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electoral conflicts in
     
Ku Klux Klan violence in
     
slavery debate and
     U.S. annexation of,
2.1
,
2.2
Thailand (Siam)
Third Corps, U.S.
Thirteenth Amendment,
50.1
,
52.1
,
62.1
,
75.1
Thirteenth Infantry Regiment, U.S.
Thomas, George H.,
36.1
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36.2
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36.3
,
36.4
,
36.5
,
43.1
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46.1
,
47.1
Thomas, Jesse B.
Thompson, Jeff
Tift, Nelson
Tilden, Samuel,
78.1
,
79.1
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79.2
,
80.1
Tilghman, Lloyd
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Tourgée, Albion
transcontinental railroad
     
Indian conflict and
     
scandals and
Treasury Department, U.S.,
27.1
,
29.1
,
29.2
,
35.1
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58.1
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58.2
,
58.3
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59.1
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59.2
,
69.1
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69.2
,
76.1
Treaty of Washington of 1871,
67.1
,
80.1
Trenton Gazette
Trist, Nicholas
Troy Press
Trumbull, Lyman,
14.1
,
65.1
Twain, Mark,
see
Clemens, Samuel
Tweed, William,
67.1
,
76.1
,
78.1
,
87.1
Tyler, John,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
Uncle Sam
(steamer)
“Undeserved Stigma, An” (Grant)
Union League Club
Union Pacific Railroad,
55.1
,
67.1
,
84.1
,
85.1
United States:
     
Alabama
claims of
     
as built by conquest
     
Manifest Destiny slogan of
     Texas annexed by,
2.1
,
2.2
     Tocqueville’s characterization of,
4.1
,
4.2
United States Mail Company
Utah
Van Buren, Martin,
1.1
,
2.1
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, William
Van Dorn, Earl,
27.1
,
28.1
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28.2
,
28.3
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30.1
Van Duzer (staff officer)
Venable, Charles
Vicksburg campaign,
prl.1
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29.1
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30.1
,
35.1
     
Battle of Champion Hill in
     
Battle of Jackson in
     
Battle of Raymond in
     
Black River fight in
     
Chickasaw Bayou fight in
     
Confederate surrender in
     
drinking episode in
     
geography of
     
Grant’s assumption of leadership in
     Grant’s initial plan for,
30.1
,
30.2
     Holly Springs situation in,
30.1
,
30.2
     
hydraulic engineering projects in
     
incountry campaign in
     
Lincoln and
     
onset of
     
Port Gibson fight in
     
Port Huron surrender and
     running of Confederate batteries in,
30.1
,
30.2
,
31.1
     siege of Vicksburg in,
32.1
,
33.1
Victoria, Queen of England
Villepigue, John
Virginia,
38.1
,
56.1
,
65.1
     
new constitution of
     secession of,
15.1
,
15.2
,
16.1
Virginia campaign of 1864,
39.1
,
87.1
     
African American prisoners in
     
casualties in
     
Confederate peace feelers in
     Confederate shortages and desertions in,
39.1
,
47.1
     
crossing of Rapidan in
     
crossing of the James in
     Dana on,
39.1
,
40.1
     doubts and criticisms of,
41.1
,
42.1
,
42.2
     
drinking issue and
     
Early’s raid in
     1864 election and,
42.1
,
42.2
,
45.1
     
Grant-Lincoln meeting in
     
Grant’s strategy in
     
Hampton Roads conference in
     
psychological balance in
     
revised strategy in
     
Shenandoah Valley campaign in
     siege of Petersburg in,
see
Petersburg, siege of
     
see also
specific battles
Virginia Central Railroad
Virginia Military Institute
Virginius
, CSS
Wade, Benjamin
Waite, Morrison,
70.1
,
76.1
Walker, John
Wallace, Lew,
22.1
,
24.1
,
24.2
,
24.3
,
42.1
Wallace, W. H. L.
Wallen, Lieutenant
Ward, Ferdinand
Ward, S. J.
War Department, U.S.,
9.1
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17.1
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18.1
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24.1
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25.1
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25.2
,
27.1
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28.1
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29.1
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29.2
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34.1
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35.1
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36.1
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37.1
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38.1
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48.1
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50.1
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54.1
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58.1
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70.1
,
77.1
     
Grant as acting secretary of war,
54.1
     
Indian wars and
War of 1812,
1.1
,
57.1
,
64.1
Washburne, Elihu,
14.1
,
15.1
,
19.1
,
25.1
,
26.1
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35.1
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36.1
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45.1
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48.1
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53.1
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56.1
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58.1
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58.2
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60.1
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62.1
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64.1
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65.1
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80.1
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80.2
,
82.1
     
appointed secretary of state
     
Grant’s promotion to lieutenant general and
     
pleading woman incident and
Washington, George,
37.1
,
38.1
,
45.1
,
57.1
,
61.1
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68.1
,
76.1
Washington Territory
Webb, Alexander S.,
33.1
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39.1
Webber, Captain
Webster, Charles
Webster, Daniel,
7.1
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11.1
,
65.1
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72.1
,
76.1
Webster, Joseph
Webster & Co.
Weed, Thurlow,
14.1
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42.1
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64.1
Welles, Gideon,
41.1
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42.1
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42.2
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52.1
Wellington, Duke of
West Point,
prl.1
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1.1
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57.1
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80.1
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86.1
     
Grant as cadet at
West Virginia,
45.1
,
65.1
Wheeler, Joseph
Wheeler, William
Whig Party, U.S.,
1.1
,
2.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
65.1
     
breakup of
Whiskey Rebellion
whiskey scandal,
76.1
,
87.1
White, Harry
White Leagues,
73.1
,
74.1
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75.1
,
75.2
Wide Awakes
Wilderness, Battle of the,
prl.1
,
39.1
,
39.2
,
40.1
,
41.1
,
58.1
Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany,
64.1
,
80.1
Willcox, Orlando
Williams, Alpheus
Williams, George,
70.1
,
71.1
,
73.1
,
76.1
Willich, August
Wilmot, David
Wilson, Bluford
Wilson, Henry,
65.1
,
67.1
Wilson, James
Winchester, Battle of
Wolf, Simon
Wood, Fernando
Wood, General
World tour (Grant’s), 1877–79,
80.1
     
Bismarck-Grant meeting in
     
British leg of
     
China leg of
     
Cuban leg of
     
France and Mediterranean legs of
     
free trade issue in
     
German leg of
     
India leg of
     
Japan leg of
     
Southeast Asia leg of
     in U.S.,
81.1
,
82.1
Worth, William,
4.1
,
6.1
Wyoming Territory
Yates, Richard,
16.1
,
16.2
Yellow Tavern, Battle of
Young, John Russell,
80.1
,
84.1

About the Author

For nearly two decades, H. W. Brands has been writing a six-volume history of the United States in the form of a series of linked biographies. Four volumes have been published before now; these are Volume 1:
The First American
(on Benjamin Franklin, 1706–1790), Volume 2:
Andrew Jackson
(1767–1845), Volume 4:
T.R.
(Theodore Roosevelt, 1858–1919), and Volume 5:
Traitor to His Class
(Franklin Roosevelt, 1882–1945). The present work,
The Man Who Saved the Union
(Ulysses Grant, 1822–1885), becomes Volume 3.

The author continues to teach at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of History, while he works on Volume 6.

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