Bloody Crimes (67 page)

evacuation of, 9-13, 20-29, 34, 67, 68, 85, 87, 88, 89, 95, 147, 183, 279, 296, 299, 317, 383

fall of, 8, 15, 26, 34-39, 35, 68-70, 73-74, 77, 80, 82, 102

food shortages in, 12, 31-32

Lee’s return to, 80, 205

liberated blacks in, 26, 39, 44-46, 64

Lincoln in, 38-39, 42-47, 62-65, 68, 73, 210, 356

looting and riot in, 26, 29-30, 31-32, 39-40, 332

monuments for Davis in, 398

peace negotiations in, 62, 73

severe rainstorm in, 331-32

theater fire in, 100

as tourist destination, 90, 93

Union threat to, 5-8, 13-15, 18-26, 31, 205

Richmond and Danville Railroad, 26-27

Richmond Times, 331-32, 338-40

Richview, Ill., 376

Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Davis), 363, 366

River Queen, 16-17, 19, 24, 42-43, 75-76

Robert E. Lee mausoleum, 365

Rocketts, 44, 356

Rucker, D. H., 126, 207

Rutledge, Ann M., 56-57, 161, 168, 173

Safford, Henry, 100-103, 105

St. John’s Church, 192

St. Louis, Mo., 58

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 5, 7-8, 20, 176

Salisbury, N.C., 181

Saluda River, 256

Sandburg, Carl, 284

Sandersville, Ga., 298

Sandford, Moses, 101-2, 181

Sands, Frank, 210, 229-30, 281-82

Sands & Harvey, 286

Sangamon River, 156

Sanitary Commission, U.S., 178

Sanitary Fair, 345

Saunders, George N., 268-69

Savannah, Ga., 3, 76, 323, 329, 371-73

Savannah River, 278, 280-81

“Savior of Our Country, The,” 255-56

Scaife’s Ferry, 250

Schofield, John M., 14

Scott, Winfield, 141, 191

secession, 50-51, 363

legal status of, 355, 356

Selden & Co., 63

Selma, Ala., 67, 77

Semple, James A., 89

Senate, U.S., 115, 149, 151, 167, 170

Davis in, 49-50, 369

Lincoln in, 48, 53

Seven Pines, battle of, 341

Seward, Frances Adeline Miller, 115, 391

Seward, Frederick, 110, 115, 147

Seward, William H., 19, 73, 78, 170

attack on, 110-11, 114-15, 119, 121, 144, 147, 196, 268, 276, 287, 391

Shakespeare, William, 34, 52, 60, 174, 226

Sheridan, Philip H., 28, 75

Sherman, William Tecumseh, 14, 17-18, 182, 212, 289, 329

Davis conspiracy theory of, 365-66

Johnston’s surrender to, 238, 256, 365

Shiloh, battle of, 9, 312

Shubrick, William B., 151

Simpson, Matthew, 184, 189, 282-84

Sing Sing, N.Y., 232, 233

slavery, 100, 258-59, 356, 357, 367, 382, 388, 401

Brown’s raid and opposition to, xi-xii

in Confederacy, 3

Davis and, 49, 60-61, 357, 367, 401

expansion of, 52, 54

Lincoln’s opposition to, xii, 52-54, 60-61, 333-34

U.S. Constitution and, 53

smallpox, 262-63

Smith, Anna Davis, 56

Smith, Gerrit, 356

Smith, Kirby, 14

Smithsonian Institution, 49, 124

Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 400

Snow, Parker, 229

Soldiers’ Home, 93

South, 276

agricultural empire of the, 2

Brown as seen in, xii

Davis as spokesman for, 50

feeling of superiority in, 322

impact of Lincoln’s death on, 196

Johnson and, 121, 196, 199-200

postwar, 361

reconstruction of, 92

Union army as seen by, xiv, 322

South Carolina, 238, 245, 250, 252, 257, 268, 297

secession by, 98-99

Southern Express Company, 195

Southern Historical Society, 361

Southern Historical Society Papers, 363

Speed, James, 157, 207

Speed, Phillip, 157

Spotswood Hotel, 356

Springfield, Ill., 27, 59, 143, 145, 153, 155, 161, 163, 199, 201-2, 213, 247, 293, 295, 331, 391

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in, 392-93

Lincoln’s burial in, 271-78, 275, 283, 287, 389

Springfield (Mass.) Republican, 340

Stanton, Edwin M., 79, 92, 130, 136, 170, 180, 313

arrests ordered by, 240

Booth manhunt and, 111, 147, 204, 244, 268, 296

on Davis capture, 330-32

Davis’s captivity and, 339, 341, 352, 354

Davis suspected of assassination involvement by, 276, 287, 297, 320, 326

and fall of Richmond, 17, 18, 20, 34-36

Grand Review and, 331

Lincoln corpse photograph and, 234-37, 239-41, 248

Lincoln’s corpse and, 138-40, 379-80

Lincoln’s funeral and, 140-42, 184-85, 189

Lincoln’s funeral train and, 154-58, 199, 200-204, 207-9, 217, 219, 225, 246, 274, 277

at Petersen house, 113, 120-21

post-funeral planning by, 143, 151, 153

on Seward attack and Lincoln assassination, 110-11

women’s clothes rumor propagated by, 324, 327-29, 344

State Department, U.S., 110

states’ rights, 363

Stephens, Alexander, 47

Stevens, Thaddeus, 220

Stevenson, Job E., 258-59, 284

Stone, Robert King, 109, 117, 133, 135-36, 169

Stoneman, George, 88

Confederate gold rumor and, 244-45

Strong, George Templeton, 328

Stuart, J. E. B., 2

Sulivane, Clement, 8, 20, 31

Sumner, Charles, 114-15

Supreme Court, U.S., 52, 62, 171

Surratt, Mary, 341, 344

Sutherlin, William T., 37-38

Swan, Otis D., 157

Swancey’s Ferry, S.C., 256

Swanson, Claude A., 387

Syracuse, N.Y., 242

Taft, Charles Sabin, 106-7, 108-9, 120, 124, 126-27, 133, 135

Taft, William Howard, 398

Taltavul’s Star Saloon, 96, 102

Tanner, James, 126

Taylor, Sarah Knox, 55-56, 58, 175, 357, 366, 376-77

Taylor, Zachary, 9, 50, 55, 142, 188

telegraph, 18-19, 20

Texas, 14, 33, 80, 247

as possible new Confederate center, 197, 219, 279, 299, 317

T. Gurney & Son, 239-40

Thomas, D. C., 126

Thomas, George, Confederate gold rumor and, 244-45

Thomas, Lorenzo, 141

Thomas, William B., 157

Thompson, Jacob, 268-69

Tifton, Ga., 398-99, 399

Tillson, Davis, 245

torpedo general, 85-87

Townsend, Edward D., 141, 203, 352

Lincoln corpse photograph and, 230, 234-38, 248

Lincoln’s funeral train and, 201-3, 209, 213-19, 225, 232-33, 243, 245-46, 248-50, 253, 255, 261-62, 271, 274-77, 294

Townsend, George Alfred, 145-46, 185-87, 192-93, 198

on cleaning out of Lincoln’s office, 324-26

Treasury Department, U.S., 93, 108, 141-42, 150, 151, 156, 158, 187, 192, 287, 336-37

Tredegar Iron Works, 11, 401

Trenholm, George, 9, 32, 33, 38

Tucker, Beverly, 268-69, 314

Tuscarora, 330

Tyger River, 250

Tyler, E. B., 214

Ulke, Henry, 128-30

Ulke, Julius, 128-30

Union Army, 82, 87, 92, 182, 213-14, 275, 289, 356

approach to Richmond by, 5, 13-14, 18-21, 26, 30, 31

cavalry of, 88, 194, 244-45, 278-79, 299-302, 304-18

Davis honored by, 321-22

Grand Review of, 329-30, 331, 333, 336-37

Lincoln’s popularity with, 75-76

prisoners from, 46, 344

in Richmond, 44

as seen by South, xiv

as threat to Davis, 200

see also Army, U.S.

Union League Association, 220

Union League Club, 157

Union Pacific Railroad, 391

United Confederate Veterans, 386

United Daughters of the Confederacy, 386, 399

United States Military Railroad, 27, 208-9, 277, 331, 382

Urbana, Ohio, 259

U.S. Army Medical Museum, 136, 137, 395

U.S. Arsenal, tragedy at, 177-81, 342

Usher, John P., 117

Valentine, Edward, 386

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 356

Vicksburg, battle of, 112

Vicksburg, Miss., 3, 76, 123, 156, 248

Vignodi, Professor, 344

Vincent, Thomas, 116

Virginia, 40-41, 95, 121, 194, 206, 297, 317, 401

aristocracy of, 3

as Confederacy’s principal state, 37, 70, 82

Walker, J. M., 83

Wallace, Lew, 215, 240

War Department, Confederate, 288

War Department, U.S., 18, 35, 101, 150, 152, 154, 181, 190, 235, 239-41, 249, 296, 297, 330, 341, 344, 350, 352, 380

War of 1812, 132, 141

Washington, D.C., 1-2, 16, 18, 19, 27, 48, 73, 75, 77, 78, 90, 100, 119, 121, 123, 126, 130, 141, 152-53, 155, 167, 173,

Washington, D.C. (cont’d) 178, 199, 203, 209, 213, 214, 234, 237, 239, 242, 271, 273, 275, 276, 277, 281, 287, 295, 296, 331, 358, 361, 371, 383, 391, 393

antebellum, 352

boardinghouse culture in, 98

Davis’s capture and, 318-19, 321, 323-24, 326