Mr Lincoln's Army (64 page)

Maryland,
advance of Army of Potomac through, 162-65, 195-96, 211-14; Union sentiment
in, 162-65.
See also
Antietam

Maryland
volunteer regiments: 1st Cavalry, 228-29; 2nd, 302

Mason and Slidell, 89, 322

Massachusetts
volunteer regiments: 2nd, 175, 280; 6th, 121, 272; 10th Battery, 171; 11th, 62;
12th, 39-40, 169, 243, 271, 319; 15th, 71, 74-78, 137, 286-87; 19th, 179, 284;
20th, 69, 71-77, 185, 288; 21st, 180, 305, 316; 22nd, 163, 194; 29th, 168;
35th, 238; 37th, 171, 175

Mathias Point, navy action at, 86

Meade,
General George G., 5, 37, 55, 114, 206; at Antietam, 258, 266, 271, 320; at
South Mountain, 238, 240

Meagher,
General Thomas F., 167-68; at Antietam, 295

Meals of Union troops, 178-83

Meat issued to troops, 181-82

Mechanicsville,
battle of, in Seven Days' Battles of peninsular cam-

paign, 133 Medical
discharges from army, 184 Michigan volunteer regiments:  2nd, 205; 3rd, 34, 45,
170; 4th, 116-17; 7th, 287; 17th, 175, 235-37, 306, 331 Military intelligence.
See
Secret
service

Mini6 bullets, 186; wound
caused by, 189

Minnesota, 1st Regiment, 72, 137, 139,

168-69, 267, 288 Mitchell,
Corporal Barton W., 212-13,

280

Morton,
Oliver Perry, governor of Indiana, 160

Mowrer, General Joseph A., 203

Mozart
Regiment.
See
New York volunteer regiments, 40th

Muskets, 186-87

Napoleon
gun, 190

New
Hampshire volunteer regiments: 5th, 125, 137, 206, 242, 243, 296; 6th, 302

New
Jersey volunteer regiments: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 133, 139, 227; 13th, 167;
24th, 332

New York Cky, proposal of
secession, 154-55

New
York volunteer regiments: 5th, 35, 38, 133; 6th, 177; 8th Cavalry, 228-31; 9th,
163, 167, 232, 242, 309; 10th, 35, 38; 14th, 178; 16th, 132, 223, 227; 21st,
175; 28th, 278, 319; 33rd, 116; 34th, 286; 40th (Mozart), 168; 42nd (Tammany),
76, 287; 48th, 176; 51st, 303-5; 55th, 45, 72, 111, 127, 162, 170, 180; 56th,
138; 57th, 125, 175, 205; 59th, 287; 61st and 64th, 203-4; 63rd, 69th, and
88th,
see
Irish Brigade; 75th, 62; 76th, 22; 79th (Highlanders),
65-66, 306; 80th, 275, 319; 97th, 104th, and 105th, 163; 100th, 138; 107th,
167; 128th, 175, 185

Northern
Virginia, Army of.
See
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia

Noyes,
Captain George Freeman, quoted, 16, 163-64, 242, 319

Numerical strength of army
units, 184-85

Officers,
reactions of soldiers to, 175

Ohio
troops under command of McClellan, 55-58

Ohio
volunteer regiments: 8th, 293; 11th, 233-34; 23rd, 234; 30th, 234; 125th, 185

Orange and Alexandria Railroad, 3-12

Patrick, General, 274
Pawnee,
U.S.S.,
warship, 86 Pelham, John, 23

Peninsular
campaign, 1-2, 87-88, 92-157; camp at Harrison's Landing, after retreat,
141-57; disposition of troops for defense of Washington, 100-1, 103-7; final
approach toward Richmond, 156; Gaines's Mill, battle of, 133-34; Glendale,
battle of, 138-40; Malvern Hill, battle of, 140-41; Mechanicsville, battle of,
133; preparations for attack on Yorktown, 107-10; retreat from, 13 5—41; Savage
Station, battle of, 137; Seven Days' Battles, 131—41; Seven Pines, battle of,
124-25; Williamsburg, battle of, 110-12

Pennsylvania
volunteer regiments: 8th Reserve, 271; 13th (Bucktails), 127, 165-66; 29th,
167; 45th, 235-37, 308; 46th, 278; 51st, 237-38, 242, 303-5; 56th, 22; 71st,
75-76; 72nd, 286; 81st, 297; 90th, 267-«8; 104th, 138; 107th, 163, 267-68;
118th (Corn Exchange), 194; 125th, 279, 281, 287-88; 128th, 277; 130th, 242;
132nd, 291

Philadelphia,
reception of Union troops in, 170-71

Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-

more Railroad, 120 Philadelphia Brigade, 286 Physical
examinations of Federal recruits, 166-67, 184 Pickett, General George, 115
Pinkerton, Allan, as head of Army

Secret Service, 119-23, 129 Pittman, Colonel, 213
Pleasonton, General Alfred, 233, 242 Pope, General John, 49-50, 152; composition
of forces under, in Army of Virginia, 27-33; and Halleck, 196-98, 207; relieved
of command after Second Bull Run, 49-50, 207; at Second Bull Run, 3-4, 6-13,
24-49 Port Royal expedition, 236 Porter, Commodore David, 32 Porter, Captain
David Dixon, 32, 86 Porter, General Fitz-John, 32, 207, 329-30; at Antietam,
255, 307, 313-14, 317; in peninsular campaign, 128, 130, 133-34, 145; at Second
Bull Run, 24-25, 26, 34-39 Potomac, Army of.
See
Army
of Potomac

Potomac River, Confederate control

of, 85-88, 90, 94 Privateersmen, Union treatment of, 78
Protection of property by Federal officers, 115-16, 157 Protests of soldiers,
174-75 Provisions of Union troops, 178-83

Railroad
difficulties of Second Bull Run, 3-12

Ramsey,
Alexander, governor of Minnesota, 168

Radons, army, 178-83

Reception
committees for volunteers en route Washington, 169-70

Recruitment,
Federal, 184-85; closed during peninsular campaign, 148

Regimental strength, average, 184-86

Regiments,
formation of and replacements for, 184-86

Reno,
General Jesse, 32, 41, 44-45; at South Mountain, 219-21, 235-37

Replacement of troops,
customs of, 185

Revere,
Major Paul Joseph, 77-79 Reynolds, General John F., 29, 34-38, 160, 219

Rhode
Island volunteer regiments: 4th, 175, 311; 7th Cavalry, 228

Richardson,
General Israel B., 204-5; at Antietam, 260, 294-99; at South Mountain, 242

Richmond,
Va., in peninsular campaign, 2, 134—36; plans for attack on, 87-88, 92-100

Ricketts,
General James, at Antietam, 258, 266, 270; at Second Bull Run, 29, 39-40; at
South Mountain, 238

Rifles, 187-89

Roanoke
Island expedition, 220, 256 Rodes, General Robert, 240-41 Rodman, General
Isaac, 303, 308-11

Savage
Station, battle of, in Seven Days' Battles of peninsular campaign, 137

Sawyer, Charles Carroll, 171

Scott,
General Winfield, 58, 60-61, 84-85; quoted, 31

Second
Bull Run.
See
Bull Run, second battle of

Secret
service, Union Army, 87, 119-22, 129

Sedgwick,
General John, 206, 208; at Antietam, 282-87

Seven
Days' Battles in peninsular campaign, 131-41; Gaines's Mill, 133-34; Glendale,
138-40; Malvern Hill, 140-41; Mechanicsville, 133; Savage Station, 137

Seven
Pines, battle of, in peninsular campaign, 124-25

Seward,
William H., Secretary of State, 89, 92, 209

Sharpsburg.
See
Antietam

Sherman, General William Tecumseh,

65, 203

Shields, General James, 105

Shiloh, battle of, 117, 151

Shoulder patches, origin of, 31

Sickness in army, 183-84

Sigel,
General Franz, 28-29, 200; at Second Bull Run, 10, 33, 39^11

Skirmish line, development of, 192

Slavery,
as issue in first year of war, 69-71, 79-80.
See also
Abolition
sentiment; Emancipation

Slaves, escaped (contrabands), 180

Slidell and Mason, 89, 322

Slocum, General Henry W., 132

Smalley, George, 314-15

Smith, General Kirby, 160

Smith, General William F., 155

Smoothbore musket, 187

Songs of Union troops, 39-40, 171-74

South
Mountain, battle of, 222-45; disposition of troops at time of finding lost
dispatch, 214-18; McClellan's plans for crossing, 218-22; topography of, 214,
218, 223

Springfield rifle, 186-89

Stanton,
Edwin M., Secretary of War, 83, 90, 117, 129, 198; during Second Bull Run, 11,
198; telegram from McClellan after retreat from Richmond, 142, 149

Stevens, General Isaac, 45

Stevens, Thaddeus, 219

Stone,
General Charles P., 69-71, 73-80

Stonewall
brigade, in Second Bull Run, 22-23

"Straw-foot," origin of, 25

Stuart, General J. E. B., 115, 327; at

Antietam, 266, 284-85; reputation

of, 10; at Second Bull Run, 23, 47;

at South Mountain, 223, 224 Sturgis, General Samuel D.,
6-7; at

Antietam, 302-3, 305-6, 312 Sumner, Charles, 70 Sumner,
General E. V., 45, 113-14; at

Antietam, 254-55, 282-89, 299, 307;

Sumner, General E. V.
(cont'd)

in peninsular campaign, 112, 124-25, 134, 137, 139; at
South Mountain, 242, 243

Surgeons, regimental, 184

Surgery, quality of, 188-89

Sykes,
General George, 35-39, 41; at Antietam, 313

Tactics,
field, changes during war in, 192-94; effect of technical improvement in
weapons on, 187-88, 191-92

Tammany
Regiment.
See
New York volunteer regiments, 42nd

Taylor, General George, 139, 146-47

"Tenting
Tonight on the Old Camp Ground," song, 172-73

Texas brigade, 34, 39

Treason,
suspicions of, 97-98; against McClellan, 100-1, 117-18, 150; after Second Bull
Run, 13, 43

Trenches, protection offered by, 192

"Vacant Chair, The," song, 173 Virginia, Army of.
See
Army of Virginia

Virginia,
Confederate
ironclad, 108 Virginia, final campaign of McClellan in, 326-27; peninsular
campaign in,
see
Peninsular campaign; western, McClellan's campaign in,
56-57 Volunteer nurses at Second Bull Run, 11-12

Volunteers,
organization of, under McClellan, 61-66

Wade, Ben, 79-80, 200

Walker, General John G., at Antietam,

251, 285; at South Mountain, 215,

216

Ward, Commander James H., 86 Washington, D.C., danger of
attack after First Bull Run, 66; organization of troops under McClellan,
60-62; plans for defense of, during peninsular campaign, 100-1, 103-7;

water route closed, 85-88, 90, 94 Watson, P. H., Assistant
Secretary of War, 6

Weapons,
68-69, 73, 166, 186-91, 233; artillery, increasing effectiveness of, 140,
190-91; howitzers, mountain, 39; in peninsular campaign, 127; rifles, 186-89,
192; tactics outdated by technical improvements in, 186— 88, 191-93

Webster, Colonel Fletcher, 39-40

Webster, Timothy, 121

Welles,
Gideon, Secretary of Navy, 149-50, 199; evaluation of officers by, 201-2;
quoted, 196, 322

West Point, Northern suspicion of, 202