise of 1850,
70
,
87

   on drive to annex Cuba,
104
,
105
,
106

   and Kansas-Nebraska Act,
123

   slavery in Kansas,
146
,
164

   favors federal slave code,
195
,
214

   on secession as an act of liberty,
241

   and of counterrevolution,
245

   opposes compromise,
252
,
254

   elected president of Confederacy,
258
–59

   and Fort Sumter crisis,
265
,
267
,
272
–73

   secretary of war,
474

Davis, Jefferson,
as Confederate wartime president:
278
,
279
,
478
,
780

   and border states.
291
,
293
,
294

   and western Virginia,
302

   on liberty as South's war aim,
310

   issues letters of marque,
315
–16

   and southern mobilization,
317
,
319

   and political generals,
328

   on military strategy,
337
–38

   at Man-assas,
345
–46

   relations with Beauregard and Joe Johnston,
365
–67,
394
,
397
,
423

   with Judah Benjamin,
373

   on Union blockade,
381

   relations with A. S. Johnston,
394
,
405

   inaugural address,
403
–4

   relieves Beauregard of command,
417

   and Peninsula campaign,
426
–27

   southern criticism of,
428
–29,
543

   urges conscription,
430
,
433

   and martial law,
433
–35

   and treasury notes,
439

   and civilian suffering,
440
,
441

   Seven Pines,
461
–62

   threatens retaliation against Pope's orders,
501

   and Lee's invasion of Maryland,
534
–36

   question of British recognition,
552

   response to Emancipation Proclamation and black Union soldiers,
566

   command problems in West,
575
–77,
583
–84

   and unpopularity of the draft,
612
,
615

   Richmond bread riot,
618

   on trade with enemy,
622
,
624

   declares Butler an outlaw,
623

   and Vicksburg campaign,
633
,
637

   on strategy after Chancellorsville,
646
–47

   hopes Lee will conquer a peace,
650
,
664

   and Lee's attempt to resign,
665

   reorganizes trans-Mississippi Department,
668

   despair of, in fall 1863,
670
–71

   and dissension in Bragg's army,
676
–77

   names Johnston to succeed Bragg,
681

   congressional elections of 1863,
689
–92

   opposition to in Confederate politics,
692
–94

   and peace movements,
694
–95,
697

   and Johnston in Atlanta campaign,
744
,
747
,
751
,
752
–54

   and rebel agents in Canada,
762
–63

   "peace negotiations" in 1864,
766
–68,
770
–71,
772

   and treatment of black p.o.w.'s,
792
,
800

   treatment of other Union prisoners,
798
,
802

   will fight to last ditch,
806
,
819
,
824

   visits Hood's army,
807

   and Sherman's march,
808

   names Lee general in chief,
821

   Hampton Roads peace conference,
822
,
824

   and Cleburne's proposal to arm blacks,
833
,
834
,
836

   and Kenner mission,
837
–38

   flees Richmond,
846
–47,
851
–52

   capture of,
853

   qualities of, compared with Lincoln,
857

   on Confederacy as counterrevolution,
861

Davis, Varina Howell,
429

Davis Bend (Miss.), freedmen's colony at,
710

Dayton, William,
156

De Bow, James: D. B.: champions southern commercial development,
93
,
97

   proslavery polemics of,
102

   and reopening of slave trade,
103

   on secession as counterrevolution,
861

De Bow's
Review,
93
,
102

   and annexation of slave territory,
106

   on John Brown,
211
,
212

Democratic party and Democrats: and Mexican War,
4
,
47
–51

   and banks,
26
–27

   and slavery,
30
,
53
–54,
58
,
65

   constituency of,
30
–31,
33
,
223
,
805

   racism of,
30
,
143
,
158
–60,
184
–86,
224
–25,
506
–7,
685
–86,
788
–90

   and Indians,
45

   and Manifest Destiny,
48
,
107
–9,
194

   southern domination of,
53
,
129

   Barnburner faction,
60
–62,
118

   impact of Kansas-Nebraska Act on,
124
,
129

   and nativism,
136

   split by Lecompton,
166
,
188
,
213

   role of, as opposition party in wartime North,
690

   and 13th Amendment,
839
.
See also
Copperheads

   Elections

   War Democrats

Dennison, William,
299

Desertions from Confederate army: and civilian suffering,
440
,
613
,
615

   and 20-Negro law,
612

   in 1863,
670