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Authors: James M. McPherson

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   and Compromise of 1850,
74
–75

   and fugitive slave law,
86
–88,
120

   death of, in South,
118
,
126

   death of, in North,
121
,
125
,
126

   persistence of under different names, in wartime South,
689
,
691
–92.
See also
Elections

Wigfall, Louis,
647

   secessionist,
250

   urges attack on Fort Sumter,
273

   supports conscription,
430

   critic of Davis,
691

   opposes arming of blacks,
836

Wilderness, battle of,
724
–26,
729
,
731
,
845

Wilkes, Charles,
389
–91,
444

Williamsburg, battle of,
427

Wilmot, David,
52
,
53
,
55

Wilmot Proviso,
4
,
52
–60,
62
,
65
–67,
104
,
138

Wilson, Henry,
139
,
144

Wilson, James H.,
825

Wilson, Woodrow,
854

Wilson's Creek, battle of,
351
–52,
362
,
370
,
413

Winchester: 1st battle of (1862),
457
,
458

   Ewell's capture of, at 2nd battle (1863),
648

   3rd battle of (1864),
777

Winder, John H.,
434
,
442

Winslow, John,
5

Winthrop, Robert,
67

Wirz, Henry,
797
,
802

Wise, Henry: threatens secession in 1856,
158

   and John Brown,
208

   on secession as revolution,
240
–41

   and Virginia's secession,
279

   operations in Western Virginia,
301
–2

   confidence in southern military prowess,
316
–17

   Confederate general,
328

   at Roanoke Island,
372
–73

Women: and antebellum economy,
7
,
13
,
14
,
22
,
23
,
33

   and decline of birth rate,
9
–10,
34
–35

   and cult of domesticity,
34

   and education,
35
–36

   in wartime economy,
449
–50

   and medical care in Civil War armies,
477
–84

Women's Central Association for Relief,
480
,
481

Wood, Fernando,
247
,
505

Woodward, George W.,
684
–85,
688

Wright, Rebecca,
777

Yancey, William Lowndes,
259

   campaigns for secession in 1851,
86

   and for reopening African slave trade,
102

   urges secession,
166
,
258

   at 1860 Democratic convention,
215

   Confederate diplomat,
387
–89

Yates, Richard,
595

Yellow Tavern, battle of,
728

Young, Brigham,
44
–45,
76

Younger, Cole,
292
,
784
,
786
,
788

Younger, Jim,
292
,
784
,
786
,
788

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Editor's Introduction

Prologue From the Halls of Montezuma

1 The United States at Midcentury

2 Mexico Will Poison Us

3 An Empire for Slavery

4 Slavery, Rum, and Romanism

5 The Crime Against Kansas

6 Mudsills and Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln

7 The Revolution of 1860

8 The Counterrevolution of 1861

9 Facing Both Ways: The Upper South's Dilemma

10 Amateurs Go to War

11 Farewell to the Ninety Days' War

12 Blockade and Beachhead: The Salt-Water War, 1861–1862

13 The River War in 1862

14 The Sinews of War

15 Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues

16 We Must Free the Slaves or Be Ourselves Subdued

17 Carry Me Back to Old Virginny

18 John Bull's Virginia Reel

19 Three Rivers in Winter, 1862–1863

20 Fire in the Rear

21 Long Remember: The Summer of '63

22 Johnny Reb's Chattanooga Blues

23 When This Cruel War Is Over

24 If It Takes All Summer

25 After Four Years of Failure

26 We Are Going To Be Wiped Off the Earth

27 South Carolina Must Be Destroyed

28 We Are All Americans

Epilogue To the Shoals of Victory

Afterword

Abbreviated Titles

Bibliographical Note

Index

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Editor's Introduction

Prologue From the Halls of Montezuma

1 The United States at Midcentury

2 Mexico Will Poison Us

3 An Empire for Slavery

4 Slavery, Rum, and Romanism

5 The Crime Against Kansas

6 Mudsills and Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln

7 The Revolution of 1860

8 The Counterrevolution of 1861

9 Facing Both Ways: The Upper South's Dilemma

10 Amateurs Go to War

11 Farewell to the Ninety Days' War

12 Blockade and Beachhead: The Salt-Water War, 1861–1862

13 The River War in 1862

14 The Sinews of War

15 Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues

16 We Must Free the Slaves or Be Ourselves Subdued

17 Carry Me Back to Old Virginny

18 John Bull's Virginia Reel

19 Three Rivers in Winter, 1862–1863

20 Fire in the Rear

21 Long Remember: The Summer of '63

22 Johnny Reb's Chattanooga Blues

23 When This Cruel War Is Over

24 If It Takes All Summer

25 After Four Years of Failure

26 We Are Going To Be Wiped Off the Earth

27 South Carolina Must Be Destroyed

28 We Are All Americans

Epilogue To the Shoals of Victory

Afterword

Abbreviated Titles

Bibliographical Note

Index

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Editor's Introduction

Prologue From the Halls of Montezuma

1 The United States at Midcentury

2 Mexico Will Poison Us

3 An Empire for Slavery

4 Slavery, Rum, and Romanism

5 The Crime Against Kansas

6 Mudsills and Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln

7 The Revolution of 1860

8 The Counterrevolution of 1861

9 Facing Both Ways: The Upper South's Dilemma

10 Amateurs Go to War

11 Farewell to the Ninety Days' War

12 Blockade and Beachhead: The Salt-Water War, 1861–1862

13 The River War in 1862

14 The Sinews of War

15 Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues

16 We Must Free the Slaves or Be Ourselves Subdued

17 Carry Me Back to Old Virginny

18 John Bull's Virginia Reel

19 Three Rivers in Winter, 1862–1863

20 Fire in the Rear

21 Long Remember: The Summer of '63

22 Johnny Reb's Chattanooga Blues

23 When This Cruel War Is Over

24 If It Takes All Summer

25 After Four Years of Failure

26 We Are Going To Be Wiped Off the Earth

27 South Carolina Must Be Destroyed

28 We Are All Americans

Epilogue To the Shoals of Victory

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