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index 261 Abolitionists, 7, 18, 19, 38–39 About, Edmond, 101 Adams, Henry, 91, 94 Adams, Henry Carter, 130 African Americans: black Union Army soldiers, 64, 65–66, 68; post–Civil War, 85–86, 142; post-Reconstruction, 142; segregation, 142; in Senate, 142 Ah Sin (Twain & Harte), 132 Akerman, Amos T., 110 Allen, William, 17 American News Company, 172 American Press Association, 174 Ames, Mary Clemmer, 100, 151 Ames, Oakes, 148 Amnesty Act (1872), 110 Anecdotes of Public Men (Forney), 101 Antislavery movement, 16, 18–19, 35–36 The Arena (magazine), 181 Armstrong, A. W., 135 The Army of the Cumberland (Cist), 177 Arnold, Mary Augusta (pen name), 180 Arthur, Chester A., 127, 178 Atlanta Constitution (newspaper), 105, 190 “Aura Lee” (song), 18 Babcock, Orville, 95, 107, 113 Badeau, Adam, 95 Bailey, Gamaliel, 16, 18, 25, 36, 38 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 128 Banning, Henry, 131, 145, 146, 149, 196 Banning, Julia Kirby (sister-in-law), 145 “Barnburners,” 19 Barnett, Isabella Woodward Harrison (grandmother ), 6 Barnett, William (grandfather), 6 Barnum, William H., 168–69 Basler, Roy, 41 Bates, Edward, 166 Bayard, Thomas, 174 Beauregard, P. G. T., 55 Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 180 “Beginning of the End” (editorial), 122 Behind the Scenes in Washington (McCabe), 136 Belcredi, Gaspare, 30 Belford, Clarke & Company, 172, 173 Belford, Robert J., 153, 167, 182 Belford’s Magazine, 167, 169–70, 172, 178, 182 Belknap, William W., 94, 103, 137, 138 Bell Smith Abroad (Louise Piatt), 26 Bellamy, Edward, 168 Benét, Stephen Vincent (Brigadier General), 114, 164 Benham, Henry Washington, 53 Benjamin, Park, 14–15 Bennett, James Gordon, 112 Birney, James (son of J. G. Birney), 15 Birney, James Gillespie, 15, 16, 18, 65 Birney, William G. (son of J. G. Birney), 16, 65, 66, 68 Bismarck Daily Tribune (newspaper), 187 Black, Jeremiah, 68–69, 111, 134, 135, 157 Black Friday, 94 Black Laws of 1807, 20 Blair, Francis Jr., 124 Blair, Francis Preston (“Old Blair”), 12 Blair, Montgomery, 12, 67 Bond, Hugh L., 67 The Boss Girl (Riley), 172 Boston Daily Globe (newspaper), 123, 126, 150 Boucicault, Dion, 37 Bowen, Sayles J., 97 Boynton, Henry V., 83, 165, 188–89 Bradford, Augustus W., 67 Bridges text.indb 261 7/31/12 10:29 AM 262 index Bradford, James C., 182 Brady, Thomas J., 181 Bragg, Braxton, 58, 60, 61 Brega, George A., 138 Brice, Calvin Stewart, 168, 169 British Trade Union Congress, 117 Bromfield, Louis, 74 Brooklyn Eagle (newspaper), 163 Brooklyn Standard-Union, 176 Brooklyn Theater, 154 Brown, John, 38, 39 Browne, Charles Farrar, 100 Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 142 Bryan, Sarah, 37 Bryant, William Cullen, 15 Buchanan, James, 25, 27, 29, 30, 35 Buell, Augustus C., 142–43, 148, 181, 182, 192–93 Buell, Don Carlos, 58–60, 117 Bull Run, Battles of, 47, 50, 58, 71 Burkhauser, Mary, 77 Burlingame, Anson, 37, 40 Burnside, Ambrose E., 57, 64–65 Burroughs, John, 172 Butterfield, Daniel, 97 Cameron, Simon, 44, 64, 166 Campbell, James, 28 Campbell, James E., 186, 187, 190 Canada, 98 Cannon, George Quayle, 191 Cannon, William, 70 The Capital (newspaper): “Beginning of the End” editorial, 122; on Black, 111; Buell as editor, 142, 181, 192, 193; founding, 88–91, 141; on Grant, 94, 96, 104, 105, 114–15, 125; on Greeley, 111–13; Harte to join, 132; on Hayes administration, 126–27, 129; “manifesto” about Cowls & Brega, 138; on McGarrahan, 134; Piatt as lobbyist and, 135–36, 192–93; Piatt ownership of, 182; profitability, 145; Reed as assistant editor, 99; on Shepherd as head of D.C. public works, 139–40, 141; “Sunday Meditations,” 179; woman writers, 99; on Worthington, 133 Carpenter, J. N., 102 Cartter, David, 41, 46 Cary, Samuel Fenton, 147 Casey, James J., 104 Cass, Lewis, 19–20 Catholic Telegraph (newspaper), 9 Chambers, Julius, 172, 186 Chandler, Zachariah, 105–6, 143, 152, 181 Chase, Salmon P.: 1848 presidential election, 19–20; about, 18, 21, 22, 38; candidacy for Senate, 20; Congressional seat, 75; as governor of Ohio, 39; Lincoln and, 41, 44, 94; Piatt and, 19; Piatt on in “Letters to Prominent Persons,” 175; Piatt on in Memories . . . , 163– 64; slavery and, 36, 67; Stanton and, 164 Chicago Herald (newspaper), 183 Chicago Times (newspaper), 107 Chicago Tribune (newspaper), 41, 107, 193 Chickamauga, Battle of, 165–66, 177 Childs, George W., 96 Christian Recorder (newspaper), 65 Churchill, Lord Randolph, 128 Churchill, Winston Spencer, 128 Cincinnati (Ohio), 2, 3, 6, 7, 14–16, 17, 82 Cincinnati Commercial (newspaper), 16, 83, 84, 88, 90, 91, 141, 189 Cincinnati Gazette (newspaper), 83 Cincinnati Literary...

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