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

236, 245, 313, 346, 376, 382, 421, 422, 437, 455, 456, 472, 484, 498, 500, 503, 509, 511, 535

Louisiana “Tigers,” 152, 276, 335–36

Louisiana Native Guard, 379

Louisiana Purchase, 53, 56, 71, 76, 77, 187

Louisiana State Military College, 437

Louisville, Kentucky, 153, 188, 192

Lovejoy, Elijah P., 49, 453

Lovejoy, Owen, 174, 230, 453

Lowell, Francis Cabot, 43

Lyman, Theodore, 423

Lynchburg, Virginia, 239, 468, 477

Lyon, Nathaniel, 191–92

Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell (1st Viscount), 287–88

Madison, James, 8, 18

Madison, Wisconsin, 532

Maffitt, John Newland, 278–80

Magoffin, Beriah, 192–93

Magruder, John Bankhead, 164

Mahan, Dennis Hart, 148–49, 160

Maides, J. F., 370

Maine, 57, 124, 230, 526

Mallory, Charles King, 176

Mallory, Stephen Russell, 303, 305

Manassas Junction, Virginia, 154, 162, 240

Manchester (Great Britain), 291, 297

“Marching Through Georgia” (song), 529

Marcy, William L., 282–83

Marshall, John, 8–9, 100

Martineau, Harriet, 35

Marx, Karl, 255

Maryland, 142, 144, 158, 175, 223, 224, 338, 339, 448, 456, 477

Mason, James Murray, 69, 78, 286–88, 294

Massachusetts, 8, 20, 21, 36, 43, 44, 57, 69, 70, 77, 81, 84, 88, 132, 153, 180, 227, 235, 236, 243, 425, 451, 507, 530

Matrau, Henry C., 237

Maury, Matthew F., 308

Mayo, Joseph, 326

McClellan, Ellen Marcy, 157

McClellan, George Brinton, 155–56, 156–58, 159–63, 165–67, 168, 169, 170, 171, 185, 193, 194, 195, 201–2, 204, 210, 255, 266, 259, 288, 295, 307, 314–15, 317, 327, 328, 331, 343, 347, 424, 433, 434, 454, 462–64, 467, 501

and Military Commission (1854), 256

McClernand, John A., 211

McClure, Alexander K., 354, 449

McClure, John, 236

McCormick, William, 519

McCormick Reaper Co., 314, 518

McCown, John Porter, 349

McCullough, Henry E., 380

McDowell, Irvin, 151, 154–55, 161, 163, 166, 240

McFarland, J. E., 287

McGrath, Andrew, 126

McIlvaine, Samuel, 235

McLane, John, 240

McLaws, Lafayette, 428

McLean, Wilmer, 478–79

McPherson, Edward, 492

McPherson, James B., 440

Meade, George Gordon, 332, 343–45, 379, 422, 423, 426, 429, 433, 435, 469, 475

Means, John Hugh, 397

Meigs, Montgomery, 161, 169, 259, 315–16, 317, 319

Melville, Herman, 207

Memminger, Christopher, 120, 361–62, 365, 366, 491

Memphis, 301

Memphis, Tennessee, 186, 208, 442, 511

Merryman, John, 223–24, 230

Mescalero (tribe), 388

Mexican Cession, 64, 68, 71, 72

Mexican War, 61–63, 105, 141, 147, 150, 161, 241, 268, 328, 478

and Buena Vista, battle of, 62, 67, 147

Mexico, 59, 61–62, 209, 292, 298, 389, 422

Michigan, 244, 451

and Wayne County, 240

Militia Act (1795), 142, 184, 451, 458, 459

militia, 148, 150, 367, 373

Mill, John Stuart, 289

Milligan, Lambdin P., 226, 230

Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana, 380, 381

Mills, George Henry, 334, 336, 479

Milton, John, 366

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 461

mines (torpedoes), 308

Minié, Etienne-Claude, 250, 271–72

Minnesota, 116, 188, 387

Mississippi, 129, 130, 190, 208, 398, 408, 440, 442, 447, 490, 491, 492, 503, 506–7, 509, 513

and Adams County, 35

and Jones County, 368

Mississippi River, 5, 34–35, 49, 53, 56, 153, 186–88, 191, 192, 196, 203, 210, 211, 212, 302, 346, 370, 378

Missouri, 56, 77, 90, 110, 117, 131, 158, 175, 187, 190, 191–92, 217, 452, 466, 472

Missouri, Department of the (U.S.), 194

Missouri Compromise, 57, 62, 64, 66, 71, 77, 83, 89, 96, 98, 106, 132

Mitchell, Charles T., 311

Mitchell, Mary Bedinger, 270

Mobile, Alabama, 153, 286, 302, 308, 311, 421, 423, 425

and battle of (1864), 444, 463

and bread riot of 1863, 326–27

Monroe, James, 57, 284

Montana (territory), 505, 520

Montgomery, Alabama, 131, 137, 141, 159, 358, 363

Moody, Dwight L., 523

Moore, Andrew Barry, 119, 129

Moore, Henry D., 506

Moore, William G., 488

Morgan, Edwin B., 82

Morgan, J. Pierpont, 222

Morgan, John Hunt, 209, 210

Morgan, Sarah, 393, 398, 401

Morrill, Justin S., 230

Morrow, Henry, 240

Morton, John Watson, 350

Mosby, John Singleton, 261, 337, 356

Moses, Franklin J., 503

Mott, Lucretia, 392

Mulholland, St. Clair, 261

Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 209, 383, 408

and battle of (1862/3), 348–49, 351

Myers, Abraham, 319, 322

Napier, Sir Charles, 254

Napoleon III, 201, 255, 257, 263, 291–92, 294, 297–98

Napoleonic Wars, 149

Nashville, Tennessee, 195, 320, 347, 423, 447

Nassau, Bahamas, 279, 286, 311

Natchez, Mississippi, 187

National Conventions of Soldiers and Sailors (veterans’ organization), 523

National Era, 75, 77, 122

National Reform Association, 415

National Women’s Rights Convention, 392

Navajo (tribe), 388

Neblett, Elizabeth, 400

Nelson, Samuel, 225

Nevins, Allan, 94

New Baltimore, Virginia, 373

New Brunswick (Canada), 288

New England Emigrant Aid Society, 80

New Haven, Connecticut, 317

New Jersey, 169, 275, 392, 416

New Mexico, 62, 67, 68, 71, 76

New Orleans, Louisiana, 134, 188, 190, 210–11, 223, 243, 286, 294, 346, 362, 382, 383, 399, 401, 421, 425, 505, 508, 511

New Orleans Bee, 96

New Orleans Daily Crescent, 132, 358

New Orleans Daily Picayune, 131

New Salem, Illinois, 99

New York (state), 143, 169, 182, 258, 263, 314, 501, 503, 510

New York City, 44, 189, 220, 207, 211, 222, 305, 307, 346, 377, 383, 406

and Customs House, 218

and draft riots (1863), 440–41

and Stock Exchange, 222

New York Evening Post, 133

New-York Tribune, 155, 179, 383, 386, 441

Newburyport, Massachusetts, 238

Newby, Dangerfield, 117

Newport, New Hampshire, 239

Newport News, Virginia, 263

Niagara Bible Conference, 524

Nichols, George Ward, 371

Nightingale, Florence, 268, 401

Norfolk, Virginia, 140, 144, 159, 162, 240, 286, 302, 299, 303

North American Review, 520

North Carolina, 146, 174, 260, 302, 307, 319, 326, 363, 367, 370, 421, 455, 468, 480, 489, 490, 497

and Caldwell county, 240

North Italian War (1859), 250, 255, 263

and Magenta, battle of, 201, 255

and Montebello, battle of, 255

and Solferino, battle of, 201, 255, 258

Northrop, Lucius Bellinger, 320–21

Northwest Ordinance, 45–46, 48–49, 53, 88–89

Nott, Josiah Clark, 408

nullification, 21–22

O’Bannon, Hiram, 118

O’Connor, John, 459

Oberlin College, 261, 415

Ohio, 70, 116, 139, 140, 143, 183, 188, 189, 228–29, 230, 236, 438, 450, 493

Ohio, Department of the (U.S.), 159, 194, 438

Ohio River, 42, 153, 151, 187, 188, 190, 192, 193, 203, 360, 446, 447

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 36, 37, 313

Omnibus Revenue Act (1861), 220

Order of the Heroes of America (North Carolina), 367

Oregon, 56, 57, 61, 66, 105

Orr, James Lawrence, 505

Osterhaus, Peter, 398

Our American Cousin, 467, 481–482

Owens, Mary, 104

Owsley, Frank Lawrence, 94–95

Oxford, University of, 289

Pacific Railroad Act (1862), 231

Palmerston, Henry John Temple (3rd Viscount), 287, 294, 295–96, 297, 298

Panic of 1873, 508, 509, 519–20

Paris, 96, 292

Parker, Theodore, 117

Parkman, Francis, 403–6

Parrott, Robert Parker, 257

Pascagoula, Mississippi, 421

Patriotic Gore (Edmund Wilson), 530

Paxton, Elisha, 256

Peace and Constitutional Society (Arkansas), 367

Peace Society (Alabama), 367

Pee Dee River, 480

Pendleton, George H., 228, 463

Peninsula Campaign (1862), 163–67, 259, 328, 336, 395. See also Seven Days’ Battle

Pennsylvania, 143, 146, 169, 183, 231, 339, 345, 346, 449, 458, 460, 462, 477

and Chester County, 139, 459, 517

and Erie County, 240

and Luzerne County, 462

Pennypacker, Samuel, 459

Pensacola, Florida, 286

Percy, Walker, 528

Perry, Oliver Morton, 346

Perry, Theophilus, 233

Perryville, Battle of (1862), 347, 348, 349, 365

Petersburg, Virginia, siege of, 434, 435–36, 448, 467, 469–70, 475, 478, 479, 531

and battle of the Crater, 436

and Fort Stedman, 475

Peyton, John L., 298

Phelan, James,