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fault lines in terrain of

Taney and

Confiscation Act, Second (1862)

Congress
(Union gunboat)

Contraband Relief Association of Washington

contrabands.
See
slaves, escaped

Conway, Moncure

Cook, John

Cooke, Philip

Copperheads

Corcoran, W. W.

Corinth, Mississippi

Battle of

capture of

Cornell University

cotton

Couch, Darius

Cox, Samuel

Crisfield, John

Cross Keys, Battle of

Crotzer, Henry W.

Cumberland River

Cumberland
(Union gunboat)

Curtin, Andrew

Curtis, Samuel

Custis, George Washington Parke

Dahlgren, John

Dahlgren, Ulric

Daily National Republican

Dana, Richard Henry

Daniel, Peter

Davis, David Brion

Davis, Jefferson

border states and

Britain and

family evacuates Richmond

Lee and

McClellan and

New Orleans and

railroad and

Dawes, Henry L.

Dayton, William

Delaware

Deming, Henry

Democratic Party

Convention of 1860

elections of 1862 and

Emancipation and

in key positions

McClellan and

Supreme Court and

Democratic Unionists

Derickson, Charles

Derickson, David

Dix, Dorothea

Dix, John A.

Doughty, John

Douglas, Stephen A.

Douglass, Frederick

Douglass, Lewis

Dred Scott
decision

Drouyn de L’Huys, Edouard

Duke, Basil

Eads, James

eastern theater.
See also specific armies and battles

Eckert, Thomas

Edmunds, James M.

Eggleston, Mr.

elections

of 1832

of 1860

of 1862

of 1864

of 1868

Ellsworth, Elmer

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

emancipation.
See also
slavery; slaves, escaped

compensated gradual

Frémont orders

Hunter orders

Lincoln moves toward

Lincoln overrules

Lincoln reveals decision on, to Seward and Welles

McClellan and

military and, in enemy lands

pressure for

self-liberating slaves and

Taney and

transcontinental railroad and

Union divisions over

Washington, D.C., and

Emancipation Proclamation

attack by Greeley and

announcement of

cabinet and

divine will and

elections of 1862 and

Europe and

impact of

signed

written

Ericsson, John

Europe

Ewing, Philemon

Ewing, Thomas

Ewing, Thomas, Jr.

Fair Oaks, Battle of (Seven Pines)

Farragut, David

federal government bonds

federal spending

Fessenden, William P.

Fields, David Dudley

Fisher, George

Florida

Floyd, John

Foote, Andrew

Foote, Shelby

Foreman, Amanda

Forrest, Nathan Bedford

Fort Donelson

Fort Heiman

Fort Henry

Fort Magruder

Fort Monroe

Fort Pulaski

Fort Ridgely raid

Fort Sumter attack

Fox, Gustavus

France

Franklin, William B.

Frederick, Maryland

Fredericksburg, Battle of

free blacks.
See also
emancipation; Emancipation Proclamation; slavery; slaves, escaped

citizenship rights of

deportation proposed

enlistment of, in Army

Frémont, John C.

French, Benjamin

Frietchie, Barbara

Front Royal, Battle of

Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

Gaines’ Mill, Battle of

Gardner, Alexander

Garrett, Thomas

Gassendi
(French warship)

Gatling, Richard

Gay, Sidney Howard

General Land Office

George III, King of England

Gettysburg, Battle of

Gettysburg address

Gibbon, James Sloan (poet)

Gibbon, John (general)

Gilbert, Benjamin

Gillespie, Joseph

Gladstone, William Eward

Gloire, La
(French ship)

Goethe, Johann W. von

Goldsborough, Louis

Goodell, William

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Gordon, Nathaniel

Grant, Julia

Grant, Ulysses S.

background of

communications cut

Corinth and

cotton and

foraging and

Forts Henry and Donelson and

future victories of

Halleck vs.. 166–67

Jewish merchants and

Lincoln’s admiration for

moves toward Jackson and Vicksburg

Nashville and

Oxford and

public opinion of

retreat from Mississippi and

Sherman and

Shiloh and

slaves and

western victories and

Gravelet, Jean-François

Great Britain

Greeley, Horace

Green, Horace

Grimes, James

Grow, Galusha

Guelzo, Allen

Gurley, Phineas

Gurowski, Adam de

Hagerstown, Maryland

Haiti

Hall, William

Halleck, Henry Wager “Old Brains”

background of

Buell and

Corinth and

as general-in-chief over McClellan

Grant and

Lincoln’s disregard for

McClellan and

public opinion and

Shiloh and

slavery and

Tennessee campaign and

western strategy and

Hamilton, Alexander

Hamilton, James

Hamlet
(Shakespeare)

Hamlin, Hannibal

Hampton Roads

Battle of Ironclads at

Lincoln’s Norfolk campaign and

Hartford
(Union warship)

Harpers Ferry

John Brown’s raid on

McClellan and

Harper’s Weekly

Harris, Ira

Harrison, Benjamin, IV

Harrison’s Landing

Hatch, Ozias

“Haunted House, The” (Hood)

Haupt, Herman

Hawes, Richard

Hay, John

Hay, Milton

Heintzelman, Samuel

Henry, Joseph

“Hermann, Herr” (sleight-of-hand artist)

Herndon, William

Hill, A. P.

Hill, Daniel H.

Holland, J. G.

Holly Springs

Battle of

Van Dorn raid on

Holt, Joseph

Homestead Act (1862)

Honduras

Hood, Thomas

Hooker, Joseph

Howe, Julia Ward

Howe, Samuel Gridley

Huger, Benjamin

Hunter, David

Hurlbut, Stephen

Hyde, Joshua

Il Trovatore
(Verdi)

Ile à Vache colony

Illinois

Interior Department

internal revenue system

ironclad gunboats

Battle of

destruction of
Virginia

Ironside
(British ship)

Isacks, A. J.

Island No. 10, Battle of

Iuka, Mississippi

Jackson, Andrew

Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall”

James River

Jay, John

Jefferson, Thomas

Jewish merchants

Johnson, Andrew

Johnson, Oliver

Johnson, Reverdy

Johnston, Albert Sidney

Johnston, Joseph E.

Jomini, Antoine-Henri

Jones, Catesby

Julian, George

Kansas

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Kaskel, Cesar

Keckly, Elizabeth

Kentucky

Confederates invade

Key, John

Key, Thomas

Keyes, Erasmus

King, Preston

King John
(Shakespeare)

Knights of the Golden Circle

Laird Brothers

Lamon, Ward Hill

land-grant colleges

Lane, Harriet

Lee, Fitzhugh

Lee, Mary Custis

Lee, Robert E.

Antietam and

commands Confederate Army

estates of, seized

Fredericksburg and

Maryland drive of

McClellan’s firing and

McClellan’s Peninsula campaign vs.

Pope’s advance and