Grant at Vicksburg: The General and the Siege

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193 Index Adams, Wirt, 40 Babcock, Orville, 118 Badeau, Adam, 147 Banks, Nathaniel, 29–30, 34–35, 135, 151, 153, 157, 161–63, 169 Bell, Charles, 126 Benton, William, 95 Blair, Frank, 10, 12, 14, 16, 35–41, 86 Bledsoe, Hiram, 129 Bowen, John, 146–48 Boynton, Henry Van Ness, 45 Bragg, Braxton, 42, 138 Breckinridge, John C., 118 Buckland, Ralph, 130 Buell, Don Carlos, 3–4 Burbridge, Stephen, 18–19, 21 Burnside, Ambrose E., 111, 158, 166, 169 Cadwallader, Sylvanus, 45–63 Carr, Eugene, 18–19, 95, 131 Carter, Samuel, III, 59 Catton, Bruce, 57–58 Coehorn mortars, 132 Comstock, Cyrus, 155 Dana, Charles, 22, 32, 68–69, 78, 92, 103, 105, 119, 156, 172 and Grant drinking story, 43–46, 51, 53–57, 59–61, 100 Davis, Jefferson, 9, 135 Dennis, Elias, 66–67, 76, 108, 123–24, 139, 157 Dent, Lewis, 115 Dodge, Grenville, 30 Duncan, Stephen, 168 Eaton, John, Jr., 77–78, 85 Ellet, Alfred, 32, 112, 122 Everett, Edward, 154 Ewing, Hugh, 130 Farragut, David, 109 Foote, Shelby, 58–60, 62 Gardner, Franklin, 157, 162 Garland, Hamlin, 60 Gist, States Rights, 38 Grabau, Warren E., 60 Graham, (George) “Wash,” 49, 156 Grant, Fred, 115, 170 Grant, Jesse Root, 114 Grant, Julia, 58, 114, 136–37, 170 Grant, Ulysses S. and Nathaniel Banks (see Banks, Nathaniel) and burial truce, 33 and drinking story on Yazoo River, 43–63 early attempts to take Vicksburg , 5–7 enters Vicksburg, 154 and family, 58, 114–15, 136–37, 170 goes to Chattanooga, 170 and Joseph E. Johnston (see Johnston, Joseph E.) Louisiana situations, 64, 66 194 | index and John McClernand, 5–7, 15, 19–20, 24, 32, 37, chapter 5 managing the latter part of the siege, 107–22 Mechanicsburg Corridor, and Big Black River, 27–28, 30, 32, 35–42, 123–30, 135–36, 138–41 and mining operations, 133–35, 142–43 and nonsiege administrative issues, 136–37, 162, 168–70 and paroles decision and other surrender issues, 151, 156–61 and plan to attack Mobile, 169 pre-Vicksburg experiences of, 3–5 and Sherman’s Jackson campaign against Joseph Johnston , 151–53, 158, 163–68 siege performance of, evaluated, 170–72 and slaves, black troops, racism, 64–85 and surrender negotiations, 146–51 and Vicksburg assaults, 1, 12–21 and Vicksburg headquarters, 27 and Vicksburg inland campaign, 7–10 and Vicksburg siege, early days, 22–28 Grierson, Benjamin, 29, 35, 162–63 Groom, Winston, 61–62 Hains, Peter C., 24 Halleck, Henry, 1, 4–5, 23, 30, 88–91, 98, 104–5, 107–8, 110–11, 116, 121, 130, 135, 139, 156–57, 162, 166 Helena, Battle of, 161–62 Hendrickson, Thomas, 136 Herron, Francis J., 111, 117, 127–28, 131, 133, 135, 144, 147, 151, 154–55, 161–62, 165–66 Hickenlooper, Andrew, 131–33, 135 Hill, A. P., 38 Hoffman, William, 136 Holmes, Theophilus, 162 Hovey, Alvin P., 93, 95 Hurlbut, Stephen, 30, 32, 37–38, 92, 112, 138, 155 Johnson, Armory, 36, 39–40 Johnston, Albert Sydney, 88 Johnston, Joseph E., 9, 11, 22, 30–31, 34, 36, 38–39, 41, 93, 107–8, 110– 14, 116, 118, 121, 123–30,135–36, 138–41, 144–45, 151,155, 157, 171 and Jackson campaign, 152, 158, 163–67 Kelton, John C., 159 Kimball, Nathan, 40–42, 44, 49 Kirkwood, Samuel, 116 Lauman, Jacob, 28–29, 34, 109, 163 Lawler, Michael K., 144, 145 Lee, Robert E., 38, 162, 171 Leggett, Mortimer, 131 Lincoln, Abraham, 5, 71, 75, 77, 88–90, 104–5, 116, 119–21, 169, 172 Lieb, Hermann, 66, 68 Lightburn, Joseph J., 130 Lockett, Samuel, 10, 143 Logan, John A., 14, 17, 86, 131–35, 142–43, 155 Loring, William W., 38, 93, 118, 124 Lum, William, family Lyon, Nathaniel, 70 Markland, Absalom, 137 McArthur, John, 28–29, 31, 125 Grant, Ulysses S. (continued) index | 195 McClellan, George B., 89–90 McClernand, John A., 5–13, 15–21, 24, 28–29, 31, 43, 78, 80, 86–106, 109, 111–12, 117, 122, 171–72 McCulloch, Henry, 67–68 McDougall, Harry, 47–49 McFeely, William, 59–60 McPherson, James B., 7–15, 17, 19–21, 28, 43, 87, 92–94, 96–101, 193, 105, 112, 118, 125, 128, 131, 133–35, 142–43, 147–48, 151, 154–55, 159–61, 168 Meade, George G., 162 Milliken’s Bend, 64, 66–72, 81 Mills, John, 168 Montgomery, Louis, 147 Moore, John...