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———.
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———.
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———.
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Civil War History
(March 1981): 64–81.

Harris, William C., “The Hampton Roads Peace Conference: A Final Test of Lincoln's Presidential Leadership,” 21
Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association
(2000): 31–61.

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Lincoln Herald
(Fall 2005): 106–17.

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The Journal of Southern History
(February 1963): 88–99.

———, “Lincoln's Solution to the Problem of Peace Terms, 1864–1865,” 34
The
Journal of Southern History
(November 1968): 576–86.

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Dred Scott
Decision,” 19
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(March 1933): 565–71.

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Westwood, Howard C., “Lincoln at the Hampton Roads Peace Conference,” 81
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(Winter 1979): 243–56.

———, “The Singing Wire Conspiracy,” 19
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I
NDEX

 

Entries are hyperlinked
Page numbers refer to the printed book

 

Abbeville, South Carolina
, 290

abolition
, 12
, 13
, 22
, 24
, 28
, 29
, 36
, 39
, 40
, 48
, 50
, 51
, 57
, 58
, 75
, 99
, 124
, 133
, 137
, 152
, 188
, 189
, 191
, 196
, 207
, 211
, 218
, 231
, 140
, 150
, 154
, 254

Adams, Charles Francis
, 9
, 222

Adams, Henry
, 14
, 14

Adams, John Quincy
, 65
, 195

“Address to the People of Virginia
,” 278

African Baptist Church
, 217–19
, 224
, 237

Alabama
, 30
, 42
, 290

Alaska
, 302

Alexandria, VA
, 282

amendment to abolish slavery
, 58
, 121
, 132–34
, 188
, 192
, 210
, 216
.
See also
Thirteenth Amendment

“Amnesty Proclamation of President Lincoln, The
,” 81

amnesty
, 13
, 78
, 81
, 198
, 216
, 275

Andrew, John Albion
, 10

armaments industry
, 72

armistice
, 82
, 113
, 130
, 149
, 150
, 151
, 198
, 227
, 266

Army of Northern Virginia
, xvii
, 48
, 242
, 257
, 263
, 275
, 276

Army of Tennessee
, xxiv
, 29
, 45

Army of the Potomac
, 76

Ashley, James M.
, 132
, 133

Atlanta, Georgia
, 29
, 30
, 69

Atlantic Monthly
,
13

Augusta, Georgia
, 48

 

Babcock, Orville
, 131
, 138–39
, 140
, 141
, 163
, 170

Baldwin, John B.
, 109
, 262

Baltimore
,
53

Barnwell, Robert Woodward
, 232–33

Bat
,
253

Bates, David
, 123

Beall, John Yates
, 250

Beauregard, Pierre
, 279

Beecher, Henry Ward
, 152–53
, 205
, 218

Benjamin, Judah
, xiii

Blair and
, 81

Davis and
, 115
, 116
, 276
, 280

early life of
, 111–12

peace commission and
, 114
, 206

post-war life of
, 299

Richmond departure and
, 256–57

Stephens and
, 158
, 197

war rally and
, 224

Benning, Henry
, 108

Bermuda Hundred
, 77

Blair House
, 20
, 22

Blair, Eliza
, 21
, 22
, 26
, 46
, 47

Blair, Francis Preston Sr.
, x
, 43
, 59
, 136
, 153

Davis and
, 46

Greeley and
, 41
, 45

life and family of
, 20–25

Lincoln and
, 47
, 223

peace efforts of
, 52–57
, 74–90
92–103
, 124
, 177
, 178
, 180

post-war life of
, 301

Blair, Francis Preston, Jr.
, 21–22

Blair, Frank
, 54
, 78

Blair, Lizzie.
See
Lee, Elizabeth Blair

Blair, Montgomery
, x
, 21
, 22
, 23
, 47
, 53
, 55
, 56
, 58
, 59
, 60
, 74
, 86
, 133
, 167

Blair, Preston.
See
Blair, Francis Preston Sr.

Booth, John Wilkes
, 281
, 288

Boston Evening Transcript
,
120
, 134

Boulwares Landing
, 77
, 90

Bradford, Augustus
, 151

Bragg, Braxton
, 3
, 90
, 290

Breckinridge, John C.
, xiii
, 25
, 26
, 27
, 98
, 108
, 223
, 234
, 243
, 261
, 280
, 289
, 290

Bridge, Cabin John
, 100

Britain
, 84
, 183
, 287

Bromwell
, 114
, 115

Brooks, James
, 227
, 228

Brooks, Noah
, 33
, 34
, 47
, 103
, 122
, 133
, 134
, 167
, 174
, 175
, 226

Browne, William
, 98

Browning, Orville Hickman
, x
, 36
, 48
, 73
, 74
, 102

 

cabinet, Lincoln's
, 18
, 23
, 37
, 52
, 69
, 83
, 93–94
, 96
, 106
, 168
, 204
, 212–13
, 221

Calhoun, John C.
, 20

Campbell, John A.
, xiii
, 72
, 73
, 98
, 100
, 106
, 138
, 161
, 165
, 166

Davis and
, 42
, 44
, 119
, 157
, 167
, 233
, 235
, 237
, 296

Johnson and
, 295

Kean and
, 237

Lee, Fitzhugh, and
, 235

life of
, 41–43
, 295–96

Lincoln and
, 240–41
, 65–66
, 269–70
, 271–72

peace commission and
, 86
, 108–9
, 110
, 112–14
, 116–117
, 119
, 121
, 130
, 141
, 144–45
, 148
, 155
, 166
, 173–74
, 176
, 180–82
, 184
, 185
, 188
, 190
, 195
, 197
, 199
, 207
, 209–11
, 216

peace efforts of
, 43
, 44
, 79
, 101
, 274

post-war life of
, 295–96

reunion and
, 251

Richmond capture and
, 257
, 259
, 261–62
, 265–66
, 269–70

surrender of
, 259

treason charge of
, 296

Virginia legislature and
, 284–85
, 275

on war status
, 223
, 242
, 243
, 291

Cary, Hetty
, 168–69
, 215

Central America
, 20
, 227

Chancellorsville
, 6

Charles I
, 190
, 191

Charleston Courier
,
63

Charleston, South Carolina
, 6
, 48

Chesnut, Mary
, 30
, 46
, 43
, 65
, 173–74
, 249

Chew, R. S.
, 151

Chickamauga
, 6

Christian abolition movement
, 152

City of New York
,
54
,
77

City Point
, 53
, 54
, 56
, 57
, 76
, 77
, 90
, 102
, 107
, 130
, 131
, 140
, 142
, 146
, 150
, 153
, 170
, 205
, 206
, 253–54
, 278

Clarke, E. W.
, 141

Clapp, Asa W. H.
, 61

Clay, Henry
, 65
, 173–74

Clinton
,
263

Cobb, Howell
, 97

Colfax
, 134

Collamer, Jacob
, 187

Colyar, Arthur S.
, xiii
, 109
, 110

Compromise of 1850
, 4
, 14
, 65

Cone, Judge
, 64

Confederacy
, 2
, 3
, 43
, 45
, 73
, 95
, 111
, 132

Blair and
, 76
, 84
, 89

debt of
, 4
, 119
, 241

dissolution of
, 208

independence of
, 6
, 13
, 73
, 82
, 101
, 111
, 113
, 116
, 209
, 222
, 250

peace commission and
, 107
, 108–17
, 130
, 140–54
, 155–71
, 172–199
, 204
, 206–9
, 210–11
, 216–17

Mexico and
, 181

race and
, 40
, 68
, 151

reconstruction of
, 10
, 36–37
, 105
, 115
, 165
, 184
, 242

Stephens and
, 65
, 66
, 67
.
See also
Rebels

Confederate Army
, 185
, 241

Confederate House of Representatives
, 73

Confederate peace commissioners
, 108–17
, 118–20
, 121
, 122–23
, 125–26
, 130
, 138–39
, 140–54
, 155–71
, 172–199
, 204
, 206–9
, 210–11
, 216–17

Confederate States of America
, 62

Confederates.
See
Rebels

Congress
, 65
, 67
, 72
, 73
, 79
, 88
, 95
, 97
, 100
, 110
, 174
, 183
, 189
, 190
, 192
, 194
, 196
, 210
, 213
, 216
, 226
, 240
, 248
, 266
, 282
, 285
, 286

Congress, Confederate
, 208
, 216
, 217
, 225
, 232
, 235
, 240
, 242
, 251–53
, 256

Conness, John
, 187

Copperheads.
See
Peace Democrats

“Cornerstone Speech, The
,” 68

courts
, 36
, 185
, 186
, 190
, 194

Cox, Samuel S. (“Sunset”)
, x
, 50
, 51
, 58
, 59
, 60
, 75
, 92
, 132
, 133
, 203
, 215
, 216
, 228
, 229

Curtis, Benjamin
, 44

Custer, George Armstrong
, 210

custom houses
, 185

 

Daily National Republican
,
33
, 34

Dana, Charles
, x
, 53–54
, 128
, 148
, 260
, 271–73
, 274
, 286

Danville, Virginia
, 249
, 256
, 276

Davis, Henry Winter
, 10

Davis, Jefferson
, xiv
, 2
, 3
, 4
, 5
, 6
, 7
, 79

abolition and
, 13

Alabama and
, 30

birth of
, 4

Blair, Montgomery, and
, 47

Blair, Preston
, 21
, 46–47
, 54–55
, 60
, 74
, 80–90
, 92–103
, 180

Campbell and
, 42
, 44
, 119
, 157
, 167
, 233
, 235
, 237
, 296

Confederacy dissolution and
, 235
, 236

Confederate army and
, 91
, 210

Confederate Congress and
, 36
, 72
, 251–53

deserters and
, 30

Europe and
, 81

Fessenden and
, 214

Foote and
, 78
, 79

future plans of
, 279

Georgia and
, 31

Hampton Roads and
, 167

illness
, 44
, 45
, 106

independence and
, 31
, 59
, 250
, 254

Johnston and
, 29
, 290
, 291

Lee and
, 149
, 276

Lincoln and
, 208
, 238
, 279

Lincoln's assassination and
, 94

Mexico and
, 166

North and
, 9

pardon of
, 267

peace and
, 12
, 13
, 31
, 86
, 89–90
, 245
, 252
, 280

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