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and mourning drapery,
83
,
85
,
148

in New York,
29
,
84
,
86
,
96
–97,
125
,
148

in New York State,
83
,
85
,
87
,
89
,
126
,
129
,
162

in Philadelphia,
84
,
87

and racism,
82
,
84
–85

in Richmond,
162

in Washington, D.C.,
81
,
86
–87,
88
,
90
,
122

women,
85
.
See also
anger; fear; glee; hatred; rumors; silence; violence

Cormany, Rachel,
37
,
173

Cornwall, Em,
85
,
147

Craig, John,
162

crape,
299
n33.
See also
mourning drapery

Crawford, Martha,
204
,
249
,
270

Cronkite, Walter,
8

Cuba,
249

Cumming, Kate,
215
–16,
221

Dall, Caroline,
52
–53,
54
,
60
,
85
,
147
,
172

Danville, Ill.,
164
,
224

Dargan, Clara,
78
,
96

Darling, Thomas,
148

Davis, Alfred,
195
–96

Davis, Emilie,
28
,
128
,
155
,
156
,
179
,
182
,
195
–96

Davis, Jefferson,
80
,
216

and assassination,
117
,
131
,
132
,
168
,
174
,
224
,
228
,
263

and Confederate defeat,
25
,
26
,
33
,
34
,
97
,
116
,
158

and Copperheads,
89
,
162

disguised in wife’s clothing,
210
,
225
–26,
226
,
227
,
262

escape and capture,
210
–11,
212
,
224
–28

as martyr,
211
,
228

and newspapers,
212
,
225

pardon of,
267

as traitor,
262

Davis, Varina,
225

Day, William Howard,
261

death: and African Americans,
195
–96

after Appomattox,
37

after assassination,
196
–97

Civil War toll,
73
,
189
,
192
,
193
,
203
,
250
,
331
n1

and Confederates,
203
–4,
205
,
214
,
250

ideal vision of,
197
,
208

and Lincoln as last casualty of Civil War,
196

of loved ones,
16
,
185
,
190
–205,
198
,
206
–8,
332
n11.
See also
God, will of; grief; mourning; newspapers; sermons; shock; “why” question

Declaration of Independence,
261
,
262

Dedham, Mass.,
173

Delany, Martin,
39
,
113
–14

Delaware,
33
,
66
,
148
,
167
,
264
.
See also
border states;
specific locations

Democratic Party,
82
,
83
,
85
,
148
,
206
,
214
,
215
,
242
,
268
,
269
,
272
.
See also
Copperheads

Detroit,
30

diary-keeping,
59
,
174
,
276
–77

Dinsmore, Edgar,
99
,
109
,
180
–81,
225
,
226
,
260

disfranchisement, African American,
270
,
271
,
274

Dorman, Orloff,
19
,
278

Dorman, Rodney,
277

and abolitionists,
16
,
20
,
118
,
212
,
234
,
270

and African Americans,
16
,
24
,
71
–72,
118
,
170
,
211
–12,
219
,
235
,
236
,
268
,
270

and Albert and Sarah Browne,
20
–21

and assassination,
12
,
70
–72,
73
,
77
,
78
,
94
–95,
96
,
118
,
124
,
140
,
142
,
189
,
259
,
263

background,
12
–13,
16
–21

and Civil War deaths,
73
,
189
–90,
203

and Confederate defeat,
24
–25,
32
,
71
,
82
,
166
,
184
,
211
,
212
,
235
–36

and Davis,
212

diary of,
20
,
268
,
270
,
277
,
278
,
350
–51n3

and everyday life,
169
–70

and Johnson,
141
,
234
,
240

and Ku Klux Klan,
267
-68

and Lincoln,
20
,
24
,
71
,
77
,
140
,
141
–42,
234

and oath of allegiance,
18
,
19
,
235

and peace,
236
,
255

and postwar nation,
214
,
236
,
259
–60,
268
,
269
,
270

and religion,
70
,
71
,
94
–95,
96
,
97
,
114

and Sherman-Johnston negotiations,
141
,
158

and slavery,
16
,
78
,
118
,
170
,
212
,
235
,
236
,
248

travels north,
268
,
270

Douglass, Frederick,
28
,
276

and Lincoln’s April 11 speech,
273

and assassination,
99
,
100
,
272
–73,
274

and Fourth of July,
261
–62

and Lincoln,
91
,
246
,
272
–73,
350
n33

optimism of,
108
,
113
,
273

pessimism of,
36
,
105
,
217
,
218
–19,
245
,
251
,
264
,
272
–74,
345
n35,
347
n4

and second inaugural address,
272
–73

and slavery,
25
,
108
,
217
,
218
–19,
245
,
251

and white southerners,
135
,
250

Downing, John,
206

draft,
83
,
162
–63

Drayton, Carrie,
180
–81

Dred Scott v. Sandford
,
219

Dreer, Mary,
295
n13

Du Barry, Helen,
176
,
206

Dudley, Annie,
26
,
45

Dunstan, Caroline,
36
,
125

Easter Sunday,
43
,
91
,
99
,
113
,
119
,
120
,
129
,
153
,
172
,
178
,
180
,
197
,
199
,
200
,
201
,
206
,
223

and African Americans,
99

in Confederacy,
97

in Union,
97
–99,
101
–3,
105
,
106
,
107
,
112
,
129
,
131
,
134
,
136
,
146
–47,
202
,
251
.
See also
sermons

Eckert, Thomas,
1

Edmunds, Amanda,
29
,
79
,
266

education: for African Americans,
218
,
235
,
236
,
250
,
267
,
272

for poor white southerners,
135

Edwards, Abial,
197
,
244

Edwards, Ann,
274

Egypt,
55
–56,
124
,
159

election of 1860,
15

election of 1864,
83
,
215

election of 1876,
268

election of 1884,
272

Eleventh U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery,
113

Elliot, Mary,
179

Ellis, George,
101

Ellis, William,
77

emancipation,
28
,
32
,
62
,
91
,
129
,
137
,
138
,
183
,
184
,
196
,
213
,
217
–18,
219
,
237
,
244
,
272
–73.
See also
Emancipation Proclamation; freedom: African American

Emancipation Proclamation,
11
,
17
,
48
,
66
,
71
,
83
,
110
,
111
,
146
,
148
,
162
,
218
,
231
,
262

Emerson, Mary,
98

emotion.
See
anger; faces; fear; glee; grief; hatred; horror; indignation; men; shock; women

Engels, Friedrich,
222

England,
44
,
59
,
92
,
101
,
124
,
125
,
154
,
199
,
242
–43,
250
.
See also
British Empire; Great Britain;
specific locations

Europe,
93
,
177
,
232
,
249
.
See also specific countries

everyday life: and African Americans,
182

and assassination,
165
,
166
–88

and Confederate defeat,
182
–85

and children,
175
,
177
,
186
–88,
246

and death of loved ones,
194
–95

and Union victory,
36
–38,
170
–71.
See also
men; women

evil, theological problem of,
95
,
101
–3,
105
,
106

Ewell, Richard,
132

eyewitnesses to assassination,
48
–49,
63
,
69
,
129
,
115
,
129
,
131
,
170
,
176
,
206
.
See also
Downing, John; Du Barry, Helen; Harris, Clara; Rathbone, Henry; Sawyer, Frederick; Shepard, Julia

faces: and Confederate responses,
29
,
76
,
148
,
248

and emotion,
100
,
142
,
153
,
155

and mourners’ responses,
5
,
6
,
7
,
46
,
54
,
56
,
59
,
62
,
63
,
69
,
98
,
100
,
142
,
153
,
155

Fairview, Pa.,
150
,
151

fear, as response to assassination,
11

of African Americans,
12
,
66
,
213
,
222
,
239
–40,
241
,
245
,
247
,
274

of Confederates,
74
,
75
,
76
,
77
,
79
,
183
,
214
,
215
,
247

of Copperheads,
29
,
83

of Unionists,
216

of white mourners,
66
,
177
,
224
.
See also
anarchy, fear of

Fernandina, Fla.,
24
,
148

Ferris, Anna,
33
,
35
,
66
,
104
,
109
–10,
136
,
148
,
152
,
155
,
220
,
264
–65

Fifteenth Amendment,
267

Fifteenth New Jersey regiment,
83
–84

Fifth Article of War,
88

Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts regiment,
15
,
57
–58

Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts regiment,
15
,
18
–19,
99
,
109
,
121
,
180
–81,
190
,
225
,
258
,
260

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