The American Civil War - This Mighty Scourge of War

320 The American Civil War

songs 82-3, 149-50, 156
Stonewall Brigade 56, 196
Sumter Light Guards 33
supplies 185
Texas Brigade 81, 188
veterans 292-3
Virginia Military Institute (VMI) cadets 36,
212, 214
Confederate Congress 36
Confederate Conscription Act 88
Confiscation Acts 94, 154, 293-4
conscription 79, 88, 91, 124
Constitutional Union Party 27
'Copperheads' 91, 91
Corinth, Mississippi 85, 118, 123, 124-5, 150,
243
battle of (3-4 October 1862) 131
Corsan, W. C. 45
cotton
plantations 12-13
production 9-10
courts-martial 229
Crater, the 203-8, 205
Crittenden, Major-General George B. 114
Crittenden, John L. 105
Crittenden Compromise 105
Crook, General George 217
Cross Keys, battle of (8 June 1862) 47
Crouch, Darius N. 75
Culp's Hill (Gettysburg) 175, 176, 180
Culpeper 181
Culpeper Court House 185
Cumberland Church 223
Cumberland Gap 244
Cumberland River 10 , 105, 240
dimming, Kate 150
Curtis, Brigadier-General Samuel R. 117, 250,
251 , 252
Custer, General George Armstrong 218, 231,
233-5, 235

Dallas, battle of (28 May 1864) 265, 301, 302-3
Dalton, Georgia 258, 263
Dana, Charles A. 256
Darbytown Road 210
Davis, Commodore Charles 125
Davis, Jefferson 28 , 260
appraisal of 310
and Atlanta campaign 268-9
capture of 308
and Fort Sumter issue 31
inspects army 275
jailed 313
Johnson, quarrels with 45, 262
on Lee 79
military experience 35
policies 93
presidency of the Confederacy 28,117
and Tennessee campaign 278

Davis, General Joseph 174-5

Davis, Theodore R. 280

Decatur, Alabama 278

Deep Bottom 209

Delaware 239

Democratic Party

Alabama 26

convention of 1860 27

opposition to Lincoln 274

policy on slavery 12, 13, 90-1

Devil's Den (Gettysburg) 177

Dinwiddie Court House 223

diseases 83, 86, 150-1, 154, 291

desertions 211, 289

Doles, General George 194

Douglas, Stephen A. 14,27

Douglass, Frederick 90, 294, 295

Douty, Lieutenant Jacob 206

Dred Scott case 14

Drewry's Bluff 200

Duck River 280

Durham Station 236

Early, Colonel Jubal A. 212

at first Manassas 40

at Fredericksburg 75, 78

at Rappahannock Station 182

and Shenandoah Valley campaign (1864)

213,215-17,218-20

Washington, advance on 213-15, 274

East Cemetery Hill (Gettysburg) 175, 176

Eastern Theater (May 1861-June 1863) 37

Edgerton, Private William Wilbur 299-303

Edmondston, Catherine Ann Devereux 46 , 47,

50, 102

elections, presidential

1860 27

1864 273-4,301-2

Ellet, Colonel Charles R. 137-8

Elmira prison camp, New York 298

Ely, Alfred 40

Elzey, Colonel Arnold 40

emancipation proclamation 62, 79, 90, 94, 154,

294

espionage 208

Etowah River 265

Evans, Colonel Nathan G. ('Shanks') 39, 85

Ewell, General Richard S.

command of II Corps 165

at Gettysburg 172, 175

and Shenandoah Valley campaign (1862) 46,

47

and Wilderness campaign 186, 190

Ewing, Brigadier-General Thomas 251, 252

Ezra Church, battle of (28 July 1864) 271

Fair Oaks, battle of see Seven Pines, battle of

Farmville 223

Farragut, Admiral David Glasgow 124, 243, 243