Of Times and Race: Essays Inspired by John F. Marszalek

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163 INDEX African American history, overview, 147–51 African American soldiers out West: after the Civil War, 89; as buffalo soldiers, 89, 90–92; Columbus, New Mexico, 90–102; and John J. Pershing expedition, 90–91; relations with whites, 91–93; riot in Houston, Texas, 91–92, 96; in Spanish-American War, 90; sports and racism, 93–102; and World War I, 90 Aughey, John H., 33, 37 Blair, Francis P., 9–10 Buchanan, James, 13, 17 Butler, Benjamin F., 58–60 Commentary on essays, 151–58 Compromise of 1850, 15–16 Davis, Jefferson, 32, 36, 44 Dennis, Elias, 83 Dodge, Grenville M., 36, 38–39 Donelson,Andrew Jackson: brothers killed in the Civil War, 21; Constitutional Union Party, 19; editor of Washington Union, 16–17; education, 4; minister to Prussia, 11–13; plantations , 3, 7–9, 11–12, 15–18, 22–23; rift with Andrew Jackson, 10–11; secession and Civil War, 19–20; slavery, 4–8, 13–22 Donelson, Elizabeth, 3, 8–9, 11–12, 22–23 Donelson, Emily, 3, 7–8 Du Bois,William Edward Burghardt, 130–31, 142–43, 147 Duncan, Stephen, 44–46 Dunning School of Reconstruction, 129–30 Eaton affair, 10–11 Grant, Ulysses S., 36, 39, 70, 73–75, 78, 81–83, 85–86 Hayden, Thomas“Speedball,” 97–100, 101 Jackson,Andrew, 3–11, 15, 19 Jackson,Andrew, Jr., 4, 11 Jackson, Rachel, 4–6 Johnson,Andrew, 21 Jones County, Mississippi, 31, 40–43, 49 Knight, Newton, 34, 40–43 Knight, Rachel, 42 Know-Nothing (American) Party, 16–17 Lincoln,Abraham, 19, 21, 36, 40, 47–49, 69, 72, 75, 81, 86, 148 Louisiana: African American soldiers in, 56–66; relations between blacks and white Union soldiers, 62–63; Union capture of New Orleans, 57–58; western theater of the Civil War, 55 Lyon, James A., 35 index 164 McPherson, James, 86 Milliken’s Bend, Battle of, 82–85 Minor, Kate, 46–47 Mississippi: African Americans (slave and free) supporting the Union, 47–48; citizens’ attitudes toward blacks, 77; citizens supporting the Union, 35–37, 40, 43–46, 49–50; locations of pro-Unionists, 32–35, 39, 43–44, 49; Unionism-secession debate, 31–35 Naron, Levi H., 37–39, 48 Nashville Convention, 13 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 122 Nutt, Haller, 45–46 Pelan, James, 35 Pettus, John J., 32 Polk, James K., 9–10 Port Hudson, Battle of, 56–57 Raymond, Mississippi, 77 Rosecrans,William S., 37–38, 70 Shepard, Isaac, 78–82 Sherman,William T., 36, 42, 70, 78, 85 Shiloh National Military Park, 115–16, 119, 122; African American veterans working in, 115–23; Civilian Conservation Corps, 115–16, 118–20, 122–23; Civilian Works Administration, 116; segregated camps and racism, 120–23 Simpkins, Francis Butler, writing on South Carolina Reconstruction and aftermath, 129, 131–33, 135–43 South Carolina During Reconstruction, 139–43 Steele, Frederick, 78–79 Thomas, Lorenzo, 47–48, 78, 79 Thompson, Toliver T., 119 Tyler, John, 9 Union soldiers: attitudes toward black soldiers, 74–75, 83–86; attitudes toward slaves and slavery, 69–82, 84–86; Milliken’s Bend case, 78–82 Van Buren, Martin, 8, 11, 14 Vicksburg campaign, 69; north Mississippi campaign, 70–71; siege of, 84 Woody, Robert Hilliard, writing on South Carolina Reconstruction, 129, 131–32, 134–35, 139–43 ...