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Authors: James M. McPherson
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of North Carolina troops,
694
and
694
–95n
epidemic of, in 1865,
820
–21,
844
Desertions from Union army: after Fredericks-burg,
584
of substitutes and bounty men,
606
,
720
Disease in Civil War armies,
326
,
472
,
485
–88,
512
,
588
.
See also
Medical care in Civil War armies
Dix, Dorothea,
483
Dobbin, James,
123
Doolittle, James,
180
Douglas, Stephen A.,
107
1852 election,
118
Kansas-Nebraska Act,
121
–25
and 1854 elections,
127
–29
and Lecompton,
166
–68
on Dred Scott decision,
177
–78,
179
n,
180
contest with Lincoln in 1858,
181
–88,
198
,
218
and federal slave code issue,
195
on John Brown,
211
and 1860 election,
213
–16,
223
–32,
703
and secession,
252
on Lincoln's inaugural address,
263
supports war for Union,
274
on fugitive slave law,
84
and 1856 election,
160
and John Brown,
205
and 1860 election,
228
opposes concessions to secessionists,
251
urges wartime emancipation,
354
praises Emancipation Proclamation,
558
on black soldiers,
564
on freedmen's policy in Louisiana,
711
attends inaugural reception,
840
Draft,
see
Conscription
Dred Scott v
.
Sandford:
background,
170
–73
public reaction,
176
–80,
183
,
188
Drewry's Bluff, battle of: (1862),
427
(1864),
724
Du Pont, Samuel,
371
Durant, Thomas J.,
705
Dwight, Timothy,
41
Eads, James B.,
393
Early, Jubal,
743
at Chancellorsville,
640
–41,
644
gets corps command,
734
stops Hunter in Valley,
739
invasion of Maryland,
756
–58,
813
routed by Sheridan at Winchester and Fisher's Hill,
777
East Tennessee: unionism in,
304
,
512
guerrilla and military actions,
305
–6
Union capture of Knoxville and Chattanooga,
670
Eaton, John,
710
Economy, U.S.: and economic development,
6
–7,
9
–10
and labor,
10
–11,
13
–15,
17
–18,
21
–26
and transportation revolution,
11
–13
and "American system of manufactures,"
15
–18
and education,
18
–21
women and,
33
–34
in the South, and slavery,
39
,
91
–102
and Panic of 1857,
190
–93
difficulties in Confederate economy,
437
–42
productivity of northern wartime economy,
449
Civil War and transformation of American economy,
452
–53,
816
–19
Education: and economic growth,
18
–21
and literacy,
19
–20
and social mobility,
29
–30
role of women in,
35
–36
land-grant colleges,
193
–94,
451
of freedmen during Civil War,
371
,
498
Elections, C.S.A.: congressional (1863),
689
–92,
696
state election, in North Carolina (1864),
698
Elections, U.S.A., congressional: of 1846 and 1847,
4
,
48
of 1858,
188
of 1862, and emancipation issue,
505
–9,
557
,
560
results of (1862),
561
–62,
689
,
858
Elections, U.S.A., presidential: (1848),
4
,
58
–64,
104
(1856),
153
–62
Democratic conventions in 1860,
213
–16
Republican convention,
216
–21
campaign and election,
222
–33,
506
(1864), abortive candidacy of Chase and Frémont,
713
–15,
716
renomination of Lincoln,
716
–17
impact of military events on,
718
Confederate hopes for election of Peace Democrat,
721
,
743
postponement of Democratic convention,
765
Republicans depressed,
770
–71
Democrats nominate McClellan,
772
impact of Atlanta on,
773
–76
and of Sheridan's victories,
777
–78,
780
–81
Republicans exploit copperhead activities,
781
–83,
788
,
791
Democrats exploit race issue,
788
–90
soldier opinion of McClellan,
803
soldier vote for Lincoln,
804
–5
meaning of Lincoln's reelection,
806
Elections, U.S.A., state: in 1863,
597
–98,
599
–600,
684
–88
soldier vote in,
688
Ellet, Alfred,
418
Ellet, Charles,
417
–18
Ellet, Charles, Jr.,
418
Emancipation of slaves: condition for admission of West Virginia,
303
–4
Frémont's edict in Missouri,
352
–53,
356
–58
military necessity argument,
354
contrabands,
355
growing northern support for,
494
–96
laws for,
496
–500
enforcement in field,
501
–2
McClellan deplores,
502
–3
political issue, and Democratic opposition,
505
–10,
592
,
594
–95,
608
–9,
684
–88
and Lincoln's reconstruction policy,
699
,
703
–6,
712
–13
and peace issue in 1864,
768
–71
Maryland achieves,
805
issue at Hampton Roads conference,
822
–23,
823
–24n
Confederate debate on,
831
–36
and Kenner mission,
837
–38.
See also
Confiscation
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation (Sept. 1862),
357
,
489
Lincoln's decision to issue,
502
–4
issuance after Antietam,
545
,
557
–58
and army,
558
–60
and 1862 elections,
560
–61
endorsed by House,
562
final Proclamation issued,
563
,
703
Democratic attacks on,
594
–95
voter endorsement in 1863,
688