T
Taney, Justice Roger B. 27, 161, 340
tariffs 20, 21, 22
tax-in-kind 198, 199
Taylor, General Richard 193, 288, 307,
317, 324
Taylor, General Zachary 20 , 64, 145
USS Tecumseh 287
telegraphy 16, 220–221
telegraph-tapping 130
telescopes 286
Tennessee 37, 44, 46, 47, 51, 343, 366
Confederate Campaign 300–301, 314
State Capitol 301
CSS Tennessee 99, 286, 287
tents 125 , 141
Tenure of Office Act 332, 339
Terry, General Alfred H. 306
Texan Brigade 119, 132, 292
Texas 21, 140, 141, 226–227, 343
annexation 14, 21
Lone Star flag 20
secession 44, 46
Thirteenth Amendment 25, 237,
308–309, 308 , 332, 338, 341
Thomas, Major General George 211, 212 ,
216–217, 216 , 275, 301
at Chattanooga 217
at Chickamauga 216, 217
at First Bull Run (Manassas) 216
at Missionary Ridge 215, 215
at Nashville 231 , 297, 301
at Peachtree Creek 217
at Perryville 216
at Stones River 216
commands Army of the Cumberland
215, 296
Corinth Campaign 216
timeline 217
Tullahoma Campaign 217
Thoreau, Henry David 21
Thulstrup, Thure de 109, 215
Tilden, Samuel J. 345
Tocqueville, Alexis de 17
Tom’s Brook, Battle of 268
Topeka Constitution 31
Torpedo Corps and Submarine Battery
Service 280
torpedoes (mines) 280, 281, 287
spar torpedoes 281
Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia 260
Trail of Tears 21
Trans-Mississippi Department 226, 288,
305, 324, 325
Transcontinental Railroad 218
Travis, William Delaney 199, 212, 347
Travis Panorama 81 , 143 , 210 , 212–213,
346–347
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 21
Treaty of Washington 283
Tredegar Iron Works 54, 68, 69
trench warfare 93, 93 , 260, 274
Trent affair 45, 76, 77
Trevilian Station, Battle of 248, 263
Trimble, Major General Isaac R. 182
Tubman, Harriet 166–167
Tucson, Arizona 141
Tullahoma Campaign 210, 217
Tupelo National Battlefield 358
Turner, Henry 161
Turner, Nat 14, 26
Turner’s Gap, Maryland 127
Tuttle, James 105, 105U
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 15, 23, 26, 71
Underground Railroad 25, 34,
166, 167West Point 46, 47, 344
West Point Iron and Cannon Foundry 69
West Virginia 51, 60, 308, 372
western frontier 140–141
Western Gunboat Flotilla 104
Westport 289
westward expansion 18–19, 140
“what-is-it” wagons 245, 245
Wheeler, General Joseph 297, 299
Whig Party 30, 31, 38
Whiskey Ring scandal 197, 345
“Whistling Dick” 192
White League 85, 339, 343
White Oak Swamp 119
Whitman, Walt 205, 257
Whitney, Eli 16, 17
wig-wag signaling 221
Wilcox, Brigadier General Cadmus 85,
175
Wilderness Campaign 187, 232 , 238–243
Battle of Spotsylvania 239 , 240–243,
248, 251
Wilkes, Captain Charles 76, 77
Williamsburg, Battle of 79 , 82, 116
Wilmington, North Carolina 73, 287
Wilmot, David 22, 22
Wilmot Proviso 14, 22
Wilson, Edmund 299
Wilson, General James H. 289, 305, 306
Wilson, Henry 208
Wilson, Woodrow 330 , 349
Wilson’s Creek, Battle of 43 , 45, 71, 71
Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield 358
Winchester
First Battle of 110, 111, 149 , 150–151
Second Battle of 179
Third Battle of 268
Winslow, Captain John 283
wire-tapping 220
Wirz, Captain Henry 257, 335
women
nurses 204 , 205, 208, 209
philanthropic work 199
rights movement 199
spies 130, 131, 131
suffrage 209, 333
war work 199, 199
Woolson, Albert 348
Worden, John 95, 95Y
Yazoo River, Mississippi 158
Yellow Tavern, Virginia 248, 251
Yorktown, Virginia 116
Younger, Cole 225, 225Z
Zouaves 8 , 58, 59 , 63, 90uniforms
cavalry 90 , 148
Confederate 84, 84 , 86–87, 283
Navy 283 , 287
sharpshooters 261
Union 88 , 89 , 90–91, 287
Union
battle flags 56–57
costs of war 334, 335
dissolution 46–47
economic and industrial situation
16–17, 43, 54, 58, 68, 69, 198–199,
330, 335
economic depression 344
moral superiority 61
population 54
postwar North 334, 335, 348
strengths 54–55
Union Army 88–89
Ambulance Corps 183 , 205
Balloon Corps 61
black troops 55, 88, 161, 168–169, 171,
193, 226
conscription 88
cull of weak officers 64
demobilization 89
desertion 89
discipline 89
ethnic diversity 88
logistics 68, 69, 265
Medical Corps 204
mobilization 58–59
motivation 88
numerical superiority 88
Signal Corps 126 , 130, 221
soldiers, motivations of 58, 59
supply and transportation 265
training 65
uniforms 88 , 89 , 90–91
veterans 89
see also Army of the Cumberland; Army
of Georgia; Army of the James; Army
of the Mississippi; Army of the Ohio;
Army of the Potomac; Army of the
Valley; Army of Virginia
Union Navy
assault on Vicksburg 99, 101, 155 , 190,
191 , 194
Atlantic Blockading Squadron 74
Battle of Hampton Roads 80 , 82, 94–95,
286
Battle of New Orleans 81 , 96–97
blockade 69, 72–73, 80, 94, 280, 282
expansion 72–73
Memphis, Battle of 82
Mississippi River conflicts 100–103
postwar demobilization 73
river fleet 100
seizure of Confederate ports 73
strength at outset of war 72
United Confederate Veterans (U.C.V.)
348–349
United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.)
161, 168, 169, 205
United States Military Railroads
(U.S.M.R.R.) 218
United States Military Telegraph Service
(U.S.M.T.S.) 220–221
United States Sanitary Commission 204
United States Signal Corps 126 , 130, 221
Upson, Theodore 169
Upton, Colonel Emory 240
urbanization 17
Utah 21, 23, 140, 141
Utica, New York State 17V
Vallandigham, Clement C. 201
Valverde, New Mexico 140, 360
Van Buren, Martin 21Van Dorn, Major General Earl 83, 105,
143, 190, 226
van Lew, Elizabeth 130
Vanderbilt, Cornelius 218
USS Varuna 97
veterans 348–349
black 169
Confederate 85, 348–349
joint reunions 348 , 349
memorial medals 349
organizations 348–349
pensions 89, 330, 335
Union 89, 348
Vicksburg Campaign 81, 157 , 158,
190–195, 197, 274, 276
naval assault 99, 101, 155 , 190, 191 , 194
trench systems 93
Vicksburg National Military Park 358–359
victory parades 307, 325 , 329
vigilante groups 85
see also Ku Klux Klan; White League
Villa, Pancho 149
Virginia 26, 37, 44, 46, 47, 51, 343,
368–371
CSS Virginia 80 , 94, 95, 95 , 280
Virginia Military Institute 58, 65, 255
Virginia Partisan Rangers 225
Virginia Peninsula see Peninsula Campaign
volunteer aid societies 199
volunteers 42 , 43 , 51, 58, 59, 84
bounty money 88, 89
Voting Rights Act, 1965 309, 349W
USS Wabash 44, 74–75
Waddell, Captain James 283
Wadley, Colonel William M. 218
wagon trains 265, 266
wagons 60, 245, 245 , 296
Walker, David 26
Wallace, Brigadier General Lew 105, 106
war bonds 198, 199, 344
War Democrats 198, 236
War Department 68
War of 1812 14, 16, 20, 47, 55, 65, 72, 98
War with Mexico 14, 21, 46, 58, 64, 66,
70, 72, 92, 144, 186, 186 , 196, 224,
244
war weariness 200–201
Ware Bottom Church 254
Warren, General Gouverneur K. 238,
248, 271
at Five Forks 315
at siege of Petersburg 274
Washburn, General Cadwallader 288
Washington, D.C. 236, 263, 268, 372
Washington, Augustus 35
Washington, George 60
Watie, Brigadier General Stand 325, 325
Waud, Alfred 174, 210, 224, 244, 269,
274, 279
Waynesboro, Battle of 269
weapons
cavalry 148–149, 152–153
infantry 92
ordnance production 54, 68–69
swords 145 , 152 , 271
see also artillery; field artillery; pistols;
siege artillery; rifles and muskets
Webb, Lieutenant Colonel
Alexander S. 65
Webster, Daniel 20, 21
Webster, Timothy 131
Weir, John Ferguson 69
Weitzel, General Godfrey 315
Weldon Railroad, Battle of the 274
Welles, Gideon 72, 73, 280
on Farragut 98, 99
on Lincoln’s death 322
West Gulf Blockading Squadron 82, 88, 98INDEX