Abraham and Mary Lincoln

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141 Index Italicized page numbers refer to figures. Abraham Lincoln is referred to in subheadings as AL. Abell, Bennett, 32–33 Abell, Elizabeth, 32–33 advice literature, 60 African Americans: AL’s experience with, 68–69, 108–9; AL’s position on equal rights for, 74; Mary’s connections with, 16, 109–10, 121; as proportion of Sangamon County population, 66–67; Union army enlistment, 80–81; in Washington , D.C., 80–81, 108–9. See also slavery; individual names Agen, James, 111 Albert (Prince Consort), 115–18 Alcott, Louisa May, 79, 110 American Revolution, and Native American tribes, 5 Arlington National Cemetery, 111 Armstrong, Hannah, 29 Armstrong, Jack, 29 Army of the Potomac, 80 Baker, Edward, 27–28, 70 Barton, Clara, 79 Battle of Blue Licks, 9 Bell, John, 76 Black Hawk War (1832), 26 Bloody Island, 44 Boone, Daniel, 4–5 Boone family, 4 Boone’s Trace, 5 Booth, John Wilkes, 111 Boston Daily Journal, 110–11 Bradwell, James, 122 Bradwell, Myra, 122 Breckinridge, John C., 76, 94 Brooks, Hannah, 85 Buchanan, James, 74, 85 Butler, Elizabeth, 29 Butler, William, 44 Camp Barker, 108–9 carriage rides, 105, 114 Carroll’s Row, Washington, D.C., 108 chain migrations, 6, 13, 25–28 Chapman, A. H., 13 Chapman, Harriet, 51–52 Chase, Salmon, 86 childbearing, in nineteenth century, 47, 54–56 childhood bereavement, 8–9, 11–12, 56 childhood mortality in nineteenthcentury America, 57–58 Clay, Henry, 15, 24, 65–66, 69 Colchester, Lord, 101 companionate marriages, 41, 50–52 Compensated Emancipation Act (1862), 81 Confederate States of America, 76 Congress: appropriation for White House furnishings and upkeep, 85–86, 96–98; boundary between Indians and whites, 5; defense of Washington, D.C., 79; KansasNebraska Act, 74; Mary Lincoln’s treatment by, 118–19, 123–24; power to interfere with slavery, 71 Congressional Survey System, 7 Conkling, Mercy Levering, 73, 86 Conrad, Thomas Nelson, 111 Constitutional Unionists, 76 Continental Congress, 5 142 | index contraband (fugitive slaves), 80, 108 cooperative families, 12 cotillion at American House, 39 courtships, 30–35, 39–42, 44 Cuthbert, Mary Ann, 85, 90 Daily National Republican, 94, 104–5 Davis, David, 87, 119 Davis, Jefferson, 85 Davis, Varina, 85 Dines, Mary, 108–9 dinner parties, of Springfield’s middle class, 52–53 divorce rates in Springfield, 64–65 domestic manuals, 60 Douglas, Stephen, 40, 74–76 Douglass, Frederick, 110, 121 Dred Scott decision, 74 Dresser, Charles, 45, 47–48 duels, Shields’s challenge to AL, 44–45 Early, Jubal, 79 Edwards, Elizabeth Todd: courtship of AL and Mary, 40–41; home as outpost for Todd family, 27–28, 37–38; marriage of AL and Mary, 45; Mary as guest of, 122; on Mary’s mourning, 100; as White House guest, 86 Edwards, Ninian (Governor), 26–27 Edwards, Ninian W.: courtship of AL and Mary, 40–41, 42; in Democratic Party, 73; marriage of AL and Mary, 45; slavery and, 67; and Todd family, 26–28, 37–38 11th New York Calvary Regiment, 113 11th New York Volunteer Infantry, 83 Ellsworth, Elmer, 77, 83, 90 Emancipation Proclamation, 80–81 Emerson, Jason, 123 engagements, in nineteenth century, 40 factory system, 48–49 families, 6, 12, 54–55. See also farm families ; Lincoln family; Todd family farm families: cooperative, 12–13; “escape and repeat” tradition, 3–4; industrialization and, 48–49, 50–52; opportunities in Indiana, 7; step migration, 6 Fayette County, Kentucky, 66 fertility control, 54–55 Florville, William, 68 Francis, Simeon, 44 freedom villages, 80, 108–9, 111 Free-Soil movement, 71, 74 Frémont, John C., 74 fugitive slaves (contraband), 80, 108 funerals, royal vs. presidential, 117–18 Garfield, James, 123–24 Garfield, Lucretia, 124 gender roles, in new middle class, 49–52, 54, 59, 62–64 Gentry, Allen, 66 Gentry, James, 20 Globe Tavern, 46–47 Gourley, James, 59–60 Grant, Julia, 124 Grant, Ulysses S., 103 Greeley, Horace, 100 Grigsby, Aaron, 19 Grigsby, Charles, 20 Grigsby, Nathaniel, 15 Grigsby, Sarah Lincoln, 19 Grimsley, Elizabeth Todd “Cousin Lizzie,” 86–87, 95–97 Halleck, Henry, 113 Hanks, Dennis, 12–13, 20, 25, 66 Hanks, John, 14, 19, 21 Hanks, Nancy, 6, 8, 13 Hardin, John J., 44, 69 Harrison, William Henry, 39 index | 143 Hay, John: on conditions at the White House, 91; on friendship of AL and Speed, 36; Mary Lincoln and, 96, 99; rail journey to Washington, D.C., 77; White House offices and accommodation, 87, 88 Hay, John, Sr., 49...