Robert E. Lee's Civil War

By Bevin Alexander

Index

Alexander, E. Porter

  • on Antietam, 85, 97
  • at Chancellorsville, 141, 162
  • on fortifications, 256n, 288
  • at Gettysburg, 207, 222-226, 233
  • on Gettysburg, 184, 188n, 194, 197, 203, 222-223
  • on Joeseph Johnston, 278
  • on Lee, 1-2
  • on Malvern Hill, 27, 31
  • at Petersburg, 301-304
  • after Richmond, 308-309, 312-313, 319, 320
  • on Second Manassas, 45-46
  • on sharpshooters, 270n
  • at Spotsylvania, 254, 259
  • on Wilderness battle, 244

Alexander of Macedonia, 274n

Allan, William, 82

Allen, Rev. LW., 28

Amelia Court House, 301,304

Amissville, 54

“Anaconda Plan,” 8

Anderson, George B., 87-88, 101

Anderson, George T. “Tige”

  • at Antietam, 88, 101
  • at Gettysburg, 208,212-215, 217
  • at Wilderness, 250

Anderson, Richard H.

  • at Antietam, 83, 101, 105
  • at Chancellorsville, 145-147, 165
  • at Gettysburg, 185, 190,205, 219, 234
  • at Second Manassas, 48
  • at Spotsylvania, 253-254, 261
  • at Wilderness, 252

Andrews, John W., 130-131

Antietam battle, 77-91, 79,93-114, 95, 116,184

Antietam Creek, 93, 96, 107

Appalachians, 280

Appomattox, 302-303, 309-321

Appomattox Court House, 314

Appomattox River, 288, 307-308, 310

Aquia Creek, 46,48, 51, 52, 117, 140

Archer, James 1., 112-133, 128, 189

Armistead, Lewis A., 30-31, 227-229

Army of Northern Virginia, 6, 135 retreat to Virginia, 235, 237

  • surrender, 315-316, 319-321 Army of the Potomac
  • at Petersburg, 284-285
  • under McClellan, 77

Army of the Tennessee, 239

Ashby’s Gap, 178-179

Ashland, 14, 16

Atkinson, EN., 128

Atlanta

  • siege of, 275-278, 292-293
  • threats to, 8,238-239,242, 243

Augusta, 276n, 295

Ayres, Romeyn B., 209, 214

Babcock, Col. Orville E., 313

Bald Hill, 73, 75

Baltimore, threats to, 37, 83, 119, 170, 187, 280-281

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 80,81, 177, 182

Bank’s Ford, 141, 144, 146-147

Banks, Nathaniel 11, 10,46-47, 57, 63, 67, 100, 243

Barksdale, William, 124, 147, 164, 214-215

Barlow, Francis C., 192, 193, 248, 259-260, 269

Barnes, James, 209, 212-213

battles, see also Atlanta; Petersburg; Richmond

  • Antietam, 77-91, 79,93-114, 95, 116,184
  • Beaver Darn Creek, 17-19, 184 Broad Run, 56,240
  • Cedar Mountain, 46-47, 54
  • Chancellorsville, 135-167, 142-143
  • Chattanooga, 8, 238-239, 241
  • Cold Harbor, 266-271, 267, 279, 284-286
  • Fredericksburg, 38, 98, 115-133, 121
  • Gaines Mill, 20, 266, 268n
  • Gettysburg, 169-188, 174-1 75, 189-235, 191,201,221
  • Groveton, 62-64, 82, 119,171
  • Harpers Ferry, 81, 83-84, 86, 89-90,179, 181
  • Malvern Hill, 23, 25-28, 29-32, 39, 234
  • Manassas (Bull Run), 2-3,4,9,60
  • North Anna, 262-266, 265
  • Petersburg crater, 287-291
  • Second Manassas (Second Bull
  • Run), 42-58, 43, 59-76, 65, 71,119
  • Seven Days, 11-32, 13, 34-39, 44, 48, 184
  • Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), 1-2, 10
  • Shiloh, 35,44, 279
  • South Mountain, 82-86, 88-89
  • Spotsylvania, 253-256, 255, 257, 268
  • Thoroughfare Gap, 63-64
  • Wilderness, 244-253, 247,252, 268
  • Winchester, 282

Beauregard, Pierre, 3, 9

  • at Bermuda Hundred, 263
  • at Gettysburg, 179
  • after Gettysburg, 243, 244n
  • military strategy~ 37, 279
  • at Petersburg, 270-271, 288

Beaver Dam Creek battle, 17-19, 184

Beaver Dam fortifications, 17-18

Beaver Dam Station, 50

Benning, Col. Robert L., 108

Benning, Henry L, 208,250

Bentonville, 297

Bermuda Hundred, 263, 270

Berry, Hiram G., 154, 158-159

Bigelow, John, Jr., 164

Birney, David B., 152, 205, 212, 214, 248, 259-260

blacks, 45, 114, 117, 135

  • in uniform, 289-290

Blair, Francis B, Sr., 4

Blandford Cemetery, 288

Block House Road, 254, 256

Bloody Angle, 261-262

Bloody Lane, 105-106

Blue Ridge Mountains, 176, 178, 179, 280

Boatswain’s Swamp, 19-20, 22, 268n

Bolivar Heights, 84,90

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 9, 34-36, 49, 53n, 70, 97, 274n

Boonsboro, 83-85

Boonsboro Pike, 97, 101

Borcke, Heros von, 38

Boswell, Capt. J. Keith, 53, 160

Boteler, Alexander H., 38

Boteler’s Ford, 91

Brackett’s Ford, 24

Bragg, Gen. Braxton, I 16n, 238-239, 243, 279

Branch, Lawrence O’B., 67, 112

Brandy Station, 173, 179

Breckinridge, John C., 263, 268, 280, 294, 299

Bristoe Station, 55, 57, 61, 63-64, 240

Broad Run battle, 56, 240

Brock Road, 153, 245, 246, 248, 252, 253, 256

Brockenbrough, J.M., 232

Brooke, John R., 106-107

Bryan, Goode, 254

Buford, John, 186, 189, 190

Bulger, Lt. Col. M.J., 210

Bull Run Mountains, 54-55, 59-60, 180

Bull Run River, 59-60, 62, 75

Burke’s Station, 61

Burnside, Ambrose E.

  • at Antietam, 80, 86, 102, 107-109
  • at Chancellorsville, 135-136
  • at Fredericksburg. 117-118, 120, 122, 124-126, 129, 132
  • at North Anna, 263-264
  • at Petersburg, 288
  • at Second Manassas, 42, 44, 46
  • at Spotsylvania, 258-260
  • at Wilderness, 248-249

Burnside Bridge, 108-109, 113

Buschbeck, Adolphus, 154, 157

Butler, Benjamin F “Beast,” 243-244, 263, 270, 294

Butterfield, Daniel, 73-74

Cabell, Henry Colter, 270

Caldwell, John C,, 105,214,226, 231

Cameron, Sect. Simon, 4

cannon

  • in defensive campaign, 38-39
  • on gunboats, 25
  • rifled, 36
  • smoothbore, 34, 36n

Carlisle, 181-183, 181n, 185

Cashtown, 183, 185, 186, 190, 192, 197

Catharpin Road, 253

Catharine Furnace, 151-154

Catlett Station, 52

Catoctin Mountain, 84

cavalry, see also Stuart, J.E.B.

  • at Chancellorsville, 139, 140-141
  • infantry effect on, 36-37, 140-141, 286
  • at Second Manassas, 50
  • weapons of, 141n, 264

Cedar Creek, 283-284

Cedar Mountain battle, 46-47, 54

Cemetery Hill, 193, 194-195, 198-199, 215, 219, 234, 288-289

Cemeteiy Ridge, 194-197, 200, 202-206, 209,214-216, 220, 222-223, 226

Centreville, 60-64, 178

Chaffin’s Bluff, 294

Chamberlain, Cal. Joshua L., 209-211

Chambersburg, 177-180, 182, 185

Chancellorsville, 39, 139-140, 181, 245

Chancellorsville battle, 135-167,142- 143

Charge of the Light Brigade, 218

Charles City Road, 23-24

Charleston, 295

Chase, Sect. Salmon H, 181

Chattanooga, 278

Chattanooga battle, 8, 238-239, 241, 243

Chickahominy River, 15, 19-22, 268

Chickamauga Creek, 238

citizens. see also politics

  • Confederate troops relations with, 177n, 181
  • Federal actions against, 42, 280, 282-283, 293, 296, 304
  • and guerilla war, 274
  • habeas corpus suspension, 116, 137
  • soldiers’ families, 268-269, 270

City Point, 270

coastal defenses, 3,9-10,170

Cobbs, Thomas R.R., 123, 131

Coffin, Charles Carleton, 105-106

Cold Harbor battle, 266-271, 267, 279, 284-286

Colquitt, Alfred H., 85, 155-157

Colston, Raleigh, 172

Colston, Ralph E., 155, 158

Columbia, 295

communications, 275n-276, 278, 281, 291

Confederate soldiers, 16

conscription, 136, 178, 273

Cooke, Col. John R., 106,240

‘Copperheads,” 137

Copse of Trees, 220, 223, 226-227, 229, 231-232, 234

Corinth (MS), 35

Cornfield, 99

cotton. 7

Couch, Maj. Gen. Darius N.

  • at Chancellorsville, 144, 146, 149
  • at Fredericksburg, 129
  • at Gettysburg, 177

Cox, Jacob D., 35, 108-110, 113

Cox, John D., 87-88

Crampton’s Gap, 86-87

Crimean War, 218

Crook, George, 282, 283

Culpeper, 42, 46, 118, 173, 176, 178, 179, 199

Culp’s Hill, 193, 194, 198, 200, 202, 215, 217, 219-220, 222

Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 309

Cumberland Valley, 82, 120, 182

Custis, Mary Randolph, 4

Dabney, Rev. Robert Lewis, 94

Daniel. Julius, 261-262

Danville, 296, 299, 302-304, 310

Darbytown Road, 23, 25

Davis, Benjamin F. “Grimes,” 90n

Davis, Jefferson

  • and Lee, 1-2, 6, 77-78, 169-170, 179, 237, 241, 274, 294-295, 297, 299
  • military strategy, 6-7, 9, 37-38, 138, 170. 178. 238. 292. 294, 319

Davis, Joseph H., 172, 189, 232

Dawkins Branch, 67-69

defensive campaign. see also fortifications; military strategy

  • compared to guerrilla war, 274-275
  • Confederate application of, 172-173, 240-242, 246, 249, 263-266, 268
  • at Gettysburg, 194
  • Davis’ desire for, 6-7, 9,169
  • Federal application of, 252
  • Jackson’s strategy for, 37-39, 60, 120, 123-124, 197
  • and Minié-ball rifle, 34-39,66 successes with, 114, 132, 133, 161, 268

Democratic Party, peace movement, 137, 242

desertion, 294-296, 305

Devens, Charles, 153-154, 157

Devil’s Den, 204-205, 208,212

Dinwiddie Court House, 298

Dispatch Station, 14, 19-22

Doles, George, 155, 156, 258

Doubleday, Abner

  • at Antietam, 98-99
  • at Fredericksburg, 126-127
  • at Gettysburg, 176, 187, 189-190, 192, 193, 216, 226
  • at Second Manassas, 62

Douglas, Kyd, 194, 232

Douglass, Mareellus, 99-100

Dowdall’s Tavern, 154-157

Drayton, Thomas E, 110

Drewry’s Bluff, 263, 291

Dunker Church, 98, 100, 101

Duryea, Jacob, 109

Early, Jubal A.

  • at Antietam, 102
  • at Chancellorsville, 148, 165
  • at Cold Harbor, 268
  • at Fredericksburg, 122, 125, 128
  • at Gettysburg, 178, 181, 185, 193, 195, 198-199,217
  • at North Anna, 264, 266
  • at Rappahannock Station, 240
  • at Second Manassas, 69
  • at Spotsylvania, 256
  • in Virginia, 280-284, 296
  • at Washington, 279-281
  • at Winchester, 282

Edwards Ferry, 180

Elliott, Stephen, Jr., 287-288

Ely’s Ford, 145, 244

Emancipation Proclamation, 45, 114, 116-117, 135

Emmitsburg Road, 202, 205, 212-214, 216-217, 231

Emory, William H., 283

European intervention, 7,10, 78

Evans, Nathan George “Shanks,” 75, 101

Evelynton Heights, 27, 32

Evergreen Cemetery, 192

Ewell, Richard S.

  • at Gettysburg, 171, 173, 176-182, 185, 190, 192-195, 198-200, 202-203, 215, 217, 220-222
  • at North Anna, 264
  • after Richmond, 305-307
  • at Second Manassas, 42, 45, 54, 55, 56,60-62
  • at Spotsylvania, 254-256, 260
  • at Wilderness, 240, 244-245, 248, 250, 252

Fairchild, Col. Harrison S., 111-112

Fairfax Court House, 178

Fairfax Station, 61

Fairview, 156, 157

Falling Waters, 237

Falmouth, 136, 169

families. see also citizens

  • of soldiers, 268-269, 270

Faimville, 304,307-309

Farragut, David C., at Mobile, 292

Fayetville, 180, 185

Federal troops, 167

Ferrero, Edward, 109, 289-290

Field, Charles W., 244n, 249, 254, 268, 311

Fisher’s Hill, 282

Fitzhugh, Maj. Norman, 50-51

Five Forks, 298

Fleetwood Hill, 173

Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 275n

Fort Fisher, 294

Fort Monroe, 3-4, 10,46,47, 137, 178

Fort Stedman, 297

Fort Stevens, 281

Fort Sumter, 4-5

fortifications

  • abandonment of, 15
  • abatis, 34
  • Beaver Dam, 17
  • defensive, 33-34, 60, 70, 82, 98, 132-133, 149,153-154, 240-241,262,266,268, 277
  • effectiveness of, 262-268

field, 256n

foxholes (ditches), 35

trench warfare, 286-291

Fox’s Gap, 87-88

Franklin, William B.

  • at Antietam, 80,86, 102
  • at Chancellorsville, 136
  • at Fredericksburg, 120, 125-127, 129
  • at Second Manassas, 75
  • at Seven Days, 23

Frayser’s Farm, 25, 27, 30, 184

Frederick, 80, 280

Frederick the Great, 276n

Frederick-Boonsboro Turnpike, 84

Fredericksburg, 46,52, 167

Fredericksburg battle, 38, 98, 115-133, 121

Fredericksburg Road, 254

Freeman, Douglas 5., 53, 172, 198n

Fremantle, Col. Arthur, 233

French, Willliam H., 102, 103, 129

frontal attacks. see also military strategy

  • casualties from, 18-21, 113-114, 131-133, 148, 269-270
  • Confederate strategy for, 292, 293, 306
  • Lee’s strategy for; 11-12, 17-18, 21, 26, 30, 35, 115, 184, 294, 297

Fry, Col. Birkett Davenport Fry, 232

Fuller, Gen. J.F.C., 94, 274n, 275

Gaines Mill battle, 20, 36, 266, 268n

Gainsville, 54-57, 61-63, 68, 72

Galena (steamship), 28

Garland, Samuel, 87

Garnett, Richard B., 110,225, 227-228, 232

Georgia, 276, 277

Germanna Ford, 145, 244

Germanna Plank Road, 245

Getty, George W., 246, 248

Gettysburg battle, 169-188, 174-175, 189-235, 191, 201, 221

Gibbon, John

  • at Chancellorsville, 144, 164
  • at Cold Harbor, 270n
  • at Fredericksburg, 126, 127-128
  • at Gettysburg, 226
  • at Second Manassas, 62
  • at Spotsylvania, 259
  • at Wilderness, 248

Glendale, 23-25

Globe Tavern, 291-292

Gordon, Gen. George H., 51, 101

Gordon, John B.

  • at Antietam, 103-104
  • at Gettysburg, 194
  • at Spotsylvania, 258, 260
  • in Virginia, 283, 297, 305-312
  • at Wilderness, 252-253

Gordonsville, 42,44,46-48, 140, 244n

Gordonsville-Culpeper Road, 46

Graham, Charles K., 214

Grand Gulf, 169

Grant, Ulysses S.

  • appointment, 239, 242-243
  • military strategy, 262,266,268-270, 276-277,280,282, 284-286,293,298-299
  • at North Anna, 262-263,266
  • offer of surrender, 309-314
  • at Petersburg, 287-288,292 at Spotsylvania, 253,258-261
  • in Tennessee, 275n
  • at Vicksburg, 169, 275n
  • at Wilderness, 244-248

Greene, George Sears, at Antietam, 101, 103

Greensboro, 296

Gregg, John, at Wilderness, 249

Gregg, Maxcy

  • at Antietam, 112-113
  • at Fredericksburg, 128
  • at Second Manassas, 67-68

Griffin, Thomas, 164

Grigsby, Col. Andrew 1., 99

Grover, Cuvier, 68

Groveton, 59

Groveton battle, 62-64, 82, 119, 171

Groveton Heights, 60-61,66, 72, 82, 119

Guineys Station, 165

gunpowder, 276n

habeas corpus suspension, 116, 137

Hagerstown, 84,180

Hagerstown Turnpike, 96, 99

Hall, Norman 3., 216, 226, 229

Halleck, Gen. Henry Wager

  • at Antietam, 80, 81
  • at Fredericksburg, 118
  • and Grant, 258
  • military strategy, 77, 181, 239, 279
  • at Second Manassas, 35, 41, 45-47

Hamilton’s Crossing, 122, 124, 126

Hampton, Wade

  • at North Anna, 264
  • at Petersburg, 291-292
  • at Spotsylvania, 253
  • at Trevillians, 280

Hancock, Winfield Scott

  • at Antietam, 107
  • at Cold Harbor, 268
  • at Fredericksburg, 129
  • at Gettysburg, 190,194, 226, 231
  • at Petersburg, 291
  • at Spotsylvania, 256,258-259,261
  • at Wilderness, 245-246, 248-250, 252

Hanover junction, 253,263,264,279

Harland, Col. Edward, 112

Harpers Ferry battle, 81, 83-84, 86, 89-90, 179, 181

Harris, Nathaniel H., 261

Harrisburg, 81-82, 177, 179-183, 186-187

Harrison’s Landing, 11, 21, 25-27, 32,41,42,44-45

Harrow, William, 229-231

Haskell, John C., 290

Hatch, John H, 72

Haw’s Shop, 264

Haymarket, 180

Hays, Alexander, 226, 232

Hays, Henry, 100

Hazel Grove, 152, 156,157,160, 162

Hazlett, Charles E., 212

Heintzelman, Samuel P., 55,57

Henagan, John W., 254

Henderson, G.F.R., 27, 61,94

Henry House Hill, 70, 73, 75

Heth, Harry

  • at Gettysburg, 172, 185, 186, 189, 190, 193, 195, 217, 219
  • at Wilderness, 246, 248-249

High Bridge, 307-308

Hill, A.P, 15

  • at Antietam, 83,90,96, 109-110, 113
  • at Chancellorsville, 155, 158-161
  • at Fredericksburg, 122, 124, 126, 176-1 78
  • at Gettysburg, 171-172, 176, 177-179, 183, 187, 189-190, 192, 194, 202, 217
  • at North Anna, 263-264
  • at Petersburg, 288, 291, 299
  • at Second Manassas, 46, 54, 55, 60,61,63,66,69, 73
  • at Seven Days, 14, 16-18, 20,25-26, 28, 30
  • at Wilderness, 240, 244, 246, 249

Hill, D.H., 15

  • at Antietam, 84-88, 100-101, 105-106
  • at Battle of Seven Pines, 2
  • at Chancellorsville, 137
  • at Fredericksburg, 122, 125
  • at Second Manassas, 47, 52-53
  • at Seven Days, 14, 16-18, 21, 28-29,31

Hoke, Robert F., 128, 266, 288

Holmes, Theophilus H., 22,25,30

Hood, John Bell

  • at Antietam, 88, 100
  • at Gettysburg, 170,200, 205-208, 212, 215
  • after Gettysburg, 238
  • at Nashville, 292-293
  • at Second Manassas, 63, 75
  • in Virginia, 292

Hooker, Joseph

  • at Antietam, 98, 102
  • at Chancellorsville, 136-140, 144, 146-149,153, 157-166
  • at Fredericksburg, 117n, 120, 124, 131
  • at Gettysburg, 169, 177, 179-181
  • at Second Manassas, 56-57, 68

Hopewell Pass, 63

Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 139,151,284

Howard, Oliver O.

  • at Chancellorsville, 150, 154, 157, 166
  • at Gettysburg, 187, 190

Hundley’s Corner, 16-17

Huger, Benjamin, 23-25, 28-2(

Humphreys, Andrew A., 205, 215

Humphreys, Benjamin C., 254

Hunt, Gen. Henry J., 205, 224

Hunter; David, in Virginia, 280

Imboden, John D., 177, 179, 183, 185, 234-235

Irwin, William H., 107

Iverson, Alfred, 155

Ives, Joseph Christmas, on Lee, 1-2

Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall”

  • at Antietam, 84-85, 89-90
  • at Chancellorsville, 148, 150-153, 155-161
  • at Fredericksburg, 118, 122-126
  • military strategy, 35, 37-39, 49-50, 53n, 60,70,77,82, 107, 119-120, 150-151, 155, 166-167,171, 197, 241, 278-279, 284
  • at Second Manassas, 42, 44, 4647, 49, 52-54, 56-62, 66, 72, 76
  • at Seven Days, 14, 16-17, 21, 24-25, 28-29
  • threats against Washington, 10
  • wounding and death, 160-161, 165, 171, 184

James River, 12, 14, 22, 138, 243-244,263,270-271,273, 288, 291, 294

Jenkins, Albert C., 177, 179, 196,198

Jenkins, Micah, 250, 252

Jericho Ford, 264

Jericho Mill, 263

Jetersville, 304

Johnson, Bradley 1., 280-281

Johnson, Bushrod, 270, 288

Johnson, Edward

  • at Gettysburg, 172, 178, 181, 186, 194,217, 220, 222
  • at Spotsylvania, 259-260

Johnston, Joseph E.

  • at Gettysburg, 194
  • at Manassas, 3, 4
  • military strategy, 4, 6, 9, 37, 242, 275, 276-278, 292, 295-297
  • at Seven Pines, 1-2
  • at Vicksburg, 169-170

Johnston, Robert D., at Spotsylvania, 262

Jomini, Antoine-Henri. 34-35

Jones, David H., 63, 101, 110

Jones, John R., 83, 91, 99

Kearny, Philip, 57,61,63,68, 76

Kelly’s Ford, 139, 141, 144,240

Kemper, James L., 110-111, 227-228, 231, 234

Kentucky campaign, 116n, 135

Kernstown, 225

Kershaw, Joseph B., 131

  • at Gettysburg, 213-214
  • at Shenandoah Valley, 282
  • at Spotsylvania, 254
  • at Wilderness, 244n, 250

Kettle Run, 56,57,63,67

Keyes, Erasmus D., 23

Kimball, Nathan, 104-105, 130-H

King, Rufus, 61,63-64, 66

Kingston, 181

Kirkland, Sgt. Richard, 132

Kirkland, William W., 240

Lacy, Tucker, 151

Lane, James Henry
  • at Chancellorsville, 159-160
  • at Fredericksburg, 128
  • at Gettysburg, 219, 232-233
  • at Spotsylvania, 260

Lang, David, 215-2 16, 219-220,231, 234

Law, F. Mclvor, 200, 204, 206, 208, 211-212, 268

Lawton, Alexander H., 62, 66, 73-83,99-100

Ledlie, James H., 288-289

Lee, Fitzhugh

  • at Chancellorsville, 145, 150
  • at North Anna, 264
  • at Petersburg, 298
  • after Richmond, 306, 309-312
  • at Second Manassas, 50, 61
  • at Spotsylvania, 253-254

Lee, Gen. Henry “Light Horse Harry,” 4

Lee, Robert E., 317

  • and Davis, 1-2,6, 77-78, 169-179, 237, 274, 294-295, 295
  • farewell address, 318, 319-321
  • history, 4-5
  • with horse “Traveller,” 6-7
  • illness, 138-139, 240n
  • military strategy, 1-2, 6, 12, 32, 37-39, 53, 56, 77-82, 89, 94, 95, 107, 114, 119-120, 135, 138-139, 141, 150-151, 167
  • against Grant, 273-278
  • defensive, 240-241,264, 26
  • at Gettysburg, 169, 171, 179, 180, 183-184, 188-190, 200, 202-204, 206, 217, 219-220, 222, 233-235
  • after Gettysburg, 238, 240-241
  • at Malvern Hill, 234
  • maneuver-only plan, 48-49
  • offensive, 11-12 17-18n, 21, 26, 27, 30, 35, 173, 219, 64-265,268, 278, 284, 297
  • at Petersburg, 271, 287, 291, 293-297
  • after Petersburg, 301,304-306, 308-309
  • at Spotsylvania, 259-260
  • at Wilderness, 243-245, 248, 252
  • Porter on, 1-2
  • public criticism of, 237-238
  • relations with prisoners, 279n
  • relations with subordinates, 1-2, l8n, 49-50, 166, 171
  • surrender at Appomattox, 311-321
  • W.T. Sherman on, 276-277

Lee, W.H.F “Rooney,” 145-146, 176, 286

Lee’s Hill, 123, 130

Leesburg, 78, 281

Letcher, Gov. John, 5

Lewisburg, 280

Lightfoot, Lt. Col. J.N., 105

Lincoln, Abraham, 3, 38

  • calls for volunteers, 4
  • Emancipation Proclamation, 45, 114, 116-117, 135
  • military strategy, 8, 9,10, 41, 44-45, 76, 77, 83, 166, 176, 178, 179, 181,239,242-243
  • national policy issues, 6, 77-78, 82-83, 136-137, 166,242,270,292

Little River Turnpike, 76, 200,203

Little Round Top, 193, 202,204-205, 208-214, 211,227

Locust Grove, 245

Long, Col.. Armistead, 220

Longstreet, James

  • at Antietam, 84
  • at Chancellorsville, 138
  • at Fredericksburg, 118,122-124
  • at Gettysburg, 171-173, 176, 178, 180, 182, 185, 195-197, 200, 202-203,206-207,213, 215, 219-220, 222-225,234,235
  • military strategy, 35, 37, 138, 169, 172, 195-197, 203-204, 241
  • at Petersburg, 294
  • after Richmond, 305-307, 309-313
  • at Second Manassas, 47, 50, 51, 53, 54-55, 57, 63, 70, 72, 74, 82,119
  • at Seven Days, 14, 16, 23, 25-26, 28-30
  • at Seven Pines, 2
  • at Wilderness, 244-246,250-252 Lookout Mountain, 239

Loudoun Heights, 83-84, 90

Louisville, 278, 292

Lowrance, W. Lee 1., 219, 233

Lutheran Theological Seminary, 193

Lynchburg, 280, 296, 304, 308, 315

McCausland, John, 281

McClellan, George Brinton

  • at Antietam, 80, 83, 85, 94, 97-98, 100, 105, 107, 114
  • reinstatement rejected, 136
  • at Fort Monroe, 3-4
  • at Second Manassas, 42, 44-46, 51,63,76
  • at Seven Days, 11-12, 14-15, 18-20, 23, 25,28
  • and Lincoln, 44-45, 117
  • military strategy, 9, 10, 77
  • McDowell, Irwin
  • at Manassao, 3
  • at Second Manassas, 55, 60, 67-68,72-73, 75, 76
  • at Seven Days, 14
  • at Washington, 10

McGowan, Samuel, 261, 262

McCuire, Dr. Hunter, 39,103,361

McLaws, Lafayette

  • after Gettysburg, 238
  • at Antietam, 83-84, 86, 89, 96, 101
  • at Chancellorsville, 147, 165
  • at Fredericksburg, 123
  • at Gettysburg, 200, 205, 207, 213, 215
  • at Second Manassas, 52-53

McLean, Maj. Wilmer, 313

McLean, Nathaniel C., 73

McPherson Ridge, 187, 189, 190, 192, 193

MacRae, Lt. Col. William, 106

Magruder, Gen. John, 15, 22-23, 25, 28-30, 31

Mahan, Dennis Hart, 34

Mahone, William

  • at Cold Harbor, 268
  • at Gettysburg, 217
  • at Petersburg, 286,288,2%
  • after Richmond, 307-309
  • at Wilderness, 250

Malvern Hill battle, 23, 25-28, 29-32, 39, 184, 234

Manassas (Bull Run) battle, 2-3, 4,9, 60

Manassas Junction, 54-57, 61, 63-64, 74, 178

Mansfield, Joseph K.E, 98, 100

Marshall, Col. James K., 232,313,315

Martinsburg, 81, 83-84

Marye’s Heights, 123-125, 129-130, 132, 144, 147-148, 164

Maryland, actions against, 37, 77, 82, 83, 170, 177-178, 281

Maryland Heights, 83-85, 179

Mayo, Col. Robert H., 232

Meade, George C.

  • at Antietam, 98-99
  • at Chanceliorsville, 136, 161
  • at Fredericksburg, 126-128
  • at Gettysburg, 181-183, 186-187, 190, 194,195, 197, 202-205, 207,209,215-216,233,237
  • in Virginia, 308, 312
  • at Wilderness, 238-241, 243, 246

Meagher, Thomas F, 105

Mechanicsville, 14, 36-17

Merrimack (Virginia), 10

Mexican War, 4,6, 18n, 313

Middletown, 283

Miles, Col. Dixon S., 81,84-85,90

military strategy, see also defensive campaign; fortifications; frontal attacks

  • effect on national policy, 6, 77-78, 82-83
  • flank marches, 151-152
  • in general, 17n, 166-167
  • guerrilla war, 273-274, 277, 296, 312, 319
  • leadership, 200-202
  • manoeuvre sur les derrières, 53n
  • maneuver-only plan, 48-49
  • of Napoleon, 34-36, 49, 53n, 70, 97
  • and national policy issues, 6, 77-78, 82-83, 136-137. 173, 242
  • offensive campaign, 11-12, 17-18n, 21, 26, 27, 30, 35, 173, 219, 264-265, 268, 278, 284, 297
  • turning movements, 72, 93, 150

Milroy, Gen. Robert H., 177

Mine Run, 241, 245

Minié-ball rifle, 33-39, 66,148, 166

Missionary Ridge, 239

Mississippi campaign, 169-170

Mitchell, Mary Bedinger, 80

Mobile, fall of, 243, 292

Mobile and Ohio Railroad, 275n

Monitor, 10

Monocacy’ River, 280

MorelI, Gen. George W., 72-73

Morris, Dwight, 104

mortars, 287

Mott, Gershom, 248, 258-259

Mount Tabor Church Road, 87-88

Mule Shoe, 256-262

Munford, T.T.. 101

musket, 33n. 34

Nashville, 292-293

national policy

casualty losses affecting, 270

and politics, 6, 77-78, 82-83, 136-137, 173, 242, 277, 284, 292, 295-296, 318

nervous strain, 111

New Market, 263, 284

New Orleans, 8

North Anna battle, 262-266, 265

North Anna River, 52, 118, 320, 263

North Carolina, 275

Northrop, Col. Lucius B., 137, 241, 294

Oates, Col. William C., 208-211

offensive campaign. see also military strategy

  • Lee’s strategy for, 11-12, 17-18n, 21, 26, 27, 30, 35, 173, 219, 264-265, 268, 278, 284, 297

On War (Clauswitz), 370

O’Neal, Edward A., 155

Orange & Alexandria Railroad, 10, 48, 240

Orange Plank Road, 125, 140, 152-153, 155, 162, 245

Orange Turnpike, 245, 250, 252

Ord, Edward D.C., 308, 311, 313

Osborn, Capt. T.W, 159

Owen, Lt. William Morris, 130

Ox Ford, 263, 264

Ox Hill, 76

Palmer, Oliver H., 130

Pamunkey River, 178, 264

Parker, Col. F.M., 104

Parkers Store, 246

Paxton, E.P, 155-156

Peach Orchard, 204-205, 207-208, 2 12-215. 222, 230

Pegram, H.G., 288

Pelham, Maj. John, 126-127, 129, 139

Pemberton, John Clifford, 169-170, 237

Pender, W. Dorsey

  • at Fredericksburg, 127
  • at Gettysburg, 172, 185, 189-190, 192, 219

Pendleton, William N.

  • at Appomattox, 310
  • at Chancellorsville, 148
  • at Gettysburg, 171n
  • at Malvern Hill, 30-31

Pennsylvania, 170

Pennsylvania Railroad, 8]

Perrin, Abner, 261-262

Perry, William F, 250 Petersburg

  • battle of crater, 287-291
  • siege of, 270-271, 273, 277-278, 281-282, 284-287, 285, 296, 299

Pettigrew, J. Johnston, 172, 186, 193,219-220,225,229,231.

Philadelphia, threats to, 37, 83, 170, 181, 183-184, 187

Phillips, Capt. B.L., 232

Pickett, George

  • at Chancellorsville, 138
  • at Cold Harbor, 268
  • at Gettysburg, 170, 185
  • at North Anna, 263
  • at Petersburg, 299

Pickett’s Charge, 217-219, 220, 222-234

Pipe Creek, 190, 194

Plank Road, 246, 249, 309

Pleasants, Henry, 287-288

Pleasonton, Alfred

  • at Antietam, 108
  • at Chancellorsville, 144-145, 160
  • at Gettysburg, 173, 178, 185
  • Plum Run, 214

Po River, 256

Poague, Capt. William T., 110,246, 249

politics. see also citizens

  • and national policy, 6, 77-78, 82-83, 136-137, 173, 242, 277, 284, 292, 295-296, 318

Pope, Gen. John

  • military strategy, 41-42, 57, 59, 72
  • at Second Manassas, 42-58, 44, 59, 62, 64, 66, 68, 69-70, 72-73, 76, 139, 279

Port Royal, 118, 122-123, 125

Porter, Adm. David Dixon, 294

Porter, Fitz John

  • at Antietam, 97
  • at Second Manassas, 47, 53, 57, 63, 67, 69n, 72-73
  • relieved from duty, 117n
  • at Seven Days, 12, 14-21, 23, 25, 28, 31, 268n

Pusey, Carnot, 216-217

Potomac River, 8, 96, 237, 280-281

Potter, Robert B., 109, 260, 289

Powell, William H., on Petersburg, 289

Powhite Creek, 20

Powhite line, 19

prayer, 181n

prisoner exchange, lln

Prospect Hill, 122-126, 128, 144,147

provisions

  • Confederate, 51, 74, 78, 80n, 81, 115, 137, 177, 180,181,241, 294-296,301, 304,308-315
  • destruction of, 55-57, 253, 282-283, 291,293
  • Federal, 42,81, 116n
  • shoes, 78, 181, 186, 188

Pryor, Roger A., 105

Quaker Road, 8,26

Raccoon Ford, 50

railroads, see also specific railroads

  • Actions against, 8, 14, 21, 21, 49, 55, 56, 74,80-82, 169-170, 177, 179, 182, 240, 270, 275, 278, 280-1, 286, 291-292, 298, 310

Raines Tavern Road, 309

Ramseur, Alfred H., 155-157

Ramseur, Stephen Dodson

  • at Spotsylvania, 258, 261
  • in Virginia, 284
  • at Wilderness, 249

Ransom, Gen. Robert, 123, 131

Rapidan River, 50, 53, 119,237, 240, 244, 279

Rappahannock River, 49, 51, 54 135-136, 159-160, 166, 176

Rappahannock Station, 50-52, 1

Reams Station, 291

Reno, Jesse L., 57, 63, 88

Reynolds, John F.

  • at Chancellorsville, 161
  • at Fredericksburg, 125, 126
  • at Gettysburg, 186,189, 190,
  • at Second Manassas, 62, 63

Rice, 305-307

Rice, Col. Edmund, 226, 228-2

Richard’s Shop, 248

Richardson, Israel B., 100, 105.

Richmond

  • abandonment of, 295-297,2 301-304, 305
  • strategic significance, 8-9, 274-276
  • threats to, 10, 11, 14-15, 41, 46, 51, 138, 165, 178, 242-244, 262, 273, 288

Richmond and Danville Railroad, 286, 291, 298, 301

Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac (RF&P) Railroad, 16 253, 263

Ricketts, James B.

  • at Antietam, 98-99, 102
  • at Second Manassas, 63-64, 61 67-68, 72-73
  • at Washington, 281
  • Ripley, Roswell S., 88

River Road, 26, 30

Roanoke River, 295

Robertson, Beverly H., 179, 182

Robertson, Jerome B., 208, 211, 215

Robinson, John C., 254

Rock Creek, 222

Rodes, Robert F.

  • at Antietam, 88. 101. 106
  • at Chancellorsville, 155, 157, 158, 161
  • at Gettysburg, 178, 181, 185, 192, 194, 195, 198
  • at Kelly’s Ford, 240
  • at Spotsylvania, 254, 260
  • at Winchester, 282

Rodman, Isaac Ii, 108,112

Rohrbach Bridge, 108

Rosecrans, Gen. William S., 238-239

Rose’s Woods, 212-213

Rosser, Thomas L., 254

Round Top, 204-210, 219

Rowanty Creek, 291

Russell, Capt. Henry, 158

Sailor’s Creek, 306-307

St. John, Brig. Gen. I.M., 294

Salem, 280

Salem Church, 165

Sanders, J.C.C., 290

Satterfield, Capt. F. Fletcher, 233

Savage Station, 23

Savannah, 293

Scales, Alfred H., 260

Schenck, Robert C., 73

Schimmelfennig, Alexander, 154, 192, 193

Schofield, John H., 295

Schurz, Carl, 67, 154, 157

Scott, Gen. Winfield, 4, 6,9, 18n

  • “Anaconda Plan,” 8

Second Manassas (Second Bull Run) battle, 42-58, 43, 59-76, 65, 71, 119

Seddon, Sect. James A., 138, 169, 294

Sedgwick, Maj. Gen. John

  • at Antietam, 102-103
  • at Chancellorsville, 141, 147-148, 164- 165
  • at Gettysburg, 195
  • at Spotsylvania, 254, 256
  • at Wilderness, 246, 248, 250, 252

Seminary Ridge, 193, 198-199, 203, 205, 222, 226, 233-234

Semmes, Paul Jones, 215

Seven Days battle, 11-32, 13,34-39, 44, 48, 184

Seven Pines, 23

Seward, Sect. William H., 45

Shady Grove Church Road, 254

Sharpsburg, 89-90, 93, 111

sharpshooters, losses to, 270n, 287

shell shock, 1

Shenandoah Valley, 54, 80-81, 176, 244, 263, 280, 281, 282

Sheridan, Philip

  • at Richmond, 262, 298
  • at Shenandoah Valley, 282
  • in Virginia, 279-280, 282-283, 304, 306, 308, 313, 315

Sherman, William Tecumseh, 166n, 243

  • in Atlanta, 239-240, 277, 292
  • on communications, 275n
  • on fortifications, 241n
  • march to Savannah, 293, 295
  • military strategy, 276-278, 292-293, 297
  • at North Anna, 264, 266

Shiloh battle, 35, 44, 279

Shirley Plantation, 27

Sickles, Daniel F.

  • at Chancellorsville, 144, 146, 152-153, 159
  • at Gettysburg, 200, 202, 204-205, 207, 214

Sigel, Franz, 57, 60, 62-63, 66, 263

Skinker’s Neck, 118, 122-123, 125

slavery, 45, 114, 117, 135, 318, 320

Slocum, Maj. Con. Henry W.

  • at Antietam, 102
  • at Chancellorsville, 141, 152, 154
  • at Gettysburg, 180
  • at Seven Days, 24

Smith, Maj. Ceo. Customs, 6

  • at Chancellorsville, 138
  • at Second Mansssas, 48
  • at Seven Pines, 1

Smith, Martin Luther, 250, 256

Smith, William Farrar

  • at Antietam, 102
  • at Chancellorsville, 136, 137
  • at Fredericksburg, 125, 126
  • at North Anna, 266
  • at Petersburg, 270

Snavely’s Ford, 108

Snicker’s Gap, 178-179, 281

Sorrel, Huxley, 250

South Carolina, 295

South Mountain, 82-86, 88-89, 119, 190,280

South Mountain battle, 82-86, 88-89

Southside ( Lynchburg) Railroad, 286, 298, 304, 307-308

Special Orders No. 191,83,85

Spencer repeating carbine, 264

Sperryville, 41

Spotsylvania battle, 253-256, 255, 257,268

Spotsylvania Court House, 253-254, 257

Stafford Heights, 119, 130, 144, 164

Stannard, George J., 227-228,231,234

Stanton, Sect. Edwin M., 41,179

Starke, William E., 62,66, 74,99

Staunton, 282

Staunton River, 286, 304

Steuart, Con. George H., 260

Stevens, Isaac 1., 68, 76

Stone Bridge, 60,75

Stone, John, 250

Stone, Roy, 192

Stoneman, Gen. George, 145-146

straggling, 78-80, 116

Strasburg, 281, 282, 283

Stuart, J.E.B. “Jeb”. see also cavalry

  • at Antietam, 84-85,93-94
  • at Chancellorsville, 139, 145-146, 150,152, 161-163
  • at Fredericksburg, 126-127
  • at Gettysburg, 173-176, 178, 179-180, 182-183, 188, 199, 220
  • after Gettysburg, 240
  • at Second Manassas, 41, 52, 54,66
  • at Seven Days, 12,14, 15-16, 22, 32
  • at Spotsylvania, 253, 258
  • wounding and death, 262

Sturgis, Samuel D., 110, 113

Sudley Springs, 60,63,67-68, 72, 75-76

Suffolk, 138, 172

Sumner, Edwin V

  • at Antietam, 80, 100,102
  • at Chancellorsvihlc, 136
  • at Fredericksburg, 118, 120, 122, 124

Susquehanna River, 177, 179, 183

Sweitzer, Jacob B., 212-214

Swinton, William, 269

Sykes, George, 202

Taliaferro, William B.

  • at Fredericksburg, 124-125, 128
  • at Second Manassas, 54, 55, 60-62

Taylor, Col. Walter H., 27, 296

Telegraph Road, 123, 165, 263

Tennessee. 8

Terry, Gen. Alfred H., 294

Thomas, Edward C.. 67-68,128, 260

Thomas, George H., 293

Thomas, Henry 0., 290

Thompson, David, 111

Thoroughfare Gap, 54, 56, 60, 63-64

Thoroughfare Cap battle, 63-64

Tilton, William S., 212-213

Todds Tavern, 245-246. 253, 258

Toombs, Robert, 110

Totopotomoy Creek, 264,266

Tredegar Iron Works, 276n

Trevillians, 280

Trimble, Isaac, 219-220, 225, 229, 231-233

Trobriand, Philip Regis de, 212-214

Trestle’s Woods, 214

Turkey Hill, 268n

Turner’s Cap, 84-87

turning movements, 72, 93, 150

United States Ford, 139-141, 146, 150, 155, 158, 160-161, 164

Upton, Emory, 258

Venable, Col. Charles S., 277, 311

Verdiersvihle, 50

Vicksburg, 169-170, 237, 241, 243

Vincent, Strong, 209, 212

Virginia, 274

Virginia Central Railroad, 140, 253, 279

Virginia Military Institute, 263n, 280

von Gilsa, Leopold, 153-154. 156

von Steinwehr, Adolph, 67, 153, 192

Wadsworth, James S., 189, 194, 248, 250

Walker, James A., 262

Walker, John C., 81-84, 90,96, 101

Walker, Joseph, 110

Wallace, Lew, 281

Ward, J.H. Hobart, 208

Warren, Gen. Gouverneur K.

  • at Cold Harbor, 268
  • at Gettysburg, 209
  • at North Anna, 263
  • at Petersburg, 299
  • at Spotsylvania, 254, 261
  • at Wilderness, 245, 248

Warrenton, 54-57, 117

Warrenton-Alexandria turnpike, 59, 61, 72

Washington

  • protection of, 8-9, 177
  • threats to, 10, 37, 54, 61, 77, 170, 187, 196, 279-281

Washington College. 320

Waterloo, 52

Wavnesboro, 282, 296

Webb, Alexander S., 216, 226, 228-229

Weber, Max, 103

Weed, Stephen H., 209, 212

Weldon Railroad, 286, 291

Weldon and Wilmington Railroad, 137

Wellford, Charles C., 151

West Point, military instruction, 34

Westminster, 182

Whipple, Amiel W., 152

White, Con. Julius, 81,84,90

White House, 12, 14, 18, 21-22, 178

White Oak Bridge, 23-24

White Oak Swamp, 21, 23, 24, 293

White’s Ferry, 281

Widow Tapp’s, 246, 249

Wilcox, Cadmus H.

  • at Chancellorsvihle, 165
  • at Cold Harbor, 268
  • at Gettysburg, 215-216, 219-220, 226-227, 231, 233-234
  • at North Anna, 263
  • at Petersburg, 288
  • at Wilderness, 246,248-249

Willcox, Orlando B.

  • at Antietam, 88,110-111
  • at Fredericksburg, 132
  • at Petersburg, 289

Wilderness, at Chancellorsville, 145, 147, 149, 160,162

Wilderness battle, 244-253, 247, 252,268

Wilderness Tavern, 245, 248

Wilkeson, Samuel (New York Times), 224

Williams, Gen. Alpheus, 101,159

Wilhiamsport, 177, 237

Willis, Edward, 266

Wilmington, strategic significance, 276n, 280

Wilson, James H., 254

Winchester, 135, 176-177, 282

Winchester battle, 282

Winder, Charles S., 42

Winder, Gen., 54

Wise, Henry A., 288-289

Wofford, William T., 214, 254

Wood, Fernando, 137

Wright, Ambrose H. “Hans,” 200, 216, 223

Wright, Horatio C.

  • at Spotsylvania, 254-256, 261, 266
  • in Virginia, 283
  • at Washington, 281

Wrightsville, 181,185

Yellow Tavern, 262

Ziegler’s Grove, 223, 231

Zoan Church , 146-148

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