Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War

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index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. 2 8 9 Abbott, Major Henry, 143, 254n14 abolitionists, 15, 24, 103, 159, 163, 166, 173–74, 191 Academy of Music (New York), 9 acoustics, 129–30, 132, 218, 224 acoustic shadows, 138–39, 141, 147, 148, 154, 160 Adorno, Theodor, 114, 248n36 Agassiz, Louis, 119, 204 Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp (play), 89, 246n82 Allan, William, 207 All Souls’ Church (New York), 16 American Colonization Society, 172 American Journal of Insanity, 61 Amherst College, 201 amputations, 108 Antietam, Battle of, 115 Archer, Robert L., 142 architecture, 39–40, 101, 162–64, 166–69; of stage sets, 129, 176 Armory Square Hospital (Washington, D.C.), 125 Armstrong, Duª, 87 army. See Confederate army; Union army artifacts, 129, 136, 143, 148, 233n38; glass cases for, 134–35 Associated Press, 18–19 Astor Place Riots (New York, 1849), 4, 95 Athenaeum Club (New York), 119 Atlantic Monthly, 27, 105, 107, 108–11, 144, 255n20 Bache, Alexander Dallas, 129–30, 132–35, 204; “Notice of Earthquake Waves on the Western Coast of the United States,” 133 Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space, 46 Bachmann, John, Bird’s Eye View of the City of Washington, D.C., and the Seat of War in Virginia, 13, 14, 22, 35 Baker, Absolem, 188 Baker, Loretta, 188 Baker, Paul R., 53, 238n119 Balzac, Honoré de, 100 Barnum’s Museum (New York), 117 Barton, Clara, 21, 22, 234n53 Bassett, Edward, 150, 151, 153 Bataille, Georges, 56 Bates, David Homer, 62, 63, 78 Bazin, André, 69, 88–89 Beckford, William, 166 Beecher, Henry Ward, 163, 167 Beer, Gillian, Darwin’s Plots, 203, 204 Beethoven, Ludwig van, Crawford’s statue of, 36, 40, 41 Bell, Rosa, 96–97 Bellows, Henry W., 16–17, 29, 46, 205 Benjamin, Walter, 45, 248n26 Berkeley, Henry, 187 Bible, the, 142, 144; Romans, 163 billiards, 23 Birch-Pfeiªer, Charlotte, Fanchon, the Cricket, 20, 29, 159 Blackford, William Willis, 194 Black Hawk War, 240n17 Black Laws, 245n75 Blondheim, Menahem, 19 Bloom, Harold, 2 Bond, G.P., 84, 86 Booth, Edwin, 9, 104, 249n34 Booth, John Wilkes, 22–23, 119 Born, David, 148–49, 255n26 Boston Daily Courier, 40 Boston Music Hall, 25–28, 26, 27, 36, 39–40, 102, 106, 209 Boston Post, 153 Boston Theatre, 12, 15 Boydell, John, Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, 211, 211, 224 Braddon, Mary: Aurora Floyd, 31–32; Eleanor’s Victory, 182 Brady, Mathew, Charlotte Cushman, 9 Brahms, Johannes, 106 Breitwieser, Mitchell Robert, 210 Brewster, Anne Hampton, Spirit Sculpture, 40, 45 Bridges, Sallie, Marble Isle, 37–38, 40 Briggs, John Channing, Lincoln’s Speeches Reconsidered, 64 Bristoe Station, Battle of, 14–15, 139–46, 148–51, 152, 154–56, 161, 180, 198, 207, 213, 214, 255n25, 260n1 Bristol, Michael, 247n3 Broadway (New York, photograph), 42 Brooke, Dorothea, 203 Brooklyn Bridge (New York), 154 Brooks, Noah, 31, 69, 70, 140 Brooks, Peter, 46–47, 100 Brooks, Preston, 192 Brown, Bill, 109 Brown, John, 84, 106 Browne, Charles Farrar, 246–47n3 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave,” 24; “Life,” 23–24 Bull Run, Battle of, 46, 137, 139, 214, 217; memorial to, 217 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, The Last Days of Pompeii, 47 butterfly eªect, 22–25 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, Child Harolde, 266n43 Caldwell, James, A Heath: Macbeth, Banquo, and Three Witches, 211 Cameron, William, and Brothers, Our Chief Lochiel tobacco label, 164, 165 Canterbury Hall (Washington, D.C.), 77 Capitol Building (Washington, D.C.), 30, 30–31, 120, 120–22, 130 Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste, Young Fisherboy with a Shell, 47 Carpenter, Francis, 71 Carrie Martin (ship), 14 Carter, Robert, 117–19 cartes de visite, 20–21, 29, 45, 83, 159 Casaubon, Edward, 203 Castle Murray (Auburn, Virginia), 161, 161–64, 164, 166–72, 172, 174–77, 180, 185, 257n5 Chamberlain, William W., 141 Chambrun, Marquis Adolphe de, 66– 67, 69 Channing, William Henry, 103 Charlemagne, 91–92 Chase, Algernon, 232n26 Chickamauga, Battle of, 145 Civil War, 4, 5, 25, 65, 112, 118, 144, 200, 206, 215, 244n65; acoustic shadows in, 138–39; aestheticism in context i n d e x 2 9 0 of, 113; dead of, 180–82, 187, 194–98; outbreak of, 191; philanthropy during, 21; racial causes of, 174; telegraphy in, 18, 62–63, 65; Whitman’s poetry of, 127; see also specific battles Coast Survey, U.S., 133 Cocke, Charles L., 157, 159; An Account of the Allegheny Spring, in...