Their Patriotic Duty: The Civil War Letters of the Evans Family of Brown County, Ohio

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index Note: Samuel B. Evans is the primary for determining family relationships among the Evans family. Military units are grouped by the state from which they originated. Aberdeen, Ohio, 8, 15–16, 48, 69 East Fork, 5, 164 Aberdeen Battery, 174 absentee ballots, 194, 205 Acklin, John L., 121, 184, 189, 375 Adams, F. W., 87, 89, 90 Adams County, Ohio, 203 Adams Express Company, 237–38 Alabama: 1st Colored Infantry, 158 Ammen, Jacob, 40, 41n2, 162 Amnesty Proclamation, 344, 345n3, 356 Anderson, Charles, 162, 166 Anderson, George, 335 Anderson, William, 8 Andersonville, Georgia, 344 antiwar movement. See Butternuts; Copperheads Armstrong, William, 76, 308 Army of the Cumberland, 104, 212n Army of the Potomac, xxi, 91, 94, 143, 157, 158, 203, 251 Army of the Tennessee, 212n, 279, 355 Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 102, 135, 165, 257, 261 Beasley, Mary, 349 Beauregard, Pierre Gustav Toutant, 29, 194, 311 Bently, John, 315 black laborers, 51, 52, 196, 357, 362, 375 black male suffrage, 355, 357 black soldiers, 140, 148, 249n1, 254, 379–80n. See also 59th U.S.C.T. Infantry; Tennessee military units: 1st West Tennessee Infantry of African Descent bounty system and, 280 desertion among, 161 final muster of, 373 illness among, 186, 252–53 prisoner of war exchanges and, 196–97 index { 403 } recruitment technique for, 139 as substitutes for draftees, 281n1 Blackburn, Joseph, 11, 11n1 Bloomhuff, John P., 162, 209, 210 blue lights, 192 Bonman, William, 25 Botner, Jake, 7, 47, 119, 126, 288, 315, 350, 374 Botner, William, 233 bounty system, 57n2, 59, 242, 286, 291, 319, 320. See also corruption black soldiers and, 280 Bouton, Edward, 136, 166, 257, 292, 329, 337, 352, 362 Bragg, Braxton, 65n1, 167–168, 170n1, 171, 175, 219 Brice’s Cross Roads, Battle of, 264, 264n3 Brough, John, 162, 165, 166, 193, 194– 95n2, 205, 251–52 declining health of, 366, 367 inauguration of, 229–30 Brown, Jim, 282 Brown, Major, 58, 74, 131, 236, 282 Brown County, Ohio, 203, 205 Brownlow, William, 356 Buchanan, John, 112–13, 247, 363 Buckland, R. P., 244 Buell, Don Carlos, 65n1, 263 Burboge, Elya, 70 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 369, 372, 375– 76, 377n1, 380, 385 Burke, James, 7, 8n3, 9n1, 41 letters from, 8–9, 16–17 quits as hired hand, 45, 47, 48 Burnside, Ambrose, 150–151, 162, 169, 173, 217–19 Order No. 38 and, 146, 147n1 Butler, Benjamin, 61n1, 167–68, 310, 312 Butternuts, xviii, 125, 126n1, 131–32, 140, 328, 332 Camp Chase, 319, 335 Camp Dennison, 54, 356 Camp Young, Texas, 4 Campbell, Alex, 359 Campbell, C. F., 198, 286 Campbell, Cal, 1, 4, 7, 19, 33, 34, 35, 40, 48, 60–61, 119–20 Campbell, Calvin A., 231 Campbell, J. B., Jr., 7, 11, 16 Campbell, John B., 21, 35, 54 Campbell, Mary, 31 Campbell, William B., 353, 354n1 Cannon, Samuel, 7, 16, 27 Carpenter, Bill, 59 Carpenter, John, 7, 59, 75, 212, 361 Carpenter, John E., 310, 349, 356, 364, 380 Carpenter, Mary. See Espy, Mary Carpenter Carpenter, Sam, 266, 380–81 Carpenter, Tom, 75, 98, 360 Carrigan, Bill, 115 Carrigan, Cud, 86, 241 Carrigan, James, 43, 110 Case, John, Jr., 7 Case, Will, 71, 74, 371 Chalmers, James Ronald, 130, 132 Chancellorsville, Battle of, 144 Charleston, South Carolina, 123, 132, 174, 191, 194, 327 Chase, Salmon P., 270, 271n2, 311n3 Chattanooga, Tenn., 212, 219 Chickamauga, Battle of, 198–99 Chulahom, Miss., 84–85 Cincinnati, Ohio, 11–12n3, 43, 65n1, 321n2 Sanitary Fair at, 227 Cobb, Miss, 41 Cochran, Samuel, 74 Cockerill, Joseph Randolph, 70, 107, 236 Colfax, Schuyler, 225 conscription, 56, 57n2, 59, 67–68, 123, 128, 130, 175, 181, 238, 287 marriages and, 209 meeting quota in township, 286, 291 substitutes for, 280, 297 within Union camps, 216 contraband, 61n.1, 136, 235, 244–45 Cook, Dian, 373 Cooper, Captain, 282 { 404 } index Cooper, Ezekiel, 247 Cooper, Jacob, 247 Copperheads, xviii, xx, 97n.3, 223, 285, 287, 324, 351, 352, 374. See also Vallandigham, Clement Corinth, Miss., 21, 23–24, 159, 225 corpses, misidentification of, 19, 22, 103 Corrigan, James. See Carrigan, James corruption, 333, 376–77. See also bounty system Corwin, Thomas, 169, 170n3 cotton, 18n.4, 38, 87, 254, 334, 365, 367, 376 Covan, Maurice M., 166 Covert, James S., 121, 130 Cowden, Robert, 254, 257, 264, 289, 293n1 Crain, Martin, 6, 71 Crook, George, 125 Curtis, Jane, 16 Cynthiana, Ky, 48–49, 266n2 Dadd, Joseph, 82, 85 Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 194 Daulton, John, 335 Davis, George...