Bloody Crimes (63 page)

Bible, xii, 52, 60, 292

Biloxi, Miss., 362

Black Hawk, 58

Black Hawk War, 57-58

blacks:

in captured Richmond, 26, 39, 44-46, 64

Davis’s location reported to Union troops by, 256, 302

Davis’s views on, 53-54, 60-61

liberation of, 26, 32, 44-47

Lincoln honored by, 44-46, 64, 158, 217, 261, 340

Lincoln’s views on, 53-54, 61

New York draft riots and lynching of, 34

racism directed towards, 398

Reconstruction and, 361

voting rights for, 90

white supremacy and, 53-54, 60-61

Blair, Montgomery, 170

Bonham, Milledge L., 94

Booth, John Wilkes, xi, 34, 93, 96-97, 129, 130, 367

allegorical lithograph of, 136,
137

capture and death of, 238, 241, 243, 244, 287, 314, 317, 342

Confederate connection of, 121

conspirators of, 147, 196, 214, 215, 293

images of, 240

Lincoln’s assassination by, 100-101, 106-7, 110, 136, 192, 276, 325

manhunt for, 111, 147, 204, 244, 268, 296-98, 317, 400

tried and executed co-conspirators of, 319, 340-41, 342-44, 343, 347, 356

wax figures of, 344, 392-93

Boston, Mass., 99

Boutell, Henry, 306

Boyd, Andrew, 125

Boyd, William H., 125

Bradford, A. W., 214, 217

Bradford, David, 72

Brady, Mathew, 189, 192, 205, 239

Bragg, Braxton, 14, 204

Breckinridge, John C., 76, 196, 204-5, 211-12, 247, 278-82, 288, 317

1860 presidential candidacy of, 53

Richmond evacuation and, 5-6, 9, 23-24, 26-27, 41, 72

Brierfield, 72, 248, 377

Broad River, S.C., 247, 250

Brooks, Daniel, 265

Brooks, Noah, 35, 39, 79, 127, 160, 166

Brooks, Preston, 115

Brooks Brothers, 139

Brough, John, 247

Brown, Charles, 138, 186, 281-82, 286

Brown, John, xi-xii, xiii, 356

Brown, Simeon B., 245

Browning, Orville Hickman, 133, 145, 153, 171, 200

Brown’s Ferry, 298

Buchanan, James, 6, 220

Buena Vista, battle of, 52, 309

Buffalo, N.Y., 199, 241-43

Bull Run, battle of, 112

Bureau of Military Justice, 296, 320

Burke, Francis, 95, 114

Burnside, Ambrose, 176

Burr, Frank A., 367, 371

Burt, Armistead, 266

Bush, George W., 400

Bush, Laura, 400

Cadwalader, George, 217

California, 167, 309

Cameron, Simon, 141, 158-59

Campbell, Givhan, 301

Campbell, John Archibald, 62

Canada, 243

Capitol, U.S., 49, 93, 119, 133, 143, 152, 336-37, 350

Davis statue in, 400, 401

funeral procession to, 149-50, 158, 190-93, 209, 286, 330, 382, 386, 400

Lincoln’s lying in state at, 140, 148, 150, 185, 197-200, 207-9, 215, 286, 391

Carolina Life Insurance Company, 359

Carroll, William T., family vault of, 171, 173

Cary, Constance, 5, 6-7, 32, 39-40, 312

marriage to Burton Harrison by, 6, 377, 390

Cattell, Harry P., 138

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 336-37

Chancellorsville, battle of, 247, 341

Chapin, C. W., 187

Charleston, S.C., 3, 182

Charlotte, N.C., 181, 243, 245, 256-57, 296

Davis in, 198, 204-5, 206, 212, 219, 238

Davis unwelcome in, 194-96, 223, 252, 280

Varina in, 10, 15, 66, 74, 83, 92

Chase, Salmon P., 170

Chatham Artillery, 371

Chattahoochee River, 279

Chattanooga, Tenn., 68, 279

Chester, S.C., 92

Chestnut, Mary, 175-76

Chicago, Ill., 84, 136, 143, 145, 152-53, 155, 156, 199, 235, 261, 263-65, 264, 270-71, 281, 286, 290, 293

Chicago Board of Trade, 265

Chicago Historical Society, 125

Chicago Tribune, 263-64, 265, 270-71, 338

City Point, Va., 16-17, 18-19, 22, 36, 73, 74-76, 210

Civil War, U.S., 1, 14, 36-37, 60, 126, 136, 141, 166-67, 277, 361, 374, 394

beginning of, 370

cranial surgery at time of, 110

Davis’s determined continuation of, 200

death toll in, xiv, 3, 17, 47, 76, 294, 366, 369, 388

embalming and, 147-48, 235

ending of, xi

Lincoln’s funeral train as symbol of cost of, 213

150th anniversary of, 401

Clark, Micajah H., 9, 288

Clarke, William, 105-6, 133, 287

Clay, Clement C., 25, 268-69, 314

Clay, Virginia, 368

Cleary, William, 268-69

Cleveland, Ohio, 199, 247, 248-50, 252-54, 253

Clover Station, 30

Cobb, Howell, 67-68, 77

Coffin, Charles C., 47

Cokesbury, Ga., 280

Cokesbury, S.C., 265

Cold Harbor, 246

Columbian Expedition of 1893, 125

Columbus, Ga., 67, 77, 257

Columbus, Ohio, 199, 253-55, 258-59, 284

Comanche nation, 123

Confederate archives, 28

Confederate History Month, 401

Confederate Memorial Hall, 382

Confederate ordnance department, 11

Confederate railroad system, 27, 36, 66, 86, 89, 122, 204-5, 211-12

Confederate States of America, xi, 30, 36, 123, 276, 283-84, 288, 364, 380

armies of, 176, 197, 273, 357

armies of, after Lee’s surrender, 147, 182, 195, 206-7, 279, 280-81, 318, 329

Booth’s connection to, 121

controversy surrounding, 401-2

Davis elected president of, 50-51

Davis’s determination to continue, 82-84, 95

ending of, 288-89

as Lost Cause, 30, 84, 370, 373, 381, 388, 397, 402, 403

modern response to racial politics of, 401-2

Northern perception of, xiv

postwar policy towards hierarchy of, 17-18

resilience of, 38

Richmond as capital of, 3; see also Danville, Va.

waning enthusiasm for, 194

Confederate treasury, 9, 28, 29-30, 212, 266, 274, 278, 289

and gold rumors, 244-45, 251, 256, 313-15, 347-48

Congressional Cemetery, 167, 180

Connecticut, 187

Constitution, U.S., 48, 49, 143, 154

slavery and, 53

Cooper, Samuel, 37

Cooper Union, 156, 340

Copperheads, 34, 226

corpse photography, 235

of Davis, 379, 379

of Lincoln, 23-41, 230, 234-37, 248, 292, 379

Crane, Charles H., 109, 117, 133, 188

cranial surgery, 110, 354

Craven, John J., 341-42, 349-50, 352, 354

Crook, W. H., 16

Crowell, J. H., 126

Croxton, John Thomas, 257

Cuba, 273, 279, 317

Currier & Ives, 99-100, 241

Richmond burning print of, 39, 40

Curtin, Andrew, 200-201, 217

Curtis, Joseph, 133-38, 354

Custer, George Armstrong, 361

Dana, Charles A., 239

Dan River, 28

Danville, Va., 15, 219

evacuation from, 82-84, 89

evacuation to, 10, 12, 28-30, 33, 383

as new Confederate capital, 8-9, 36-38, 40-41, 66-68, 73, 76, 77, 81-82, 88, 90, 95

Richmond refugees in, 38, 41

Danville Railroad, 6, 13

David, King, 292

Davis, Charles Henry, 236, 237

Davis, George, 8

Davis, Jefferson, 4, 66, 75, 77, 118, 127, 212, 360, 362, 377

Abbeville departed by, 273-74

appearance of, 54-55

arrival in Charlotte by, 194-96

arrival in Danville by, 36-38, 383

attacks on, 7, 60, 62

cabinet of, 8-9, 27, 81-82, 83, 88-90, 95, 122, 182, 273, 288, 308

capture of, 310, 312, 314-18, 320-29, 352, 398-99, 399

charisma of, 55

Charlotte speech of, 195

children of, 10, 12, 59, 72, 171, 263, 301, 315, 316, 317, 366

Confederate gold rumor and, 244-45, 251, 256, 314, 347-48, 365

corpse photograph of, 379, 379

correspondence by, 14-15, 22, 71-72, 73, 90, 93, 95, 223-25, 238, 250, 273-74, 288, 348-49, 350

criticism of, 283-84

cross-dressing escape rumors about, 310-11, 310, 322-23, 323, 324, 326-29, 328, 344, 346-47, 346

in Danville evacuation, 82-89

in Danville exile, 40-41, 67-68, 76, 77

“Danville Farewell” of, 83-84

Danville Proclamation of, 68-70, 91

death mask of, 379-80

death pageant for, 378-85, 379, 380, 384, 385, 397

demonstrations against, 276

determination to continue Confederacy by, 71, 182-83, 199-200, 206-7, 219

eclipse of, 48, 397-98, 400-402

education of, 48, 54, 60

eightieth birthday of, 374-76

fate of, 293