Authors: David Von Drehle
Lincoln removes, as general in chief
Lincoln reorganizes forces under
Lincoln’s early relationship with
Lincoln’s war council and
Maryland campaign and
military dictatorship threat and
Peninsula campaign vs. Richmond and
Peninsula retreat and
Pope and
presidential ambitions of
reinforcements and
Second Manassas and
secret plans of
Seven Days’ battles and
Shenandoah losses and
slavery and
soft- vs. hard-war policy and
Stanton and
treason rumors and
western generals and
Yorktown and
McClellan, Mary Ellen
McClernand, John
McClure, Alexander
McCoy, Benjamin
McCullough, William
McDowell, Irwin
McPherson, James
Meade, George
Meagher, Thomas
Medill, Joseph
Meigs, Montgomery
Memphis, capture of
Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Mercier, Henri
Merrimack
. See
Virginia
Mexican War
Mexico
France and
slave colonies and
Miami
(Union cutter)
Michigan
military conscription (draft)
Militia Act (1794, 1862)
Miller, Samuel
Mill Springs, Battle of
Minnesota, Sioux war in
Minnesota
(Union warship)
Mississippi
Mississippi
(Confederate ironclad)
Mississippi River
Missouri
Missouri Compromise
Mitchell, Barton
Mobile, Alabama
Monitor
(Union ironclad)
Monroe Doctrine
Moorhead, J. K.
Moran, Benjamin
Morgan, John Hunt
Morrill, Justin
Morse, Freeman
Mumford, William
Murphy, R. C.
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nashville
fall of
Nast, Thomas
National Intelligencer
Native Americans
Navy Department
Nelson, William “Bull”
New Madrid, Missouri
New Orleans
capture of
Order No. 28 and
New Ulm raid
New York Democrats
New York
Evening Post
New York Herald
New York State
New York Times
New-York Tribune
Nicolay, John
Nightingale, Florence
Noell, John
Norfolk, Lincoln and capture of
nullification
Odell, Moses
Ohio
Ohio River
Ohio volunteers
Orange and Alexandria Railroad
Oreto
(Confederate warship)
Oxford, Grant in
Pacific Railroad
Paducah, Kentucky
Paducah Union League
Palmerston, Lord (Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount)
Panama
paper money
Pea Ridge, Battle of
Peninsula Campaign.
See also
Richmond;
and specific battles
casualties and
retreat from
termination of, at Harrison’s Landing
Pennsylvania
Perry, Matthew
Perryville, Battle of
Philadelphia City Bounty Fund
Pierce, Edward
Pierce, Franklin
Pillow, Gideon
Pittsburg Landing
Planter
(steamer)
Polk, Leonidas
Pomroy, George
Pomroy, Rebecca
Pope, John
fired
Sioux War and
Porter, David Dixon
Porter, Fitz John
Port Republic, Battle of
Port Royal, South Carolina, contrabands
Potomac River
Prentice, George
Prentiss, Benjamin
Price, Sterling
Quakers
radical Republicans
railroads
Ramsey, Alexander
Rappahannock River
Rawlins, John
Raymond, Henry
Reid, Whitelaw
Republican Party
elections of 1862 and
Seward resignation demanded by
Reynolds, John
Richmond
Jackson’s campaign to divert troops from
McClellan advance on (Peninsula campaign)
McDowell advance on
POWs in
Seven Days’ battles for
Richmond Examiner
Riggs, George W.
Rivas, Jose Maria
Roanoke Island, capture of
Robertson, George
Roelofson, William
Rosecrans, William
Royce, Josiah
Russell, Lord John (1st Earl)
Russia
Savannah
Schimmelfennig, Alexander
Schurz, Carl
Scott, Winfield
Sea Islands
secession
Seven Days’ battles
Seven Pines, Battle of.
See
Fair Oaks, Battle of
Seward, Frederick
Seward, William
background of
Britain and
cabinet discord and
Chase and
compromise proposed by
cotton trade and
critics of
Emancipation Proclamation and
Europe and
Lincoln’s commitment to war and
Lincoln’s friendship with
McClellan and
Norfolk trip and
patronage jobs and
personality of
recruitment and
resignation of, demanded by Republicans
slavery and
Sewell’s Point
Seymour, Horatio
Shakespeare, William
Sharpsburg.
See
Antietam, Battle of
Shenandoah Valley
Sheridan, Philip
Sherman, John
Sherman, William T.
Shiloh and
Shields, James
Shiloh, Battle of
Shipley, William
Shirley (plantation)
Sioux
Slade, William
slavery.
See also
slaves, escaped; emancipation; Emancipation Proclamation; free blacks
1862 as key year for
banned in Federal territories
Britain and
colonization and
Confederate war effort and
conflict made inevitable by
Congress passes act ending
Constitution and
Dred Scott
and
eastern vs. western Confederacy and
Greeley vs. Lincoln on
legislation restricting
Lincoln’s middle course on
range of opinions on, in North
Washington, D.C., and
slaves, escaped (contrabands).
See also
free blacks
camps and aid for
Union Army lines and
as Union soldiers
slave trade
smuggler executed
treaty banning
slave uprisings
Slidell, John
Smalls, Robert
Smith, Caleb
Smith, C. F.
Smith, Edmund Kirby
Smith, James
Sneden, Robert
South Carolina
Southern ports
blockade of
seizure of
Southern Unionists
Spectator, The
(London weekly)
Speed, Joshua
Sprague, William
Stackpole, Thomas
Stanton, Edwin M.
appointed Secretary of War
Aquia Creek trip to consult with McDowell and
cabinet discord and
censorship and
death of son
Emancipation Proclamation and
Front Royal and
habeas corpus and
Hampton Roads and
Lincoln’s bodyguards and
McClellan and
McClellan firing and
McClernand and
military bureaucracy and
military strategy and
Norfolk campaign and
recruitment and
Sea Islands and
Seven Days’ battles and
Seward resignation and
Shiloh and
slavery and
State Department
states rights
Staunton, Battle of
Sterne, Laurence
Stevens, Thaddeus
St. Louis, Missouri
Stoddard, William O.
Stones River, Battle of
Stuart, J.E.B.
Sturgis, Samuel D.
Sumner, Charles
Emancipation Proclamation and
Shiloh and
Sumner, Edwin “Bull Head”
Swayne, Noah H.
Swett, Leonard
Switzerland
Taft, Bud
Taft, Holly
Taft, Horatio
Taft, Julia
Taney, Roger B.
taxes
Tennessee
Buell push into