Military Affairs Committee of, 24, 138, 175–76
Public Buildings Committee of, 24, 72
slavery issue and, 12, 55–56
Sumner assault in, 55–56
Washington water system and, 47, 72, 85
see also Congress, US; House of Representatives, US
Seven Days Battles (1862), 159
Seven Years’ War, 106
Seward, Frederick, 224
Seward, William, xi, 1, 52, 57, 60, 66, 223, 234
attempted assassination of, 224
Civil War and, 111–14, 120–21, 160, 190–91, 200
and election of 1860, 88
Fort Pickens and, 105–9
sewing machines, 135
Shenandoah Valley, Va., 119, 121, 123, 156, 161–62, 209–10, 215–16, 217
Sheridan, Philip, 204, 215, 216, 222
Sherman, John, 113
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 113, 190, 191, 198, 227
Atlanta campaign of, 203, 213–15, 218, 219
Carolina campaign of, 221–22, 225–26
in march through Georgia, 218–20, 230
shipping, 118, 125, 133, 152, 221
Sholes, Christopher Latham, 238
shorthand writing, 40–41
Singer, Isaac M., 135
slavery, slaves, 5, 12, 18, 24, 35–37, 53–56, 71, 78–79, 82, 93, 110, 128
election of 1860 and, 87–88
emancipation and, 171–72, 180, 190, 200, 206, 233
Floyd and, 62, 63–64
Meigs and, 36–37, 79, 83, 96, 143–44, 172, 176, 183–84, 200, 233, 242
Radical Republicans and, 115
Union Army and, 190, 229
Slidell, John, 76
Slocum, Fort, 211–12
Smith, Frederick, 19–20
Smith, W. Willard, 187–88
Smithson, Hugh, 13
Smithson, James, 13
Smithsonian Institution, 13–14, 27, 43, 236–37, 242, 244
Snow, John, 42–43
South Carolina, 105, 221–22
secession of, 93, 95
South Dakota, 36
Southern Democratic Party, 89
Spotsylvania, Battle of (1864), 204, 228
Springfield, Ill., 63, 130, 225
Stanton, Richard, 33–34, 46–47, 48
State Department, US, 111–14, 120–21, 160, 190–91, 200, 223, 224, 234
states’ rights issue, 36, 53, 83
steam power, 2, 7, 9, 28, 32, 43, 45, 51
steel trusses, 241
Stevens, Fort, 212–13
Stevens, Thaddeus, 115
Stoddard, William, 154, 163
Stones River Campaign (1863), 177
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 36
Strong, George Templeton, 127
Stuart, J. E. B. “Jeb,” 78–79, 163, 164, 181, 184, 204
Sumner, Charles, 55–56
Sumter, Fort, 1, 93, 105, 108, 110, 119, 121, 148
Supreme Court, US, 87–88
suspension bridges, 42, 51
Tammany Hall, 47
Taney, Roger Brooke, 88
Taylor, Fort, 91, 96, 97
telegraph, 26, 45, 60, 121, 124, 133, 185, 204, 210, 214
Tennessee, 147–51, 177, 182, 192–99, 200, 203
Tennessee River, 147, 149, 193, 197
tents, 167–68, 185, 192
Texas, 11–12, 34
textile industry, 134–35, 137
Thomas, George H., 193, 196, 198
Totten, Fort, 212
Totten, Joseph G., 13, 19–20, 62–63, 64, 98, 105, 155, 210
Treasury Department, US, 18, 100, 112, 127, 130, 131, 139, 141, 157, 174, 176
Tucker, John, 152
tunnels, 42
Tweed, William Marcy “Boss,” 47
typewriters, 238
typhoid fever, 19
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 36
Unionist Party, 128
United States Military Academy (West Point), 78, 81, 126, 133, 177, 184
Davis and, 24
John Rodgers Meigs and, 76–77, 120, 122, 188
McClellan and, 140
Meigs and, 6–7, 11, 14, 175
United States Sanitary Commission, 127
US Exploring Expedition, 43
Van Vliet, Stewart, 152–53, 157, 161
Van Wyck, Charles H., 129–31
Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de, 11
Vicksburg, Miss., 190, 192
Virginia, 111, 112, 113, 118–24, 140, 146, 151–65, 181–83, 202–6, 209–10, 215–17, 219, 222–23, 228, 230
Virginia, CSS, 151–52
wagons, 118, 120, 133, 139, 152, 153, 158, 159, 166–68, 184, 185, 186–87, 192, 195, 202–3, 205, 222
Wallace, Lew, 210
Walter, Thomas Ustick, 25–26, 37–38, 48, 50, 51, 65, 80, 81, 201
War Department, US, 61, 136, 149, 230
Cameron and, 108, 112, 114–16, 118, 119, 134, 137–38, 143, 145, 206
Davis and, 24, 27, 28, 32, 33, 37, 39, 45, 51, 52, 59–60, 69
Floyd and, 62–65, 71, 72, 76–77, 78, 80–82, 83, 84–86, 89–90, 93–95, 100
Holt and, 96, 98
Stanton and, 144–45, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 161, 174, 177, 185, 192–94, 195, 196, 197, 198, 200, 205, 207, 210, 211, 216, 221, 223, 224, 225–26, 228, 233, 242–43
War for the Union, The (Nevins), xi
War of 1812, 10, 16, 74
Washington, D.C.:
British burning of, 16, 74
Civil War and, 111–12, 119, 121, 122, 123–24, 151–52, 155–56, 183, 185, 192, 205–6, 207, 209–13
Capitol building in, see Capitol, US
culture of, 63
election of 1856 and, 57–58
Ford’s Theatre in, 224
hospitals in, 205, 206, 207
Lincoln’s assassination and, 224–25
Lincoln’s journey to, 98–99
Meigs family home in, 235
Pension Bureau Building in, 240–42
Rock Creek in, 23, 49, 84, 101
Saturday Club and, 42–44, 61, 66, 81, 99, 221, 244
slaves and, 18, 143–44
Smithsonian in, 13–14, 27, 43, 236–37, 242, 244
Union Army review in, 227
water system of, see Washington Aqueduct water system
Willard Hotel and, 34, 54, 100
Washington, George, 17, 202
Washington Aqueduct water system, 1, 18–24, 32, 41, 42, 46–47, 48–49, 53, 57–58, 60, 61, 62, 64, 68–70, 72–73, 75, 84–86, 93, 97, 105, 113, 114, 233
Cabin John (Union Arch) Bridge span and, 69, 72, 81, 99, 101, 201–2, 241
Washington Evening Star, 67, 223
Washington Monument, 14, 18, 73
Webster, Daniel, 74
Weigley, Russell, 201
Welles, Gideon, 108, 112, 154, 165, 212, 224
Western & Atlantic Railroad, 214
Western Maryland Railroad, 185
West Virginia, 183
Whig Party, 12, 71
Whipple (Myer), Fort, 236
Whistler, G. W., 48
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 48
Whistler’s Mother (Whistler), 48
White House, 18
Whitman, E. B., 230–31
Whitman, Walt, 201
Wilderness, Battle of the (1864), 203, 228
William I, Emperor of Germany, 238
Wilmot, David, 12
Wilmot Proviso, 12
Wilson, Henry, 175–76, 205
Wilson’s Creek, Battle of (1861), 128
Wood, John, 53, 61
Wren, Christopher, 70
Wright, Horatio, 213
Wyoming, 36
Yellow Tavern, Battle of (186
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Title: Quartermaster : Montgomery C. Meigs : Lincoln’s general, master builder of the Union army / Robert O’Harrow Jr.
Description: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects: LCSH: Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816–1892. | Quartermasters—United States—Biography. | United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Biography. | United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Supplies and stores.
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