abolition movement, 20, 25-26, 48, 152, 174
Academy of Music, 67
Adams, Herbert, 95
African Burial Ground National Monument, 15-16
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 8, 48
Alger, Gen. Russell, 59
Allen, Richard, 48
The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 52
Among the Pines, 32
Anaconda Plan, 59
Anderson, Maj. Robert, 68, 71, 78
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, 20
arson attack on New York, 9-10, 17, 23, 31, 35, 53, 66, 79, 86, 159, 186
Arthur, Chester A., 82-83, 87, 115
Astor, John Jacob, 89
Bacon, Henry, 123
Bailey, Gen. Joseph, 143
Baker, George Augustus Jr., 149
Ball’s Bluff, battle of, 178
Barlow, Samuel, 89
Barnum’s American Museum, 9-10
Barrett, Maj. Clarence T., 175
Beauregard, Gen. P. G. T., 24
Beecher, Henry Ward, 51, 134, 146, 149, 155-156, 158-160
Beecher’s Bibles, 159
Bell, Alexander Graham, 53
Bellows, Henry Adams, 77
Bellows, Henry W., 31
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 109
Benjamin, Judah P., 76
Bennett, James Gordon Jr., 91-92, 146
The Birth of a Nation, 119-120
Bissell, George Edwin, 82
Blair, Francis, 76
Block House, 180
Booth, Edwin, vii, 41, 58-59, 65-66, 70-72, 80, 86, 88, 106, 134
Booth, John Wilkes, vii, 39, 41, 49, 58, 65-66, 70-72, 80, 106, 158
Booth, Junius Brutus, 70
Booth, Junius Jr., 41, 71, 106
Booth, Mary Devlin, 86
Booth Theatre, 80
Borglum, Gutzon, viii, 125, 130, 160
Bosworth, Willis, 120
Brady, Mathew, 24-25, 93, 112, 185
Braine, Adm. Daniel, 116
Brewster, Joseph, 45
Bristow, Col. Benjamin, 139
Bronson, Theodore, 72
Bronx County Historical Society, 134
Brooklyn Historical Society, 157-158
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 7, 161-162
Brooks Brothers, 21-22, 70, 185
Brown, George William, 178
Brown, Gen. Harvey, 143
Brown, Mary, 3
Bruce, Blanche, 84
Bryant, William Cullen, 94-95, 134
Bryant Minstrels, 29
Buell, Gen., 24
Bull Run, battles of, 25, 37, 62, 115, 123, 132
Burdick Brothers, 18
Burke, Lt. Col. Martin, 177-178
Burnside, Gen. Ambrose L., 24, 53
Busteed, Gen. Richard, 139
Butler, Gen. Benjamin, 86
Butterfield, Gen. Daniel, 116, 125
Cameron, Elizabeth, 102
Campbell, Jane, 9
Carles, Antonin Jean Paul, 91
Carrere and Hastings, 95
Castle Williams, 179
Chancellorsville, battle of, 123
Chang and Eng, 9
Chase, Salmon P., 70
Chase, William Merritt, 58
Chattanooga, battle of, 123
Chester, Samuel Knapp, 39
Chickamauga, battle of, 113
Child, Lydia, 20
Christy’s Minstrels, 28
Church of the Transfiguration, 88
Cisco, John, 7
City Hall, New York, vii, 11-12
Clare, Thomas J., 3
Clinton, Charles W., 108
Cobb, Moses R., 152
Colored Orphan Asylum, 96, 185
Committee of Thirteen, 4
Conkling, Roscoe, 84
Continental Iron Works, 162-164
The Continental Monthly, 32
Cooper, John, 153
Cooper Union, vii, ix, 9, 14, 24, 50-51, 94, 132, 159, 185
Corcoran, Gen. Michael, 35
Corse, Gen. John, 116
Crane, Stephen, 76
CSS Alabama, 112
Cummings, Amos Jay, 14
Cypress Hills National Cemetery, 153-154, 183
Davis, Jefferson, 6, 10, 24, 97-98, 134
Davis, Varina Banks Howell, viii, 97-98
De Camp General Hospital, 183
De Filippo, Antonio, 163
Deas, Gen. Zachariah C., 140
Delamater, Cornelius H., 63, 140
Delaney, Maj. Martin, 152
Dermody, Capt. William, 169-170
Devlin, Daniel, 27
Devlin, James, 179
Devlin and Company, 27
Dix, Gen. John Adams, 12, 42, 78-79
Dix, Morgan, 6
Dodd, W.E., 4
Dodge, Gen. Grenville, 116
Dodge, William E., 72
Doubleday, Gen. Abner, 12, 142
Douglas, Stephen A., 20, 76, 79
Douglass, Frederick, 26, 51, 121-122
Draddy, John G., 165
Draft Office, Ninth District, 98-99
draft riots, New York, vii, 7, 17, 22, 31, 38, 40, 42, 54, 67, 70-71, 75, 77, 79, 88, 96, 98-99, 103-104, 117, 152, 162, 174, 185-186
Drayton, Capt. Percival, 6
Drayton, Gen. Thomas F., 6
Duffie, Gen. Alfred Napoleon, 174
Eagen, John, 40
Eagle, Comm. Henry, 138
Eakins, Thomas, 148
Elliott, Charles, 112
Ellis Island, 182
Ellsworth, Col. Elmer, 11-12, 56, 62
Embury, Aymar II, 91
Emmett, Dan, 29
Empire Steam Engine Company No. 42, 6
Episcopal Chapel of St. Cornelius the Centurion, 180
Ericsson, John, 1-2, 63, 76, 163
Everett, Edward, 67
Farlee, George W., 75
Farragut, Adm. David G., 24, 33, 71, 82, 84, 134, 137-138
Federal Hall National Memorial, 7
Flushing Cemetery, 169
Fort Gibson, 182
Fort Jay (aka Fort Columbus), 179-180
Fort Sumter, battle of, 6, 17, 67-68, 78, 117, 180
Fort Totten, 133, 170-171, 175
Fort Wood, 181
Foster, Stephen Collins, 23-24, 28
Freedman’s Torchlight, 152
Freeman’s Journal, 17
Frémont, Gen. John C., 92-93, 121
French, Daniel Chester, viii, 57, 59, 112, 117
Fry, Sherry Edmundson, 175
Garfield, James A., 83, 87, 126
Garnett, Gen. Robert Selden, 144
Garrison, William Lloyd, 20, 51
Gay, Sydney Howard, 174
General Grant National Monument, 103, 124-125
Gettysburg, battle of, 32, 37, 56, 104, 123, 125-126, 129, 132, 134, 149, 175, 185
Gettysburg Address, 155
Gibbons, Abigail Hopper, 48
Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott, 77
Gibson, Col. James, 182
Gillinder, James and Sons, 150
Gilmore, James R., 32
Gracie, Gen. Archibald, 113, 140
Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn), 147-149
Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan), ix, 102-103
Grand Central Station, viii
Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., viii, 12, 14, 20, 22, 24, 33, 51, 56, 59, 76, 86-87, 89, 107-108, 117, 124-125, 134, 150-151, 179-180
Gray, Mark, 72
Greeley, Horace, 13-14, 17, 28, 50, 52, 89-91, 93, 146
Green, Adm. James, 116
Grignola, John, 134
Gunther, C. Godfrey, 12, 66, 70
Hall Carbine Affair, 93
Hall of Fame of Great Americans, 134-135
Halleck, Gen. Henry, 144
Hamlet, James, 3
Hancock, Gen. Winfield Scott, viii, 126
Harbor Defense Museum, 141-142
Harper & Brothers, 20
Harper’s Magazine, 20
Harris, Nathaniel Harrison, 144
Hartley, Jonathan Scott, 1
Haughwout, Eder, 29
Haughwout and Company, 15, 29-30
Helme, Capt. John, 75
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 18
Herron, Gen. Francis, 166
Hicks, Albert, 181
Holland, George, 88
Hollenbeck, Isaac, 4
Homestead Act, 14
Hooker, Gen. Joseph, 22, 24, 59
Hopkins, Livingston, 20
Hotel Gerard, 97
Houghton, George H., 88
House of Lords, 39
Hovenden, Thomas, 112
Howe, Julia Ward, 158
Hunt, Gen. Henry J., 143
Hunt, Richard Morris, 13-14, 57, 107, 155
Hunt, Rose Ward, 159
Huntsman, Cpl. George, 169
The Impending Crisis of the South: How To Meet It, 18
Isaacs, Samuel, 69
Isham, Mary Lincoln, 140
Jackson, Kenneth T., viii
Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison, 7
Jackson, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall”, viii, 7, 24, 44, 134, 142-143
Jefferson, Joseph, 88
John Brown’s Body, 109
John Street United Methodist Church, 8
Johnson, Eastman, 58, 117, 149
Johnston, Gen. Joseph E., 116, 140
Jones, William (first man drafted), 96, 99
Jones, William (killed by mob), 54
Keck, Charles, 127
Keene, Laura, 41
Keene’s Theatre, 41
Keese, Private, 49
Kennedy, John A., 40
Kennedy, Robert Cobb, 10, 178-179
Key, Philip Barton, 57
Knox Hat Store, 86
Koren, Gabriel, 122
Krzyzanowski, Gen. Wlodzmierz, 157
Lang, Louis, 117
Langdon, Gen. Loomis, 143
Lawrence, Capt. James, 6
Lawrence, Julia Montaudevert, 6
Lawson, Louise, 45
Lee, Gen. Robert E., viii, 24, 57, 59, 93, 113, 117, 134, 142-143, 170
Lee, Gen. William Fitzhugh, 178
Lefferts, Col. Marshall, 49
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 32
Leslie, Frank, 140
Letters from New York, 20
Leutze, Emanuel, 58
Li Hongzhang, 125,
Lincoln, Abraham, vii-ix, 1, 9, 11-12, 14, 17-20, 22, 24, 26-27, 29, 31-33, 45, 49-51, 53-54, 59, 66-67, 69-70, 79, 81, 85-86, 89, 91, 93-94, 99-100, 117, 123, 126-127, 130, 132, 134, 146, 148, 150, 158-160, 177, 185
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 9, 15, 29-30, 33, 35, 185
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 158
Lincoln, Tad, 25
Lincoln Center, i
Linson, Corwin Knapp, 76
Low, Seth, 147
Ludwig, Pvt. Carl, 169
MacDonald, James Wilson Alexander, 126
MacMonnies, Frederick, 148-149
Macy, Rowland Hussey, 60
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, 76
Maillard Chocolates, 86
Martin, Lt. Col. Robert, 86, 179
Martin, Q.M. Edward S., 153
Martiny, Philip, 148
McClellan, Gen. George B., viii, 12, 17, 45, 59, 69, 85-86, 89, 91, 115
McClellan, George Jr., 89
McCloskey, John, 69
McDowell, Gen. Irvin, 24, 59, 132
McKenzie, Clarence, 146
McKim, Charles Follen, 103
McKim, Mead and White, 134, 148
McKinley, William, 124
McKinney-Steward, Susan Smith, 152
McMaster, James, 17
McPherson, Gen. James, 125
McSorley, John, 49
McSorley’s Old Ale House, 48-49
Meade, Gen. George Gordon, 24, 57
Meagher, Col. Thomas Francis, 35
Merchant’s House Museum, 45
Metropolitan Hotel, 35
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 110-111
Metzler, H. F., 32
Miller, Algernon, 122
The Mirror of Liberty, 26
Mobile Bay, battle of, 6, 82, 175
Molineux, Gen. Edward, 157
Moore, Gen. J., 116
Morgan, Gen. John Hunt, 139
Morse, Samuel F. B., 24, 79, 146
Mother Zion Church, 3
Mould, Jacob Wrey, 106
Mount Sinai Hospital, 54
Murray, Anna, 26
Murray, Edward L., 168
Murray, Mary, 96
Museum of the City of New York, 114
My Southern Friends, 32
National Anti-Slavery Standard, 20
New York Committee of Vigilance, 25
New York Evening Post, 94
New York Herald Tribune, 91
New York Historical Society, 116-117
New York Police Department, 40
New York Public Library, 93-94
New York State Soldier’s Depot Convalescent Home and Hospital, 26
New York Tribune, 13-14, 16-17, 20, 89
Noble, William Clark, 140
Northrup, Solomon, 48
Nutt, Commodore, 52
O’Donovan, William, 148
Olmstead, Frederick Law, 31, 77, 103, 147
O’Meara, Col. Timothy, 166
Opdyke, George, 12, 66, 70, 75
Ord, Gen. Edward, 125
Otis, Elisha Graves, 29
Palace Garden, 62
Partridge, William Ordway, 150
Paulding, Adm. Hiram, 161
Peninsula Campaign, 103
Perkins, Comm. George H., 59
Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, 32
Phillips, Wendell, 51
Poe, Edgar Allen, 36
Pollia, Joseph P., 55
Pope, Alexander, 149
Porter, Gen. Josiah, 140
Power, Maurice, 101
Queens Historical Society, 168
Quinn, Edmond T., 72
Raymond, Henry, 17
Rector, John, 162
Red Badge of Courage, viii, 76
Renwick, James Jr., 53, 99, 146
Richardson, Beale, 178
Riddle, Theodate Pope, 74
Ringgold, Col. Benjamin, 153
Roemer, Maj. Jacob, 169
Rogers, John, 150
Rogers, Randolph, 81
Roosevelt, Theodore Sr., 72
Rossbach, Sgt. Valentine, 153
Rowland, Thomas F., 162
Ruckstuhl, Frederick Wellington, 166-167
St. Augustine’s Chapel, 36
St. Denis Hotel, 53
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, viii, 50, 58, 82, 84, 102-103, 127, 150
St. John’s Episcopal Church, 143
St. Nicholas Hotel, 31
St. Patrick’s Cathedral (new), viii, 34, 99-101
St. Patrick’s Cathedral (old), 34-35
Sandford, Gen. Charles W., 104
Scammon, Gen. Eliakim, 166
Schiller, Pvt. John, 153
Schofield, Gen. John, 116
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 128
Schurz, Gen. Carl, 112-113, 123
Scott, Gen. Winfield, viii, 59-60, 76
Sedgwick, Gen. John, 143
Seligman, Joseph, 4
Seventh Regiment Armory, 49-50
Seward, William H., 14, 70, 81, 123
Seymour, Horatio, 67, 89, 132,
Shakespeare Memorial, 106
Sheridan, Gen. Philip Henry, 22, 55-56, 66, 76, 125, 180
Sherman, Gen. William Tecumseh, viii, 22, 24, 33, 66, 71, 76, 86, 101-103, 116-117, 123, 125, 134
Shew, Joel, 44
Shew, Marie Louise, 44
Shotwell, Anna, 96
Sickles, Gen. Daniel Edgar, viii, 56-57, 93, 116
Sigel, Gen. Franz, 120-121, 137, 139
slavery, 2-4, 16, 25-26, 36, 47-48, 54, 132, 152
Slocum, Gen. Henry Warner, 116, 143, 149, 183
Smith, William Moir, 146
Snowden, Ben, 29
Snowden, Lew, 29
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial (Manhattan), 117-118
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument (Queens), 166-167
South Street Seaport Museum, 4-5
SS Mexico, 3
SS The Star of the West, 180
SS Yorktown, 3
Staten Island Historical Society and Historic Richmond Town, 173-174
Stewart, Alexander T., 15
Stewart’s Dry Goods Emporium, 14-15
Stone, Gen. Charles, 178
Story, William W., 112
Stothers, Capt. David, 174
Stoughton, Arthur, 117
Stoughton, Charles, 117
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 51, 134, 160
Strong, George Templeton, 31, 77
Swayne, Gen. Wager, 116
Sweet, A.M. & Son, 5
Taylor, Thomas, 52
Thomas, Gen. George, 125
Tiffany’s, 32-33, 71, 134, 146
Tilden, Samuel, 72
Tilton and Maloney, 3
Totten, Gen. Joseph E., 170, 175
Tredwell, Gertrude, 45
Tredwell, Seabury, 45
Trowbridge, William Petit, 170
Tyng, Stephen, 69
Underground Railroad, 25-26, 36, 47-48, 122, 152, 159
Union Steam Works, 75
United States Military Units Massachusetts
6th Regiment, 6
54th Regiment, 122
New York
5th Regiment, 169
7th Regiment, 12, 49-50, 107-109
11th Regiment, 62
69th Regiment, 11, 35, 49, 168
83rd Regiment, 65
Colored Troops
U.S. Army, Department of the East, 42
U.S. Customs House, 7
U.S. Sanitary Commission, 30-31, 51, 69, 103
U.S. Sub-Treasury Building, 7
USS Colorado, 174
USS Dictator, 63
USS Hartford, 82
USS Merrimack (aka CSS Virginia), 2, 63, 163
USS Monitor, vii, 1, 38, 62-63, 117, 158, 161-165
USS Montauk, 163
USS North Carolina, 161
USS San Jacinto, 162
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 180
Vanderbilt, William, 108
Viele, Gen. Egbert L., 103
Vosburgh, Col. Abraham, 145-146
Vosburgh, R. G., 76
Wadsworth, Gen. James Samuel, 132, 175
Wallack, John Lester, 65
Ward, John Quincy Adams, viii, 13, 84, 91, 106-107, 155
Ward, Lt. Col. William G., 174
Warren, Gen. Kemble, 149
Washington, Booker T., 98
Washington, George, 7
Webb, Gen. Alexander Stewart, 128-129
Webb, Pvt. James, 153
Webb, William H., 38
Webb, Capt. William Robert, 181
Webster, Daniel, 3
Weed, Gen. Stephen, 175
Weeksville Houses, 152
Welles, Gideon, 93
Whitman, Walt, 11, 26-27, 43, 67, 93, 134, 160-161
The Wilderness, battle of, 132
Wiley, Col. William, 57
Willett Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 36
Williams, Peter Sr., 8
Wilson, Elizabeth, 88
Wilson, George, 88
Winter Garden Theatre, 41, 106
Winthrop, Robert, 69
Women’s Central Association of Relief, 51
Wood, Lt. Col. Eleazer, 181-182
Wood, Fernando, viii, 11-12, 51, 70, 130-132
Wood, Thomas Waterman, 112
Woodford, Gen. Stewart, 116
Woodgate, John H., 3
Wool, Gen. John, 31
Worden, Adm. John Lorimer, 157-158
Wright, Gen. George, 116
Young Men’s Central Republican Union, vii
Zook, Gen. Samuel K., 104