Lincoln and Reconstruction

Index

159 Index abolitionists, 7, 22, 30, 103 African Americans: and Lincoln, 5, 7–12, 24–26, 38, 42–43, 54–61, 63–65, 67–70, 81–82, 96–103, 111, 136–41, 143–47; and military service , 42, 56–57, 59, 98, 124. See also black suffrage; race Alabama, 77, 104 Antietam (battle), 34 apprenticeship, 69–70, 100, 140 Arkansas, 20–21, 61–62, 78–79, 88, 104–5, 122, 125 Army of the Potomac, 46 Ashley, James, 117, 121: and reconstruction bill, 121–23, 125 Attorney General. See Bates, Edward Banks, Nathaniel P., 51–52, 63–66, 79–81, 105–6, 121, 124, 137 Bates, Edward, and ruling on black citizenship, 41, 84, 97, 121 Belz, Herman, 19, 50, 85 black suffrage, 73, 80, 144: and Lincoln, 5, 10, 71, 81–82, 98, 111, 121–22, 136– 47; and Wade-Davis bill, 84–86. See also African Americans; race Blair, Francis, Sr., 116–17 Booth, John Wilkes, 141 border states, 16, 21–24, 26–28, 30–32, 37, 40, 62, 70–71, 106, 115, 119 Brownlow, William G., 123 Buell, Don Carlos, 28, 46 Bull Run (first battle of), 22 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 126, 146 Burlingame, Michael, 99 Burnside, Ambrose E., 46 Butler, Benjamin F., 23, 51, 77–78 Campbell, John A., 117, 131–36 Canby, E. R. S., 104–6 Chancellorsville (battle), 46 Charles I, 118 Chase, Salmon P., 81, 84, 103, 112 Chickamauga (battle), 61 City Point (Virginia), 129–30 Civil War: and Lincoln, 2, 5–6, 12–13, 129–31; military aspects of, 22, 26–28, 34, 44–6, 50, 56–57, 61, 66, 76, 78, 81, 83, 89, 103–5, 111, 122–23, 129–31. See also Confederate States of America; reconstruction ; secession colonization, 11, 24–27, 34, 37–40, 97 compensated emancipation, and Lincoln , 26–27, 30–32, 34–35, 37–41, 97, 119–20 Confederate States of America: and Lincoln, 2–3, 12–22, 26, 35–38, 42–43, 48–49, 72–74, 86, 109–10, 113–18, 125, 128, 131–35, 137–38; negotiations with, 6, 18–19, 44–46, 54, 57–58, 60, 89–96, 107, 110, 116–20; and Radical Republicans, 19–20. See also Civil War; reconstruction ; secession confiscation (land), 5, 101–3, 126, 132, 146–47 confiscation acts: first (1861), 23, 26; second (1862), 33, 35 Congress, 17, 23, 27, 32–33, 35, 40, 49, 81, 104–5, 108, 115, 144–45: and reconstruction policy, 29, 36–37, 47, 83–89, 112–13, 120–22, 125–27, 142. See also Congressional Republicans ; Radical Republicans Congressional Republicans, 4, 6, 21, 26, 81: and reconstruction policy, 47, 75–76, 83–89, 125–27, 144–45. See also Congress; Radical Republicans Conkling, James C., 58; Lincoln’s public letter to, 58–60 Conservative Unionists (Louisiana), 52–53, 63–64 contrabands (fugitive slaves), 23 160 | index Davis, Henry Winter, 83 Davis, Jefferson, 90, 93–95, 113, 116 Declaration of Independence, 10, 60 Delaware, 22, 26 Democrats (northern), 22, 53–54, 57, 76–77, 91–95, 103–6, 115, 117, 125, 127 Direct Tax Act (1862), 102 Douglas, Stephen A., 10 Douglass, Frederick, 13, 93–97, 99 Dred Scott decision, 10, 41 Du Bois, W. E. B., 4 Durant, Thomas J., 80–81, 105 Early, Jubal, 83–84 Emancipation Proclamation, 3, 15, 22–23, 26, 37, 44, 96–97, 133, 146: exemptions from, 37, 42, 47, 51–52; final version of, 42–43; Lincoln’s decision to issue, 28–34; Lincoln’s defense of, 45, 53–61, 89–96, 98, 114, 118–19; preliminary version of, 34–37, 49 Fifteenth Amendment, 144 Fishback, William M., 79, 122 Flanders, Benjamin F., 36, 47, 81, 105 Florida, 31, 77 Foner, Eric, 7, 42, 98, 115, 128 Fort Sumter, 14, 17–18 Fortress Monroe (Virginia), 23 Fourteenth Amendment, 116, 144 Fredericksburg (battle), 41 Freedman’s Bank, 126 Freedmen’s Bureau. See Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands free labor (wartime), 69–70, 99–101, 124, 146 free-labor ideology (northern), 9–10, 101, 146–47 Free State Organization (Louisiana), 51–53, 63–65, 80, 105, 124 Frémont, John C., 23–24, 31, 83, 103, 115 fugitive slaves, 23, 26, 30, 35 Georgia, 31, 104, 118 Gettysburg (battle), 45, 57, 89 Gettysburg Address, 57, 60–61, 127–28 Gilmore, James R., 57–58 Grant, Ulysses S., 28, 46, 76, 83, 111, 117, 129–31, 133, 135, 141–42 Greeley, Horace, 33, 54, 90 Hahn, Michael, 36, 47, 80–82, 105–6...