Rise to Greatness (80 page)

Lincoln removes, as general in chief

Lincoln reorganizes forces under

Lincoln’s early relationship with

Lincoln’s war council and

Maryland campaign and

military dictatorship threat and

Peninsula campaign vs. Richmond and

Peninsula retreat and

Pope and

presidential ambitions of

reinforcements and

Second Manassas and

secret plans of

Seven Days’ battles and

Shenandoah losses and

slavery and

soft- vs. hard-war policy and

Stanton and

treason rumors and

western generals and

Yorktown and

McClellan, Mary Ellen

McClernand, John

McClure, Alexander

McCoy, Benjamin

McCullough, William

McDowell, Irwin

McPherson, James

Meade, George

Meagher, Thomas

Medill, Joseph

Meigs, Montgomery

Memphis, capture of

Memphis and Charleston Railroad

Mercier, Henri

Merrimack
. See
Virginia

Mexican War

Mexico

France and

slave colonies and

Miami
(Union cutter)

Michigan

military conscription (draft)

Militia Act (1794, 1862)

Miller, Samuel

Mill Springs, Battle of

Minnesota, Sioux war in

Minnesota
(Union warship)

Mississippi

Mississippi
(Confederate ironclad)

Mississippi River

Missouri

Missouri Compromise

Mitchell, Barton

Mobile, Alabama

Monitor
(Union ironclad)

Monroe Doctrine

Moorhead, J. K.

Moran, Benjamin

Morgan, John Hunt

Morrill, Justin

Morse, Freeman

Mumford, William

Murphy, R. C.

Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nashville

fall of

Nast, Thomas

National Intelligencer

Native Americans

Navy Department

Nelson, William “Bull”

New Madrid, Missouri

New Orleans

capture of

Order No. 28 and

New Ulm raid

New York Democrats

New York
Evening Post

New York Herald

New York State

New York Times

New-York Tribune

Nicolay, John

Nightingale, Florence

Noell, John

Norfolk, Lincoln and capture of

nullification

Odell, Moses

Ohio

Ohio River

Ohio volunteers

Orange and Alexandria Railroad

Oreto
(Confederate warship)

Oxford, Grant in

Pacific Railroad

Paducah, Kentucky

Paducah Union League

Palmerston, Lord (Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount)

Panama

paper money

Pea Ridge, Battle of

Peninsula Campaign.
See also
Richmond;
and specific battles

casualties and

retreat from

termination of, at Harrison’s Landing

Pennsylvania

Perry, Matthew

Perryville, Battle of

Philadelphia City Bounty Fund

Pierce, Edward

Pierce, Franklin

Pillow, Gideon

Pittsburg Landing

Planter
(steamer)

Polk, Leonidas

Pomroy, George

Pomroy, Rebecca

Pope, John

fired

Sioux War and

Porter, David Dixon

Porter, Fitz John

Port Republic, Battle of

Port Royal, South Carolina, contrabands

Potomac River

Prentice, George

Prentiss, Benjamin

Price, Sterling

Quakers

radical Republicans

railroads

Ramsey, Alexander

Rappahannock River

Rawlins, John

Raymond, Henry

Reid, Whitelaw

Republican Party

elections of 1862 and

Seward resignation demanded by

Reynolds, John

Richmond

Jackson’s campaign to divert troops from

McClellan advance on (Peninsula campaign)

McDowell advance on

POWs in

Seven Days’ battles for

Richmond Examiner

Riggs, George W.

Rivas, Jose Maria

Roanoke Island, capture of

Robertson, George

Roelofson, William

Rosecrans, William

Royce, Josiah

Russell, Lord John (1st Earl)

Russia

Savannah

Schimmelfennig, Alexander

Schurz, Carl

Scott, Winfield

Sea Islands

secession

Seven Days’ battles

Seven Pines, Battle of.
See
Fair Oaks, Battle of

Seward, Frederick

Seward, William

background of

Britain and

cabinet discord and

Chase and

compromise proposed by

cotton trade and

critics of

Emancipation Proclamation and

Europe and

Lincoln’s commitment to war and

Lincoln’s friendship with

McClellan and

Norfolk trip and

patronage jobs and

personality of

recruitment and

resignation of, demanded by Republicans

slavery and

Sewell’s Point

Seymour, Horatio

Shakespeare, William

Sharpsburg.
See
Antietam, Battle of

Shenandoah Valley

Sheridan, Philip

Sherman, John

Sherman, William T.

Shiloh and

Shields, James

Shiloh, Battle of

Shipley, William

Shirley (plantation)

Sioux

Slade, William

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

1862 as key year for

banned in Federal territories

Britain and

colonization and

Confederate war effort and

conflict made inevitable by

Congress passes act ending

Constitution and

Dred Scott
and

eastern vs. western Confederacy and

Greeley vs. Lincoln on

legislation restricting

Lincoln’s middle course on

range of opinions on, in North

Washington, D.C., and

slaves, escaped (contrabands).
See also
free blacks

camps and aid for

Union Army lines and

as Union soldiers

slave trade

smuggler executed

treaty banning

slave uprisings

Slidell, John

Smalls, Robert

Smith, Caleb

Smith, C. F.

Smith, Edmund Kirby

Smith, James

Sneden, Robert

South Carolina

Southern ports

blockade of

seizure of

Southern Unionists

Spectator, The
(London weekly)

Speed, Joshua

Sprague, William

Stackpole, Thomas

Stanton, Edwin M.

appointed Secretary of War

Aquia Creek trip to consult with McDowell and

cabinet discord and

censorship and

death of son

Emancipation Proclamation and

Front Royal and

habeas corpus and

Hampton Roads and

Lincoln’s bodyguards and

McClellan and

McClellan firing and

McClernand and

military bureaucracy and

military strategy and

Norfolk campaign and

recruitment and

Sea Islands and

Seven Days’ battles and

Seward resignation and

Shiloh and

slavery and

State Department

states rights

Staunton, Battle of

Sterne, Laurence

Stevens, Thaddeus

St. Louis, Missouri

Stoddard, William O.

Stones River, Battle of

Stuart, J.E.B.

Sturgis, Samuel D.

Sumner, Charles

Emancipation Proclamation and

Shiloh and

Sumner, Edwin “Bull Head”

Swayne, Noah H.

Swett, Leonard

Switzerland

Taft, Bud

Taft, Holly

Taft, Horatio

Taft, Julia

Taney, Roger B.

taxes

Tennessee

Buell push into