Read Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Online
Authors: James M. McPherson
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
,
88
–89
Fulton, Robert,
12
Furman, James,
243
Gadsden, James, and Gadsden Purchase,
108
Gaines' Mill, battle of,
466
–68,
471
,
476
,
733
,
812
Garner, Margaret,
120
–21
Garnett, Robert S.,
300
–301
Garrett, John W.,
287
Garrison, William Lloyd,
84
,
204
burns Constitution,
120
indicts Republican racism,
159
on John Brown,
203
and 1860 election,
227
on outbreak of war,
312
criticizes Lincoln,
505
hails Emancipation Proclamation,
558
at Republican national convention,
716
German Americans: and nativism,
7
,
131
,
138
,
141
,
142
and temperance,
134
unionism of, in Missouri,
291
growing antiwar opposition of German Catholics,
493
underrepresentation in Union army,
606
Gettysburg, campaign and battle of,
338
,
471
,
609
,
610
,
636
,
647
–48n,
653
–63,
676
consequences of,
664
–65,
682
,
684
,
685
,
691
,
695
,
719
,
745
,
831
,
858
aftermath,
666
–67
Lincoln's address,
859
Gibbon, John,
282
Gibbons, James S.,
491
Giddings, Joshua,
61
,
68
,
124
,
142
Gilmore, James R.,
767
–68
Gist, States Rights,
812
–13
Gladstone, William E.,
548
,
552
,
556
Glendale, battle of,
469
Gorgas, Josiah: sides with South,
282
achievements as chief of ordnance,
319
–20,
320
n,
380
,
857
on Gettysburg and Vicksburg,
665
on battle of Nashville,
815
sees no hope,
816
on revival of war spirit,
825
Granger, Gordon,
674
Grant, Ulysses S.,
84
n,
282
,
325
,
483
,
559
and Mexican War,
4
–5
occupies Paducah,
296
on logistical shortages,
322
–23
Union general,
329
and strategy,
332
on Mc-Clellan,
358
cooperation with navy in West,
392
qualities of leadership,
395
–96,
419
,
423
,
857
capture of Fort Henry,
396
–97
capture of Fort Donelson,
397
–402,
406
,
407
and Shiloh,
407
–15
casualties in armies commanded by,
476
confiscation of slaves,
502
commander of Army of the Tennessee,
512
,
515
,
518
battles of Iuka and Corinth,
522
–23
failure of first Vicksburg campaign,
577
–79
maneuvers in winter 1863,
586
–88,
593
,
625
,
626
question of his drinking,
588
–90
and copperheads,
595
"Jew order" of,
622
–23
spring 1863 campaign captures Vicksburg,
627
–38,
645
,
646
,
650
,
653
,
669
goes to Chattanooga,
676
,
677
–80
plan for campaign against Mobile,
683
on black soldiers,
687
n
and freedmen,
710
as presidential possibility,
715
,
717
named general in chief,
718
on substitutes and bounty men,
720
strategic plans for 1864,
721
–22,
724
battle of the Wilderness,
725
–26
of Spotsylvania,
728
–33
move to Petersburg,
739
–41
criticism of for heavy casualties,
742
,
759
defended by Lincoln,
743
Petersburg siege,
751
,
756
,
777
,
778
,
811
,
826
,
830
and Early's Washington raid,
757
sends Sheridan to the Valley,
758
battle of the Crater,
759
–60
anger at southern violations of prisoner paroles,
792
and breakdown of prisoner exchanges,
793
,
799
–80
on McClellan's candidacy,
803
on soldier vote,
804
on Sherman's march to the sea,
807
–8
prods Thomas at Nashville,
813
and Benjamin Butler,
820
and Hampton Roads peace conference,
822
plans Alabama campaigns,
825
breakthrough at Petersburg,
844
–45,
846
and Lee's surrender,
848
–50
weeps for Lincoln,
853
Greeley, Horace,
13
,
42
,
138
,
224
,
821
on territorial aquisition,
49
on slavery,
96
and temperance,
135
and Lecompton,
167
on tariff,
192
on John Brown,
210
on secession,
251
–52
"Forward to Richmond" editorials,
334
on military arrests,
436
and emancipation,
505
target of draft rioters,
610
"peace negotiations" in 1864,
762
,
766
–68
Greenhow, Rose O'Neal,
340
,
434
n
Grierson, Benjamin, and Grierson's raid,
628
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of,
3
–4,
50
Guerrillas and guerrilla warfare,
307
in West Virginia,
303
in Virginia,
501
Mosby and,
737
–38
and Sheridan's Valley campaign,
778
–79
Habeas corpus, writ of: in Union: Lincoln's suspension of,
287
–90,
433
–34,
436
,
560
in Confederacy, suspended,
429
,
433
–35,
697
,
693
and military arrests in 1862,
493
–94