The Man Who Saved the Union (116 page)

Perry, Raymond

Petersburg, siege of:

     
evacuation of Richmond in

     fall of Fort Fisher and,
47.1
,
47.2

     
final Union offensive in

     
Grant-Lincoln correspondence and,
48.1

     
Grant-Sherman-Sheridan meeting in

Phillips, Wendell,
52.1
,
53.1

Pickett, George Edward,
33.1
,
49.1

Pickett, LaSalle Corbell

Pierce, Franklin,
5.1
,
9.1
,
70.1

Pierrepont, Edwards,
65.1
,
71.1
,
76.1
,
79.1
,
80.1
,
83.1

Pike, Corporal

Pillow, Gideon J.,
22.1
,
22.2

Pinkerton, Allan

Plessy, Homer

Plunkitt, George Washington

Polk, James,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
15.1

     
Lincoln’s criticism of

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Pope, John,
19.1
,
19.2
,
27.1
,
27.2
,
65.1
,
84.1

Porter, Captain

Porter, David,
29.1
,
30.1
,
30.2
,
30.3
,
30.4
,
30.5
,
31.1
,
31.2
,
32.1
,
42.1
,
47.1
,
87.1

Porter, Fitz John,
84.1
,
87.1

Porter, Horace,
39.1
,
40.1
,
41.1
,
44.1
,
48.1
,
48.2
,
59.1
,
70.1

Port Gibson, Battle of

Port Hudson,
34.1
,
35.1

Pottawatamie massacre

Prentiss, Benjamin,
24.1
,
24.2
,
31.1

     
Grant’s rank dispute with

Price, Sterling,
20.1
,
28.1
,
28.2
,
28.3

“Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The” (Twain)

Prussia

Pulitzer, Joseph

Quakers (Society of Friends)

Quinby, Isaac

Radical Republicans,
52.1
,
52.2
,
52.3
,
53.1
,
53.2
,
54.1
,
56.1
,
58.1
,
58.2
,
62.1

     
1866 election and

     reconstruction and,
51.1
,
52.1
,
52.2
,
53.1
,
56.1
,
56.2

railroads,
1.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
11.1
,
32.1
,
69.1
,
80.1

     
labor strike of 1877 and

     
panic of 1873 and

     
scandals and

     transcontinental,
see
transcontinental railroad

Randolph, B. F.

Rawlins, John,
15.1
,
22.1
,
30.1
,
33.1
,
36.1
,
39.1
,
42.1
,
56.1
,
58.1
,
60.1

     death of,
60.1
,
60.2

     
Grant’s relationship with

Rawlins, Mary

Raymond, Battle of

reconstruction/Reconstruction,
35.1
,
58.1
,
78.1
,
79.1

     amnesty question and,
51.1
,
51.2
,
53.1

     
black citizenship issue in

     
black codes and

     
civil rights bill of 1866 and

     
former slaves and

     
Grant’s tour of South and

     
Johnson’s policy for

     Lincoln’s assassination and,
50.1
,
50.2

     
Lincoln’s policy for

     in Louisiana,
35.1
,
50.1

     
military rule in

     
modern view of

     Radical Republicans and,
51.1
,
52.1
,
52.2
,
53.1
,
56.1
,
56.2

     
restoration of Southern states and

     
Sherman on

     state constitutions and,
53.1
,
56.1

     suffrage and,
51.1
,
52.1

     violence and,
52.1
,
62.1

Reconstruction Act of 1867,
53.1
,
54.1
,
56.1
,
56.2
,
62.1

Red Cloud,
55.1
,
55.2
,
66.1
,
77.1
,
77.2

Redstone, Albert

Reid, Whitelaw

Republican National Convention:

     
of 1860

     
of 1868,
56.1
,
56.2

     
of 1872

     
of 1880

Republican Party,
15.1
,
27.1
,
44.1
,
52.1
,
53.1
,
53.2
,
54.1
,
58.1
,
60.1
,
62.1
,
63.1
,
65.1
,
65.2
,
71.1
,
72.1
,
79.1
,
80.1
,
80.2
,
81.1

     
anti-Johnson mission of

     capitalist vs. conscience wings of,
65.1
,
65.2
,
87.1

     
Conklin-Blaine feud in

     
enforcement acts and

     Johnson impeachment and,
54.1
,
54.2
,
54.3

     
Lincoln and

     
origin of

     
postwar economic recovery and

     
reconstruction and

     
see also
Radical Republicans
;
specific elections

Resaca, Battle of (1864)

Resaca de la Palma, Battle of (1846),
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Resumption Act of 1875

revolution of 1848

Reynolds, Joseph

Richardson, Alfred

Richardson, William,
69.1
,
76.1

Richmond & Danville Railroad

Richmond Dispatch

Richmond Examiner

Robeson, George,
71.1
,
76.1

Robinson, Mary,
2.1
,
2.2
,
10.1

Rosecrans, William,
28.1
,
36.1

     
Grant’s firing of

Rousseau, Lovell H.

Russia,
62.1
,
68.1
,
80.1

Rust, Albert

Ryan, W. A. C.

Ryukyu (Loochoo) Islands

St. Louis Democrat

Sampson, Henry

Sand Creek massacre

Sanford, John

Santa Anna, Antonio Lopéz de,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2

Sartoris, Algernon,
68.1
,
72.1
,
83.1

Sartoris, Edward John,
68.1
,
72.1

Schenk, Robert

Schofield, John M.,
43.1
,
56.1

Schurz, Carl,
56.1
,
63.1
,
65.1
,
65.2

     1872 election and,
65.1
,
65.2

     
at Gettysburg

     Grant criticized by,
63.1
,
65.1

     
Grant’s criticism of

Scott, Dred,
11.1
,
52.1

Scott, John

Scott, Thomas

Scott, Winfield,
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
8.1
,
14.1
,
15.1
,
16.1
,
17.1
,
18.1
,
21.1

     
“anaconda plan” of

     
Taylor contrasted with

secession crisis,
17.1
,
80.1
,
87.1

     Constitution and,
13.1
,
15.1

     
Fort Sumter crisis and

     
Grant on

     
Lincoln and

     
in St. Louis

     South Carolina and,
13.1
,
14.1
,
14.2

Second Corps, U.S.,
33.1
,
40.1

Sedan, Battle of

Sedgwick, John

Seminole Wars

Senate, Mexican

Senate, U.S.,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
14.1
,
58.1
,
65.1
,
70.1
,
85.1

     
Alabama
claims and

     Brooks’s attack on Sumner in,
9.1
,
51.1

     
Civil Rights Act of 1875 in

     Dominican annexation treaty in,
61.1
,
84.1

     
1866 election and

     
1874 election and

     Foreign Relations Committee of,
61.1
,
64.1

     
Grant’s campaign against Ku Klux Klan and

     
Johnson’s impeachment in

     
Judiciary Committee of

     
Kansas-Nebraska Act in,
9.1

     
slavery issue in

     
Stanton’s suspension in

     
Wilmot Proviso in

     
see also
Congress, U.S.
;
House of Representatives, U.S.

Seven Days’ battles

Seventh Cavalry, U.S.

Seward, William,
13.1
,
18.1
,
38.1
,
42.1

     
attempted assassination of

     
co-presidency proposal of

     
Emancipation Proclamation and

     
Fort Sumter crisis and

     
purchase of Alaska and

Seymour, Horatio,
56.1
,
56.2
,
56.3

Sheets, Lewis

Shenandoah Valley campaign,
44.1
,
45.1
,
47.1

Sheridan, Philip,
prl.1
,
36.1
,
41.1
,
44.1
,
48.1
,
48.2
,
50.1
,
53.1
,
53.2
,
54.1
,
77.1
,
79.1
,
79.2
,
79.3
,
80.1
,
80.2
,
84.1
,
87.1