Index

NOTE: Page references in italics refer to photos.

Abbott, Joseph C., 153, 155–59, 161–62, 165–66

Adams, Alexander, 203, 217

Adley, John, 235

African Americans: free black Northern population, overview, 4–5, 25; suffrage for, 3, 19, 24, 26, 30, 220–25, 229, 263; violence against free African Americans, 22, 29, 30, 31, 38, 88, 95–96, 97, 100, 124, 181, 187. See also citizenship, for African Americans; race and racism; slaves and slavery; soldiering; suffrage, for African Americans; veterans; volunteerism and recruitment; individual names of battles; individual names of military regiments

African Baptist Church (Peeble Township, Ohio), 25

African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), 25, 32, 36, 56, 91, 205–6. See also Christian Recorder (AME)

Alexander, Harriet, 239

Alexander, Henry, 116, 179, 190, 214

Alexander, Thomas, 217

Allen, William, 37

Allen Post 675 (Wilmington, Ohio), 248

Alston, James T., 29–30

Ambush, William E., 34, 41

American Anti-Slavery Society, 18

Ames, Adelbert, 153, 155–58, 161, 165, 166, 170

Anderson, Carl C., 231

Anderson, George, 151

Anderson, Joseph, 213

Anderson, Richard H., 112

Anderson, William J., 114, 167–68

Anderson v. Millikin (1859), 148

Andrew, John A., 2, 37–42, 75, 87

Anglo African (New York), 221

Antietam, Battle of, 32

Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio), 21

Aristides (George Washington Williams), 260

Army of Northern Virginia, 98, 105–6, 152

Army of the James, 98–99, 111–12, 133, 142, 147, 149–52, 212

Army of the Potomac: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, 108; black regiments for, 104; commanding officers in, 98–99, 109; Hatcher’s Run, First Battle of, 142–46; marching orders for, 106; reorganization of, 118, 148–50; veterans of, 265

Arnett, Benjamin W., 226

Arnich, Jane, 189

Arnich, Jordan, 127, 185, 188–89

Arthur, Chester A., 260

Artis, MaryAnn, 72

Artis, Watson T., 72, 121

Ashley, Samuel S., 206

Athens County (Ohio) Military Committee, 65–67

Atkins, James, 258–59

Atkins, Sarah, 258

Attucks, Crispus, 28

Attucks Guards (Albany, Ohio), 28

Austin Post 403 (Cleveland, Ohio), 247

back pay. See pay policies

Bailey Post 164 (Portsmouth, Ohio), 249, 255

Baltimore Sanitary Fair, 96

Banks, Eaton, 72

Banks, Nathaniel P., 35

Banks, Simon, 125

Barnett School (Peeble Township, Ohio), 25

Barney, John, 67

Barr, Robert N., 77

Bartlett, Frederick J., 81, 86, 115, 147, 175, 237

Bates, Delevan, 122, 143–44, 150, 167, 174, 205–6

Bates, Edward, 64

Battery Buchanan (N.C.), 158–62

Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio), 258

Beatty, Powhatan, 5, 138

Beauregard, Pierre P. T., 112

Beecham, Robert, 118

Beer, Levi, 76, 104–5, 107–8, 110–11, 125, 148, 193

Beery, Charles A., 80, 82, 84, 115, 151, 196–97

Bell, John, 27

Bellefontaine and Indianapolis Railroad, 42

Ben Butler Post (Columbus, Ohio), 248

Ben Butterfield Post 77 (Lancaster, Ohio), 256, 257

Bermuda Hundred, campaign against, 142, 150–52

Betts, James, 214

Beverly, James (John) (Everly, James or John), 68

B. H. Millikan Post 92 (Washington Court House, Ohio), 248

Bibb, Thomas, 125

Bickham, William D., 31

Bingham, John A., 223

Bird, Henry, 175, 237

Birney, David B., 133

Black, John, 210–11, 235

Black Brigade of Cincinnati, 35–36

Black Laws (Ohio), 15–17, 18–19, 24, 226

Blackman, Albert M.: ambition of, 161–63; battle injuries of, 144, 147; as commanding officer, 83, 86, 87, 194; correspondence of, 204; Fort Fisher, second campaign, 158–60; leave request of, 168–69; marching orders of, 154; on military pay, 68; portrait of, 87; promotions by, 151; promotions of, 89, 136, 146, 171–72, 175; qualifications of, 143; recruitment duty of, 98, 107, 115, 117, 133; reorganization of troops by, 93–94, 141–42, 167

Blackman, Catherine, 163

Blackman, Gilbert, 86

Blake, Sarah Swan Weld, 8

Blanchard, William F., 144, 151–52, 169, 176, 180

Blight, David, 266

Bloch, Marc, 266

Blue, Herbert T., 254

Board of Examiners of the Candidates and for Officers of the Colored Troops, 83–86, 90, 136

Bobson, Allen, 104–5, 108

Bodamer, John A., 130

Boe (DeBoe), Robert D., 9

bounties: bounty jumping, 68, 71; bounty money, 40, 43–45, 65–69

Bowles, John, 217

Bowles, Rev. John R., 37, 200–201, 206

Bowling Green (Va.), 108

Bowman, Carrie, 4

Bowman, Catherine, 4

Bowman, Champion, 4, 5, 71, 184, 235

Bowman, Eugene, 4

Bowman, Mickey, 4

Bowman, Thomas, 35

Boyd, William T., 29–30

Boydton Plank Road (Va.), securing of, 142–45

Bragg, Braxton, 156, 166

Bratton, Edward A., 74

Bray, Charley, 57

Bray, James W., 39–40, 57, 121, 175, 181

Breckinridge, John C., 26–27

Brewer, Thomas J., 163, 248

Brock, John C., 101

Bronson, James, 5

Brough, John: on black enlistment, 65–67, 69, 76, 93–94, 117; on medical care for soldiers and veterans, 127, 229; on military benefits, 63; on national draft, 71, 73; on officer selection, 86, 136; as Union Party gubernatorial candidate, 38, 42

Brown, Daniel S., 65

Brown, Dennis, 178

Brown, Elias, 91

Brown, Henry, 195

Brown, John, 13–14, 24, 166, 252

Bryan, George W., 48

Bulen, Josiah, 89

Bull Run, First Battle of, 29

Bunch, Elijah, 21

Bunch, Pleasant, 21

Bunch, Stephen, 21

Bunch, William, 21

Bundy, Hezekiah S., 200

Bureau of Colored Troops. See United States Bureau of Colored Troops

Bureau of Pensions (U.S. Pension Bureau), 82, 215, 224, 231–42, 258. See also federal benefits, for veterans

Burnside, Ambrose E.: Battle of the Crater and, 130–31, 133; as 4th Division commander, 105, 111–12, 114, 116; as IX Army Corps commander, 93–94, 99, 100; Peace Democrats and, 33; on Petersburg campaign, 116–20, 124, 126

Burr, Randolph, 180, 195–97

Burrell, Betty, 249

Burrell, John, 249, 250

Butler, Benjamin F.: as commander of Department of the Gulf, 31, 34–35; Fort Fisher campaigns and, 152–53, 163, 211–12; at Fort Monroe, 34–35; Petersburg campaign and, 111–12, 138; on prisoners of war, 94, 98–99; Richmond campaign and, 140, 142; as supporter of black martial service, 98–99, 149–50, 163, 211–12

Butler, Charles W., 146

Butler, Daybury, 80, 227

Butler, Elbridge, 80, 227, 249

Byrd, Everett, 81

Cableton, Gaston, 48

Cain, Zebedee, 67

Calkins, Storrs S., 72

Callahan, C. F., 235

Camden Expedition (Arkansas) (1864), 95

Cameron, Simon, 29, 30

Camp Chase (Ohio), 34, 83, 216–17

Camp Delaware (Ohio): conditions of, 91–93; desertion accusations and, 192–93; enlistees received at, 22–23, 42–45, 71–76, 78–81, 89–90, 164; substitutes and, 69

Campton, William H., 173–74

Canada, 24, 38, 49

Cannon, Robert, 116, 125

Cape Fear River (N.C.), security of, 152–53, 155, 157, 161, 167

Carrington, Henry B., 29

Carter, Andrew Jackson, 49

Carter, Henry, 49, 162, 179, 185

Carter, Perry, 72

Cartwright, John, 78, 89, 102, 125, 129

Casey, Silas, 89–90, 104, 174

Cassin, Margaret, 196

Catlett’s Station (Va.), 105

Catton, Bruce, 265

Cecil (steamship), 97

Cemetery Hill (Petersburg), 117, 119, 121

Chaffin, Andy, 256

Chambers, William, 48

Champion City Times (Springfield, Ohio), 256

Chapman (Campbell), Alfred, 195–99, 201

Chapman, Martha, 197

Chapman, Richard, 196

Chase, Salmon P., 26, 31

Chavous, Alexander, 146

Chavous, Herbert, 91

Chavous, Howard, 91

Chester, Thomas Morris, 148

Christian, Lucy, 218

Christian, Samuel, 218–19

Christian Recorder (AME): on African American military service, 28, 32, 182; on AME’s opposition to military service, 36; on black enlistment, 46; on black suffrage, 221; on description of Battle of the Crater, 54; on pay inequality, 63, 64; on spiritual conditions for troops, 91; as supplier of bibles, 56; on white reactions to black soldiers, 101

Cincinnati: Brown case sympathy in, 14; Confederate invasion of, 35–36, 44; officer examinations in, 83–85; public education in, 19–20; self-help associations in, 23; violence against African Americans in, 22, 29, 31

Cincinnati Commercial, 260

Cincinnati Enquirer, 38, 216

Cincinnati Gazette, 62, 69

Circleville Democrat (Ohio), 222

Circleville Union (Ohio), 222

Circular 67 (military document), 48

citizenship, for African Americans: Black Laws, 15–17, 18–19, 24, 226; commemoration of, 244–46, 262–65; domiciliary care as benefit of, 229–33; Dred Scott decision and, 14, 26, 252; Fugitive Slave Act (1850), 24; manhood and, 261–62; military participation and, 37–38, 44, 54–55, 71, 110, 190–91; opposition to, 3, 222–25; overview, 11–12; pensions for veterans/veterans’ families, 82, 233–43; as right of veterans, 1–2, 5–6, 11, 201–3, 219–21, 267; as right of veterans’ family, 243–44; Visible Admixture Law (Ohio) (1858), 26, 222

City Point Railroad, 111–12, 137–38

Civil War Pension Index, 10

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (online database), 9

Clark, Thomas, 57

Clay, Henry, 145

Cleveland: African American population in, 18; AME church in, 206; Black Law petition in, 24; Lincoln’s funeral procession in, 245; military enlistees of, 44; public education in, 20; recruitment in, 68–69; self-help associations in, 23–24; volunteerism and recruitment in, 29–30, 68

Cleveland, Grover, 260

Cleveland Anti-Slavery Society, 24

Cleveland Gazette, 249

Cleveland Morning Leader, 160

Clinton Republic (Ohio), 62, 74

Cole, Robert B., 223, 237

Collins, John, 72

Colored Baptist Church (Toledo), 28

Colored Citizen (Cincinnati) on black suffrage, 221

Colored Hospital Service, 182–83

Colored United Association(s), 23

Columbus (Ohio): African American volunteerism in, 34; bounty jumping in, 68; commemoration in, 216; as muster-out location, 176; office selection in, 68; public education in, 19

Columbus Crisis, 30, 73

commemoration, of veterans: books as, 260–61, 264; of deceased veterans, 254–59; equality and, 265–67; fraternal organizations as, 246–51; overview, 216–17; parades as, 251–52; postwar, 216–17; public displays of, 244–46, 262–65; reunions as, 252–54

Commissary of Musters, 176

compensation, of soldiers. See pay policies

compiled military service records (CMSR), 8, 10

Compromise of 1850, 15

Confederate General Hospital (Va.), 189

Confederate Point (Federal Point) (N.C.), 153–61, 166–67, 184

Congressional Medal of Honor, 5, 138, 249

conscription quotas. See draft quotas

Conventions of the Colored People of Ohio, 24–25

Cook, Thomas, 148

Cooley, John, 102

Copeland, John, 13–14

Copperheads (Peace Democrats), 33, 74–75, 169, 216

Cornell, Seymour A., 125, 129

Corps D’Afrique Bands (No. 1, No. 2), 210

Cosby, John, 247

Coursey, Edmund, 66–67

court-martial trials, 195–202. See also military justice

Cox, Jacob D., 161, 163–65, 170–72, 220, 225

Cox, James M., 224

Cox, Samuel S., 30–31

Crater, Battle of the, 3, 54, 116–26, 120, 123

Crook, George, 195

Crumpton’s Tobacco Factory (Va.), 108

Cruse, Allen, 35

Cuddy, S. A., 240

Curtis, N. Martin, 156–58

Cutler, William Parker, 37, 94

daily life of soldiers. See soldiering

Daily Ohio Statesman (Columbus), 69

Dakin, W. H., 239

Daniel Webster (steamship), 167

Danville Prison (Va.), 127, 186–89, 242

Darlington, William, 50, 80, 114, 255–56

Davison, Jethro, 52

Day, William H., 24

Delaware Aid Society (Ohio), 91

Delaware Gazette (Ohio): Camp Delaware conditions, 44–45; health of African American soldiers, 92; military service, 141; prisoners of war, 95; recruitment of African American soldiers, 74

“Democracy and the American Civil War” (Symposium on Democracy, Kent State University), 12

Dennison, William, 27–29

Denver, Matthew R., 239

Depot Field Hospital (Va.), 100, 132, 178

Depp, Abraham, 22

Depp, Aurelius, 22–23

Depp, John, 22–23

desertion issues, 93–94, 141, 192–94. See also military justice

Deuel, Abraham C., 72, 93

Diaries and Letters of Francis Minot Weld, M.D. with a Sketch of His Life (Blake), 8

Dick Lambert Post (Ironton, Ohio), 258

Dickerson, John, 223

Dickins, Jeremiah, 55–56

Dickson, William Martin, 35–36

Different Mirror, A (Takaki), 6

disciplinary action. See military justice

Dolby, John, 183

Donnellan, John W.: battle injuries of, 144, 146–47; Boydton Plank Road campaign, 143–44; journey to Fort Fisher, 167–68; leadership of, 136, 175, 190; on military bands, 210; on military pay policy, 174, 211; qualifications of, 89

Doty, George W., 81–82

Douglas, Stephen A., 26–27, 34

Douglass, Frederick: as abolitionist, 6, 22, 37, 54, 245; on African American martial participation, 34; on equality, 39, 54, 62, 203, 261, 263; on mixed-race children, 52

Douglass’ Monthly (Rochester, N.Y.), 34

Dowdall’s Tavern (Va.), 106

draft quotas: bounty provision for, 65–66; Enrollment Act (1863) and, 69–72; national, 37, 40–42, 45, 62, 74–75, 169; as reason for African American enlistment, 55, 192; by states, 2, 38

Dred Scott decision (1857), 14, 26, 252

Duncan, Samuel A., 200

Dunkhurst, William, 66

Early, Jubal, 137

Eastman, Seth, 83

Eberhardt, John A., 85, 88

education reform issues (Ohio), 19–22, 225–26, 263

Edwards, Charles, 223

XVIII Army Corps (of the Army of the James), 98, 112, 133–34, 138, 146, 148–50

Elder, John, 50

elections: of 1862, 33–34; gubernatorial, Ohio (1857), 26; New York influence on, 27, 223; presidential election (1860), 26–28; presidential election (1864), 119, 137, 142, 145, 148, 152

Eliza Hancox (steamship), 154

Elliott’s Salient (Petersburg), 117

Ellis, Caroline D., 240

Ellison, Ralph, 1

Ely, Andrew, 125

Ely’s Ford Road (Va.), 106

Emancipation Proclamation (1862), 32–33, 37–38, 55–56, 252

Enforcement Act (1870), 223

enlistment of African American soldiers. See muster-in of 27th USCT; soldiering; volunteerism and recruitment

Enrollment Act (1863), 37, 65, 68–69, 70–71

Equal Pay Act (1864), 64

equality and inequality. See citizenship, for African Americans; pay policies; race and racism; suffrage, for African Americans

Eugene Reynolds Post 441 (Bellefontaine, Ohio), 247

Eureka Lodge (Cleveland), 23

Evans, Lyle S., 253

Evans, Mary, 204

Evans, Rev. William, 25

Evans, Walker D., 165, 180, 204

Ewing, Thomas, 30–31, 33

Fairfax, Oscar, 247

Fairfax Court House (Va.), 101–2

Fallis, John, 78

Farmville Hospital (Va.), 189

fatigue duties: as African American martial participation, 5, 7, 36, 61–62, 99, 202; description of, 190; runaway slaves and, 34–35; of 27th USCT, 102–4, 106–7, 109–11, 115–16, 140, 166–70, 171–72

Fay, John, 69

federal benefits, for veterans, 229–43; Civil War Pension Index (Fold3), 10; domiciliary care as, 229–33; pensions for veterans, 233–38; pensions for veterans’ families, 82, 238–43

federal draft. See draft quotas

Federal Point (Confederate Point) (N.C.), 153–61, 166–67, 184

Ferguson, James, 121, 127, 240

Ferguson, Leona, 240

Ferrero, Edward: on African American martial participation, 130, 135, 136, 138–40, 143–44, 146–47, 197–98; campaigns of, 105–11, 114–21, 124, 130–31, 135, 136–40, 143–47, 197–98; on Chapman case, 197–98; leadership failure of, 124, 131; officer assignments of, 102, 147; qualifications of, 99; troop reorganization by, 104, 135, 136

Fess, Simeon D., 239

Fifteenth Amendment, 3, 6, 11, 222–23, 262–63, 266

V Army Corps, 116, 133–35, 139, 144–45

5th United States Colored Heavy Artillery, 9

5th United States Colored Troops (USCT): bands and music of, 210; children of, 241; commemoration for, 244, 251–52; community connections within, 213; Congressional Medal of Honor for members of, 138; death rate of, 218; draft quotas and, 2; military justice and, 89; muster-in for, 9, 89; news coverage of, 212; officers for, 85–86; pay inequality of, 5, 61; Petersburg campaign and, 112; recruitment for, 42–45, 50, 71; suffrage for members of, 148, 222; Wilmington, campaign against, 153, 165. See also 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

55th Massachusetts Infantry: band and musicians of, 210; Bowles as chaplain for, 37, 200–201, 206; Bray and, 181; commemoration for, 252; recruitment for, 2, 38–41, 51, 57, 73, 75–76; unequal pay for, 198

54th Massachusetts Infantry: commemoration for, 252; film of, 1; officer selection policies for, 84–85; pay for, 63; recruitment of, 2, 38–39, 51, 73, 75–76

Finck, William E., 200

Finley, James, 256–57

Finney, Charles G., 21–22

1st Kansas Colored Infantry (79th USCT), 6, 35, 95

First Regular African Baptist Church of Christ (Chillicothe), 17, 37

Fisher, Cyrus W., 57

Fitzsimmons, Henry, 60

Flint, Franklin F., 83–84

Fold3 (Footnote.com), 8, 10

Ford, Frank, 239

Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 95, 187

Fort Alexander Hays (Va.), 139, 140

Fort Anderson (N.C.), 155, 161, 163–65

Fort Campbell (N.C.), 161

Fort Caswell (N.C.), 161, 165, 194–95

Fort Cummings (Va.), 140, 146

Fort Davis (Va.), 133, 138

Fort Dushane (Va.), 140

Fort Fisher (N.C.), second campaign: capture of, 3, 6, 154–60, 157, 167, 262; casualties of, 180, 184, 231

Fort Monroe (Va.), 2, 34–35, 45, 154, 212

Fort Pillow Massacre (Tenn.) (1864), 88, 95–96, 97, 100, 124, 181, 187

Fort Sedgwick (Va.), 133

Fort Siebert (Va.), 146

Fort Sumter (S.C.), 28, 30, 97, 172

Fort Wagner (S.C.), 38

Fort Warren (Va.), 113

48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 104, 117, 139

43rd United States Colored Troops (USCT), 101, 117, 121–23, 145

Foster, Charles W., 42, 45, 85, 127, 141–42, 151

Fourteenth Amendment, 3, 5–6, 11, 220, 237, 262–63, 266

4th Division, IX Corps, 99–112, 117–26, 128, 130–35, 192

4th United States Colored Troops (USCT), 85, 141

Fox, Richard, 125, 236

Fox, William F., 264

fraternal organizations of veterans, 246–51, 263–64

Fredericksburg Plank Road (Va.), 106–8

Freedmen’s Cemetery (Va.), 102

freemasonry, among African Americans, 23, 30

Fremont Journal (Ohio), 27

Fry, Rev. Thomas W., 239

Fugitive Aid Society, 34

Fugitive Slave Act (1850), 24

Gale, R. H., 239

Gales, Calvin, 72

Gallman, J. Matthew, 5

Gant, James G., 147

Gants, Anderson, 219

Gants, George, 219

Gants, Reuben, 219

GAR. See Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)

Gardner, Isaac N., 48, 80, 81, 136, 197, 235

Garfield, James A., 203, 244

Gaskins, Ferdinand, 256

General Order No. 252, 94, 186

Gibson, George, 65

Gibson, W. H., 86

Gilbert, George L., 146, 151–52, 169

Gillard, Wilson, 151

Gillas, James D., 67

Gilmore, George W., 77

Gilson, Helen S., 182

Gist, Samuel, 17–18

Gladdish, Thomas, 104

Glory (film), 1

Goldsboro (N.C.), 166–67, 170–71, 173–74, 205–6

Grabill, Elliott F., 160

Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), 4, 229, 241, 245–49, 251–52, 254–56, 264. See also National Tribune (GAR newspaper)

Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (Cleveland), 23–24

Grant, Ulysses S.: on African American martial participation, 38–39, 148–49, 170, 176; Battle of Goldsboro, 171; Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, 140; Battle of the Crater, 117, 119, 124, 126; Battle of the Wilderness, 105–6; commanding officers under, 98–99; on election (1864), 109; Enforcement Act of, 223; on federal benefits, 197; Fort Fisher campaigns, 159–60; Hatcher’s Run, First Battle of, 142, 145; marching orders of, 108–9, 138, 152–53; Petersburg campaign, 111–12, 131–35; on Piney Branch Church, 107; on prisoner exchanges, 186; on South’s surrender, 173; victory celebration for, 216; on war, 1, 6; Wilmington, campaign against, 161

Gray, Nicholas A.: on equality, 97, 183; at muster-in, 81; quartermaster duties of, 128–29, 203–4; writings of, 113, 131, 146, 160, 175, 179

Green, James, 248

Green, Lewis, 236, 245, 248

Green, Shields, 14

Green, Thomas, 93

Gregg, David M., 133, 139, 142

Griffee, James, 127, 189

Griffin, Simon G., 130

guidon, of 27th United States Colored Troops, 96

Guy, George H., 63–64

Hackley, Robert, 132, 184, 227

Haines, Wesley, 131–32

Hamilton Bethel Church (AME) (Ohio), 168

Hammond, James, 46–47, 55, 125, 237

Hampton Roads Peace Conference, 161

Hancock, Winfield S., 113, 133, 135, 144, 145

Hannah, Mark A., 224

Harding, Warren G., 224

Harpers Ferry, attack on, 13, 24, 27, 252

Harris, Nathaniel H., 139–40

Harris, Thomas, 235

Harris, Thornton, 185

Hart, James A., 78

Hart Post 134 (Massillon, Ohio), 249

Hartwill (Hortwell), Thomas A., 9

Hatch, George, 35

Hatcher’s Run (Va.), First Battle of, 142–46

Hayes, Rutherford B., 220

Hayward, Aleck M., 130

Headquarters for the Draft Rendezvous (Columbus), 69

health issues, of soldiers: domiciliary care and, 229–33; in the field, 102, 111–14, 127–29, 177–85; hospitals for USCT, 183–85; medical care and, 181–85; during muster-in, 91–93; veterans declining health, 228–33. See also individual names of hospitals

Hedgepath, Richard, 64, 67, 154, 228

Hempstead, Alexander S., 124, 136, 147, 196–97, 199–200

Henry, Orin D., 144, 183, 228

Henry, William, 228

Hicks, John W., 80, 235

Higgins, Charles, 48

Hill, Ambrose P.: on emancipation, 33; on leave, 131; as IX Army Corps commander, 93, 99–100, 133; on Petersburg front, 111–12, 116, 135

Hill, James H., 159

Hill, John, 185

Hill, Matthew, 121, 159, 241

Hill, Rebecca, 185

Hill, Walter, 241

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens (Williams), 260

History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865, A (Williams), 261, 267

Hocking County (Ohio), violence in (1861), 30

Hogan, Archie, 9, 180

Hoke, Robert F., 155–56, 161, 164–65

Holland, Milton M., 5, 28, 54, 138, 252

Holliday, S. V., 203

Holman, John H., 168

Holt, Joseph, 197, 200

Hornberger, Alexander, 9

Horton, John, 104–5, 235

“Hour and the Duty of Colored Men to the Government” (speech) (Langston), 44

Howard, Peter, 61, 179

Howell, William, 185

Howson, Henry, 200

Hunter, David C., 35

Hurlburt, Stephen A., 73

Hurst, Jethro, 23, 224, 247, 258–59

Huyek, Sanders M., 136, 151–52, 235

Idaho (steamship), 154

Ironton Evening Tribune (Ohio), 256

Jackson, Andrew, 55

Jackson, John R., 247

Jackson, William E., 56–57

Jackson, William H., 57

Jackson Hospital (Va.), 127, 132

James, Richard, 72

Jerusalem Plank Road (Va.), securing of, 113–14, 119, 133–35, 139–40

Jewell, John G., 199–200

John B. Bell Post 119 (Washington Court House, Ohio), 248

“John Brown’s Body” (song), 166, 252

Johns, James W., 127, 185, 188

Johnson, Andrew, 173, 200

Johnson, Charles, 212

Johnson, Hanson, 231

Johnson, Israel, 235

Johnson, Lucious, 227, 231

Johnson, William, 65, 130

Johnston, Joseph E., 98, 170, 172–73

Jones, Albert G.: on African American martial service, 191, 240; military duty of, 158–59, 166, 172, 175; on officers for 27th USCT, 137; qualifications of, 81; writings of, 8, 116

Jones, George F., 235

Jones, Grayson, 77

Jones, Mary, 214

Jones, Moses M. A., 66, 171, 177, 213, 214, 237

Jones, Richard N., 228

Jones, Thomas E., 132

Jones, William F., 206

Jordan, Samuel, 94–95

Julius, Charles, 48

Kansas, recruitment in, 35

Keifer, J. Warren, 252

Kennedy, Robert P., 57

King, Joshua, 114, 237

King, Susie Taylor, 265

Kinney, Martha Jane, 50

Kinney, William P., 50, 175, 226

Lamb, William, 153, 155–56, 158–59

Lancaster (Ohio), treatment of African Americans in, 30–31, 41, 225–26, 228, 245, 252

Lancaster Gazette (Ohio), 212, 244

Lancaster Ohio Eagle, 14, 33

Lane, James H., 35

Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati), 22

Langston, Charles, 24, 29–30, 39

Langston, Gideon, 24

Langston, John Mercer: on African American military participation, 34, 37; education of, 24; election victory of, 26; on equality, 45, 54, 221, 261; on recruitment of African American enlistees, 39–44

Larabee, Frank, 196

Latimer, Edwin C., 100, 105, 125, 126–27, 169, 174

Lay, Benjamin, 225

Lay, Phoebe Jane, 225

Leary, Lewis Sheridan, 13, 14

Ledlie, James, 119, 121, 124

Lee, Fitzhugh, 57

Lee, Robert E.: campaigns of, 98, 105–6, 109; Harpers Ferry attack and, 13; officer promotions by, 123; prisoners of war and, 187; qualifications of, 57; supply routes of, 111–12, 152; surrender of, 171, 173; turning point in war for, 133, 138, 140, 142

Leech, Dock, 69, 175, 218, 224

Leech, Isabella, 66

Leech, Joseph, 66

Leech, Mary, 66

Leech, Robert, 66, 247

Lemert, Lewis, 241

Levstik, Frank, 8

Lewis, Charles H., 192–93

Lewis, James, 214

Lewis, Jessie, 204

Lewis, Rebecca, 214

Libby Prison (Va.), 143, 189

Lincoln, Abraham: on African American martial service, 31–35, 38, 75, 98, 100–101, 160; on African American recruitment, 53, 55, 70; on army quotas, 29, 40–41; death of, 172, 245; election of (1860), 27–28; election of (1864), 119, 137, 142, 145, 148, 152; Emancipation Proclamation of, 37, 55–56; on equality, 221; on military cemeteries, 254; on military justice, 94, 96, 187, 197–98; on military pay policy, 62; military strategies of, 153, 161, 186; on Southern secession, 6

Long, Charles W., 100

Louisiana Native Guards, 35

L’Overture Hospital (Va.), 102, 105, 110, 179, 183

Lucas, Napoleon, 127, 186, 189

Lundy, Benjamin, 17

Lupton, James, 36

Lynchburg Prison (Va.), 108, 189, 190

MacBride, Thomas H., 197

Mahone, William, 122–23, 124, 139

Malvin, John, 29–30

manhood and masculinity: military service as vindication of, 36, 44, 46–47, 53–56, 162–63, 219–20, 261–64; rites of passage for, 191, 201; as socially defined ideals, 1, 37, 236, 243–44

Manley, Andrew, 219

Manley, Julia, 219

Manley, Therrygood, 127, 154, 182

Mansel, John, 172

Mansfield General Hospital (Morehead City, N.C.), 184

Massachusetts. See Andrew, John A.; 55th Massachusetts Infantry; 54th Massachusetts Infantry

Mayberry, William, 50

Mayo, Nancy, 204

Mayo, Samuel, 204

McClellan, George B., 148

McClellan Hospital (Philadelphia), 183

McCoglin, Benjamin, 104–5, 108, 189–90

McCoglin, Fielding, 105

McCoglin, John, 105

McCoy, Lewis, 67, 85–86, 89

McDonald, John, 65

McIntosh, Silas, 52

McKinley, William, 9, 265

McKnight, Julius, 254

McMurphy, Edwin F., 86, 165, 174

Meade, George B.: on African American martial participation, 116, 140; Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, 140; Battle of the Crater, 116, 119, 124, 126; Battle of the Wilderness, 105–6; commanding officers of, 98–99; court of inquiry by, 131; Hatcher’s Run, First Battle of, 142–43; marching orders of, 138; Petersburg campaign, 111–12, 132–35; troop reorganization by, 104, 109, 112, 149

Medical Examiner Board (Ohio), 77–78

medical personnel, 181–83

Mendenhall, George C., 92

Mendenhall, Richmond, 92

Miles, Fanny, 49–50

Miles, Freeman, 199

Miles, John, 50, 93

Miles, William, 61, 179

military justice: court-martial trials, 195–202; desertion and, 93–94, 141, 192–94; disciplinary issues, 126–27, 147–48, 194–95; prisoners of war, 77, 89, 94–96, 98–99, 126–27, 185–90; racism and, 190–92

military pay. See pay policies

military service. See 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT); race and racism; soldiering; veterans; volunteerism and recruitment

Militia Act (1862), 31–32, 61, 202

Miner, Daniel J., 67–68, 151–52, 163, 235

Mischal, Daniel, 56, 213

Mitchell, James G., 36–37

Mitchell, Matthew R., 137

Moeves, Charles, 176, 180

Monroe, James, 14

Montauk (ship), 154

Moody, David, 219

Moore, Henry, 172, 248

Morehead City Wharf (N.C.), 154

Morgan, John Hunt, 35, 44

Morgan’s Raid (Ohio), 44

Morrison, James, 235

Morton, Wilson T., 81, 169, 175

Mosby, Preston, 104–5, 108, 189–90

Moss, John, 20

Mott, Gersham, 134–35, 140

Mt. Sinai Baptist Church (Pike County, Ohio), 25

Mount Union College (Alliance, Ohio), 21

Mourning, Wallace, 236

Murphy, Daniel, 89

Murphy, Frank, 258

Murphy, Thomas W., 236

muster-in of 27th USCT, 77–86, 89–96; African American noncommissioned officers and, 79–81; camp life during, 90–91; desertion and, 93–94; health of troops during, 91–93; morale during, 95–96; procedure for, 77–81; spiritual conditions during, 91; training during, 89–90; of white officers, 81–86

Myrick, John R., 165

Myrtle Sound (N.C.), 165

Napper, Alexander, 92

Napper, Eliza, 92

National Archives and Records Administration, 8

National Association of Negro Ex-Soldiers and Sailors National Reunion Association, 253

national citizenship. See citizenship, for African Americans

National Equal Rights League, 221

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Home (Dayton, Ohio), 231, 232, 235

National Negro Convention Movement, 24

National Tribune (GAR newspaper): on pensions, 4, 235, 240; on veteran’s experiences, 264

Neilson, William G., 82–83, 98, 102, 104, 107, 115

Nelson, William Joseph, 69–70

New Market Heights (Va.), Battle of, 5, 138, 222, 249, 252

Newman, Ignatius, 180

New York: draft riots (1863) in, 38, 70; national election influence of, 27, 223

New York Times: on Battle of Sugar Loaf, 164; on Brown’s execution, 14; on suffrage, 222

Nickens, David, 17

Niedermeyer, Herman, 78, 81, 92, 127, 144, 179–85, 235

IX Army Corps, 97–126; Burnside as commander of, 93–94, 99, 100; 4th Division, 99–112, 117–26, 128, 130–35, 192; Hill as commander of, 93, 99–100, 133; Parke as commander of, 133–34, 136–45. See also 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT)

9th U.S. Colored Cavalry, 264

Noble, Isaac, 72, 121

Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad (Va.), 112, 113, 118, 133, 138

North Street Theatre (Kansas City, Mo.), 265

Northwest Ordinance (1787), 14–15

Oberlin Anti-Slavery Society, 18

Oberlin College (Ohio), 4, 18, 21–22, 24

Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, 24, 39

officer selection, procedures for, 79–81, 83–86

Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1866 (Ohio Roster Commission), 9

Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, 24–25, 30

Ohio Methodist Episcopal General Conference, 56

Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home (Sandusky, Ohio), 230, 231

Ohio State Convention of Colored Men (1857), 261

Ohio State Journal (Columbus), 137

Ohio State Soldier’s Home (Columbus, Ohio), 229

Old Church Tavern (Va.), 109

Old Norfolk Road (Va.), 113

127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 42–43. See also 5th United States Colored Troops (USCT)

Orange and Alexandria Railroad, 102

Ord, Edward O. C., 133, 134, 150

orphans of veterans, 240–41

Osborn, Charles, 17

Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio), 21

Owsley, Benjamin, 203

Paine, Charles J.: foraging missions by, 168, 171; Fort Fisher, second campaign, 156–57, 160; marching orders for, 153, 155, 170, 173; qualifications of, 150; troop reorganization by, 152, 162; Wilmington, campaign against, 163, 165–66

Palmer, James M., 76–77

Parham, William H., 36

Parke, John G., 133–34, 136–45

Parker, John, 76

Payne, Henry B., 26

Payne, Jesse, 192

Payne, Rev. Daniel A., 203

Payne, Rev. James H.: on African American martial participation, 54, 56, 130, 182; disposition of, 91, 167–68, 174–75; health of, 78, 179, 185; as a minister, 51, 119, 129, 205–6, 221; qualities of, 115; on slavery, 32

pay policies: for back pay, 58–59, 174, 211, 217–19; for bounties, 40, 65–68; inequality of, 43, 61–65, 202–4; for substitutes, 68–70

P. C. Daniels Post 500 (Xenia, Ohio), 247

Peace Democrats (Copperheads), 33, 74–75, 169, 216

Peebles’ Farm (Va.), 140, 142–43, 145, 147, 195, 211

Penny, “Sister” Lydia, 182

Penny, Thomas, 182

pensions. See federal benefits, for veterans

Perry, Thomas, 115

Petersburg (Va.), 54, 111–14, 131–35, 149

Pettigrew Hospital (Raleigh), 184, 185

Phelps, Alonzo J., 77

Philadelphia, hospitals of, 132, 183–84, 208

Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church (Pike County, Ohio), 25

Philadelphia National Cemetery, 255

Philadelphia Press, 148

Philanthropist (Ohio), 17

Phillips, Gibson, 50, 188, 242

Phillips, John W., 50, 126–27, 185, 188, 242

Phillips, Maria, 50, 242

Phillips, Rachel, 50, 242

Piney Branch Church (Va.), 105–7

Pinn, Robert A., 5, 138, 248–49, 252

Pinney, Alfred W., 104, 125, 131, 203–4

Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 220, 221

Pleasant, Amelia, 51

Pleasant, Simon P., 51, 132, 212

Plymouth (N.C.), 156

Poindexter, Joseph, 223

Poison Springs (Ark.), 95

political equality. See citizenship, for African Americans; suffrage, for African Americans

Poplar Spring Church (Va.), 139–40

population statistics, of volunteers, 47–53

Porter, David D., 153–56, 161, 163, 165

Portsmouth Times (Ohio), 220, 225

Potter, Robert B., 116–17, 119, 130, 138, 144

presidential elections: 1860, 26–28; 1864, 119, 137, 142, 145, 148, 152. See also elections

Price, Henry, 151, 159–60

Price, John, 24

Prince George Court House (Va.), 113–14

Prince Hall Masons (Cincinnati), 23

prisoners of war, treatment of, 77, 89, 94–96, 98–99, 126–27, 185–90. See also military justice

Provisional Army Corps, 152–71; assessment of commands of, 168–70; capture of Goldsboro and, 170–71; Fort Fisher, second campaign of, 152–60, 157; at Northeast Station, 166–67; Wilmington, campaign against, 161, 163–66

Provisional Brigade, 104, 174

Provost Marshal General Bureau, 72–73

Pugh, David H., 58–59, 92, 121, 122

Qualls, Charles, 110, 181

race and racism: anti-slavery movement against, 18–19; challenging construction of, 243–44, 261–63; citizenship restrictions as form of, 25–26; community and familial support against, 23–25; economic circumstances and, 22–23; Emancipation Proclamation and, 32–33; Harpers Ferry incident and, 13–14; military justice and, 190–92; postbellum, 265–66; presidential election (1860) and, 26–27; in public education programs, 19–22; secession and role of, 27–28; in social and political culture, 14–18; toward African American martial participation, 28–45; toward immigration of blacks, 30–31; white men as commissioned officers, 2. See also slaves and slavery

Ralston, Gaston, 184

Randolph, John, 17

recognition, of veterans. See commemoration, of veterans

records, of military service, 8–10

recruitment campaigns. See volunteerism and recruitment

Redman, Richard, 104

Redman, William, 102

Reed, William Howell, 185

regimental flag, of 27th United States Colored Troops, 95

Regimental Losses in the American Civil War 1861–1865 (Fox), 264

Reid, Richard M., 11

Reilly, James, 158–59

religious practices, of soldiers, 204–8

Rensselaer, Harry Van, 83, 85

Revised Army Regulations (1863), 48

Reynolds, George P., 193

Richardson, Amos, 121, 125, 129

Riddle, Albert G., 31

Riggs, Robert, 78

Roach, Anne, 239

Roach, Leon L., 239

Robertson, Marion, 145

Rogall, Albert: disposition of, 112–13, 191–92; duties of, 132; health care of, 183; promotions of, 151–52; qualifications of, 88; writings of, 8, 108, 118

Ross, Charity, 243

Ross, Isaiah, 248, 258–59

Ross, James H., 243

Sabbath School of Hamilton Bethel AME (Ohio), 205

St. Mark’s Prince Hall Masons (Columbus), 231

Salem Church (Va.), 107

Sampson, Archibald G., 104, 129, 191

Sandusky Register (Ohio), 31

Satterlee USA General Hospital (Philadelphia), 179, 183

Satterwhite, Rev. Nelson, 25

Schaeffer, George, 198

Schofield, John M., 161, 163, 165, 170–72

Scioto Gazette (Ohio): African American martial participation, 37, 66, 74–75; employment, 226; Fort Fisher, second campaign, 160; pay equality, 62, 64, 65

Scott, Andrew, 60

Scott, Charlotte, 60

Scott, Elizabeth, 256

Scott, James E.: on camp life, 172, 194; death of, 241; family obligations of, 66–67; health of, 213, 241; martial service of, 121, 134, 150–51; promotions of, 81, 82, 163

Scott, John, 241

Scott, Nancy, 56, 241–42

Scott, Robert, 256

Scott, William, 60

Scott v. Sandford (1857), 14, 26, 262

secession movement, impact of, 6–7, 27–28

second-class citizenship, of African Americans. See race and racism

Second Confiscation Act (1862), 31–32

Second Great Awakening, 18, 22

2nd Ohio Cavalry, 107

2nd U.S. Cavalry, 57, 133, 139, 142

72nd United States Colored Troops (USCT), 9

Sheridan, Philip H., 105–6, 137, 256

Sherman, John, 31, 37, 223

Sherman, William Tecumseh: on African American martial participation, 37, 251–52; father-in-law of, 30; military campaigns of, 98, 137, 148, 153, 161, 167, 170–73

Shipherd, Delia, 22

Shipherd, Rev. John, 18, 21–22

Shoecraft, Allison, 4–5, 240

Shoecraft, Mary, 4, 240

Shuffelton, James W., 57, 78, 84–85, 163, 169, 172

Shurtleff, Giles Waldo, 86, 252

Siegfried, Joshua K., 104, 117–19, 121, 123, 143

Simpson, Peter M., 9

XVI Army Corps, 73

16th United States Colored Troops (USCT), 9, 141

Sixth Annual Report of the State Commissioner of Common Schools (Ohio), 22

6th United States Colored Troops, 69, 172, 218

Skiles, John, 69

slaves and slavery: anti-slavery activism, 13–14, 17–19, 24–25; as contraband of war, 34–35; Douglass on, 54; Emancipation Proclamation, 32–33, 37–38, 55–56, 252; military justice and, 94, 186; national debate over, 26–30; Northwest Ordinance and, 14–15; public opinion on, 30–31

Smith, Alvin, 251, 258, 264–65

Smith, Anderson, 127, 185

Smith, Edmund H., 128

Smith, George L., 137, 144, 175

Smith, H. H., 148

Smith, Harrison J., 239

Smith, John David, 11

Smith, Kirby, 35

Smith, Nelson, 240–41

Smith, Wallace S., 151

Smithen, Frank, 248

Smoot, William E., 55

Snay, Mitchell, 12

social welfare, of veterans. See federal benefits, for veterans

soldiering, 177–215; challenges of, 11, 192–95; disciplinary action and, 195–202; health of soldiers and, 177–85; morale of soldiers and, 115–16; music’s role in, 208–11, 235, 251; officer selection procedures, 79–81, 83–86; personal relationships and, 211–15; prisoners of war, 185–90 (see also military justice); racism and, 190–92 (see also race and racism); religious practices of soldiers, 204–8. See also commemoration, of veterans; draft quotas; fatigue duties; military justice; pay policies

Soldiers’ Aid Societies, 41

Soldier’s Indigent Fund (Paulding County, Ohio), 258

Southside Railroad (Va.), 112, 133, 138–40, 142–43, 146

Speaker, John W., 258–59

Special Order No. 117, 93

Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 264

Spirituality, of soldiers, 204–8

Spotsylvania Court House (Va.), 106–8

Spurgeon, Ian Michael, 6–7

Standard History of Ross County, Ohio (Evans), 253

Stanton, Edward M.: military pay policy, 43, 62, 64; prisoners of war, 94; recognition of African American military service, 160, 170, 254; recruitment of African American soldiers, 41–42, 72; troop organization, 141

Stark County, Ohio, from the Age of Prehistoric Man to the Present Day (Blue), 254

Starr (steamship), 97

State Convention of Colored Citizens (Xenia, Ohio), 221

Stearns, George L., 75–76

Stephens, Alexander, 161

Steptoe, William H., 159, 176

Stevens, Joseph G., 140

Stevens, Thaddeus, 37, 64

Stewart, Amelia, 207–8

Stewart, Hezekiah, 67, 248

Stewart, Ida, 207

Stewart, Jeremiah, 69

Stewart, Philo, 18

Stewart, Robert, 195, 198–201

Stewart, William, 208

Stewart, Zephaniah, 57, 101, 206–8

Stillgess, Isaac, 20, 72–73

Stillgess, Jane, 20

Stillgess, Joseph, 20

Stith, Henry, 214

Stokes, Wesley, 189

Stover, Philip, 20

Stumm, P. W., 236

substitute enlistees: demographics of, 48–52; desertion by, 141, 192 (see also military justice); draft quotas and, 40; recruitment of, 67–71, 77

suffrage, for African Americans: activism for, 222–25, 229, 263; limitation of, 3, 19, 24, 26, 30, 220–22

Summit House Hospital (Philadelphia), 132, 148, 183–84, 192, 208, 255–56

Sweringen family, 50

System of Infantry Tactics (Casey), 89–90

Tabler, James, 213

Tabler, Jesse, 213

Tabler, John, 213

Tabler, Thomas Jefferson, 48, 213

Taft, Alphonso, 260

Takaki, Ronald, 6

Tappan, Arthur, 21

Tappan, Lewis, 21

Taylor, Charles E., 80, 102–3

Taylor, Charles W., 148, 180

Taylor, James H., 51

X Army Corps, 133, 145, 149

10th U.S. Colored Cavalry, 264

Terry, Alfred H.: on African American military participation, 162–63; assessment of commands by, 168–72; Fort Fisher campaigns of, 152–60, 157; at Northeast Station, 166–67; Wilmington, campaign against, 161, 163–66

Terry, Thomas, 235

3rd South Carolina Infantry (21st USCT), 61

Thirteenth Amendment, 11, 252, 262

13th Annual Symposium on Democracy (Kent State University), 12

30th United States Colored Troops (USCT), 121–23, 132, 143

39th United States Colored Troops (USCT), 115, 121, 123

Thomas, Henry G., 117

Thomas, Lorenzo, 90, 151, 161, 168

Thomas, William Hannibal, 148

Thropp, James S., 235

Tibbs, Philip Sheridan, 256, 257

Tibbs, Qualls, 163, 164, 244, 252, 256, 257

Tibbs, Sarah, 238–39

Tieman, E. C., 239

Tod, David: on African American enlistment and recruitment, 44, 45, 60, 72, 89; on African American martial service, 34, 39, 89; Blackman and, 86; on draft quotas, 2, 40–42; on military pay policy, 43, 61–63; on officer selection, 85–86

Tod Barracks (Columbus), 68, 231

Trimble, Allen, 17

Turner, Clementine, 225

Turner, Rev. Henry McNeal, 171, 205

Turner, Phoebe Jane, 225

Turney, Travis, 223, 248, 252

XXV Army Corps, 7, 149–53, 160, 166, 168, 198

25th U.S. Colored Infantry, 264

XXIV Army Corps, 149, 153, 156, 170

24th U.S. Colored Infantry, 264

27th United States Colored Troops (USCT): Battle of Goldsboro, 171; Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, 139–40; Battle of the Crater, 116–26; Battle of the Wilderness, 105–6; Bermuda Hundred, campaign against, 142, 150–52; commanding officers of, 87–89, 97–98; community and family support for, 211–15; fatigue duty of, 102–4, 106–7, 109–11, 115–16, 140, 166–70, 171–72; Fort Fisher, second campaign, 154–60; guarding of Battery Buchanan, 160–62; guidon of, 96; Hatcher’s Run, First Battle of, 142–46; health of soldiers in, 102, 111–14, 127–29, 177–81; locations of service, 103; marching orders of, 97–98, 100–102, 108–9, 170–71; medical care for, 181–85; military justice for, 126–27, 185–202 (see also military justice); military performance of, 129–31, 162–63; music and, 208–11; mustering out by, 176 (see also muster-in of 27th USCT); occupation of North Carolina by, 174–76; overview, 136–39; pay for, 202–4; Petersburg campaign, 111–14, 149; at Piney Branch Church, 107; regimental flag of, 95; reorganization of, 141–42, 148–50, 152–53, 173; spirituality of, 204–8; Wilmington, campaign against, 163–66. See also veterans

23rd United States Colored Troops (USCT), 104, 107, 110, 118, 132, 141, 163

Union Party, 32, 33, 34, 38, 42, 75, 169

United Brethren of Christ (Pike County, Ohio), 25

United States Army Collection, 8

United States Bureau of Colored Troops: on African American recruitment, 39, 42, 141; creation of, 41; officer appointment requirements by, 3, 83–84, 85, 88, 141; restructuring of, 43; training recommendations and, 89–90. See also individual regiments of USCT

United States Christian Commission (USCC), 115, 185

United States Colored Troops (USCT): commemoration of, 261. See also individual regiments of USCT

United States General Hospital (Fort Monroe, Va.), 212

United States General Hospital (Smithville, N.C.), 176, 184

United States Sanitary Commission (USSC), 115, 167, 178, 181, 182, 185

U.S. Constitution: Fifteenth Amendment, 3, 6, 11, 222–23, 262–63, 266; Fourteenth Amendment, 3, 5–6, 11, 220, 237, 262–63, 266; Thirteenth Amendment, 11, 252, 262

U.S. Pension Bureau (Bureau of Pensions), 82, 215, 224, 231–42, 258. See also federal benefits, for veterans

U.S. War Department, 2. See also Stanton, Edward M.

Vallandigham, Clement L., 33, 74

Van Rensselaer, Henry, 83, 85

veterans, 216–59, 260–67; back pay for, 217–19; benefits for, 229–43 (see also federal benefits, for veterans); community support for, 211–15; employment options for, 226–28; financial parity for, 224–25; fraternal organizations of, 263–64; health concerns of, 228–33; public education reforms promoted by, 225–26; social clubs for, 246–51, 263–64; social identity of, 219–24, 261–63. See also commemoration, of veterans

Vickers, Amos H., 64

Vicks, Mary, 239

Vicks, Sidney, 78, 125, 239

Vinovskis, Maris A., 6

violence, against free African Americans: Fort Pillow Massacre, 88, 95–96, 97, 100, 124, 181, 187; New York draft riots, 38; in Ohio cities, 22, 29, 30, 31; as prisoners of war, 77, 89, 94–96, 98–99, 126–27, 185–90. See also individual names of battles

Visible Admixture Law (Ohio) (1858), 26, 222

volunteerism and recruitment: bounties for, 65–68; community support for, 36–37, 46–47; for defense of Cincinnati, 35–36; demographics of volunteers, 47–53; Emancipation Proclamation effect on, 37–38; federal draft and, 70–71; first volunteers, 28–30; motivating factors for enlisting, 53–61; pay policy and, 61–65; politics of, 32–34, 47; public opinion of, 30–31, 74–75; recruitment campaigns, 39–45, 72–77; runaway slaves and, 34–35; substitute enlistees, 40, 48–52, 67–71, 77, 141, 192

W. A. Brand Post 98 (Urbana, Ohio), 247

Wade, Exum, 72

Wakefield, Joseph J., 81, 147–48

Walker, Houston, 194

Walker, James, 225, 238–39

Walker, Ludwell, 78

Walker, Sarah, 238–39

Wall, Albert, 39

Wall, John, 39

Wall, O. S. B., 39, 42–45, 76

Wallace, Lewis, 35

Walter, William, 61

Ward, George W., 180

Ward, Jeremiah, 116

Waring, Rev. William, 28

Warren, Gouverneur K., 113, 116, 133–35, 139, 144–45

Warren, Jerry, 121

Warren, Rev. John A., 206

Washington, Charles, 185

Washington, George, 166

Washington, John, 58–59

Washington, Versalle F., 5

Watts, John, 196

Waud, Alfred R., 120

Weaver, Elisha, 32

Weekly Anglo-African (New York), 46–47, 53

Weitzel, Godfrey, 145, 149, 166

Weld, Francis M.: enlistment motivation of, 88, 181–82, 190; letters and diary of, 8, 159, 179; on pension evidence, 235; photo, 128; as USCT surgeon, 127–28, 137, 144, 151, 154, 179–82, 184

welfare of veterans. See federal benefits, for veterans

West, George, 209, 211

Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati), 56

Western Reserve (Ohio), settlers of, 8, 18, 20, 26, 27, 39

White, Chilton A., 39

White, John D., 51

White, Julius, 48, 135

White, Philip, 210–11

White, Rev. Garland, 130

Whitfield, James, 144

Whiting, William, 202

Whiting, William H. C., 156, 158–59, 162

Whitington, Harriet, 252

Whitington, Henry, 248, 252

Whitman, Walt, 100–101

Wicker, Rachel Ann, 198

Wilberforce University (Ohio), 21, 28

Wilderness (Va.), Battle of the, 105–6

Willard Hotel (D.C.), 100–101

Willcox, Orlando B., 119, 138, 143

William Anderson Post 244 (Washington Court House, Ohio), 248, 251

Williams, Charles L., 183

Williams, George Washington, 4, 260–61, 267

Williams, Henry, 212–13

Williams, M. J., 67

Willis, John, 193

Wilmington (N.C.), capture/occupation of, 152–53, 161–66, 169–71, 173–76, 180, 184, 256

Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, 166–67, 170–71

Wilson, Charles F., 81, 147

Wilson, James, 193, 237

Woods, David, 239

Woods, Mary, 239

Woodson, Charles F., 91, 100, 137

Wormley, Lawrence K., 183–84

Wright, Charles J., 115, 121, 122, 123–24

Wright, Elias, 165

Wright, Emily, 240

Wright, Warren, 240

Wyatt Post 716 (Circleville, Ohio), 248

Xenia Sentinel (Ohio), 73

Young, Daphne, 225

Young, Eliza, 225

Young, George, 224–25

Young, James, 224–25

Young, Sarah, 225

Young Ladies Seminary (Fayetteville, N.C.), 184

Younger, Catherine, 22

Younger, Charles, 22

Younger, Simpson, 4, 5, 22, 51, 265

Younger v. Judah (1892), 265