Maryland,
advance of Army of Potomac through, 162-65, 195-96, 211-14; Union sentiment
in, 162-65.
See also
Antietam
Maryland
volunteer regiments: 1st Cavalry, 228-29; 2nd, 302
Mason and Slidell, 89, 322
Massachusetts
volunteer regiments: 2nd, 175, 280; 6th, 121, 272; 10th Battery, 171; 11th, 62;
12th, 39-40, 169, 243, 271, 319; 15th, 71, 74-78, 137, 286-87; 19th, 179, 284;
20th, 69, 71-77, 185, 288; 21st, 180, 305, 316; 22nd, 163, 194; 29th, 168;
35th, 238; 37th, 171, 175
Mathias Point, navy action at, 86
Meade,
General George G., 5, 37, 55, 114, 206; at Antietam, 258, 266, 271, 320; at
South Mountain, 238, 240
Meagher,
General Thomas F., 167-68; at Antietam, 295
Meals of Union troops, 178-83
Meat issued to troops, 181-82
Mechanicsville,
battle of, in Seven Days' Battles of peninsular cam-
paign, 133 Medical
discharges from army, 184 Michigan volunteer regiments: 2nd, 205; 3rd, 34, 45,
170; 4th, 116-17; 7th, 287; 17th, 175, 235-37, 306, 331 Military intelligence.
See
Secret
service
Mini6 bullets, 186; wound
caused by, 189
Minnesota, 1st Regiment, 72, 137, 139,
168-69, 267, 288 Mitchell,
Corporal Barton W., 212-13,
280
Morton,
Oliver Perry, governor of Indiana, 160
Mowrer, General Joseph A., 203
Mozart
Regiment.
See
New York volunteer regiments, 40th
Muskets, 186-87
Napoleon
gun, 190
New
Hampshire volunteer regiments: 5th, 125, 137, 206, 242, 243, 296; 6th, 302
New
Jersey volunteer regiments: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 133, 139, 227; 13th, 167;
24th, 332
New York Cky, proposal of
secession, 154-55
New
York volunteer regiments: 5th, 35, 38, 133; 6th, 177; 8th Cavalry, 228-31; 9th,
163, 167, 232, 242, 309; 10th, 35, 38; 14th, 178; 16th, 132, 223, 227; 21st,
175; 28th, 278, 319; 33rd, 116; 34th, 286; 40th (Mozart), 168; 42nd (Tammany),
76, 287; 48th, 176; 51st, 303-5; 55th, 45, 72, 111, 127, 162, 170, 180; 56th,
138; 57th, 125, 175, 205; 59th, 287; 61st and 64th, 203-4; 63rd, 69th, and
88th,
see
Irish Brigade; 75th, 62; 76th, 22; 79th (Highlanders),
65-66, 306; 80th, 275, 319; 97th, 104th, and 105th, 163; 100th, 138; 107th,
167; 128th, 175, 185
Northern
Virginia, Army of.
See
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
Noyes,
Captain George Freeman, quoted, 16, 163-64, 242, 319
Numerical strength of army
units, 184-85
Officers,
reactions of soldiers to, 175
Ohio
troops under command of McClellan, 55-58
Ohio
volunteer regiments: 8th, 293; 11th, 233-34; 23rd, 234; 30th, 234; 125th, 185
Orange and Alexandria Railroad, 3-12
Patrick, General, 274
Pawnee,
U.S.S.,
warship, 86 Pelham, John, 23
Peninsular
campaign, 1-2, 87-88, 92-157; camp at Harrison's Landing, after retreat,
141-57; disposition of troops for defense of Washington, 100-1, 103-7; final
approach toward Richmond, 156; Gaines's Mill, battle of, 133-34; Glendale,
battle of, 138-40; Malvern Hill, battle of, 140-41; Mechanicsville, battle of,
133; preparations for attack on Yorktown, 107-10; retreat from, 13 5—41; Savage
Station, battle of, 137; Seven Days' Battles, 131—41; Seven Pines, battle of,
124-25; Williamsburg, battle of, 110-12
Pennsylvania
volunteer regiments: 8th Reserve, 271; 13th (Bucktails), 127, 165-66; 29th,
167; 45th, 235-37, 308; 46th, 278; 51st, 237-38, 242, 303-5; 56th, 22; 71st,
75-76; 72nd, 286; 81st, 297; 90th, 267-«8; 104th, 138; 107th, 163, 267-68;
118th (Corn Exchange), 194; 125th, 279, 281, 287-88; 128th, 277; 130th, 242;
132nd, 291
Philadelphia,
reception of Union troops in, 170-71
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad, 120 Philadelphia Brigade, 286 Physical
examinations of Federal recruits, 166-67, 184 Pickett, General George, 115
Pinkerton, Allan, as head of Army
Secret Service, 119-23, 129 Pittman, Colonel, 213
Pleasonton, General Alfred, 233, 242 Pope, General John, 49-50, 152; composition
of forces under, in Army of Virginia, 27-33; and Halleck, 196-98, 207; relieved
of command after Second Bull Run, 49-50, 207; at Second Bull Run, 3-4, 6-13,
24-49 Port Royal expedition, 236 Porter, Commodore David, 32 Porter, Captain
David Dixon, 32, 86 Porter, General Fitz-John, 32, 207, 329-30; at Antietam,
255, 307, 313-14, 317; in peninsular campaign, 128, 130, 133-34, 145; at Second
Bull Run, 24-25, 26, 34-39 Potomac, Army of.
See
Army
of Potomac
Potomac River, Confederate control
of, 85-88, 90, 94 Privateersmen, Union treatment of, 78
Protection of property by Federal officers, 115-16, 157 Protests of soldiers,
174-75 Provisions of Union troops, 178-83
Railroad
difficulties of Second Bull Run, 3-12
Ramsey,
Alexander, governor of Minnesota, 168
Radons, army, 178-83
Reception
committees for volunteers en route Washington, 169-70
Recruitment,
Federal, 184-85; closed during peninsular campaign, 148
Regimental strength, average, 184-86
Regiments,
formation of and replacements for, 184-86
Reno,
General Jesse, 32, 41, 44-45; at South Mountain, 219-21, 235-37
Replacement of troops,
customs of, 185
Revere,
Major Paul Joseph, 77-79 Reynolds, General John F., 29, 34-38, 160, 219
Rhode
Island volunteer regiments: 4th, 175, 311; 7th Cavalry, 228
Richardson,
General Israel B., 204-5; at Antietam, 260, 294-99; at South Mountain, 242
Richmond,
Va., in peninsular campaign, 2, 134—36; plans for attack on, 87-88, 92-100
Ricketts,
General James, at Antietam, 258, 266, 270; at Second Bull Run, 29, 39-40; at
South Mountain, 238
Rifles, 187-89
Roanoke
Island expedition, 220, 256 Rodes, General Robert, 240-41 Rodman, General
Isaac, 303, 308-11
Savage
Station, battle of, in Seven Days' Battles of peninsular campaign, 137
Sawyer, Charles Carroll, 171
Scott,
General Winfield, 58, 60-61, 84-85; quoted, 31
Second
Bull Run.
See
Bull Run, second battle of
Secret
service, Union Army, 87, 119-22, 129
Sedgwick,
General John, 206, 208; at Antietam, 282-87
Seven
Days' Battles in peninsular campaign, 131-41; Gaines's Mill, 133-34; Glendale,
138-40; Malvern Hill, 140-41; Mechanicsville, 133; Savage Station, 137
Seven
Pines, battle of, in peninsular campaign, 124-25
Seward,
William H., Secretary of State, 89, 92, 209
Sharpsburg.
See
Antietam
Sherman, General William Tecumseh,
65, 203
Shields, General James, 105
Shiloh, battle of, 117, 151
Shoulder patches, origin of, 31
Sickness in army, 183-84
Sigel,
General Franz, 28-29, 200; at Second Bull Run, 10, 33, 39^11
Skirmish line, development of, 192
Slavery,
as issue in first year of war, 69-71, 79-80.
See also
Abolition
sentiment; Emancipation
Slaves, escaped (contrabands), 180
Slidell and Mason, 89, 322
Slocum, General Henry W., 132
Smalley, George, 314-15
Smith, General Kirby, 160
Smith, General William F., 155
Smoothbore musket, 187
Songs of Union troops, 39-40, 171-74
South
Mountain, battle of, 222-45; disposition of troops at time of finding lost
dispatch, 214-18; McClellan's plans for crossing, 218-22; topography of, 214,
218, 223
Springfield rifle, 186-89
Stanton,
Edwin M., Secretary of War, 83, 90, 117, 129, 198; during Second Bull Run, 11,
198; telegram from McClellan after retreat from Richmond, 142, 149
Stevens, General Isaac, 45
Stevens, Thaddeus, 219
Stone,
General Charles P., 69-71, 73-80
Stonewall
brigade, in Second Bull Run, 22-23
"Straw-foot," origin of, 25
Stuart, General J. E. B., 115, 327; at
Antietam, 266, 284-85; reputation
of, 10; at Second Bull Run, 23, 47;
at South Mountain, 223, 224 Sturgis, General Samuel D.,
6-7; at
Antietam, 302-3, 305-6, 312 Sumner, Charles, 70 Sumner,
General E. V., 45, 113-14; at
Antietam, 254-55, 282-89, 299, 307;
Sumner, General E. V.
(cont'd)
in peninsular campaign, 112, 124-25, 134, 137, 139; at
South Mountain, 242, 243
Surgeons, regimental, 184
Surgery, quality of, 188-89
Sykes,
General George, 35-39, 41; at Antietam, 313
Tactics,
field, changes during war in, 192-94; effect of technical improvement in
weapons on, 187-88, 191-92
Tammany
Regiment.
See
New York volunteer regiments, 42nd
Taylor, General George, 139, 146-47
"Tenting
Tonight on the Old Camp Ground," song, 172-73
Texas brigade, 34, 39
Treason,
suspicions of, 97-98; against McClellan, 100-1, 117-18, 150; after Second Bull
Run, 13, 43
Trenches, protection offered by, 192
"Vacant Chair, The," song, 173 Virginia, Army of.
See
Army of Virginia
Virginia,
Confederate
ironclad, 108 Virginia, final campaign of McClellan in, 326-27; peninsular
campaign in,
see
Peninsular campaign; western, McClellan's campaign in,
56-57 Volunteer nurses at Second Bull Run, 11-12
Volunteers,
organization of, under McClellan, 61-66
Wade, Ben, 79-80, 200
Walker, General John G., at Antietam,
251, 285; at South Mountain, 215,
216
Ward, Commander James H., 86 Washington, D.C., danger of
attack after First Bull Run, 66; organization of troops under McClellan,
60-62; plans for defense of, during peninsular campaign, 100-1, 103-7;
water route closed, 85-88, 90, 94 Watson, P. H., Assistant
Secretary of War, 6
Weapons,
68-69, 73, 166, 186-91, 233; artillery, increasing effectiveness of, 140,
190-91; howitzers, mountain, 39; in peninsular campaign, 127; rifles, 186-89,
192; tactics outdated by technical improvements in, 186— 88, 191-93
Webster, Colonel Fletcher, 39-40
Webster, Timothy, 121
Welles,
Gideon, Secretary of Navy, 149-50, 199; evaluation of officers by, 201-2;
quoted, 196, 322
West Point, Northern suspicion of, 202