Macon & Western Railroad 293
McPherson, General William Birdseye
190, 191
Magoffin, Beriah 71
Maine 20
Mallory, Stephen 280, 282
Malvern Hill, Battle of 119
CSS Manassas 97
Manassas Junction 60, 120
see also Bull Run, First Battle of; Bull
Run, Second Battle of
Manassas National Battlefield Park 121 ,
370–371
Manet, Édouard 285
Manifest Destiny 18 , 21
Mansfield, Battle of 288
manufacturing industries 17, 54
mapmaking 130, 131
March to the Sea 69, 221, 233, 265, 293,
296–297, 299, 314, 335
Mare Island Navy Yard 98
Marion, Francis 224
Marye’s Heights (Fredericksburg) 137,
138–139, 172, 175
Maryland 44, 46, 51, 357
Confederate Campaign 81, 83, 125,
126–127, 132
Mason, James Murray 76, 77
Mason-Dixon Line 12 , 17, 180
Massachusetts 15, 88, 162
Mathews, Alfred E. 146
May’s Decoration Day 348
Meade, Major General George 181, 221
at Chancellorsville 174
at Fredericksburg 137
at Gettysburg 181, 182, 183, 221
commands Army of the Potomac 179,
180, 181
siege of Petersburg 263
Meagher, Thomas Francis 172
medals
Butler Medal 168
cadet’s medal 255
Medal of Honor 119 , 169
memorial medals 349
Union medal for spying 131
medical services 204–205
Ambulance Corps 183
battlefield dressing stations 205
equipment 206–207
field hospitals 119
nurses 204 , 205, 208, 209
surgery 204, 205
Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham 68, 68 ,
69
Mellon, Andrew 218
Memminger, Christopher 199, 199
Memorial Day 348
memorialization of the war 348–349
Memphis, Battle of 82, 100 , 101, 101
merchant shipping 77
USS Merrimack 94
Methodist Church 22
Mexican War 14, 21, 46, 58, 64, 66, 70,
72, 92, 144, 186, 186 , 196, 224, 244
Mexico 21
Miles, Colonel Dixon 127
military manuals 92, 265
Mill Springs, Battle of 82, 216
Milledgeville, Georgia 296
Millen, Georgia 297
Milliken’s Bend, Battle of 169 , 193
mining techniques 274, 276
Minnesota 201
USS Minnesota 95, 281
Missing Soldiers Office 209
Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga) 215, 215 ,
217, 271
Mississippi 44, 343, 358
Confederate campaign 144–145,
288–289
secession 46
USS Mississippi 97Pettigrew, Brigadier General Johnston 182
Philadelphia 344
Philippi, West Virginia 44
Philippoteaux, Paul 189, 314
Phillips, Wendell 163
photography 244–245
illustrated journals 244
tintypes 244
wet-plate photography 244, 244
Picacho Pass, Arizona 141
Pickens, Francis Wilkinson 52
Pickett, Major General George E. 66, 182,
186, 314
at Five Forks 314 , 315
Pickett’s Charge 93, 182–183, 187,
188–189
Pickett’s Mill, Battle of 248, 292
Pierce, Franklin 13 , 30 , 31
Pillow, Brigadier General Gideon 105
Pinkerton, Allan 130, 131
pistols 149, 252–253
Pittsburg Landing 106
see also Shiloh, Battle of
Plains Indian Wars 89, 149, 271, 299
Pleasant Hill, Battle of 288, 288
Pleasants, Lieutenant Colonel Henry 274,
274 , 279
Pleasonton, General Alfred 178
Plum Point Bend, Battle of 101
Plymouth, North Carolina 234
Point Lookout, Maryland 256
political cartoons 30 , 32 , 36 , 48 , 71 , 72 , 76 ,
201 , 237 , 339 , 344
Polk, James K. 14, 21
Polk, General Leonidas 100, 142, 143,
145, 211
Pollard, Edward 348
pontoon bridges 137, 148 , 262 , 297
Pony Express 220
Pook, Samuel 100, 100
Pook Turtles 100, 101
Pope, General John 67, 121
at Second Bull Run (Second Manassas)
67, 121, 122 , 187, 250
commands Army of the Mississippi 100
commands Army of Virginia 120
Mississippi River Campaign 100–101
“popular sovereignty” doctrine 15, 30, 31,
36
population growth 16
Port Gibson, Mississippi 158, 191
Port Hudson,Louisiana 99, 169, 193
Port Republic, Virginia 111
Port Royal, South Carolina 45, 73 , 96
Porter, Admiral David 191, 312
at Vicksburg 155 , 190, 191 , 194
Porter, Brigadier General Fitz John 119
post-traumatic stress disorder 334
postal service 16
Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas 15
Prairie Grove, Battle of 226
prewar state of the nation 16–17
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
67, 77, 160, 161
Prentiss, General Benjamin M. 106
at Shiloh 106, 109
Presbyterian Church 22
President Lincoln’s Cottage and the
Soldier’s Home 372
presidential elections
1824 20
1828 20
1844 14
1856 32, 33
1860 15, 25, 33, 36–37, 38–39
1864 67, 71, 201, 233 , 236–237
1868 344
1872 20, 344
Price, General Sterling 227, 288, 289
printing technology 16
prisoners of war 256–259, 350, 353, 360
black soldiers 168, 193, 256, 257
bone carvings 256Mississippi River Campaign 100–101
Missouri 31, 37, 46, 51, 70–71, 161, 225,
227, 358
Confederate raids 288–289
guerrilla operations 225, 227
Missouri Compromise 13, 14, 20, 23, 30,
31, 70
Mobile, fall of 305
Mobile Bay, Battle of 99, 99 , 233 ,
286–287, 289
Moltke, Helmut von 221
USS Monarch 100
USS Monitor 80 , 82, 94, 95, 95 , 280
monitors (shallow-draft ironclads) 95,
286–287
Monocacy, Battle of the 268
Monocacy National Battlefield 357
Monroe, James 20
Montgomery, Alabama 46, 46–47, 305
Montgomery, Colonel James 101, 167
monuments 349
Moran, Edward 74
Morgan, Daniel 224
Morgan, General John H. 83, 142, 149
Morris, William S. 221
Morse, Samuel 223
mortars 218 , 241 , 277, 277
Mosby, Colonel John S. 225, 268, 269,
335
Mosler, Henry 335
USS Mound City 101
Mud March 137
Mule Shoe Salient (Spotsylvania) 241,
241 , 243
Mumford, William 97
Munfordville, Kentucky 143
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 146
see also Stones River, Battle of
Museum of the Confederacy 371
mutinies 110
Myer, Lieutenant Albert J. 221
Myers, Abraham 69N
Napoleon III 76, 77
Napoleon cannon 128, 129 , 182, 182
Napoleonic Wars 72, 130
Nashville, Tennessee 105, 231
Battle of 82, 217, 233, 297, 301, 301
Nast, Thomas 59, 339
National Civil War Chaplains Research
Center and Museum 371
National Civil War Naval Museum 354
National Military Park system 349,
350–371
National Union Party 236
nationalism 335, 348, 349
Native Americans
Apache Wars 141
enlisted soldiers 226, 226 , 325
Indian Territory 226, 227
Plains Indian Wars 89, 149, 271, 299
scouts 227
Trail of Tears 21
naval warfare
Confederate commerce raiding 282–283
ironclads 81 , 94–95, 96, 97, 100, 101,
280, 281
monitors 95, 286–287
naval developments 280–281
submarine warfare 280–281
torpedoes (mines) 280, 281, 287
see also Confederate Navy; Union Navy
Nebraska 23, 31, 332
Nevada 21, 140, 141
New Hope Church, Battle of 248, 292
USS New Ironsides 281
New Jersey 37
New Market, Battle of 241, 248, 254–255
New Mexico 21, 23, 140, 141, 360New Orleans 308, 343
fall of 64, 80, 81 , 96–97, 190
New York City 360
draft riots 157 , 173, 200, 202–203
newspapers 16, 130
Norfolk Navy Yard 94
North Anna River 248
North Carolina 44, 46, 47, 51, 73, 325,
360
Northrup, Commissary-General Lucius B.
69
Northwest Ordinance 14
Nullification Crisis 14, 21, 22, 46
nurses 204 , 205, 208, 209O
Oak Grove, Battle of 118
Oates, Colonel William C. 184
observation balloons 61, 130
Ohio 201, 360
“Old Glory” (flag) 51, 56
Olustee, Battle of 234
Olustee Battlefield State Historic Site 350
Ordnance Bureau 68
ordnance production 54, 68–69
Orphan Brigade 143
Ossawatomie, Kansas 34
O’Sullivan, John L. 18
O’Sullivan, Timothy 245
outbreak of war 47, 52
Overland Campaign 187, 197P
Paducah 45, 142
Palmito Ranch, Battle of 307, 324
Panic of 1873 333, 344, 345
Parker, Reverend Theodore 35
parole passes 325
Parrott guns 276
partisans 225
patriotism 58, 88
Patterson, Major General Robert 60–61
pay
black troops 169
Union troops 169
Pea Ridge, Battle of 71, 82, 105, 172, 226
Pea Ridge National Military Park 350
Peace Democrats see Copperheads
peace negotiations see surrender
Peachtree Creek 217, 292
Pecos National Historical Park 360
Peebles’ Farm, Battle of 275
Pemberton, General John C. 190, 191,
191 , 192, 193
Pender, Major General Dorsey 180
pendulum Hausse 128
Peninsula Campaign 61, 67, 80 , 116–117,
264 , 266 , 276
Pennsylvania 201, 362
Confederate Campaign 125
pensions
disability 205
veterans 89, 330, 335
Perryville, Battle of 49, 83, 143, 216
Pershing, General 149
Petersburg 236
Battle of the Crater 169, 274, 276,
278–279
Dimmock Line 254, 262, 263
Elliot’s Salient 274
fall of 303 , 314–315
First Battle of 254
siege artillery 277
siege of 197, 218, 232 , 245, 255, 265,
274–275, 287
Union advance on 262–263
Petersburg National Battlefield 371INDEX