Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival

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 Numbers in italics indicate figures. abatis, 148 abolition: distinguished from emancipation, 95, 175–76; linked to the draft, 131; message of, newspapers’ debates about, 68–69 abolitionism: Democrats’ response to, 94–95; development of movement for, 18–22; dispute over, 93; serving to reduce the Confederacy’s ability to fight, 94 abolitionists: pushing for national emancipation and equal rights for blacks, 24–28; violence against, 22–24 abolition societies, 10, 228–29n13 Act for the Defense of Liberty in This State (1854), 37 Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 120–21 “Advice to South Carolina” (poem), 56 aid societies, 90. See also soldiers’ aid societies Albemarle Sound, 73 American Colonization Society, 18, 233n43 Amistad case, 1, 25–26 amnesty proclamation, 270–71n109 Anaconda Plan, 65–67, 72, 77, 141 Andersonville Boy statue (Hartford, CT), 199 Andersonville Prison, 141–42, 199 Andrew, John, 132 anniversaries, celebrations of, 177–78 anti-abolition movement, development of, 18–19, 22–24 antislavery societies, 11, 19–20 Arlington Cemetery, 189 arms industry, 64, 118–19. See also individual companies Army Corps (U.S.): 9th, 110–11; 11th, 122, 123; 12th, 122 Army of the Gulf, 145 Army of the James, 145 Army of Northern Virginia, 80 Army of the Potomac, 64, 80, 120–23, 138, 145–46, 148, 150 Army of Virginia, 145 Arnold, John, 53 Atlanta (GA), 150, 158 Babcock, James, 38, 45 Bacon, Elijah W., 265n76 Bacon, Leonard, 19, 33 Baldwin, Raymond, 210, 211 Baldwin, Roger, 243n26 Baldwin, Sherman, 26 Baldwin, Simeon, 24 Banks, Nathaniel, 80, 81, 124, 125, 145 Banning, John, 199 Banning and Rowe Monument (East Hartland, CT), 199 Barber, Sophronia, 63 Barbour, Henry H., 108 Barnum, P. T., 60, 61, 180–81, 246n59 Battell, Robins, 243n26 Batterson, James G., 172, 176–77, 192, 198 battle of Antietam, 82–88, 92–93 battle of Bull Run (first), 41, 57–59, 61, 70 battle of Bull Run (second), 82 battle of Cedar Mountain, 81–82 battle of Chancellorsville, 121–23 298 } Index battle of Chickamauga, 136 battle fatigue, 208–10 Battle Flag Day, 177, 208 battle of Gettysburg, 125–30 battle of Wilson’s Creek, 67 Beaufort (SC), 150 Beauregard, P. G. T., 57, 58, 145 Beckwith, Josiah G., 91, 243n43 Bell, John, 47 Beman, Amos G., 19–20, 24, 26–28, 95, 103, 283n42 Beman, Leverett, 28 Benham, H. W., 75, 77 black regiment, called for, in Connecticut, 134–35 Black Republicans, 38 black rights, movement for, 11–12 blacks: participation in the Civil War, opposition to, 3–4; violence against, 23–24; voting rights of, 25, 26–28, 176, 178–88. See also free blacks black troops, 79, 104–5, 132–35, 154 Blake, Edward, 81 Blakeslee, Benjamin, 84 Blight, David, 175, 189, 213, 223 Blinn, Jarvis, 86, 92 blockade strategy. See Anaconda Plan Booth, John Wilkes, 169 bounties, 63, 248n Bragg, Braxton, 136 Branford (CT), monument in, 196 Breckinridge, John C., 47 Bridgeport (CT), monument in, 198 Briggs, James, 43 Bristol (CT), monument in, 191–92 Britain, interest of, in the war, 82 Brooks, Preston, 29, 37–38 Brooks/Sumner beating, 29, 37–38 Brown, George, 171 Brown, Henry, 281n25 Brown, John, 1, 38, 119 Brown, Joseph, 27 Brown v. the Board of Education, 213–14 Browne, Dunn. See Fiske, Samuel Bruser, Lawrence, 34 Buckingham, William A., 6, 37, 42; annual message of, to the General Assembly, 53–54, 45–46, 115; assuring Connecticut’s loyalty to the union, 51; calling for arrest of traitors, 61; calling for reinforcements (1863), 136; calling for volunteers at outset of war, 53; congratulating Lincoln after the 1864 election, 165; election of, as governor, 43–45; funding the first regiments, 53; instituting a draft, 90, 131; on granting blacks the right to vote, 178; on slavery and the Constitution, 94; reelection bids, 102–3, 107–8, 113, 142–43; sending Lincoln resolution supporting him, 99–100; sending representatives to peace conference (1861), 50–51; supporting constitutional amendment to end slavery, 157–58; views of, on slavery and secession, 46, 49; writing to Lincoln about the 1864 state election results, 143–44; writing to Lincoln about the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 96–97 Buford, John, 125 Bull Run syndrome, 65 Burnham, Hiram, 58 Burnham, John, 92 Burnside, Ambrose, 72, 73, 88–89, 120 Burnside’s Bridge, 83 Burr, Alfred, 238n88, 239n103 Bushnell, Horace, 61 Butler, Andrew, 37 Butler, Benjamin, 68, 77, 145 Cadwell, Charles, 66–67 Cahill, Thomas, 78 Camp, Henry Ward, 74, 95 Camp Parapet (LA), 78 Canton (CT), monument in, 199 Carr, David...