The American Civil War - This Mighty Scourge of War

Index 325

Peachtree Creek 266
battle of (20 July 1864) 270
Peebles Farm 211
Pegram, General John 221, 221
Pelham, Major John 67
Pemberton, Lieutenant-General John C. 131,
249
Confederate command 244
at Vicksburg 132, 140, 142, 143, 247
Peninsular campaign (April-July 1862) 46-51,
49
Perryville, battle of (8 October 1862) 130, 244
Petersburg
battles around (June-October 1864) 200-2,
201
battles around (1865) 219 , 221-3
Pickett, General George E. 177, 180, 223, 311
'Pickett's Charge' (Gettysburg) 174-5, 180
Piedmont, battle of (5 June 1864) 213
Pillow, General Gideon 112, 115, 241
Pilot Knob 252
Pittsburg Landing 118, 120, 121
Pleasant Hill, battle of (9 April 1864) 261
Pleasanton, Major-General Alfred 252
Po River 192, 193
Point lookout, Maryland 298
Polk, Major-General Leonidas 240
and Atlanta campaign 265
at Columbus 110, 112
and slave workers 158
suspended by Bragg 255
and Tullahoma campaign 254
violation of Kentucky neutrality 240
Pope, Major-General John 54
and Army of the Mississippi 117
background and character 55
captures Island No. 10 123, 243
at Second Manassas 55-6
'popular sovereignty' 14
Port Hudson, Louisiana 136, 138, 142, 143,
162 , 246, 247, 248, 294
Port Republic, battle of (9 June 1862) 47
Port Walthall Junction 2(H)
Porter, Admiral David Dixon 248
at Fort Fisher 290
and Red River operation 260, 261
and Vicksburg campaign 132, 140, 239, 246
Porter, General Fitz John 51, 51 , 56
Prentiss, Brigadier-General Benjamin 121, 122
Preston, Margaret Junkin 230, 230
Price, Major-General Sterling 250
at Iuka 130
in Missouri 109, 110, 250
at Pea Ridge 117-18
prisoners of war 228, 297-8
profiteering 90, 93
Pulaski, Tennessee 279

Quantrill, William 250, 251, 252

Queen of the West (ship) 137

railroads, struggle for 208

Ramseur, Brigadier-General Stephen Dodson 74

Randolph, George Wythe 35

Rapidan River 55, 74 182, 184, 185

Rappahannock River 45, 55, 66, 74, 165, 167

Rappahannock Station 182

Ray, Milton 150

Raymond, battle of (12 May 1863) 142

Reams' Station, battle of (24-25 August 1864)

209

Red Bud Run 216

Red River operation 260-1, 262

Redwood, Allen C. 78, 82

Reese, Sergeant Harry 206

refugees 94, 95, 95 , 97, 99

Republican Party

convention of 1860 27

legislation 91

and Lincoln 274

origins of 14

policy on slavery 90

Resaca 265

Reynolds, General John P. 175

Richardson, Israel 60

Richmond, Virginia

becomes Confederate capital 31

bread riots 92 , 93

burning of 226-7

fall of (April 1865) 185

Northern campaigns against 15, 38, 45

riverboats 121

rivers, strategic importance of 35, 105

Rodes, General Robert E. 175, 216

Rome, Georgia 264

Rosecrans, Major-General William S. ('Old

Rosy') 133, 253

character 132

at Chattanooga 256

at Iuka 130-1

at Stone's River 134, 245

Tullahoma campaign 140, 252-5

Rosser, General Thomas L. 213, 215, 218, 223

Rough and Ready 267

Russell, General David A. 216

Russell, Lord John 102

Rutherford County courthouse. Murfreesboro

155

Sabine Crossroads 261

St Louis, Missouri 249, 250

St Louis (gunboat, later Baron de Kalb) 116-17

Salem Church (Chancellorsville) 78, 83, 84

San Jacinto, USS 45

Sanders, Fannie 208

Sanders, General J. C. C. 207, 208

Saunders Field (Wilderness) 183, 187

Savage's Station, battle of (29 June 1862) 52