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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
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
Shenandoah Valley campaign,
425
,
453
–60,
624
,
648
,
671
,
779
and Seven Days' battles,
464
–71
and battle of Cedar Mountain,
524
–26
after Antietam,
569
at Fredericksburg,
571
–72
at Chancellorsville,
640
–42
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
Shiloh campaign and battle,
406
–10
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
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
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
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
Kenesaw Mountain, battle of,
749
–50
Kenner, Duncan F.,
837
–38
Kentucky: strategic and political importance of,
284
unionist victories,
295
–96
brothers' war theme,
297
Key, Francis Scott,
287
Kirkwood, Samuel,
212
Knights of the Golden Circle,
116
,
560
,
599
,
763
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