Rise to Greatness (79 page)

retreat of, post-Antietam

Seven Days’ battles and

Union foraging and

Leopold I, King of Belgium

Lewis, Sely

Liberator
(newspaper)

Liberia

Lincoln, Abraham

abolitionists and

achievements of, in 1862

advisors and

annual message to Congress of 1861

annual message to Congress of 1862

Antietam and

anti-slave trade treaty and

appearance of

Aquia Creek visits by

Army and, in early 1862

Army and, in early 1863

Army hospital conflict and

Army of the Potomac commanders and

assassination threats and

Banks reassigned by

becomes own general in chief, over McClellan

bodyguards and

border states and

Browning’s friendship with

Buell fired by

Burnside appointed by, to replace McClellan

Burnside’s North Carolina expedition and

Butler’s offense to British and

cabinet and

cabinet presses, to fire McClellan

Chase’s rivalry with

Clay’s influence on

colonization and

commitment of, after Richmond defeat

compensated emancipation and

confiscation by Army and

Congress and

contrabands and Army and

Cooper Union speech by

cotton trade and

coup threats vs.

death of friends and

death of son Willie and

Derickson’s friendship with

desertions and

Douglas debates and

early biographers on

early life of

economic opportunity and

election of

elections of 1862 and

Emancipation Proclamation and

Emerson and

Europe and

Fair Oaks and

fault lines in Confederacy and

Fort Sumter and

Fredericksburg and

free blacks meet with

freed blacks and

Front Royal and

General Land Office and

generals’ inaction and

generals under McClellan appointed by

General War Order No. 1 and

Grant and

Greeley criticizes

habeas corpus and

Halleck appointed general in chief by

hard war philosophy and

“House Divided” speech by

humor and storytelling by

Hunter’s emancipation order and

Inaugural Address by, First

Inaugural Address by, Second

Ironclad Battle and

Jersey City speech by

Jewish merchants and

leadership of, doubted

legislation and

letter to Quintin Campbell by

literature and poetry and

marriage and family and

McClellan appointed by, as general in chief

McClellan appointed by, as head of army in Washington

McClellan as problem for

McClellan at Second Manassas and

McClellan at Yorktown and

McClellan fired by

McClellan in Maryland and

McClellan placed under Halleck by

McClellan post-Antietam and

McClellan’s conflict with, after Shenandoah losses

McClellan’s misjudgment of Lee

McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign vs. Richmond and

McClellan’s Potomac bridge fiasco and

McClellan’s retreat from Peninsula and delay in firing

McClellan-Stanton dispute and

McClellan treason rumors and

McClellan visited by

military commissions and courts-martial and

military draft and

military tactics and strategy and

Minnesota Sioux and

Mississippi River command and

New Orleans and

New Year’s Day of 1862 and

New Year’s Day of 1863 and

Norfolk campaign by

patronage jobs and

personality of

Pope and

power of

principles of

public opinion and

recruitment and

religion and

Scott advises, on reorganization of command

séances and

secretaries Nicolay and Hay and

Seven Days and

Seward resignation crisis and

Seward’s relationship with

Shenandoah and

Sherman and

Shiloh and

slavery and emancipation and

slavery outlawed in U.S. territory and

slavery outlawed in Washington and

social life and

son Robert and

son Tad and

Stanton appointed Secretary of War by

Stones River and

Supreme Court and

taxes and

technology and

transcontinental railroad and

Trent
crisis and

Union preservation as goal of

Union rally of August 6 and

Virginia theater reorganized by

war council and

war expanded by

war powers and

Washington attack feared by

western campaign and

West Virginia statehood and

White House quarters of

Wood demand for negotiation with South and

wounded soldiers visited by

Lincoln, Edward “Eddie” (son)

Lincoln, Mary Todd

Bennett and

children and family life and

Christmas and

death of Willie and

deaths of half-brothers and

Emancipation Proclamation and

emotional problems of

freed slaves and

French and

personality of

relationship of, with husband

scandals and

Seward and

shopping and

social life and

Soldiers’ Home cottage and

son Bob and

spiritualism and

wounded soldiers and

Lincoln, Robert “Bob” (son)

Lincoln, Thomas “Tad” (son)

Lincoln, William Wallace “Willie” (son)

death of

scrapbook of

Lindsay, William

Little Crow, Chief

Livermore, Mary

London
Times

Longstreet, James

“Lost Heir, The” (Hood)

Louisiana

black Union troops in

Emancipation Proclamation and

Louisiana Purchase

Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), Emperor of France

Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell, first Viscount

Macbeth
(Shakespeare)

Macomb Eagle

Madison, James

Magruder, John

Mallory, Stephen

Malvern Hill, Battle of

Manassas

captured by Union

First Battle of (First Bull Run)

Second Battle of (Second Bull Run)

Manassas
(Confederate ironclad)

Marble, Manton

Marcy, Randolph

Maryland

Confederate drive to

escaped slaves and

Lee and

Lincoln visits McClellan in

Mason, James

Mason, Rodney

Maximilian, Archduke of Austria

Maynard, Nettie Colburn

McCall, George

McClellan, George B.

aftermath of firing and

Antietam and

Antietam and, delays following

appointed general in chief

appointed to head army in Washington

appointed to lead Union Army

cabinet and

cabinet and, demand for firing of

Confederate property and

corps commanders and

desertions and

eastern theater and

Emancipation Proclamation and

fired

firing of, demanded

Front Royal and

Grant and

Halleck replaces, as general in chief

Hampton Roads Ironclad Battle and

Harrison’s Landing bivouac of

leaks and

Lee misjudged by

Lincoln delays firing