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Transcendentalists
, 11

Travis, Ben
, 118
, 138
, 139
, 141
, 144
, 145
, 164–65

treason: of Campbell
, 296

of Confederacy
, 195
, 274

of Davis
, 293

of Hunter
, 296

Tucker, Beverley
, 36

two countries mandate
, 89
, 91
, 93
, 94
, 103
, 114
, 115
, 116
, 119
, 156
, 157
, 158
, 160

 

Union
, 6
, 9

Blair, Francis Preston, and
, 20

Democrats and
, 11

divided
, 84

restoration of
, 20

severance and acceptance of
, 38
, 39

Unionist Party
, 79

Usher, John
, 36–37
, 212

 

Vance, Zebulon
, 99

Varina, Virginia
, 164

Vicksburg
, 5
, 22
, 69

Virginia legislature
, 268–69
, 270
, 273
, 275
, 278–79
, 282–84

Virginia
, 203
, 217
, 242
, 258
, 268–69
, 274
, 282
, 285

 

Wade, Benjamin
, 10
, 36
, 124
, 125
, 289

Wade-Davis reconstruction bill
, 10

Wall Street
, 126

Wallace, Lew
, 88

War Democrats
, 11

war rallies
, 217
, 224–25
, 228

Warren, General
, 216

Washburne, Elihu B.
, 28
, 92
, 227

Washington Chronicle
,
174
, 175

Washington City
, 25
, 49
, 53
, 56
, 63–64
, 78
, 114
, 150
, 202
, 204
, 221
, 276

Washington Globe
,
20
, 21

Washington Orphanage Society
, 22

Webster, Daniel
, 16

Weed, Thurlow
, xiii
, 16
, 28
, 134

Weitzel, Godfrey
, xiii
, 285
, 295

Campbell and
, 261
, 266
, 272–73
, 274
, 278

Lincoln and
, 259
, 268
, 270
, 283
, 286

Richmond occupation and
, 259

Welles, Gideon
, xiii

Blair and
, 23
, 56

cotton and
, 278

Fort Fisher and
, 93

Lincoln and
, 36
, 37
, 103
, 214
, 221
, 253
, 280
, 282
, 283
, 285–86

Lincoln's assassination and
, 288

peace and
, 126
, 168
, 204
, 226

on Rebels
, 18
, 96
, 257
, 272

Wentworth, Long John
, 16

West Virginia
, 190
, 241

Wheaton, Frank
, 26

Whigs
, 61

White House, Richmond
, 80

White House, Washington
, 80

Wigfall, Louis T
, 253

Willcox, Orlando
, 120
, 121
, 125
, 130

William Allison
,
90
, 96
, 99

Wilmington, North Carolina
, 90
, 96

Wilson, Henry
, 141

Wise, Henry A.
, 148

Wood, Fernando
, xiii
, 75
, 174
, 203

 

Yankees
, xix

Young Indian
, 61
, 175
, 176

 

Zollverein
, 180
, 181

An interior view of Fort Hell
Library of Congress

Union pickets facing Fort Damnation
Library of Congress

Horace Greeley
National Archives

Secretary of State William H. Seward
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM)

Francis Preston Blair
Library of congress

Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
Library of congress

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens
Library of congress

Congressman Samuel S. (“Sunset”) Cox
Library of congress

Justice John A. Campbell in about 1855
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