Read Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Online
Authors: James M. McPherson
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at Five Forks,
845
Pierce, Franklin,
179
n
and Cuba,
107
–10
election of,
118
–19
and Anthony Burns,
119
–20
and Kansas-Nebraska Act,
122
–23
vetoes by,
155
and corruption,
225
Pierpont, Francis,
298
Pike, Zebulon,
45
Pillow, Gideon,
400
–401
Pinkerton, Allan,
361
n
Pittsburg Landing, battle of,
see
Shiloh
Pleasant Hill, battle of,
723
Pleasants, Henry,
758
–59
Polk, James K.,
64
and slavery expansion issue,
51
–52,
54
,
58
,
65
and Oregon,
53
and acquisition of Cuba,
104
Polk, Leonidas: occupies Kentucky,
296
,
393
and battle of Perryville,
519
–20
dislike of Bragg,
583
in Atlanta campaign,
747
killed,
748
Pollard, Edward A.,
115
Pomeroy, Samuel C.,
714
Pook, Samuel,
393
Pope, John: western campaigns of,
402
,
415
,
416
,
488
transferred to Virginia,
488
unpopular orders there,
501
,
524
and 2nd Bull Run,
525
–33
evaluation of,
857
Popular sovereignty: origins of,
58
–59,
62
,
63
and Compromise of 1850,
76
and Kansas-Nebraska Act,
123
–24,
128
and Dred Scott case,
176
,
177
–78
and Freeport doctrine,
183
–84
Populist movement,
453
Port Gibson, battle of,
629
Port Hudson, Union capture of,
637
–38,
668
,
683
,
703
,
769
Port Republic, battle of,
458
,
460
Port Royal, battle of,
371
Porter, David Dixon: in Vicksburg campaign,
586
–88,
627
and battle of Fort Fisher,
820
escorts Lincoln to Richmond,
846
Porter, Fitz-John: in Seven Days' battles,
463
–67,
470
and John Pope,
524
at 2nd Bull Run,
528
–29,
531
,
533
cashiered,
529
and n
at Antietam,
543
–44
on Emancipation Proclamation,
559
Prairie Grove, battle of,
668
Prentiss, Benjamin M,
408
–10
Price, Sterling: commander of Missouri rebel militia,
291
–92
at Wilson's Creek,
350
–51
capture of Lexington,
352
retreats,
353
–54
at Pea Ridge,
404
battles of Iuka and Corinth,
515
,
516
,
522
–23,
534
in Arkansas,
668
invasion of Missouri in 1864,
784
,
786
–88
Prigg v
.
Pennsylvania
,
78
–79
Prisoners of war, exchange cartel,
791
breakdown of, over issue of Confederate refusal to exchange black prisoners,
566
–67,
650
,
792
–93,
798
–800
Confederate treatment of black captives,
793
–96
conditions in prisons,
796
–98
controversies about,
800
–802
mortality of prisoners,
802
and n.
See also
An-dersonville prison
Proslavery argument,
56
–57
response to
Uncle Tom's Cabin
,
90
and wage slavery theme,
98
–99
mudsill theme,
196
–98
Pryor, Roger,
273
Quantrill, William,
292
,
784
,
785
Lawrence massacre,
786
death of,
788
Quitman, John, and filibustering,
105
,
106
,
108
–10
Radical Democratic party,
716
Railroads: and antebellum economic growth,
12
–13,
22
,
29
,
31
,
189
and Kansas-Nebraska Act,
121
–22
issue of transcontinental r.r.,
189
,
193
–94,
220
,
225
,
450
–52
strategic importance of in war,
287
,
294
,
299
,
512
,
516
Confederate deficiencies,
318
–19
vulnerability to guerrilla and cavalry raids,
512
–15
northern military construction of,
514
–15,
527
deterioration in South,
619
rail transfer of Longstreet's divisions to Georgia,
671
rail transfer of 11th and 12th Corps to Chattanooga,
675
construction of transcontinental r.r. begins,
818
Rains, George W.,
320
and n
Rawlins, John A.,
588
Raymond (Miss.), battle of,
630
Read, Thomas B.,
780
Reagan, John,
647
Rebel yell,
344
Reconstruction: Lincoln's 1863 proclamation of amnesty and,
698
–99
and conflict between Lincoln and radicals,
700
–702,
717
experiment in Louisiana,
703
–9,
712
Lincoln vetoes,
712
–13
his willingness to compromise with Congress,
843
–44
Lincoln's last speech on,
851
–52
Rector, Henry,
282
Red River campaign,
722
–23
Reeder, Andrew,
146
–47
Religion: and nativism,
7
,
32
–33,
135
and education,
20
–21
and 1857 Panic,
191
.
See also
Catholics Second Great Awakening
Republican party: and free-labor ideology,
27
–28
and internal improvements,
29
on polygamy,
45
and nativism,
137
–43,
154
–55,
221
and Kansas,
149
–53
and black rights,
159
–60,
224
–25,
227
and slavery during Civil War,
494
,
699
as war party,
690
historic achievement of 13th Amendment,
839
–40.
See also
Elections
entries
Slavery in the territories
Resaca, battle of,
744
–45
Revere, Paul,
316
Reynolds, John,
653
–54
Rhett, Robert Barnwell,
257
,
258
,
835
Richardson, William A.,
121
–22
Richmond: martial law in,
434
bread riot of 1863 in,
617
–18
fall of,
846
–47
Richmond
Examiner:
on 1860 election,
232
on Lee in western Virginia,
302
–3,
462
urges offensive military strategy,
337
supports martial law,
434
denounces "extortion,"
441
on trading with enemy,
621
on Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania,
648