Army of the Cumberland reorganized, 126.
Augur, General, and the spy, 183;
in command at Washington, 244.
Baltimore merchants arrested, 236.
Banks, General, besieges Port Hudson, 80.
Bates, Edward, impressions of, 171.
Beauregard, General, 222.
Blair, Montgomery, character, 170, 231.
Booth, J. Wilkes, 281.
Bragg, General, driven across the Tennessee, 104;
maneuvers to reach Chattanooga, 107-111;
evacuates Lookout Mountain, 148;
retreats, 151.
Burnside, General, shut up in Knoxville, 135;
character, 138;
forces, 138;
repulses Longstreet, 154;
relieved by Sherman, 154;
transferred to command of Ninth Army Corps, 191.
Cairo, the claims commission, 12.
Campbell, Judge, negotiations with President Lincoln, 266, 270.
Canada, proposed Confederate expedition from, 243.
Cedar Creek, 248.
Champion Hill, 53.
Chase, Salmon P., impressions of, 169.
Chattanooga, defense of, 120;
battle, 143.
Chickamauga, 111.
Cipher dispatches, 22;
Confederate, 280.
Cold Harbor, 208.
Conkling, Roscoe, 17, 177, 263.
Cotton speculation, 17.
Crittenden, General, censured for conduct at Chickamauga, 122;
relieved, 126.
Dana, Charles A., resigns from the Tribune, 1;
first meeting with Lincoln, 2;
early correspondence with Stanton, 4-11;
commissioner of War Department, 21;
at the front with Grant, 30 et seq.;
gets a horse, 45;
assistant adjutant general, 82;
Assistant Secretary of War, 103;
with the Army of the Cumberland, 105 et seq.;
at Chattanooga, 132;
interview with Burnside at Knoxville, 138;
on duty at Washington, 156 et seq.;
relations with Stanton, 159;
with the Army of the Potomac, 189 et seq.;
with Sheridan in the valley, 248 et seq.;
at Richmond, 263;
last interview with Lincoln, 274;
becomes editor of the Chicago Republican, 290.
Davis, Jefferson, capture, 282;
imprisonment, 284.
Drouillard, Captain, 116.
Early, General, menaces the capital, 228;
withdraws, 232.
Everett, Edward, 182.
Five Forks, 263.
Foster, General J. G., supersedes Burnside, 191.
FrÉmont, General, 5, 6.
Garfield, General, 118.
Grand Gulf, attack on, 42.
Granger, General Gordon, in command at Nashville, 105;
at Chickamauga, 119;
at Missionary Ridge, 149;
fails to relieve Burnside, 152.
Grant, General, impressions of, 15, 61;
conduct at Shiloh criticised, 15;
plan for Vicksburg campaign, 30;
self-control, 43;
invests Vicksburg, 56;
asks re-enforcements, 80;
enters Vicksburg, 99;
rapid mobilization of his army, 101;
at Chattanooga, 133;
at Missionary Ridge, 148;
made general in chief of the United States army, 186;
crosses the Rapidan, 187;
maneuvers against Lee, 200-207;
at Cold Harbor, 208;
charges of butchery, 209;
in camp at Cold Harbor, 213;
marches on Petersburg, 217 et seq.;
prepares for siege, 224.
Halleck, General, obstructs Grant's plans, 156;
Grant's chief of staff, 186;
character, 187.
Hancock, General, his energy, 190;
at Spottsylvania, 195;
advancing to Richmond, 201;
at Cold Harbor, 208.
Herron, General, 70, 87.
Hooker, General, ordered to Lookout Valley, 134;
at Lookout Mountain, 147.
Hovey, General, 63, 217.
Hudspeth, Mrs., gives evidence in conspiracy trial, 279.
Humphreys, General, 192.
Hunter, General, defeats Jones, 229;
Grant's defense of, 233.
Jackson, entered by United States army, 52.
Johnson, Andrew, 105;
urges punishment of rebels, 269.
Johnston, General J. E., threatens Grant during siege of Vicksburg, 83, 84, 289.
Lee, General R. E., defeated in the Wilderness, 193;
maneuvers against Grant, 201-207;
Grant's estimate of, 215;
outwitted by Grant, 222;
driven from Petersburg, 263;
surrender, 271.
Lincoln, President, impressions of, 171-185;
relations with his cabinet, 171;
as a politician, 174-181;
his mercifulness, 183;
visits the lines before Petersburg, 224;
re-election, 260;
seeming flippancy, 261;
in Richmond after surrender, 266;
propositions to Confederates, 267;
assassinated, 274.
Logan, General, 53, 67.
Longstreet, General, 119, 139.
Lookout Mountain, 147.
McClellan, dissatisfaction with, 8;
absurd claims for, 9.
McClernand, General, commands movement on Grand Gulf, 32;
his annoying delays and inefficiency, 59, 89;
removal, 90.
McCook, General, censured for conduct at Chickamauga, 122;
relieved, 126.
McPherson, General, in movement on Grand Gulf, 41;
at Raymond, 51;
ability, 58;
springs the mines before Vicksburg, 91.
Meade, General, commands army of the Potomac, 189;
character and ability, 189;
before Petersburg, 221;
difficulties with subordinates, 226.
Milliken's Bend, 86.
Mississippi, reopening of, 30.
Missionary Ridge, 148.
"Morse," case of, 235.
Negro troops, their bravery, 86, 220.
Nevada, why admitted, 174, 175.
Newspaper correspondents, trouble with, 215.
New York and Chicago, plans for burning, 241.
Ord, General, supersedes McClernand, 90.
Parsons, Colonel, 253.
Pemberton, General, defeated at Champion's Hill, 53;
retreat and losses, 55;
asks for terms, 95;
humiliation, 96;
surrenders Vicksburg, 99.
Porter, Admiral, runs the Vicksburg batteries, 36;
character, 85.
Porter, General, halts fugitives at Chickamauga, 116.
Port Gibson, 44.
Presidential campaign of 1864, 260.
Railroads seized by the Government, disposition of, 255.
Rawlins, Colonel J. A., and the Confederate Mason, 54;
character, 62, 72.
Raymond, engagement at, 51.
Richmond surrendered, 263;
evacuated, 264.
Rosecrans, General, his delays, 104;
occupies Chattanooga, 107;
concentrates his army, 110;
at Chickamauga, 111;
prepares to defend Chattanooga, 120;
indecision and incapacity, 123, 127;
transferred to Department of the Missouri, 131.
Schofield, General, troops transferred, 252.
Secret service, 235 et seq.
Sedgwick, General John, 190.
"Selby" and "Leenea" letters, 276, 277.
Seward, Wm. H., impressions of, 168.
Shepley, General, military governor of Richmond, 267, 270.
Sheridan, General, at Chickamauga, 116;
at Chattanooga, 145;
at Missionary Ridge, 150;
major-general, 248;
affection of the army, 249;
wins at Five Forks, 263.
Sherman, General, impressions of, 29;
commands a corps in Grant's army, 31;
destroys public property in Jackson, 53;
before Vicksburg, 57;
in pursuit of Johnston, 84;
ordered to join the forces at Chattanooga, 136;
bridges the Tennessee, 146;
at Missionary Ridge, 148;
relieves Burnside at Knoxville, 154;
letter on the relief passes, 165;
difficulties with Stanton, 289.
Smith, General A. J., 64, 95, 97.
Smith, General "Baldy," 206, 207, 208, 219.
Spottsylvania, 195.
Stanton, E. M., early correspondence with Dana, 4-11;
forbids army speculations in cotton, 20;
gives complete authority to Grant, 52;
appearance and character, 157;
relations with his subordinates, 159;
friction with Blair, 170;
arrests the Baltimore merchants, 236.
Strouse, Congressman, case of, 159.
Table of Union losses, 210.
Thomas, General, heads off the Confederates from Chattanooga, 111;
holds the field at Chickamauga, 118;
his high qualities and Stanton's esteem, 124;
supersedes Rosecrans, 131;
charge of his troops at Missionary Ridge, 150.
Thompson, Jacob, 239, 273.
"Turkey movement," 252.
Vicksburg, campaign plans, 25, 30;
batteries run, 36;
attack on, 56;
siege, 57, 78-99;
surrender, 99.
Virginia Legislature, negotiations with President Lincoln, 267.
Wallace, General Lew, 229, 231.
War Department, immense business, 161.
Warren, General, 190, 202, 206, 209THE END.
[A] A month later General FrÉmont was assigned to the command of the "Mountain Department," composed of parts of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
