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Authors: James L. Swanson

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evacuation of, 9-13, 20-29, 34, 67, 68, 85, 87, 88, 89, 95, 147, 183, 279, 296, 299, 317, 383
fall of, 8, 15, 26, 34-39, 35, 68-70, 73-74, 77, 80, 82, 102
food shortages in, 12, 31-32
Lee’s return to, 80, 205
liberated blacks in, 26, 39, 44-46, 64
Lincoln in, 38-39, 42-47, 62-65, 68, 73, 210, 356
looting and riot in, 26, 29-30, 31-32, 39-40, 332
monuments for Davis in, 398
peace negotiations in, 62, 73
severe rainstorm in, 331-32
theater fire in, 100
as tourist destination, 90, 93
Union threat to, 5-8, 13-15, 18-26, 31, 205
Richmond and Danville Railroad, 26-27
Richmond Times, 331-32, 338-40
Richview, Ill., 376
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Davis), 363, 366
River Queen, 16-17, 19, 24, 42-43, 75-76
Robert E. Lee mausoleum, 365
Rocketts, 44, 356
Rucker, D. H., 126, 207
Rutledge, Ann M., 56-57, 161, 168, 173
Safford, Henry, 100-103, 105
St. John’s Church, 192
St. Louis, Mo., 58
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 5, 7-8, 20, 176
Salisbury, N.C., 181
Saluda River, 256
Sandburg, Carl, 284
Sandersville, Ga., 298
Sandford, Moses, 101-2, 181
Sands, Frank, 210, 229-30, 281-82
Sands & Harvey, 286
Sangamon River, 156
Sanitary Commission, U.S., 178
Sanitary Fair, 345
Saunders, George N., 268-69
Savannah, Ga., 3, 76, 323, 329, 371-73
Savannah River, 278, 280-81
“Savior of Our Country, The,” 255-56
Scaife’s Ferry, 250
Schofield, John M., 14
Scott, Winfield, 141, 191
secession, 50-51, 363
legal status of, 355, 356
Selden & Co., 63
Selma, Ala., 67, 77
Semple, James A., 89
Senate, U.S., 115, 149, 151, 167, 170
Davis in, 49-50, 369
Lincoln in, 48, 53
Seven Pines, battle of, 341
Seward, Frances Adeline Miller, 115, 391
Seward, Frederick, 110, 115, 147
Seward, William H., 19, 73, 78, 170
attack on, 110-11, 114-15, 119, 121, 144, 147, 196, 268, 276, 287, 391
Shakespeare, William, 34, 52, 60, 174, 226
Sheridan, Philip H., 28, 75
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 14, 17-18, 182, 212, 289, 329
Davis conspiracy theory of, 365-66
Johnston’s surrender to, 238, 256, 365
Shiloh, battle of, 9, 312
Shubrick, William B., 151
Simpson, Matthew, 184, 189, 282-84
Sing Sing, N.Y., 232, 233
slavery, 100, 258-59, 356, 357, 367, 382, 388, 401
Brown’s raid and opposition to, xi-xii
in Confederacy, 3
Davis and, 49, 60-61, 357, 367, 401
expansion of, 52, 54
Lincoln’s opposition to, xii, 52-54, 60-61, 333-34
U.S. Constitution and, 53
smallpox, 262-63
Smith, Anna Davis, 56
Smith, Gerrit, 356
Smith, Kirby, 14
Smithsonian Institution, 49, 124
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 400
Snow, Parker, 229
Soldiers’ Home, 93
South, 276
agricultural empire of the, 2
Brown as seen in, xii
Davis as spokesman for, 50
feeling of superiority in, 322
impact of Lincoln’s death on, 196
Johnson and, 121, 196, 199-200
postwar, 361
reconstruction of, 92
Union army as seen by, xiv, 322
South Carolina, 238, 245, 250, 252, 257, 268, 297
secession by, 98-99
Southern Express Company, 195
Southern Historical Society, 361
Southern Historical Society Papers, 363
Speed, James, 157, 207
Speed, Phillip, 157
Spotswood Hotel, 356
Springfield, Ill., 27, 59, 143, 145, 153, 155, 161, 163, 199, 201-2, 213, 247, 293, 295, 331, 391
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in, 392-93
Lincoln’s burial in, 271-78, 275, 283, 287, 389
Springfield (Mass.) Republican, 340
Stanton, Edwin M., 79, 92, 130, 136, 170, 180, 313
arrests ordered by, 240
Booth manhunt and, 111, 147, 204, 244, 268, 296
on Davis capture, 330-32
Davis’s captivity and, 339, 341, 352, 354
Davis suspected of assassination involvement by, 276, 287, 297, 320, 326
and fall of Richmond, 17, 18, 20, 34-36
Grand Review and, 331
Lincoln corpse photograph and, 234-37, 239-41, 248
Lincoln’s corpse and, 138-40, 379-80
Lincoln’s funeral and, 140-42, 184-85, 189
Lincoln’s funeral train and, 154-58, 199, 200-204, 207-9, 217, 219, 225, 246, 274, 277
at Petersen house, 113, 120-21
post-funeral planning by, 143, 151, 153
on Seward attack and Lincoln assassination, 110-11
women’s clothes rumor propagated by, 324, 327-29, 344
State Department, U.S., 110
states’ rights, 363
Stephens, Alexander, 47
Stevens, Thaddeus, 220
Stevenson, Job E., 258-59, 284
Stone, Robert King, 109, 117, 133, 135-36, 169
Stoneman, George, 88
Confederate gold rumor and, 244-45
Strong, George Templeton, 328
Stuart, J. E. B., 2
Sulivane, Clement, 8, 20, 31
Sumner, Charles, 114-15
Supreme Court, U.S., 52, 62, 171
Surratt, Mary, 341, 344
Sutherlin, William T., 37-38
Swan, Otis D., 157
Swancey’s Ferry, S.C., 256
Swanson, Claude A., 387
Syracuse, N.Y., 242
Taft, Charles Sabin, 106-7, 108-9, 120, 124, 126-27, 133, 135
Taft, William Howard, 398
Taltavul’s Star Saloon, 96, 102
Tanner, James, 126
Taylor, Sarah Knox, 55-56, 58, 175, 357, 366, 376-77
Taylor, Zachary, 9, 50, 55, 142, 188
telegraph, 18-19, 20
Texas, 14, 33, 80, 247
as possible new Confederate center, 197, 219, 279, 299, 317
T. Gurney & Son, 239-40
Thomas, D. C., 126
Thomas, George, Confederate gold rumor and, 244-45
Thomas, Lorenzo, 141
Thomas, William B., 157
Thompson, Jacob, 268-69
Tifton, Ga., 398-99, 399
Tillson, Davis, 245
torpedo general, 85-87
Townsend, Edward D., 141, 203, 352
Lincoln corpse photograph and, 230, 234-38, 248
Lincoln’s funeral train and, 201-3, 209, 213-19, 225, 232-33, 243, 245-46, 248-50, 253, 255, 261-62, 271, 274-77, 294
Townsend, George Alfred, 145-46, 185-87, 192-93, 198
on cleaning out of Lincoln’s office, 324-26
Treasury Department, U.S., 93, 108, 141-42, 150, 151, 156, 158, 187, 192, 287, 336-37
Tredegar Iron Works, 11, 401
Trenholm, George, 9, 32, 33, 38
Tucker, Beverly, 268-69, 314
Tuscarora, 330
Tyger River, 250
Tyler, E. B., 214
Ulke, Henry, 128-30
Ulke, Julius, 128-30
Union Army, 82, 87, 92, 182, 213-14, 275, 289, 356
approach to Richmond by, 5, 13-14, 18-21, 26, 30, 31
cavalry of, 88, 194, 244-45, 278-79, 299-302, 304-18
Davis honored by, 321-22
Grand Review of, 329-30, 331, 333, 336-37
Lincoln’s popularity with, 75-76
prisoners from, 46, 344
in Richmond, 44
as seen by South, xiv
as threat to Davis, 200
see also Army, U.S.
Union League Association, 220
Union League Club, 157
Union Pacific Railroad, 391
United Confederate Veterans, 386
United Daughters of the Confederacy, 386, 399
United States Military Railroad, 27, 208-9, 277, 331, 382
Urbana, Ohio, 259
U.S. Army Medical Museum, 136, 137, 395
U.S. Arsenal, tragedy at, 177-81, 342
Usher, John P., 117
Valentine, Edward, 386
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 356
Vicksburg, battle of, 112
Vicksburg, Miss., 3, 76, 123, 156, 248
Vignodi, Professor, 344
Vincent, Thomas, 116
Virginia, 40-41, 95, 121, 194, 206, 297, 317, 401
aristocracy of, 3
as Confederacy’s principal state, 37, 70, 82
Walker, J. M., 83
Wallace, Lew, 215, 240
War Department, Confederate, 288
War Department, U.S., 18, 35, 101, 150, 152, 154, 181, 190, 235, 239-41, 249, 296, 297, 330, 341, 344, 350, 352, 380
War of 1812, 132, 141
Washington, D.C., 1-2, 16, 18, 19, 27, 48, 73, 75, 77, 78, 90, 100, 119, 121, 123, 126, 130, 141, 152-53, 155, 167, 173,
Washington, D.C. (cont’d) 178, 199, 203, 209, 213, 214, 234, 237, 239, 242, 271, 273, 275, 276, 277, 281, 287, 295, 296, 331, 358, 361, 371, 383, 391, 393
antebellum, 352
boardinghouse culture in, 98
Davis’s capture and, 318-19, 321, 323-24, 326

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