Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film, 1940) 38
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Tarbell biography, 1890) 32
Abraham Lincoln's Clemency (film, 1910) 35
Adams, Nick (actor) 111
Alternative history; See Counter-factual history
American Historical Association 7
American Political Science Association 7
Amnesty Act xiv
Amnesty and Reconstruction Proclamation (1863) x
Army of Northern Virginia xi, 142
Atlanta, Georgia: Burning of 11, 90; Gone With the Wind and 78–9, 83, 89; premiere of Gone with the Wind in 85, 137, 139; Uncle Remus and 69
Ballinger, William Pitt (Galves-ton, Texas attorney) 31
Band, The (rock group) 16
Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920 (Reagan book, 1980) 130
Barrett, Jenny (historian) 59–60, 80, 103–5
Baskett, James (actor, Song of the South) 66
Beasley, David (governor, S.C.) 141
Bermanzohn, Paul, M. D. (anti-Klan activist) 4
Birth of a Nation, The: antebellum South in 88; audience for 11, 86; blacks in 71–2; China Grove incident and 3–6; Clansman, The and 12–3; climax of 61; Cold Mountain and 55, 64; cultural consciousness and 87, Griffith, D. W. on making 24; historical interpretation in 11, 13, 26; Huston, Walter and 24; images and assumptions in 27; Ku Klux Klan in 93; legacy of 36–7; Lincoln in 33, 34–36, 41; Little Colonel, The and 134; Mitchell, Margaret and 87; popular memory and 24; plot summary of 145; race relation and 85; Reconstruction in 78; Ride with the Devil and 104; scenario for 12; sexualized component of 95–6; Sherman's March and 90; Southern Historical Society and 61; Stagecoach and 115–16; Stokes, Melvin on 32–33; terror validated in 98; violence in 93–4
Black Code (Mississippi) xii
Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880 (Du Bois book, 1935) 9
Blight, David (historian) 68, 70, 74
Bohland, Jon D. (historian) 52–4
Books: number on Civil War 1; number on Reconstruction 1
Booth, John Wilkes (actor, assassin) 28–9, 31, 40
Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) 118
Bushwackers (Confederate raiders) 97–9, 101, 103, 126
Butler, Rhett (character in Gone With the Wind) 79–80, 84, 88–9
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (mock documentary, 2004) 38
Cable, George Washington (writer) 68
Cameron, Ben (character in The Birth of a Nation) 35–37, 55, 94, 96, 99
Carter, Everett (historian) 13
Carter, Hodding, III (journalist) 142
Cary, Virginia “Virgie”(character in The Littlest Rebel) 37–38
Catton, Bruce (historian) 17
Centennial, Civil War (1961) 127–8
Chadwick, Bruce (historian) 33–4, 38, 88
Chiles, Jack Bull (character in Ride with the Devil) 99–101, 102–103
China Grove Committee to Smash the Klan 3
China Grove, North Carolina 4–5
Civil Rights Act (1875) xv–xvi
Civil War Centennial Commission 128
Clansman, The (Dixon novel, 1905) 12
Clayton, Rev/Capt. Samuel Johnson (character in The Searchers) 116–117, 121–2
Cold Mountain (film, 2002) x, 51–64, 97, 99, 102, 104–5
Cold Mountain (Fraizer novel, 1997) 54, 63
Communist Workers Party (CWP) 4
Confederate (rebel) flag 4–5, 17, 96, 138, 141–42
Confederate Army 40, 59, 83, 111, 124, 141
Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been, The (Ransom counterfactual history, 2005) 30–31
Congressional elections (1866) x, xiv, 43
Congressional reconstruction xiii–xv
Counterfactual history 29–30; Lincoln assassination and 28–49
“Cult of True Womanhood, The” (Welter article) 81
Davis, Jefferson (Confederate president) 18, 39, 43, 130–1
DeBow, J.D.B. (editor) 3
Debow's Review 2
DeLarge, Robert Carlos (US Representative, S.C.) xiv
Democrats, November 1874 elections and xiv
Dieterle, William (film director) 38
Disneyland x
Disney, Walt (company) 38, 65–7, 70; Disneyworld x
Dixon, Thomas 5, 12, 13, 95–97, 118, 120
Downes, Jim (historian) 75
Du Bois, W.E.B. (historian) 2, 8–9, 14, 52
Dundee, Amos (character in Major Dundee) 124–125
Dunning, William Archibald (historian) 7–8, 9–10, 12–13, 86
Dunningites 9; See Dunning, William Archibald
Eastwood, Clint (actor, director) 111, 126–127
Ebert, Roger (film critic) 13
Economy, Southern post-Civil War 19, 51, 74, 77–91
Edwards, Deborah/“Debbie” (character in The Searchers) 118, 120–122
Edwards, Ethan (character in The Searchers) 111, 116–126
Elliott, Robert Brown (US representative, S.C.) xiv
Ellison, Ralph (novelist) 71
Emancipation Proclamation (1863) x, 72
Enforcement Act xiv
Ensign, The (play, 1898) 34
Fast, Howard (novelist) 14–15, 52
First Confiscation Act (1861) ix
Floyd, Carlisle (composer) 91
Ford, John (film director) 108, 111, 113, 116, 126
Forrest, Nathan Bedford (Confederate soldier, Klan leader) 6
Fort Apache (film, 1948) 111, 124
Fort Pillow, Battle of 6
Foster, Gaines (historian) 140–1
Fourteenth Amendment xiii–xvi, 76
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (historian) 82
Frazier, Charles (author) 54, 63
Franklin, John Hope (historian) 9
Freedom Road (Fast novel, 1944) 14, 52
Gettysburg, Battle of: 1913 reunion and 109–110
Gods and Generals (film, 2003) 61
Goldman, Eric R. (historian) 32
Gone With the Wind (film, 1939) x; antebellum South in 88; Atlanta, burning of in 11, 90; audience for 11; Barrett, Jenny on 60–1; blacks in 71–2, 135; Chadwick, Bruce on 88; counterfactual review of 85–86; images and assumptions in 27; interpretation of history in 26; “Late Encounter with the Enemy, A” and 137; Lost Cause, The in 54, 134; racism in 87, 89; Reconstruction in 11, 78; Ride with the Devil and 103; violence in 103; women in 82
Gone With the Wind (Mitchell novel, 1936) 11, 82, 86–87
Gordon-Reed, Annette (historian) 21
Greensboro (North Carolina) Truth and Reconciliation Commission 4, 6–7
Griffith, D. W. (film director) 6, 10–13, 24–25, 34, 36, 38, 85–88, 94–6, 98, 105, 118
Guns of the South, The (Turtledove counterfactual novel) 29–30
Harper's Weekly (magazine) 23
Harris, Clara 28
Harris, Joel Chandler (writer, journalist) 66–9
Haworth, William (playwright) 34
Hay, John (secretary to Lincoln) 32, 48–9
Hayes, Rutherford B (US president) xv
Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (biography, 1889) 32
Historium (website) 1
Holt, Daniel (character in Ride with the Devil) 102–4
Huston, Walter (actor) 24
Inman, W.P. (character in Cold Mountain) 54–55, 58–9, 61–64, 104
Jim Crow (racial segregation) xvi, 41, 72
Johnson, Andrew (as character in Tennessee Johnson) 38–42
Johnson, Andrew: appears drunk xi; Congressional Reconstruction and xiii; election of 1864 and x; military governors and x; presidential reconstruction and xi–xiii; Radical Republicans and 21; “swing around the circle” xii
Joint Committee on Reconstruction xii
Keegan, John (historian) 22
Kennedy, Frank (character in Gone With the Wind) 79
Kinect Disneyland Adventures 65
Ku Klux Klan xii, xiv, 4–6, 8, 11–13, 53, 69, 80, 93, 96–98, 101, 134
Lamar, Lucius Q.C. (southern politician) xvi
Lang, Robert (historian) 36
Langdon, James (character in The Undefeated) 125–6
“Late Encounter with the Enemy, A” (O'Connor short story, 1958) 136–8
Laubenfels, D.J., de (historian) 90
Lee, Ang (film director) 101, 104
Lee, Robert E. (Confederate general) xi, 18, 30, 43, 52, 61–2, 87, 130, 142
Lee, Spike (film director) 60
Leopard's Spots, The (Dixon novel, 1902) 12
Lewis, Daniel Day (actor) 46–7
Lewis, David Levering (historian) 9
Lewis, Jenny (singer) 17
Lincoln, Abraham: alleged support for Andrew Johnson by 41: alternative Reconstruction policies and 31; Andrew Johnson in comparison to 42; as model for Andrew Johnson 40; assassination of xi, 19, 34–35, 40 belief in southern unionism of 44; Birth of a Nation, The image of 35; catalyst for reunion 34; character in C.S.A.: The Confederate States of American 38; conservatism of 43; conservative Reconstruction policies of 44; difficulties of Reconstruction and 45; Disneyland audio-animatronic mannequin of 38; effect of assassination of 19, 21, 31–2, 45; executions and 49; father and mother image of 36; feminine qualities of 36; films and 33; freedmen and xi; letter of support for Andrew Johnson by 40; Lost Cause, The and 34; merciful image of 32, 33, 35–7, 42, 45–9; opposition to Radical Republicans by 40; opposition to Thaddeus Stevens by 40; political abilities of 43; Radical Republican opposition to 43–4; Radical Republicans and 21; reconciliation and 40, 42; Reconstruction as wartime goal of 20; restoration of the Union and xii, 21, 43; Second Inaugural Address of xi; Southern fear of 20; Southern self-restoration and 20; Southern unionism and 20; “tempered” version of Reconstruction and 49; tentative nature of Reconstruction policies of 45; wartime reconstruction and ix–xi
Littlest Rebel, The (film, 1935)
Lost Cause, The: Barrett on 83; Birth of a Nation and 98; Bohland and 54; Chadwick on 88; Cold Mountain (film) and 54, 59, 64; decline of 140–141; four essential themes of 129–30; Glory and 72; Gone With the Wind and 86, 103; Harris, Joel Chandler and 69; Issues of Reconstruction and 23; Johnson, Andrew and 40–41; Lee, Robert E. and xi; Lincoln assassination and 32, 34, 37; Little Colonel, The and 134; magic thinking and 133–134; memory (1880s and 1890s) and 73; Minghella and 63; Myers and 61–4; Myths of 26–7, 31–2; O'Connor and 136, 138; Passion of Jonathan Wade and 91; Pollard and xii, 61, 89; Ride with the Devil and 103; Robertson and 16; Selznick and 86; Sommersby and 64; Song of the South and 68; Southern Historical Society and 61; Western films and 113, 117, 123; Zeron and 16
Major Dundee (film, 1965) 111, 124–25
McClure's Magazine 32
McDaniel, Hattie, (actor) 71, 135
McKinney, Gordon B. (historian) 59
McLaglen, Andrew (film director) 111, 125–6
McPherson, James (historian) 1
Meigs, Charles, (physician) 82
memory: xvii, 1–2, 6–7, 10, 24, 26, 49, 64, 73, 108, 113, 115, 122, 130, 134, 136–8, 140–2
Minghella Anthony (author) 54, 63–4
Mitchell, Margaret (novelist) 11–14, 82–3, 85–7
Moon, Bucklin (writer, critic) 15
Mr. Lincoln (television series, 1952–53) 38
Myers, Robert M (historian) 61, 63–4
Nast, Thomas (cartoonist) 23 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 66, 95, 193
New Orleans Riot of 1866 xii
Nicolay, John (secretary to Lincoln) 32, 48
“Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The” (Robertson song) 16
O'Connor, Flannery (writer) 131, 138
O'Hara, Scarlett (character in Gone With the Wind) 77–84, 88–90
Oakes, James (historian) 19
One Flag at Last (film, 1911) 35
Orthodox School of Reconstruction historiography 7
Our American Cousin (play, 1858) 28
Outlaw Josey Wales, The (film, 1976) 111, 124, 126–7
Page, Thomas Nelson (writer) 68
Passion of Jonathan Wade, The (Floyd opera) 91
Peace Jubilee, The (1938) 110
Peckinpah, Sam (film director) 111, 124–5
Pickett's Charge and reconciliation 110
Pierce, Joseph Gorrell (Ku Klux Klan leader) 5
Pollard, Edward A. (southern journalist) xii, 61, 89, 92–93
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (1862) x
Presidential election (1864) x
Princess of the Moon, The (confederate fairy tale) 131–3
Prokopowicz, Gerald (historian) 44
Quantrill, William (Confederate guerrilla) 98–9, 101–2, 104
Rable, George (historian) 44, 93, 98
Radical Republicans xiii
Rainey, Joseph H. (US Representative, SC) xiv
Randolph, Inners, (Confederate soldier) 15
Ransom, Roger (historian) 30–31
Rebel flag see Confederate flag
Rebel, The (television series) 112
Reconciliation (North-South) xvi; 108–9, 111, 113, 116, 122–3, 124, 127–8, 134–5
Reconstruction: Acts (1867) xiii; African-Americans and 65–76; chronology of ix–xvii; contest over 19–23; dates of 2; end of ix, xv–xvi; 2 historiography of 1–9; Hollywood and 24–7; music and 15–17; myth and 10–15; number of books on 1; questions about 17–19; three themes in 2; violence during 92–106
“Reconstruction and its Benefits” (Du Bois essay, 1910) 9
Reconstruction: Political and Economic (Dunning book 1907) 7–8
Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film, The (Chadwick book, 2002) 33
Reprieve, The (film, 1908) 35
Return of Martin Guerre, The (film, 1982) see Sommersby 52
Reunions, Civil War veteran: 1913 (The Great Reunion) xvi, 109–10; 1938 110–11
Revels, Hiram (US senator, Miss.) xiv
Revisionist School of Reconstruction historiography 8–9
Ride with the Devil (film, 1999) 97–105, 126
Rittenhouse, Jennifer (historian) 67
Robertson, Robbie (singer, songwriter) 16
Rogan, Michael (historian) 95
Rolling Stone (magazine) 16
Rziha, John (US Army Captain) 90
Sash, George Poker (character in A late Encounter with the Enemy) 158–162
Sash, Sally Poker (character in A late Encounter with the Enemy) 158–162
Savage Confl ict: The Decisive Role of the Guerrilla in the American Civil War, A (Sutherland book, 2009) 100
Schwalm, Leslie (historian) 74
Segregation xvi
Selznick, David O. (film producer) 14, 85–6
Seventh Cavalry 107
Seymour, Horatio (politician) 31
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (film, 1949) 111, 123
Sherman, John (US Senator, Ohio) xiii
Sherman's March x, 42, 77, 90, 124
Simmes, Cora (writer) 131
Slaughter-House Cases xii, xiv
Sommersby (film, 1993) 51–2, 54, 64
Song of the South (Disney film, 1946) 65–72, 75
Songbird of the North, The (film, 1913) 35
Spielberg, Steven (film director) 45
Stampp, Kenneth (historian) 9
Stevens, Thaddeus (US Representative, Penn) 34, 39, 40–1, 43, 45, 46–7, 135
Stone Mountain, Georgia 130
Sumner, Charles (US senator, Mass.) x
Sutherland, Daniel (historian) 100
Symonds, Craig (historian) 44
Tarbell, Ida (journalist) 32
Temple, Shirley (child actor) 26–7, 37, 134–5
Tennessee Johnson (film, 1942) 38–42
Thirteenth Amendment xii, 45, 76
Tildon, Samuel J. xv
Toll of War, The (film, 1913) 35
Torrey, “Stonewall” (character in Shane) 112
Traitor, The (Dixon novel, 1905) 12
Trefousse, Hans (historian) 21
Turner, Benjamin S. (US Representative, Ala.) xiv
Turtledove, Harry (novelist) 29
United States Supreme Court x, xvi
US Army: role in reconstruction of 18; support for Lincoln by 43; two post-Civil War missions of 107
Veterans: Union 111; Confederate 108, 111
Vietnam War 105
Wade-Davis bill x
Wade-Davis Manifesto x
Walls, Joshua T. (US Representative, Fla.) xiv
Warren, Robert Penn (novelist) 136
Wayne, John (actor): The Searchers 111, 113, 116; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 123; Fort Apache, 124; Rio Grande, 124; The Undefeated, 125, 126
Welter, Barbara (historian) 81–2
West Virginia x
Western films and reconciliation 113–28
When Lincoln Was President (film, 1913) 35
Wilkes, Melanie (film character) 80–1
Wilson, Charles Reagan (historian) 130
Wilson, Jack (character in Shane) 112
Woe to Live On (novel, 1987) 100
Women during the Civil War and Reconstruction: xi, 13–14, 17–19, 26, 46, 50–2, 55, 58–60, 62–5, 81–3, 93, 95, 97, 113; See also Reconstruction
Wonderful World of Disney (television series) 66
Woolf, Virginia (novelist) 25
Woodrell, Daniel (author) 105
Workers Viewpoint Organization (WVO) 3
Wormley's Hotel xv
Young Mr. Lincoln (film, 1939) 38
Zevon, Warren (singer, songwriter) 16, 17
The Birth of a Nation 37, 93–98, 145
Major Dundee 125
The Outlaw Josey Wales 126–127
The Toll of War 35