Volume 9 (January-September 1863) Index

Below is the index from Volume 9 (Jan.-Sept. 1863) of The Papers of Jefferson Davis as it appears in the book. For ease of conversion, italics and accent marks have been omitted. Abbreviations used include "L" for letter and "E" for endorsement. "Sketch" refers to the location of a biographical note on the person in this or in a previous volume.

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A

Adams, Daniel W., 402
Adams, John, 103
Adams, Robert, 370
Adams, William Wirt (sketch, 8:15), 298
Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, 63, 70, 120, 214, 293, 360. See also Cooper, Samuel
Advance (blockade-runner), 263
African Americans. See blacks
Alabama: cannon foundry, 66; conditions, 46, 54, 122, 416; and CSA debt, 41; conscription, 20, 60, 183, 206, 252, 273, 368, 414; disaffection, 29, 128, 183, 315, 353, 371; martial law, 27; munitions, 206, 305, 416; patronage, 214; slave control, 359; speculation, 121- 22, 183; U.S. raids, 206, 273; Ls from citizens, 53, 359, officials, 206, 349-50
Alabama, CSS, 62, 66, 257, 259
Alabama & Florida Railroad, 145
Alabama River defenses, 74
Alabama troops: 2d Cavalry, 159, 225; 4th Cavalry, 5; Fowler's Battery, 231; Hilliard's Legion, 64; cavalry, 416; furloughed, 310; generals, 246; militia, 206, 274, 367, 383; strength, 383
Alexander, Almerine M.: L from, 89
Alexander, Edward Porter (sketch, 400), 238, 267, 399
Alexander, Peter W., 328
Alexander, W. C., 105
Alexandria, La., 159
Alfred (servant), 300
Alfriend, Frank H.: L from, 283
Allan, Mary C.: L from, 284-85
Allen, Henry W., 158
American Peace Society, 133
American Revolution: Davis on, 11
Anderson, Ellen Mary Davis (niece) (sketch, 1:282), 216
Anderson, James P., 120
Anderson, Richard H. (sketch, 8:341): assignments, 380, 381; Chancellorsville, 164, 171; operations, 385; recommended, 185
Anderson, Robert H., 150, 194
Anderson, Robert N. (sketch, 8:353): Davis on, 355; J. E. Davis and, 325, 378, 393; Ls from, 354-55, 395
Anderson, Samuel R. (sketch, 3:38): Ls from, 38, 64; mentioned, 64, 71
Anderson, W. B., 364
Anna (river steamer), 64
Antietam, Md., Battle of, 258
Apache, 117
Apalachicola, Fla., 360, 404
Aquia Creek, Va., 149
Arabian (blockade-runner), 239
Archer (river steamer), 64
Archer, Abram, 117
Archer, James J. (sketch, 193), 192, 295, 296
Archer, Richard T. (sketch, 6:133), 117
Arcole plantation, 326
Arizona Territory, 117, 211
Arkansas: commanders, 55, 77; conditions, 22, 38, 42, 46, 58, 63, 70, 90, 91, 100, 104, 126, 132, 223, 229; congressmen meet with Davis, 46, 47, 100, 115; conscription, 38, 58; disaffection, 42, 58, 77, 91, 131, 132, 221, 229, 239; habeas corpus, 38, 75; martial law, 36, 38, 64, 100, (Davis), 43; munitions, 47, (Davis), 117, 125, 281; operations (Davis), 75, 117, 276; resources, 230, 278; support for CSA, 10; U.S. troops in, 42, 183, 372, 412; E by congressmen, 103; L to congressmen, 117; Ls from citizens, 70, 126, congressmen, 47, 64
Arkansas, District of, 77
Arkansas Post, Ark.: captured, 43, 371; Davis on, 43, 75; defenses, 22; prisoners, 107, 168, 174, 181; U.S. operations, 75
Arkansas troops: 2d Cavalry, 278; 4th Infantry, 108; 16th Infantry, 407; Davis on, 281; organization, 246; recruiting, 172, 333; strength, 10, 112, 117, 125, 246
Armijo, Manuel, 205
Armijo, Rafael, 113, 134, 205
Armistead, Lewis A. (sketch, 262), 260
Armstrong, Frank C., 25, 33
army: casualties in Army of N. Va., 170, 260, 295, 296, at Battery Wagner, 289, Chancellorsville, 171, Chickamauga, 398, 402, Gettysburg, 260, 262, 264, 270, 289, 294, 295, 313, Stones River, 18, 30, Vicksburg, 197, 198, 275, 284; chaplains, 99; clothing, 69, 181, 222, 280; conditions, 41, 42, 123, 141, 182; "Confederate Legion," 408; courts of inquiry, 65, 109, 148, 211, 246, 297, 312, 319, 334, 343, 347, 377, 378, 380, 407, 408; courts-martial, 38, 54, 85, 92, 157-58, 225, 289, 323, 343, 408; criticized, 205, 213, 320, 374; Davis addresses, 317, praises, 15; deserters, 23, 26, 35, 38, 46, 48, 54, 89, 90, 132, 179, 182, 184, 212, 217, 271, 284, 286, 298, 306, 308, 312, 317, 319, 320, 324, 341, 349, 370, 376, 380, 401-2, 412, (Davis), 366, 402; discharges, 111, 117, 177; discipline, 117, 341, 342, 360, 370, 381, 382, (Davis), 246; flags of truce, 32; food supplies, 39, 69, 72, 99, 124, 141, 222; foreigners in, 408; furloughs, 71, 97, 103, 104, 131, 133, 139, 176, 182, 218, 347, 350, (Pemberton's army), 275, 279, 281-86, 288, 293-94, 308, 319-20; general officers' appointments, 71, 350, (Davis), 56, 58, 72-73, 403, criticized, 342, praised (Davis), 229; general staff, 109; horses and mules, 89, 136, 141, 359; Indian troops, 133, 183-84, 186, 207, 239, 347; mail to soldiers, 160-61; military courts, 38, 50, 53, 153, 278, 349, 364, 402; minors in, 147, 216; morale, 212, 280, 307, 380; navy and, 74; nominations for valor, 112; officers' appointments, 7, 109, (Davis), 26, 56, 149, 377, criticized, 51, 360; officers elected (Davis), 136, executed, 254, of northern birth, 212, 213, promoted, 101, 158; organization, 7, 19, 86, 129, 294, 296, 368, 409, (Davis), 190, 226, 294, 316, 333, 342, 381, 409; pay, 141; prosthetics, 325; rations, 34, 39, 91, 361, 404, (Davis), 136; recruiting, 186, 229, (Davis), 392, 394; relief for families, 10, 353, 355; slaves in, xii, 34, 41-42, 47, 52, 54, 55, 58, 61, 73-74, 89, 90, 100, 103, 104, 105, 114, 275, 283, 315, 339-40, 349, 364, 393, 395, as soldiers, 293, 304, 312-13, 333, 340, 374, 407; stragglers, 30, 72, 151, 217, 275, 313, 317, 349, 381; strength in Ark., 90, 91, 221, at Ark. Post, 45, Chancellorsville, 167, Charleston, 112, 175, 360, in E. Tenn., 369, 370, 376, at Grenada, 4, in La., 224, Miss., 188, 197, 199, 203, 204, 216, at Mobile, 116, Murfreesboro, 33, in N.C., 25, at New Bern, 206, Pocotaligo, 112, Savannah, 112, Stones River, 30, 33, in Tenn., 106, 204, Trans-Miss., 173, 221, 371, 412, at Vicksburg, 6, 101, 190, 196, 204, 249, 318; substitutes, 22, 26, 55, 65, 67, 188-89, 222, 252, 315, 319, 333, 343, 353, 378, 384, 393, 397, 414, (Davis), 290; training, 323; transfers, 54, to navy, 304, 350. See also specific armies, commanders, and locales; War Department
Army of Northern Virginia: artillery, 37, 83, 88, 92, 105, 132, 160, 194, 203, 248, 255, 269, 312, 318, 384, 390, 400; casualties, 170, 260, 295, 296; cavalry, 63, 73, 79-80, 84, 85, 126, 147, 150, 154-55, 159, 160, 169-70, 200, 204-5, 218, 230-31, 232, 248, 252, 254, 260, 263, 268, 289, 306, 307, 316-17, 384, 385; communications, 244; conditions, 63, 147, 270, 272, 284, 304, 313, 354; confidence in Lee, 327, 337-38; furlough policy, 347; health, 170, 209, 237; horses, 154, 307, 320, 390, 399; inspectors, 214; Johnston and, 88; major generals for, 129; morale, 267, 328; organization, 72, 164, 194, 214, (Davis), 139, 192, 294, 318, (Lee), 185, 191, 192, 204, 212, 313, 320, 336, 342, 394; praised, 256, 327, (Davis), 165, 337, 399; reinforcements for (Davis), 160, 162, 167, 201-2, 230, 312, 317-18, 391-92, 398-99, (Lee), 155, 159-60, 162, 169, 210-11, 236-37, 243-44, 266, 317, 396, from, 4, 52, (Longstreet), 379-80, 381, 384-85, 385-86, 387, 390-91; scouts, 329, 354; spies for, 24, 211, 261; stragglers and deserters, 313, 328, 347, 381, 402, (Davis), 317; strength, 24, 170, 185, 250; supplies, 34, 98, 124, 154, 157, 160, 231, 238, 326, 376; winter quarters, 25. See also Lee, Robert E.
Army of Tennessee: artillery, 29, 73, 188, 231, 273, 348, 352, 354, 367, 381, 390, 394, 399; casualties, 18, 30, 398, 402; cavalry, 3, 6, 27, 28, 30, 35, 37, 59, 87, 104, 113, 130, 137, 141, 169, 180, 249, 265, 273, 275, 326, 366, 383, 405; command problems, x, 48-49, 59-60, 92, 118-19, 187, 407; communications, 373; conditions, 141, 187, 410; Davis and, x, xii, 8, 31, 66- 67, 398, (1862), 419; Johnston on, 48-49, 59-60, 86-87, 116; Lee and, 373, 375; morale, 49, 59, 66, 280; munitions, 72, 114, 141, 352, 390; organization, 190, 368; recruiting, 60; reinforcements for, 33, 87, 104, 138, 161, 249, 352, 368, 388-89, (Davis), 18, 116, 350, 362, 367, 390, from, 72, 104, 161, 188, 206, 235, 242, 249, 289, (1862), 238, (Davis), 186, 188, 215, 240, 247, 252-53, 326, 374; reports on, 141, 336; stragglers and deserters, 30, 59, 72, 402; strength, 18, 30, 33, 72, 88, 141, 161, 204, 335, 386; supplies, 72, 113, 137, 391. See also Bragg, Braxton
Army of the Potomac (1861), 55, 72
Arrington, Samuel P., 92
artillery: Apalachicola, 360, 404; Army of N. Va., 37, 83, 88, 92, 105, 132, 160, 194, 203, 248, 255, 269, 312, 318, 384, 390, 400; Army of Tenn., 29, 73, 188, 231, 273, 348, 352, 354, 367, 381, 390, 394, 399; Ark., 77, 117, 246; Brooke guns, 148, 285, 289, 294, 305, 310, 315; Champion Hill, 186; Charleston, 124-25, 157, 170, 90, 112, 181, 272, 285, 289, 294, 307, 308, 310, 311, 315, 316, 321, 348, 349, 355, 356, 360, 376; Chattanooga, 352; Columbiads, 101, 148, 285, 310, 360; Davis on, 120, 174, 356, 357, 384; E. Tenn., 29, 265, 354, 376, 398; Fredericksburg, 318; Grand Gulf, 104, 126, 148, 149, 164; inventions, 115; Ky., 138; manufacturing, 66, 172, 279; Mobile, 305; Napoleons, 79, 384, 390; naval, 148, 235, 285, 289, 305, 315, 321; officers, 7, 88, 92, 101, 312, 316, 355; organization, 88, 92, 116, 400, (Davis), 120; Parrott guns, 148, 285, 348, 384; Port Hudson, 10, 101, 148, 149; Savannah, 91, 112, 124- 25; Stones River, 30; Texas, 16; Trans-Miss., 172, 279; U.S., 16, 30, 77, 147, 160, 171, 189, 203, 205, 208, 211, 219, 230, 271, 272, 280, 283, 292, 295, 298, 307, 348, 350, 385, 398; Vicksburg, 63, 90, 99, 104, 105, 126, 148, 149, 155, 185, 265, (Davis), 10, 68, 76, 96, 101, 104, 150-51, 174, 186; Whitworth rifled guns, 348; Wilmington, 37, 62, 235, 348, 357, 369, (Davis), 47, 85, 390. See also munitions; Ordnance Bureau
Aten, Isaac, 180
Atkins, John D. C. (sketch, 8:90): L from, 280
Atlanta, Ga.: Davis speaks at, 3, 7; defenses, 273, 297, 298, 373, 389; fire, 27; food riot, 124; inspected, 98, 141; prisoners at, 307, 351, 359; shoemaking, 141; supply depot, 190, 297, 298, 384, 394
attorney general. See Watts, Thomas H.
Augusta, Ga.: Davis at, 7
Austin, William G., 213
Averell, William W., 83, 370

B

Bagby, George W., 328
Baker, John A., 252, 259
Baker, Laurence S., 204, 289, 317, 409
Baker's Creek, Miss., Battle of, x, 185, 186, 189, 198, 334
Baldwin, Briscoe G., 101
Baldwin, W. W., 39
Baldwin, William O. (sketch, 128), 127
Ball, Thomas: L from, 197
Baltimore, Md., 261, 267
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 116, 158, 232, 410, 411, 415
Bankhead, Smith P., 139
Banks, Arthur D. (sketch, 129), 128
Banks, Nathaniel P. (sketch, 6:268): operations, 23, 38, 172, 173, 269, 281, 315, 372, 412; Port Hudson, 265; reinforcements for, 210, 236, 266, 315; troop strength, 148
Barksdale, Ethelbert (sketch, 4:224): L to, 231; Ls from, 182, 230, 283, 312; mentioned, 166, 393
Barksdale, Narcissa S.: L to, 303-4
Barksdale, William (sketch, 2:116): Davis on, 303-4; death, 260; L from, 51
Barnes, Nicholas E. (sketch, 7:441): criticized, 64, 377; L to, 27; L from, 27; mentioned, 241
Barnwell, Robert W. (sketch, 4:125): L from, 304-5
Barringer, Daniel M. (sketch, 2:469), 7
Barron, Samuel (sketch, 6:49), 240, 252
Bartlett, William H. C. (sketch, 1:78), 302
Barton, I. H. M.: L from, 312-13
Barton, Robert M., 62
Barton, Seth M., 5
Bates, Edward, 374
Baton Rouge, La., 99
Batson, Felix I.: L from, 90
Battery Gregg, 272
Battery Wagner: attacked, xi, 272, 283, 289; casualties, 289; defenses (Davis), 295, 368
Baxter, Sidney S.: L from, 125-26
Baylor, John R., 117, 211, 288-89
Bayou Baxter, La., 78
Bayou Macon, La., 45, 71, 76, 412
Bayou Pierre, Miss., 161, 162
Bayou Sara, La., 148, 223
Bayou Tensas, La., 71
Beard, William K. (sketch, 406), 404, 415
Beauregard, P. G. T. (sketch, 6:249): Charleston defenses, 140, 141, 240, 272, 283-84, 289, 307, 349, 356-57, (Davis), 130, 174, 239-40, 270, 271, 294, 295, 307, 308, 315, 318, 356, 357, 361; corps commander (1861), 55; criticized, 283; Davis and, 310, 365-66, 419; Ky. bank funds, 100; Lee and, 24, 170, 236-37, 243, 245, 249, 266; on Gettysburg advance, 249, Lee, 284, strategy, xi, trade, 179; praised, 176, 365-66; promoted, 71; reinforcements for, 308, from, 168, 174, 239-40, 247; S.C. and Ga. commander, 51, 61, 66, 71, 74, 90, 150, 187, 271, 272, 356; staff, 129, 133, 255, 408; troop strength, 187, 204, 360; E by, 47; Ls to, 63-64, 239-40, 356, 357, 361; Ls from, 240, 272, 356, 360
Belgium, 257
Bell, Mary J., 184
Benjamin, Judah P. (sketch, 6:195): criticized, 319, 378; Davis and, 148, 228; and Erlanger loan, 331, 332; expels consuls, 258; funds for, 26, 158, 369, 375, 397, 415, 416; on Chancellorsville, 257, claims, 99, 409, secrecy, 147; Es to, 315, 350; E by, 409; L to, 101; Ls from, 99, 122, 124, 140, 147; mentioned, 65, 153, 256, 362, 414
Benning, Henry L., 382, 388
Benton, Thomas Hart (sketch, 2:464), 417
Bermuda, 178
Bertrand, Charles P., 90, 100
Berwick Bay, La., 412
Bets(e)y (slave) (ident., 235), 198, 234
Beverly Ford, Va., skirmish, 148
Bezancon, T., 47
Bibb, T. P. Atticus: L from, 404
Bibb, William C., 315
Bienvenu plantation, 234
Black, George P.: L from, 411
blacks: E. Tenn., 365; free blacks, 146; as spies, 285; in U.S. Army, 112, 152, 233, 237, 289, 293, 304, 307, 322, 355, 397. See also slaves
Blackwater, Va., 74, 198, 199, 201-2, 208, 230
Blair, Francis P., Jr. (ident., 6:62), 19
Blair, James: E by, 365
Blake, Benson, 354
Blakely gun, 79
Blanchard, Albert G.: assignments, 96-97; criticized, 35, 45; Ls from, 323, 353
Blanche (blockade-runner), 99
blockade: blockade-runners criticized, 113, 333, 348; cabinet and, 393; Charleston, vii, 113, 178, 284, 320, 383; Davis on, 21, 177-78; effects, vi, 144, 372; European attitude, viii; Fla., 142; France and, 144, 372; Wilmington, vii, 160, 177-78, 204, 206, 239, 284, 320
blockade-runners. See specific vessels
Bloodworth, Thomas J.: L from, 91
Blountville, Tenn., 400, 403
Blunt, James G. (sketch, 372), 371
Bocock, Thomas S., 253
Bolling, Benjamin F.: L from, 304
Bonham, Milledge L. (sketch, 7:251): and militia, 53, 54, 70, 71, 73, 263, 297, 338; on Davis, 283-84, prisoners, 355; Ls to, 50, 52, 53, 73, 74, 270, 286, 294, 297, 321, 369; Ls from, 48, 53, 54, 70, 71, 73, 263, 285, 297, 311, 315, 338, 348, 369
Borcke, Heros von, 336
Bottom's Bridge, Va., 259
Boudinot, Elias C.: L from, 103; mentioned, 233
Bowen, John S.: Port Gibson, 161, 162, 164; praised, 164; promoted, 186, 188, 196, 199; Vicksburg, 188, 204
Bowmar, J. H. D.: L from, 346
Boyle, Lucinda Smith (niece) (sketch, 1:473), 234, 241
Bradford, Amanda Davis (sister) (sketch, 2:129), 299, 347
Bradford, David (brother-in-law) (sketch, 1:7), 418
Bradford, Edmund, 263, 288, 306
Bradford, Jefferson Davis (nephew) (sketch, 8:114): Davis and, 227, 349, 396; Ls from, 206-7, 346-47, 393
Bradford, Joseph J.: L from, 65
Bragg, Braxton (sketch, 3:66): Ala. defenses, 206; assignments, xii, 87, 137, (Davis), 226, 336, 380, 419; Breckinridge and, 31, 50; Buckner and, 227, 243, 263, 265, 272, 367; censorship, 33; Chattanooga, 352, 380, 391, 405, 410, 414, 415; Chickamauga, 392, 398, 402, 404-6, 414; criticized, xii, 28, 31, 32, 49, 59, 66, 120, 136, 231, 265, 314, 343, 348, 356, 359, 365-66, 368, 408, 410, (Davis), 36, 136, 390; Davis and, v, 28, 31, 36, 48-49, 50-51, 59, 66-67, 192, 226, 272, reprimands, 298, 415; defended, 31, 128, 314, 335; disputes with generals, x, 31, 36, 50, 60, 66-67, 92, 118, 187, 407; Forrest and, 348-49, 403; Hardee and, 31, 49, 60, 120, 187; Johnston and, 19, 30, 35, 36, 48-49, 59-60, 66-67, 86, 116, 119, 128, 137, 186, 189, 225-26, 252-53, 263, 273, 282; S. Jones and, 375, 401, 402, 403, 409, 416; Ky. campaign (1862), 31, 49, 64, 67, 120, 187, 314; Longstreet and, 405; McCown and, 50, 92; on army organization, 190, 272-73, Atlanta defenses, 273, J. E. Brown, 114, casualties, 18, 30, 33, Chickamauga, 398, 404- 6, criticism, 187, flags of truce, 32, I. G. Harris, 322, D. H. Hill, 405, Johnston, 273, G. W. Lee, 273, Polk, 405, press, 29, E. K. Smith, 187, telegraph, 33, U.S. operations, 18, 28, 216, 219, 249, 297, 374, 375, 394, 398, War Dept., 297; Perryville, 6, 120, 187; Pillow and, 60, 273; Polk and, 29, 50-51, 59-60, 118-19, 187, 405, 410, (Davis), 415; praised, 6, 51, 59-60, 118, 141; promoted, 71; retaliation, 29, 335; Seddon on, 6, 61; staff, 18, 31, 406; Stones River, ix, 3, 9, 16, 17, 18, 30, 72, 73, 86, 114, 273; strategy, 17, 48, 72, 269, 272-73, 336, 359, 361, 398, (Davis), 26, 336, 350, 367, 369, 375, 380, 383, 390-91, 398-99, 415, (Lee), 243, 245, 385-86, 403, 411; troop strength, 18, 30, 33, 72, 88, 141, 161, 204, 335, 386; and Western & Atlantic Railroad, 101-2, 105, 106, 114, 126, 185; E by, 33; Ls to, 26, 89, 102, 106, 186, 188, 204, 211, 215, 225- 26, 240, 350, 369, 380, 390, 409, 410, 415; Ls from, 3, 18, 27, 28-30, 72, 73, 90, 105, 114, 187, 188, 204, 216, 219, 246, 253, 272-73, 297, 322, 352, 373, 394, 402, 404-6, 414, cited, 32; mentioned, 207, 319, 335, 343, 403. See also Army of Tennessee
Bragg, Eliza E. (sketch, 8:514), 137
Bragg, Thomas (sketch, 8:63): L to, 363, cited, 195; mentioned, 281
Branch, ----, 51
Brandon, William L. (sketch, 2:669): L from, 323-25
Branner, John R.: L from, 286
Braselman, Berkley L., 101
Breckinridge, John C. (sketch, 5:67): assignments, 190, 196, 199; Bragg and, 31, 50; Jackson, Miss., 271; staff, 50, 241, 399; Stones River, 9; mentioned, 180, 205, 354
Brennan, T. M., 114
Brierfield (described, 2:244): conditions, 64, 198, 217, 344, 354; evacuated (1862), 64, 298; finances, 27; plundered, x, 111, 217, 377, 393; slaves, 111, 134-35, 198, 207, 217, 241, 344, 354
Bristoe Station, Va., Battle of, 401
Broadwell, William A. (sketch, 7:380): Davis on, 120; reports on, 63, 96, 120; mentioned, 382
Brockenbrough, John M., 194
Brooke, John M., 305
Brooke, Walker (sketch, 2:360): L from, 346
Brooke guns, 148, 285, 289, 294, 305, 310, 315
Brooks, William M. (sketch, 7:166): L to, 122-24; L from, 231; mentioned, 340
Brown, Albert G. (sketch, 2:22): L to, 231; L from, 230; mentioned, 417
Brown, Fleming & Co., 120
Brown, John (sketch, 6:268), 372
Brown, John A. (sketch, 223), 221
Brown, Joseph E. (sketch, 7:147): Bragg and, 101-2, 106, 114, 126, 185, 273, 274; criticized, 22, 65, 117; Davis and, 185, 383, 407; on crops, 65, 97, 142, Davis, 126, disaffection, 65, 355, 361, Ga. troops, 66, 361, 366, 407, G. W. Lee, 109, 274; Stephens on, 373; Ls to, 41, 66, 102, 104, 106, 126, 183, 185, 212, 353, 376-77, 383, 394; Ls from, 65, 97, 101-2, 103, 109, 126, 140-41, 190-91, 236, 253, 306, 353, 355, 361, 394, 407-8; mentioned, 27, 362, 368
Brown, Thomas P., 397
Browne, William M. (sketch, 6:374): writes for Davis, 92, 216; E by, 188; L to, 177-78
Brownsville, Texas, 414, 415
Bryan, Goode, 381
Bryan, Guy M. (sketch, 95): L from, 93-94
Bryant, William J. (sketch, 1:59): Davis on, 184
Bryson, Goldman, 361
Buchanan, Franklin (sketch, 8:592), 304, 350, 418
Buck, Samuel H. (sketch, 278), 276
Buckner, Simon B. (sketch, 7:306): assignments, 226, 227, 367; Bragg and, 227, 243, 263, 265, 272, 367; cavalry, 34, 35; Chickamauga, 405; criticized, 368; E. Tenn. operations, 243, 245, 247, 359, 361, 362, 366, 375, 383, 409; at Mobile, 116; on Ky. campaign, 154; praised, 120, 405; recommended, 413; troop strength, 116, 335, 386; Ls to, 130, 227; Ls from, 130, 265, 319; mentioned, 100, 219, 293, 306, 403
Buena Vista, Battle of, 249, 302
Bulloch, James D. (sketch, 8:110), 330
Bunch, Robert, 48
Burnside, Ambrose E. (sketch, 8:6): army organization, 81-82; assignments, 24, 82, 116, 125; Ky. operations, 122, 126, 243; reinforcements to Grant, 219, 245; Tenn. operations, 245, 366, 369, 384, 385, 396, 401, 403, 409, 411, (Davis), 373, 375, 380, 390-91; troop strength, 24, 373, 375, 409; Va. operations, 23-24, 35-36, 79-80
Burr, Alfred E.: L to, 418
Bushby, William: L from, 65
Butler, Benjamin F. (sketch, 8:216): Bragg on, 27, 29; Davis on, 13, 21; New Orleans defenses, 68; relieved, 172
Butler, Matthew C., 317
Byrd, William M.: L from, 397

C

Cabell, William L. (sketch, 133), 126, 131
Cairo, USS, 187, 288, 312
Campbell, Alexander, 280
Campbell, J. O.: L to, 151
Campbell, Jim (slave), 198
Campbell, John A. (sketch, 7:90): L from, 97; mentioned, 98, 111
Camp Chase, Ohio, 107
Camp Nelson, Ky., 367
Candy, Charles, 81
Cannon, Eliza C. (sketch, 4:83): L to, 286-87
Cannon, Thomas E. (ident., 287)
Cannon, William R. (sketch, 4:57), 287
Cape Fear River defenses, 400
Caperton, Allen T., 91
Capitol (river steamer), 62
Carlisle, Pa., 260
Caroline (slave), 228
Caroline Goodyear (schooner), 372
Carter, Aleck (slave) (ident., 7:4), 228
Carter, James E. (sketch, 400), 398
Carter, Samuel Powhatan, 3, 17
Carter's Depot, Tenn., 410
Cartwright, Samuel A. (sketch, 4:23): death of, 169; L to, 18; L from, 41
Carvajal, Jose M., 346
Catalpa plantation, 242
Catherine (servant) (ident., 8:175), 116
cavalry: Army of N. Va., 63, 73, 79-80, 84, 85, 126, 147, 150, 154-55, 159, 160, 169- 70, 200, 204-5, 218, 230-31, 232, 248, 252, 254, 260, 263, 268, 289, 306, 307, 316-17, 384, 385; Army of Tenn., 3, 6, 27, 28, 30, 35, 37, 59, 87, 104, 113, 130, 137, 141, 169, 180, 249, 265, 273, 275, 326, 366, 383, 405; E. Tenn., 398, 401, 403, 410, 411; horse supply, 89, 143, 158, 179, 230, 308, 320, 349, 352, 359, 360, 371, 379, 380-81, 384, 411; Ky. raid, 53, 113, 116, 138; Lee on organization, 316-17; Miss., 4, 33-34, 59, 121, 138, 159, 161, 164, 174, 236, 286, 292, 298, 312, 321, 326, 384; Morgan's raid, 275; raising units, 369-70, in Ala., 20, Ga., 23, 191, 212, 411, Miss., 321, 379, 380-81, N.C., 320, Tenn., 280, 349; strength of Ark. units, 112, 245, in Army of N. Va., 150, 384, Army of Tenn., 141, 161, at Charleston, 360, in E. Tenn., 411, in Ky. raid, 138, Miss., 161, 249, at Vicksburg, 188; Stones River, 3, 28; Texas, 51; Trans-Miss., 131, 221, 279; U.S., 16, 27, 32, 39, 45, 81, 126, 147, 150, 155, 156-57, 159, 160, 162, 166-67, 168, 170, 179, 196, 197, 209, 234, 245, 248, 251, 254, 263, 268, 280, 295, 302, 324, 346, 369, 375, 380, 384, 385, 397, 410; Vicksburg, 99, 158, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 168, 181, 183, 186, 188, 190, 265; Wilmington, 308, 357
censorship, 30, 146, (U.S.), 23
Chalmers, James R.: L from, 95; mentioned, 181, 196
Chambers, Thomas J. (sketch, 95), 93
Chambersburg, Pa., 260
Chambliss, John R. (sketch, 8:369): Ls from, 41-42, 52; mentioned, 136
Champion Hill, Miss., Battle of: artillery lost, 186; Davis on, 334; Pemberton on, 185; mentioned, x, 189, 198
Chancellorsville, Va., Battle of: Davis on, 165, 167; Lee on, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 169-70, 171; mentioned, x, 197, 256, 261
Chandler, William T., 211
Charles/y (slave) (ident., 345), 344
Charleston, CSS, 311, 315, 321
Charleston, S.C.: artillery, 90, 285, 289, 294, 296, 305, 308, 310, 311, 315, 316, 321, 348, 349, 355; attacked, x, xi, xii, 134, 140, 141, 157, 271, 272, 283, 295; blockade, 113, 178, 284, 320, 383; conditions, 91, 283-84, 320; defenses, 53, 54, 62, 64, 70, 71, 124-25, 139, 140, 141, 180, 181, 283-84, 285, 304, 311, 348, (Beauregard), 51, 240, 272, 356, 369, (Davis), 50, 66, 90, 130, 139, 247, 270, 271, 294, 295, 297, 307, 308, 318, 321, 356, 357, 361, 369, 379, 381, 383, 399, (Lee), 24, 52, 80, 155, 243-44, 352, 380, 382; telegraph cable, 159; Ls from citizens, 181, mayor, 180
Charleston Mercury: on Lee, 316, 328; "Vindicus" article, 306, 312, 313
Charlton, Sam (slave) (ident., 6:137), 344
Chattanooga, Tenn.: Bragg retreats to, 273, 274; camp at, 351; defenses, 352, (Davis), 350; evacuated, 368, 390; hospitals, 35; U.S. operations, 407, 410, (Davis), 391
Chattanooga Rebel, 29, 33
Chaves, Jose Maria, 205
Cheatham, Benjamin F. (sketch, 7:249), 31, 49, 50, 120
Cherokee: CSA and, 71, 233; L from officials, 233
Chesnut, James (sketch, 7:386): inspection tours, 90, 112, 124-25, 177, 336, 357, 362; resigns, 338; Ls to, 90, 336, 353, 357, 362; Ls from, 62, 112, 124-25, 338, 352
Chesnut, Mary B., 171, 264
Chickamauga, Ga., Battle of: Bragg on, 392, 398, 404-6; casualties, 398, 402, 414; troop strength, 387; mentioned, xii, 403
Chickasaw: troops, 186; L from officers, 239
Chickasaw Bayou, Miss.: Battle of, 9, 19; U.S. operations, 165
Chickasaw County, Miss.: L from planters, 98-99
Childers, John L.: L from, 212
Chilton, Robert H. (sketch, 2:687), 40
Chilton, William P.: L to, 380; L from, 377
Choctaw: troops, 186; L from officers, 239
Choctaw Bluff, Ala., defenses, 74
Choctaw County, Ala., 315, 325, 344
Christian, S. W.: L from, 177
Clancy, John M.: L from, 408-9
Clanton, James H., 20
Clapp, Jeremiah W.: Ls from, 117, 196
Clark, Charles, 175
Clay, Clement C. (sketch, 6:174): Davis and, 52, 122, 176, 196, 296; praised, 214; Ls to, 96, 231, 321; Ls from, 38, 122; mentioned, 246
Clay, Henry (sketch, 2:135), 362
Clay, Hugh L.: Davis and, 122
Clay-Clopton, Virginia T. (sketch, 6:253): Ls to, 162, 176-77
Clayton, George R. (sketch, 3:393): L from, 159
Cleburne, Patrick R. (sketch, 407), 31, 340, 405
Clingman, Thomas L. (sketch, 7:429): Charleston, 64, 272, 308, 383; N.C., 247
Clough, Cornelia J.: L from, 179
Clough, John T., 179
Cluke, Roy S., 113
Coates, W. B., 217
Cobb, Howell (sketch, 3:394): assignments, 3, 360, 373, (Davis), 377, 383; Fla. and Ga. commander, 353, 360, 373, 395, 404, 411; on exemptions, 180; praised, 407; promoted, 395; E by, 394; L from, 180; mentioned, 394
Cobb, Mary A.: L from, 374
Cochran, S. G.: L from, 359
Coghlan, Patrick G.: L from, 414; mentioned, 416
Coldwater River, Miss., 96
Cole, Charles H., 184
Coleman, Lucy G. (sketch, 8:183), 320
Collier, Robert R.: L from, 27
Colquitt, Alfred H. (sketch, 249): Charleston, 272, 310, 321, 357; N.C., 247, 308; Richmond defenses, 255; troop strength, 250, 360
Colston, Raleigh E., 198, 204
Columbiads, 101, 148, 285, 310, 360
Columbus, Ky., Bank of, 100
Columbus, Miss.: L from officials, 159; mentioned, 173, 326
Commissary Department: and conscription, 309; criticized, 184, 376, 408; Davis on, 184-85, 308; employees, 309, 393; funds, 19, 91; impressment of flour, 91; prices, 353-54; rations, 34; Trans-Miss., 222. See also Northrop, Lucius B.
Compromise of 1850: Davis and, 362
Conestoga, USS, 77
Confederate States: abuses by officials, 102, 182, 183, 184; agents abroad, 256-57, 329- 30, 395; aliens, 139, 145, 146, 165; cabinet criticized, 393; citizen support, 69, 181; clerks' pay, 404; cotton policies, vi-vii, 98, 99, 113, 136, 141, 143-44, 161, 282, 284, 320-21, 339; Davis' address to, 136; debt, 41, 91, 279; education, 368-69, (Davis), 404; finances, viii, 18, 53, 121, 136, 153, 329-30, 370, 395; food riots, viii, 124, 144; impressment policies, vii, 341; morale, vi, xiii, 288, 305, 315, 321, 326, 339, 356, 374, (Davis), 21, 174, 308, 337, 358, 395; peace efforts, 211, 213, 215, 243, 253, 292, 335-36, 351, 388; price-fixing, 36, 355, 389; prices, 22, 42, 46, 91, 92, 98, 113, 124, 125, 136, 142, 160, 179, 196-97, 232-33, 253, 275, 353, 355, 361, 364, 376; railroads, 21, 105, 113, 114, 286, 293, 303, 321; recognition, viii, xiii, 256-57, 284, 321, 330, (Davis), 21, 228; relations with Belgium, 257, France, 21, 71, 101, 124, 140, 256-57, Great Britain, 102, 124, Indians, 71, 78, 103, 131, 183-84, 207, 233, 347, (Davis), 21, Ireland, 348, Mexico, 71, 103, 211, N.M., 113, 205, 211, Northwest, 12, 147, 276, Russia, 102, 147, 258; secret plots against, 74, 186, 199; spies, 24, 141, 156, 211, 219, 259, 285-86; taxes, vii, 16, 78, 91, 114, 183, 184, 222, 232, 324, 353, 380, 397, (Davis), 21, 96; telegraph, 30, 72, 122, 159; trade policies, 144, 177-78, 239, 253, 339, 414. See also Davis, Jefferson--president
Congress: adjourns, 167; army bills, 212, 270, (Davis), 280, 290, 294, 350; black troops, 304, 341; Bragg and, 29, 60; criticized, 32, 380; Davis and, 96, 115, 140, 290; Davis' message, 21; elections, viii, 292; exemptions, vii, 65, 103, 180, 188-89, 290, 352-53, 354, 363, 378; food supply, 136; generals' assignments, 366; habeas corpus, 43, 75, 182; impressment, vii, 341; Mo. policy, 77; opposition to Davis, 27, 292, 365-66; prisoners, 108; prizes for vessels, 312; publication of acts, 3; railroad bill, 140; secret sessions, 53, 153; shipbuilding, 214; special session, 290; support for Davis, 292; tax legislation, vii, 96; telegraph control, 33; trade policies, 146, 179, 239, 253, 339; Trans-Miss. and, 46; Wheeler and, 38; Ls to, 18, 21, 51, 53, 66, 70, 89, 91, 96, 103, 139, 153, 154, 159, 418. See also House of Representatives; Senate
Conrad, Charles M. (sketch, 4:153), 136
conscription: age limit, 183; Ala., 20, 60, 183, 206, 252, 273, 368, 414; aliens and, 146; amnesty, 306, 307, 326, 347, 349, (Davis), 317, (Lee), 306, 326; Ark., 38, 58; attorney general on, 89-90; blacks, 293, 304, 313, 339; Commissary Dept., 309; criticized, vii, 102, 252, 333, 347, 353, 354, 393; Davis on, vii, 3, 21, 193, 282-83, 286, 297, 342, 363, 394, 408; E. Tenn., 62, 102, 176; enforcement, 187, 315; exemptions, 22, 52, 306, 335, 353, criticized, 319, 353, 378, 393, for farmers, 91-92, 96, laborers, 53, 182, overseers, 65, 105, 180, 182-83, 188, 363, public service, 98, 103, 121, 255, religion, 98, 199, slave control, 384, students, 26, (Davis), 21; Fla., 65, 92, 180, 188-89, 320, 347, 363, 416; Ga., 65, 180, 182, 273, 368; Ky., 151; Miss., 6, 10, 126, 273, 275, 293, 339, 341-42, 350, 354, 355, 361-62, 365, 368, 378, 379, 384, 396, 397, (Davis), 181, 290-91, 322, 359, 384; Mo., 46, 104, 276; N.C., 121, 182, 269-70, 298, (Davis), 8, 187, 193, 255, 280, 359; Post Office Dept., 23; Quartermaster's Dept., 309; Seddon on, 6-7, 189; S.C., 52, 53, 125, 286, 297, 394; support for, 370-71; Tenn., 27, 33, 60, 89-90, 199, 273, 276, 335; Texas, 22, 94, 275; Trans-Miss., 222; U.S., 79, 389, 396; Va., 88, 398
Conscription Bureau: Davis on, 307, 363; organized, 96
Constitution: Davis and, 140, 154; Milton on, 143
Cooke, John R. (sketch, 193): assignments (Davis), 139, 192, 198, 201, 212, 247-48, 398, (Lee), 191, 204, 208, 212, 394, 396, 410
Cooke, Philip St. George (sketch, 1:284), 193
Cooper, Douglas H. (sketch, 3:31): praised, 347; recommended, 47, 184, 207, 233, 239; L from, 89
Cooper, Fleet T.: L from, 176
Cooper, Frances C.: L from, 89
Cooper, Samuel (sketch, 1:108): Davis and, 112, 249; described, 118; enrollment orders, 309; Gettysburg, 247, 251; health, 129; Johnston and, 87; on furloughs, 310, Lee's generals, 129, officers' rank, 225, Tenn. regiments, 359, 368, Trans-Miss., 22, 36; promoted, 71; reinforcements for Lee, 201; troop transfers, 310; Es to, 73, 130, 188, 196, 211, 212, 214, 215, 312, 316, 336, 356, 383, 408; Es by, 38, 323, 336, 359; Ls from, 129, 141, 368; mentioned, 33, 314, 319, 362, 408. See also Adjutant and Inspector General's Office
Corinth, Miss., 137
Corse, Montgomery D. (sketch, 250): assignments, 212, 248, 415, (Davis), 383, 393- 94, 398, 411
Cosby, George B., 33, 35, 306
cotton: Ala., 206, 320-21, 393; Ark., 320-21; burned, 111, 173, 411; CSA and, vi-vii, 35, 98, 99, 113, 136, 141, 143-44, 161, 177-78, 282, 284, 320-21, 339; cotton cards, 46; "cottonclads," 64, 68; Fla., 130, 142-43; Ga., 184; La., 35, 98, 173, 242, 282, 320-21, 411; Miss., 165, 200, 282, 306-7, 320-21, 411; prices, 22, 113, 130, 136, 142, 160, 275; production restrictions, vi, 41, 97, 136, 142, 348; S.C., 283; Texas, 15-16, 95, 149, 211, 360; trade with Europe, 18-19, 136, 143-44, 150, 161, 329-30, 370, 393, India, 112, Mexico, 149, 173, 253, U.S., 160, 165, 329, 339, 402; Trans-Miss., 22, 34, 149, 275, 288, 382
Couch, Darius N., 81
Cowlane, Charles, 361
Cox, Jacob D. (sketch, 8:356), 87, 116
Cox, Owen B. (sketch, 4:293): and Davis' property, 27, 64, 298-301, 344, 349, 374, 393, 395, 396; J. E. Davis and, 242, 301, 344, 349, 377
Creek: Ls from officials, 183-84, 347
Crockett, G. H.: L from, 355
Cromwell, Wareham, 113
Crook, George, 84
Crowley, J. M., 369
Crump, John S.: L from, 184-85
Crutchfield House, 35
Cuba, 83, 99, 373, 393, 414
Culpeper, Va.: advance on, 237, 243; Lee at, 319; skirmish, 384; U.S. troops at, 393- 94, 416
Cumberland Gap, Tenn.: Davis on surrender, 383, 390, 403; defenses, 151, 374, 375, 380; U.S. and, 393, 396; mentioned, 410
Cumberland River, Tenn., 37-38
Cumming, Alfred (sketch, 5:102), 130, 307
Cummings, James F., 353
Curry, J. L. M. (sketch, 6:254), 292, 333
Curtin, Andrew G., 245
Cutts, Allen S., 149

D

Dahlgren, John A., 238, 247
Dahlgren, Ulric, 247
Dancy, Francis L.: L to, 34
Daniel, Junius (sketch, 8:369), 198, 199, 203, 410
Danville, Va., railroad, 397, 399
Dargan, Edmund S.: on Pemberton, 353; L to, 380; Ls from, 335-36, 377, 408, 414
Davenport, Stephen, 339
Davidson, Allen T.: L from, 298
Davidson, Thomas G.: L from, 252
Davies, Sydney H.: L from, 409
Davis, Alfred W. G. (sketch, 8:122): Ls from, 91, 319
Davis, Edmund J., 16
Davis, Eliza Van Benthuysen (sister-in-law) (sketches, 1:272, 2:122): Davis and, 167, 200; death, 379; health, 41, 102, 169, 180, 217, 228, 241, 323, 344, 354, 377, 393, 395; on Davis' property, 198, 314; Ls from, 135, 198; mentioned, 206, 216, 242
Davis, Hugh Robert (nephew) (sketch, 1:275): L to, 72; Ls from, 54-55, 58, 320; mentioned, 72, 324

Davis, Jefferson

--education: USMA, 26, 323
--family: CSA service, 218, 235, 263, 354, 393; deaths of E. V. Davis, 378-79, W. B. Howell, 127, I. D. Stamps, 235, 346; A. M. Farrar, 231-32; gift to son, 303; horses for children, 74; Howell family, 115-16, 127; invited to Richmond, 200, 216-17; nephews' letters, 54-55, 58, 74, 206-7, 320, 346-47, 365, 393, 402; nieces, 233, 346, 418; plantations raided, 233, 241; Raleigh visit (1862), 7. See also Davis, Eliza Van Benthuysen; Davis, Hugh Robert; Davis, Joseph Emory; Davis, Joseph Robert; Davis, Varina Howell
--Mexican War: associates, 38, 154, 184; Buena Vista, 249, 302; wounded, 417
--opinions: amnesty, 62-63, 307; R. N. Anderson, 355; S. R. Anderson, 38; appointments, 8, 55-56, 195, 403; army in West, 3, 8, 404; Army of N. Va., 399; Army of Tenn., 8, 66; W. Barksdale, 262, 303-4; J. R. Baylor, 117; Beauregard, 419; blacks in army, xii, 315, 340, as prisoners, 153, 355; blockade, 21; Bragg, v, ix, 36, 51, 59, 66, 86, 188, 192, 336; Butler, 13; cattle agents, 184-85; citizens' aid, 181; cotton destruction, 282; criticism, 90, 309, 334, 337; Cumberland Gap surrender, 390, 403; deserters, 117; J. Desha, 215; disaffection, 309, 375; education, 151, 404; emancipation, 21; exemptions, 290; W. S. Featherston, 298; Forrest, 348-49, 403; Fredericksburg, 12; G. A. Gardiner, 417; I. W. Garrott, 124; generalship, 167, 229, 336, 337, (U.S.), 172; Gettysburg, 259, 261-62; R. O. Greenhow, 191; guarding resources, 126, 276- 77, 308; habeas corpus, 43; Holmes, 75, 277, 281; impressment, 21, 275; T. J. Jackson, 55-56, 164, 179-80; M. Jenkins, 250; T. J. Johnson, 417; A. S. Johnston, 337, 417; J. E. Johnston, v, 167, 203, 281-82, 292, 295, 308, 311, 316, 374; Johnston's command, ix, 18, 36, 67, 218-19, 226; W. E. Jones, 158; G. W. Lee, 109, 126; R. E. Lee, 12, 329, 334, 337-38, 375, 399, at Gettysburg, 259, 261, 262, 311; S. D. Lee, 199; Longstreet, 55-56, 262, 329; loss of property, 277, 303; J. H. Maddox, 219; Magruder, 46; Me. citizens, 228-29; martial law, 43; D. H. Maury, 5; Meade, 386; Medical Dept., 71; militia, 117, 187, 206, 394; R. H. Milroy, 36; Mo. troops, 293; nominations for valor, 112; officers' appointments, 55-56, 58, 149; partisan warfare, 110; patronage, 195, 231; Pemberton, vi, 123, 174, 203, 334, 335; W. D. Pender, 157; politics, 281; Port Hudson, 291; press, 248, 334, 337, 351; S. Price, 77; price controls, 42, 389-90; public opinion, 276-77, 287, 288, 334, 337, 358, 395; purveyor's office, 92; railroads, 167, 308; recognition, 228; recruiting in Mexico, 346; retaliation, 229, 364; T. C. Reynolds, 103; Richmond home guard, 230; river defenses, 76, 151; secrecy, 391; Sherman, 6; slavery, 21; E. K. Smith, 34, 277, 281, 311, 361; G. W. Smith, 55-56, 72-73; speculation, 42-43, 136, 184, 395; state rights, 161, 418; Stones River, 12; strategy at Gettysburg, 259, 261, 262, in Miss. (after Vicksburg), 269, 271, 287, 291, 357-58, N.C., 37, 52, 85, 198, 247-49, 383, Tenn., 26, 30, 101, 106, 116, 129, 130, 226, 231, 240, 282, 336, 350, 362, 366-67, 369, 375, 380, 383, 390-92, 394, 397-99, 401, 402, 410-11, 415, Trans-Miss., 18, 43, 75-76, 159, 171-72, 174, 239-40, 276, 279-80, 281, 309, at Vicksburg, 43, 46, 47, 67, 96, 150-51, 168-69, 183, 186, 187, 189, 197, 200, 202-3, 205, 282, 291, 357-58, in Va., 36-37, 167, 200-201, 230, 247-48, 318, 391-92, 398-99; substitutes, 290; R. Taylor, 270; Toombs, 401; torpedoes, 205; trade, 402; U.S. atrocities, 12-13, 183, 229, 232, 277, strategy, 43, 52, 63, 67-68, 116, 122, 160, 166-67, 171-72, 183, 192, 199, 203, 247- 49, 287-88, 295, 306, 308-9, 318, 366-67, 369, 389, 390-91, 398-99; USMA graduates, 401; Van Dorn, 148; Vicksburg surrender, 264, 269, 270, 276, 281, 287, 290-91, 308, 311, 357-58; T. H. Watts, 395; J. Wheeler, 30; Yancey, 196, 231; D. W. Yandell, 353
--personal: arms expertise, 105; attends funerals, xli, xlii, xliii, 164, weddings, xlii, xliii; condolence letter, 303-4; described, 7, 164, 195-96, 228, 259; finances, 99, 204, 418; gifts to, 150, 151, 162, 286-87, 342-43, 348, 418; health, xli, xlii, xliii, 7, 16, 71, 78, 134, 140, 141, 154, 162, 170, 217, 228, 250, 289, 418, (Davis), 3, 96, 167, 185, 192, 214; historical allusion, 202; literary allusions, 291, 304, 308; morale, 9, 16, 122, 134, 164, 167, 192, 259, 276, 281, 287, 291, 395; portrait, xliii; property pillaged, 198, 298-301, 349, 377, 381-82, 393, 395; provenance of correspondence, 121, 162, 298-300, 328, 344, 374, 396; recommendations (civilian), 39, 73, 98, 101, 103, 263, 417, (military), 70, 84, 85, 99, 153, 159, 169, 184, 236, 316, 342, 346, 417; religion, 15, 276-77, 286-87, 303, 338; social life, xli, xlii, xliii, 13, 122; writing desks, 303, 377, 393
--planter: cotton and stock, 64, 111; finances, 27, 39-40, 164; Hinds County land, xi, 18, 39-40, 64, 135, 198, 205, 206-7, 216-17, 242, 298-301, 344, 346, 393. See also Brierfield; Davis, Jefferson--servants and slaves
--politics (prewar): gubernatorial campaign, 322; House of Representatives, 64, 417; Senate, 216, 362, 418
--postwar career: Miss. Valley Assn., 332
--president: abuses by CSA officials, 51, 102, 184-85; accepts troops, 255, 270; aides as inspectors, 37, 53-54, 90, 98, 118, 129, 130, 177-78, 336, 366-67, resign, 41, 338; amnesty, 317, 326, 349; appointment policies, 8, 101, 136, 149, 158, 195, 231, 350, 376-77, 389, 401, 403; appointments (aides), 41, 95, (cabinet), 26, (civilian), 55, 195, 231, (generals), 56, 71, 89, 90, 94, 103, 158, 186, 196, 199, 214, 215, 271, 350, 365, 376-77, 403, (military), 58, 61, 64, 88, 163, 401, 403; authorizes funds, 26, 158, 369, 375, 396, 397, 414, 415, 416; black prisoners, 153, 355; bread riot, 126, 146; Cairo claim, 187; captured dispatches, 247, 267; cavalry use, 366; clemency and pardons, 26, 38, 46, 47, 97, 114, 150, 180, 184, 212, 214, 225, 246, 264, 275, 320, 355, 361, 408, 411; CSA bonds, 279; confers with Ark. congressmen, 46, 47, 100, 115, Benjamin, xlii, 148, T. P. A. Bibb, 404, Bragg (1862), 273, G. M. Bryan, 95, J. R. Davis, 295, R. Davis, 121, S. G. French, xlii, C. F. Girard, xliii, Gorgas, xlii, 277, 292, 390, D. Green, 98, R. O. Greenhow, xliii, S. Hart, 402, D. H. Hill, xliii, G. B. Hodge, 151, R. F. Hunt, xlii, R. W. Johnson, 48, 108, 413, J. E. Johnston, 19, R. E. Lee, v, 25, 84, 171, 362, 373, 375, Longstreet, xlii, 391, Mallory, 148, 396, W. P. Miles, 285, Miss. citizens, 173, C. B. Mitchel, 413, F. Mohl, 153, Polk (1862), 50, S. Price, 77, T. C. Reynolds, 77, F. Ross, xliii, A. R. Sanders, xlii, T. J. Semmes, 419, F. B. Sexton, xli, E. S. Shorter, xli, G. W. Smith, 56, E. Sparrow, 419, Stephens, xlii, 254, Vance, 351, D. Walker, 108, J. H. Wheeler, xlii, xliii, Wigfall, xli; congressional relations, 96, 140, 292; criticized, viii, 102, 104, 145, 187, 195, for appointments, 94, 214, 231, 336, 342, 343, 356, 366, 380, 401; deserters, 341, 349, 401-2; expels consuls, 206, 258; flight from Richmond, 379; foreign contracts, 395, loans, 329-30; generals' discretion, v, 43, 69, 282, 289, 311, 333, 336, 361, 375, leaves of absence, 56; and governors, 311; habeas corpus, 38, 43, 47, 75, 115; impressment, 21, 53, 275, 411; interviewed, 228-29; letters of marque, 350; mail to, 253, 395; martial law, 43, 47, 64, 100; message to Congress, 21; military courts, 53; military district in Va., 69; militia use, 117, 126, 174-75, 187, 206, 366; nominations for valor, 112; partisan warfare, 110; patronage, 231, 246; peace prospects, 244-45; praised, 16, 22, 41, 122, 253, 283, 327, 356; prisoners of war, 254, 355, 364; proclaims amnesty, 317, days of fasting and prayer, 85, 305; railroad control, 21, 113, property, 289, 297; reprimands Bragg, 298, 415, Johnston, 353, Memminger, 323, Seddon, 63; retaliation, 181, 183, 229, 254, 335, 364; salary, 212; schedule, 96, 115, 167, 250, 362; secret service funds, 158; speaks at Atlanta, 3, 7, Augusta, xli, Manassas (1861), 283, Petersburg, 9, 10, Raleigh, 7-8, Richmond, 11-15, 146; support for, 122, 150, 229, 321, 342, 346, 365; telegraph system, 72; trade policies, 26, 35, 177-78, 239, 402; vetoes, 120, 161; VMI cadets, 216; visits Army of Tenn. (Oct. 1863), 367, 398, 407, Miss. (1862), 19, 40, 148, Murfreesboro (1862), 31, 89, 90; war goals, 402. See also Confederate States; Davis, Jefferson--opinions
--relations with: Ark. congressmen, 100, 104, 115; R. W. Barnwell, 305; Beauregard, 175, 310; M. L. Bonham, 283; Bragg, xii, 28, 226; W. L. Brandon, 325; J. E. Brown, 102, 126, 185, 383, 407; Buckner, 227; C. C. Clay, 122, 196, 231, 321; H. L. Clay, 122; V. T. Clay, 162, 177; Congress, 115, 290, 296; E. S. Dargan, 408; J. E. Davis, 167, 200; R. Davis, 292; J. Duncan, 374; Early, 209; E. G. Eggeling, 108; S. G. French, xlii, 9; R. O. Greenhow, 320; W. Hampton, 321; J. Handy, 40; W. P. Harris, 64; D. H. Hill, 407; H. W. Hilliard, 64; Hood, 209; J. M. Howry, 358; R. W. Johnson, 172; A. S. Johnston, 58; J. E. Johnston, 128, 264, 282, 287, 296, 314, 326; G. W. Jones, 336; R. C. Jones, 55; R. E. Lee, xi, xii, 53, 96, 122, 166, 170, 179, 199, 201, 202, 215, 259, 308, 318, 327, 338, 352-53, 381, 387, 391; J. H. Maddox, 219, 362; H. Marshall, 97; W. Norris, 156; Pemberton, 314; J. Perkins, 379; Pettus, 64; Polk, 407; R. A. Pryor, 102, 282; R. Ransom, 157; G. N. Sanders, 214, 417; E. K. Smith, 311; G. W. Smith, 58, 72-73; I. D. Stamps, 346; M. H. Stamps, 346; G. Tochman, 397; N. B. Tucker, 282; Vance, 288, 306, 312; J. C. Vaughn, 359; J. H. Wheeler, xliii; Wigfall, 418; J. T. Wood, 354; Yancey, 166, 195, 214, 231, 246. See also Davis, Jefferson--opinions
--secretary of war: forgery case, 418; USMA and, 417
--servants and slaves: Bets(e)y, 198, 234; at Brierfield, 111, 135, 198, 207, 217, 227, 233, 241, 377; J. Campbell, 198; Caroline, 228; A. Carter, 228; Catherine, 116; Charles/y, 345; S. Charlton, 344; clothing, 40; Davis on, 345; disloyalty, xi, 354, 377; Eliza, 234; J. Green, 344, 354; Hagar, 198; health, 188, 198, 354; in Hinds County, 205, 207, 216, 344, 346; hired out, 228; Ishmael, 234, 346; F. McKinney, 344; Melissa, 198, 234; Ned, 198, 234, 346; B. Nick, 235; on Davis, 198, 200, 207; purchase of, 121, 345; Reuben, 228; Rinah, 234; Robert, 344, 345; C. Solomon, 345; C. Ward, 345; B. Young, 235, 377

Davis, Jefferson, Jr. (son) (sketch, 6:110), 74, 121
Davis, Jonathan: L to, 96; L from, 114
Davis, Joseph Emory (brother) (sketch, 1:19): and Davis' business affairs, 27, 40, 64, 135, 216, 227-28, 234, 241, 344, personal property, 298-99, 303, 314, 349, 377, 393, 395, 396; described, 207; finances, 64, 102, 135, 393; Fleetwood, 102, 135, 198, 206-7, 216-17, 242, 344, 346, 393; health, 41, 323, 395; invited to Richmond, 200, 216-17; on conscription, 354, 378, 393, disaffection, 354, J. E. Johnston, 228, 378, 393, ministers, 241, 378, 393, newspapers, 393, 395, overseers, 135, 198, Pemberton, 205, 228, 378, J. Perkins, 377-78, slaves and enemy, 217, Vicksburg, 180, 216-17, 227, 233, 235, 239, 240-41; property pillaged, 298-99, 302, 303; as refugee, xi, 233-34, 242, 301, 314, 323, 344-45, 354, 377, 393; requests favor, 117; slaves, xi, 64, 111, 134-35, 180, 198, 205, 216-17, 228, 233-34, 241, 344, 354, 377, 393, 395; visits Johnston, 214, Pemberton, 134, 314; Ls to, 166-67, 200; Ls from, 64, 102, 117, 134-35, 180, 205, 216-18, 227-28, 233-34, 235, 239, 240-41, 344-45, 354, 377-78, 393, 395, cited, 228, 303, 345; mentioned, 417. See also Hurricane plantation
Davis, Joseph Robert (nephew) (sketch, 6:265): assignments, 74, 162, 194, 204, 296, 313, 352, 365, (Davis), 163, 196, 207, 248; and Davis' business affairs, 18, 39, 200, 217, 227; health, 295; on Falling Waters, 365, Gettysburg, 295, Heth, 296, Pryor, 74; resigns as aide, 41; Ls from, 74, 365, 402
Davis, Margaret Howell. See Hayes, Margaret Davis
Davis, Mary H. (ident., 292), 291
Davis, Reuben (sketch, 3:194): Davis and, 121, 292; Ls to, 163, 290-91; Ls from, 120- 21, 159, 162, 269, 319, cited, 293
Davis, Samuel Emory (father) (sketch, 1:8), 3
Davis, Samuel Emory (son) (ident., 5:11), 301, 393, 395
Davis, Sarah Taylor (wife) (sketch, 1:347), 299
Davis, Varina Howell (wife) (sketch, 2:53): death of father, 115-16, 127; in Montgomery, 115, 121, 127, 129, N.Y., 278; on Davis, 122, 250, 259, Fredericksburg, 9, Jackson's death, 164, L. M. Johnston, 127-28; and patronage, 99; provenance of correspondence, 299, 302, 374; Raleigh visit (1862), 7; social life, xli, xlii, xliii; and M. H. Stamps, 235, 346; writes for Davis, 162; Ls to, cited, 345; Ls from, 115-16, 121-22, 127-28, cited, 235; mentioned, 16-17, 41, 65, 74, 135, 184, 207, 305, 312, 319, 365, 370, 393, 395, 402
Davis, William G. M.: report by, 141; L to, 275
Davis, William Howell (son) (sketch, 8:182), 127, 303, 402
Davis Bend, Miss.: evacuated, 64; Indianola at, 69, 345; plundered, 111, 198; slaves organized, 345. See also Brierfield; Hurricane plantation
De Bow, James D. B. (sketch, 8:218), 98
De Courcy, John F., 20
De Jarnett, Daniel C.: L from, 41
Delafield, John: L from, 62
De Leon, Edwin (sketch, 6:27): Ls from, 177, 321
Democratic Party, 220, 292
Demopolis, Ala., camp, 283, 351, 380
Dennis (slave), 344
Department No. 2, ix, 119
Department of the East (U.S.), 297
Department of East Tennessee. See Bragg, Braxton; Buckner, Simon B.
Department of Florida (U.S.), 84
Department of the Gulf (U.S.), 172, 210
Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. See Johnston, Joseph E.; Pemberton, John C.
Department of North Carolina (U.S.), 84, 297
Department of the Ohio (U.S.), 82, 84, 125
Department of the South (U.S.), 84
Department of South Carolina and Georgia. See Beauregard, P. G. T.
Department of Tennessee. See Bragg, Braxton
Department of Virginia (U.S.), 297
Department of Virginia and North Carolina. See Hill, Daniel H.; Longstreet, James
Department of Washington (U.S.), 245
Department of the West. See Johnston, Joseph E.
Desha, Joseph, 215
Deshler, James, 159, 403
De Soto Point, La., 61
Devereux, Thomas P.: L to, 58
Dickson, Christopher R. (sketch, 7:54), 233, 241
Dillon, Edward, 148
disaffection: Ala., 29, 128, 183, 315, 353, 371; Ark., 42, 58, 77, 91, 131, 132, 221, 229, 239; Davis on, 309, 375; E. Tenn., 29, 52, 54, 62-63, 104, 298, 359, 373, 375, 376, (Davis), 389, 390, 411; food riots, viii, 126, 146; Ga., 23, 65, 126, 355, 361, 374, 380, 382, (Davis), 389; N.C., 179, 182, 269-70, 298, 304, 306, (Davis), 304, 351, 376, 388, 390; S.C., 389; Texas, 46, 93-94; Trans-Miss., 279, 281, (Davis), 309; Va., 48. See also reconstruction (reunion)
Dix, John A. (sketch, 3:372): operations, 245, 250, 266, 268, 295; staff, 108
Dobbin, James C. (sketch, 2:570), 281
Dockery, Thomas P., 333
Donaldsonville, La., Battle of, 315
Donelson, Daniel S. (sketch, 7:248): assignments, 87, 116; health, 138; operations, 97; L from, 71
Donnell, Levi: L from, 159
Doughty, Jesse, 105
draft. See conscription
Dragon, USS, 83
Dranesville, Va., Battle of, 65, 415
Dublin, Va., 288
Duncan, John: L from, 374
Duncan, John W.: Ls from, 22, 65
Duncan, Lucy H., 374
Dunovant, John (sketch, 8:325), 85
Dunwody, John, 22
Du Pont, Samuel F. (sketch, 237), 236
Durham, Henry C.: L from, 347

E

Early, Jubal A. (sketch, 209): Gettysburg, 260, 267; operations, 165, 208, 219, 230, 385; mentioned, 82, 84
East Tennessee: commanders, ix, 87, 119, 138, 265, 370, (Davis), 226; conditions, 359, 362, 365, 368, 373; conscription, 62, 102, 176; defenses, 29, 87, 137-38, (Davis), 101, 362, 363, 366-67, 373, 375, 383-84, 398; disaffection, 29, 52, 54, 62, 104, 298, 359, 373, 375, 376, (Davis), 62-63, 389, 390, 411; habeas corpus, 176; martial law, 27, 54; operations, 265, 272-73, 365, 376, 398, 403, 409, 410, (Davis), 362, 367, 369, 375, 383-84, 398; railroads, 286, 373, 375; recruiting (Davis), 295, 367; reports on, 246, 359, 369, 370, 376; resources, 359, 361, 374; U.S. operations, 3, 361, 369, 373, 375, 376, 384, 398, 409, 410, 415. See also Tennessee
East Tennessee, Department of. See Bragg, Braxton; Buckner, Simon B.
East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad, 286, 414
East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad, 286, 376, 400
Echols, John, 288
Edwards, John, 46
Edwards, W. A., 23
Edwards Depot, Miss. See Champion Hill, Miss., Battle of
Eggeling, Edward G. (sketch, 8:183), 106
Eiland, Oliver G.: L from, 293
Eliza (slave) (ident., 235), 234, 344, 393
Ellis, Powhatan (sketch, 2:78), 169
Elzey, Arnold (sketch, 7:265): assignments, 40, 129; Lee on, 92, 165; reports by, 208, 210; Richmond defenses, 122, 129, 194, 204-5, 207, 230, 248, 259; L to, 232; mentioned, 197, 243
Emancipation Proclamation: Davis and, 21, 108
Emanuel, Morris, 364
Emmitsburg, Md., 270
Enfield rifles, 133, 141, 360, 373
Engineers, Bureau/Corps of: claims against, 85, 97; funds, 19, 70. See also Gilmer, Jeremy F.
England. See Great Britain
Enterprise, Miss.: L to Confederate Society, 394; mentioned, 292-93, 314, 326, 343, 393
Erlanger, Frederic Emile (sketch, 332), 330, 331, 332
Erlanger, Ludwig, 331
Erlanger, Marguerite S., 332
Erlanger, Raphael d', 331
Erlanger, Viktor, 331
Erlanger & Co.: history, 331; L from, 121
Erlanger loans: described, viii, 331, 332; reports on, 18, 53, 121, 136, 153, 329-30
Ervin, W. T., 102
Etowah, Ga., ironworks, 190
Europe: munitions purchases, 89, 331, 332, 372; recognition of CSA, xiii, 284, (Davis), 21; recruiting in, 315, 348, 409; trade with, 282, 362, (cotton), 18-19, 113, 136, 143-44, 150, 161, 329-30, 370, 393. See also France; Great Britain; Spain
Evans, Nathan G. (sketch, 7:428): assignments, 319, (Davis), 202, 321; Charleston, 357, 360
Ewell, Benjamin S.: L from, 311; mentioned, 304
Ewell, Leczinska B., xlii
Ewell, Richard S. (sketch, 7:339): Davis on, 230; Gettysburg, 245, 259; health, 129, 138; operations, 208, 219, 230, 232, 238; recommended, 138, 185, 188; staff, 83; wedding, xlii
Ewing, Francis M., 187, 288, 312
Ewing, Hugh B. (sketch, 302), 301
Eyre, Wilson, 312

F

Fagan, James F. (sketch, 8:365), 280
Falling Waters, W.Va., 267-68, 365
Farish, William Stamps (grandnephew) (sketch, 8:180), 200
Farragut, David G. (sketch, 8:582), 113
Farrar, Anna M.: L from, 231-32
Farrar, Daniel S., 231
Featherston, Winfield Scott (sketch, 3:275), 298
Ferguson, Samuel W.: Davis on, 159, 169, 236; promoted, 271; Vicksburg, 116, 181; L from, 271; mentioned, 353
Ferrebee, Dennis D., 409
Finley, John G., 41
Finley, Norris (ident., 345), 344
Fisher, Thomas F.: L from, 364
Fitzhugh, ----, 148
Fitzhugh, George, 98
Flanagin, Harris (sketch, 278): described, 230; Ls to, 125, 281; Ls from, 10, 246; mentioned, 112, 117, 277
Fleetwood plantation (described, 8:519): conditions, 41, 135, 198; pillaged, 205, 206-7, 216-17, 242, 344, 346, 393
Fleming, L. J.: L from, 54
Florida: conscription, 65, 92, 180, 188-89, 320, 347, 363, 416; cotton law, 142-44; food supplies, 142-44, 150, 189, 348, 361, 364, 416; politics, 145; railroads, 142, 347-48, 393, 416; Seminole wars, 296; slaves, 20, 65, 143-44, 189, 320, 364; speculators, 142, 145; threatened, 3, 112
Florida Railroad iron, 347-48, 393, 416
Florida troops: 1st Infantry, 406; 5th Infantry, 128; Perry's/Fla. Brigade, 348, 381, 392; arms, 360, 404; Davis on, 381; strength, 347, 416
Floyd, John B. (sketch, 6:166), 18, 27
Floyd, William W., 90
Fontaine, Edmund: L from, 105
Foote, Andrew H. (sketch, 8:581), 236
Foote, Henry S. (sketch, 2:83): on Davis, 356; and J. Perkins, 378; Ls from, 92, 356; mentioned, 103, 322, 359
Ford, Charles E., 83
Ford, Rufus K.: L from, 99
Forney, John H. (sketch, 7:232): praised, 393; E by, 333
Forney, William H., 316, 336
Forrest, Nathan Bedford (sketch, 8:512): Davis on, 174, 348-49, 403; operations, 4, 274-75, 348-49; recommended, 403; L from, 348-49
Fort Bisland, 173
Fort Bogs, 112
Fort Brown, 112
Fort Caswell, 62
Fort Donelson, 27, 338
Fort Fisher, 62, 85
Fort Henry, 338
Fort Hindman, 45
Fort Jackson, 112
Fort Lee, 112
Fort McAllister, 91, 125
Fort Mercer, 112
Fort Monroe, 140
Fort Pemberton: attacked, 100; constructed, 68; reports on, 104, 112, 141
Fort Ripley, 70
Fort Sumter: attacked, xi-xii, 141, 155; Davis on, 295, 357; defenses, 70, 289, 311, 356-57. See also Charleston, S.C.
Foster, Ira R.: Ls from, 315, 374
Foster, John G. (sketch, 84): assignment, 295; operations, 80, 194, 266; mentioned, 186, 199
Foster, Thomas J.: L from, 206
Fowler, William H., 231
France: and blockade, 144, 372; CSA and, 71, 101, 124, 140, 256-57, (Davis), 21; and mediation, viii, 112, 258; and Mexico, 71, 103, 258, 321, 372; recognition of CSA, 256-57, 284, 321, 330; Slidell and, 102, 371; and U.S., viii, 330, 362, 372
Franklin, William B. (sketch, 81), 79, 81, 414
Fraser Trenholm & Co., 332
Frazer, John W., 246, 319, 392
Fredericksburg, Va.: Battle of, 4, 34, (Davis), 9, 12; Lee and, 162, 165, 208, (Davis), 318; U.S. operations, 147, 261, 316
free blacks. See blacks
Fremantle, Arthur J. L.: interviews Davis, 228-29
French, S. Bassett: L from, 285
French, Samuel G. (sketch, 7:424): assignments, 197, 212, (Davis), 192, 196, 198, 199, 213; Davis and, xlii; Davis on, 9, 213; N.C. operations, 9, 17, 25, 52, 62, 160; reports by, 62, 139; mentioned, 51, 74, 242
Fry, Joseph L.: L from, 114
fugitive slaves. See slaves
Futch, Hanson M., 411

G

Gains, M. M.: L from, 322
Gallagher, George A. (sketch, 134), 132
Galveston, Texas, Battle of, 16, 70
Gardiner, George A.: Davis on, 417
Gardner, Franklin: assignments, 270, (Davis), 72, 268, 307; criticized, 380; Port Hudson, 101, 265; reports by, 99, 104; L to, 72
Gardner, William M., 51
Garey, William G., 418
Garland, Augustus H.: L to, 115; Ls from, 46, 63, 100, 104; mentioned, 69, 76
Garnett, Alexander Y. P. (sketch, 8:244), 192
Garnett, Richard B., 260
Garrott, Isham W. (sketch, 8:261), 124
Gartrell, Lucius J.: L from, 65
Geary, John W. (sketch, 6:156), 81
General Rusk (blockade-runner), 99
George, James Z., 339
Georgetown, S.C., defenses, 240
Georgia: conscription, 65, 180, 182, 273, 368; cotton production, 41, 97, 142, 184; Davis praises, 3, 377; defenses, 190-91, 212, 253, 361; disaffection, 23, 65, 126, 355, 361, 374, 380, 382, (Davis), 389; food supplies, 41, 65, 149-50, 182, 184, 197, 232, 353-54, 376; furloughs for officials, 97, 103, 104; politics, 126, 346, 362, 374, 380; railroads, 42, 105, 191, 253, 293; resolution on army pay, 141; speculators, 376; support for Davis and CSA, 22, 150, 346; L from citizens, 376. See also Brown, Joseph E.
Georgia troops: 5th Cavalry, 150; Cobb's battery, 271; 2d Infantry, 388; 6th Infantry, 249; 10th Infantry, 320; 38th Infantry, 70, 274; 59th Infantry, 74; Lee's Volunteers, 274; Wright's Legion, 274; commanders, 236, 361, 366, 373, 383, 394, 411; Davis on, 366, 375, 377, 383; deserters, 380; furloughed, 310; Jackson, Miss., 271; militia, 191, 212, 236, 361, 367, 373, 375, 383, 394; munitions needed, 366, 394; organization, 23, 191, 212, 320, 342, 361, 383, 407-8, 411; Raleigh riot, 388; strength, 375, 394
Gettysburg, Pa., Battle of: advance toward, 210, 245, 247-49, 259-60; casualties, 260, 262, 264, 270, 289, 294, 295, 313; Davis on, 259, 262, 294, 322; effects of, 267, 268, 313, 319, 328, 331; Lee criticized, 315-16, 327; Lee on, 259-60, 263-64, 268, 313, 315-16; prisoners, 263- 64, 268, 270
Gholson, Samuel J. (sketch, 2:203), 162, 163
Gibson, William: L from, 26
Gifford, Augustus T. D. (sketch, 8:110), 282
Gillespie, William A.: L from, 184
Gilmer, Jeremy F. (sketch, 8:341): assignment, 356; and James River obstructions, 139, 151; on claims for vessels, 97; and slave laborers, 34, 61, 74, 89, 90, 100, 103; mentioned, 19, 212. See also Engineers, Bureau/Corps of
Gilmor, Harry W., 410, 411
Gilmore, John T., 71
Giltner, Henry L., 370, 375
Girard, Charles F.: Davis and, xliii
Girault, J. F., 411
Gladney, J. B.: L from, 130
Glenn, David C. (sketch, 2:301): Davis on, 349; L from, 364-65; mentioned, 411
Gonzales, Ambrosio J. (sketch, 5:54): L from, 355
Goodman, Walter (sketch, 7:28): L to, 297; Ls from, 289, 303; mentioned, 310
Goodner, John F., 38
Gordon, George A., 236
Gordon, George H., 194
Gordon, James B., 409
Gordon, John B., 166, 196
Gordonsville, Va., 160, 318, 410
Gorgas, Josiah (sketch, 7:228): arms contract, 153; and blockade, vii; Charleston defenses, 90, 285, 289, 294, 305; Davis confers with, xlii, 277, 292, 390; Fla. defenses, 360, 404; Vicksburg defenses, 90, 148, 150, 292; Es to, 63, 105; Ls from, 90, 148, 360, 381; mentioned, 89, 384, 411. See also Ordnance Bureau
Gorman, Willis A., 77
Graham, William M., 387
Grand Gulf, Miss.: communication with, 161; defenses, 96, 99, 104, 148, 149; evacuated, 163, 164, 168
Grant, Ulysses S. (sketch, 8:323): and Davis' letters, 302; injured, 413; Jackson, Miss., 281, 286, (Davis), 284, (Johnston), 275, 282, 284; on Ark. Post prisoners, 108, CSA reinforcements, 249; operations after Vicksburg, 312, 315, 335, 406, 412; Vicksburg, viii, x-xi, 77, 130, 162, 173, 197, 264-65, 325, (Davis), 76, 166-67, 189, 197, 200, 202-3, 247, 270, 291, 357-58, (Johnston), 4, 59-60, 137, 234, 264-65
Gray, Peter W. (sketch, 8:506): L from, 70; mentioned, 140
Grayson, A. J.: L from, 350
Great Britain: CSA and, 102, 124; consul expelled, 206, 258; and mediation, 112, 256- 57; recognition of CSA, viii, 321, 330, (Davis), 228; trade with, 25, 140, 143-44, 362; U.S. and, viii, 62, 362
Great Western Sanitary Fair: and Davis' letters, 299
Greaves, Stephen A. D. (sketch, 3:38), 354
Greeley, Horace, 347
Green, Duff: Davis and, 101; L to, 98; Ls from, 102, 112
Green, Jim (slave) (sketch, 3:95), 344, 354
Greenhow, Rose O. (sketch, 8:245): Davis and, xliii, 320; L to, 191; Ls from, 283-84, 289, 320
Greensboro, N.C.: Davis in, 7
Greenville, Miss., 130
Greenwood plantation, 242
Greer, Elkanah B. (sketch, 7:269), 222
Gregg, John, 5
Grenada, Miss., 4, 309
Grierson, Benjamin H.: and Davis' sister, 234; Miss. operations, x, 168, 186, 191, 206, 273, 307
Grinnan, Robert A.: L from, 230
Griswold, Elias, 369
Guthrie, James (sketch, 5:71): L to, 417
Gwin, Lucy. See Coleman, Lucy G.
Gwin, William M. (sketch, 2:105), 103, 320

H

habeas corpus: Ark., 38, 75; Davis and, 38, 43, 47, 75, 115; E. Tenn., 176; Indian Territory, 76; Miss., 69, 71; N.C., 182, 194; Savannah, 47. See also martial law
Hachee, Robert: L from, 184
Haden, John M., 402
Hagar (slave) (sketch, 2:332), 198
Hagen, John T.: L from, 182
Hagerstown, Md., 267, 269, 270, 280
Hagood, Johnson, 112
Haley, Alfred G. (sketch, 4:236): L from, 71; mentioned, 89
Hall, Edward D., 255, 259
Halleck, Henry W. (sketch, 8:5): on prisoners, 107, 111; retaliation, 21, 34, 36; U.S. strategy, 83, 210, 250, 261, 367
Hamer, Mary Elizabeth Mitchell (Lise) (grandniece) (sketch, 3:56): Davis and, 167, 200; as refugee, 228, 344, 378, 393; mentioned, 205, 216
Hamilton, Andrew J. (sketch, 8:504), 93
Hamilton, Jones S.: L to, 380-81; Ls from, 321, 379; mentioned, 321, 339
Hamilton, N.C., 62
Hamilton, Peter, 166
Hammermister, Eugenia, 108
Hammond, William A., 325
Hampton, Wade, III (sketch, 7:424): assignments, 73, 85, 150; Lee on, 316; praised, 213; rank, 365; staff, 129; wounded, 260, 321; L from, 321; mentioned, 128
Hampton, Wade, IV (sketch, 129): V. Davis on, 128
Handy, John (sketch, 8:519): L to, 39-40; L from, 18, cited, 40; mentioned, 64
Hanly, Thomas B.: E by, 100
Hanover Junction, Va., 248, 255, 259, 379
Hardee, William J. (sketch, 8:14): assignments (Davis), 341, 350, 356; Bragg and, 31, 49, 60, 120, 187; on Johnston, 60, U.S. operations, 311-12, 315; praised, 120, 342; reports by, 335, 389, 409; staff, 314, 342, 406; and Vicksburg army, 321, 326, 341, 351, 356; Ls to, 306, 350, 356; Ls from, 196, 311-12, 315, 321, 351; mentioned, 53, 100, 119, 133, 141, 298, 323
Hard Times, La., 158
Harjo, Echo: L from, 183
Harney, Frank M., 348, 360
Harpers Ferry, W.Va., 230, 232, 261, 269
Harriet Lane, USS, 39
Harris, Isham G. (sketch, 7:159): on Bragg, 49, 60, Forrest, 403; recommended, 322; Ls to, 341, 363, 403; Ls from, 33, 341, 362, 403; mentioned, 54
Harris, J. W. M.: L from, 113
Harris, Jabez, 47
Harris, Margaret. See Jackson, Margaret H.
Harris, Martha Q., 242, 299, 345
Harris, Mollie: L from, 46-47
Harris, Shadrach T., 89
Harris, W. W.: L from, 16
Harris, Wiley P. (sketch, 7:434): Ls to, 64, 231; Ls from, 42, 230; mentioned, 113
Harrisburg, Pa., 261
Harrison, Burton N. (sketch, 8:555): and Davis-Lee correspondence, 328; as Davis' secretary, 48, 61, 64, 180, 231, 292, 293, 296; L to, 148
Harrison, Henry T., 261
Harrison, James T. (sketch, 175): L to, 173-75; mentioned, 159
Harrison, Richard (sketch, 2:31): L from, 315
Harrisonburg, Va.: L from citizens, 355
Hart, Simeon (sketch, 8:593): reports on, 253, 275; L from, 402
Hartford, Conn.: Davis invited to (1860), 418
Hartford, USS, 104, 105, 148
Hartley, Henry C., 97, 114
Hartley, S., Mrs.: L from, 97
Hartwood Church, Va., skirmish, 83
Harvie, Edwin J. (sketch, 242), 241
Harvie, Lewis E.: L from, 140
Hatteras, USS, 66
Hatton, William R., 359
Havana, Cuba, 373, 393, 414
Hawes, James M., 359-60
Hawes, Richard: Ls from, 18, 89, 100
Hayes, Margaret Davis (daughter) (sketch, 5:119), 74, 135
Hayes, S. C.: L from, 141
Haymond, Thomas S.: L from, 218
Haynes, Landon C. (sketch, 8:31): E by, 348; L to, 366; Ls from, 361, 365
Haynes, Malcolm D. (sketch, 4:45), 326, 346
Haynes, William H. (sketch, 224), 221
Haywood, Fabius J. (sketch, 8:191): L from, 402
Hebert, Louis: assignment, 5; E by, 333
Hebert, Paul O. (sketch, 8:503), 94, 95, 115
Heiskell, Joseph B. (sketch, 8:89): L to, 384; Ls from, 52, 384
Helena, Ark., Battle of, 223, 278, 280, 281, 325
Henry, Gustavus A. (sketch, 1:24): on E. Tenn., 368, J. P. McCown, 323; E by, 348; L from, 92
Heth, Henry (sketch, 7:435): assignments, 29, 191, 204; criticized, 296, 365; Gettysburg, 260, 261, 296, 328; Lee on, 191, 197; promoted, 191; wounded, 163, 260; L from, 85; mentioned, 109, 248
Hickory Hill plantation, 251
Higgins, Edward, 47
High Point, N.C., 124
Hill, ----, Gen., 176
Hill, Ambrose P. (sketch, 8:303): Army of N. Va. organization, 191, 192, 196, 336; Gettysburg campaign, 238, 245, 260; Lee on, 185; on U.S. operations, 207, 211, 219; operations, 208, 212, 230, 232, 304; wounded, 163; L to, 211; Ls from, 46, 207, 211; mentioned, 364, 401
Hill, Benjamin H. (sketch, 8:461): on Davis, 253
Hill, Daniel H. (sketch, 8:82): assignments, 16, 46, 165, 171, 180, 198, 207, 229, 243, 250, (Davis), 46, 48, 160, 192, 201-2, 212, 219, 247; Bragg on, 405; confers with Davis, xliii; Davis on, 46, 85; health, 16, 46; Lee on, 16, 198, 199, 204; N.C. operations, 85, 179, 180, 182, 197, 198, 199, 201, 206, 207, 229; on his command, 207, 229, 255; resigns, 46; L to, 219; Ls from, 207, 229
Hill, Gabriel H. (sketch, 134), 132
Hill, Thomas H., 397
Hilliard, Henry W. (sketch, 8:244): L from, 64
Hilton, Robert B., 348
Hindman, Thomas C. (sketch, 7:447): assignments, 47, 109, 115, 117, 220; criticized, 36, 45, 46, 47, 55, 58, 64, 90, 100, 223, (Bragg), 405; relieved, xii, 415; staff, 132; mentioned, 77, 131, 134, 278
Hinds, Howell (sketch, 6:52), 205
Hinds County, Miss.: Davis brothers' land, xi, 18, 39-40, 64, 135, 198, 205, 206-7, 216- 17, 242, 298-301, 344, 346, 393. See also Davis, Joseph Emory; Fleetwood plantation
Hitchcock, Ethan A. (sketch, 1:33), 108
Hodge, George B.: Davis and, 151; report by, 246; Ls from, 136, 151, 154
Hoke, Robert F., 376, 389
Holden, William W.: criticized, 388; Davis on, 304, 351; Vance on, 306
Holmes, ----, Miss, 116
Holmes, Theophilus H. (sketch, 1:351): assignments, 72, 149, 220-21, 223, (Davis), 75- 76, 115, 117, 277, 281; criticized, 22, 34, 36, 46, 47, 55, 70, 90, 100, 104, 221, 223, 324-25, 342, 356, 365; Helena, 223, 276, 280, (Davis), 281; and Hindman, 109; on disaffection, 38, 58, 76-77, 91, 131; praised, 220, 230; E. K. Smith and, 91, 115, 117, 130-31, 413; staff, 76, 95, 104, 132, 133, 278, 399; troop strength, 6, 371, 412; Vicksburg reinforcements, 10, 16, 17, (Davis), 6, 43; Ls to, 42-44, 74-76, 103, 281; Ls from, 38, 58, 91, 130-32, 280; mentioned, ix, 69, 94, 229. See also Trans-Mississippi Department
Holmes, Theophilus H., Jr. (sketch, 76), 74
Holt, Bolling H., 320, 342
Holt, Hines: L to, 342
Hood, John Bell (sketch, 209): Bragg on, 405; Lee on, 185, 403, 410; operations, 63, 66, 105, 157, 164, 168, 208; wounded, 260, 402, 407
Hooker, Joseph (sketch, 82): Chancellorsville, x, 164, 171; Gettysburg campaign, 244, 259-60; operations, 62, 211, 410, (Davis), 122, (Lee), 63, 66, 79, 125, 147, 155, 199, 210, 212; mentioned, 81, 82
Hoover, Jonah D.: L to, 418
Hotze, Henry, 257
House of Representatives: bills on army transfers, 54, elections, 161, jury trials, 154, minors' commissions, 147; resolutions on W. A. Broadwell, 63, 120, Cherokee treaty, 71, civilian prisoners, 85, 149, coal and iron, 66, commissioners abroad, 124, 140, cotton purchases, 98, cotton trade, 149, courts-martial, 54, impressed slaves, 101, 114, 149, 158, medical care, 150, R. H. Milroy, 34, New Orleans, 97, Post Office, 154, property seized, 53, 73, telegraph system, 72, vessels seized, 58, 62, 85, 95, 97, vessels under construction, 52; secret sessions, 124, 140; veto, 161; Ls to, 34, 52, 53, 54, 58, 62, 63, 66, 71, 72, 73, 85, 95, 97, 98, 101, 114, 120, 124, 140, 147, 149, 150, 154, 161
Houston, Sam (sketch, 4:75): on Davis, 93
Houston, William H.: L from, 346
Howard, Oliver O.: operations, 81, 410, (Lee), 159, 160, 352, 411; mentioned, 325
Howard, Richard A., 33, 35
Howell, Margaret G. See Stoess, Margaret Howell
Howell, Margaret K. (mother-in-law) (sketch, 2:55), 115, 127
Howell, William B. (father-in-law) (sketch, 2:124), 116, 127
Howell, William F. (brother-in-law) (sketch, 2:332), 116, 127, 411
Howry, James M. (sketch, 358): L to, 357-58
Howry, Narcissa B. (ident., 358), 358
Hudson, Thomas J. (sketch, 5:139): Davis on, 346; L from, 346
Hughes, David W.: L from, 182
Humphreys, Benjamin G.: L to, 162; L from, 184
Humphries, Abraham S.: L from, 365
Humphries, Henry G.: L from, 393
Hunnicutt, M. M.: L from, 91-92
Hunt, Henry J., 387
Hunt, R. Finley: Davis and, xlii
Hunter, David (sketch, 8:375): assignments, 153; S.C. operations, 84, 209, 236; Stephens on, 215; L from, 152
Hunter, F. Winston, 225
Hunter, R. M. T. (sketch, 5:5): L from, 105
Hunter, Samuel E.: L from, 158
Hunter, William L., 186
Huntington, Marquis of: Davis and, xli
Huntsville, Ala., 297
Hurricane plantation (described, 1:247): plundered, xi, 111, 298-99; reports on, 64, 344; slaves, 64, 134-35, 198, 217, 228, 233-34, 241, 344, 354; mentioned, 41
Hurst, Fielding, 335
Huse, Caleb (sketch, 7:378), 331

I

Illinois troops: 10th Cavalry, 234; 14th Infantry, 302; 15th Infantry, 302; 76th Infantry, 302; 77th Infantry, 302
Illustrated London News, 284
Imboden, John D. (sketch, 83): assignment, 411; Davis and, 260; and Milroy, 17, 34, 37; operations, 155, 162, 232; reports by, 79-80, 415; mentioned, 84
impressment: brandy, 401; commissioners, 114, 184, 306, 401; cotton, 130, 179, 253, 275, 362, 401; Davis on, 21, 184, 253, 275, 411; foodstuffs, 91, 113, 124, 196, 238; legislation, vii, 341; livestock, 184, 387, 411; slaves, vi, 35, 100-101, 149, 158, 340; Toombs on, 380; Trans- Miss., 77
India cotton market, 112
Indian Affairs, Bureau of: Cherokee funds, 71; estimates, 51; superintendent, 47, 48
Indiana raid, 275
Indiana troops: 8th Infantry, 302; 12th Infantry, 302; 67th Infantry, 302
Indianola, USS: sinks, 69, 96, 99; mentioned, 111, 345
Indians: CSA and, 78, 103, 131, 184, 207, (Davis), 21; Trans-Miss., 115, 279. See also specific tribes
Indian Territory: commander, 207; conditions, 38, 89, 103, 184; habeas corpus, 76; munitions, 184, 347; organization, 3, 233, 239
Indian troops: 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles, 133; Chickasaw, 239; Choctaw, 239; Seminole Battalion, 207; commander, 103; conditions, 184, 233, 239, 347; furloughed, 131; raising, 186
Ingraham, Duncan N. (sketch, 7:72), 304
inventions: balloon, 177; cannon, 115; gunpowder, 153; machine (unspecified), 141; mines, 189, 205; rifle, 105; river obstructions, 212
Ireland: CSA and, 348; recruiting in, 315, 348, 408-9, 414
iron: appropriation for, 394; navy needs, 204, 230; for railroads, 51, 140, 230, 347-48, 393, 416; supplies in Ala., 66, E. Tenn., 361, Ga., 190, La., 221, Nassau, 179, 204, Trans-Miss., 276-77
ironclads: Charleston, 48, 52, 139, 140, 157; construction, 62, 70, 74, 151; Miss. River, 45, 69, 99-100; sailors needed, 357; Savannah, 91, 125. See also specific vessels
Isaac, S., Campbell & Co., 140
Isham (slave), 346
Ishmael (slave), 234, 346
Iverson, Alfred (sketch, 7:13): assignment (Davis), 411; L from, 113
Ives, Joseph C. (sketch, 8:555): inspection tour, 117, 129, 134, 139, 220, 223, 240; report by, 399; Ls from, 117, 148

J

Jackson, Alfred E.: assignment, 52; described, 370; E. Tenn. operations, 373, 384, (Davis), 366; troop strength, 369, 376
Jackson, Henry R., 394
Jackson, Margaret H., 345
Jackson, Miss.: court of inquiry, 335, 347; defenses, 51, 205, 269, 283, 284, (Davis), 271, (Johnston), 271, 280, 282, (Pemberton), 163; evacuated, 189, 200-201, 284, 285, 308; munitions, 148, (Davis), 165, 186, 199, 281
Jackson, Thomas J. (sketch, 7:226): Chancellorsville, 163; death, x, 164, 257, (Davis), xlii, 180, 230, (Lee), 163, 403; praised, 6, (Davis), 55-56; and G. W. Smith, 72; mentioned, 82, 84
Jackson, William H.: assignments, 180, 190; promoted, 26; recommended, 403; L from, 381-82; mentioned, 265, 303
Jackson, William L., 254
Jackson Mississippian: Davis and, 417; on arming slaves, 340, morale, 176
James Island, S.C., 283, 355
James River, Va., 52, 139, 151, 400
Jayne, Joseph M.: L from, 342
Jefferson, Thomas, 152
Jenkins, Albert G. (sketch, 8:410): assignments, 156, (Davis), 381, 384, 401, (Lee), 150, 198, 316, 379, 381; wounded, 289
Jenkins, Micah (sketch, 250): assignments (Davis), 199, 201, 230, 247-48, 308, (Lee), 180, 198, 204, 208, 212, 352; troop strength, 250
Johnson, Bradley T., 394
Johnson, Edward (sketch, 209): assignments, 165, 171; health, 129; operations, 208, 260
Johnson, Herschel V. (sketch, 3:394): L from, 321
Johnson, Jilson P.: L from, 403
Johnson, John M., 314, 342
Johnson, Richard H., 230
Johnson, Robert W. (sketch, 5:4): Davis and, xlii, 48, 108, 171, 172, 276, 413; as Trans-Miss. agent, 78, 229-30, 280, 412; L to, 276-77; Ls from, 48, 229-30, cited, 413, 414
Johnson, T. J.: Davis on, 417
Johnson's Island, Ohio: Davis on, 364
Johnston, Albert Sidney (sketch, 2:430): Davis and, 58, 417; Davis on, 337; mentioned, 418
Johnston, Benjamin, 365
Johnston, Joseph E. (sketch, 7:61): assignments, vi, xii, 17, 60, 61, 68, 72, 87, 119, 120, 189, 209, 220, 226-27, 263, 272-73, 377, 407, 408, (Davis), ix, 10, 18, 31, 35, 36, 55, 67, 101, 187, 218-19, 226, 227, 240, 253, 268-69, 271, 281-82, 374, 380; Bragg and, 19, 30, 35, 36, 49, 59-60, 66-67, 86, 116, 119, 128, 137, 186, 189, 225-26, 252-53, 263, 273, 282; criticized, 228, 273, 292, 295, 319, (Davis), 167, 197, 203, 218-19, 239, 264, 281-82, 292, 308, 311; Davis and, v, vi, ix, 9-10, 18, 19-20, 35, 36, 40, 66-68, 87-88, 129, 148-49, 165, 167-68, 188, 189-90, 197, 198-99, 203, 213, 218-19, 227, 232, 239, 247, 249, 252-53, 264-65, 271, 281-82, 287-88, 295, 296, 314, 316, 326, 342, 353, 374, 379; Davis on, 192, 197, 200, 203, 239, 247, 291, 295, 316; J. E. Davis and, 214, 228, 241-42, 377-78, 393; defended, 314, 335; Hardee and, 49, 60, 298, 321; health, 137; Jackson, Miss., 87, 189, 269, 271, 275, 280, 282, 284, 285, 287, 292, 298, 308, 309, 320, 335; W. P. Johnston and, 113, 116, 119, 121, 141; munitions for, 185; on assignments, ix, 4, 16, 17, 19-20, 38, 48, 60, 86-88, 104, 137, 141, 219-20, 226, 263, 326, Bragg, x, 16, 17, 18, 49, 59-60, 104, 116, 119, 137, 227, cavalry, 4, 59, 87, 104, 137, 161, Davis, 30, 60, 264, Lee, 4, 88, Miss. inspection, 116, 121, northern-born officers, 212, Pemberton, 59, 87, 104, 141, 188, 269, 271, Port Hudson, 59, 188, 203, 265, 269, 271, subsistence, 4, 18, 113, 234, Trans- Miss., 4, 16, 17, 252, U.S. operations, 4, 16, 18, 38, 40, 59-60, 137, 264, 269, 271, 289, 298, 304, Vicksburg, 4, 40, 59-60, 188, 224, 226, 234, 264-65, 269, 270, 275, 280, Yandell, 342, 379; operations, 138, 186, 196, 197, 203, 264-65, 304, 306, 312, 314, (Davis), 183, 200, 203, 295, (Lee), 125, 197, 244, 415; Pemberton and, 4-5, 59, 61, 67, 87-88, 141, 189-90, 234, 264-65, 282, 285, 314; Polk and, 49, 60, 119; Port Hudson, 59, 188, 203, 224, 232, 264-65, 271; praised, 6, 291, 366, 378; railroad destruction, 309-10; Rains and, 189-90, 205, 350; recommendations by, 18, 33-34, 35, 88, 138, 148-49, 186, 188, 196, 212, 403; recommended, 51, 71, 119, 272; reinforcements for, 4, 10, 18, 87, 88, 101, 106, 116, 125, 129, 137-38, 148, 160, 161, 182, 183, 185, 188, 189-90, 192, 196, 197, 198-99, 216, 218, 239, 240, 245, 247, 249, 252-53, from, 318, 352, 367, 386; Seddon and, ix, 61, 88, 189, 218, 226, 232, 239, 249, 252-53, 269; E. K. Smith and, 17, 224, 254, 354; staff, 128-29, 133, 241, 242, 314, 316, 342, 353, 378, 379, 400; strategy, 4, 87, 113, 116, 137-38, 188, 189-90, 224, 230, 264-65, 269, 289, (Davis), 18, 287, 291, 295; troop strength, 4, 30, 190, 196, 203, 204, 216, 249, 269, 335, 383; Vicksburg, xi, 4-5, 40, 59-60, 68, 88, 187, 188, 189-90, 203, 209, 216, 224, 226, 228, 234, 239, 240, 242, 247, 264-65, 268, 269, 275, 280, 314, 325, (Davis), 189-90, 192, 203, 247, 264, 268-69, 292, 311; Wigfall and, 60, 87-88; wounded (1862), 56; Ls to, 9-10, 18, 35, 36, 41, 66-68, 101, 106, 122, 129, 149, 160, 165, 182, 183, 186-87, 188, 189, 197, 198-99, 213, 218-19, 219, 227, 240, 252-53, 254, 264, 268-69, 271, 272, 279, 281-82, 287-88, 294, 316, 353, 373-74; Ls from, 4, 16, 17, 18, 19, 33-34, 35, 38, 40, 48-49, 59-60, 86-87, 104, 125, 137-38, 148, 161, 169, 185, 186, 188, 190, 196, 197, 198, 203, 204, 212, 219-20, 232, 252, 263, 269, 270, 271, 280, 282, 284, 285, 289, 298, 304, 326, 339, 342, 351-52; mentioned, 147, 205, 207, 215, 223, 274, 307, 336, 350
Johnston, Josiah Stoddard (sketch, 8:418), 18
Johnston, Lydia M. (sketch, 6:372), 124, 127-28, 264
Johnston, William Preston (sketch, 7:130): inspection tours, 98, 113, 116, 118-19, 121, 127, 128, 141, 366-67, 369, 370, 375, 376, 416; on exemptions, 52, Gettysburg, 296; praised, 121; writes for Davis, 17; E by, 27; Ls to, 98, 366-67, 374, 375; Ls from, 113, 141, 215, 369, 370, 375, 376, 411, 416; mentioned, 115, 346
Jones, Charles C., Jr., 328, 338
Jones, Charles S. D.: L from, 336
Jones, David R. (sketch, 8:181): Davis and, xli
Jones, George Wallace (1:317), 336
Jones, Hilary P., 92
Jones, James C.: L from, 374-75
Jones, John B.: Ls from, 69, 415-16; mentioned, 98
Jones, John M., 394
Jones, John William, 262
Jones, Robert C.: L from, 55
Jones, Robert M.: L from, 103; mentioned, 186
Jones, Samuel (sketch, 7:198): assignments, 141, 205, 232, 245, 288, 362, (Davis), 252, 269, 293, 308, 362, 374, 375, 383, 411; criticized, 384; operations, 138, 147, 312, 354, 369, 370, 386, 389, 398, 400, 401, 403, 411, (Davis), 367, 375, 390, 398, 402; praised, 370; reinforcements needed, 354; staff, 399; strategy, 254, 401, 410; troop strength, 254; Ls to, 252, 293, 383, 394, 401, 402, 409, 410-11; Ls from, 254, 288-89, 393-94, 395-96, 401, 403, 409, 410, 411, 415, 416; mentioned, 336
Jones, William E. (sketch, 157): Davis on, 158; Lee on, 158; operations, 83, 150, 155
Jonesborough, Tenn., 370, 375, 376, 388, 395-96, 401, 410
Jordan, Thomas (sketch, 7:392): L from, 64
Joyner, Nancy H.: L from, 396
Justice Department annual report, 3. See also Watts, Thomas H.

K

Kanard, Moty: L from, 183
Kane, George P.: L from, 285-86
Kannigan, William (ident., 135), 135
Kavanaugh, B. T.: L from, 342
Kean, Robert G. H., 310
Keating, John M.: L to, cited, 5
Kelley, Benjamin F., 84
Kelly's Ford, Va.: skirmish, 105, 147; U.S. operations, 159, 160
Kemper, James L. (sketch, 262), 260
Kenner, Duncan T.: L to, 231; L from, 230
Kentucky: Bragg's campaign (1862), 29, 49, 272; conditions, 48, 89; conscription, 151; operations, 48, 101, 104, 106, 116, 125, 138, 154, 275; strategy, 151, 319; supplies, 113, 141; support for CSA, 53; U.S. troops in, 48, 89, 116, 122, 126, 243, 254
Kentucky troops: 9th Infantry, 215; recruiting (Davis), 202
Keyes, Erasmus D. (sketch, 297), 295
Kidd, Alfred W., 384
Kimball, A. N.: L from, 176
King, William B., 320
King George County, Va., 23
Kingsport, Tenn., 401
Kingston, Tenn., 375
Kinney, John: L from, 254
Kinston, N.C., defenses, 47
Knoxville, Tenn.: captured, 361, 367; U.S. operations, 369, 375, 380, 409

L

Lake Providence, La., 69, 78
Lamar, Gazaway B., 19
Lamar, George W.: L from, 346
Lamar, L. Q. C. (sketch, 8:201), 102, 128, 147
Lamar, Southworth H., 346
Lamar, Thompson B. (sketch, 128), 128
Lane, James H. (sketch, 3:126), 41, 316
Latimer, Robert M., 40
Lauderdale Springs, Miss.: J. E. Davis at, 325, 345, 377-79, 393; threatened, 395
Lauman, Jacob G., 181
Lawley, Francis: Davis and, xli
Lawson, Jesse M., 219, 320
Lawton, Alexander R., 51, 196
Lay, George W. (7:135), 376, 389
Leacock, William T., 411
Lee, Charles (sketch, 203), 202
Lee, Charlotte W. (ident., 251)
Lee, Fitzhugh (sketch, 83): assignments, 73, 352; Lee on, 316; operations, 79; praised, 105; rank, 365; reports by, 150, 396
Lee, George W. (sketch, 274): Bragg and, 273-74; Davis on, 70, 109, 126; on prisoners, 307; praised, 109; recommended, 355; L to, 27; Ls from, 23, 27, 70
Lee, G. W. C. (sketch, 8:185): assignment (Davis), 130; Richmond defenses, 92, 250; writes for Davis, 52, 54, 104, 114, 341; Es to, 41, 362; L to, 130; Ls from, 139, 140, 141; mentioned, 115
Lee, Henry ("Light Horse Harry"): Davis on, 12
Lee, Richard B. (sketch, 7:299): Ls from, 255, 408
Lee, Robert E. (sketch, 7:114): assignments, xii, 88, 373, 387, 407, 410, (Davis), 21-22, 56, 375; Beauregard on, 284; captured dispatches, 247, 267, 268, 284; Chancellorsville, x, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163-64, 168, 171; criticized, 27, 249, 261, 315-16, 326-28, 337; Davis and, v, xi, xli, xlii, xliii, 16, 78, 80, 84, 88, 96, 98, 122, 154, 170, 179, 185, 192, 201, 214, 215, 247-49, 308, 318, 322, 337-38, 352, 375; Davis on, 12, 165, 179, 259, 261-62, 284, 311, 329, 334, 337- 38, 395, 399; family, 83, 248, 251, 352; Gettysburg campaign, xi, 208-9, 212, 213, 219, 230-31, 232, 236-38, 243-45, 247-52, 254, 259-60, 263-64, 266, 269, 270, 272, 280, 283, 284, 296, 311, 313, 315-16, 322, 326-27; headquarters, 24; health, v, 327-29, (Davis), 337; Longstreet and, 116, 157, 166, 169, 261-62, 329, 387, 392; Meade on, 386-87; on army organization, 54, 73, 88, 92, 109, 129, 150, 155, 169-70, 185, 191, 198, 199, 202, 204-5, 214, 313, 316-17, 323, 330, 394, 399, artillery, 88, 92, 105, 384, cavalry, 73, 79-80, 105, 109-10, 148, 150, 154-56, 159, 162, 169-70, 204-5, 230-31, 232, 238, 263, 316-17, 385, 411, 415, coastal defenses, 52, 85, 155, conscription, 306, criticism, 315-16, 326-28, Davis, 327, deserters, 313, 347, Longstreet, 125, 148, 155, 160, 204, 262, 403, Longstreet's transfer, 379-80, 381, 384-85, 385-86, 387, 392, Meade, 386, N.C. command, 16, 24, 34, 37, 40, 52, 80, 198, 199, 204-5, 237, 243, 397, peace efforts, 213, 220, 243-44, prisoner exchange, 243, railroads, 145, G. W. Smith, 72, staff organization, 109, Stuart, 403, subsistence, 34, 38-39, 98, 124, 148, 149-50, 238, 313, 326, 373, 376, Tenn. command, 373, U.S. operations, 23-24, 34, 35-36, 63, 66, 78-80, 105, 116, 125, 126, 147-48, 154-55, 159, 160, 161, 162, 165, 169, 171, 180, 199, 207, 208-9, 210-11, 212, 219, 230, 237, 238, 259-60, 266, 270, 272, 280, 304, 316, 317, 352, 354, 382, 384, 385-86, 394, 397, 411, 415, 416, strategy, 23-24, 39, 52, 125, 147-48, 159, 160, 161, 171, 180, 197, 205, 208, 236, 266, 284, 304, 385-86, 396, Vicksburg, 155, 179, 197, 205, 284; praised, 6, 256, 328, (Davis), 12, 165, 284, 334, 399; recommendations by, 16, 27, 39, 40-41, 88, 92, 101, 129, 139, 165-66, 171, 185, 191, 196, 197, 236-38, 274, 289, 316-17, 336, 409; recommended, 71, for Tenn. command, 289, 316-17, 336, 409; reinforcements for, 155, 156, 159-60, 161, 162, 163-64, 170, 180, 203, 210, 236-37, 238, 243-44, 245, 250-51, 270, 317, 392, from, 4, 25, 34, 37, 52, 63, 66, 379-80, 381, 384-85, 385-86, 387, 392; resignation offer, xi, 326-29, 337-38, 352; Seddon on, 6; staff, 242, 334, 338; strategy, 24, 36, 52, 79, 125, 148, 154-56, 158, 162, 163-64, 168, 197, 205, 209, 210, 238, 243-44, 245, 254, 259-60, 261, 266, 267-68, 304, 317, 319, 352, 380, 382, 385-86, 387, 396, 415, (Davis), 248-49, 259, 261-62, 399; Es by, 27, 53, 101, 342, 348; Es to, 348, 353; Ls to, 17, 21-22, 36-37, 46, 96, 122, 160, 164-65, 165-66, 171, 179-80, 191-93, 198, 199, 201-3, 207, 211, 215, 230, 247-49, 269, 294-95, 307-9, 317-18, 337-38, 353, 375, 379, 381, 390-92, 397-99, 411; Ls from, 16, 21, 23-24, 34, 35-36, 38-39, 40-41, 52, 54, 63, 66, 73, 78-80, 88, 92, 98, 105, 109-10, 114, 125, 126, 147-48, 149-50, 154-56, 159-60, 161, 162, 163, 165, 169-70, 171, 176, 180, 185, 191, 196, 197, 198, 199, 204-5, 208-9, 210-11, 212, 213, 219, 220, 230-31, 232, 236-37, 238, 243-44, 245, 259-60, 263-64, 266-67, 270, 272, 280, 284, 289, 304, 306, 313, 315-16, 316-17, 320, 326-27, 336, 347, 352, 354, 362, 373, 376, 379-80, 381, 382, 384-85, 385- 86, 394, 396, 397, 402-3, 409, 410, 411, 415, 416; mentioned, 37, 181, 193, 288, 297, 400, 401. See also Army of Northern Virginia
Lee, Robert E., Jr., 251
Lee, Stephen D. (sketch, 8:518): Davis and, 42; praised, 324, 403; rank (Davis), 365; recommendation by, 333; recommended, 286, 316, (Davis), 199; Vicksburg, 204; mentioned, 113, 349, 384
Lee, W. H. F. (sketch, 83): captured, 248, 251, 312; operations, 73, 79
[Lemon?], A. D.: L from, cited, 302
Leonard, Abraham Faw (nephew-in-law) (sketch, 2:18), 102, 169
Leopold I (sketch, 258), 257, 258
Letcher, John (sketch, 7:126): bread riot, 146; militia call-up, 255, 285, 400; on Milroy, 37; Ls to, 34, 42, 52, 74, 89, 90, 100, 103, 113, 349; L from, 100; mentioned, 90, 123, 414
Leslie, ----: Davis and, xli
Lewis, David W.: L to, 401; L from, 380; mentioned, 292
Lick Creek, Tenn., 373
Liddell, St. John R. (sketch, 8:13), 30
Lieber, Francis, 111
Lincoln, Abraham: calls for troops, 6, 243; emancipation (Davis), 21; and Hooker, 82; and Hunter, 153, 210; Leopold I on, 258; on captured black soldiers, 153, France and Mexico, 258, Gettysburg, 261, 268, Meade, 268; plots against, 6, 347; Stephens' mission, 245; L to, 254; mentioned, 17, 84. See also United States
Lindsay, William S. (sketch, 7:377), 257, 282
Little Rock, Ark., 69
Lize (slave), 344
Locust Grove plantation, 234
Logan, John A., 311
Lomax, Lunsford L., 289, 317
London Index, 25
London Standard, 256
Long, Armistead L. (sketch, 8:227), 92
Longstreet, James (7:307): assignments, xii, 85, 157, 406-7, (Davis), 116, 390-91, 398, (Lee), 66, 155, 160, 379-80, 381, 384-85, 385-86, 387, 392; Bragg on, 405; Chickamauga, 405- 7; confers with Davis, xlii, xliii, 391; Davis on, 55-56, 261-62, 329, 399; Gettysburg campaign, 208, 230, 238, 260-62, controversies, 261-62; Lee and, 116, 157, 166, 169, 261-62, 329, 387, 392, on, 125, 148, 155, 160, 204, 262, 373, 403; N.C. operations, 80, 125, 148, 155, 157, 180; on Bragg, 407, Gettysburg, 210, 261, rank, 57, strategy, 387, 391; operations, 194, 208, 230, 238, 260-62, 304, 390, 406-7; rank, 57, 72; recommendation by, 92; requested, 176; mentioned, 128, 250, 325
Looney, Robert F. (sketch, 358), 357
Loring, William W. (sketch, 7:265): assignment (Davis), 186; operations, 4, 99, 141, 162, 164, 185, 186, 205; L from, 141
Loudon, Tenn., 375, 380
Loughery, Robert W.: Ls from, 22, 34, 55
Louis (slave), 198
Louisiana: clothing production, 224; conditions, 229; cotton purchases, 98; foundry, 173, 230, (Davis), 172; morale, 288; munitions (Davis), 10, 290; operations, 252, (Davis), 172- 73, 202-3, 222-24, 264-65, 276, 291; railroads, 51, 303; slaves, 231; U.S. operations, 38, 59, 231, 232, 233-34, 241-42, 252, 295, 312, 412, 414, (Davis), 171-73, 264-65
Louisiana troops: 4th Infantry, 158; Irish Brigade, 409; 9th Battalion, Partisan Rangers, 252; 13th Battalion, Partisan Rangers, 35; Polish Brigade, 397; artillery, 349; recruiting (Davis), 202
Louisiana troops (U.S.): 9th Infantry, 234; 11th Infantry, 234
Love Bird (schooner), 373
Lovell, Mansfield (sketch, 7:324): criticized, 365, 380; New Orleans inquiry, 65, 85, 97, 211; mentioned, 128
Lowndes County, Miss.: L from citizens, 384
Lubbock, Francis R. (sketch, 8:505): L to, 279; Ls from, 114-15, 275; mentioned, 95
Ludlow, William H. (sketch, 108), 106
Lundy, William T.: L from, 52
Luther, Jesse M., 411
Lynch, William F., 204, 235
Lyon, Francis S. (sketch, 340), 340
Lyon, Hylan B., 205

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Macbeth, Charles: L to, 270; L from, 180
McCann, J. Richard, 32
McClellan, George B. (sketch, 8:7), 156
McClernand, John A. (sketches, 2:640, 6:344), 5, 162, 200
McCown, John P. (8:149): assignments, 323, (Davis), 368; Bragg and, 50, 92; criticized, 149, 158; recommended, 323; requested, 151, 368
McCoy, Amos D.: L to, 404; L from, 368-69
McCrady, John, 125
McDaniel, Zere: Cairo claim, 187, 288, 312; L from, 288
McDowell, Byron G., 403
McFadden, John, 214
Machen, Willis B.: L from, 65
McHenry, George: L from, 25; mentioned, 100
McKay, Archibald L.: and Davis' slaves, 188, 198; L from, 188
McKay, G. W. F.: L from, 401
McKie, Michael J., 18, 40
McKinney, Frank (slave) (ident., 7:4), 344
McLaws, Lafayette (sketch, 8:341), 164, 165, 171, 208
McLemore's Cove, Ga., 405, 406
McNeil, John: Davis on, 21
McNeill, Henry C., 139
McNeill, John H. (sketch, 83), 79, 84
McNeill, Thomas E.: L from, 42
Macon, Ga., arsenal, 384
Macon, Miss., 326
Macon (Ga.) & Western Railroad, 253, 293
McPherson, James B. (sketch, 413), 162, 200, 311, 412
McRae, Colin J. (sketch, 333): L to, 395; L from, 329-30
McRae, Dandridge, 280
McRae, John J. (sketch, 4:253): L to, 215-16; Ls from, 297, 319-20; mentioned, 333
Macwillie, Malcolm H.: Ls from, 113, 211
Maddox, Joseph H.: Davis and, 219, 362; warning about, 211; L to, 219; L from, 343
Magill, James R.: L from, 182-83
Magnolia plantation, 242
Magruder, John Bankhead (sketch, 1:75): assignments, ix, 94; Davis and, 173; Galveston, 16, 22, 70, (Davis), 46; militia call-up, 275; munitions seized, 373; operations, 315; praised, 22, 55, (Davis), 46; recommendations by, 39, 70, 139, 140, (Davis), 288-89; seeks promotion, 70; staff, 139, 156, 278; troop strength, 371; L to, 46; Ls from, 16-17, 138-39
Mahan, Dennis Hart (sketch, 6:59), 302
mail. See Post Office Department
Maine: Davis on, 229
Mallett, Richardson, 411
Mallory, Stephen R. (sketch, 7:13): criticized, 319; Davis and, xlii, 148, 396; James River obstructions, 139; on Brooke guns, 285, 305, Cairo claim, 187, Harriet Lane, 39, Hatteras, 66, navy funds, 121, 153, 204, 396, New Orleans inquiry, 54, 211; G. N. Sanders and, 214, 409; Es to, 289, 350; Es by, 212, 285, 409; Ls from, 39, 54, 62, 66, 95, 121, 153, 187, 211, 304, 305, 396; mentioned, 52, 204, 320, 391, 418. See also Navy Department
Malsby, M. A.: L from, 98
Manassas, Va., Battle of (1861): Davis' speech, 283
Manchester Guardian, 332
Manly, M. M.: L from, 105
Mann, Ambrose Dudley (sketch, 7:112): assignments, 257; Davis and, 332; Leopold I and, 258; L from, 256-57, cited, 332
Marchand, Jean-Baptiste, 330
Marcy, William L. (sketch, 2:406), 417
Marigny, Mandeville, 252
Marmaduke, John S. (sketch, 133): operations, 45, 131; praised, 280; recommended, 58, 132; mentioned, 221
Marshall, Charles, 267
Marshall, Charles K. (sketch, 8:161), 242
Marshall, Humphrey (sketch, 8:31): assignments, 47, 53, (Davis), 3, 61, 69, 97; criticized, 18, 39, 109; operations, 17, 97, 125, 138, 141, (Davis), 101, 106, 129, 147; troop strength, 129, 141; Ls to, 61, 69, 97; Ls from, 17, 47-48, 53
Marshall, Texas, 382
martial law: Ala., 27; Ark., 36, 38, 64, 100 (Davis), 43; E. Tenn., 27, 54; recommended 47, 348; Texas, 93; Va., 114. See also habeas corpus
Martin, D. (ident., 8:197), 135, 198
Martin, James G. (sketch, 8:277): assignments, 369, (Davis), 247, 357, 383; troop strength, 250
Martin, William T.: assignments, 33, 165, 169; promoted, 26; L from, 6
Maryland: Gettysburg campaign, 254, 261, 266, 267; U.S. troops in, 155
Maryland troops: Md. Line, 394; mounted battalion, 362
Maryland troops (U.S.), 245
Mason, James M. (sketch, 4:125): as commissioner, viii, 62, 102, 153, 257; and Erlanger loan, 329-30; on E. Erlanger, 332; L from, 25
Mason, Maynadier, 381
Massachusetts troops: 29th Infantry, 302; 35th Infantry, 302; 54th Infantry, 289
Matamoros, Mexico, 414
Matilda (slave), 234
Maury, Dabney H. (sketch, 5): assignments, 4-5, 138; Mobile, 305, 322, 416; recommendation by, 235-36; L to, cited, 259, 262
Maury, Matthew F. (sketch, 2:517), 5, 62
Maximilian I, 258
Mayers, Alonzo G.: L from, 346
Meade, George G. (sketch, 386): assignments, 81, 82, 261; Gettysburg campaign, xi, 247, 261-62, 267-68, (Davis), 259, (Lincoln), 268; operations, 261-62, 267-68, 319, 386-87, 392, (Lee), 313, 352, 382, 385, 396, 416; reinforcements for, 268, 304, 403, 410, from, 406, 415
Medical Department: Davis on, 71, 92, 246, 289; estimates, 96, 139; reports on, 71, 150; surgeons criticized, 35
Medway, Alexander R.: L to, 353
Melissa (slave) (ident., 235), 198, 234
Melton, C. D., 394
Melvin, Lucy, 302
Melvin, Nancy A. W. (ident., 302), 299
Melvin, Robert E. (sketch, 303): L from, 298-301
Memminger, Christopher G. (sketch, 8:63): criticized, 253, 378, 393; Erlanger loan, 18, 121, 136, 329-30; estimate, 154; Miss. funds, 204; on cotton, 98, 136, 253, 282, 320-21, 330, 339, counterfeiting, 38, 50, trade with Mexico, 253; Reagan and, 253, 305, 352; Trans-Miss. funds, 413, 415; E to, 396; Ls from, 18-19, 38, 50, 58, 73, 98, 136, 154, 253, 305, 320-21, 339, 352; mentioned, 334, 418. See also Treasury Department
Memminger, Robert W. (sketch, 334), 333
Memphis, Tenn.: recapture proposed, 269, 305-6; trade, 25, (Davis), 26
Memphis & Charleston Railroad, 4
Memphis & Little Rock Railroad, 77
Memphis & Mobile Railroad, 298
Memphis Appeal: on Gettysburg campaign, 328, Vicksburg, 69; "Vindicus" article, 306, 314
Mercer, Hugh W. (sketch, 1:70): troop strength, 112; E by, 47; L to, 26; L from, 91
Meridian, Miss., 326
Mexican War: Davis and, 38, 154, 184, 249, 302, 417; Lee on, 109; veterans, 5, 32, 37, 81, 82, 84, 95, 132, 151, 154, 184, 193, 209, 210, 223, 238, 249, 250, 262, 296, 297, 386, 413
Mexico: CSA and, 71, 103, 211, 346, 350; France and, 71, 103, 258, 321, 372; trade, vi, 173, 184, 253, 414
Miangolara, Juan, 408
Michigan troops: 20th Infantry, 302
Miles, William P. (sketch, 7:288): Charleston artillery, 285, 289, 294, 305; Davis and, 285
Miller, Hugh R., xliii
Miller, John C., 54
Miller County, Ga.: L from citizens, 376
Milliken's Bend, La., 35, 45, 224, 234, 270, 359
Milroy, Robert H. (sketch, 37): criticized, 34, (Davis), 17, 21, 36; operations, 37, 39, 79, 230, 232
Milton, John (sketch, 8:350): on cotton, 142, exemptions, 65, 188-89, 364, Fla. defenses, 3, 112, 320, 347-48, 416, individual rights, 143, strict construction, 143, trade, 144; Ls to, 363-64, 381, 392-93, 404; Ls from, 3, 64-65, 112, 142-45, 188-89, 320, 347-48, 416; mentioned, 360
Mims, Livingston: L from, 396
Mississippi: artillery, 63, 90, 101, 104, 148, 150, 164; capital, 326; cavalry, 176, 312, (Davis), 161, 162, 166, 167, 174, 181, 183, 348-49; conditions, 18, 35, 95, 99, 196, 198, 205, 206-7, 216-17, 229, 292, 301, 306, 344, 387, 393, 397, (Davis), 229; CSA claim (1861), 418; conscription, 6, 10, 126, 273, 275, 293, 339, 341-42, 350, 354, 355, 361-62, 365, 368, 378, 379, 384, 396, 397, (Davis), 181, 290-91, 322, 359, 384; crops, 99, 159, 184, 196, 282, 312, 320-21; Davis invited to, 166, 187, 371, visits, 15, 40, 103, 292, 335; defenses, 99, 101, 117, 148, 160, 162, 215, (Davis), 123, 125, 173-75, 181; delegates visit Davis, 159, 173; food supplies, 18, 113, 121, 148, 159; illegal trade, 25, 69, 70, 165, (Davis), 26; inspection tour, 117, 121, 129, 223; morale, 159, 169, 176, 187, 212, 233, 240-41, 269, 275, 281, 286, 293, 297, 306, 312, 315, 319, 324-25, 336, 343, 349, 353, 354, 356, 364, 365, 371, 378, 396, 408, (Davis), 358; munitions needed, 63, 90, 101, 149, 159, 162, 163, 181, 233, 234, 269, 284, 286, 298, 307, 319, 341, 384, (Davis), 10, 63, 292, sent, 148, 155, 168, 181, 185, (Davis), 150, 165, 167, 174, 186, 189, 284, 290-91; operations, 4, 5, 6, 19, 46, 59, 61, 63, 163, 164, 168, 185, 188, 189-90, 223, 224, 233, 234, 241, 264-65, 268, 269, 271, 285, 286, 289, 292, 314, 319, 339, 347, (Davis), 9, 12, 67-68, 150-51, 172, 186, 187-88, 189, 190, 197, 200, 203, 264, 265, 268-69, 270, 271, 287, 291, 295, 306, 311, 334, 357-58; railroads, 26, 45, 51, 99, 186, 287, 289, 297, 303, 309-10; reinforcements, 4, 5, 6, 18, 30, 51, 60, 121, 137-38, 161, 164, 175, 176, 181, 182, 183, 185, 189, 196, 203, 204, 213, 216, 230, 235, 239, 242, 245, 326, 351, 352, (Davis), 43, 44, 168-69, 187, 192, 198-99, 215, 219, 227, 231, 240, 253, 282, 350, 374; slaves, 55, 58, 196, 198, 205, 206-7, 217, 241, 293, 320, 340, 344, 345, 347, 354, 384, 395; supplies, 124, 137; U.S. operations, 4, 16, 17, 20, 40, 61, 68-69, 78, 87, 88, 99-100, 104, 105, 110, 111, 112, 115, 130, 137, 138, 149, 158, 161, 162-63, 165, 167-68, 180, 181, 186, 189-90, 196, 200-201, 205, 206-7, 216-17, 242, 271, 273, 275, 280, 281, 282, 284, 298-301, 304, 305, 306, 311-12, 315, 326, 344, 345, 346-47, 349, 393, 397, 410, (Davis), 9, 12, 76, 96, 123, 136, 162, 166, 169, 172, 183, 200, 203, 205, 237, 282, 287, 291; war-related legislation, 6; Ls from citizens, 98-99, 384
Mississippi and East Louisiana, Department of. See Johnston, Joseph E.; Pemberton, John C.
Mississippi & Tennessee Railroad, 303
Mississippi Central Railroad: destroyed, 289, 297, 309-10; property value, 303; U.S. operations (Davis), 287
Mississippi Regiment, First (Mexican War): offered for service, 417; veterans, 154, 184
Mississippi River: canals, 60, 69, 71, 96, 99, 100, (Davis), 76; defenses, viii, 239, 240, 252, 284, 321, 322, (Davis), 18, 46, 76, 151, 384, 389; U.S. operations, 44, 63, 68, 69, 77, 104, 141, 148, 149, 155, 172, 216, 223, 306, 312, 315, (Davis), 110, 136, 172; water level, 63, 69, 71, 96, 99, 100, 104; Yazoo Pass, 87, (Davis), 67. See also Port Hudson, La.; Vicksburg, Miss.
Mississippi troops: 28th Cavalry, 180; 21st Infantry, 325; 26th Infantry, 35; 48th Infantry, 342; Jeff Davis Legion, 6; deserters, 284, 286, 298; furloughed, 310; militia, 10, 95, 103, 126, 162, 163, 168, 174, 185, 216, 271, 275, 321, 325, 355, 359, 368, 379, (Davis), 175, 381; partisan rangers, 393, 397; recruiting, 342; strength (1861), 418
Mississippi troops (U.S.).: 1st Infantry, 234
Mississippi Valley Association: Davis and, 332
Missouri: conditions, 91; conscription, 46, 104, 276; operations, 221, 222, (Davis), 44, 75, 281; support for CSA, 131; U.S. atrocities, 183; E by congressmen, 103
Missouri troops: Mo. Division, 78, 117, (Davis), 293; deserters, 284; militia, 120; recruiting, 44, (Davis), 202
Mitchel, Charles B.: Davis and, 413; L from, cited, 413; mentioned, 278
Mitchel, John (ident., 6:127), 414
Mitchell, Herbert, 150
Mitchell, Joseph Davis (grandnephew) (sketch, 3:98): CSA service, 180, 205, 228, 354, 393; and J. E. Davis, 218, 241, 323, 344, 354
Mitchell, Joshua M.: L from, 10
Mitchell, Mary Elizabeth (Lise). See Hamer, Mary Elizabeth Mitchell (Lise)
Mitchell, Robert B. (sketch, 32), 29, 38
Mobile, Ala.: artillery, 305; Committee of Safety, 333; conditions, 305; defenses, 116, 383, 416, (Davis), 188, 305, 306; food riot, 124; naval operations, 350; press, 365; supplies, 124; threatened, 289, 295, 298, 304, 306, 312, 319, 360, (Davis), 287; trade, 393
Mobile, CSS, 74
Mobile & Ohio Railroad, 5, 54, 121, 124, 159
Mohl, Aurelia H., 153
Mohl, Frederick: Davis and, 153, 292; L from, 153
Monitor, USS, 156, 418
Monongahela, USS, 104, 105, 126
Monroe, John T., 365
Monroe Doctrine, 258
Monterrey, Mexico, 414
Montgomery, Ala.: V. Davis visits, 127; inspection tour, 98, 141; postmastership, 214, 231, (Davis), 195
Montgomery, Augustus S., 186
Montgomery, Benjamin T. (slave) (sketch, 4:241): moves to Cincinnati, 345; at Hurricane, 64, 241; mentioned, 344, 354
Montgomery, Isaiah T. (slave), 345
Montgomery, William Thornton (slave), 198, 345
Montgomery Advertiser, 335
Montgomery Mail, 129
Moody, George V. (ident., 4:125): L from, 384
Moore, Andrew B. (sketch, 8:36), 340
Moore, George, 206
Moore, John C., 5
Moore, Thomas O. (sketch, 7:333), 54, 65, 85, 97
morale. See Confederate States; disaffection; reconstruction (reunion)
Morehead, John M.: L from, 370
Morgan, John Hunt (sketch, 8:304): imprisoned, 275, 322; Ky. operations, 265; Ohio raid, 273; in Tenn., 29, 274
Morgan, John T.: assignment, 196; promoted, 215, 352
Morgan, Martha R.: L from, 322
Morgan, S. A., 339
Morris, Lewis: L from, 349
Morris, Walter J., 120
Morris, William S., 232, 268
Morris Island, S.C.: U.S. troops at, 283, 296, 310, 311, (Davis), 307
Morrison, Hugh M.: L from, 141
Morristown, Tenn., 369
Morton, Miss., 351, 356
Mosby, John S., 110, 126
Mulligan, Elizabeth: L from, 26
Mulligan, John, 26
Munford, George W.: Ls from, 47, 90
munitions: CSA captures, 3, 16, 30, 33, 158, 264, (Davis), 290, 398; for Ala., 206, 305, 416, Ark., 47, (Davis), 117, 125, 281, Atlanta, 307, 366, 384, 394, Charleston, 70, 71, 285, 289, 296, 310, 311, 315, 316, 348, 349, (Davis), 294, 308, 321, 356, 357, 360, Fla., 360, (Davis), 404, Ga., 91, 112, 307, 366, 384, 394, Indian Territory, 184, 347, Jackson, 148, (Davis), 165, 186, 199, La. (Davis), 10, 290, Macon, Ga., 384, Miss., 63, 90, 101, 148, 149, 155, 159, 162, 163, 168, 233, 234, 269, 284, 286, 298, 307, 319, 384, (Davis), 10, 63, 96, 101, 150, 165, 167, 174, 181, 185, 186, 189, 199, 290, 292, 307, 384, Mobile, 305, N.C., 62, 85, 235, 357, 360, 369, (Davis), 281, 390, Port Hudson (Davis), 10, 290, Savannah, 91, 112, S.C., 70, 71, 285, 289, 296, 310, 311, 315, 316, 348, 349, (Davis), 294, 308, 321, 356, 357, 360, Tenn., 72, 105, 141, 352, 362, 394, 414, (Davis), 73, 106, 350, 363, 367, 390, Texas, 275, Trans-Miss., 47, 131-32, 173, 184, 221, 275, 290-91, 347, 371-72, 412, (Davis), 10, 117, 125, 172, 279, 281, 290, U.S., 236, 238, 272, 376, Vicksburg, 63, 90, 101, 149, 155, 162, 233, 234, (Davis), 10, 63, 96, 101, 150, 167, 174, 189, 290, 292, Va., 88, 150, 203, 269, 354, (Davis), 37, 269, Wilmington, 62, 85, 235, 357, 369, (Davis), 390; French seize, 373; inventions, 105, 141, (Davis), 189, 205; procured abroad, 89, 142, 160, 173, 331, 332, 336, 373; produced in Ark. (Davis), 281, CSA, 7, 102, 173, 230, (Davis), 281, 290, Jackson (Davis), 281, La., 173, 230, (Davis), 172, Texas, 173, Trans- Miss., 173, 221, 230, 275, 278, (Davis), 172, 276-77, 279, 281; trade, 142, 160, 173; U.S. captures, 30, 33, 77, 132, 133, 185, 186, 310, 372. See also artillery; Ordnance Bureau
Murdock, Abraham: L from, 159
Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Bragg retreats from, 273; Davis visits, 31, 89, 90
Murfreesboro, Tenn., Battle of: Bragg's reports, 3, 9, 33, 72, 73; casualties, 18, 30; Davis on, 8, 12; Johnston on, 59; Polk's report, 119; retreat, 9, 28
Murray, J. Adair, 139
Myers, Abraham C. (sketch, 8:277): L to, 51; Ls from, 69, 89, 293; mentioned, 158, 253, 379. See also Quartermaster's Department

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Napoleon III: and CSA, viii, 147, 256, 258, 284, 321, 372; criticized, 256; Erlanger and, 330; and Mexico, 321; and Slidell family, 332, 333, 372; mentioned, 103. See also France
Napoleons (guns), 79, 384, 390
Nashville, CSS, 74
Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, 28, 32
Nassau trade, 136, 160, 178, 179, 204, 239
Natchez, Miss., defenses, 96
Native Americans. See Indians
navy: army and, 74; artillery, 104, 105, 148, 235, 285, 305, 315; ironclads, 62, 70, 74; iron needed, 204, 230; manpower shortage, 136, 304, 350, 356-57; Miss. River defenses, 239, 240, 252; prisoners, 107; prizes, 312; volunteer navy, 114, 136, 389
Navy Department: claims against, 62, 95, 409, for Cairo, 187; estimates, 121, 153; New Orleans inquiry, 54, 97, 211; shipbuilding, 62, 70, 74, 136, abroad, 52, 96, 136, 214, 331, 332. See also Mallory, Stephen R.
Ned (slave), 198, 234, 346
Neeson, James, 218
Nelson, Judith N.: L to, 303
New Bern, N.C., defenses, 20-21, 194, 206
New England Emigrant Aid Society, 144
New Ironsides, USS, 48, 139, 140, 272, 311
New Mexico Territory: CSA and, 113, 205, 211; governor, 113, 134
New Orleans, La.: inquiry on capture, 54, 65, 85, 97, 211; occupied (Davis), 13; recapture proposed, 67-68, 224, 252; trade via, 25, 26, 35, 393
New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad, 162, 303
Newport News, Va., 62, 63, 122
New York Herald: Lee and, 212, 384-85, 392; on Raleigh Standard, 351
New York Times, 267
New York troops: 27th Infantry, 81; 110th Infantry, 99
Nicholson, A. O. P. (sketch, 5:93): L to, 417-18
Nicholson, Joseph D. (sketch, 8:286): CSA service, 180, 228, 354, 393; mentioned, 167, 344
Nick, Betsey (slave) (ident., 235)
Niter and Mining Bureau funds, 246, 394
Norris, Enoch W.: L from, 387
Norris, William (sketch, 156): report by, 154-55; Ls from, 149, 232
North Carolina: commander, 25, 40, 46; conditions, 396; conscription, 298, (Davis), 8, 187, 193, 255, 280, 359, (Vance), 121, 182, 255, 269-70; defenses, 34, 40-41, 155, 207, (Davis), 17, 27, 47, 192, 271, 359, 399; disaffection, 179, 182, 269-70, 298, 304, 306, 361, 376, 389, (Davis), 304, 351, 376, 388, 390; expenses for army, 51; politics, 281, 306; purchasing agents, 92, 263; supplies from, 52; tax collector, 263, 288; threatened, 9, 16, 17, 20-21, 24, 229, 389; U.S. troops in, 219, 266, 396; L from congressmen, 84. See also Vance, Zebulon B.
North Carolina, CSS, 62
North Carolina Railroad, 140
North Carolina troops: 1st Cavalry, 157; 3d Cavalry, 251, 259; 1st Infantry, 139; 3d Infantry, 139; 6th Infantry, 157; 14th Infantry, 360; 18th Infantry, 112; 22d Infantry, 193; 24th Infantry, 194; 27th Infantry, 193; 41st Infantry, 248; 44th Infantry, 250; 46th Infantry, 255; 59th Infantry, 409; Thomas' Legion, 376; commanders, 204, 207, 317, 409; Davis praises, 8, 348; deserters, 194, 347; militia, 17, 20-21, 182, 255, 269-70, 271, 288, 360, 369, 383; munitions for, 360; nominations for valor, 112; Raleigh riot, 388; strength, 9, 298
Northrop, Lucius B. (sketch, 1:313): criticized, 255, 356; on cattle supply, 185, rations, 34, 39, 361; reports on W. A. Broadwell, 63, 96, 120; Es by, 185, 361; mentioned, 124, 353-54. See also Commissary Department
Northumberland County, Va., raids, 99
Northwest: attack proposed, 285; CSA and, 12, 147, 276
Nulty, E.: L from, 348
Nunez Moncada, Francisco, 284

O

Ohio, Department of the (U.S.), 125
Ohio raid, 275
Ohio troops: 1st Infantry, 302; 116th Infantry, 84; "Ohio Brigade," 81; called up, 245
Old Town, Va., 251
O'Neal, Edward A.: commission, 215; praised, 206; recommended, 196, 349-50, 352-53
Orange & Alexandria Railroad: Stoneman's raid, 170-71; U.S. operations, 155, 313, 396
Ord, Edward O. C. (sketch, 6:113), 271, 302, 412
Ordnance Bureau: cannon casting, 381; funds, 89, 246; officers, 7, 88; overseas operations, 89, 333, 336, 372. See also artillery; Gorgas, Josiah; munitions
Orr, Jehu A.: L from, 187
Osterhaus, Peter J., 162, 410
O'Sullivan, John L.: L from, 370; mentioned, 220
Ould, Robert (sketch, 109): Davis and, 235; on civilian prisoners, 149, 365, prisoner exchanges, 106-7, 211; Ls from, 106-7, 365
Oven Bluff, Ala., defenses, 74
Owen, William M., 115

P

Pacific Railroad, 211
Page, Elizabeth N., 303
Paine, Robert (sketch, 175): L to, 173-75
Palmer, Benjamin F. (sketch, 325), 323
Palmer, W. J.: L to, 151
Palmerston, Henry J. T. (ident., 8:22), 257, 258
Pamunkey River, Va., 308
Parrott guns, 148, 285, 348, 384
partisan rangers: Davis on, 109-10; mentioned, 7, 35, 45, 83, 126, 252, 347, 393, 397
Passport Office, 69
patents, 3, 323
Paxton, Alexander M. (sketch, 2:40): Ls from, 186, 346
Paxton, Elisha F. (sketch, 164), 163
Payne (slave), 234
Pearl River, Miss., 241, 271, 275, 289, 292, 295, 309
Pearson, Richmond M. (sketch, 194): Davis on, 193; Vance on, 182
Peck, John J. (sketch, 238), 236
Peebles, Joseph D., 206
Peevy, Joseph G., 183
Pegram, John: Ky. operations, 53, 113, 125, (Davis), 69, 97
Peirce, W. W., 381, 402
Pelham, John, 105
Pemberton, John C. (sketch, 8:9): assignments, 10, 72, 87, 119, 341, 407; cavalry needs, 158, 160, 162, 168; Champion Hill, x, 185, 189, 334; court of inquiry, 312, 334, 341, 347, 353, 357-58, 378; criticized, 54, 59, 122-23, 141, 176, 186, 187, 205, 269, 271, 297, 312, 313, 315, 319-20, 321, 324, 333, 334, 335-36, 339, 341, 342, 343, 346, 353, 356, 365, 378; Davis on, vi, 122-23, 174, 192, 203, 334; J. E. Davis and, 134-35, 314, 378; defends self, 313-14; described, 314; furloughs his army, 275, 281, 282, 284, 285, 286, 293-94, 319-20, (Davis), 279, 283, 284, 288, 293, 308; Johnston and, 4, 19, 59, 87, 141, 188, 264, 269, 271, 314; and Miss. militia, 10, 166, 181-82, 355, 368; on cavalry, 168, Grant's plans, 138, trade, 25; praised, 19, 188; reinforcements from Bragg, 104, 161, 374, Smith, 254, 354, to Tenn., 130, 138, 161, 374; staff, 334; supply order, 54, 124; trade regulations, 25, 26, 71; Vicksburg, x, 10, 40, 63, 69, 99-100, 101, 104, 105, 110, 112, 115, 116, 117, 130, 138, 149, 158, 161, 162-63, 164, 181-82, 185, (Davis), 46, 47, 96, 101, 104, 130, 150-51, 161, 162, 163, 168-69, 174, 181, 183, 187-88, 189, 192, 200; Vicksburg report, 168, 306, 312, 313-14; E by, 333; Ls to, 26, 46, 47, 96, 101, 103, 104, 130, 150-51, 159, 161, 168-69, 181, 187-88, 279, 283, 284, 293, 306, 333-34, 342, 347; Ls from, 10, 25, 63, 69, 99-100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 110, 112, 115, 116, 130, 149, 158, 161, 162- 63, 164, 181-82, 185, 281, 282, 284, 286, 293-94, 312, 313-14, 341, 347; mentioned, 71, 95, 281, 282
Pender, William Dorsey (sketch, 157): assignments, 40-41, 155, 191; Davis on, 191, 192; Lee on, 185, 191, 197, 403; wounded, 260; mentioned, 182, 316
Pendleton, William N. (sketch, 7:240): assignment, 92; L from, 312
Peninsula campaign: Davis on, 295
Pennsylvania: raid urged, 218. See also Gettysburg, Pa., Battle of
Pennsylvania troops: 11th Cavalry, 296-97; 45th Infantry, 302; 48th Infantry, 302; 150th Infantry, 348; called up, 245
Pennypacker, Isaac R.: L to, cited, 386
Pensacola & Georgia Railroad, 145
Perkins, John, Jr. (sketch, 6:5): J. E. Davis on, 377-78; E by, 384
Perkins, John, Sr. (sketch, 6:6), 377
Perkins, Newton M.: L from, 96
Perry, Edward A.: L from, 416; mentioned, 392
Perry, William F., 381
Perryville, Ky., Battle of, 6, 119, 187
Peterhoff (blockade-runner), 153
Peters, George B., 171, 180
Petersburg, Va.: Davis speaks at, 9, 10; defenses, 139, 393-94, (Davis), 248, 308, 317; flour prices, 91
Petrie, James A.: L to, cited, 299
Pettigrew, James Johnston (sketch, 193): assignments, 192, 203, 207; wounded, 280; mentioned, 198, 199, 410
Pettus, John J. (sketch, 2:96): criticized, 148; Davis and, 64; militia call-up, 163, 168, 174, 181; recommends legislation, 6; Ls to, 126, 162, 165, 176, 183, 185, 186, 206, 231, 240, 265, 270, 322, 341-42, 358-59, 411; Ls from, 70, 148, 163, 165, 176, 185, 186, 197-98, 205, 230, 239, 269, 281, 321-22, 339, 350, 355, 397, 409, 418; mentioned, 26, 95, 121, 198, 368, 380
Phantom (blockade-runner), 320
Phelan, James (sketch, 5:38): Ls from, 154, 315, 343, 352-53, 370-71; mentioned, 292
Pickens, Francis W. (sketch, 7:13), 237
Pickett, Charles E.: L from, 103
Pickett, Edward (sketch, 7:403): report on, 368; L from, 356
Pickett, George E. (sketch, 210): assignments, 157, 168, 198, 199, 207, 210, 250, 383- 84, 398, (Lee), 66, 105, 179, 204, 208, 212, 379, 381, 382, 396; Gettysburg, 261, 262; operations, 164, 198, 261; wedding, xliii
Pickett, La Salle C., xliii
Piedmont Railroad: Davis on, 397, 399
Pierce, Franklin (sketch, 4:272), 302
Pighton, Stark A. W., Mrs.: L from, 322
Pike, Albert (sketch, 7:268), 58, 78, 89
Pillow, Gideon J. (sketch, 7:257): conscription duty, 60, 72, 273-74, 315, 335, 365, 370; on deserters, 401; praised, 72, 365, 370
Pius IX: L to, 402
Pleasonton, Alfred, 319, 386
Pledger, Allan, 150
Pocotaligo, S.C., 112
Poindexter, W. Q.: criticized, 365; L to, 215; Ls from, 213, 216
Point Isabel, Texas, 414
Polk, James K. (sketch, 2:93): Ls to, 417; mentioned, 133, 186
Polk, Leonidas (sketch, 7:174): assignment, 407; Bragg and, 29, 50-51, 59-60, 118-19, 187, 405, 410, (Davis), 415; Chickamauga, 405; Davis and, 50, 407, 415; Ky. bank funds, 100; on conscription, 335, Cooper, 118, Johnston, 119, U.S. strategy, 305-6; relieved, xii, 415; Stones River, 31, 120; Ls from, 50-51, 118-19, 158, 305-6, 335, 410; mentioned, 141, 411
Ponchatoula, La., 115
Pope, John (sketch, 8:303), 27, 29
Porter, Benjamin F.: L from, 183
Porter, David D. (sketch, 6:27): and Davis Bend slaves, 345; Davis on, 110; operations, 68, 167
Port Gibson, Miss., Battle of, 161, 162
Port Hudson, La.: captured, 265, 271, 281, 324; Davis on, 44, 125, 169, 172, 264, 290- 91, 308, 335, 347; defenses, x, 5, 10, 51, 54-55, 58, 101, 148, 149, 155, 163, 222, 269, 354; munitions (Davis), 10, 290; prisoners, 326, 364, 409; U.S. operations, 101, 104, 130, 148, 182, 203, 232
Port Royal, S.C., 61
Post Office Department: annual report, 22-23; clerks, 404; and conscription, 98, 103; Constitution and, 161; estimates, 61, 70, 122, 126-27, 154; overseas mail, 100; telegraph, 33, 72; Trans-Miss., 413; and Treasury, 253, 268, 305, 322-23, 352. See also Reagan, John H.
Potomac River operations, 259, 266, 268, 270, 272, (U.S.), 149, 261, 396
Pound Gap, Va., 396
Powell, George W.: L from, 115
Powell, James S., 122
Prairie Grove, Ark., Battle of, 131, 220, 221, 371
Pratt, William H., 329
Prentice, George D., 347
Preston, John S. (sketch, 7:392): assignments, 307, 361; E to, 397; L from, 394
Preston, William (sketch, 7:448): operations (Davis), 219, 254, 367; mentioned, 293, 369
Price, Gabriel L., 38
Price, Samuel: L from, 114
Price, Sterling (sketch, 7:189): assignments, 4, 46, 117, 220; confers with Davis, 77-78; criticized, 280; on Mo., 131, Pemberton, 205; praised, 324, 342, 366; requested, 47, 55, 91; mentioned, 278, 413
Price, William C., 104
Prioleau, Charles K., 332
prisoners of war: Ark. Post, 107, 168, 174, 181; black troops, 153, 289, (Davis), 355; camps (U.S.), 107, 108, 286, 364; civilian, 17, 85, 149, 211, 365; Davis on U.S. policies, 110, 254, 364; exchanges, 215, 243, 254, 268, 322; Gettysburg, 263-64, 268, 270; Hardee and, 356; Lee on, 243; naval, 107; Port Hudson, 326, 364, 409; Stephens' mission, 215, 244-45, 254, 268; Stones River, 30; Vicksburg, xii, 269, 270, 275, 284, 307, 324, 326, 336, 341, 351, 359, 380, (Davis), 269, 271, 279, 283, 288, 293, 307, 341, 342, 349
provost marshals, 85, 108, 274, 322, 369
Pryor, Roger A.: Davis and, 102, 282; praised, 85; L to, 102; Ls from, 129-30, 282; mentioned, 62, 74
Pulaski County, Va.: L from citizens, 389-90

Q

Quantrill, William, 45
Quartermaster's Department: clothing, 51, 69; criticized, 51; exemptions, 390, 393, (Davis), 307; horses and mules, 89; Trans-Miss., 69, 253; wagons, 34, 233-34. See also Myers, Abraham C.
Queen of the West, CSS, 69
Queen of the West, USS, 69
Quesenberry, William D.: L from, 41-42

R

railroads: CSA and, 105, 114, 286, 293, 303, 321, (Davis), 21, 113; criticized, 23, 42, (Davis), 167, 308, (Johnston), 138; iron for, 51, 140, 230, 347-48, 393, 416; Post Office and, 23. See also specific lines and locales
Raine, Charles B.: L from, 91
Rains, Gabriel J. (sketch, 1:356): assignments, 190, 350, 400, (Davis), 348; Davis on, 189, 368, 410; Miss. operations, 190, 205, 269; E by, 97; Ls to, 205-6, 348; L from, 350
Raleigh, CSS (gunboat), 235
Raleigh, CSS (ironclad), 62
Raleigh, N.C.: conditions, 381, 382, 389, 402, (Davis), 381, 388; Davis speaks at, 7-8; riot, 381, 382, 388
Raleigh Standard: criticized, 179, 376; office destroyed, 381, 388; on Davis, 351; Vance on, 306
Raleigh State Journal, 381, 388
Ramseur, Stephen D., 203
Randal, Horace (sketch, 6:113): L from, 114
Randolph, George W. (sketch, 8:121): confers (1862) with Davis, 56, G. W. Smith, 57; on New Orleans recapture, 68, telegraph control, 29-30; mentioned, 92, 274, 285, 289
Randolph, Robert (sketch, 82), 79
Ransom, Matthew W.: assignments, 208, 230, 247-48, 308; operations, 311; troop strength, 250; mentioned, 157
Ransom, Robert (sketch, 157): assignments, 20-21, 25, 155, 180, 191, 197, 198, 204, 410, 411, 416, (Davis), 139, 191-92, 201, 383, 401; on G. W. Smith, 40; promoted, 139, 192, 198; mentioned, 252
Rapidan River, Va.: defenses (Davis), 318; operations, 384, 403, (U.S.), 160, 161
Rappahannock River, Va., operations, 268, (U.S.), 147, 159, 160, 161, 219
Read, ----, Miss, 177
Reading, Abraham B.: L from, 166
Reagan, John H. (sketch, 7:420): Memminger and, 253, 268, 322, 352; E to, 352; Ls from, 22-23, 61, 98, 100, 122, 126-27, 154, 253, 305, 322-23; mentioned, 70, 72, 73, 103. See also Post Office Department
reconstruction (reunion): and diplomacy, 321; opposition to, 8-9, 306, 347, (Davis), 15; support for, 93, 315, 349, 353, 354, 356, 361, 371, 374. See also disaffection
Rector, Henry M. (sketch, 8:194), 279
Red River, 172
Reed, Joseph, 364
Reed, Thomas B. (sketch, 2:686), 5
Reese, William M.: L from, 196-97
Reliance, USS, 354
retaliation: Bragg and, 29; Davis on, 153, 254, 335, 364
Reuben (slave), 228
Reynolds, Arthur E.: L from, 34-35
Reynolds, Thomas C. (sketch, 7:190): Davis and, 77, 103; L from, 84-85; mentioned, 223
Rhett, Thomas G. (sketch, 7:306), 160, 173
Rhina (slave) (ident., 235), 234
Rhode Island troops: 7th Infantry, 302
Rhodes, Jabez R., 343
Rhodes, Rufus R., 349
Rhodes, Thomas, 307
Richardson, John M.: L from, 361
Richardson, M. H., 150, 151
Richardson, Robert V., 349
Richardson, S. D.: L to, 35; L from, 35
Richardson, William H. (sketch, 1:25): L from, 216
"rich man's war," 333, 396
Richmond, CSS, 285
Richmond, Va.: bread riot, 126, 146; conditions, 139, 336, 415-16; Davis speaks at, 10- 15; defenses, 52, 255, 371, (Davis), 230, 232, 248, 318, (Lee), 204-5, 212, 245, 381, 382; home guard, 204, 230, 254, 404; Johnston and (1862), 295; press, 51, 98, 102, 146, 179, 267, 296, 328; prisons, 85, 146; spies, 211, 285, 391; threatened, 24, 122, 170, 232, 261, 266, 387
Richmond & Danville Railroad, 140, 400
Richmond & York River Railroad, 194
Richmond Dispatch, 179, 328
Richmond Enquirer, 296
Richmond Evening Gazette, 98
Richmond Examiner, 51, 102, 146, 267, 328
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad, 79, 163, 230, 251
Richmond Gas Co., 204
Ricker, ----, 153
Rinah (slave) (ident., 235), 234
Rio Grande, 149
Ripley, Roswell S. (sketch, 7:428), 61, 283
Rives, Alfred L., 349
Rives, James H.: Ls from, 121, 368
Roanoke River, N.C., defenses, 397, 399
Robards, H. C., 354
Robert (slave) (ident., 4:14), 344
Roberts, F. C.: L from, 269
Roberts, Samuel A.: L from, 288
Robertson, Beverly H., 204
Robertson, Felix H., 73
Robertson, H. R., 246
Robertson, John R., xliii
Robinson, James F., 48
Robinson, John M., 321
Rocky Gap, W.Va., 370
Rocky Mount, N.C., 310
Roddey, Philip D. (sketch, 5), 4, 5-6, 206, 335
Rodes, Robert E. (sketch, 8:260): criticized, 352; Gettysburg, 261; promoted, 171; recommended, 129, 165, 171; mentioned, 196, 208, 215
Roebuck, John A. (sketch, 257), 256
Rome, Ga., Arsenal, 190
Romney, W.Va., skirmish, 80
Rosecrans, William S. (sketch, 8:471): Chattanooga Rebel and, 29; Chickamauga, 406; criticized, 27, 29; operations, ix, x, 87, 273, 274, 366, 373, 375, 410, (Davis), 287, 369, 380, 383, 390-91, (Lee), 380, 385, 396; reinforcements for, 116, 122, 129, 130, 137, 367, 411, 414, 415, 416, to Grant, 213, 215; Stones River, 9; mentioned, xii, 107, 125, 269, 306, 335
Ross, Fitzgerald, xliii
Rosser, Thomas L., 53, 352
Rost, Pierre A. (sketch, 7:257), 147, 177
Roy, ----, 381
Royston, Grandison D.: E by, 100; L from, 36; mentioned, 292
Ruggles, Daniel (sketch, 7:198), 68, 353
Rummel, Francis C. (ident., 325), 323
Russell, Lord John (sketch, 7:106), 229, 257
Russia: CSA and, 102, 147, 258
Rust, Albert, 63

S

Sabine Pass, Texas, Battle of, 372, 414
Sage, Bernard J.: L from, 114; mentioned, 389
St. John, Isaac, 394
St. Johns River, Fla., 34
St. Martin, Jules (sketch, 379), 378
St. Roman, Henri de (ident., 330), 329, 332
St. Roman, Marie S. (ident., 330)
Sale, John B. (sketch, 8:547), 53, 73
Salisbury, N.C., 85, 124
salt: price, 238; saltworks, 48, 173, 254, 369, 370, 389, 400; supply, 5, 26, 46, 113, 344, 361, 384, 387, 396
Saltville, Va., 369, 370, 389, 400
Sanders, ----, 18
Sanders, Anna R.: Davis and, xlii; L to, 214
Sanders, George N., 214, 409, 417
Sanders, John C. C., 336
Sanders, William P. (sketch, 5:132): L to, 417
Satellite, CSS, 354
Savannah, CSS, 18
Savannah, Ga.: defenses, 47, 52, 66, 90, 91, 112, 124-25, 240, 356-57, 360; threatened, 51, 91, 304, 319
Savannah Republican, 147
Saxton, Rufus, 146
Scales, James P., 402
Scales, Joseph W., 117
Schenck, Robert C. (sketch, 2:570), 181
Schroder, J. Henry, & Co., 330
Schroder, Johann H. (ident., 331)
Schroder, John H. W. (ident., 331), 330
Schurz, Carl (sketch, 7:120), 81, 88
Scott, Powhatan G.: L from, 140
Scott, Samuel S., 48
Scott, Sutton S.: E to, 347
Scott, Winfield (sketch, 1:107), 109
secession: Davis on, 418; Toombs and, 401
secret service, 156, 158
Seddon, James A. (sketch, 7:115): annual report, 6-7; appointed secretary of war, 26; bread riot, 146; criticized, 72, 105, 229; Davis reprimands, 63; Johnston and, ix, 61, 88, 189, 218, 226, 232, 239, 249, 252-53, 269; Lee and, 156, 171, 179, 202, 215, 251, 362; on artillery organization, 116, blockade-runners, 179, H. von Borcke, 336, congressional relations, 140, 149, conscription, 6-7, 189, cotton sales, 161, E. Tenn., 368, exemptions, 189, 363, Ga. home guard, 191, I. G. Harris, 322, impressed slaves, 149, provost marshals, 85, slave laborers, 42, 341, strategy, xi, Trans-Miss. affairs, 223, 311, 413; railroads, 310; Raleigh riot, 388; replies for Davis, 26, 66, 293, 298, 323, 348, 355, 372; Richmond defenses, 255, 259; Vicksburg reinforcements, 179; Es to, 42, 92, 136, 159, 179, 191, 215, 322, 336, 340, 355, 375, 397, 402, 403; Es by, 27, 191, 322, 336, 403; Ls to, 3, 63, 139, 160, 181, 255, 362, 383; Ls from, 6-7, 19, 34, 51, 53, 54, 61, 62, 63, 65, 70, 71, 73-74, 85, 88, 89, 90, 91, 96, 100, 103, 112, 114, 116, 120, 134, 139, 140, 149, 150, 158, 159, 161, 204, 215, 218, 232, 239, 246, 255, 259, 264, 268, 349, 369, 394; mentioned, 166, 274, 282, 392. See also War Department
Sedgwick, John, 165, 210
Selma, Ala., shipyard, 74
Selma Dispatch, 393
Selma Reporter, 397
Seminole: L from battalion, 207
Seminole wars (Fla.), 296
Semmes, Thomas J.: Davis and, 419
Senario, Julian, 205
Senate: Davis on, 196; resolutions on cotton sales, 136, 150, 161, furloughed soldiers, 139, Russia, 147, telegraph, 122, trade, 149; secret sessions, 136, 149, 150, 161; Shoup's promotion, 278; veto, 160-61; Ls to, 26, 41, 71, 73, 102, 120, 150, 160-61
Sequestration Act, 62, 73
Sessums, W. C., 111
Settle, John A., 288
Seven Pines, Va., Battle of, 56, 72, 374
Seward, William H. (sketch, 4:46), 284, 347, 370
Sexton, Franklin B.: Davis and, xli; L from, 51
Sharkey, William L. (sketch, 2:157), 364
Sharp, Thomas R., 39
Sharps rifles, 151
Shelby, Joseph O., 45
Shenandoah Valley, Va., 24, 39, 209, 219, 268
Shepherd, Jesse G.: L from, 281
Shepherd, William S., 388
Sheridan, Philip, 84
Sherman, William T. (sketch, 6): and Davis' papers, 302, 381-82; operations, 4, 78, 168, 200, 271, 289, 292, 304, 309, 412
Shewmake, John T., 346
Shiloh, Tenn., Battle of, 136
Ship Island, Miss., 350
Shirley, James, 365
Shorter, Eli S., xli, 38
Shorter, John Gill (sketch, 8:545): Bragg and, 273, 274; on conscription, 368; praised, 416; Ls to, 41, 188; Ls from, 20, 166, 333; mentioned, 38, 362, 367
Shoup, Francis A. (sketch, 8:364): Davis and, 277, 278
Shreveport, La.: manufacturing, 173, 221, 381; Trans-Miss. headquarters, 221
Sibley, Henry H. (sketch, 8:84): L from, 205
Sickles, Daniel E., 325
Sigel, Franz (sketch, 81), 79, 87, 125
Signal Corps, 149, 156, 211
Sill, Joshua W., 3
Sims, Frederick W., 293
slavery: abolition sentiment, 144; Biblical defense, 369; Davis on, 21; war and, 319
slaves: Ala., 359; arming, 340, 407; army use as cooks, 395, drivers, 275, laborers, xii, 55, 58, 105, 114, 283, 339-40, 349, 364, (Va.), 34, 41-42, 47, 52, 54, 61, 73-74, 89, 90, 100, 103, 105, 349, nurses, 315, 393, 395, soldiers, 293, 304, 312-13, 333, 340, 374; Fla., 20, 65, 143-44, 189, 320, 364; Ga., 97; impressed, vi, 35, 100-101, 149, 158, 340; insurrection rumors, 65, 186, (Davis), 13, 108, 199, 317; Ky., 48; La., 231; medical care (Davis'), 188, 198; Miss., 55, 58, 196, 198, 205, 206-7, 217, 241, 293, 320, 340, 344, 345, 347, 354, 384, 395; runaways, vi, 20, 55, 100-101, 105, 149, 359, 364; U.S. Army and, 146, 198, 200, 205, 207, 217, 231, 263, 300, 304, 320, 344, 364. See also blacks; Davis, Jefferson--servants and slaves
Slidell, John (sketch, 5:7): as commissioner, viii, 102, 153, 258, 321, 371; Erlanger loan, 18, 331; family, 330, 332; Napoleon III and, 332, 333
Slocum, Henry W. (sketch, 81), 79, 410, 411
Small, Nathaniel W.: Ls from, 263, 268
Smedes, William C. (sketch, 5:71), 26
Smith, Andrew J. (sketch, 6:113), 162
Smith, Anna Davis (sister) (sketch, 1:329), 233, 241, 347
Smith, Cotesworth P. (sketch, 135), 135
Smith, Edmund Kirby (sketch, 8:31): assignments, viii, 22, 32, 44, 75, 87, 91, 115, 117, 130, 213, 222, 333, 382; criticized, 229; Davis on, 34, 277, 281, 311, 361; health, 382; Ky. campaign, 29; McCown and, 158; on assignment, 222, generals, 413, Holmes, 221, U.S. operations, 159, 412; powers (Davis), 289, 309; praised, 6, 187, 324, 366; recommended, 40, 47; staff, 95, 134, 224; Trans-Miss. finances, 78, 413, headquarters, 173, 221, operations, 205, 223, 233, 246, 295, 412, organization, 221-22, 260, 288; Vicksburg, 223, 254, 276, 354; Ls to, 103, 171-72, 254, 279-80; Ls from, 213, 220-23, 371-72, 382, 412-13; mentioned, 17, 64, 97, 148, 229, 239. See also Trans-Mississippi Department
Smith, Gustavus W. (sketch, 7:306): confers with Randolph (1862), 57; Davis and, xli, 27, 55-56, 58, 72-73, 85, 366; health, 40, 56, 72; N.C. operations, 20, 24, 27, 47; rank, 27, 55- 56, 72; resigns, 58; L from, 72-73
Smith, James A., 368
Smith, James P. (sketch, 135), 64, 135
Smith, Joseph Davis (nephew), 241
Smith, Larkin, 232
Smith, Leon, 70
Smith, Martin L. (sketch, 7:363): L to, 69; L from, 71; mentioned, 17, 42
Smith, William, 336, 362
Smith, William F., 81
Snapp, Phillip B.: L from, 238-39
Solitude plantation, 242
Solomon, Charley (slave), 345
Soule, Pierre (sketch, 4:125), 408
South Carolina: and captured black soldiers, 355; conscription, 52, 53, 125, 286, 394, (Davis), 297; crops, 70; deserters, 319; disaffection (Davis), 389; slaves as laborers, 283; U.S. troops in, 266
South Carolina and Georgia, Department of. See Beauregard, P. G. T.
South Carolina troops: 1st Infantry, 120; 3d Infantry, 153; 5th Infantry, 250; 1st Reserve Corps, 52, 54, 70, 71; 4th Reserve Corps, 70, 71; 10th Reserve Corps, 70, 71; artillery company, 349; consolidation, 125; militia, 53, 54, 70, 71, 73, 74, 263, 270, 285, 297, 338; L from officers, 85
Southern Historical Society, 5, 209
Southern Railroad (Miss.), 26, 99
Spain, 99, 284, 330
Sparrow, Edward: army bill, 109; Davis and, 419; report by, 35; Ls to, 34, 51
Spaulding, George H., 302
Spear, Samuel P. (sketch, 296), 251, 295
speculators/extortioners: Ala., 121-22, 183; Calif., 103; criticized, 91, 141, 333, 348, 378, 393; Davis on, 42-43, 136, 184, 395; Fla., 130, 142-45; Ga., 376; La., 98; Miss., 5, 113, 306-7; Richmond, 415-16; S.C., 283; Texas, 184; Trans-Miss., 34, 42-43, 45, 222, 412; Va., 92, 355
Spence, E. B., 418
Spence, James M. (sketch, 8:582), 330
Spencer, H. L.: L from, 35
spies, 24, 141, 156, 211, 219, 261, 285-86, (U.S.), 211, 312, 391
Spilman, Edward M.: L from, 74
Stafford County, Va., 23
Stamps, Isaac Davis (nephew) (sketch, 5:135): Davis and, 346; death, 235; mentioned, 162
Stamps, Mary Humphreys (niece-in-law) (sketch, 5:135): travels to Richmond, 233; L from, 346
Stamps, William (brother-in-law) (sketch, 1:275), 233, 241, 324
Stanton, Edwin M. (sketch, 8:311), 84, 261
Starke, Peter B. (sketch, 2:198): Ls from, 171, 180
State Department estimates, 122. See also Benjamin, Judah P.
state rights: Davis on, 161, 418; Stephens on, 215
Steele, Frederick (sketch, 413), 372, 412
Steele, William (sketch, 132), 131, 221, 371
Steele's Bayou, Miss., 68
Stephens, Alexander H. (sketch, 4:50): criticized, 284; Davis and, xlii, xliii; missions to Washington (1861), 215, (1863), 244-45, 254, 268; travels to Richmond, 150, 229, 232; Ls to, 229, 254, 362, 395; Ls from, 41, 150, 184, 215, 232-33, 268, 373; mentioned, 250, 414
Stevens, Clement H., 61
Stevenson, Carter L. (sketch, 8:333): assignments, 18, 138, 313; Miss. operations, 30, 99, 105, 112, 113, 116, 196, 200, 286
Stevenson, John D., 162
Stewart, Alexander P., 148-49, 158, 196
Stockdale, Thomas R., 320
Stockton, Philip, 199
Stoess, Margaret Howell (sister-in-law) (sketch, 2:248), 115
Stoneman, George (sketch, 156): operations, 105, 155, 159, 168, 170-71, 191; troop strength, 150
Stones River, Tenn., Battle of: Bragg's reports, 3, 9, 33, 72, 73; casualties, 18, 30; Davis on, 8, 12; Johnston on, 59; Polk's report, 119; retreat, 9, 28
Stono River, S.C., 139, 140
Streight, Abel D., 176, 191, 273
Stringer, Levi N.: L from, 98
Stringfellow, Charles S. (sketch, 399), 398, 403
Stuart, J. E. B. (sketch, 7:243): Chancellorsville, 164; criticized, 213; Gettysburg campaign, 261, 263; W. E. Jones and, 157-58; Lee and, 53, 403; on U.S. operations, 147, 155; operations, 148, 159, 161, 169, 230, 232, 238, 384; troop strength, 150, 384, 386; E by, 27; L from, 336; mentioned, 82, 83, 193, 316
Stuart, Richard, 149
Stump, George W. (sketch, 84), 79
Sturdivant, Matthew, 20
Sturdivant, Willis: L from, 20
subsistence. See Commissary Department
Suffolk, Va.: threatened, 62, 85, 295, 308; U.S. evacuates, 232, 245, 263
Sumner, Edwin V. (sketch, 1:294), 81
supreme court, 3, 219
Susquehanna River, 261
Swan, William G.: Ls from, 52, 54
Sykes, William A. (sketch, 175): L to, 173-75

T

Taliaferro, William B., 112, 242
Tallahatchie River, Miss., 67, 96, 110, 112
Tansill, Robert, 369
Tappan, James C. (sketch, 7:402), 42, 44, 223
Tate, George W.: L from, 252
taxes: CSA, vii, 114, 184, 222, 380, 397; Davis on, 21, 96; state, 78, 324; suggested, 16, 91, 353; tax in kind, 183, 232
Taylor, J. M.: L from, 333
Taylor, J. W. S.: L to, 342-43
Taylor, Nannie, 343
Taylor, Octavia P.: L from, 73
Taylor, Richard (sketch, 1:408): Davis on, 270, 389; La. operations, 173, 222, 265, 268, 270, 315, 414; New Orleans plan, 68; on clothing bureau, 224, J. M. Hawes, 360; reports by, 45, 96, 270; troop strength, 371, 412; mentioned, ix, 35, 354, 408
Taylor, Sereno: L from, 99
Taylor, Thomas B.: L from, 212
Taylor, Thomas H.: Ls from, 65, 415; mentioned, 199, 304, 306
Taylor, Walter H., 338
Taylor, William H. S.: L from, 359
Taylor, Zachary (sketch, 1:250): L from, 417; mentioned, 302
telegraph: censorship, 30; construction, 122; deciphering, 106, 185, 186-87, 289, 294, 311, 361, 409, 415, (Davis), 411; estimate, 122, 159; ownership of, 72, 73
Tennessee: conscription, 27, 33, 60, 89-90, 199, 273, 276, 335; operations, ix-x, xii, 3, 16, 17, 18, 28-30, 37-38, 114, 137-38, 273, 305-6, 326, 352, 369, 370, 375, 376, 396, 404-5, 410, (Davis), 8, 9, 12, 18, 37, 247, 397-99, 410-11, 415; railroads, 286, 288, 303, 312, 376, 400, 410, 414; strategy, 33, 72, 86, 116, 141, 187, 188, 246, 272-73, 335, 336, 396, 401, 414, (Davis), 26, 30, 101, 106, 116, 129, 130, 226, 231, 240, 282, 367, 369, 374, 375, 380, 383-84, 390-91, 394; U.S. operations, 3, 17, 18, 27, 28-29, 59, 113, 116, 130, 137, 216, 219, 243, 350, 369, 373, 375, 380, 390-91, 393-94, 401, 402, 403, 407, 409, 410, 411, 414; Ls from citizens, 199, congressmen, 151. See also Army of Tennessee; East Tennessee
Tennessee, Department of. See Bragg, Braxton
Tennessee troops: 1st Cavalry, 400; 12th Cavalry, 349; 1st Infantry, 296; 2d Infantry, 356, 368; 7th Infantry, 38, 296; 14th Infantry, 296; 21st Infantry, 356, 368; 38th Infantry, 358; 40th Infantry, 133; 154th Senior Infantry, 335; consolidation, 356, 368; deserters, 349; furloughed, 310; militia, 373; organization (Davis), 359; recruiting, 349, (Davis), 202, 295
Tennessee troops (U.S.): 6th Cavalry, 335
Tensas River, La., 71, 76
Texas: cattle trade, 184-85; clothing manufacture, 69; conscription, 22, 94, 275; defenses, 16, 138, 184; disaffection, 46, 93-94; finances, 153, 279; food supplies, 184, 275; Indian incursions, 115; martial law, 93; munitions, 173, 275, 372; politics, 93; threatened, 412; trade, vii
Texas troops: 1st Cavalry, 51; 7th Cavalry, 132, 5th Infantry, 139, 194; Texas Rangers, 115; commanders, 51; Hispanic, 95; militia, 275; strength, 172; L from officers, 51
Texas troops (U.S.), 95
Thayer, Eli, 145
Thomas, Edward L., 316
Thomas, William H. (ident., 224), 222
Thomas Freeborn, USS, 83
Thompson, David H., 415
Thompson, Waddy (sketch, 2:402): L to, 417
Thorburn, Charles E., 263
tobacco: production, 97, 136, 145, 184; trade, 144, 179
Tochman, Gaspar: L from, 397
Todd, Robert S.: L from, 17
Tombigbee River defenses, 74
Toombs, Robert (sketch, 4:236): criticized, 362; Davis and, 380, 401; mentioned, 346
torpedoes, 70, 75, 190, 205, 399
Tower muskets, 373
Tracy, Edward D., 161
Trans-Mississippi Department: administration, 221-22; clothing supplies, 69, 222, 289; commander, viii-ix, 94, 324, (Davis), 75; communications, 171, 213, 220, 221, 288-89, 311, 360; conditions, 36, 42, 46, 47, 70, 131, 220, 275, 278, 280, (Davis), 76, 279; conscription, 222; cotton trade, 149, 253; Davis on, 115, 125, 172, 276, 281, 309; disaffection, 279, 281, (Davis), 309; finances, 76, 412-13; food supplies, 91, 131, 211, 222, 275; governors' conference, 311; headquarters, 221; home guard, 372; Indians, 279; inspector, 403; manufacturing (Davis), 276-77; morale, 372, 412, (army), 280, 324; mules, 89; munitions, 131-32, 148, 221, 290, 371-72, 412, (Davis), 172, 276; organization (Davis), 75, 333, (Smith), 288, 382; recruiting, 45, 220; reinforcements to Miss., 43, 172, 354; strategy, 229, 246, (Davis), 279-80, 389, criticized, 342; and Treasury, 78, 222, 382, 412-13, (Davis), 289; troop strength, 173, 221, 371, 412; U.S. operations, 371, 412. See also specific states; Holmes, Theophilus H.; Smith, Edmund Kirby
Treasury Department: agent abroad, 330; bonds, 91, 253, 279, 370; claims, 58, 85; clerks, 254, 336; cotton purchases and trade, 98, 253; counterfeiting, 38, 50, 219, 275, 320; currency, 7, 114, 253, 306, 322, 362, 370, 389; estimates, 154; female employees, 73; office schedule, 336, space, 154; and Post Office, 253, 268, 305, 322-23, 352; Trans-Miss., 78, 222, 382, 412-13, (Davis), 289. See also Memminger, Christopher G.
Trent affair, 257
Trimble, Isaac R., 165, 171, 260
Tucker, John R., 304, 321
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley (sketch, 8:110): L from, 282
Tullahoma, Tenn., 98, 141, 169, 273, 274, 288
Tupper, Tullius C. (sketch, 8:354): L from, 103; mentioned, 95
Turley, E. W.: L from, 176
Turner, Washington: L from, 17
Tyler, John (sketch, 2:133), 35
Tyler, Robert, 73

U

unionism. See disaffection; reconstruction (reunion)
United Confederate Veterans, 278
United States: call for troops, 6, 82, 243; claim for vessel, 99; conscription, 79, 389, 396; cotton trade, 160, 165, 329, 339, 402, (Davis), 177-78; Davis on, 8, 11, 12, 13, 21, 277, 317; Democrats, 15, 220; election of 1862, 15; patronage, 246; peace sentiment, 10, 213, 243; plots against, 285-86, 347; religious persecution, 348; spies, 211, 312, 391. See also Lincoln, Abraham
United States Army: 5th Colored Heavy Artillery, 234; 49th Colored Infantry, 234; 51st Colored Infantry, 234; 63d Colored Infantry, 234; I Corps, 81; II Corps, 81; III Corps, 81; V Corps, 81; VI Corps, 81; IX Corps, 63, 81, 82, 116, 122, 126, 219, 352; XI Corps, 81, 88, 352, 354, 385, 410, 411, 416; XII Corps, 81, 354, 410, 411, 416; XIII Corps, 414; XIX Corps, 81, 414; XXIII Corps, 219; Depts. of the East, 297, Fla., 84, the Gulf, 172, 210, N.C., 84, the Ohio, 82, 84, 125, the South, 84, Va., 297, Washington, 245; artillery, 16, 30, 77, 147, 160, 171, 189, 198, 203, 205, 208, 211, 219, 230, 271, 272, 280, 283, 292, 295, 298, 307, 348, 350, 385, 398; black troops, 112, 152, 233, 237, 293, 304, 307, 322, 355, 397, praised, 289; casualties at Gettysburg, 260, Stones River, 33; cavalry, 16, 27, 32, 39, 45, 81, 126, 147, 150, 155, 156-57, 159, 160, 162, 166-67, 168, 170, 179, 196, 197, 209, 234, 245, 248, 251, 254, 263, 268, 280, 295, 302, 324, 346, 369, 375, 380, 384, 385, 397, 410; censorship, 23; deserters and stragglers, 74, 111, 117, 126, 139; flags of truce, 32; Grand Divisions, 81-82; "mud march," 24; munitions for, 236, 238, 272, 376; mutiny, 99; prosthetics, 325; recruiting abroad, 315, 348, 414; and slaves, 146, 231, 263, 300, 304, 320, 364, (Davis'), 198, 200, 205, 207, 217, 344; strength in Ark., 412, at Ark. Post, 45, Baton Rouge, 38, 99, 148, Chancellorsville, 167, Charleston, 139, Culpeper, 384, in E. Tenn., 400, at Fredericksburg, 24, 211, in La., 38, 79, 148, 414, Miss., 99, 161, 188, 196, N.C., 17, 25, at Stones River, 30, in Tenn., 88, Trans-Miss., 371, 412, at Vicksburg, 12, 190, in Va., 148, 155, 170, 209, 232, 245, 250, 268, 313, 415; substitutes, 82. See also specific commanders and locales
United States Ford, Va., 79
United States Military Academy: alumni, 5, 6, 30, 81, 82, 83, 84, 128, 132, 133, 156, 157, 209, 210, 223, 238, 262, 297, 302, 323, 386, 400, 413; Davis and, 380, 401; Davis' report on (1860), 216
United States Navy: Ark. Post, 45; Charleston, 139; coastal operations, 236; Davis on, 110; ironclads, 91, 100; Miss. River, 99, 100, 101, 104, 105, 148, 149, 167
Upshur, Annie A.: L from, 39
Urquhart, David (sketch, 31), 18, 28
Urquhart, Thomas H.: Ls from, 41-42, 52

V

Vallandigham, Clement L., 204, 211, 244, 253
Van Benthuysen, Joseph D. (sketch, 8:160), 377
Van Benthuysen, Mary, 395
Van Benthuysen, Thomas P.: L from, 263
Van Buren, Ark., raid, 132
Vance, Robert B., 84
Vance, Zebulon B. (sketch, 8:477): and conscription, 8, 121, 193, 255, 269-70; Davis and, xliii, 8, 288, 312, 351; and N.C. politics, 281, 306; on appointments, 263, Raleigh riot, 381, 382, 388; and Raleigh Standard, 306, 351; Ls to, 22, 187, 199, 255, 271, 280, 288, 304, 312, 348, 351, 359, 381, 388; Ls from, 48, 92, 121, 139, 186, 255, 263, 269-70, 306, 360, 381, 382, 389; mentioned, 17, 369, 376, 389
Van Dorn, Earl (sketch, 7:306): assignments, 33, 46, 59, (Davis), 174; court of inquiry, 148; Davis on, 148, 167; death, 171, 180; operations, 4, 137, 167; rank (Davis), 55; staff, 5, 133; L to, 26; Ls from, 25-26, 148; mentioned, 6, 35, 169, 274
Van Pelt, Andrew J.: L from, 92
Vaughn, John C. (sketch, 7:209): L from, 359; mentioned, 5
Venable, Charles S., 338
Vermont cavalry, 126
Vicksburg, Miss.: artillery, 10, 47, 63, 90, 96, 99, 101, 104, 105, 149, 174, 185, 298; canals, 59-60, 69, 78, 88, 99, 100; casualties, 197, 198, 275, 284; court of inquiry, 312, 334, 341, 347, 353, 357-58, 378; Davis on capture of, 264, 269, 270, 281, 290-91, 308, 311, 357-58, importance of, 43-44, 67-68, 125, 166, 168, 169, 187-88, 200, 231, 239, 247, 304-5; defenses, 71, 117, 141, 148, 155, 165, 197, 207, 216, 233, 240-41, 244, 354, (Davis), viii, x-xi, 10, 47, 67- 68, 96, 101, 104, 150-51, 172, 174, 183, 186, 189, 192, 200, 203, 205, 239, 240, 254, 265, 354, (Johnston), xi, 4-5, 59-60, 68, 88, 187, 188, 189-90, 203, 209, 216, 224, 226, 228, 234, 239, 240, 242, 247, 264-65, 268, 269, 275, 280, 314, 325, (Pemberton), 10, 63, 99-100, 101, 104, 105, 112, 115, 116, 130, 138, 149, 158, 161, 162-63, 164, 181-82, 185; effects of capture, 241, 320-21, 331, 365, 396; garrison morale, 116-17, 217, strength, 101, 196, 204; invested, 186, 188, 189, 196; Pemberton's report, 168, 306, 312, 313-14; prisoners, 269, 270, 275, 284, 307, 324, 336, 341, 351, 359, 380, (Davis), 269, 271, 279, 283, 288, 293, 307, 341, 342, 349; provisions, 4, 222, 233, 284, 297, 325, 380, (Davis), 123, 292; reinforcements for, ix, 4, 63, 104, 130, 179, 180, 181-82, 185, 188, 197, 203, 205, 209, 216, 222, 230, 235, 240, 246, (Davis), 43-44, 161, 166, 168-69, 174, 181, 185, 186, 187-88, 189, 197, 198-99, 206, 215-16, 231, 239, 240, 247, 254, 354, 374; U.S. garrison, 311-12, 346-47, 410, reinforcements, 205, 216, 219, 232, 245
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas Railroad raid (1862), 45
Victoria, Queen, 257
Villepigue, John B. (sketch, 8:514), 274
"Vindicus" article, 306, 314, 342
Virginia: conditions, 48, 179, 184, 197; conscription, 88, 398; court system, 114; crops, 88, 179, 184; Davis praises, 11, 14; disaffection, 48; martial law, 114; military dept., 47-48, 69; prices, 91, 238, 355, 389-90; railroad control, 113; slaves as laborers, 34, 41-42, 47, 52, 54, 61, 73-74, 89, 90, 100, 103, 105, 349; U.S. operations, 62, 99, 141, 179, 184, 207, 211, 232, 263, 268, (Davis), 12, 17, 160, 166-67, 192, 207, 230, 232, 295, (Lee), 23-24, 35-36, 39, 63, 79-80, 105, 126, 147, 159-60, 161, 162, 163, 165, 171, 208-9, 210-11, 212, 219, 230-31, 232, 313, 316, 317, 382, 385, 396, strategy, 52, 74, 229, 312, (Davis), 36-37, 63, 68, 112, 248-49, 318, 397-98, (Lee), 35-36, 66, 78-80, 125, 147-48, 155, 180, 199, 208-9, 212, 219, 231, 236-37, 238, 243-44, 245, 266, 284, 304, 352, 354, 385-86, 394, 396, 397, 410, 416; Ls from citizens, 88, 179, 355, 389-90
Virginia, CSS, 156, 418
Virginia and North Carolina, Department of. See Hill, Daniel H.; Longstreet, James
Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, 240, 312, 410
Virginia Central Railroad, 34, 105, 170, 248
Virginia Military Institute: alumnus, 242; Davis on, 216
Virginia Resolutions (1798): Davis on, 11-12
Virginia troops: Black Horse Cavalry, 82; 1st Cavalry, 83, 157; 2d Cavalry, 83; 3d Cavalry, 83; 4th Cavalry, 82; 7th Cavalry, 157; 18th Cavalry, 83, 84; 7th Infantry, 262; 17th Infantry, 250; 54th Infantry, 85; 57th Infantry, 262; McNeill's Rangers, 83-84; 62d Mounted Infantry, 83, 84; deserters, 347; militia, 238-39, 285, 317, 347, 392, 398; L from officers, 85
Vizetelly, Frank, 284
Vose, Israel G.: recommended, 347; L from, 47

W

Wade, William B. (sketch, 3:43), 121, 154
Wadley, William M.: on railroads, 114; mentioned, 105, 113
Walker, ----, Col., 255
Walker, David: Davis and, xlii, 108; mentioned, 70
Walker, James D. (sketch, 108), 106
Walker, John G.: report by, 359-60; Vicksburg, 222, 354
Walker, Lucius M. (sketch, 133), 131, 133, 280
Walker, Tandy: L from, 239
Walker, William (sketch, 5:65), 360
Walker, William H. T.: promoted, 188, 196, 199; recommended, 186, 188; mentioned, 51, 367, 376
Walker, William S., 112
Wall, Frances S.: L from, 306-7
Wall, Henry H.: L from, 165
Wallace, Alexander M., 109
Wallace, Campbell: L from, 286
Wallace, James, 53
Waller, William: L from, 35
Walthall, Edward C., 89, 90
Walthall, Leonidas N. (sketch, 341): L from, 339-40
Walton, James B., 92, 101
Ward, Charley (slave), 345
War Department: annual report, 6-7; claims, 140, 397; criticized, 297, 348-49, 414; estimates and expenses, 19, 139, 159; New Orleans inquiry, 65, 97. See also army; Seddon, James A.
Ware's Point, Va., skirmish, 83
Waring, Joseph F., 6
Wartburg, Tenn., 265
Washburn, James, 84
Washington, D.C.: defenses (Davis), 248, 259, (Lee), 147, 236, 243, 266; and Gettysburg campaign, 259, 261, 267
Washington, George: Davis compared to, 356; mentioned, 203
Washington, James B. (ident., 128), 128
Washington, Thornton A., 69
Washington & New Orleans Telegraph Co., 73
Washington Union: Davis and, 417-18
Watie, Stand (sketch, 133), 131
Watkins, George C. (sketch, 278), 230, 276
Watterson, Henry (sketch, 33), 32
Watts, Thomas H. (sketch, 8:313): annual report, 3; Davis on, 395; opinions on appeal, 219, appointments, 134, 225, Cairo claim, 312, citizenship, 89-90, impressed slaves, 100-101, Post Office funds, 268, volunteer navy, 389; L to, 395; Ls from, 3, 62, 89-90, 100-101, 134, 219, 225, 264, 268, 312, 389; mentioned, 73
Wayne, Henry C. (sketch, 6:95), 51, 61
Weir, John, 136
Weldon, N.C.: defenses (Davis), 308, 399; threatened, 297, 310, 397
Welles, Gideon, 108
Welsh, Israel V.: Ls from, 136, 396-97
West. See Trans-Mississippi Department
West, Absolom M.: L from, 321-22
West, Department of the. See Johnston, Joseph E.
Western & Atlantic Railroad: Bragg and, 101-2, 105, 106, 126, 185; defenses, 190-91, 253; rates, 253, 293
West Point, Va., 192, 201
West Virginia, 83-84, 254, 354, 389
West Virginia troops, 245
Wharton, C. R., 335
Wharton, Gabriel C., 311, 336
Wharton, John A., 375, 384, 411
Wharton, Thomas J. (sketch, 6:137), 197-98, 204
Wheeler, John H. (sketch, 8:237): Davises and, xlii, xliii
Wheeler, John M., 264, 275
Wheeler, Joseph (sketch, 30): Chickamauga, 407; Stones River, 3, 28; Tenn. operations, 38, 274
Whig Party, 292
White, Edward B.: L from, 316
White, Elijah V., 232
White, Elizabeth Bradford (niece): L to, 418
White, George W., 184
White, Maunsel, 418
White, Pleasant W., 361
White House, Va., 248
White River, Ark., defenses (Davis), 75, 389
Whitfield, James (sketch, 175): Davis and, 173, 286; E by, 384; L to, 173-75; L from, 336; mentioned, 154, 159
Whitfield, John F., 364
Whitfield, John W., 51
Whitfield, Lea C.: L to, 364
Whiting, W. H. C. (sketch, 7:58): assignment (Davis), 192; Charleston defenses, 62, 271, 310, (Davis), 50; Lee on, 80; on blockade-runners, 160, 206, 239; Wilmington defenses, 25, 80, 139, 235, 271, 320, 357, 369, 383, (Davis), 308, 390; Ls from, 160, 235; mentioned, 177
Whittle, Lewis N.: L from, 125
Whitworth rifled guns, 348
Wickham, William F. (sketch, 251), 248
Wickham, Williams C. (sketch, 82): recommended, 316-17; L from, 27; mentioned, 79, 251
Wigfall, Louis T. (sketch, 6:342): Davises and, xli, 418; on Davis, 311; L to, 418
Wilcox, Cadmus M.: rank, 365; recommended, 186, 188, 197, 316
Wilcox County, Ala.: L from citizens, 359
Wiley, Calvin H.: L to, 151
Williams, Charles S., 365
Williams, J. Preston: L from, 365-66
Williams, John S.: E. Tenn., 369, 376, 384; on his career, 109; L from, 109
Williams, Joseph R.: L from, 360
Williamsport, Md., 260, 263-64, 267, 268, 269, 270
Wilmington, N.C.: artillery (Davis), 47, 85, 235, 390; blockade-running, 160, 204, 206, 239, 284, 320, (Davis), 177-78; defenses, 62, 304, 348, 362, 369, (Davis), 37, 85, 139, 295, 308, 317, 357, 359, 383, (Lee), 16, 24, 52, 80, 170; shirkers in, 320
Wilmington & Weldon Railroad defenses, 397, 399, (Davis), 247, 308, 359
Wilson, Henry (sketch, 6:14), 82
Winchester, Va.: Battle of, 219; skirmishes, 81; mentioned, 261, 269, 312
Winder, John H. (sketch, 1:94): recommended, 151; mentioned, 108, 250
Wingfield, James H., 252
Wisdom, Dew M.: report by, 335
Wise, Henry A. (sketch, 6:55): assignments (Davis), 207, 381, (Lee), 204-5, 379, 381, 382; operations, 192, (Davis), 248; staff, 242
Withers, Jones M. (sketch, 7:372), 31, 50
Withers, William T., 42
Wofford, William T.: assignment, 361, 383; Lee on, 382, 403, 410
women: apply for work, 73; Davis praises, 12-13, 14, 15, 343, 358; envelope-makers, 182; food riots, viii, 146; on army, 213, 306-7, 374, home front, 46-47, 179, 198, 229, 231, 306- 7, 324, 376, 396; Ls to, 162, 176-77, 191, 214, 286-87, 303-4, 354, 365; Ls from, 26, 39, 46-47, 73, 97, 115-16, 121-22, 127-28, 179, 198, 213, 231, 283-84, 284-85, 289, 306-7, 320, 322, 346, 374, 376, 396
Wood, Fernando, 244
Wood, John Taylor (sketch, 8:190): appointed aide, 41; assignment, 53-54; Davis and, 10, 354; naval operations, 354, 391; L to, 53-53; Ls from, 62, 70, 74, 354
Wood, Lola M. (sketch, 8:190): L to, 354
Woodbury, Daniel P., 24
Woodville, Miss., raids, 347
Work, George (sketch, 2:111), 233
Wren, G. H., 26
Wren, William: L from, 341
Wright, Augustus R.: assignments, 274, 382; L to, 151; Ls from, 150, 343
Wright, David M., 322, 363
Wright, J.: L from, 362
Wright, Moses H., 274
Wyatt, S.: L from, 362

Y

Yancey, Dalton H., 166, 195, 214, 246
Yancey, William Lowndes (sketch, 6:342): Davis and, 7, 166, 195, 214, 231, 246; speaks at Raleigh, 9; Ls to, 195, 231; Ls from, 140, 166, 214, 246; mentioned, 340
Yandell, David W.: Davis on, 353, 379; "Vindicus" article, 314, 342
Yazoo River, Miss., 46, 188
York, Pa., 259
Yost, Samuel M., 408
Young, Betsey (slave) (ident., 235), 377. See also Eliza (slave)
Young, Brigham, 103
Young's Point, La., skirmish, 270, 359-60
Yulee, David L. (sketch, 4:7), 348

Z

Zollicoffer, Tenn.: defenses, 376; skirmish, 398, 401

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