Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era

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205 Index Boldface numbers indicate an extended treatment of a subject. Abernethy, Alex, 70 Abernethy, George, 7, 70, 71 Adams, James, 48 Adams, John Quincy, 3, 23 Addison, John, 18-19 African Americans, 35-36, 160. See also Blacks and Negroes American West. See Trans-Mississippi American West antislavery and abolitionism, 81, 85, 98; in Oregon, 35-36. See also Radical Republicans Applegate, Jesse, 35, 106 Army, 111-12. See also military policies and actions and Union Army assassination of Lincoln. See Lincoln assassination Baker, Edward D., ix, 19, 42, 44, 45, 46-57, 52-56, 61-62, 72-73, 79, 119, 164; and Lincoln, 75, 76, 83 Ball’s Bluff, Battle of, 73, 83-84, 119 Bates, Edward, 65, 66, 67 Bear River, battle, 113-14 Beeson, John, 104 Bell, John, 78 Blacks, 160, 164. See also African Americans and Negroes Blair, Montgomery, 135 “Bleeding Kansas,” 60, 65 Boise, 95, 96, 123 Borah, William A., 160 Breckinridge, John C., 31, 66, 67, 68 Brooks, Noah, 148 Brother Jonathan, 154 Buchanan, James, 40, 59, 60, 71 Burton, Mike, 163 Bush, Asahel, 22, 32, 61, 67, 71, 88, 107, 119-20 Butler, Ben, 127 Butterfield, Justin, 15, 19 California, 8-9, 54-55, 112 Canada, 6, 7 Cayuse War, 10, 13 Champoeg, Oregon, 6-7 Chase, Salmon, 65, 93, 94, 116, 127 Chicago, 64-65 Chief Joseph (son), 125 Civil War battles, 115, 126-27 Clay, Henry, 2-3, 20, 23 Clayton, John M., 16 Cole, George E., 94, 96, 97, 122, 131 Compromise of 1850, 23 Confederacy and Confederate supporters, 105-10. See also South and Southerners Congress. See U. S. Congress Conner, Patrick Edward, 113-14 Constitution. See U. S. Constitution Cooper Union speech (Lincoln), 2829 , 62-63 Copperheads, 83, 99, 108, 120, 140 Corvallis, Oregon, 46, 86 Craig, David Watson, 56 Daniels, William B., 97, 122-23 Dart, Anson, 103 Davis, George T. M., 18-19 Deady, Matthew P., 32, 35, 38-39, 87, 88, 119, 140-41, 151-52 Democratic Party, 9, 22, 65-66, 135-36; in Idaho, 108, 131, 132; in Montana, 124, 132; in Oregon, 3133 , 35, 40-41, 59-60, 61, 75-80, 84, 87-88, 129, 138-39, 163-64; in Oregon Country, 83, 141-42, 153; in Oregon election of 1860, 71-72, 75-80; in Oregon Country election Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era 206 of 1864, 119, 124, 138, 142-43; in Washington, 70-71, 89, 94 Denny, Arthur A., 142 “Dixie Democrats,” 106, 120 Dole, William P., 102, 103, 125-26, 148 Donation Land Act of 1850, 8, 33, 43, 101 Douglas, Stephen A., 3, 10, 13-14, 22, 23-24, 27-28, 78. See also Democratic Party Dred Scott Decision (1857), 22, 27, 44, 85 Dryer, Thomas J., 35, 55, 61, 84-85 Early, Jubal A., 126, 133-34 Edgerton, Sidney, 96, 97, 98-100, 123-24, 132, 141, 143 educational policies and programs, 100, 101. See also Morrill LandGrant College Act (1862) Edwards, G. Thomas, 169 Elder, Alfred R., 56, 79, 142 Election of 1860, 59-80, 164, 170, 190 Election of 1864, 115-43, 170 Emancipation Proclamation. See Lincoln England, 8, 52 Evans, Elwood, 142, 157 Ewing, Thomas, 16, 17, 43 Farragut, David, 133 Five Civilized Tribes, 102 Foner, Eric, 169 “Fort Laramie Fraud,” 131 Fort Sumter, 85, 86 Founding Fathers, 25, 27, 29 Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890 (1992, Johnson), 161, 170, 182 Francis, Eliza, 49, 52, 157 Francis, Simeon, ix, 16, 47-52, 62, 72-73, 130-31; and Lincoln, 73, 74, 79, 83, 138-39, 153-54; in Washington Territory, 84 Frèmont, John C., 60, 127, 135 Frontier Politics and the Sectional Conflict: The Pacific Northwest on the Eve of the Civil War (1955, Johannsen), 161-62 fusion (political), 66, 71, 73-74, 75, 78, 128, 129-30 Gabbard, Sara Vaughn, xi, xxi Gaines, John P., 31 Garfielde, Selucious, 89-90 General Land Office. See U. S. General Land Office Gibbs, Addison C., 86, 114, 120, 121, 128, 139 Gladwell, Malcolm, 156. See also The Tipping Point (2002) Gold Rush of California, 8-9 Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 64-65, 168 Grant, Ulysses S., 126-27 Great Britain, 8, 53 Greater Reconstruction, the, x, 184 Greeley, Horace, 60, 65 Green, Michael S., 168, 170, 190 Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of, 10 habeas corpus, suppression of writ of, 120, 138 Hale, Calvin, 104, 125-26 Hamilton, Alexander, 3 Hanks, John T., 41 Harding, Benjamin, 86...