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1 Glenn, William Wilkins. Between North and South: a Maryland Journalist Views the Civil War, the Narrative of William Wilkins Glenn, William Wilkins. Between North and South: A Maryland Journalist Views the Civil War, The Narrative of William Wilkins Glenn, 1861-1869. Edited by Bayly Ellen Marks and Mark Norton Schatz. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976. Election of Lincoln and secession, southern party in Baltimore, 17-18 Received offer to buy Baltmore Exchange newspaper, could not take extreme southern views, 18-20 Union meeting and response, worked on getting a pro-southern but not disunionist meeting, 21- 24 Whiggish sisters turned down his Breckinridge display, 24-25 Seward, peace convention, 25 Lincoln administration forced Confederates to strike first blow, 26-27 Secret meeting of pro-southern men, 27-28 Lincoln illegal call for troops and passing soldiers through Maryland, 29 Mob attacks federal troops passing through Baltimore, 29-31 Working electing Baltimore representatives to legislature, 31-32 Most extremist southern newspaper appears, 32 7th New York passes through Baltimore, 32 Taney opinion, Ex parte Merryman, 33-34 Democratic nominations for Congress, 34 Washington vulnerable to Confederates after Bull Run, 35 Protests against military usurpation in the country, 35 Revolutionary feeling in state and in legislature, 36 Arrest of members of legislature, 36-37 Arrested and taken to Fort McHenry, General Dix, paper on only briefly suspended, 37-40 Alcohol and visits from his wife in prison, 40 Jailor William W. Morris, 40ff Close confinement early on, 41 Paroled to walk about, correspondence, 42 Bond dealer arrested by Seward, 43 Guardhouse, 43 Wife visits with food, 43 Superintendent likes visits from women, 44 Trent affair, 45-46 Refuses a parole to be released, 46-47 Dix released him, 47 Seward agent mistakes him for another prisoner, 48 William Henry Russell, 50 Vallandigham, 51-52 Mail tampering, letters opened, 52 News of Fort Donelson, mob threatens newspaper office, 53-54 Depressed about possibility of McClellan taking Richmond, 54 Men hiding out to avoid arrest, 54 Men trying to escape to the Confederacy, Dr. Gwin, 56-58 Jesse Bright expelled from Senate, western Democrats, 58-60 Peninsula campaign, Williamsburg, 61 1 Merrimac destroyed, 61 Morale depression as McClellan approaches Richmond, 62-63 Prisoner exchanges, 63-64 English nobleman wanted to go to Confederacy, Lord Lyons, 64-65 Maryland campaign, Antietam, 66 Frank Lawley, 65-68 Steamboats seized, 68-70 Newspaperman arrested, Fort McHenry, 70 Frank Vizitelly comes to Baltimore, 70-71 Arrest of Judge Carmichael, 71-72 Difficulty of travel between the lines, arrest and mistreatment of women, British officers, 72-78 British officers trying to go South, 78-79 Political prisoners released from Fort Warren, prisoners feted, mentions Frank Howard’s Fourteen Months in an American Bastille, 79-81 Attempts to smuggle materials for ambulances and wagons into the Confederacy, 81-82 Maryland more help to Confederacy in than out of the Union, 82-83 Suspicious English woman who had been arrested, Fort Lafayette, 84-85 Southern parties early in 1863, Unionists complained, 85 Chancellorsville, death of Stonewall Jackson, Lawley, 85-86 Fitzgerald Ross wanted to ride with Stuart, 86-87 Gettysburg campaign, Maryland sympathetic to Lee, panic among Unionists, 87-94 General Schenck and great flag flying in Baltimore, 94-95 Refugees from Baltimore returning to the city, 95 Vallandigham, Samuel Medary, George H. Pendleton, 98 Left for Quebec, 99 General Schenck, 101 Maryland Club closed by the military, 101 Ireland, 102ff Clubs, 102-3 England, 102ff Tories and military men sympathetic to the Confederacy, 106-7 Cotton trade, 107-8 English neutrality, 108-9 Denmark and Confederacy, 109-10 Vice in London, 111-13 Religion in London, 113-14 British opinion and splintering of the United States, 114-16 Hunting, 116-18 Blockade runners, 118-19 Paris, Rose Greenhow, John Slidell, 119-22 Mason and A. Dudley Mann, 123-24 Left London, 126 Arrived in Baltimore, optimistic about Confederate prospects, 127 Overland campaign, Spotsylvania, 128 Robert E. Lee, 129 Grant’s losses, 132 2 Grant crosses the James River, Longstreet, 132-33 Visit Morris at Fort McHenry, 133-34 Oath, 135 Disappointed by Joseph Johnston retreats, 136 Maryland and threat to Washington, Early, 136-38 Gilmore peace mission to Richmond, 139 Jefferson Davis and Hood, 139 Maryland Democrats should not support a McClellan nomination, Vallandigham, peace, 140-42 George H. Pendleton, McClellan, Barlow, 142-43 Conscription, lower classes, 144 Duncan Kenner mission, 145 Black minister preaching in House of Representatives, 145 Rumors about France and Mexico, A. Dudley Mann, Mason, Slidell, 145-48 Henry Foote, 148 Governor Pratt, Montgomery Blair, 148-49 Colonel Grenfell, John Hunt Morgan,150-51 Money to prisoners at Fort Delaware, 152 Vicksburg, blames Jefferson Davis for end of prisoner exchanges, criticism of cabinet, 153 Davis, Beauregard, and Johnston, Bragg, 154-58 Sheridan anecdote, 159 Sarah Hutchins, prisoner, 159-60 Baltimore women, 160 Hampton Roads conference, 161 Oath and federal courts, discussion among lawyers, 162-63 Prisoners captured by Sheridan, Valley, 163 Parole, prison life at Camp Douglas, 164-65 Praises congressman William B. Reade, 165-66 Andrew Johnson, alcohol, 166 Changing opinions, gold market, 166-67 Maryland and the war, 167-69 Death of Governor Hicks, 169-70 Gold prices, speculators, bonds, investments, 171-73 Southern prisoners, 172 Conscription, 174 Lincoln not sincere on peace, 174-75 Mary Lincoln, French princes, 175-76 Ease of crossing the Potomac, 176 Lawley, Jefferson Davis, 176-77 Women in Charleston give parties for Union officers, 177 Lawley, Slidell, Louis Napoleon, 177-78 Seward, Lee and Grant armistice, 178 Financial panic, gold market, 179 Benjamin Wood, Barlow, bribe to New York Daily News to support McClellan, 181 Letters from Fort Delaware asking for aid, 181 Desperately hungry woman in the Valley try to get fish through air holes in the ice, 181 Hugh McCulloch, money, 181-82 3 Prisoner, dysentery, 183 Whiskey contracts, 183 Peace terms, library, 184 Conscription, 184 Grant and Butler, 184-85 Persistent expressions of Confederate confidence, 185-86 Abandonment of Petersburg and Richmond, 186 Good prices, McCulloch, 186 Mayor orders celebratory illumination in Baltimore, 187 Cotton trade, 188-89 Lee surrender, 189 Stock prices, 189 Thurlow Weed, 190 Jefferson Davis, evacuation of Richmond, 190-91 Johnston, Lawley, 191-92 Possibility of a foreign war, 192-93 Stock market, 193 Mob in Wilmington, Delaware, 193-94 Lincoln suspending conscription, 195 Assassination, Lincoln and Seward, 196-97 McClellan, 197-98 Lew Wallace, 199-200 Order on conduct of clergymen, 201 Lee and black soldiers. 202 Lincoln’s body goes through Baltimore, blacks very active, 203 Lew Wallace and oath requirement for returning Maryland soldiers, 203 Men lynches in Indianapolis for approving Lincoln assassination, 203-4 General Lee, 204 Sherman-Johnston convention, Andrew Johnson, Stanton, Seward, 204-5 Jefferson Davis and Joseph Johnston, 206 James Speed and Maryland soldiers, 206 Arrests of Lincoln conspirators, 207 Death Booth, 208 Radicals Baltimore rooting out traitors, 208 Bitter northern opinion, soldier attacks on citizens in Baltimore, 209 Sherman and Johnston, 210 Republicans in New York using Lincoln’s corpse for political effect, 210 Montgomery Blair, Andrew Johnson, 210 Black waiters wear Lincoln pictures, 210 Ingersolls and riot in Philadelphia, 208, 211 Arrests of men and woman, 211-12 General Ord and Confederate soldiers in New York, 213 Lincoln paraded through country to excite public, 214 Capture of Jefferson Davis, 216-17 Bad treatment of assassination conspirators, 217 McClellan nomination and indignation in New York, 218 4 Stanton and Sherman quarrel, 218-19 Governor Hicks, 220-21 Postwar Baltimore and returning Confederates, 221ff Jefferson Davis, 229-30 Trial and execution of Lincoln conspirators, 230-31 Yankees and blacks, 232-33 Postwar period, 233ff Henry Heth and Gettysburg, 235 5 .
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