The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North

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Index Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 77 Adams, Charles Francis, Sr., 54 Adams, Henry, 190n24 Allen, Theodore, 141 Anderson, Robert, 71 Andersonville prisoner of war camp, 141 Appleby, Joyce, 5 Arnold, Benedict, 88 Attie, Jeanie, 30 Ayers, Edward L., 178 Bailyn, Bernard, 6, 7 Baker, Jean Harvey, 5 Baker, Lafayette C.: accused of misconduct by Garfield, 121–24, 126; background of, 100–101, 194n10, 195n12; investigation of bounty jumpers, 141, 148; investigation of brokers, 138–39; investigation of cotton trade, 171; investigation of Treasury Department, 104–6, 109–11, 114, 119–20 Banks, Nathaniel P., 176, 181n24, 203n28; and Red River campaign, 157–66, 173, 202n18, 203n22; succeeds Benjamin F. Butler in command in Louisiana, 45, 61 Banning, Lance, 11 Bates, Edward, on John C. Frémont, 78, 87 Bayard, James, 17 Beard, Elias L., 83 Beauregard, Pierre G. T., 57 Bederman, Gail, 42 Beecher, Henry Ward, quoted, 13, 30, 42, 56, 157 Bellows, Henry W., 9 Bennett, James Gordon, 25, 48, 56, 82, 86 Bensel, Richard, 9 Benton, Thomas Hart, 69 Bigelow, John, 69 Blair, Francis P., Jr., 181n24; and John C. Frémont, 72–73, 82, 88, 191n31; and Salmon P. Chase, 113 Blair, Francis P., Sr., 72, 81, 88 Blair, Montgomery: and Benjamin F. Butler , 58; and John C. Frémont, 76, 89, 92; and Salmon P. Chase, 113 Boritt, Gabor, 167, 173 bounty brokers, 135–40 bounty jumpers, 200n41; Lafayette C. Baker investigates, 141; cowardice of, 144–45; greed of, 143–44; harsh treatment of, 140, 149–52; lack patriotism, 142–43; overview of scandal, 127–29, 152–53; prevalence of, 140–41; seen as disloyal immigrants, 148–49; seen as urban “roughs,” 146–48 Boutwell, George, 63–64 Bowery B’hoys, 147 Breese, Kidder R., 162 Bronson, Theodore B., 139–40, 150 Index 226 Brooks, James, 114–17, 120, 122–23, 196n44 Brownson, Orestes, 9, 33, 132 Buchanan, James, 3, 100, 108, 170 Buckner, Simon B., 181n24 Burr, Aaron, 87–88 Burr, Chauncey, 103 Butler, Andrew, 46–47, 161 Butler, Benjamin F., 92, 119, 163, 176, 184n9, 186n31, 187n60, 188n73; alleged financial corruption of, 46–47, 128, 185n30; background of, 38–41; “contraband” policy of, 44–45, 72, 184n17, 185n19; and cotton trade, 46–47, 155, 160–61, 170–71; courage of, 51–54; denounces bounties, 134; and liberal concept of self-interested patriotism , 48–49, 144, 171; and masculinity , 42–43, 49–51, 65–66, 68, 71, 75, 92, 93, 188n63; moves toward radicalism, 43–45, 70, 184n15; suspected misuse of power by, 37, 40, 59–64; “woman order” of, 40, 54–59, 187n53 Butler, Sarah, 47, 60 Cameron, Simon: alleged corruption of, 26, 33, 89–90, 170; and John C. Frémont, 79, 89–92, 101 Canby, Edward R. S., 172 Carey, Henry, 90 Carson, Kit, 69 Cartter, David K., 188n73 Chandler, Zachariah, 85 Chase, Kate, 55 Chase, Salmon P., 61, 125, 167, 173; and Benjamin F. Butler, 45, 46; and 1864 Treasury scandals, 99–100, 103–4, 111–17, 121, 124, 126, 185n26; and John C. Frémont, 71–72, 74, 78, 81; presidential ambitions of, 97, 104, 105; and Simon Cameron, 90; Treasury Department policies of, 107, 109, 122 Child, Lydia Maria, 89 Cisco, John J., 109 Clark, Spencer M.: alleged corruption of, 106, 109–12, 115, 117, 119–23, 196n31; background of, 108–9; later career of, 198n68; refusal to resign, 112–13 Clay, Cassius M., 181n24 Colfax, Schuyler, 115–17, 131 Cook, James H., 139 Cooke, Jay, 48, 144, 171 Cornwall, James, 105, 198n68 Cowan, Edgar, 102 Coward, The (Morford), 29 Cozens, William B., 34 Cross, Whitney, 28 Davis, David, 74, 82, 86–87 Davis, Henry Winter, 72 Davis, Jefferson, 40, 159, 203n31 Davis, Jefferson C., 181n24 Dawes, Henry W.: and 1864 Treasury Department scandal, 115–16; and John C. Frémont, 81; on Franklin W. Smith case, 34 Days of Shoddy (Morford), plot of, 22–23; reception of, 22; themes of, 23–29 desertion, 141, 149–50 Dickinson, Anna E., 110 Dickinson, Daniel S., 33 Dix, John A., 138, 151 Dole, William P., 171 Dorsheimer, William, 191n31 Douglass, Frederick, 53 Dowling, Samuel, 143 Doyle, Arthur Conan, 145 draft riots, 130–31, 153 Duchess of Devonshire, The (Gainsborough), 145 Duvall, Laura, 110 Duvall, Maggie, 119–20 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 4 Eliot, William Greenleaf, 78 Engerman, Stanley, 3 Everett, Edward, 185n30 Index 227 Farragut, David G., 55, 62 Fessenden, William P., 107, 125, 167 Fish, Hamilton, 27, 149 Fishel...