Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation-Making from Independence to the Civil War

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319 abolition, 41–53; and Baptist Church, 240–45; and pacifism, 228–29. See also slavery Adams, John, 9, 44–45, 59, 61–66, 69–70, 156, 181, 252, 260 Adams, John Quincy, 110, 170 Adams, Samuel, 58, 64–65, 69, 89 African Americans: and Baptist Church, 234–45; emancipation of, 8–9, 41–53, 240–45; identity and the American Revolution, 8–9, 41–53; representation of in historical reenactments, 305–7 Albany Army Relief Bazaar, 298–99, 300, 305 Allen, Ethan, 93, 281 Allen, William, 228 American Peace Society, 220, 222–23, 228–29, 233n34 André, Major John, 114, 118 anecdote, 198–211 anti-Indian sublime, 180, 192, 194– 95. See also Native Americans; Indian removal antinarrative, 98–99, 106–7, 145, 157. Arlington House, 128, 133, 136–40, 299. See also Custis, George Washington Parke Arlington National Cemetery, 128–29, 139 Arnold, Benedict, 93, 114 Artis, Isaac, 120–21 Augusta, Georgia, 236, 241–43 Baker, Edward, 287–88 Balls Bluff, Battle of, 287–88 Baltimore, Massachusetts, 137, 164, 205, 272, 285, 289 index 320 INDEX Bancroft, George, 59, 144–47, 154–57 Banister, John, 25 Baptist Churches, 234–45 Barber, John W., 208 Barlow, Joel, 76–81; “Elegy on the Late Honorable Titus Hosmer, Esq.,” 78–81 Barrett, Millicent, 281 battles. See entries for individual battles Beardslee, John, 187 Beauregard, P. G. T., 290 Bell, John, 272–73 Benedict, George Grenville, 281 Benezet, Anthony, 49 Bennington, Battle of, 112, 118–20, 280–82 Benton, Nathaniel, 186–87, 191 Bethesda Church, 244 Binney, Barnabas, 284 Blake, A. M., 169 Blake, J. L., 167 Blatchford, John, 115 Bonner, Robert, 269 Borst, Joseph, 193 Boston, 11, 20, 43–46, 49–52, 54n8, 56n35, 76, 199, 269–70, 274, 294, 302 Boyer, Paul, 21 Brandon, Josiah, 121 Brandywine, Battle of, 120, 203 Brant, Joseph, 189 Brooklyn, Battle of, 95 Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair, 298–99, 301–6, 309 Brown, John, 269, 271 Brown, John M., 183, 193 Bull Run, Battle of, 281 Bunker Hill, Battle of, 282–90 Burgoyne, John, 23, 118–19 Burleigh, William, 285 Bush, George W., 1, 20, 107 Campbell, William W., 179, 181, 183– 86, 188, 191, 193–94 Capers, William, 241 “Captain Molly.” See Pitcher, Molly Carroll, Charles, 260 cemeteries. See graveyards Chalmers, George: Political Annals, 144–49; plagiarism of, 144–57 Charleston, South Carolina, 23, 282, 289–90 Chaney, John, 117 Chicago. See Northwestern Fair christianity: and abolition, 42, 44, 47–48, 50, 240–41; Joseph Brant, 189; and elegiac verse, 77, 79–80, 83, 88; George Lippard, 255; and pacifism, 220–24, 226–28, 230. See also Baptist Church; eschatology; millennialism; postmillennialism Civil War, 2–3, 10, 229–30, 245, 266– 69, 274–76, 280–91, 294–309 Clement, Jesse, 209–10 Clendenin, Rebecca, 200 Cogswell, Nathaniel, 111, 121–22 Colonial Williamsburg, 11, 127–28 Concord, Battle of, 46, 281, 285, 288 confederates, 288–89, 291. See also Civil War; loyalists Connecticut, 26–28, 47, 81, 97, 101, 119, 206, 227, 269, 287 Connecticut Peace Society, 227 Conner’s Prairie, 127 Constitution, the, 2, 20, 32–33, 148; John Dickinson’s support of, 52, 59, 65; pacifists and, 224; and Unionism, 270–71, 282; Hugh Williamson’s support of, 148 Constitutional Convention, 33, 64, 148 Constitutional Union Party, 271–73 Continental Army, 23–25, 47, 63, 78, 95, 97, 102–3, 106, 113, 116–17, 119– 20, 130; animosity toward the Continental Congress, 28–29; mobilization problems, 26–27; mutiny of, 32. See also Continental Congress; Martin, Joseph Plumb; pensions Continental Congress, 26–29, 33, 58, 62 321 INDEX Cooper, James Fenimore, 95–96, 188 Corbin, Margaret, 203–4, 208–9 Cornwallis, Lord Charles, 23, 93 Cowpens, Battle of, 93 Cox, Allyn, 131 Crittenden, John J., 274 Culpeper’s Rebellion, 149–50, 152, 155–56, 160n26 Culver, Erastus, 280–81 Cunningham, Ann Pamela, 266, 273 Cunningham, Louisa Bird, 266 Custis, George Washington Parke, 8–10; childhood and early life, 129–31; commemoration of George Washington and the American Revolution, 128–40, 299; description of Captain Molly, 207–8; political career, 132–33 Custis, Nelly, 129–30 Declaration of Independence, 20, 33, 41, 52, 62–63, 65, 72n23, 73n41, 181, 221, 252–54, 256, 258 Delany, Martin, 51 Delaware, 22–23, 60, 63, 67–69. See also Kent County Delaware River, 47, 255 Dickinson, John, 7, 9–11, 58; and John Adams, 61–66, 69–70; early life and education, 60...