Index
193 index abolitionism, 2, 3, 36, 41, 50, 52, 53, 61n4, 99, 103, 163, 172, 175, 182 African Americans, xiii, 2, 9, 29, 30 agriculture (midwestern) during the Civil War, 3–4, 12; breeding, calls for improved, 69–70; butter, dairying, and eggs, 74–75, 87, 130, 159, 162; and Chicago market, 3, 71, 72, 73–74, 76, 78, 88, 89; chickens and poultry, 75, 87, 137, 139, 157, 160; and children (see children, experiences of); and Cincinnati market, 69–71, 72–73, 91; contractors , 68–71, 77–78; cotton, 88–90, 91; crop production (wheat, corn, oats), 3–4, 71–92, 128, 130–32, 139, 150–58, 161–63; draft animals (horses, mules), 68–70, 74, 81–86, 92, 153, 156, 157, 160, 162; and family farming, 10, 13, 78, 84, 86, 87, 89, 133, 138–40, 148–65; and farm machinery (including advances in), 76–77, 79–87, 90, 151–53; and farm woman, 10, 12–13, 80, 81, 82, 84–87, 92, 127–41, 148–65; greenbacks, money issues, and farmers, 69, 75–78, 81, 84, 88, 89, 90, 91, 162; hemp and flax, 90; hogs (and pork packing), 70–75, 77–79, 87, 139, 156, 158, 161, 168n41; in Illinois, 68, 71–73, 75, 76, 78, 80, 81, 83, 85–92, 127–28; in Indiana, 70–73, 75, 77, 78, 80, 81, 84–85, 87, 88–91, 127; and Indianapolis market, 72–73; in Iowa, 71–74, 78, 79, 82, 84–87, 148–65; and labor problems, 10, 79–82, 94n28, 127, 129–32, 135, 138, 149–54, 158, 162–64; livestock (cattle and beef packing), 73–79, 87, 88, 91, 93n13, 139, 150, 154–65; markets, 69, 72– 74, 77, 78, 83, 88, 128, 131, 139, 156, 165, 168n41; markets (Southern), 71, 79, 90, 92 (see also individual major midwestern city markets); in Michigan, 73, 78, 78, 130; and Milwaukee market, 71, 72, 73, 78; in Minnesota, 3, 72, 78, 87, 150; in Ohio, 69–70, 71–72, 76–83, 85–89, 91, 92; Prairie Farmer (including farm women’s connection to),74, 77, 80, 81, 92, 127, 130, 132, 134; prices, 12, 70–80, 83, 84, 90–92; and railroads (and transportation), 70–74, 76, 77, 83, 87, 89; sugar and sorghum, 87–88, 91, 132, 154, 156, 163; tobacco, 89–91; in Wisconsin, 71, 72, 73, 78, 79–80, 82–83, 86, 87 Andersonville prison, 16, 31n1, 113 Appomattox, surrender at, 68, 92 index 194 Bleeding Kansas, 2 passim Brown, John, 2 passim, 26, 30, 51, 52 Burnside, General Ambrose E., 51, 104, 177–78 Camp Butler (IL), 79 Camp Chase (OH), 20–22, 175 Camp Denison (OH), 78–79 Camp Douglas (Chicago), 22–23 Camp Morton (Indianapolis), 98 Camp Nelson (KY), 136 Chicago, Illinois, 3, 29 children, experiences of, 1, 5, 80, 81,84, 85, 86, 97–119, 126, 128, 129, 137, 143n5, 149–55, 160, 161, 163, 168 civil liberties, 13, 169–70. See also Copperheadism; Democrats Civil War historiography, ix–xi, 2–3, 4–11, 16, 60n2, 126–27, 99–100, 148–49, 169–70 Civil War prisons, 11, 16–17; Andersonville (GA), 16, 31n2, 113. See also Johnson’s Island (OH) Clay, Gen. Cassius Clay, 41 college students during the Civil War, 11–12, 33–39, 60n2; and fraternities and literary societies (Alpha Nu and Literary Adelphi ), 34–58, 62n7, 66n37. See also University of Michigan Confederacy, the, and Confederates, x, 11, 22, 29, 30, 40, 46, 51, 52, 61n3, 68, 79, 84, 92, 100, 103, 128, 132, 136, 142n2, 146n21, 178, 186n37 Copperheadism, 100, 104, 105, 141, 181–82, 185n12, 186n37, 186–87n45: perceptions about, among college students, 34, 35–36, 43–44, 45, 46, 58, 61n4, 63n15, 63n16. See also Democrats; political dissent in the home under women, Northern (midwestern) Davis, Jefferson, 56, 100, 103 Davis, Varina, 100 Democrats, 5, 13, 83, 100, 102, 112, 113, 169, 170, 171,172; college students’ perspectives of, 43, 51, 53, 54–55, 61n4, 63n16; opposition to, as editors, 169–83. See also Copperheadism ; Peace Democrats Dickinson, Anna E., 41 Dix, Dorothea, 130 Emancipation Proclamation, 9, 41, 50, 51, 52, 53, 141, 170, 172 Fletcher, Calvin, 100–13 Fort Sumter, 1, 4, 37, 39, 57, 60n2, 74 Fredericksburg Campaign, 52, 104 Fremont, Gen. John C., 50, 52 Fugitive Slave Law, 2 passim Galena, Illinois, 1–2, 4–5 Gettysburg Address, 55 Grant, Julia, 1, 5 Grant, U. S., 1–2, 5, 33, 130, 180 Hoffman, William (commissary general of Union prisons...
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