Our One Common Country (64 page)

Kentucky
, 34
, 189

 

Lady Long
,
161
, 163

land offices
, 185

“Latin race
,” 82

Lee House
, 22
, 53
, 75

Lee, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Blair
, xi
, 22
, 26
, 46
, 57
, 74
, 78
, 92
, 96
, 152
, 163
, 288

Lee, Fitzhugh
, 233–34
, 235

Lee, Phillips
, 22
, 26

Lee, Robert E.
, xi
, 57
, 101
, 168

army and
, 48
, 49
, 233
, 265

Campbell and
, 262

Confederate armies and
, 91
, 95

Davis and
, 5
, 120
, 242
, 252
, 277

Fort Stedman and
, 256

Gettysburg and
, 69

Grant and
, 45
, 83
, 99
, 147
, 151
, 166
, 241
, 243–46
, 263
, 270
, 273
, 275
, 277

Hatcher's Run and
, 221
, 222

peace and
, xvii
, xx
, 127
, 236
, 254

post-war life of
, 300

Richmond and
, 78
, 83
, 109

surrender of
, 275
, 276

war casualties and
, 6

war status and
, 243

Lenkorf, Henry
, 51

Leon, Louis
, 146

Liberty Hall
, 67
, 237

Lincoln, Abraham
, xi
, xxiv
, 72
, 86

abolition and
, 28

amnesty and
, 9

assassination of
, 273
, 281
, 288
, 295

Blair, Francis Preston, and
, 20–21
, 22
, 23
, 52
, 60
, 75
, 80
, 81
, 92–103

Blair, Montgomery, and
, 23

Booth and
, 281

Brooks and
, 47

Campbell and
, 240–41
, 288

at City Point
, 253–54
, 255
, 270
, 273

Confederate peace commission and
, 108–17

Congress and
, 37
, 38
, 61
, 226–27

Davis and
, 208
, 238
, 279
, 295

Democrats and
, 10–11

Eckert and
, 155–60
, 164

election (1864) and
, 8–13
, 27

Foote and
, 79

government and
, 3

Grant and
, 128
, 129
, 130
, 131
, 150
, 160–61
, 164
, 223–24
, 255
, 280

Hampton Roads and
, xvii

Hunter and
, 288

Lee and Grant talks and
, 246–47

Mexico and
, 83
, 206
, 207

pardon and
, 267

Peabody and
, 134–35

peace and
, 9
, 11
, 12–13
, 37
, 38–39
, 152
, 202–3
, 204
, 208
, 209
, 212–13
, 291

peace commissioners and
, 121
, 122
, 147
, 155–71
, 172–199
, 218
, 223
, 224
, 267
, 268

peace terms of
, 202–3
, 204
, 208
, 209
, 265–68
, 269

Radicals and
, 9
, 10

reconstruction and
, 10

reelection of
, 33–34

Seward and
, 131–32

Sherman and
, 49

Singleton and
, 35–36
, 48
, 151

on slavery
, 39
, 185–86
, 191
, 210
, 226
, 266

South and
, 198

South trade and
, 73–74

Stanton and
, 131

State of the Union message
, 38

Stephens and
, 61
, 62
, 65
, 69

Stevens and
, 58

Steward and
, 15
, 16
, 17–18
, 19

Thompson and
, 287

truce and
, xvii
, xxi

two countries mandate and
, 89
, 91
, 93
, 94
, 103
, 114

Virginia and
, 277

Virginia legislature and
, 268–9
, 277
, 282

war and
, 6
, 7

war news and
, 122–23
, 124

Weed and
, 28

Weitzel and
, 266
, 268
, 270

Welles and
, 286

Lincoln, Mary Todd
, 7
, 18
, 22
, 287
, 288
, 305–6

Lincoln, Robert Todd
, 122
, 123
, 305–6

Lincoln, Tad
, 33
, 259–60
, 280
, 288
, 305–6

Loane, George J.
,
169

Longstreet, James
, xv
, 243–47

Longstreet, Louise
, 245

Louisiana
, 182

Lumpkin, John H.
, 61

Lyons, James
, 87

 

Macon Georgia
, 30

Madison, James
, 251

mail service
, 21
, 38
, 218

Mallory, Stephen
, 110
, 235

Malvern
,
260
, 263–68

Mann, Horace
, 135

Marx, Karl
, 11

Mary Martin
,
144
, 145
, 146
,
155
, 159
, 161
, 164
, 165
, 167
,
169
, 170
, 171
, 199
, 205–6
, 263
, 278

Maryland
, 25
, 151
, 163
, 188

Mason, Emily
, 26
, 87–88

Maximilian
, 76
, 82
, 88
, 113
, 302

McClellan, George B.
, 8
, 24
, 29
, 34

McLean, Wilmer
, 275

McMullen, Lafayette
, 45

Meade, George G.
, xi
, xxiv
, 8
, 24
, 29
, 100
, 121
, 148–49
, 186
, 216
, 221–22
, 236

Meade, Margaretta
, 148
, 149
, 236

Mexican War
, 61
, 76
, 83
, 84
, 179

Mexico

France and
, 84
, 85
, 107
, 179
, 181
, 207–8
, 227
, 301
, 302

Grant and
, 88

South and
, 107

US and
, 76
, 82
, 83
, 85
, 86
, 89
, 90
, 93
, 98
, 107
, 112–13
, 119
, 147
, 165
, 166
, 177
, 178
, 179
, 182
, 183
, 206
, 207
, 208

war in
, 61
, 76
, 83
, 84
, 179

Michigan
, 163
, 188

Mississippi
, 17

Missouri
, 22

Mobile, Alabama
, 41

Monroe Doctrine
, 76
, 77
, 83
, 84
, 110
, 175
, 179
, 183
, 302

Mott, General
, 220

Myers, Gustavus Adolphus
, xv
, 265–66
, 269
, 274

 

Napoleon III
, 76
, 82
, 83
, 84
, 93
, 178
, 301

Nasby, Petroleum V.
, 221

National Authority
, 39
, 94
, 131
, 176
, 178
, 180
, 181
, 184
, 212
, 266

National Union Party
, 10

Neill, Edward
, 167

Nelson, Samuel
, xi
, 41
, 42
, 44
, 79

New Jersey
, 34

New Orleans, Louisiana
, 66

New York Herald
,
169
, 171

Nicolay, John
, xi
, 51
, 132
, 136
, 167
, 213
, 214

North Carolina
, 45
, 90
, 99
, 241
, 242
, 279
, 280
, 285

North
, 6
, 183
, 189

amnesty and
, 127

Mexico and
, 179

peace and
, 13
, 174
, 219

reunion and
, 180

slavery and
, 196
, 197

South and
, 150
, 241

NY Commercial Advertiser
,
187

NY Daily Tribune
,
8
, 11
, 12
, 24
,
56
, 59
,
90
, 150
, 175
, 306

NY Herald
,
175
, 187
, 257

NY Post
,
77

NY Times
,
xxii
, 10
, 28
, 42
, 56
, 57
, 94
, 97
, 102–3
, 130
, 139
, 146
,
150
, 161
, 175
, 203
, 222
, 223

 

O'Brien
, 138

Odell, Moses
, 134

108th New York
, 137

Ord, Edward
, xi
, 121
, 122
, 126
, 131
, 243–47
, 284–85
, 288
, 304–5

Orr, James L.
, xv
, 231
, 240

Orr, John A.
, xvi
, 91

Otto, William
, 213

Ould, Robert
, xvi
, 78

pardons
, 267–68

Parke, John
, 120
, 125

Parker, Thomas
, xxi

Peabody, Elizabeth
, 134–35
, 174

peace commission, Confederate
, 108–17
, 118–20
, 121
, 122–23
, 125–26
, 130
, 138–39
, 140–54
, 155–71
, 172–199
, 204
, 206–9
, 210–11
, 216–17

Peace Democrats
, 11
, 34
, 35
, 221
, 215

Pegram, John
, 168
, 214–15

Petersburg Express
,
xxiii
, 139

Petersburg, Virginia
, xxi
, 8
, 130
, 137
, 203
, 256
, 257

Philadelphia Inquirer
,
30

pickets
, xviii–xix
, 51
, 85
, 106
, 121
, 244
, 245

Pierce, Franklin
, 42

Pierce, Silas O.
,
169

Pierpont, Francis
, 38
, 277
, 282–83
, 285
, 286

Pollard, Edward
, xvi
, 3
, 4
, 14
, 49
, 73
, 217
, 219
, 226
, 231
, 252–53

Porter, David Dixon
, xi
, 255
, 259–60
, 270
, 274

Porter, Horace
, 206
, 244

post office
, 185
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mail service

Powell, Lewis
, 288

prisoner exchange
, xx
, 69
, 78
, 98
, 164
, 198
, 206
, 210
, 245
, 246
, 247

prisoners of war
, xx
, 69
, 78
, 137
, 141
, 164
, 198
, 199
, 205
, 206
, 210
, 245
, 246
, 247
, 250
, 257

property, seized
, 39
, 185
, 194
, 213
, 218
, 241
, 267

Pryor, Roger A.
, xvi
, 138
, 206
, 249–50

Pryor, Sarah Rice
, xvi
, 137–38
, 139
, 206
, 215
, 236
, 257
, 300