Grant

Index

abolitionism

Grant’s family background and

Adams, Charles Francis

Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.

Adams, Henry

Adams, John

Adams, John Quincy

Adams Express Company

Akerman, Amos

appointed to Grant’s cabinet

background of

dismissal of

protection of blacks by

Alabama-claims arbitration

annexation of Canada and

change in minister to England and

origin of disputes in

terms of settlement in

Alcorn, James Lusk

Alcott, Louisa May

Alexander II, czar of Russia

Allen, Mrs. Josiah

American Publishing Company

American Way of War, The (Weigley)

Ames, Adelbert

in appointment of Southern attorney general

background of

racial prejudice of

racial violence in Mississippi and

Ames, Blanche Butler

Ames, Oakes

Ammen, Daniel

Ammen, David

Ammen, Jacob

Ampudia, Pedro de

Anaconda Plan

Anderson, Richard H.

Anderson, Sherwood

Andrew, John A.

Anthony, Susan B.

Appomattox, surrender at

attire of Grant and Lee at

terms of

Arista, Mariano

Arkell, W. J.

Arnold, Matthew

Around the World with General Grant (Young)

Arthur, Chester A.

Arthur, prince (Duke of Connaught)

Ashley, James M.

Asia, Grants in visit to

Astor, John Jacob

Atlanta campaign

burning of city in

Lincoln’s re-election and

Union victory in

Auburn, Seward

Auden, W. H.

Augur, Christopher Columbus

Autobiography (Wallace)

Babcock, Annie Campbell

Babcock, Orville E.

annexation of Santo Domingo and

death of

dismissal of

on Grant’s Civil War staff

Grant’s relationship with

as presidential adviser

in travels with Grant

wedding of

in whiskey frauds

Badeau, Adam

background of

as Grant’s historiographer

Grant’s relationship with

in travels with Grant

Báez, Buenaventura

Bailey, Bartlett

Baker, E. M.

Balling, Ole Peter Hansen

Baltimore, election of 1866 in

Banks, Nathaniel P.

Baring Brothers

Barrios, Justo Rufino

Bascom, Joe

Bass, Lyman K.

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

Beale, E. F.

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant:

in battle of Petersburg

in Mexican War

at Shiloh

Beecher, Henry Ward

Belknap, Amanda Tomlinson Bower

Belknap, Carrie Tomlinson

Belknap, William Worth:

background of

in Grant’s cabinet

impeachment of

Bell, Charles S.

Belmont, battle of

Bennett, James Gordon

Benton, Thomas Hart

Berrien, John Macpherson

Bierce, Ambrose

Bierstadt, Albert

Big Bear

Biglow Papers, The (Lowell)

Birth of a Nation (film)

Bismarck, Otto von

Grant’s meeting with

Black Code (1865)

Black Friday (1869)

congressional investigation of

described

events leading to

Black Kettle

blacks:

annexation of Santo Domingo and

equality struggle of

Grant supported by

in Union army

as viewed by Julia Grant

as viewed by U. S. Grant

See also Civil War; freedmen; Reconstruction; slavery; slaves

Blaine, James G.

Blair, Francis Preston

Blair, Francis Preston, Jr.

Bloch, Marc

Board of Indian Commissioners:

formation of

function of

Boggs, Harry

Boggs & Grant

Bolles, Charles E.

Bond, Hugh L.

Booth, John Wilkes

Borie, Adolph E.

background of

in Grant’s cabinet

with Grants on world tour

bounties in army recruitment

Boutwell, George S.

background of

as champion of freedmen’s rights

government sale of gold and

in Grant’s cabinet

Bowen, John

Bowen, Sayles J.

Bowers, Theodore S.

death of

Bradley, Joseph P.

Brady, Mathew B.

Bragg, Braxton

in battle of Chattanooga

Longstreet as rival of

Breckinridge, John Cabell

Bright, John

Bristow, Benjamin Helm

in corruption investigations

in Grant’s cabinet

as presidential candidate

Supreme Court nominations and

Brown, John

Browning, Orville H.

Brownlow, William G.

Brunot, Felix R.

Bryan, William Jennings

Buchanan, James

election of

as president

Buchanan, Robert Christie

Buckner, Simon Bolivar

in Mexican War

surrender to Grant of

Buell, Don Carlos:

in command of Army of the Ohio

at Shiloh

Buena Vista, battle of

Bull Run, battle of

Burlinghame, Anson

Burnside, Ambrose E.

in battle of Knoxville

Burr, Aaron

Burroughs, John

Burt, Thomas

Butler, Benjamin F.

in Civil War

Grant’s dissatisfaction with

as proponent of racial justice

Butler, Blanche. See Ames, Blanche Butler

Butterfield, Daniel

Cadwallader, Sylvanus

Cairo, Illinois, Grant stationed at

Calderón de la Barca, Fanny

Caldwell, Charles

Cameron, J. D.

Cameron, Simon

Camp, Elijah

Campbell, Annie

Campbell, John A.:

arrest of

background of

in occupied Richmond

in peace negotiations

Campbell, Lewis Davis

Canada, in Alabama-claims settlement

Canby, E. R. S.

Canedo, Estanislao

Cantacuzene, Prince Michael

Cantacuzene, Princess (Julia Grant)

Captain Jack (Modoc chief)

Caputo, Philip

Carlin, Nathaniel

Carnegie, Andrew

Carolina campaign

Johnston’s surrender in

Carpenter, C. C.

Carpenter, Matthew H.

carpetbaggers

See also Black Friday

Goldsmith, Oliver

Gooch, Daniel W.

Goode, Simon S.

Gorchakov, Prince Alexander Mikhailovich

Gordon, John B.

Gore, John H.

Gould, Jay

Black Friday and

Grand Review through Washington (May 23 and 24, 1865)

Grant, America Workman Wills (daughter-in-law)

Grant, Anne Richardson (ancestor)

Grant, Clara Rachel (sister)

Grant, Edith Root (grandson’s wife)

Grant, Elizabeth Chapman (daughter-in-law)

Grant, Fannie Josephine Chaffee (daughter-in-law)

Grant, Frederick Dent (son)

birth of

childhood of

with father in Civil War

after father’s death

as help to father with Memoirs

with parents on world tour

at West Point

Grant, Hannah Simpson (mother)

absent from son’s inauguration

family background of

reservedness of

Grant, Ida (daughter-in-law)

Grant, Jesse (son)

birth of

with father in Civil War

after father’s death

marriages of

with parents on world tour

Grant, Jesse Root (father)

antislavery sympathies of

army career sought for son by

childhood of

death of

financial help sought from

job offered to son by

in politics

relationship with family of

son’s inauguration and

son’s letters to

son’s prestige used by

as source of son’s insecurities

Grant, Julia (Princess Cantacuzene) (granddaughter)

Grant, Julia Dent (wife)

ancestors of

Black Friday and

childbearing of

childhood of

courtship of

death and burial of

education of

financial security as concern of

as first lady

health of

homes and housekeeping of

as hostess

with husband at victory celebrations

with husband during illness

with husband in Civil War

with husband in peacetime army

husband’s dependence on

husband’s letters to

introduced to husband’s family

Lincoln’s assassination and

marriage of

Mary Lincoln disliked by

in occupied Richmond

peace negotiations as viewed by

physical appearance of

physical strength of

in presidential campaigns

pride in husband of

relationship with children of

in separations from husband

slaves and slavery as viewed by

world tour of

Grant, Lillian Burns Wilkins (daughter-in-law)

Grant, Mary Frances (sister)

Grant, Matthew (ancestor)

Grant, Nellie (daughter)

birth of

childbearing of

childhood of

with father during illness

after father’s death

father’s letters to

parents’ trip to Europe and

unhappy marriage of

wedding of

Grant, Nellie (granddaughter)

Grant, Noah (grandfather)

Grant, Noah (great-grandfather)

Grant, Orvil Lynch (brother)

corruption charges against

Grant, Peter (cousin)

Grant, Priscilla (ancestor)

Grant, Rachel Kelly (grandmother)

Grant, Samuel (ancestor) (Matthew’s grandson)

Grant, Samuel (ancestor) (Matthew’s son)

Grant, Samuel Simpson (Simpson) (brother)

Grant, Solomon (ancestor)

Grant, Solomon (cousin)

Grant, Susanna Delano (great-grandmother)

Grant, Ulysses S.

in act of insubordination

ancestors of

anti-Semitism of

army suppliers disliked by

assassination dangers and

birth of

black colony sought by

brevity in speeches of

business sense lacking in

cabinet chosen by

campaign issues avoided by

in challenge of 1876 election results

childhood of

civilities of warfare ignored by

civil order policy of

Civil War staff appointed by

command of all western forces given to

commingling of countrymen as goal of

commission regained by

commission resigned by

competent advisers lacking for

contact with common people lost by

corruption in administration of

councils of war held by

courtship of

crowds loved by

death of

decline in reputation of

disloyal states as viewed by

dispatches and orders written by

drawing and painting as interests of

drinking habits of

as expansionist

extramarital sexual relationship ascribed to

as farmer

financial security as concern of

first trip to Washington of

foreign policy of

headquarters moved to East by

health of

as horseman

houses given to

as hunter

illegitimate child attributed to

imperturbability of

inaugurations of

Indian affairs as concern of

Johnson’s impeachment trial avoided by

as judge of men

letters written by

literary interests of

loneliness of

manpower of Union army as concern of

marriage of

in Mexican War

as military hero

military obedience expected by

military promotions of

monetary policies of

name changed by

Pacific Coast transfer of

party allegiances of

patronage politics of

in peace negotiations

in peacetime army

physical appearance of

politics of war as viewed by

popularity of

portraits and photographs of

postwar military reductions of

presidential aspirations of

presidential campaign of (1868)

race war feared by

racial attitudes of

Reconstruction policies of

re-election of (1872)

relationship with children of

rhythm of war sensed by

riding injury of

schooling of

as secretary of war ad interim

sense of statecraft lacking in

State of the Union message of (1876)

subordinate generals and

support of, sought in Reconstruction politics

Supreme Court justices appointed by

swift offensive and early end to Civil War sought by

as symbol of stolid American strength

third term sought by

in Tour of South

trotters raised by

war as fulfillment of

wardrobe of

war viewed as annihilation by

world tour of

Grant, Ulysses S., Jr. (Buck) (son)

birth of

childhood of

after father’s death

in Grant & Ward

marriages of

Grant, Ulysses S. (grandson) (Buck’s son)

Grant, Ulysses S. (grandson) (Fred’s son)

Grant, Virginia Paine (Jennie) (sister)

Black Friday and

Grant & Ward

failure of

Grant in Peace (Badeau)

Grant-Romero Treaty

Grant’s Tomb, dedication of

Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower, Lord

Gray, William

Great Britain

Alabama claims against. See Alabama-claims arbitration

imperialism of

Julia and U. S. Grant in

working-class demonstrations in

Greeley, Horace

Greenback Era, The (Unger)

greenbacks

reissued in depression of

Gregorio

Grier, Robert C.

Griffith, D. W.

Grimes, James W.

Grinnell, Moses

Grover, Joseph

Gunn, Jacob

Halleck, Henry Wager

background of

Corinth occupied by

Grant as rival of

as Grant’s commanding officer

over-all command of forces in west sought by

promoted to Washington

war concept of

in Washington, Grant’s independence from

Hamer, Thomas

Hamilton, Charles S.

Hampton, Wade

Hancock, Winfield Scott

Hardee, William J.

Harding, Warren G.

Hardscrabble (Grant’s house)

Harlan, John Marshall

Harland, James

Harrison, Benjamin

Harrison, William Henry

Hartranft, John F.

Haruko, empress of Japan

Hatch, Davis

Hawley, Joseph R.

Hayes, Rutherford B.

election of

inauguration of

as president

Healy, G. P. A.

Hellman, Lillian

Henderson, John B.

Henry, Fort, battle of

Hepburn v. Griswold

Herzog, Jacques

Hesseltine, William B.

Hewitt, Abram S.

Hewitt, James

Hewitt, Richard M.

Hill, A. P.

Hill, C. H.

Hillyer, W. S.

Hindes, Samuel

Hitler, Adolf

Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood

background of

dismissal of

in Grant’s cabinet

nominated to Supreme Court

Hoar, Samuel

Hoge, Solomon L.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

Homer, Winslow

Hood, John Bell

Hooker, Joseph

Grant’s first meeting with

Hooker, Thomas

House, Edward M.

Howard, Bronson

Howard, Jacob M.

Howard, Michael

Howard, O. O.

in Civil War

as head of Freedmen’s Bureau

in Indian affairs

integration of West Point and

Howe, Timothy

Hugo, Victor

Humboldt, Fort, Grant stationed at

Hunt, Lewis Cass

Hunt, Ward

Hunter, David

Hunter, Robert M. T.

Huntington, Collis P.

Hurlbut, Stephen A.

Hyman, Harold M.

Indian agents

Indians, American

cheated by merchants

in delegations to White House

extermination of

Grant’s Peace Policy and

peace commission for (1867)

Quaker Policy and

reservations for

wars against

westward migration and

Inflation Bill (1874)

Ingalls, Rufus

Inner History of the Grant Administration, The (Nevins)

In the Days of My Father General Grant (Jesse Root Grant)

Jackson, Andrew

Jackson, Claiborne

Jackson, E. P.

Jackson, Helen Hunt

Jackson, Thomas J.

James, Henry

James, William

Japan, Grants in visit to

Jefferson, Thomas

Jerome, William

Jewell, Marshall

Johnson, Andrew

abandoned by Grant

absent from Grant’s inauguration

Cooper Union rally for

foreign policy under

Grant almost sent to Mexico by

impeachment of

political tour of

Reconstruction policies of

Stanton removed from office by

Johnson, Reverdy

Johnson, Robert U.

Johnson-Clarendon Convention

Johnston, Albert Sidney

Johnston, Joseph E.

Sherman’s Carolinas campaign against

Jomini, Antoine Henri

Jones, Frank Hatch

Jones, John Percival

Jones, J. Russell

Jones, William

Joseph, chief of Nez Percé

Joyce, William

Jurez, Benito Pablo

Judd, Norman B.

Julia (slave)

Justice Department, U. S.

creation of

Kaplan, Justin

Kellogg, William Pitt

Kelly, Rachel

Kemble family

Kentucky campaign

Kerr, Michael C.

Kershaw, Joseph B.

King, Clarence

Know-Nothings

Knoxville, battle of

Ku Klux Klan

congressional investigation of

formation of

prosecution of

Ku Klux Klan Act (1871)

Lagow, Clark B.

Lamar, L. Q. C.

Landon, Alfred M.

League of the HO-DÉ-NO-SAU-NEE, Iraquois (Morgan)

Ledlie, James H.

Lee, Robert E.

background of

in battle of Cold Harbor

in battle of Gettysburg

in battle of Petersburg

in battle of Spotsylvania

in battle of the Wilderness

civilities of warfare ignored by

in Mexican War

personality of

surrender of

as target of Wilderness campaign

Leonowens, Anna

Leo XIII, pope

Leuchtenberg, William E.

Lever, Charles

Liberal Republicans

Li Hung Chang

Lincoln, Abraham

assassination of

battle of Fort Donelson and

battle of Vicksburg and

casualty figures as concern of

City Point visited by

dream described by

election of (1860)

election of (1864)

Grant as presidential opponent of

Grant’s relationship with

Grant’s trip to Washington and

peace negotiation and Reconstruction policies of

preservation of Union as goal of

Lincoln, Mary Todd

Julia Grant disliked by

Lincoln, Robert Todd

Lincoln, Tad

Little Bighorn, battle of

Little Wound

Liu K’un-i

Logan, John A.

Long, E. B.

Long, John F.

Long Branch, New Jersey, Grant’s vacation house in

Longstreet, James

Lookout Mountain, battle of

Louisiana:

occupied, Unionist government in

racial violence in (1875)

Love, Alfred H.

Lowell, James Russell

Luckey, Levi P.

Luperon, Gregorio

Lyman, Theodore

Lynch, John R.

Lyon, Nathaniel

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer, Lord

McClellan, George B.

in command of all Union forces

Halleck-Grant rivalry and

in Mexican War

as presidential candidate

at West Point

McClernand, John A.

in battle of Fort Donelson

in battle of Vicksburg

as Grant’s rival

Grant supported by

McCulloch, Hugh

McDonald, General John

MacDonald, Sir John

McDowell, Irvin

MacFeely, Robert

McGregor, Mount:

Grant’s stay at

as tourist attraction

McKinley, William

MacMahon, Marshal

McPherson, James B.

in battle of Vicksburg

Grant’s evaluation of

McQueeney, Henry

Mahan, Dennis Hart

Mansfield, Josie

“March to the Sea,” Sherman’s

Marine Bank

Marsh, Caleb P.

Marshall, Charles

Marshall, John

Marshall-Cornwall, James

Marx, Karl

Maryland:

apprenticeship program in

as slave-holding state in Union

Mary Martin, peace negotiations aboard

Maximilian, emperor of Mexico

Meacham, A. B.

Meade, George Gordon

background of

charisma lacking in

in Civil War campaigns

Grant’s relationship with

in peace negotiations

Medill, Joseph

Mediterranean, Grant’s tour of

Mellish, George H.

Melville, Herman

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman (Sherman)

Merrill, Lewis W.

Mexican Southern Railroad

Mexican War

domestic politics and

Grant’s financial obligation from

Grant’s view of

Grant’s writings on

provocation in commencement of

Mexico

Grant impressed with beauty of

Grant’s business ventures in

Grant’s support for nationalist cause in

plans for joint Union-Confederacy attack on

Mexico City, battle of

Michie, Peter S.

Miles, Nelson A.

Military History of Ulysses S. Grant (Badeau)

Miller, Samuel F.

Miltmore, Ira

Mississippi, racial violence in (1875)

Missouri campaign

purpose of

Union defeats in

Missouri Compromise

Modoc Indians

Molino del Rey, battle of

Monroe, Fort, peace negotiations at

Monroe Doctrine

Monterrey, battle of

Moran, Benjamin

Morgan, A. T.

Morgan, Lewis Henry

Morrill, Lot M.

Morris, Thomas

Morrison, James Lunsford

Morton, Levi P.

Morton, Oliver P.

Morton & Rose

Mosby, John S.

Motley, John Lothrop

as minister to Great Britain

Mott, Lueretia

Moulton, C. W.

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (King)

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (Kaplan)

Mutsuhito, emperor of Japan

Napier, Cadet

Napoleon I

Napoleon III

Nashville, battle of

Nast, Thomas

National Intelligencer

National Labor party

National Union party

Navy, U.S.:

in Civil War

postwar reductions in

Nelson, Samuel

Nevins, Allan

Newman, John P.

New Orleans, racial violence in (1866)

New York City:

Confederate plot to set fire to

Grant’s house in

New York Herald

New York Times

New York Tribune

New York World

Nixon, Richard M.

Northcote, Stafford

O’Brien, Bill

Oglesby, R. J.

Ord, E. O. C.

Ord, Mrs. E. O. C.

Paddock, A. S.

Palo Alto, battle of

panic of 1873

Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, The (Grant)

Parker, Ely S.

background of

in Civil War

as commissioner of Indian affairs

Parkman, Francis

Patriotic Gore (Wilson)

Patterson, Robert

Patton, George

Pease, Charles E.

Pemberton, John C.

Pendleton, George H.

Perry, Raymond H.

Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Grant)

childhood described in

Civil War episodes in

publishing of

reinstatement of Stanton recounted in

separation from husband described in

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (Grant)

childhood described in

Civil War episodes in

clarity of recollections in

Clemens and

concluding chapter of

encounters with common people described in

fear in battle described in

genealogical sketch in

language of

Mexican War episodes in

publisher sought for

royalties from

West Coast days recounted in

West Point episodes in

writing of

Petersburg, battle of

black troops at

end of

explosives set in

formal inquiry resulting from

stalemate in

tunnel dug in

victories of Sherman and Sheridan facilitated by

Pierpont, Francis Harrison

Pierrepont, Edwards

in Grant’s cabinet

with Grants in England

in whiskey frauds

Pike (Grant’s messenger)

Pillow, Gideon J.

Pinchback, P. B. S.

Pitcher, Thomas G.

Pitkin, Thomas M.

Pixley, F. M.

Pleasants, Henry

Pletcher, David M.

Polk, James K.

Polk, Leonidas

Poole, Ben Perley

Pope, John

Porter, David Dixon

with Lincoln on River Queen

Porter, Horace

Grant as viewed by

on Grant’s staff in Civil War

as presidential adviser

in travels with Grant

in whiskey frauds

Powers, Hiram

Prentiss, Benjamin M.

Price, Sterling

Prucha, Francis Paul

Puebla, battle of

Putnam, Israel

Radicals. See Republican party

Ralston, Mr.

Randall, Samuel J.

Rankin, John

Rawlins, John A.

background of

death of

in Grant’s cabinet

on Grant’s Civil War staff

Grant’s friendship with

Grant’s presidential aspirations as viewed by

as Grant’s protector against liquor

Read, Thomas Buchanan

Reconstruction

counterrevolution in South and (1875)

enforcement of racial justice in

enfranchisement of freedmen in

evaluation of

hatred in South and

Johnson’s refusal to enforce policies of

judiciary system and enforcement of

Lincoln’s death and change in attitudes toward

military role in enforcement of

racial violence in

revision of racial order in

state sovereignty as issue in

states’ rights invoked in

Red Cloud

Reed, Silas

Reese, Harry

Reid, Harvey

Republican party

Grant as first president from

Grant’s move toward

national convention of (1868)

national convention of (1880)

in presidential election of 1876

racial equality as goal of

Radicals in, Reconstruction policies of

Resaca de la Palma, battle of

Revels, Hiram R.

Revolutionary War

“Revolution of 1875, The” (Wharton)

Reynolds, Joseph J.

Rhodes, James Ford

Richardson, Albert D.

Richardson, Anne

Richardson, William A.

Richardson and Rand academy

Richmond, Union occupation of

Ripley, Edward H.

River Queen:

Lincolns in visit to City Point aboard

peace negotiations aboard

Robertson, William Henry

Robeson, George M.

Robeson, Mrs. George M.

Romero, Matias

Roosevelt, Alice

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Root, Elihu

Rose, John

Rosecrans, William S.

in battle of Chattanooga

Grant’s evaluation of

Rowley, William R.

Ruby, George T.

Russell, Earl

Sackets Harbor, Grant stationed at

Sage, Russell

Sanborn, John D.

Santa Anna, Antonio López de

Santo Domingo. See Dominican Republic

Sartoris, Adelaide Kemble

Sartoris, Algernon

Sartoris, Algernon Edward Urban

Sartoris, Grant Greville

Sartoris, Nellie Grant. See Grant, Nellie (daughter)

Sartoris, Rosemary Alice

Sartoris, Vivian May

scalawags

Schenek, Robert C.

corruption charges against

as minister to England

Schofield, John M.:

in Civil War

in Grant’s cabinet

in Johnson’s cabinet

Schurz, Carl

Grant’s re-election opposed by

Scott, George Gilbert

Scott, John

Scott, Winfield

in Civil War

in Mexican War

personality of

as presidential candidate

Sedgwick, John

Senate, U.S. See Congress, U. S.

Seward, William Henry

in foreign relations

in peace negotiations

racial attitudes of

stabbing of

Seymour, Horatio

Shakespeare, William

Sharon, William

Sharp, Alexander

Sheean, David

Sheffield, Delia B.

Shenandoah Valley campaign

Mosby’s guerrillas as target in

Shepherd, Alexander R.

Sheridan, Philip H.

Grant’s admiration for

in Indian affairs

Johnson’s attempt to dismiss

Reconstruction policies enforced by

Shenandoah Valley campaign of

Sheridan, Mrs. Philip M.

“Sheridan’s Ride” (Read)

Sherman, Ellen Ewing

Sherman, John

Sherman, William Tecumseh

in Atlanta campaign

background of

in Carolina campaign

in Grand Review

Grant’s friendship with

in Indian affairs

Johnston’s surrender to

with Lincoln on River Queen

march to sea of

memoirs of

physical appearance of

politics disliked by

racial attitudes of

in Stanton crisis

in Tennessee campaign

Sherman, Willie

Shiloh, battle of

casualties at

Confederate strategy at

expectations for quick end to war dispelled by

Grant’s command changed due to

stragglers at

Union retaliation at

Union troops unprepared for

Shrady, George F.

Shy, John

Sickles, Daniel E.

Sigel, Franz

Simon, John Y.

Simpson, Hannah. See Grant, Hannah Simpson

Simpson, John

Simpson, Rebecca

Sioux Indians

Sitting Bull

Slaughter-House Cases

slavery

abolition of

Civil War as crusade to end

Grant’s view of

as issue in peace negotiations

Julia Grant’s view of

Mexican War and extension of

substitute systems for

slaves:

owned by Julia and U. S. Grant

as refugees in Tennessee campaign

at White Haven

Smalley, George

Smith, Charles F.

in battle of Fort Donelson

Halleck-Grant rivalry and

Smith, Edmund Kirby

Smith, E. P.

Smith, Israel

Smith, James Webster

Smith, John Somers

Smith, J. Q.

Smith, Roswell

Smith, Thomas Kilby

Smith, William F.

South Carolina:

racial violence in (1875)

secession of

Spanish-American War

Speed, James

Spotsylvania, battle of

Spotted Tail

Stanbery, Henry

Stanton, Edwin P.

Grant’s relationship with

Halleck-Grant rivalry and

in peace negotiations

Reconstruction policies of

removal from office of

Tennessee campaign and

Stein, Gertrude

Stephens, Alexander H.

background of

in peace negotiations

Steven, Isaac P.

Stevens, L. C.

Stevens, Thaddeus

Stevenson, J. W.

Stewart, Alexander T.

background of

cabinet nomination of

Stokes, Edward

Stoneman, George

Stones River, battle of

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Strong, George Templeton

Strong, William

Stuart, George H.

Stuart, J. E. B.

Sumner, Charles

in Alabama-claims settlement

in attempt to annex Santo Domingo

Grant’s relationship with

Reconstruction policies of

Stewart’s cabinet nomination and

Sumter, Fort, attack on

Sun Chia-Ku

Supreme Court, U. S.

justices named by Grant

Swann, Thomas

Swayne, Noah H.

Swayne, Wager

Taft, Alphonso B.

Taft, William Howard

Tappan, Lewis

Tate, Alexander

Tatum, Lawrie

Taylor, Moses

Taylor, Nathaniel G.

Taylor, Richard

Taylor, Zachary

in Mexican War

personality of

as presidential candidate

Telemachus (Fénelon)

Tennessee:

black refugees in

Grant’s campaign in

rebel offensive in

secession of

Tenterden, Lord

Tenure of Office Act

Terry, Alfred H.

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Thomas, Benjamin P.

Thomas, Eleazar

Thomas, George H.

in battle of Chattanooga

Grant’s dissatisfaction with

rebel offensive in Tennessee and

Thomas, Lorenzo

Thoreau, Henry David

Thornton, Edward

Thucydides

Tigress

Tilden, Samuel J.

Tilghman, Lloyd

Times of London

Tod, David

Tod, George

Toussaint L’Ouverture, Pierre Dominique

Townsend, R. C.

Tracy, George

Treaty of Washington (1871)

Trelease, Allen W.

Trescot, William H.

Trollope, Anthony

Trumbull, Lyman

Turner, Frederick Jackson

Turner, Henry McNeal

Tuttle, John M.

Twain, Mark. See Clemens, Samuel L.

Tyler, John

Tyner, James N.

Tyrrell, Harrison

Ulke, Henry

Ulyssess S. Grant: Warrior and Statesman (Ulysses S. Grant 3rd)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)

Underground Railroad

Unger, Irwin

United States v. Cruiksbank

Upton, Emory

Valiant, William T.

Vallandigham, Clement L.

Vancouver, Fort, Grant stationed at

Vanderbilt, William Henry

Van Dorn, Earl

Veracruz, siege of

Vicksburg, battle of

aborted Union attempt in

assaults on Confederate earthworks in

canal dug for

Confederate surrender in

Grant’s drinking bout during

Grant’s revised strategy for

Grant’s rising popularity and

McClernand’s strategy for

siege as tactic in

strategic importance of

supply lines abandoned by Grant in

Victoria, Queen

Virginia:

Confederate legislature retained in

secession of

volunteer army, professional army vs.

Wade, Benjamin F.

Waite, Morrison Remick

Wales, Prince of. See Edward VII

Walke, Henry

Walker, Francis Amasa

Walker, William E.

Wallace, Lew:

in Tennessee campaign

as writer

Wallace, W. H. L.

Wanamaker, John

Ward, Artemus

Ward, Ferdinand

Ward, Henriette Green

War of

Warren, Kemble

Washburne, Elihu B.

in Grant’s cabinet

Grant’s letters to

Grant’s military promotions and

Grant’s presidential aspirations and

in Grant’s regaining of commission

Halleck-Grant rivalry and

as minister to France

Washburne, Mrs. Elihu B.

Washington, D.C.:

black suffrage in

Grant’s “I” Street house in

rebel raids outside

Washington, George

Webster, Charles L., & Company

Webster, Joseph D.

Weigley, Russell F.

Weir, John Ferguson

Weir, Julian Alden

Weir, Robert Walter

Weitzel, Godfrey

Welles, Gideon

Grant as viewed by

peace-negotiation and Reconstruction policies of

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

Wells, David Ames

Welsh, William:

on Board of Indian Commissioners

Indians as viewed by

West Point

blacks appointed to

class distinctions at

curriculum at

Fred Grant as cadet at

U. S. Grant as cadet at

U. S. Grant’s ceremonial return to

U. S. Grant’s dislike of

volunteer army and

West Point Atlas of American Wars, The

Westwood, Howard C.

Wharton, Vernon Lane

Whipple, Henry B.

whiskey frauds

Grant’s attitude toward prosecutions in

Grant’s family implicated in

Grant’s testimony in

Grant’s view of, as personal attack

military court of inquiry in

“Sylph” telegram as evidence in

Whistler, James McNeill

Whistler, William

White, Horace

Whitman, Walt

Wilbur, Richard

Wilderness campaign

carnage of

ineptitude in

Union strategy for

See also Cold Harbor, battle of; Petersburg, battle of; Spotsylvania, battle of

Wilhelm, emperor of Germany

Williams, George H.

in Grant’s cabinet

nominated to Supreme Court

Williams, Mrs. George H.

Williams, Kenneth P.

Williams, Mary Louise

Wilson, Bluford

Wilson, Edmund

Wilson, Henry

background of

as Grant’s running mate

as vice-president

Wilson, James Harrison

Grant as viewed by

on Grant’s Civil War staff

Wilson, Woodrow

Wilson (cadet)

Wilson’s Creek, battle of

Wise, Henry A.

Wood, Nicolas L.

Woodhull, Max

Woods, William B.

Worth, William J.

Wrenshall, Ellen Bray. See Dent, Ellen Bray Wrenshall

Wright, Horatio G.

Yates, Camp, Grant stationed at

Yates, Richard

Young, James

Young, John Russell