Page numbers refer to the print edition.
Alcatraz, xv–xvi, 2–3, 19, 32–33, 41–79, 83, 84, 86, 89, 114, 189
Alexander, George Washington, 49–50
Allen, E.J. See Pinkerton, Allan
Allen, Julian, 197–98
Altamarino, Jose, 139
Ames, John Judson, 36
Anderson, Nels, 167
Andersonville, xvii, 97–109, 111–12, 115, 119–20
Angel Island, 51
Appomattox, 114
Atlanta, 105–6
Ayon, Antonio, 156
Baker, Orrin Smith, 118
Baker, Thomas, 60
Ball’s Bluff, 16
Bandini, Isadora, 161–62
Bandini, Juan, 142
Barlow, Samuel M., 16
Barry, William Farquhar, 21
Beauregard, Pierre, 18
Belknap, Hugh Reid, 201
Belle Isle, 77, 100, 111–12, 179
Benham, Calhoun, 4
Benzen, Godfrey Adolfus, 117–18
Billy Bowlegs, 158–59
Black, Henry Moore, 54–59
Black Point, 41, 86, 87, 90, 94–96, 110–11, 114–15
Blackshear, Georgia, 108
Bladensburg, 6
Blair, Henry William, 177
Blair, Montgomery, 69–70
Blanchard, Elizabeth, 229
Bly, Nellie, 209
Booth, John Wilkes, 174–75
Booth, Newton, 163
Bower, Frank, 15
Bowers, Theodore S., 123
Bowers, William Wallace, 201–4, 231
Bradley, Henry William, 84
Bradt, Horace, 176
Bragg, Braxton, 121
Breed & Chase, 94–95, 113–4, 125–26, 130–31, 133–34
Brent, Joseph Lancaster, 4
The Brother Jonathan, 115
Brown, Benjamin Gratz, 152
Brown, John, 207
Browning, Daniel, 207
Brule Indians, 210–11, 217, 219
Bull Run, 18
Burke, Martin, 12
Burnett, Wellington Cleveland, 117
Burnside, Ambrose, 61
Burton, Henry Stanton, 38–39, 44, 58, 155, 193, 214
Burton, Maria Amparo Ruiz de, 38–39, 155–56, 184–85, 192–95, 205, 214
Calaveras County, California, 139
California in the Civil War, 40, 41
The California, 155
Cameron, Simon, 12, 13, 19, 28
Camp Lawton, 108
Camp Oglethorpe, 106
Canterbury Hall, 15
Castle Godwin, 49
Castle Thunder, 49
Cedar Mountain, 52
Central Pacific Railroad, 209
The Champion, 1–2, 3–4, 24, 31
Chancellorsville, 68
Chandler, Daniel Thomas, 106–9
Chase, Andrew J. See Breed & Chase
Chilton, Robert Hall, 106, 108
Chinese in California, 163, 188, 209
Chipman, Norton Parker, 118–19
Cincinnati Zoological Society, 215–16
City Point, Virginia, 105–6
Cleveland, Grover, 204
Cobb, Howell, 98
Coffey, George A., 13
Colburn, Albert V., 28
Collet, Mark Wilkes, 68
Connelly, Thomas, 207
Corbin, William F., 68–69
Couts, Cave Johnson, 36, 151, 161–62, 165
Crager, George C., 208
Craige, S.W., 167
Crazy Horse, 210
Crescent City, California, 115
Crighton, Robert, 185–87
Crookston, Nebraska, 218, 223–24
Crow Dog, 211
Culverwell, S.S., 145
Custer, George Armstrong, 210
Dana, Richard Henry, 34–35, 40
Danville, Virginia, 113
Davis, Jefferson, 7, 12, 41, 49, 64, 113–15, 118, 152
Dawes Act, 204–6
de Ayala, Juan Manuel, 43
Dearborn, Horace, 81, 83, 87, 91
Delafield, Richard, 85
Dewey, George, 136, 160, 219–20, 222, 230
Dimick, Justin, 29
Dix, John A., 77
Dolly Vardens. See People’s Independent Party
Drum, Richard Coulter, 53–58, 66, 75
Dykes, Benjamin B., 99
Ella, J.H., 143
Elliot, George H., 84–85, 89, 96, 178
Emancipation Proclamation, 59, 77
The Evening Star, 15
Fairfax, SD, 209
Fenn, Charles, 69
Field, Stephen J., 67
Fire at Old Town, 151
Fish, Colonel, 78–79
Flinn, John, 69
Fort Fisher, 6
Fort Niobrara, 210
Fort Warren, 29
Fort Whipple, 80
Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad, 209
Fremont, John C., 34, 43, 87, 126
Gadsden Purchase, 80
Garfield, James A., 178
Gatewood, William Jeff, 139–40, 145, 167
Gettysburg, 179
Gilkison, Anthony, 128, 129, 131–33
Gillis, George P., 60
Gillis, John S., 60
Gooding, Alfred, 232
Gooding, James Henry, 102–3
Goodwin, Abby. See Winder, Abby
Goodwin, Ichabod, 8–9, 32, 46, 68, 80, 82–83, 123–24, 184
Goss, Warren Lee, 102
Grand Military Review, 111
Grant, Ulysses S., 77, 105–6, 114, 121, 123–24, 129, 137, 144, 152–53, 169, 206
Greathouse, Ridgely, 64–65, 67
Greenhow, Rose O’Neal, 18
Gunn, Douglas, 151
Gwin, William, 4
Halleck, Henry Wager, 69, 85, 89, 95–96
Hamilton, Henry, 60
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 178–79
Harpending, Asbury, 64–65, 67, 135, 150, 242n15, 252n32
Harris, John S., 154
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17
Hayes, Benjamin Ignatius, 39, 140
Hayes, Rutherford B., 169, 170–71, 173
Henry, William, Jr., 68
The Henry Chauncey,120
Herndon, James C., 25
Hill, Daniel H., 77
Hoffman, David B., 35, 140–41, 149, 163
Hopkins, Charles Ferren, 100
Horton, Alonzo Erastus, 138–39, 143, 145, 164, 166
Hutton, Salome, 24
Indians in San Diego, 36–38
Irwinsville, Georgia, 114
Israel, Robert, 117
Jamul, California, 155, 185, 192, 205
The J.M. Chapman, 63, 66–67, 72, 135
John Bob Tail Crow, 218
Johnson, George A., 145
Johnson, James, 36
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 4, 42, 64, 188–91, 226, 242n15
Jones, James P., 165
Jones, John Beauchamp, 6
Kelton, John Cunningham, 130, 133
Kennaday, Alexander McConnell, 168
Kennedy, Simon, 81–94
Keokuk College, 166–67
Kewen, E.J.C. “Colorado”, 60
Key, Louisa, 228–30
Kingcome, Admiral, 74–76
King’s National Circus, 15
Knight, John H., 218
Kraitzer, Charles, 147
Kurtz, Daniel Brown, 36
Lamon, Ward H., 17
La Paz, Mexico, 94–95
Larrabee, Colonel, 137–38
Lee, Robert E., 61, 78, 114, 122
Lee, W.H.F. “Rooney”, 69–71
Lees, Isaac, 63
Lewis, Hattie, 48
Libby, Luther, 47
Libby Prison, 68, 77–78, 100, 111–12
Lime Point, 41
Lincoln, Abraham, xv–xvi, 8–10, 16, 17, 20, 31, 32, 33, 61, 67, 69, 70, 80, 81–82, 103, 114
Lincoln, Mary, 61
Little Bighorn, 210
Logan, John Alexander, 178
Los Angeles, 135–37, 140, 142, 167
Low, Frederick Ferdinand, 115, 170–71
Lower California Colonization Company, 146
Loyal, C. See Burton, Maria Amparo Ruiz de
Lyons, George, 36
Lytle Creek, 134–35
Mackall, William Whann, 37, 241n5
Manila Bay, 219–20
Marine Hospital. See San Diego Marine Hospital
Mason, James M., 31
McChesney, Charles E. 211–12, 222–24, 228, 232
McClellan, George Brinton, 4, 10, 16, 21, 24, 25, 28, 48, 61
McClellan, Mary Ellen, 16
McCubbin, Samuel, 49
McDowell, Irvin, 18, 84–86, 93, 96, 111, 113, 177
McElroy, John, 109
McGlue, George Theodore, 12
Mcgraw, T.G., 68–69
Mckay, W.R. Isaacs, 59–60
McKinstry, George, 149
McLean, Alexander Angus, 100
McPherson, James “Birdseye”, 43
Mears, Frederick, 87
Medicine, 147–50
Medicine Owl, 224–25
Mexican War, 24, 34, 80, 133, 143–44, 147, 168, 170, 179
Millen, Georgia, 108
Millward, William, 12
Minor, John Chew, 205, 211, 216, 219, 221–25
Moran, Timothy, 88
Moro, Andrea, 205
Morse, Ephraim W., 35, 36, 39, 94–95, 113–14, 116–17, 125–26, 130, 133–34, 136, 138, 139–43, 145, 171
Morse, Mary. See Walker, Mary Chase
Nanticoke, 6
The New York Daily News, 5, 12
Nome Cult Indian Farm, 206
Northrup, George, 121
Nottage, E.W., 140
The Novic, 73
Old Capitol Prison, 69, 115, 120
Omaha, Nebraska, 209, 219, 226–27
Onarga, Illinois, 22
Osler, William, 234
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 35
The Pacific Republic, 42
Parker, Joel, 67–68
Parker, W.H., 12
Paymasters, 9–10
Pedrorena, Miguel, 156, 184–85
Pegram, J.W., 98
Pendleton, George, 36, 138, 149
People’s Independent Party, 163
Persons, Alexander W., 101
Pinkerton, Allan, 10–11, 16–18, 20, 22–25, 27–28, 33, 48–50
Pioneers of San Diego Society, 150
Point Reyes, 73
Point San Jose. See Black Point
Pope, Percival, 9
Popov, Andrei Alexandrovich, 73
Porter, Andrew, 10, 12, 13, 23, 31
Porter, Rufus King, 39
Porter Lodge, 87
Portsmouth, NH, 8, 32, 184, 229, 232, 234
Potomac River, 15–16
Prisons in Richmond, 21–22
Promontory Point, 209
Prostitution, 15
Raccoon Straits, 72
Ralston, William, 166
Rancho Guajome, 161
Reiter, Charles, 205, 211, 216, 224–25, 227–28, 230–31
Rewston, Maryland, 6
Richmond, Virginia, 21
Robinson, James, 36
Rosecrans, William Starke, 120–21, 126–27, 133–35, 138
Round Valley, 204–8
Rulofson, William Herman, 84, 90
Salisbury, NC, 108
The San Andreas Register, 139
San Bernardino, 134
The San Carlos, 43
San Diego, 24, 34–35, 40, 94, 114–17, 137–203
San Diego and Gila Railroad, 136, 139
San Diego Bay Shore Railroad Company, 145
The San Diego Herald, 36
San Diego Marine Hospital, 195, 198–201
San Diego River, 116
The San Diego Union, 139–40, 143
San Diego Water Works, 157
The San Diego Weekly World (later the Daily World), 153–54
San Francisco, 10, 41–79, 114, 117, 135
The San Francisco, 3, 24, 36, 186–87
San Jacinto, 202
Satterwhite, John W., 170–71
Savannah, Georgia, 105
Sawyer, Henry Washington, 69
Schiller, Marcus, 36
Scott, Chalmers, 177, 214, 216
Scott, William Anderson, 41
Scully, John, 48–49
Seaboard Airline Railroad, 215
Seeley, Alfred, 142
Selfridge, Thomas O., 73
Serra, Junípero, 37
Seward, Frederick, 29
Seward, William H., 12, 136, 137
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 28, 105, 106, 108, 189–92, 221
The Shubrick, 72–73
Sioux City, Iowa, 219–20
Sitka, 136
Sitting Bull, 213
Slade, T.P., 150
Slidell, John, 31
Sloane, Joshua, 36
Smallpox, 223–24
Smith, John Jay, 160
Sneden, Robert Knox, 101
The Sonora, 34
South Dakota, 209–33
Southern Pacific and Atlantic Railroad, 139–40
Southern Pacific Railroad, 136, 168
Spanish-American War, 219
Spencer, Ambrose, 248n20
Spotted Elk, 213
Spotted Tail, Chief, 210
Spotted Tail Indian Agency, 210
Spotted War Bonnet, 224–25
The Squatter and the Don, 193–94, 214
Squirrels, 219
Stanton, Edwin McMasters, xvi, 19, 31, 33, 46, 49, 61, 81, 90, 124, 144, 174, 197
Steedman, James Blair, 173–74
Stevenson, Jonathan Drake, 189
Stewart, William M., 124
Stoneman, George, 105–6
Stonewall Brigade, 52
Storer, Samuel, 125–27, 132, 136
Strong, George Templeton, 5
Sully, Jack, 222
Sumner, Edwin Vose, 4, 19, 42, 52, 189–91
Sumter, camp. See Andersonville
The Sutlej, 72–76
Sweetwater Creek, Georgia, 99
Syphilis, 151
Taft, Horatio Nelson, 20
Tammany Hall, 5
Taylor, Edward, 11
Taylor, Ethel, 224
Tebbetts, J.H., 185
Teschemacher, H.F., 10
Texas and Pacific Railroad Company, 154–56, 164, 194
Third U.S. Artillery, 1–3, 5, 19, 34, 36–37, 83, 87
Thomas, George H., 174
Thomas, Lorenzo, 19–20, 28, 59, 89–90, 121
The Three Bells, 186–87
Toland Medical College, 35
Tonner, A.G., 232
Townsend, Edward Davis, 129, 169
Truman, Ben, 144–45
Turner, William Wesley, 99
Twain, Mark, 45, 84, 88–89, 196
Tweed, William Magear “Boss, 5
Two Years Before the Mast, 34–35
Tyler, R.H., 69–71
Ubach, Antonio Dominic, 181–82
Union Pacific Railroad, 209
U.S. Navy protecting California, 41
The Valentine Democrat, 215–16
Valentine, Nebraska, 209–10, 223–25
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1
Vandever, William, 201
Walker, Mary Chase, 116–17, 142
Warne, Kate, 17
Warner, J.J., 37
Washington City, xv–xvi, 10, 15, 18–20, 23–29
Webster, Timothy, 22–27, 48–50
Whaley, Thomas, 36
White, Isaiah H., 104
White, Joseph, 119
Whiteside, Samuel M., 213
Who Would Have Thought It?, 155–56
Wigginton, Peter Dinwiddie, 171–72
Wilcox, Alfred, 175–76, 182–83, 188
Willard Hotel, 17
Williamson, Robert S., 177
Wilson, David, 2
Winder, Abby, 8–11, 86, 116, 131–32, 161, 164–65, 220, 224, 228, 230, 234–35; family, 32, 82, 125, 136, 160, 184, 223
Winder, Charles H., 6, 10–13, 15, 20, 30, 79, 113, 122–23, 181, 187, 238–9n35
Winder, Charles Sidney, 3, 5, 52
Winder, Gen. William Henry, 6
Winder, Gertrude, 78
Winder, John H., 5–8, 11–12, 13, 21–22, 24–27, 47, 48–49, 68–69, 78, 97–112, 115, 119–20, 174, 181
Winder, Richard Bayley, 6, 99, 113, 119–20, 207
Winder, William Andrew; at Alcatraz, 2–3, 42–79; and Arizona post offer, 80–83; army re-instatement efforts, 168–70, 173–74, 177–80, 197–98, 201–3; army resignation, 129–33; as artist, 156–57, 161, 172–73, 183–85, 188, 256n25; as author, 156, 193–94; the Bradley Rulofson affair, 84–86, 89–90, 95–96; Breed & Chase, 95; returning to California in 1862, 32–34; on the Champion, 2, 31; the Chapman pirates, 63–67, 135; in Chicago, 219, 221–23; death, 230–32; disloyalty charges at Alcatraz, 54; as doctor, 147–203; family, 8, 32, 44–45, 116, 118, 120, 127, 228–29; Fort Yuma, 24, 39; as Indian agent, 204–33; relationship with Indians, 36–39, 80, 134, 153, 181–82, 204–33, 235–36; as justice of the peace, 145, 161; the Kennedy trial, 81–94; as land agent, 146; relationship with Lincoln, xv–xvi, 28, 172, 197; in Los Angeles, 135–38, 142, 167–68; at Lytle Creek, 133–35; the Masons, 143–44; medical degree, 166–67; in the Mexican War, 24, 34, 80, 133, 143–44, 147, 168, 170, 179, 181; in mining, 39, 94–5, 113, 122, 126–36, 138, 166; New Jersey Volunteers offer, 67; in New York, 5, 14, 120, 125; paymaster, 9–11; in politics, 152–53, 163, 169; portrait, xvii; relationship with railroads, 126–27, 139–40, 145, 154–56, 160, 163–64, 168, 180, 187–88, 192, 195; real estate, 137–38, 140; at Rosebud 209–33, 235–36; with Rosecrans, 126–27, 133–35, 138; at Round Valley, 204–8; at San Diego, 24, 34–38, 40, 115, 120, 137–203; relationship with the San Diego Water Works 157; on the San Francisco, 3, 24, 36, 186–87; in the Seminole War, 24, 158–59; relationship with Sherman, 28; as surveyor, 145; the Sutlej incident, 72–76; in Washington, 15, 18–29; meeting with Webster the spy, 22–27; intercedes for his brother Sid, 69–70
Winder, William H., 6, 11–13, 29, 46, 61, 113, 122, 137, 174–75, 181
Winder, William Sidney, 6, 69, 98–99, 113, 119–20, 122, 137, 181, 231, 234
Winder, Willie, 8, 32, 44–46, 86, 116, 125, 132, 143–44, 161, 164–65, 180, 184, 220–21, 223, 224, 229–30, 232, 235
Winder Building, 175
Winder Street, 236
Wirz, Heinrich Hartmann “Henry”, 102, 108–9, 115, 118–19, 122
Witherby, Oliver S., 36, 141, 188
Wood, Benjamin, 5
Wood, Fernando, 5
Wool, John Ellis, 37–38, 241n5
Worthington, Henry, 175–76, 183
Wounded Knee Creek, 213
Wright, George, 4, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 60, 66–67, 73–74, 76, 86, 115, 172
Zoyara, Ella, 15