Washington defense and, 210
Great Britain, 12, 16, 28, 74, 106, 109
Civil War and, 114, 137, 169
Greeley, Horace, 52–53, 57, 100, 117
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of (1848), 12
Gugliotta, Guy, 24
gunboats, 147–51, 183
Halleck, Henry, 161, 167, 170, 173, 174, 177, 194, 211
handwriting, 40, 76, 219, 238
Harpers Ferry, Va., 210
Brown raid on, 78–79, 83
John R. Meigs and, 188–89
Haupt, Herman, 173, 185–87
Henry, Joseph, 27–28, 43, 66, 221
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 213
Holt, Joseph, 96, 98
Hooker, Joseph, 181, 182, 184, 194, 196, 197, 198
horses, 176–80, 187, 192, 196, 202–3, 205, 210, 227
House of Representatives, US, 16
Capitol expansion and, 26–27, 39, 49, 56, 66–67, 74, 84
Civil War and, 129–31
corruption investigations and, 82, 85, 94, 129–31
election of 1858 and, 73
slavery issue and, 12
Washington water system and, 46–47, 61, 85
see also Congress, US; Senate, US
Houston, Sam, 34, 35
Hunter, Robert M. T., 76
Île à Vache, 200
Illinois, SS, 108
Illustrated London News, 39
immigrants, 58, 63–64
industrial revolution, 28, 54
Ingalls, Rufus, 161, 169, 171, 183, 184, 185, 186, 202, 239
Inness, George, 71
Interior Department, US, 24, 94
inventions, 42, 45
Irish Americans, 58, 63
iron, 28, 41, 42, 49–50, 147
ironclads, 45, 147, 148, 149–50, 151–52, 188–89
Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall,” 12, 156, 161–62, 164, 181
James River, 204–5
Jefferson, Fort, 86, 90–92, 95–97
Jefferson, Thomas, 16, 17
Jefferson Medical College, 6
Jeffersonville, Ind., 236
Johnson, Andrew, 227, 233
Johnston, Joseph E., 113, 123, 133, 159, 182, 225-26
Jomini, Henri de, 118
Jones, John, 16, 17
Joseph Whitney, SS, 96
Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, A (Olmsted), 54
Kansas, 36, 57, 61, 71, 73, 78, 82
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), 36, 54, 55
Keitt, Laurence, 47, 53, 55–56
Keyes, Erasmus, 106–7
Key West, Fla., 86, 90, 92, 95, 96
Know-Nothings (American Party), 57, 63–64, 65, 89, 115
Lawrence, Kans., 54
Lecompton Constitution (1857), 71, 73, 82
Lee, Mary, 8, 206, 208
Lee, Robert E.:
Arlington home of, 8, 206–8
Civil War’s advent and, 114
first northern invasion by, 165–66, 169–70
Harpers Ferry and, 78–79
Meigs and, 7–8
Mexican War and, 12
Pope and, 163–65
Richmond defense and, 158–59, 160, 209, 222–23
second northern invasion and, 181–87
surrender of, 223, 228
Wilderness battles and, 203
Liberty, Mo., 54
Library of Congress, 16–18, 37, 61, 75
Lincoln, Abraham:
assassination of, 224–25
Bull Run and, 118–19, 120–21, 124, 144
Burnside and, 174, 181
contract corruption and, 128–29, 130, 131, 143
Cooper Union Address of, 87
election of 1856 and, 57
election of 1860 and, 87–88, 89, 90–91, 115
election of 1864 and, 209, 219
Emancipation Proclamation of, 171–72
Fort Pickens and, 105–8
Fort Stevens battle and, 212–13
Frémont and, 128–29, 130
Grant and, 203, 243
Haupt and, 185
Hooker and, 181, 182
inauguration of, 1, 99, 100–101
Know-Nothings and, 63–64
McClellan and, 140–43, 145–46, 151, 153, 154, 155–56, 160–62, 165, 166, 169, 170, 173, 243
Meigs and, xi, 1–2, 100–101, 105–8, 111–16, 118–19, 120–21, 124, 141, 150–51, 160, 182, 200, 216, 224–25, 242–43
and Meigs’s promotion to quartermaster general, 111–16
Mexican War and, 12
national cemeteries and, 206
Peninsula Campaign and, 146, 151, 153, 160–61
plots against, 99
Pope and, 163
slavery issue and, 36, 200
Stanton and, 144, 154, 200, 242–43
Tennessee campaign and, 150–51
Washington journey of, 98–99
xi, 1–2, 52, 216, 242–43
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858), 87
Lincoln General Hospital, 206
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 212, 224
Lincoln, William Wallace “Willie,” 225
Little Bighorn, Battle of the (1876), 216
London, England, 20, 42, 43
Longstreet, James, 165, 193
Louisiana Purchase (1803), 36
Louisville, Ky., 192
Louis XIV, King of France, 11
Louvre, 39
Lyon, Nathaniel, 128
McCallum, Daniel, 194, 195, 214
McClellan, George B., 140–43, 145–46, 151, 152–53, 154, 155–57, 159–62, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170–71, 173, 174, 177, 209, 243
McCormick, Cyrus, 45
McCulloch, Hugh, 244–45
McDowell, Irvin, 119–20, 121–22, 139, 141, 142, 155–56
McKay, Gordon, 135
McKinstry, Justus, 126–29, 130
McPherson, James, xi, 135, 172, 203
Madison, Fort, 39, 49
Mallory, Stephen R., 110
Manassas (Bull Run), first Battle of (1861), 118–24, 144, 147
Manassas (Bull Run), second Battle of (1862), 165
Manassas Gap Railroad, 123
Mansfield, Joseph, 119, 120
Maria L. Day, SS, 200
Maryland, Civil War and, 165–66, 169–70, 183, 184, 209–11, 230
Maxwell, James Clerk, 42
Meade, George, 184–87, 188-89, 192, 202
Meehan, John, 17–18
Meigs, Charles, 5, 6, 64
Meigs, Charles Delucena, 11, 32-33, 216
Meigs, Henry, 83, 90
Meigs, John Rodgers, 11, 38, 40, 75–76, 77, 232, 244
Civil War and, 120, 122, 132, 188–89, 215–17
death of, 215–17
Meigs, Louisa Rodgers, 10–11, 14, 66, 244
children of, 11, 14, 32-33, 38, 39, 75–77
Civil War and, 114, 161, 191, 223
death of, 239
European trip and, 233–34
marriage of, 10
son John’s death and, 216–17
Meigs, Louisa Rodgers “Loulie,” 39–40, 75
Meigs, Mary, 5–6
Meigs, Mary Montgomery, 11, 75
Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham:
acoustics and, 27–28, 66
Arlington Cemetery and, 206–8, 217, 244
Bull Run and, 118–24
Burnside and, 174–75
Cameron and, 108, 112, 114–16, 118, 119, 134, 137–38, 143, 145, 206
Capitol expansion and, 2, 24–29, 30–32, 33–34, 37–38, 39, 41, 44–45, 48–51, 52–53, 56–57, 60, 62, 65–67, 71, 72–75, 80–81, 99, 100, 111, 201, 234
Carolina campaign and, 222, 225–26
Chattanooga and, 194–99
Chickamauga and, 192–93
childhood and youth of, 5–6
children of, 11, 14, 32-33, 38, 39, 75–77
colonelcy and, 112–15
contract corruption and, 126–31, 145, 158, 178–79, 192, 215
Corps of Engineers
joined by, 7
Crawford and, 31–32, 44
critics and, 33–34, 52–53, 56–57, 60, 68, 175–76
Davis and, 24, 27, 28, 32, 37, 38, 45, 51, 52, 59–60, 66, 69, 73, 76, 85–86, 175–76, 232–33
death of, 244
Delaware River improvements and, 9–10, 20
Detroit posting of, 11–12, 13, 21
drawing and painting by, 7, 9, 14, 15, 238
drowning woman and, 71–72
election of 1856 and, 57–58
European trips and, 233–34, 238–39, 240
fame as ambition of, 68–70, 202, 208
final years of, 242–44
Floyd and, 62–65, 71, 72, 76–77, 80–82, 83, 84–86, 89–90, 98, 100, 176
Fort Jefferson posting of, 86, 90–92, 95–97
Fort Madison and, 38, 49
Fort Montgomery and, 14–15
Fort Pickens and, 1–2, 91, 105–10, 111–12, 243
Franklin and, 99–100
Fredericksburg battle and, 173–74, 175
Gettysburg and, 184–88
Greeley and, 52–53
gunboats and, 147–51, 183
handwriting and, 40, 76, 219, 238
Harpers Ferry raid and, 78–79, 83
health and, 38–39, 56, 233, 243
Holt and, 98
Houston and, 34, 35
hunting and, 14, 38, 192, 199
Jeffersonville military warehouse and, 236
John’s death and, 215–17
Lee and, 7–8, 207
Lincoln and, xi, 1–2, 100–101, 105–8, 111–16, 118–19, 120–21, 124, 141, 150–51, 160, 182, 200, 216, 242–43
Lincoln’s assassination and, 224–25
McClellan and, 140–43, 146, 153, 154, 155–56, 170–71, 177, 243
major generalship of, 213
marriage of, 10
military mobility reforms and, 166–69
Mississippi improvements and, 7–8
National Academy of Sciences and, 220–21, 244
national military cemeteries and, 206–8, 228–31, 234–36
Native Americans and, 234
Overland Campaign and, 205
Peninsula Campaign and, 146, 152–53, 158–59, 160–62
Pennsylvania invasion and, 183–87
Pension Bureau Building (National Building Museum) and, 240–42
photography and, 44, 59, 61, 77, 241, 242
postwar bitterness of, 232–33, 234
postwar building projects and, 235–37, 240–42
postwar demobilization and, 227–28
postwar inspection tours of, 238
and Quartermaster Department’s reduction, 232
quartermaster general appointment of, 111–16
retirement of, 239–40
Rives and, 69, 72, 233
Rosecrans and, 177–80, 192–94
salary of, 57, 65
Saturday Club and, 42–44, 61, 66, 81, 99, 221, 244
Scott and, 91, 96, 115–16, 119–20
Seward and, xi, 1, 60, 66, 111–14, 120–21, 160, 190–91, 200, 223, 224, 234
shorthand writing and, 40–41
slavery and, 36–37, 79, 83, 96, 143–44, 172, 176, 183–84, 200, 233, 242
Smithsonian and, 13-14, 236–37, 242, 244
Stanton and, 144–45, 152, 154, 155, 177, 192–93, 196, 197, 198, 200, 207, 211, 216, 221, 223, 224, 225–26, 233, 242–43
temperament of, 9–10, 243–44
Totten and, 13, 20, 62–63, 64, 98, 105, 155, 210
Virginia ironclad and, 151–52
war status report of, 190–91
Washington defense and, 155–56, 210, 211–13
Washington water system and, 1, 20–24, 32, 40, 42, 46–47, 48–49, 53, 57–58, 60, 61, 62, 64, 68–70, 72–73, 75, 81, 84–86, 93, 97, 99, 101, 105, 113, 114, 233, 241
West Point and, 6–7, 11, 14, 175
Meigs, Montgomery “Monty,” Jr., 11, 75, 238
Meigs, Vincent Trowbridge “Vintie,” 14, 32-33, 216
Memphis, Tenn., 192
Merrimack, USS, 151–52
Mexican War, 12–13, 24, 93, 107, 109, 140
Mexico, 11–13
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 70
Michigan, University of, 235
Military Railroad, US, 173, 186, 194–95, 222
Mississippi, 190, 230
Mississippi River, 7–8, 120, 147, 148, 150
Missouri, 36, 126–30
Missouri Compromise (1820), 35
Monitor, USS, 151–52
Montana, 36
Montgomery, Ala., 98
Montgomery, Fort, 14–15
Moore, James M., 228–30
Mormon War, 94
Mosby, John S., 217
Moultrie, Fort, 93
mules, 176, 179, 184, 187, 192, 195–96, 202
Muybridge, Eadweard, 242
Myer (Whipple), Fort, 236
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 118, 132, 168
National Academy of Sciences, 220–21, 244
National Building Museum, see Pension Bureau Building
National Museum Building (Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian), 236–37
Native Americans, 14, 45, 63, 216, 234
Navy, US, Fort Pickens and, 108–10
Nebraska, 36
Nevins, Allan, xi
New York, N.Y., 20, 22, 47, 87
Meigs and, 27–29, 77, 215
New-York Daily Tribune, 52, 71, 100, 117
New York Times, The 86, 201, 242
North Carolina, 222, 225–26
North Dakota, 36
Northern Pacific Railway, 238
Ohio, 183
Ohio River, 147
Ojibwas, 45
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 54, 236
137th Regiment of US Colored Troops, 229
Oregon, 12
Panthéon (Paris), 37
Pantheon (Rome), 30
Parthenon, 30-31, 70, 242
Patent Office, US, 14, 42, 43
Peale, Charles Willson, 43
Peale, Rembrandt, 71
Peale, Titian, 43, 61
Pennsylvania, Lee’s invasion of, 183–87
Pensacola, Fla., 1, 90, 91, 96, 106, 110
Pension Bureau Building (National Building Museum), 240–42
Petersburg, Va., 209, 219, 222
Peterson, Anna, 224
Peterson, William, 224
Philadelphia, Pa., 5, 6, 8, 25, 27, 29
Philadelphia, SS, 108
Philadelphia Inquirer, 66
Phonographic magazine, 40
photography, 44, 59, 61, 77, 241, 242
Pickens, Fort, 1–2, 91, 96, 105–10, 111–12, 243
Pickett, George, 186
Pierce, Franklin, 24, 28, 32, 45
Pitman, Isaac, 40
Pitt, William, 106
Polk, James K., 11-12
Pompeii, 69
pontoon bridges, 173, 197, 204–5
Pope, John, 163–65
popular sovereignty, 55
Porter, David D., 108
Post Office, US, 18, 48, 70, 80
Potomac River, 10, 18–19, 32, 68, 69
Great Falls of, 14, 20, 23, 114
Little Falls of, 23, 38
Powers, Hiram, 31
Powhatan, USS, 108–9
Quartermaster Department, US:
animal forage provisioning and, 125, 128, 131, 133, 134, 139, 157–58, 167, 187, 195–96, 197, 202–3, 214, 222
Atlanta and, 213–15, 218, 219
blankets and, 137
Chattanooga and, 194–99
commodity prices and, 174
confiscation claims and, 234
demobilization and, 227–28
depots of, 133–34, 167, 171, 185, 192, 203, 222
Fredericksburg and, 173–74
freed slaves and, 143–44
Gettysburg and, 184–88
gunbo
ats and, 147–51, 183
horses and, 176–80, 187, 192, 196, 202–3, 205, 227
Lee’s Pennsylvania invasion and, 183–87
McClellan and, 170–71, 177
military mobility reforms and, 166–69
national military cemeteries and, 206–8, 228–31, 234–35, 236
Native Americans and, 234
ocean fleet of, 152, 221
Overland Campaign and, 202–6
peacetime reduction of, 232
Peninsula Campaign and, 146, 152–53, 158–59, 161–62
Railroad Construction Corps of, 214–15, 225
reorganization of, 211
river transport fleet and, 221
Rosecrans and, 176–80, 192–94
Sherman’s march and, 218–20
spending surge and, 134
supply system and, 132–39
transport and, 118, 120, 121, 122, 125, 130–31, 132–33, 139, 141, 152–53, 158–59, 166–68, 173, 183, 184, 185–87, 194–99, 202–3, 204–5, 221, 227
uniforms and, 136
waste and, 136–37
Radical Republicans, 115
Railroad Construction Corps, US, 214–15, 225
railroads, 14, 33, 35, 50, 229, 238
armored rail cars and, 188–89
Civil War and, 118, 121, 123, 125, 130–31, 133, 134, 135, 140, 145, 146, 156, 164, 173, 185–87, 188–89, 193, 194–95, 203, 204, 210, 214–15, 218, 222
Harpers Ferry raid and, 78
iron rails and, 42
Lincoln funeral and, 225
Raphael, 37
Recueil et Parallele des Edifices de Tout Genre, Anciens et Moderne (Durand), 37, 38
Renaissance, 27, 31, 44
Renaissance revival style, 240
repeating rifles, 234
Republican Party, 12, 71
see also elections, US
Rice, Baird and Heebner, 80
Richmond, Va., 156–57, 158–59, 160, 182, 190, 202, 204, 205, 209, 222–23
rifles, 118, 234
Rives, Alfred, 69-70, 72, 99, 233
Robinson, E. C., 80
Rodgers, George W., 191
Rodgers, John, 10, 147, 148
Roebling, John Augustus, 50–51
Rome, ancient, 21, 45, 70
Rome, Italy, 31, 240
Rosecrans, William, 177–80, 192–94, 196
Royster, Charles, 220
Rucker, D. H., 207, 225, 233–34, 239
Russian Empire, 109, 118, 143
St. Louis, Mo., 126, 128–29, 130, 192
St. Louis, USS, 149
Saturday Club, 42–44, 61, 66, 81, 99, 221, 244
Savannah, Ga., 219–20, 221, 229
Schaeffer, George, 42
Schenck, Robert, 123, 188
Scott, Winfield, 1, 91, 93, 96, 99, 105, 106–7, 111, 115–16, 119–20
secession, 55, 73, 83, 90, 93, 94, 96, 101, 133
Seminole Wars, 93, 107
Senate, US:
Capitol expansion and, 56, 67, 72, 73–75, 81
Civil War and, 138, 175–76, 205
Davis and, 60, 85–86
Finance Committee of, 85
Floyd and, 81–82