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

Gerrit, 117

Smith, Goldwin, 533

Smith, William “Extra Billy,” 370

Smith, Xanthus R., 529

soldier life, 232–77

and alcohol, 275

and desertion, 274–75

and disease, 265

and food, 268–70

and medicine, 266–68, 272–74, 401–2

and training, 243–49

and uniforms, 242–43

Soldiers and Sailors Leagues (veterans’ organization), 523

“Sons of Liberty,” 226

South Carolina, 24, 43, 82, 126, 129, 130, 131, 135–36, 143, 144, 159, 217, 233, 254, 336, 361, 364, 373, 385, 396, 398, 408, 440, 470, 491, 492, 498, 504, 506, 509, 510, 513

South Mountain, battle of (1862), 170

Southampton (Great Britain), 288

Southern Illustrated News, 388

Southern Literary Messenger, 408

Southern Loyalists Convention, 496

Southern Quarterly Review, 408

Southern Review, 408

“Southron’s Chaunt of Defiance, The” (song), 411

Spanish-American War (1898), 268

Speed, James, 483

Spencer, Christopher Miner, 250

Spencer, Eliphaz, 502

Spiegel, Marcus, 236

spies, 395

Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, battle of (1864), 431–32

Sprague, William, 449

Spratt, Leonidas, 40, 85

Springfield, Illinois, 88, 100, 103, 107, 124, 216, 242

Springfield, Massachusetts, 317

St. Gaudens, Augustus, 530

St. George, Bermuda, 279

St. Louis (gunboat), 198

St. Louis, Missouri, 70, 187, 191–92

Stanbery, Henry, 500

Standard Oil of Ohio, 521

Stanly, Edward, 455

Stanton, Edwin M., 160, 166, 214, 227, 228, 314–18, 321–22, 353–54, 422, 430, 459, 466, 482, 483, 487, 488, 489, 501, 504, 535

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 49, 392, 403

Star of the West, 136

states’ rights, 28, 327, 358, 359, 368

steamboats, 15, 32, 188, 189, 194, 195, 198, 204, 206, 211, 239, 301, 346, 421

Stearns, George Luther, 117

Stephens, Alexander H., 9, 63, 128, 129, 342, 356, 359, 364, 366, 368, 474, 491

Stevens, Thaddeus, 173, 221, 452, 486, 493, 494, 495, 498, 499, 505–6

Stillé, Charles, 406

Stockwell, Elisha, 236, 237

Stoddard, William O., 382, 434

Stone, Charles P., 454

Stoneman, George, 331

“Stonewall Jackson’s Way” (poem) 411

Storrow, Samuel, 234

Story, Joseph, 44

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 74–75, 139, 232, 391

strategy, 147, 154, 155, 163, 337, 346–47, 439, 448

Strong, George Templeton, 126, 215, 406, 413, 414, 463, 503

Strother, David Hunter, 183

Stuart, James Ewell Brown, 259, 261, 291, 342

Stuart, John Todd, 100

Sturgis, Samuel, 442

Sumner, Charles, 81–82, 84, 175, 177, 179, 215, 296, 386, 451, 452, 453, 456, 490, 493, 494, 495, 505–6, 509

and “The Crime Against Kansas,” 81–82

Susquehanna River, 339

Sweden, 238

Swett, Leonard, 101, 216

tactics, 146–51, 161–63, 200, 201, 232, 246, 252, 438, 350

and “interior lines v. exterior lines,” 149, 151

Taft, Charles Sabin, 483

Tallmadge, James, 56

Taney, Roger Brooke, 90–92, 93, 108, 124, 128, 157, 175, 179, 223–25, 448, 455, 473

and ex parte Merryman, 224

Tappan, Arthur and Lewis, 47, 49, 50

tariffs, 20–21, 52, 84, 122, 230, 281, 357–58

and Morrill Tariff, 230

and “Tariff of Abominations,” 22

Taylor of Caroline, John, 16–17, 25

Taylor, Joseph P., 315, 316

Taylor, Richard, 33, 244, 259, 377, 524

Taylor, Zachary, 61, 67–68, 70, 92, 105, 122, 147, 209, 244

Tebe, Mary, 394

telegraph, 200–201

Tennessee, 146, 159, 184, 190, 193, 194, 195, 204, 205, 209, 210, 211, 217, 267, 346, 350, 363, 384, 397, 400, 422, 428, 439, 445, 447, 455, 464, 488, 490, 497

and Bedford County, 385

and Rutherford County, 385

Tennessee, Department of the (U.S.), 210

Tennessee River, 187, 190, 195, 196, 203, 204, 210, 211, 248, 351, 352, 353, 355, 364, 438

Tenure of Office Act (1867), 498, 500–501

Texas, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 129, 233, 346, 389, 422, 490, 497, 500, 507, 511

Thayer, John, 441

Thayer, William S., 133

Thomas, Edward M., 181

Thomas, George Henry, 348, 353, 354, 355, 424, 440, 445, 447

Thomas, Lorenzo Dow, 501

Thompson, David L., 247, 276–77

Thompson, Lucy Matilda, 393

Thornwell, James Henley, 87, 409, 412

Three Places in New England (Charles Ives), 529

Tilden, Samuel J., 228, 510–11

Tilton, Theodore, 493

Tompkins, Sally, 402

Toombs, Robert, 62, 63, 361

Topeka, Kansas, 114

Tourgee, Albion, 505

Transcendentalists, 405, 413

Trimble, Isaac, 342

Troy, New York, 377

Trumbull, Lyman, 107, 176–77, 451, 491, 492, 494

Truth, Sojourner, 383

Tubman, Harriet, 395

Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 408, 409

Tullahoma, Alabama, 351

Turner, Nat, 36, 46, 50, 118

Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 186, 521, 522

Tyler, John, 61, 134, 139

Tyler, Robert, 139

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (novel), 74–76, 139

United Confederate Veterans (veterans’ organization), 526, 532

United Daughters of the Confederacy, 526

University of Pennsylvania, 406

Upshur, Abel, 61

Upton, Emory, 431

Urbanna, Virginia, 161

U.S. Army (“Regulars”)

12th U.S. Infantry, 248

13th U.S. Infantry, 437

U.S. Christian Commission, 268, 415

U.S. Colored Troops, 184, 377, 436, 451

and Bureau of Colored Troops, 376, 379

and 6th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery, 378

U.S. Navy, 286, 299–310, 480

and North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 301, 304

and Potomac Flotilla, 301

and South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 300

U.S. Navy, ships:

USS Brooklyn, 210, 299

USS Colorado, 299

USS Congress, 304

USS Cumberland, 304

USS Hartford, 210, 299, 444

USS Housatonic, 308–9

USS Kearsarge, 309–10

USS Magnolia, 301

USS Merrimack, 299, 303, 305–6 (and CSS Virginia, 303–9)

USS Minnesota, 299, 304, 305, 306–7

USS Monitor, 305–8

USS New Ironsides, 308

USS Niagara, 299, 300

USS Pensacola, 210

USS Richmond, 210, 299

USS Roanoke, 299, 304

USS San Jacinto, 286

USS Tecumseh, 444

USS Wabash, 299

U.S. Quartermaster’s Department, 316

U.S. Sanitary Commission, 268, 402, 403, 414–15

U.S. Supreme Court, 9, 46, 72, 95, 97, 100, 102, 110, 111, 127, 157, 189, 223, 226, 365, 386, 448, 450, 455, 500, 505, 507–8

and Civil Rights Cases (1883), 508

ex parte Milligan, 224, 226

and Prize Cases (1863), 224–25

and Scott v. Sanford (1857), 90–93, 96–97, 106, 108, 110, 114, 176, 470–71, 484–85

and Slaughterhouse Cases (1873), 508

and U.S. v. Cruikshank (1875), 508

Utah, 62, 67, 68, 76

Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 228–30

van Buren, Martin, 60, 67

van Dorn, Earl, 212

Vance, Zebulon, 260, 298, 327, 367, 369, 489

Vermont, 461

Vesey, Denmark, 36

Vest, George, 363

Vicksburg, Mississippi, 211–13, 345, 346, 346, 353–54, 356, 424, 434, 438

Virginia, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 16, 20, 22, 23, 25, 29, 32, 34, 36, 39, 41, 43, 46–47, 50, 120, 131, 144, 146, 161, 163, 171, 194, 317, 323, 301, 335–36, 338, 339, 340, 342, 345, 363, 364, 366, 370, 381, 393, 400, 410, 412, 421, 423, 463, 467, 469, 474, 491, 492, 498

Virginia Military Institute, 166, 364

vivandiére, 394

Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), 13, 14

Volunteers, 143, 148, 202, 255–56, 261

Volunteers: and Confederate regiments

21st Alabama, 253, 272

24th Alabama

1st Arkansas, 233

2nd Florida, 428

3rd Georgia, 152, 334

19th Louisiana, 152, 207, 270, 441

16th North Carolina, 275, 479

18th North Carolina, 393

23rd North Carolina, 396

37th North Carolina, 334

1st South Carolina Rifles, 233

2nd South Carolina, 238

3rd Virginia, 240

28th Virginia, 239

33rd Virginia, 275

Volunteers: and Union regiments

5th Connecticut, 248

29th Connecticut, 184

21st Kentucky, 273

14th Illinois, 248

8th Iowa, 272

5th Maine, 410

8th Maine, 502

17th Maine, 240

20th Maine, 344, 479

6th Massachusetts, 144

11th Massachusetts, 276

13th Massachusetts, 242

19th Massachusetts, 239, 252

20th Massachusetts, 235, 237, 535

44th Massachusetts, 234

54th Massachusetts, 184, 420, 530 (attack on Battery Wagner [1863], 380–81, 389, 406)

55th Massachusetts, 184, 419

1st Michigan, 267

3rd Michigan, 395

24th Michigan, 235, 240, 246

125th Michigan, 394

1st Minnesota, 266

2nd New