Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (185 page)

Hahn, Michael,
707
–8

Hale, John P.,
67
n

Halleck, Henry W.,
826

   commander of western department,
313
,
367
,
394
,
498

   on political generals,
328

   military scholar,
331
,
394

   and attack on Fort Henry,
395

   and Fort Donelson,
397
,
402
,
406

   Corinth campaign,
415
–17,
488

   named general in chief,
488
,
502
,
524

   western strategy after Corinth,
511
–13

   prods Buell,
518
–19,
522

   and McClellan,
525

   and 2nd Bull Run,
528

   Antietam campaign,
536

   on emancipation,
559

   prods McClellan,
568

   McClellan wants removed,
569

   and pontoons at Fredericks-burg,
570

   and McClernand,
577

   and Grant's "Jew order,"
622
–23

   and Vicksburg campaign,
633

   prods and reinforces Rosecrans,
670
,
675

   becomes chief of staff,
718

   and removal of Sigel,
724

   and the Crater,
760

   Sherman's march to the sea,
808

Halstead, Murat,
214

Hamilton, Alexander,
433

Hamlin, Hannibal,
220
,
574
,
717

Hammond, James H.: sectional champion,
57

   and rural values,
98

   on Lecompton,
166

   King Cotton and mudsill speech,
196
,
383

Hammond, William,
482
,
483
,
484

Hampton, Wade,
318
,
341
–42,
739
,
828

Hampton Roads peace conference,
822
–24,
838
,
851

Hancock, Winfield Scott: in Mexican War,
5

   at Gettysburg,
655
,
660
,
663

   at Spotsylvania,
728
–30

   at Cold Harbor,
735

   on Petersburg front,
759

Hardee, William J.,
583
,
828
,
829

Harper's Ferry: John Brown raid,
201
–6

   Virginia militia seizes,
279
,
319

   capture of by Jackson in 1862,
536
–38,
544

Harrison, William Henry,
218

Hartford, U.S.S.
, Farragut's flagship,
420

   at Mobile Bay,
761

Hatteras Inlet, Union capture of,
370
,
372
,
376

Haupt, Herman,
527
,
532

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
36

Hay, John,
675
,
766

Helper, Hinton Rowan,
199
–200,
242

Henry, Judith,
341

Heroes of America,,
613
,
695
–96,
698

Hickok, "Wild Bill,"
404

Hicks, Thomas,
285
,
287

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth: attempted rescue of Burns,
119
–20

   and John Brown,
204
,
207
–8

   commands black regiment,
564
–65

Hill, Ambrose Powell,
276

   and Seven Days' battles,
464
,
466
–67,
469

   Cedar Mountain,
525
–26

   at Antietam,
544

   gains corps command,
648

   at Gettysburg,
653
–54,
656
–57,
661

   breaks down in Wilderness campaign,
734

Hill, Benjamin H.,
229

Hill, Daniel Harvey,
276

   and Malvern Hill,
470

   on Gaines' Mill,
476

   battle of South Mountain,
537

   and Antietam,
541

Hindman, Thomas C.,
668

Hines, Thomas C.,
763
–64,
765

Holcome, James,
766
–67

Holden, William W., peace advocate and gubernatorial candidate,
695
–98,
767

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.,
541
,
590
,
734

   and Lincoln, at Fort Stevens,
757

Holt, Joseph,
266
,
782
–83

Holt, Michael,
225

Holt, R. S.,
229

Homestead Act: defeated by South,
126
,
189
,
193
–94,
195

   endorsed by Republican platform,
220
,
225

   passed during war,
450
–51

Hood, John Bell,
276

   at Gaines' Mill,
467

   at Chickamauga,
672
,
674

   in Atlanta campaign,
745
,
747

   named to command army,
752
–53

   battles around Atlanta,
754
–55

   evacuation of Atlanta,
774
,
809

   attacks Sherman's supply line,
807
–8

   invades Tennessee,
809
,
811

   battle of Franklin,
812
–13

   and Nashville,
813
–15

   army scattered,
828

Hooker, Joseph: in Mexican War,
5

   at Antie-tam,
541

   and ambition for top command,
584
,
585

   and Chancellorsville,
639
–45,
650
,
669
,
724

   and Gettysburg campaign,
646
,
647
,
649

   replaced by Meade,
651
–52

   goes to Chattanooga,
675
–76

   battle of Lookout Mountain,
677
–78

   evaluation of,
857

Hooper, Samuel,
446
,
594

Hotchkiss, Jedediah,
456

Hotze, Henry,
548
,
549
,
651

Howard, Oliver O.: at 1st Bull Run,
341

   at Chancellorsville,
641
–42

   at Gettysburg,
654

   named commander of Army of the Tennessee,
754

Howe, Elias,
19

Howe, Samuel Gridley,
204
,
207

Howells, William Dean,
210

Huger, Benjamin,
468

Hughes, John,
132
–33,
507

Hunley, Horace, and
C.S.S. Hunley
,
314

Hunt, Henry J.,
662

Hunter, David: emancipation edict revoked by Lincoln,
499
,
503

   Shenandoah Valley campaign of,
737
–39,
756
,
758

Hunter, Robert M. T.,
56

   and slavery in Kansas,
122
,
145

   favors Davis for C.S.A. president,
259

   at Hampton Roads peace conference,
822
–24

Huse, Caleb,
320

Imboden, John D.,
501

Immigrants and immigration: and nativism,
7
,
22
,
32
–33,
130
–35

   and population growth,
9
–10,
23

   politics of,
30
–32,
136

   underre-presentation of, in Union army,
606
–7

impressment of supplies in South,
616
–17,
693
,
696

Indians: victims of U.S. expansion,
6
,
45
–46,
48

   Indian regiments in Civil War,
404
–5,
668

Inflation: in Confederacy,
438
–40,
447

   and Confederate shortages,
440
–42

   in Union,
447
–50

   food shortages and,
612
–13,
615

Irish Americans: and nativism,
7
,
32
–33,
131
,
138
,
139
,
141