abolitionism, 53
Adams, John, 47
Adams, John Quincy, 47
African Americans, 1, 25, 52, 124–25, 129, 135, 138, 146, 156, 165–67
Alexandria, Virginia, 66–67, 72
Antietam, Battle of, 117, 122, 125–30, 132, 139, 141, 150, 157
Armstrong, Hannah, 45
Army of the Potomac, 125–27, 132–33, 136, 171
Baker, Edward, 79–82, 86, 97, 122, 130, 149
Beck, R. A., 97
Black, Elizabeth, 26
Blackstone, Sir William, 43, 58, 59, 122
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 103
Booth, John Wilkes, 170
Brinkman, Henry, 28
Brown, Hugh A., 98
Browning, Eliza, 83
Browning, Orville Hickman, 83, 86, 104, 156–57
Buchanan, James, 63
Buell, Don Carlos, 122
Bull Run, First Battle of, 96, 115–16, 118–21, 141
Bull Run, Second Battle of, 115, 121
Burnside, Ambrose E., 126, 133
Carpenter, Frances, 95
Carroll, William, 87
Chamberlain, Mary E., 39
Chase, Salmon, 95
Chickamauga, Battle of, 94
City Point, Virginia, 154
Clay, Cassius, 65
Cogdal, Isaac, 19
Colby, Robert, 64
Cold Harbor, Battle of, 2
Columbian College, 47
Compromise of 1850, 51
Conklin, I. B., 97
Connor, Johanna, 151–52, 158, 167
Craft, William Henry, 162
Crimean War, 122
Crook, William, 172
Davis, Andrew Jackson, 97
Davis, Jefferson, 54
death: battlefield death, 98, 115–18, 133, 143, 145–46, 153–54; Good Death, 13, 16, 17, 20–21, 43, 50, 60, 118; and the law, 43–45; wilderness death, 8–10, 13–14, 22, 124. See also mourning
Declaration of Independence, 50, 51
Democratic Party, 49, 50, 54, 127, 135, 139, 157
Devin, Thomas C., 164
Douglas, Stephen, 50–51, 60, 103
Douglass, Frederick, 138
Dowse, Thomas, 46
Edmonds, John W., 102
Edwards, Elizabeth Todd, 26, 80, 91–93, 173
Elkins, David, 16
Ellsworth, Elmer, 57–59, 63–77, 79, 86, 116, 122, 130, 149, 159–60
emancipation, 49, 102, 121–24, 129, 135, 138, 141, 152, 164–66
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 53
Fair Oaks, Battle of, 123
Ferguson, Benjamin, 48
First Presbyterian Church (Springfield), 28
Flood, Patrick, 29
Fort Damnation, 172
Fort Hell, 172
Fort Henry, 88
Fox, Kate, 97
Fox, Margaret, 97
Francis, J., 28
Franklin, Battle of, 115
Franklin, Benjamin, 103
Fredericksburg, Battle of, 133–35, 138, 140, 150, 165
Garrett, John W., 126
Gettysburg, Battle of, 1, 3, 46, 143–45, 150, 161
Gettysburg Address, 143, 145–48, 161
Gill, Robert, 164
Gourley, James, 26
Grant, Ulysses S., 89, 152–55, 172
Grigsby, Sarah Lincoln (sister), 7, 16–18, 20, 37, 168
Grimsley, Elizabeth, 72
Gunn, John C., 23
Hall, James, 83
Hanks, Dennis (cousin), 7, 9, 10, 12–14, 16, 17, 37
Hardinge, Emma, 99
Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, 52–54, 126
Harrison, William Henry, 70
Harvard University, 1
Hastings, J. S., 96
Hay, John, 58, 63–66, 73, 88, 144, 156, 159, 162–64
Helm, Benjamin Hardin, 94
Helm, Emilie, 94
Henry, Joseph, 105
Herndon, William H., 19, 27, 39, 58, 99
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 157
Holmes, Thomas, 71
Hough, J. A., 28
Hunt, R. A., 62
Independence Hall, 51
Jefferson, Thomas, 47
Jefferson Medical College, 25
Johnston, John, 38
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 81, 133–34
Keckly, Elizabeth, 77, 83, 85–86, 91–92, 104, 172–73
Knox, Henry, 103
Kossuth, Louis, 27
Lafayette, Marquis de, 103
Lamon, Ward Hill, 62, 63, 65, 106, 125–30
Lee, Robert E., 53, 125, 144, 155
Lincoln, Abraham: and African American soldiers, 164–67; afterlife, 42, 85; animals, hunting and killing, 10; and Antietam battlefield visit controversy, 126–30, 139, 150, 157; assassination, 170–71; Baker, Edward, reaction to death of, 79–81; and battlefield deaths, 117, 119–22, 125, 171–72; and Bixby letter, 158–61; Brown, John, reaction to death of, 53–55; death threats against, 61–62; depression, 20–21; and duty, 161–63; Ellsworth, Elmer, reaction to death of, 70–73, 159–60; and eulogies, 47–50; and executions, wartime, 123–24, 162; fatalism of, 42–43, 86; father’s death, reaction to, 38–39; and Fredericksburg, Battle of, 136–37, 140, 150, 165; funeral of, 173; and Gettysburg Address, 143, 145–50; Grigsby, Sarah Lincoln, reaction to death of, 14–17; lawyer and death, 43–45, 122; Lincoln, Eddy, reaction to death of, 27–29, 33, 39, 122; Lincoln, Nancy Hanks, reaction to death of, 14–16; Lincoln, Willie, reaction to death of, 85, 87–90, 95, 172; parenting and death, 78, 89–90; poetry, 8–10, 39–40; politics and death, 51–55, 74–75, 121–22, 148–49; rationalism, 4, 55, 106, 141; and Reconstruction, 169; religious beliefs, 5, 15, 28, 30, 37–38, 41–43, 86, 99–100, 140–43, 146–47, 167–68, 173; Rutledge, Ann, reaction to death of, 18–20, 88, 122; and Second Inaugural Address, 168–69; speeches, 1–4; and Spiritualism, 97–104; superstition, 4, 95, 99; and war, 60, 64–66, 121–22; Wilderness Campaign, reaction to, 155; and wilderness death, 7–9, 22, 123
Lincoln, Eddy (son), 22–34, 37, 39, 45, 62, 81, 83–84, 95, 122, 131, 139, 149, 168, 172–73
Lincoln, Mary (wife), 3, 22–28, 31–36, 58, 62, 70–71, 76–78, 80, 85–90, 94–95, 104–5, 122, 130, 149, 157, 170–71; Lincoln, Abraham, reaction to death of, 170–73; Lincoln, Eddy, reaction to death of, 34–36, 62, 94, 172–73; Lincoln, Willie, reaction to death of, 87–95, 104–5, 122, 172–73; and spiritualism, 94, 104–6, 172
Lincoln, Mordecai (uncle), 6
Lincoln, Nancy Hanks (mother), 6–7, 10–16, 37, 138, 168, 171
Lincoln, Robert (son), 23, 32, 35–36, 58, 77, 89, 159
Lincoln, Sarah. See Grigsby, Sarah Lincoln
Lincoln, Sara Bush (stepmother), 38
Lincoln, Thomas (father), 6–7, 14–17, 38–39
Lincoln, Thomas “Tad” (son), 58, 65, 71, 76–78, 81, 89–91, 93, 95–96, 154, 159, 172
Lincoln, Willie (son), 3, 58, 65, 71, 76–78, 81–90, 94–96, 104–5, 122, 130, 139, 149, 150, 169, 171–73
Linder, Usher, 172
Little Pigeon Creek Baptist Church, 15, 17
Louverture, Toussaint, 52
Madison, James, 72
Marten, Benjamin, 24
Martin, J. Ridgley, 99
McClellan, George B., 80, 84, 86–87, 121–30, 133, 135, 138–39, 142, 147, 154, 157
McClernand, John A., 126
McCullough, Fanny, 160
McCullough, William, 160
Medill, Joseph, 73
Mesmer, Franz, 98
Miller, Leo, 99
Missouri Compromise (1820), 46
Melville, Herman, 52
mourning: battlefield burial, 115–17, 144–46; cemeteries, 29, 31–32, 82, 87, 146, 154, 173; clothing, 3, 32, 34–35, 80–81, 86, 91, 93; coffins, 28, 86; customs, 28–34; embalming, 71, 80, 86, 92; eulogies, 46–50, 80–81; funerals, 31–33, 47, 79–80, 85–86, 152, 173; hearses, 32; men and, 33; military funerals, 70–72, 77; Spiritualism, 95–99; tombstones, 29; women and, 32, 34–35
Newell, William, 83
New York Street Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), 86, 140
Nicolay, John, 58, 63, 84–85, 103, 106, 137
Oak Hill Cemetery, 87
Oak Ridge Cemetery, 173
Owens, Mary, 20
Pea Ridge, Battle, 116
Peninsula Campaign, 116, 121, 123, 125, 135
Philadelphia, 1
Phillips, William, 52
Pierpont, James, 118
Pierpont, John, 96
Pomeroy, Rebecca, 96
Porter, Fitz-John, 126
Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas, 52, 54
Rathbone, Henry, 170
Reickel, D. E., 28
Republican Party, 52, 54, 58, 137, 156, 161
Rockford Grays, 59
Roosevelt, Franklin, 160
Rutledge, Ann, 3, 18–20, 37, 88, 99, 122, 138, 139, 149, 168
Rutledge, Robert, 19
Saint Elizabeth Hospital (Washington, D.C.), 92
Saint John’s Episcopal Church (Washington, D.C.), 71–72
Sanitary Commission Fair, 1–2, 46, 77, 161
Scott, Cora L. V., 97
Second Inaugural Address, 168–69, 173
Sevastopol, Siege of, 122
Seward, William, 71–72, 146, 152
Sewell’s Point (Virginia), 67
Seymour, Horatio, 163
Shaw, Robert Gould, 166
Shockle, Charles, 103
slavery, 49
Smith, Lydia, 97
Soldiers’ Home, 78, 93, 94, 105
Springfield Steam Power Furniture Manufactory, 28
Stanton, Ruth Burns, 25
Stevens, Thaddeus, 101
Sucquet, J.P., 86
Sumner, Alice, 93
Sumner, Edwin, 136
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 30
Swett, Leonard, 162
Taft, Julia, 71–72, 76, 84–85, 90
Thirteenth Amendment, 138
Thornton, John, 164
threnody, 39
Tillinghast, Joseph, 47
tremetol, 11
Turner, Nat, 52
undertaking, 28
Vicksburg, Siege of, 143
Washington, George, 103
Washington Arsenal fire, 151–52, 157
Washington Temperance Society, 48
Webster, Daniel, 102
Webster, Thomas H., 1
Welles, Gideon, 83, 100, 103, 125, 137, 144, 154–55, 157
Welles, Mary Jane, 83, 100, 104
Welsh, John, 1
Whitman, Walt, 91
Whitney, Henry, 62
Wilberforce, Wilbur, 103
Wills, Garry, 145
Wilson, Charles L., 48
Wilson, Henry, 70
Wilson’s Creek, Battle of, 115, 120
Yates, T. S., 118