Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism

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INDEX agents as lobbyists, 29–33, 54–56, 60–62 antebellum origins, 5, 8–9, 11, 16, 17, 20, 30–31, 181 compensation, 45, 52–54, 57, 61, 94, 105, 106, 119–21, 139, 166 corruption, xv, 56, 60, 72, 75, 85, 162 private, 26, 27, 45, 46, 53, 57, 61, 97, 162, 174 state, xv, 29, 31–33, 44, 45, 50, 53, 55, 68, 97–98, 104–105, 179, 181 Alabama Claims, 25 Allison, William B., 117 Andrew, John, 2, 28, 29, 106 Atkinson, R. W., 94, 95 Bates, Edward, 42 Belknap, William W., 110, 111, 113 Benecke, Louis, 62, 65–66 Bensel, Richard, 173 Bingham, George C., 68, 71–80, 82, 85, 174 Blaine, James G., 22–24 Blair, Montgomery, 73 Blow, H. T., 47 Bogy, Lewis V., 68–69, 76, 77 Boorstin, Daniel, 25 Bosse, Charles, 66 Boutwell, George, 105–6, 108, 110– 15, 118, 122 Bowman Act of 1883, 124 Bramlette, Thomas F., 92, 94, 99– 101, 109 Bristow, Benjamin, 76, 108, 114–16, 120 Brown, B. Gratz, 46, 53–54, 75 Browne, R. H., 67 Bryce, James, 51 Buckingham, William A., 1, 125 bureaucracy, xv, 16, 22, 45, 47, 56, 91, 102, 120, 132, 173–75, 181 Burke, Edmund, 30 Burnside, Ambrose P., 1 California claims, 4, 152, 172 Campbell, Ballard, 132, 172 Carney, Thomas, 28, 138, 159, 163 Carpenter, Daniel, 22, 173 Chase, Salmon P., 10–15, 19, 21, 41, 115, 137 Chase’s Rules, 10–17, 21–22, 41, 85, 91, 102, 109–10, 112, 115, 120– 23, 127, 130–31, 137, 140, 169, 181 claims (see also by state and by specific claims) bounty claims, 25 equity, 6, 8, 51, 123–25 legislation, 9–12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 41, 43, 47, 106, 108, 112, 131, 140 pension claims, 25, 178 private, 17, 18, 24, 26, 45, 46, 140, 169 speculation, 23, 65–66, 69, 72–73, 99, 156–57 subsistence claims, 25 206 INDEX Clarke, Sidney, 153, 155–60 Cockrell, Francis, 76–78, 80–82 Collamore, George W., 136, 141 Conkling, Roscoe, 125–26 Connecticut claims, 128 Crafton, John D., 58, 63–64, 66, 69, 79, 173–74 Crafton Claims, 63, 171 Crafton Commission, 63–82, 84, 173 Crapo, Henry, 29 Crawford, Samuel J., 132, 135, 138, 146–51, 156, 158–59, 162, 166–70 Dakota Indian claims, 47 Dash Act, 130–31, 171 debt repudiation, 38–40 Delano, Columbus, 24 Delfsinger, Chris, 66 Dent Act, 171 Dunn, William, 14 Edmunds, George, 116–18, 125 Elazar, Daniel, 171, 180 Eustis, William, 7 Fairbanks, Erastus, 1 federalism, xi–xvi, 2, 5, 8, 26, 30, 31, 33, 41, 44, 55, 68, 85, 87–89, 92–94, 99–101, 103, 107–9, 111–13, 115, 120, 128–29, 131 124, 177–80 federal relations (see federalism) Fessenden, William P., 21–22 Fletcher, Thomas C., 37–38, 44–45, 50–54, 59, 94, 180 Foster, Charles, 131 Franklin, Benjamin, 30 Fund Commission (Missouri), 83 Gaines, Edmund P., 8 Gamble, Hamilton, 35–36, 41–43 Garfield, James A., 117, 163 General Land Office, 22 Gibson, Charles A., 42–43, 83 Grant, Ulysses S., 102, 113 Gray, John B., 45–50, 52–54, 56, 59, 60, 62, 63, 65, 68, 75, 81, 83, 143, 174 Guarantee clause, 6 Half Breed Republican, 117 Hamilton, Alexander, 3, 5 Hammack, Sennaca, 61 Hardie, James A., 163–64 Hardin, Charles H. 67–69, 71, 74– 76, 80 Harlan, John Marshall, 108 Hart, Roswell, 17 Hayes, Josiah, 164–65, 174 Heard, John T., 83–85 Hequembourg, William A., 65–66 Hesseltine, William B., 134 Hewitt, Fayette, 104, 106–22, 126– 27, 130, 143, 174, 181 Hoar, George F., 117 Hodges, A. G., 114 Holman, William S., 13 Hume, John F., 40 Illinois claims, 128 Indiana claims, 92, 106, 122, 123, 126 Inspector General (IG), 48 intergovernmental operations (see federalism) Johnson, Andrew, 48, 55, 144, 150 Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 14 Kansas claims, xvi, 121, 132, 134– 51, 154–156, 158–63, 165–70, 173 INDEX 207 commissions, 139–43, 145–46, 148–49, 154–55, 163–64 retrenchment, 133 speculation, 156–57, 162 state debt, 133, 161 taxation, 133 territorial claims, 141 Kellog, William, 12–14 Kentucky claims, 87–89, 92–94, 99– 101, 103, 104, 106–9, 111–13, 115, 120, 124–34, 143, 174, 181 cash advances, 89–92, 101 interest claims, 122–26, 128 militia staff, reliance upon, 104, 106, 119 Reconstruction, 88...