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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

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