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Authors: James M. McPherson

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   and temperance,
134

   and blacks,
137

   growing antiwar opposition of, in North,
493
–94

   riots by,
507

   underrepre-sentation in Union army,
606

   and New York draft riots,
609
–10

Iron Brigade,
803

   at 2nd Bull Run,
528

   at Antietam,
540
n

   at Gettysburg,
654

Island No. 10, Union capture of,
415
,
417

Iuka, battle of,
522
–23

Iverson, Alfred,
240

Jackson, Andrew,
68
,
119
,
166
,
418
,
707

   bank veto,
27
,
173
,
192

   and nullification,
249

Jackson, Claiborne Fox, and the struggle for Missouri,
290
–93

Jackson, Thomas J. ("Stonewall"),
276
,
429
,
554
,
654
,
722
,
812
,
850
,
857

   at 1st Manassas,
342
,
344

   Shenandoah Valley campaign,
425
,
453
–60,
624
,
648
,
671
,
779

   and Seven Days' battles,
464
–71

   and battle of Cedar Mountain,
524
–26

   at 2nd Manassas,
527
–32,
858

   and Antietam campaign,
536
,
538

   after Antietam,
569

   at Fredericksburg,
571
–72

   at Chancellorsville,
640
–42

   death of,
642
,
645
,
716
,
728

Jackson (Miss.), Union capture in Vicksburg campaign,
629
–30,
638

James, Frank,
292
,
784
,
785
,
786
,
787
,
788

James, Henry,
89

James, Jesse,
292
,
784
,
785
,
787
,
788

Jaquess, James,
767
–68

Jefferson, Thomas,
9
,
41
,
48
,
51
,
98
,
116
,
184
,
187
,
244
,
280

Jews: scapegoats for inflation in Confederacy,
441
–42

   trading between the lines, and Grant's "Jew order,"
622
–23

Johnson, Andrew: Tennessee unionist,
304

   Crittenden-Johnson resolutions,
312
,
354

   military governor of Tennessee,
511

   and black troops,
565

   vice-presidential nomination,
717

Johnson, Herschel,
694

Johnson, Samuel,
311

Johnston, Albert Sidney,
276
,
366
,
857

   in Mexican War,
5

   commander in Kentucky,
367
,
393
–94

   loss of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson,
398
–402,
404

   criticism of,
405
,
414

   Shiloh campaign and battle,
406
–10

Johnston, Joseph E.,
276
,
857

   in Mexican War,
5

   strategic ideas,
336

   and 1st Manassas,
339
–46

   in Virginia theater,
361
, 363,
367

   feud with Davis,
365
–66

   evacuates Manassas,
423

   Peninsula campaign,
426
–27,
454

   and Seven Pines,
461
–62

   named commander of western department,
575
–76

   tries to resign,
577

   and dissension in Army of Tennessee,
583

   and Vicksburg campaign,
626
,
629
–38,
646
,
677
,
740

   reinforces Bragg,
671

   succeeds Bragg as army commander,
681
,
719

   focal point of anti-Davis sentiment,
691

   in 1864 Atlanta campaign,
722
,
723
,
743
–52,
754

   relieved of command,
753

   and Sherman's Carolinas campaign,
827
–28,
829
,
844

   restored to command,
828

   battle of Bentonville,
830

   Lee hopes to join,
847

   evaluation of,
857

Jomini, Antoine Henry,
331
–32,
338
,
394

Jones, Charles C., Jr.,
41

Jones, John B.: denounces Jews,
441

   on inflation and hunger,
612
–13

   on Vicksburg and Gettysburg,
665

   on Chickamauga and Chattanooga,
681

   depressed by battle of Nashville,
815

   and revival of war spirit,
825

Jonesborough, battle of,
774

Juarez, Benito,
553
–54,
683

Julian, George W.,
87

   on nativism,
137
–38

   abolitionism of,
227

   emancipation speech in Congress,
495
–96

Kansas: issue of slavery in,
116
,
123
,
128
,
144
–45,
204
,
205

   border ruffians,
146
–47

   violence in,
148
–50,
191
,
203

   and John Brown,
152

   as issue in 1856 election,
154
–55,
160
–61

   and black exclusion,
159

   Lecompton constitution,
162
–69,
178
,
181
,
184
,
193
,
213
,
226

Kansas-Nebraska Act,
109
,
110
,
141
,
172

   origins of,
121
–24

   passage of,
125

   and 1854 elections,
126
–29,
136
–37

Kearny, Philip,
470

Kearny, Stephen Watts,
50

Kearsarge, U.S.S
.,
5
,
547

Keitt, Lawrence,
168
,
229

Kenesaw Mountain, battle of,
749
–50

Kenner, Duncan F.,
837
–38

Kentucky: strategic and political importance of,
284

   divided loyalties,
293
,
342

   neutrality,
294
,
352
–53

   unionist victories,
295
–96

   brothers' war theme,
297

Kernstown, battle of,
425
,
455

Key, Francis Scott,
287

Kirkwood, Samuel,
212

Knights of the Golden Circle,
116
,
560
,
599
,
763

Know Nothings,
130
,
191

   origins and program of,
135
–37

   and Republican party,
137
–38,
141
–43,
155
,
217
,
218

   in 1854 elections,
138
–39

   in Masachusetts,
139
–40

   in South,
140
–41,
217
.
See also
American party Nativism

Labor: and antebellum economy,
7
,
10
–11,
13
–14

   and "American system of manufactures,"
17
–19

   protest and conflict,
21
–26

   and free-labor ideology,
27
–29

   and politics,
30

   women and,
33
–34

   in Panic of 1857,
190
–92

   southern mudsill theme of,
196
–97

   Lincoln on,
198

   and wartime inflation,
448
–50

   racial tensions and New York draft riots,
609
–10

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