Bloody Crimes (62 page)

280
“The troops are on the west side”
Crist,
Papers,
11:583.

283
“Far more eyes have gazed upon the face”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
308.

283
“Standing, as we do today, by his coffin”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
319.

284
“Evergreen carpeted the stone floor”
Carl Sandburg,
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years,
4:413.

288
“I am in such a state of excitement”
Andrews,
Journal,
204-6. 288
“It is with deep regret”
Crist,
Papers,
11:584. Rowland,
Jefferson Davis,
6:586-87.

288
“After some delay at Washington”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
212.

289
“The President left town about ten o’clock”
Andrews,
Journal,
206. 289
“The talk now is”
Andrews,
Journal,
217.

289
“This, I suppose, is the end”
Andrews,
Journal,
217. 289
“Twenty days after the terrible night”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
325. 294
“Mr. Lincoln, on his way from Springfield to Washington”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
243.

301
“Fully realizing that so large a party”
Lubbock,
Six Decades,
571.

302
“we halted on a small stream near Irwinville”
Lubbock,
Six Decades,
571.

302
“We had all now agreed”
Harrison, “Capture,” 142.

302
“The President notified us to be ready”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
218.

303
“After getting that promise from the President”
Harrison, “Capture,” 142.

303 “Time wore on” Lubbock,
Six Decades,
571.

10: “BY GOD, YOU ARE THE MEN WE ARE LOOKING FOR”

304
“From thence we proceeded to a blind woods”
OR, 49, I, 532.

305
“Impressing a negro as a guide”
OR, 49, I, 532.

305
“[J]ust as the earliest dawn appeared”
OR, 49, I, 536.

307
“Colonel, do you hear the firing?”
Harrison, “Capture,” 142.

307
“As soon as one of them came within range”
Harrison, “Capture,” 142.

307
“At this moment”
W. T. Walthall, “The True Story of the Capture of Jefferson Davis,”
Southern Historical Society Papers
5, no. 3 (Mar. 1878).

307
“We sprang immediately to our feet”
Lubbock,
Six Decades,
571.

308
“When this firing occurred the troops in our front”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
219.

308
“What does that mean? Have you any men”
Harrison, “Capture,” 142.

309
“The Federal cavalry are upon us”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
220.

310
“Knowing he would be recognized”
Chester Bradley, “Was Jefferson Davis Disguised as a Woman When Captured?”
Journal of Mississippi History
36 (Aug. 1974), 243-68.

311
“As I started, my wife thoughtfully threw over my head”
Varina Davis,
A Memoir,
2:701-2.

311
“in a short time they were in possession of very nearly everything”
Lubbock,
Six Decades,
572.

312
“I emptied the contents of my haversack”
Harrison, “Capture,” 144.

312
“This is a bad business”
Walthall, “True Story,” 14.

314
“The hardest to bear of all the humiliations”
Andrews,
Journal,
238.

315
“As soon as the firing ceased I returned to camp”
OR, 49, I, 536.

316
“I had been astonished to discover”
Harrison, “Capture,” 144.

316
“The man who a few days before”
Lubbock,
Six Decades,
572.

316
“[S]he bore up with womanly fortitude”
Lubbock,
Six Decades,
573.

320
“We have not got your saddle bags”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
221.

322
“When we reached Macon”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
221.

323
“As one of the means of making the Confederate cause odious”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
221.

323
“When I came up from breakfast”
French,
Witness,
477.

324
“Intelligence was received this morning”
Welles,
Diary,
2:306.

324
“I am sitting in the President’s Office”
Townsend,
John Wilkes Booth,
57-58.

326
“I am glad to sit in his chair”
Townsend,
John Wilkes Booth,
62.

328
“Barnum is a shrewd businessman”
Strong,
Diary,
3:598.

330
“ample provision being made for the families”
OR, 49, I, 516.

11: “LIVING IN A TOMB”

333
“They have him in his prison house”
Lincoln,
Collected Works, 2
:403-7.

335
“Mrs. Mary Lincoln left the City on Monday evening”
French,
Witness,
479.

336
“[T]he great review of the returning armies”
Welles,
Diary,
2:310.

337
“I put a gilded eagle over the front door”
French,
Witness,
478.

346
“I hate the Yankees more and more”
Andrews,
Journal,
371.

349
“I am now permitted to write you”
Crist,
Papers,
12:13.

349
“With regret and apprehension I have heard”
Crist,
Papers,
12:44.

351
“Last Christmas we had a home”
Crist,
Papers,
12:80.

351
“I hope that you will not think me a rude little girl”
Crist,
Papers,
12:114.

352
“It is true that I have not made [Jefferson Davis]”
OR, 914.

354
“The prison life by Dr. Craven”
Crist,
Papers,
12:153.

355
“I urged that the welfare of the whole country”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
231.

356
“poor Davis…wasted and careworn”
Crist,
Papers,
12:210.

357
“Last Friday [June 1], Hollywood was glorified with flowers”
Crist,
Papers,
12:214.

12: “THE SHADOW OF THE CONFEDERACY”

365
“I did not like the man”
Strode,
Tragic Years,
459-62.

366
“I have been compelled to prove General Sherman”
Strode,
Tragic Years,
473.

374
“Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens”
Rowland,
Jefferson Davis,
10:47.

375 “Permit me to cordially congratulate you” Rowland,
Jefferson Davis,
10:72.

376
“The package containing all of our correspondence”
Crist,
Papers,
1:348.

377
“Dreams my dear Sarah we will agree”
Crist,
Papers,
1:345.

377
“The shadow of the Confederacy”
Varina Howell Davis to Constance Cary Harrison, transcript in the collection of the author, courtesy of the
Papers of Jefferson Davis.

INDEX

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Abbeville, Ga., 298, 299, 305, 330

Abbeville, S.C., 219, 250-51, 262-63, 266-67, 273-74, 280

abolitionists, xi, 53, 356

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, 392-93

Adams, John, 53

Adams, John Quincy, 167, 180

Agriculture Department, U.S., Farm Security Administration of, 399-400

Aiken’s Landing, 17

Alabama, 77, 366, 377, 383

Albany, N.Y., 199, 234, 235, 237, 241

Alexander, Dr., 138, 186, 286

Alexander, John, 285

Alexandria, Va., 163-65, 192, 208, 331, 382

American Museum, 345

American Revolution, 220-21

Anderson, Finley, 126

Anderson, Joseph Reid, 62

Anderson, S.C., 245

Andersonville Prison, 344, 350

Andrews, Eliza Frances, 73-74, 280, 288-89, 313-14, 346-47

Andrews, Garnett, 73, 288

Annapolis, Md., 214

Antietam, battle of, 112

Antietam, Md., 16, 156

Appomattox Court House, Va., 77-78, 82, 94, 147, 206, 361

Appomattox River, 6, 21-22

Arkansas, 123

Arlington National Cemetery, 396

Army, U.S., 53, 102, 140-41, 148, 192, 237, 354

Company D of the Seventy-fourth Regiment of, 242

First Wisconsin Cavalry of, 256, 298, 305-6, 313-14, 330

Fourth Michigan Cavalry of, 256, 298, 304-7, 310, 313-16, 321, 322, 330

frontier wars of, 361

Lincoln’s assassination and, 108

Lincoln’s funeral and, 150

Northern Department of Ohio in, 247

Second Cavalry Division, 297

Sixteenth New York Cavalry of, 314

Twelfth Veteran Reserve Corps of, 208

see also Union Army

Army of Georgia (Union), 336

Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate), 5, 13-14, 24, 26, 41, 67, 69, 74, 76

surrender of, 78, 79-80, 81-82, 91, 95, 102, 195, 197, 205-6, 224

Army of Tennessee (Confederate), 67

Army of the Potomac (Union), 176, 329-30, 336, 337

Army of the Tennessee (Union), 336

Army of the West (Union), 329-30

Arnold, Isaac N., 151

Asheville, N.C., 245

Ashmun, George, 158-59

Associated Press, 151

Atlanta, Ga., 3, 76, 279, 323, 371, 372, 383

Atlanta Constitution, 367, 370-71

Auburn, N.Y., 391

Augur, C. C., 116, 126, 150-51

Augusta, Ga., 245, 262

Bahamas, 122, 273

Baker, C., 126

Baker, Edward D., 167-68, 180

Ball’s Bluff, battle of, 167

Baltimore, Md., 98, 199, 203, 212-17, 218, 239, 346

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 208

Barnes, Joseph K., 108-9, 117, 133-34, 188, 354

Barnum, P. T., 327-29, 344-45

Barringer, Victor C., 122

Bates, Edward, 170

Bates, Lewis F., 194-97

Beauregard, P. G. T., 67, 87, 204

Beauvoir, 362-64, 362, 366-67, 371, 373, 375-76, 377, 382, 403

Hurricane Katrina and, 402-3

Bedell, Grace, 246

Beecher, Henry Ward, 239-40

Ben-Hur (Wallace), 240

Benjamin, Judah, 8, 32-33, 41, 86, 247, 273, 274

departure of, 278-79, 317

Benton, Thomas Hart, 52

Bersch, Carl, 104-5, 130