Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction by Allen Guelzo (self help books to read TXT) 📕

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Blanchard, Jonathan, 523

Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 27

blockade, 224–25, 278–82, 286, 288, 300–302, 310–13, 362, 369

and closure of ports, 283

See also international law

Boker, George Henry, 379–80

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 17, 18, 26, 46, 338

“Bonnie Blue Flag, The” (song), 411

Booth, John Wilkes, 482–83, 489

Boston, Massachusetts, 182, 180, 383, 405, 414, 461

and draft riot of 1863, 418–20

Boston Journal, 419

Boutwell, George S., 474

Bowdoin College, 74, 139, 479

Bowling Green, Kentucky, 153, 193

Boyd, Belle, 395

Boys in Blue (veterans’ organization), 523

Boys’ and Girls’ Stories of the War (1863), 411

Bragg, Braxton, 209, 267, 294, 345, 347–49, 351, 352, 355, 360, 361, 366, 367, 428, 440, 441

Breckinridge, John C., 121, 126

Brice’s Crossroads, battle of (1864), 442

Bridges, Dillon, 246

Brierfield Furnace, 318

Bright, John, 289, 296

Brinton, Dr. John, 201

Brooklyn Navy Yard, 305

Brooks, Noah, 334

Brooks, Preston, 82, 175

Brooks Brothers, 314

Brown, John, 81, 116, 120, 123, 127, 129, 239, 390, 473

and Harpers Ferry raid, 117–18, 119, 123

and Pottawatomie massacre, 81, 116

Brown, Joseph Emerson, 38, 127, 131, 364, 489, 505

Brown, Joseph Newton, 233, 235

Brown, William Wells, 180

Brownell, Katy, 394

Browning, Orville Hickman, 190, 214

Brownlow, William Gannaway “Parson,” 9, 204, 497, 503

Brownson, Orestes, 215, 405

Bruton, George Asbury, 152, 207, 270, 272

Bryant, John Emory, 502

Buchanan, Franklin, 304

Buchanan, James, 86, 90, 93, 97, 108, 113–16, 120–21, 123, 132, 133, 134, 136, 506

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 200

Budd, William, 301

Buell, Don Carlos, 159, 161, 194, 195, 204, 205, 209, 347, 349, 438

Buffalo, New York, 377

Bulloch, James, 293, 297–98, 309

“Burial of Latané, The” (poem), 411

Burns, Anthony, 74

Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 159, 229, 328–30, 331, 426, 429

and “Mud March” (1863), 330

Bushnell, Horace, 413

Butler, Andrew, 82

Butler, Benjamin F., 176, 177, 179, 399, 425, 426

Butler, Pierce, 138

Butterfield, Daniel, 271

Cabot, Stephen, 419–20

Cadwalader, George, 223–24

Calhoun, John Caldwell, 20–22, 50, 51, 52, 65, 66, 69, 70, 71, 82, 87, 359

California, 41, 62, 67, 68, 71, 194, 386

Calvinism, 98, 103, 213

Cameron, Simon, 146, 314

Camp Chase, Ohio, 241

Camp Curtin, Pennsylvania, 241, 248, 458

Camp Dennison, Ohio, 242

Camp Harrison, Ohio, 242

Camp Moore, Louisiana, 152, 243

Camp Morton, Indiana, 241–42

Campbell, James H., 231

Canada, 285, 287, 296

and Canadian Militia Act, 288

Cape Fear River, 278

capitalism, 12–14, 48, 323, 327, 451, 466, 486, 489, 508, 517, 518–19, 521, 523, 534

and corporations, 17, 520–22, 534–35

Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 342, 343

Carney, William H., 381

Carondelet (gunboat), 198

Carpenter, Francis B., 465

Carver, George Washington, 385

Casey, Silas, 246

Cashtown, Pennsylvania, 343

Cass, Lewis, 66

Castle Pinckney, 135

Cater, Douglas, 232, 440–41, 443

cavalry, 249, 258–61, 331, 343, 349–50, 352, 373, 384, 398, 440, 444, 443, 463, 477, 489

5th Massachusetts Cavalry, 235

1st Michigan Cavalry, 395

2nd New York Cavalry

3rd Texas Cavalry, 232

13th Indiana Cavalry, 246

Cecile (blockade-runner), 278–80, 311

Chamberlain, Daniel H., 506, 513

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 139, 344, 479–80

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 324, 343, 448

Chancellorsville, Virginia, 430

and battle of (1863), 332–34, 339, 408, 528

Chandler, Zachariah, 84, 451, 453

Chapman, Conrad Wise, 529

Chapman, John A., 246

Charleston Mercury, 322

Charleston, South Carolina, 120, 121, 124, 136, 137, 159, 281, 286, 300, 302, 308, 311, 380, 396, 439, 445, 480, 481, 487

Chase, Katharine Jane, 449

Chase, Salmon Portland, 77, 85, 113, 217, 218–22, 225–26, 284, 375, 449–50, 452, 473, 483, 505

Chattanooga, Tennessee, 153, 346, 351–52, 353, 354, 436, 440, 441, 442, 467

and battle of (1863), 355–56, 421

Chavez, Manuel, 389

Cheatham, Benjamin F., 349

Cherbourg (France), 309, 463

Cherokee Hill, Georgia, 374

Cherokees (tribe), 387

Chesapeake Bay, 154, 162, 163, 301, 302, 305

Chesnut, James, 130

Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 25, 32, 397, 399–400

Chester, Thomas Morris, 531

Cheyenne (tribe), 388

Chicago, Illinois, 119, 122, 189, 213, 346, 462, 502, 517

Chicago Tribune, 203, 505

Chickahominy River, 164, 166, 432

Chickamauga, battle of (1863), 352, 354, 428, 442

Chickasaw Bayou, 212

Chimborazo Hospital (Richmond), 268

Christiana, Pennsylvania, 73

Cincinnati (gunboat), 198

Cincinnati, Ohio, 187, 228

Cincinnati Enquirer, 206, 227

Civil Rights Act (1875), 508

Clarksville, Tennessee, 195

Clay, Henry, 18–19, 22, 52, 56, 57, 61, 68, 69–70, 71, 73, 83, 85, 92, 99, 105, 107, 181, 188, 197, 214, 226, 231, 284, 534

Clay, Hugh Lawson, 131

Clayton, Powell, 510

Cleburne, Patrick R., 233, 235, 349, 370

Clem, Johnny, 237

Clemens, Samuel L. See Twain, Mark

Cleveland, Grover, 450

Cleveland, Ohio, 462, 496

Cobb, Howell, 370

Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 32

Cobb, Thomas Willis, 56

Cobden, Richard, 289, 296

Cockeysville, Maryland, 223

Cold Harbor, Virginia, battle of (1864), 432–33, 435

Coles, Cowper, 306

Colfax, Louisiana, 508

Colfax, Schuyler, 124, 375

College of William & Mary, 409

Colorado (territory), 389

Colored Soldiers Leagues (veterans’ organization), 523

Columbia, South Carolina, 130, 374, 470, 513

Columbus, Ohio, 228

Comanche (tribe), 388

Coming Crisis of the World, or The Great Battle and the Golden Age, The (1861), 414

Compton, Elizabeth, 394

Concord, Massachusetts, 239

Confederate Primer (1861), 411

Confederate Speller (1861), 411

confiscation, 452, 490

and First Confiscation Act (1861), 176

and Second Confiscation Act, 177

Conkling, James Cook, 382

Connecticut, 250

conscription, 232, 364–65, 418, 458–60

and bounty system, 458–459

and commutation, 460

Conservative Army and Navy Union (veterans’ organization), 523

Constitution (C.S.), 358–59

Constitution (U.S.), 7, 64, 65, 72, 90, 115, 128, 129, 130, 131, 175, 191, 223, 225, 227, 234, 300, 406, 455, 462, 471, 484, 508

and 13th Amendment, 473, 484, 490, 498, 499, 516, 530

and 14th Amendment, 493, 495–96, 497, 503, 508

and 15th Amendment, 505, 507

Cooke, Jay, 222, 508, 519

Cooper, Peter, 189

Cooper, Samuel, 469

Corinth, Mississippi, 204, 205, 207, 208

Cornwall, Connecticut, 241

cotton, 24–25, 28, 34–53, 59, 294, 295, 296, 327, 362, 368, 422, 502, 517

Couch, Darius, 331

Cox, Jacob Dolson, 140, 146, 148, 156

Cox, Samuel S., 228

Crane, Stephen, 528

Craven, Avery, 95

Creeks (tribe), 387

Crimean War, 149, 154, 196, 201, 250, 256, 263, 288, 303, 401

and Alma, battle of the (1854), 252, 344

and siege of Kars, 425

and siege of Sevastopol, 147, 162, 201, 425

Crittenden, John J., 133–34, 135, 193

C.S. Congress, 151–52, 320, 322, 492

and emancipation, 357, 369–71

and finance, 361–62

and taxes, 365–66

and “twenty nigger law,” 365, 399

C.S. Navy, 302, 303

C.S. Navy: ships

CSS Alabama, 294–97, 309–10, 448, 463 (Alabama Claims, 310)

CSS Arkansas, 308

CSS Florida (aka Oreto), 292, 293, 295

CSS Louisiana, 308

CSS Mississippi, 308

CSS Stonewall, 298

CSS Sumter, 309

CSS Tennessee, 308

CSS Virginia, 303–9

C.S. Quartermaster’s Dept., 319, 365

C.S. Supreme Court, 365

Cuba, 62, 133, 286

Cumberland River, 187, 190, 195, 196, 203

Cumming, Kate, 395, 402, 525

Currier, Amos, 272

Cushman, Pauline, 395

Dabney, Robert Lewis, 87, 119, 271

Dallas, George, 126

Dalton, Georgia, 441

Dana, Charles A., 352, 353, 354, 421, 423, 439

Danville Quarterly Review, 137

Darwin, Charles, 416, 523

Dasher, Marsh, 374

David (torpedo-boat), 308

Davis, David, 104, 105

Davis, Garrett, 192, 493

Davis, Henry Winter, 456, 493

Davis, Jefferson, 23, 65, 120, 131, 137, 140, 151, 168, 187, 190, 192, 193, 203, 205, 209, 217, 250, 289, 297, 298, 318–20, 323, 326, 336–37, 339, 340, 342, 345, 348, 349, 352, 356, 377, 396, 402, 440–43, 445, 449, 470, 474–75, 476, 481,