Read Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Online
Authors: James M. McPherson
Tags: #General, #History, #United States, #Civil War Period (1850-1877), #United States - History - Civil War; 1861-1865, #United States - History - Civil War; 1861-1865 - Campaigns
Trade between the lines during war,
620
–25
Transportation: and economic growth,
11
–13,
22
,
29
and southern economy,
91
–95.
See also
Railroads
Tredegar Iron Works (Richmond),
97
,
280
,
319
,
320
,
818
Trent:
and diplomatic crisis,
367
,
389
–91,
555
financial impact of,
444
Trevilian Station, battle of,
739
Trimble, Isaac,
655
n
Trumbull, Lyman: elected senator,
130
,
218
on black rights,
159
on McClellan,
362
and confiscation act,
500
on midwestern racism,
507
–8
Tupelo, battle of,
749
Tyler, John,
257
Uncle Tom's Cabin
,
38
,
88
–91,
124
Underground railroad,
79
–80,
83
,
85
Uniforms, army, variety of, in 1861, and mix-ups,
318
,
324
,
342
,
344
,
351
,
544
United States Military Rail Roads,
514
–15,
527
United States Sanitary Commission,
742
formation of,
323
women and,
480
influence and achievements,
481
–85
investigates war prisons,
797
Upton, Emory,
729
Vallandigham, Clement L.,
803
and Northwest Confederacy,
593
candidate for governor,
598
,
684
–85,
688
peace sentiments in 1864,
761
–62
confers with rebel agents,
764
returns to U.S.,
765
role at Democratic convention,
771
–72
and McClellan,
775
–76
alleged intrigues with rebel agents,
782
,
783
Van Buren, Martin: and slavery expansion,
53
,
55
Free Soil nominee in 1848,
60
–63
Van Dorn, Earl: and Pea Ridge,
404
–5
at Corinth,
416
defense of Vicksburg,
421
attack on Baton Rouge,
422
declares martial law,
435
Mississippi command of,
515
,
516
,
534
,
668
battle of Corinth,
522
–23
and trade with enemy,
622
Vance, Zebulon: opposes conscription,
431
and home-front economic distress,
613
,
615
denounces impressment,
616
loyal opposition of,
695
–97
Vicksburg: defies first Union attacks,
420
–22,
488
,
511
,
512
plans for defense of,
576
–77
failure of Grant's first campaign against,
577
–79
maneuvers against in winter 1863,
586
–88,
592
,
593
,
625
,
626
and Grant's spring 1863 campaign,
627
–36,
645
,
740
surrender of,
637
–38
consequences of,
664
–65,
668
,
682
,
683
,
684
,
685
,
691
,
831
,
858
Virginia, C.S.S
.,
421
rebuilt from
U.S.S. Merrimack
,
280
,
314
,
373
–74
attacks Union fleet at Hampton Roads,
375
,
417
fight with
Monitor
,
376
–77
scuttled,
427
Virginia Military Institute: graduates of, in Confederate army,
528
cadets at New Market,
724
Hunter burns,
738
antislavery Whig,
87
in secession crisis,
252
chairman of Committee on Conduct of War,
362
and Wade-Davis bill,
706
,
708
,
712
,
843
response to Lincoln's veto,
713
,
717
on Chase,
714
Wages: antebellum,
10
–11,
14
,
22
–23
and "wage slavery,"
24
–25
and free-labor ideology,
27
–29
inflation and, in Confederacy,
440
inflation and, in Union,
448
–50
Walker, Robert J., and Lecompton constitution,
163
–66
Walker, William, and filibustering,
110
–16
Wall, James,
436
Wallace, Lewis,
328
and Shiloh,
407
–10
Wanderer
, illegal slaver,
103
War Democrats, and slavery,
506
Warren, Gouverneur K.,
659
,
742
,
845
Washburn, Cadwallader,
588
Washington, George,
187
,
206
,
274
,
280
,
337
,
718
Washington Peace Convention of 1861,
256
–57
and Compromise of 1850,
70
–72,
74
and fugitive slave law,
83
Weed, Thurlow: in 1856 election,
154
,
155
and secession,
253
on peace sentiment in 1864,
761
Weld, Theodore,
38
Welles, Gideon: on slavery expansion,
53
and
Monitor
,
374
–76
and Emancipation Proclamation,
504
on Antietam,
545
on Gettysburg,
652
on retaliation for Fort Pillow massacre,
794
West Virginia: creation of, political moves,
297
–99,
303
–4
military actions in,
299
–303,
336
admitted as state,
304
Westward movement: and American growth,
6
and economic opportunity,
22
,
41
–43
slavery issue and,
41
and Mormons,
43
–45
and Indians,
45
–46
Wheeler, Joseph: and battle of Stones River,
579
raids on Sherman's railroads,
749
,
808
and Sherman's march to the sea,
809
,
810
and Sherman's march through Carolinas,
828
Whig party, and Whigs: and Mexican War,
4
,
47
–51,
59
economic philosophy of,
27
–29,
193
constituency of,
30
–31
and Manifest Destiny,
48
–49