Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio

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>> 355 1824 presidential election, 34 1828 presidential election, 34–35 1836 Ohio elections, 39 1836 presidential election, 39 1837, depression beginning, 40, 42 1840 presidential election, 40, 67 1844 Ohio elections, 43 1848 presidential election: nativists, 288; Ohio, 45; Whig Party, 10–11, 45–46, 51–52, 288 ——and: Ewing, Thomas, 10–11, 44–45, 81, 288; Taylor, Zachary, 44–45 1851 Ohio elections, 80 1854 Ohio elections, 81 1855 Ohio gubernatorial election, 81 1856 Ohio elections, 81–82 1860 presidential election, 100–103 1862 Chicago race riots, 167 1864 presidential election: Catholicism/Catholics , 241; Copperheads, 15; Democratic Party, 227, 228, 242; Democrats, antiwar, 16, 223, 227; Fairfield County, Ohio, 241; Harper’s Weekly (magazine), 228; Republican Party, 242; Unionists, 228; Virginia Military District, 241 ——and: Cox, Samuel “Sunset,” 227; Davis, Jefferson , 228; Fillmore, Millard, 227; Hood, John Bell, 228; Johnson, Andrew, 16, 225–227, 241; Lincoln, Abraham, 223–224, 225, 228, 230, 241; McClellan, George, 8, 16, 227, 228, 230, 241; Pendleton, George, 16, 227–228, 230, 241; Sherman, William Tecumseh (“Cump”), 228, 230; Vallandigham, Clement, 15, 227; Wade, Benjamin, 225 1879 Ohio gubernatorial election, 276 1880 presidential election, 279 1884 presidential election, 275, 288 abolitionism: anti-Catholic sentiments, 46; Blair, Francis (Frank), 111; Catholicism/ Catholics, 145; Ewing, Henrietta Young, 146; Ewing, Hugh Boyle, 145–146; Ewing, Thomas, 12, 52, 107, 111; Ewing, Thomas, Jr., 12, 86; Kansas, 87; Lane, Jim, 86; Lawrence, Kansas, 84; Lincoln, Abraham, 166–167, 248; Medary, Samuel, 169; New England Emigrant Aid Company, 84; Sherman, Ellen Ewing, 9, 110; Sherman, William Tecumseh (“Cump”), 12; slave trade in Washington, DC, 54; Wade, Benjamin, 141; Webster, Daniel, 52–53; Western Reserve, 45, 51–52, 141; in Western Reserve, 9 Adams, John Q., 32, 34 Adams County, Pennsylvania, 241–242 Aeneid (Virgil), 21–22 African Americans: Cox, Jacob, 266; Ewing, Thomas, 44, 107; Ewing, Thomas, Jr., 12, 249; Kanawha Valley, Virginia, 22; Lee, Robert E., 285; Medary on, Samuel, 43; in Old Northwest, 7; as targets of guerrillas , 191; Union Army volunteers, 9, 12, 152, 210, 232, 239, 287; voting rights, 266; Wheeler, Joe, 250 Allen, William: antiwar sentiments, 227; Chase, Salmon, 268; Chillicothe Advertiser (newspaper), 102; Democrats, Ohio, 47; Ewing, Thomas, 39; “floating representative ” scheme, 38; Jackson, Andrew, 39; slavery, 44; Virginia Military District, 39; Webster, Daniel, 41 Alton Federal Military Prison, 147, 149, 174 American Colonization Society (ACS), 44 Anderson, “Bloody” Bill, 193, 233, 240 Andrews, Lorin, 117, 127 Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. 356 > 357 Blaine, James Gillespie (TE’s cousin, “Cousin Jimmy”): 1860 presidential election, 103; 1884 presidential election, 275, 288; anti-Catholic sentiments, 275; Catholicism /Catholics, 71, 288; coal mining, 4, 283; Fallen Timbers reenactments, 61; Lincoln’s assassination, 262; Maine, 91; photograph, 59; political career, 59; postwar federal occupation of the South, 267; presidential ambitions, 275; Republican Party, 91, 103; Sherman’s March, 246; Union’s success, fears about, 207; on western Virginia, 127 ——and: Ewing, Charles (TE’s son, “Charley”), 273, 275; Ewing, Hugh Boyle, 93; Ewing, Thomas, Jr., 61, 275; Ewing family, 4, 59, 70; Lincoln, Abraham, 103, 224; Seward, William Henry, 103; Vallandigham, Clement, 210 Blaine, Maria Gillespie, 70 “Blaine Amendment,” 275 Blaine family, 284 Blair, Charles, 198–199 Blair, Francis (Frank), 50, 111–113, 149 Blair, Frank, Jr.: Camp Jackson, 112; “Home Guards,” 112, 113; militia of German immigrants, 111; Missouri guerrillas, 176; photograph, 176; Vicksburg, siege of, 176, 183 ——and: Ewing, Charles, 176, 183; Ewing, Charles (TE’s son, “Charley”), 178, 183, 251; Ewing, Hugh Boyle, 174, 176, 178, 183, 259–260; Ewing, Thomas, 189; Ewing, Thomas, Jr., 176, 199, 201, 251; Hildt, George, 183; Hitchcock, Henry, 251 ——and: Jackson, Claiborne, 111, 149; Johnson, Andrew, 259; Lincoln, Abraham, 150; Lyon, Nathaniel, 112; Schofield, John, 112; Sherman, William Tecumseh (“Cump”), 111–112, 178, 256 Blair, Montgomery, 111, 166 Blair family, 150 Blunt, James, 172–173, 174, 190 Booth, John Wilkes, 6, 191, 257, 262–263 Border State Unionists, 167 Boston Associates, 42 “Boston Associates,” 34 Boston Daily Advertiser (newspaper), 272 Boutwell, George, 106 Boyle, Hugh “Pap,” 24–26, 63 Boyle, Maria, 4, 24–27 Boyle, Susan, 24–25 Boyle family, 45 Boyne, battle of (1690), 17, 58 Bragg, Braxton: Chattanooga, Tennessee, 203; Davis, Jefferson, 204, 229; Johnston, Joe, 228, 229; Missionary Ridge, battle of, 203, 206; Taylor, Zachary, 48, 203 Bramlette, Thomas, 217 Brandywine, battle of, 18, 20 Breckinridge, John, 101, 103 Brewerton, Henry, 73 Brooks, Emerson, 221 Brooks, Noah, 228 Brough, John, 210–211 Brown, John: Ewing, Thomas, Jr., 86, 99; Giddings , Joshua...