Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-1868

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Index Albright, Charles, 6, 70, 86, 151, 162n. 16 Allen, Samuel, 105, 106 Anthracite coal, reluctance to use, 18 Archbald: enrollment resistance in 100-101; miners' union in, 126-27, 137n.19 Ashland, strike in, 58 Associated Mechanics of Schuylkill County,55 Bank of the United States, 44 Bannan, Benjamin, 23, 25, 28, 30, 32, 38, 43, 47, 49, 54, 59,60, 72, 73, 74-76, 77-78, 81, 85, 86, 87, 98, 101-2, 104, 125,129, 131-34, 135, 141-42, 144-45, 148, 155, 157, 158, 160, 168, 170-71 Bast, Gideon, 52, 68n. 35 Bates Union, 53 Beaver Meadow, strike in, 58 Belmont, August, 95 Benevolent associations, 65, 126, 137n.19 Biddle, Charles, 11 Black, Jeremiah, 83 Bomford, Col. James D., 107, 108, 111,115 Borda, Eugene, 30, 34, 41n.26, 56, 57 Boston Pilot, 97, 103 Bowen, Eli, 43, 85 Bowen, James, 109, 112 Boyd, Lt. Col. Carlisle, 156-57 Bradford, Stephen N., 107, 108, 140, 142, 143, 146, 148, 161 Brady, Thomas, 49, 52 Breckinridge, John C., 82, 84, 101 Bressler, Abraham, 109, 110 Broad Top Coal Region, 97 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers , 160-61 Brown, David, 32 Brownson, Orestes, 96 Buchanan, James, 82-83, 84 Buckshots, 106, 149, 150, 151 Cadwalader, Gen. George, 161, 169 Cameron, Simon, 31, 85 Caraher (a lieutenant colonel), 146, 148 Carbon County, 72, 89 Carbon County Gazette, 27, 45, 74 Carbon Democrat, 58, 149 Carbon Guards, 57 Carey, Henry, 81 Cass Township coal district, 54, 60-61,62,63, 101, 112, 116, 132 Catholic church: and enrollment, 103; and politics, 75, 79; and temperance , 75-76 Charles A. Heckscher Company, 30-31, 60-61, 132 Chase, Salmon, 31, 41n. 27 Child labor, in the mines, 38 Cist, Jacob, 18 Civil War: conscription necessary for, 95-96, 97-98; enlistments for, 85, 95, federal military occupation of coal region during, 4, 5-6, 10, 13, 102-3, 107-8, 115-16, 125, 142-43, 145-46, 147-48, 149-50, 153, 157, 161; opposition to con191 192 ANOTHER CIVIL WAR scription during, 3-6, 11-12, 95-117 passim, 140 Coal: price of, 8, 25, 27-28, 33-35, 47, 53, 56, 59, 148, 158, 159, 160, 167; tonnage of, 18, 19, 30, 158 Coal industry: and agriculture, 44-45; collective production control suggested , 33-34; and company stores ("store-order system"), 38, 47, 48, 51, 52, 57, 125; improvement companies in, 29-32; independent operators in, 8-9, 19, 22-23, 24-25, 27-28,29, 32-34, 35-37,47; markets for, 18; prosperity in, 16-1 7, 123-24, 141; provost marshals' interests in, 12, 157; respectability of, 43; shipping price war in, 25-27; transport companies in, 8, 19, 23, 24-25, 159-60; wage cuts attempted , 129, 170 Coal miners: benevolent associations for, 65, 126; immigration of, 45, 54, 72-73; numbers of, 47; property ownership among, 61, 62; strike tradition among, 54; unemployment among, 57; unionizing among, 9,12-13,16-17,53,55, 62,63-66, 126, 128, 135; wages for, 9, 17,37-38,46-47,51, 52-54, 56, 59, 61, 65, 81, 124, 125, 128, 129-30, 137n. 15, 158-59, 167. See also Strikes, by coal miners Coal Mining Association of Schuylkill County,34 Cochran, Edward, 49 Coleman, j. W., 5 Collieries, owned by Heckscher family, 30-31,60-61 Conscription Act of 1863, 11-12, 104, 129, 135, 140, 141 Conscription Law (1862), 104 Couch, Gen. Darius, 108, 142-43, 149, 150-51, 155, 158 Curtin, Gov. Andrew, 4, 96, 98, 102, 103, 143 Davis, jefferson, 107 Davis, Otto Wilson, 171, 174n. 11 Delaware and Hudson Canal Compan ~ 24, 27, 34, 35, 39-40n.7, 160, 161 Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, 34, 36, 127, 160 Democratic party: denouncement of military presence in mining regions, 143; farmers' support for, 72, 76; miners' support for, 4, 7, 10-11, 66, 70-71, 73, 78, 79, 81-82, 89; opposition to conscription by, 96, 97,98, 140, 152; pragmatism of, 82; and restoration of the Union, 70-71 Democratic Standard, 155 Department of the Susquehanna (Union Army), 5, 143 Douglas, Stephen, 84 Dunne, Henry, 153 Easton Argus, 86, 87, 88, 99 Easton Express, 148 Emancipation Proclamation, 86, 95 Emporium. See Pottsville Emporium Ethnicity: and loyalty, 85; and voting patterns, 80, 81 Farmers: impact of coal industry on, 44-45; loyalty to Democrats, 72, 76; opposition to conscription among,5 Ferry, Brig. Gen. Orris, 155-56, 157 Fincher, jonathan, 121...