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A

6th of June celebration

8th of January Celebration

Abandoned buildings

Abandoned children

Abandoned infants

Abandoned property

Abbeville, Miss. - Skirmishes

Abduction

Abnormalities, human

Abolitionists

Abortion

Absenteeism (military)

Accidents - Deaths - Lawsuits - Liability

Accordions

Accounting - Study and teaching

Acrobats

Actors - Benefits - Salaries

Adoption - Corrupt practices

Adultery - Laws

Advance on Little Rock (September-October 1863)

Adventures and adventurers

Adversity

Advertising - Laws - Outdoor Use: Outdoor advertising - Rates

Advice

Aerial locomotive

Africa - Colonization

Africa, North

African Church (Memphis)

African Methodist Episcopal Church

Aged

Agitators

Agrarian movements

Agrarianism

Agricultural and industrial fairs

Agricultural colleges

Agricultural development

Agricultural diversity

Agricultural loans

Agricultural machinery - Contests - Price

Agricultural science

Agricultural societies

Agricultural workers See also: Black agricultural workers - Crimes against - Wages

Agriculture See also: Food Crops - Economic aspects - Export-import - Laws - Prices - Subsidies - Taxation

Agua Nueva, Mexico - Skirmishes

Ailanthus tree

Airplanes - History

Air pollution

Airplanes - History

Airships

Alabama - Boundary - Description - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Constitution - Economic conditions - Governors - Legislators - Legislature - Military campaigns - Supreme Court - Union occupation

Alabama, Confederate Armies of

Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, Confederate Department of

Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) - Siege, 1836 - Hoaxes

Alaska - Annexation to the United States - Purchase

Albinos

Alcohol and accidents Use: Drinking (alcoholic beverages) and accidents

Alcohol and crime Use: Drinking (alcoholic beverages) and crime

Alcohol and health

Alcoholic beverages - History

Alcoholism - Deaths

Alexandria, La. - Skirmishes

Alexandria, La., Advance, 1864

Algodonia

All Saints' Day

Allatoona Pass, Ga., Engagement, 1864

Alleys - Paving

Alligators

Allopathic medicine

Alpacas

Amateur theater

Amazon River - Exploration - Navigation

Ambassadors

Ambassadors (US)

Ambrotype

Ambulances

American bison

American fiction

American loyalists

American Party Use: Know Nothing Party

American Turner Society

Americans

Amite River (La.) - Skirmishes

Ammunition - Accidents - Explosion

Amnesty

Anecdotes

Anecdotes, historical

Anesthesia

Angels

Anglo-Americans

Anglophobia

Animal burials

Animal control

Animal fighting

Animal magnetism

Animal oddities

Animal shelters

Animal shows

Animal welfare

Animals - Mistreatment - Treatment

Anthrax

Anti-abolitionism

Anti-Americanism

Anti-Catholicism

Antietam, Md., Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Antiques

Antiquities - Hoaxes

Antiquities, Egyptian

Anti-Semitism

Anti-slavery movements

Antlers

Apache Indians

Apartment houses

Appomattox Campaign (March-April 1865)

Apportionment (election law)

Apprentices - Runaway

April Fool's Day

Aquariums - Memphis, Tenn.

Aqueducts

Aquia Creek, Va., Attack, 1861

Aquifers

Arapaho Indians

Arbitration

Archaeology

Architects

Architecture

Arctic - Explorations - Art

Arithmetic

Arizona - Military campaigns

Arkadelphia, Ark. - Capture

Arkansas - Auditors - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Constitution - Coroners - Description - Economic conditions - Finance - General Assembly - Governors - Growth - History - Legislators - Misconduct - Legislature Use: Arkansas - General Assembly - Military campaigns - Partition - Politics and government - Statehood - Supreme Court - Tax Collectors - Travel - Treasurers - Union occupation

Arkansas, Confederate Armies of

Arkansas, Union Department of

Arkansas Board of Medical Examiners

Arkansas Circuit Court

Arkansas Post, Ark. - Capture, 1863

Arkansas River - Navigation - Skirmishes - Traffic

Arkansas River Valley

Arkansas State Militia

Armor

Armies - Records

Armistice

Army of Northern Virginia

Army of Tennessee - Officers - Selection - Organization

Army of the Cumberland

Army of the Frontier

Army of the James

Army of the Mississippi

Army of the Potomac

Army of the Shenandoah

Army of the Tennessee

Army of West Tennessee

Armyworms

Arsenals - Accidents

Arsenic

Arson

Art - Exhibitions - Moral aspects - Study and teaching

Art galleries

Art museums

Art, Japanese

Artesian wells

Artifacts

Artificial limbs

Artificial nipples

Artillery - Accidents

Artillery companies

Artillery companies, Confederate

Artillery companies, Union

Artillery shells

Artists

Artists' models

Arts

Ashepoo River, S. C., Affair, 1864

Assassination - History

Assault and battery

Assembly, right of

Asthma

Astrology

Astronomical observatories

Astronomy

Asylums

Athens, Ala. - Capture - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Athens, Ala., Action, 1864

Athens, Ala., Capture, 1864

Athens, Tenn. - Capture - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Athens, Tenn., Raid, 1862

Athens, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Atlanta, Ga. - Bombardment, 1863 - Capture - Charter - Destruction - Evacuation - Finance - Mayors - Strategic aspects - Union occupation

Atlanta, Ga., Battle, 1864

Atlanta, Ga., Siege, 1864

Atlanta (Ga.) Board of Health

Atlanta (Ga.) City Council

Atlanta Campaign (May-September 1864) - Casualties

Atlantic Ocean - Travel

Atmospheric telegraph

Atrocities See also:Civilians - Crimes against

Auctions - Laws

Auditoriums

Auger (drill)

Aurora Borealis

Augusta, Ark. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Austin, Tex. - Description

Austria - Foreign relations - Revolution, 1848-1849

Austro-Prussian War, 1866

Authors Use: Writers

Automation

Automatons

Autumn

Avalanches Use: Landslides

Averell’s Raid through West Virginia (August 5-31, 1863)

Averell's Raid on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad (November-December 1863)

Awards and honors

Aztecs

B

Baby shows

Bachelors

Bacon

Baden (Germany) - Foreign relations

Badges, medals, etc.

Bail

Bakeries - Laws

Baker's Creek, Miss., Battle, 1863 Use: Champion's Hill, Miss., Battle, 1863

Bailiffs

Ballet

Ball's Bluff, Va., Battle, 1861

Ball's Mill, Miss. - Skirmishes

Ballet

Balloon sculpture

Baltimore, Md. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Union occupation

Bandits Use: Outlaws

Bands

Bands (military)

Banjo

Bank failures

Bank fraud

Bank notes - Laws - Lawsuits - Theft

Bank robberies

Bankruptcy - Laws

Banks and banking - Executives - Finance - Lawsuits - Regulation - Security measures - Taxation

Baptism

Baptism (Masonic)

Baptists - Separation

Barbecues

Barbershops

Bardstown, Ky. - Skirmishes

Bardstown, Ky., Raid, 1865

Barge lines - Accidents

Barges - Accidents

Barnburners Party Use: Free Soil Party

Barometers

Barracks

Bars and taverns - Laws - Taxation

Bartlett, Tenn. - Description - History - Mayors

Bartlett (Tenn.) Circuit Court

Barton's Station, Ala. - Skirmishes

Baseball

Batchelder's Creek, N. C. - Skirmishes

Batesville, Ark. - Capture

Batesville, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Bathing

Baths

Baths (public)

Baton Rouge, La. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Baton Rouge, La., Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Battery Wagner Use: Fort Wagner (Charleston, S.C.)

Battlefields

Battles - Casualties

Baxter Springs, Kan., Massacre, 1863

Bayonets

Bayou Boeuf, La. - Skirmishes

Bayou Bourbeau (La.), Engagement, 1863

Bayou Gayoso (Memphis)

Bayou Metaire (La.)

Bayou Metoe (Ark.), Action, 1863

Bayou Pierre (La.) - Skirmishes

Bayou Pierre, Miss.) - Skirmishes

Bayou Teche (La.)

Bayou Teche (La.), Campaign, (October - November 1863)

Bayous

Bear Creek, Miss., Action, 1863

Bear hunting

Bears

Beauty

Beavers

Bee-keeping

Beech Grove, Tenn., Battle, 1862 Use: Mill Springs, Ky., Battle, 1862

Beef

Beer and brewing industry - Taxation

Beer gardens

Beersheba Springs, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Bees - Disease

Begging

Belgium - Foreign relations

Bells

Belmont, Mo., Battle, 1861 - Casualties

Berkley Springs, W. Va. - Skirmishes

Bermuda Hundred Campaign (May 1864)

Berwick Bay, La., Action, 1863

Bestiality

Bethel Church, Va., Battle, 1861 Use: Big Bethel, Va., Engagement, 1861

Bethel Station, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Bethesda Church, Va., Battle, 1864

Beverly Ford, Va., Engagement, 1863

Bible - Translations

Bible (King James version)

Bible Ridge, Va. - Skirmishes

Bible societies

Bicycles See also: Velocipedes

Big Bear Creek, Ala. - Skirmishes

Big Bethel, Va., Engagement, 1861

Big Black River (Miss.), Raid, 1863

Big Black River (Miss.), Skirmishes

Big Black River (Miss.), Expedition from (October 1863)

Big Black River Bridge, Miss. - Skirmishes

Big Black River Bridge, Miss., Engagement, 1863 - Casualties

Big Black River, Miss., Expedition from, 1863

Big Creek, Ark. - Skirmishes

Big Mound, N.D., Action, 1863

Big Sewell Mountain, W. Va. - Skirmishes

Big Springs, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Bigamy - Religious aspects

Billiards - Licenses

Biological warfare

Bio-magnetism

Bird stores

Birds - Diseases

Bird's Point, Mo.

Births

Black actors

Black agricultural workers - Discrimination - Wages

Black baseball players

Black Bayou (Miss.)

Black businessmen

Black cemeteries

Black children - Neglect

Black churches - Vandalism

Black clergymen

Black colleges and universities

Black Congressmen

Black constables

Black criminals Use: Blacks - Crime

Black cyclists

Black dockworkers

Black entertainers

Black farmers

Black firefighters

Black Fish Swamp (Ark.)

Black Freemasons

Black gamblers

Black government employees - Misconduct

Black infants - Deaths

Black judges

Black jurors

Black lawyers

Black literature

Black military cadets

Black militias - Misconduct

Black musicians

Black newspapers - Censorship

Black outlaws

Black physicians - Malpractice

Black pianists

Black police - Misconduct

Black printers

Black prisoners - Deaths - Escape

Black prisoners of war - Exchange - Execution - Treatment

Black public officials - Appointment - Misconduct

Black race - Origins

Black railroad workers

Black River (Ark.)

Black schools - Enrollment - Finance - Vandalism

Black Seminoles

Black snakes

Black societies and clubs

Black soldiers - Conscription - Desertion - Execution - Massacre - Misconduct - Mutiny - Pardon - Pay, allowances - Recruiting, enlistment - Treatment - Violence against

Black soldiers, Confederate

Black theater

Black trade unions

Black vigilantes

Black witnesses (law)

Black women - Employment

Black women criminals

Black workers - Wages

Blackberry liquor

Blackberry wine

Blacks See also: Free blacks Slaves - Amnesty - Assistance - Celebrations - Census - Civil rights - Colonization - Confederate supporters - Conscription - Crime See also: Black outlaws Free blacks - Crimes Slaves - Crimes - Crimes against - Culture - Death rates - Deaths - Deportations - Discrimination - Economic conditions - Education - Employment See also: Black agricultural workers Black workers - Entertainment - Equal Rights Use: Blacks - Civil Rights - Health - History - Housing - Insurrection - Kidnapping - Laws See also: Race Laws - Medical care - Migration - Naming - Patriotism - Political activity - Population - Religion - Reparations - Resettlement - Right to vote Use: Blacks - Suffrage - Social conditions - Social life and customs - Societies and clubs - Suffrage - Suicide - Unemployment - Violence against

Blacksmiths

Blackwater River (Miss.) - Skirmishes

Blind - Books and reading - Education - Institutional care

Blockade of the Carolina Coast (August 1861)

Blockade of the Chesapeake Bay (May-June 1861)

Blockade of the Potomac River (October 1861-January 1862)

Blockade runners

Blockades

Bloodhounds

Bloomerism

Bloomfield, Mo. - Skirmishes

Blountsville, Tenn. - Destruction

Blountsville, Tenn., Engagement, 1863

Blue Ridge Rebellion (Virginia)

Blue Springs, Tenn., Action, 1863

Boarding houses

Boat clubs

Boats and boating - Accidents

Bohemianism

Boiler-making industry

Boiling Springs, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Bolivar County, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Bolivar, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Bolivar (Tenn.) Chancery Court

Boll weevil

Bolton's Mill, Va., Battle Use: Kernstown, Va., Battle, 1862

Bonds

Bonds, Confederate

Book clubs

Book reviews

Bookbinding

Books

Bookstores

Booneville, Mo., Engagement, 1861

Bootlegging Use: Distilling, illicit

Border State Convention

Border States (United States)

Boston, Mass. - Description

Boston Mountains, Ark.

Botanic medicine

Bottom's Bridge, Va. - Skirmishes

Boulevards

Bounty system

Bowie knives - Laws

Bowling

Bowling Green, Ky. - Capture, 1861 - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Boxing

Boxing (women)

Boy soldiers, Confederate

Boy soldiers, Union

Boycotts

Boydton Plank Road, Va., Engagement, 1864

Boyhood

Boys - Education

Brain surgery

Brandon, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Brandy Station, Va., Battle, 1863

Brawling

Brazil - Description - Foreign relations

Bread - Laws - Prices

Bread riots

Brewing industry Use: Beer and brewing industry

Bribery

Brice's Cross Roads, Miss., Battle, 1864

Brick-making

Bricklaying

Bridgeport, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Bridges - Collapse - Construction - Destruction - Maintenance - Railroad - Repair - Sabotage - Tolls - Vandalism

Bristoe Campaign (October-November 1863)

Bristoe Station, Va., Battle, 1863

Bristoe Station, Va., Engagement, 1863

Bristol, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Britton Lane's, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Brokers

Bronchitis

Brookhaven, Miss., Raid, 1863

Brooks Station, Va. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Brooksville, Fla. - Skirmishes

Broom manufacturing

Broomcorn

Brooms and brushes

Brownsville, Ky., Raid, 1861

Brownsville, Miss. - Skirmishes

Brownsville, Tenn. - Description - Economic conditions - Growth - Skirmishes

Brownsville, Tenn., Raid, 1862

Brownsville, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Buck Lodge Creek (Tenn.)

Budget

Buena Vista, Mexico - Occupation

Buena Vista, Mexico, Battle, 1847 - Casualties

Buffalo fish

Buffalo gnats

Buffalo hunts

Building and loan associations - Lawsuits

Building codes

Buildings - Collapse - Construction - Demolition - Heating and cooling - Relocation - Renovation

Buildings, prefabricated

Bull Run, Va., 1st Battle, 1861 - Casualties - Poems

Bull Run (1st) Campaign (July 1861) - Casualties

Bull Run, Va., 2nd Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Bulldozers

Bunsby (slang)

Burial, premature

Burial customs

Burial industry - Cost - Laws

Burlesque (theater)

Burns and scalds

Burnside's Mud March (January 1863)

Burnside's North Carolina Expedition (February-June 1862)

Burnt Hickory, Ga. - Skirmishes

Business cycles

Business enterprises - Advertising - Closing - Expansion - Laws - Relocation

Business failures

Business law

Business schools

Businessmen

Bustles

Butchers

Butter

Buzzard's Roost Gap, Ga., Combat, 1864 Use: Mill Creek Gap, Ga., Combat, 1864

Byhalia, Miss. - Skirmishes

C

Cables - Atlantic Ocean Use: Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable

Cache River (Ark.), Affairs, 1864

Cairo, Ill. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Mayors - Politics and government - Skirmishes

Cakes - Recipes

Calcasieu Pass, La., Operation, 1864

Calendars

Calfkiller Creek, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Calico balls

California - Annexation to the United States - Constitution - Description - Exploration - Legislature - Politics and government - Statehood

California Gold Rush, 1848-1852

Calliopes

Caloric engines

Calpulalpan (Tlaxcala, Mexico), Battle of, 1861

Camargo, Mexico - Occupation

Camden, Ark. - Capture - Destruction - Evacuation - Skirmishes

Camden Expedition (April 1864)

Camp Alleghany, W. Va., Battle, 1861

Camp Cole (Missouri) - Skirmishes

Camp songs

Campaign funds

Campaign paraphernalia

Campbell's Station, Tenn., Engagement, 1863

Canada - Annexation to the United States - Boundary - Description - Fenian Invasions, 1866-1870 - Foreign relations - Rebellion, 1837-1838

Canadians

Canals - Panama

Canaries - Theft

Can-can (dance)

Cancer - Treatment

Candlemaking

Candy

Candy stores

Cane Creek, Ala., Action, 1863

Cane Hill, Ark., Battle, 1862

Cane River (La.), Engagement, 1864

Cannon Use: Artillery

Canton, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Destruction - Skirmishes

Canton, Miss., Expedition to, 1863

Cape Girardeau, Mo. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Capital cities - Relocation

Capital investments - Taxation

Capital punishment - Commutation - Laws

Capitalism

Capitalists

Carnival (Memphis)

Carolinas Campaign (February-March 1865)

Carpentry

Carpetbaggers

Carpets (painted)

Carriage drivers - Laws

Carriages and carriage-makers

Carroll County, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Carter's Depot, Tenn., Action, 1863

Carter's Station, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Carthage, Mo., Engagement, 1861

Cassville, Ga., Combat, 1864

Cassville, Ga. - Skirmishes

Castor beans

Castration

Catamounts

Cataracts

Caterpillars

Catholic chaplains

Catholic Church - Confirmation Use: Confirmation - Catholic Church - Doctrine - Rituals - Violence against

Catholic colleges

Catholic converts

Catholic schools

Cats

Cattle - Diseases - Impressment - Price - Theft

Cattle drives

Cattle trade

Cavalry

Cavalry, Confederate

Cavalry, Union

Cavalry Operations along the Rappahannock (March 1863)

Cave City, Ky., Affair, 1862

Caves

Cedar birds

Cedar Creek, Fla., Skirmishes - Casualties

Cedar Creek, Va., Battle, 1864

Cedar Mountain, Va., Battle, 1862

Cedar Run, Va., Battle, 1862 Use: Cedar Mountain, Va., Battle, 1862

Cedar trees

Celebrations

Cellars

Cemeteries - Laws - Relocation - Vandalism

Cemeteries, Confederate Use: Confederate Cemeteries

Cemeteries, military Use: Military cemeteries

Censorship See also: Newspapers - Censorship

Census

Centenarians

Centralia, Mo., Massacre, 1864

Centreville, Va. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Cerro Gordo, Mexico, Battle, 1847 - Casualties

Chaff

Chain-gangs

Chamber of Commerce

Chambersburg, Penn., Burning, 1864

Chambersburg, Penn., Stuart's Raid on, 1862

Champion's Hill, Miss., Battle, 1863

Chancellorsville, Va. - Skirmishes

Chancellorsville, Va., Battle, 1863 - Casualties

Chancery Court (Memphis, Tenn.) Use: Memphis (Tenn.) Chancery Court

Chandler County, Miss.

Change - History

Chaplains - Jails

Chaplains, Confederate

Chaplains, Union

Chapultepec, Mexico, Battle, 1847

Charbon Use: Anthrax

Charcoal roads See also: Roads

Charities See also: Relief associations Soldiers aid societies

Charity (virtue)

Charles City Courthouse, Va. - Skirmishes

Charleston, Mo. Raid, 1863

Charleston, S.C. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Military campaigns - Surrender, 1865

Charleston, S.C., Bombardment (August-December 1863)

Charleston, S.C., Du Pont's attack on, 1863

Charleston, S.C., Siege, 1864

Charleston Harbor (S.C.), Engagement, 1863

Charleston, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Charleston, Tenn., Action, 1863

Charleston, Tenn., Affair, 1863

Charlestown, W. Va. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Charlotte, N.C. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Charlottesville, Va. - Skirmishes

Chartism

Chattanooga, Tenn. - Capture - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Evacuation - History - Politics and government - Strategic aspects - Union occupation

Chattanooga, Tenn., Bombardment, 1863

Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign (September-November 1863) - Casualties

Chattooga County, Ga. - Skirmishes

Chelsea Neighborhood (Memphis)

Chemical industry

Cherokee Indians - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Crimes against - Lawsuits - Relocation - Relations

Cherokee Nation - Politics and government - Slaves

Cherokee Station, Ala. - Skirmishes

Chesapeake Bay (Md. And Va.) - Naval engagements

Chess

Chester Station, Va., Action, 1864

Chewing gum

Chicago, Ill. - Growth

Chickahominy, Va., Action, May 1862

Chickamauga, Ga., Battle, 1863 - Casualties

Chickamauga Campaign (August-September 1863) - Casualties

Chickasaw Bayou (Miss.)

Chickasaw Bayou (Miss.), Raid, 1863

Chickasaw Bluffs (Memphis) - History

Chickasaw Cession

Chickasaw City, Tenn. - Charter - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Expansion

Chickasaw County, Miss. - Description

Chickasaw Indians - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Relocation - Slaves

Chickasaw Nation

Chicken cholera

Chickens - Theft

Child abuse

Child beggars

Child entertainers

Child labor

Child molesting

Child murders

Child poets

Child prodigies

Child prostitution

Child soldiers Use: Boy soldiers

Childbirth

Children - Accidents - Custody - Deaths - Disease - Neglect - Violence against

Children and firearms

Children and war

Children's games

Children's parties

Chimneys

China - Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864

China trees (Goldenrain tree)

Chinaware

Chinese

Chinese-American workers - Discrimination

Chinese-Americans - Discrimination - Law - Suffrage

Chiropodists

Chloroform - Death

Choctaw County, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Choctaw Indians - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Dances - Migration - Removal - Slaves

Choctaw Nation

Cholera - Causes - Prevention - Treatment

Choral music

Christian art and symbolism

Christian Church

Christian saints

Christiana County, Tenn.

Christians

Christianity - Doctrines

Christmas

Christmas decorations

Christmas legends

Christmas trees

Chromotypes

Chunky Creek, Miss. - Skirmishes

Church and social issues

Church and state

Church buildings - Cornerstones - Dedication - Impressment - Renovation - Repair - Taxation

Church choirs

Church fairs

Church music

Churches - Fund-raising Use: Church fairs - Segregation - Vandalism - Violence against

Churns

Churubusco, Mexico, Battle, 1847 - Casualties

Chustenahlah, Indian Territory, Engagement, 1861

Cigars

Cincinnati, Ohio - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Economic conditions

Circus - Accidents

Circus animals

Cisterns

Cities and towns - Charter - History - Laws

Citizenship - Law

Citizenship (International law)

City halls

Civil defense See also: Home guards

Civil law

City planning

Civil rights

Civil Rights Act of 1866 - Veto

Civil unrest Use: Protests and demonstrations

Civil wars

Civil-military relations See also: Martial law

Civilians - Crimes against

Civilians in war

Claim agencies

Clairvoyants

Clarendon, Ark. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description

Clark County, Miss. - Boundary

Clarksville, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Union occupation

Clay

Claysville, Ala. - Skirmishes

Clayton Compromise (1848)

Clergymen - Misconduct - Ordination - Salaries

Clerks - Salaries

Climate

Clinton, La. - Skirmishes

Clocks

Closed meetings

Clothing and dress See also: Women - Clothing and dress - Symbolism

Clothing trade

Clowns

Clubfoot - Treatment

Clubs Use: Societies and clubs

Coahoma County, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Sheriff

Coal - Inspection - Price - Shortages - Theft - Transport

Coal companies

Coal mines and mining - Accidents

Coal oil - Safety

Coal-based products

Coastal shipping - Laws

Cockfighting

Coffee - Price - Taxation

Coinage - Value

Coinage, counterfeit

Coinage, international

Cold Harbor, Va., Battles, 1864 - Casualties

Cold weather - Deaths

Coldwater, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Coldwater, Miss., Expedition to, 1862

Coldwater, Miss., Raid, 1863

Coldwater Ferry, Miss. - Skirmishes

Colic

Collaborators

Collective settlements

College Hill Neighborhood (Memphis)

College students - Misconduct

Colleges and universities - Faculty

Collierville, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Growth - Mayors - Skirmishes

Collierville, Tenn., Action, 1863 - Casualties

Color

Colorado - Description - Statehood

Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Columbia, Ark. - Skirmishes

Columbia, Mo. - Union occupation

Columbia, S.C. - Capture, 1865 - Finance

Columbia, Tenn. - Mayors - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Columbia River - Navigation

Columbus Day

Columbus, Ga. - City ordinances

Columbus, Ky. - Capture - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Evacuation - Skirmishes

Columbus, Ky., Engagement, 1861

Columbus, Miss. - Description - Skirmishes

Comanche Indians - Crimes against

Comedy

Comets

Commerce See also: Business enterprises - Laws

Commerce, Miss.

Commercial conventions

Commission agents

Commissioners

Commodity exchanges

Common Law

Common Law and Chancery Court (Shelby County, Tenn.) Use: Shelby County (Tenn.) Common Law and Chancery Court

Communes

Communication systems

Compensation Claims Use: Government, claims against

Composition

Compromise of 1850

Concert Saloons Use: Music Halls

Concerts - Cost

Concrete

Conduct of life

Confederacy of the States of Central America

Confederate bonds Use: Bonds, Confederate

Confederate cemeteries

Confederate Heartland Offensive (June-October 1862) - Casualties

Confederate loans

Confederate money - Laws - Lawsuits - Value

Confederate soldiers Use: Soldiers, Confederate

Confederate States of America - Commissioner of Prisoners - Commissioners - Commissioners Court - Culture - Economic conditions - Finance - Foreign opinion - Foreign relations - History - Sources - Official records - Politics and government - Public opinion - Social life and customs - Territorial expansion

Confederate States of America. Army - Casualties - Chaplains - Elite Units - Medical Corps - Officers - Casualties - Firearms - Rations - Selection - Ordinance - Quartermasters - Recruiting, enlistment - Reorganization - Surgeons - Surrender

Confederate States of America. Army. Cavalry

Confederate States of America. Army. Corps of Engineers

Confederate States of America. Attorney General

Confederate States of America. Board of Slave Claims

Confederate States of America. Bureau of Conscription

Confederate States of America. Congress - Closed meetings

Confederate States of America. Congress. House. Committee on Claims

Confederate States of America. Congress. Senate

Confederate States of America. Constitution

Confederate States of America. Department of the Treasury

Confederate States of America. Navy - Officers

Confederate States of America. Nitre and Mining Bureau

Confederate States of America. President - Inauguration

Confederate States of America. Seal

Confederate States of America. Secretary of State

Confederate States of America. Secretary of the Treasury

Confederate States of America. Secretary of War

Confederate States of America. Supreme Court

Confederate States of America. Vice-President

Confederate States of America Post Office

Confirmation - Catholic Church - Episcopal Church

Confiscation of property - Lawsuits - Resale

Confiscation of slaves Use: Slaves - Confiscation

Congressional Reservation Line (Tennessee)

Congressmen - Misconduct - Pay, allowances - Qualifications - Violence against

Congressmen (CSA)

Connecticut - Politics and government

Conscription, Confederate - Exemptions - Law - Resistance

Conscription, Union - Exemptions - Resistance See also: Draft Riot, New York (City), 1863

Conservation

Conservatism

Conservative Party See also: Democratic Party - Convention - Delegates - National Convention

Conservative Union National Committee

Conspiracies

Constables - Misconduct

Constitutional Conservative Party

Constitutional conventions

Constitutional law - Interpretation - Ratification

Constitutional Party

Constitutional Republican Party

Constitutional Union Party

Construction industry - Laws

Consuls (name of country)

Consumers - Women

Contempt of court - Law

Contested elections

Contests

Contortionists

Contraband

Contraband camps

Contracts - Law - Lawsuits

Contreras, Mexico, Battle, 1847

Conventions

Cooking - Prizes

Co-operative societies

Cooperatives

Cooperatives - Mobile, Ala.

Cooper's Well (Miss.)

Copper

Copper mines and mining

Copperhead movement

Copyright - Violations

Cordage

Cordova, Mexico

Corinth, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Evacuation - Growth - Politics and government - Skirmishes - Strategic aspects - Union occupation

Corinth, Miss., Action, 1862

Corinth, Miss., Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Corinth, Miss., Occupation of, 1862

Corinth, Miss., Siege (May 1862)

Corn - Price - Rationing - Theft

Corn Laws - Great Britain

Cornmeal

Cornstalks

Corporal punishment Use: Punishment

Coroner - Memphis, Tenn. Use: Memphis, Tenn. - Coroners

Correspondence

Corruption See also: Police - Corruption

Cosmetics

Cost of living

Costa Rica

Cottage industries

Cotton - Awards Use: Cotton - Prizes - Confiscation - Cultivation - Destruction - Diseases - Economic aspects - Export-import Use: Cotton trade - Fraud - History - Insurance - Lawsuits - Medical Uses - Price - Prizes - Regulation - Shortages - Storage - Tariff - Taxation - Theft - Uses - Vandalism

Cotton baling

Cotton cards and carding - Price

Cotton courts

Cotton gins and ginning

Cotton industry

Cotton loan

Cotton money

Cotton moth

Cotton picking

Cotton press

Cotton seed

Cotton seed meal

Cotton seed oil

Cotton seed oil mills

Cotton seeds

Cotton trade - Fraud - Laws

Cotton worms

Cotton-press

Cougars

Council Bend, Miss., Naval engagement 1863

Council House Fight (Tex.), 1840

Council of Fifteen (New Orleans)

Counterfeiting

Counties - Boundary

County government

Courage

Courthouses

Courts - Appeals - Clerks - Cost - Fees - History - Jurisdiction - Relocation - Reorganization - Rules - Sentencing - Violence against

Courts-martial and courts of inquiry

Covenanters (Scotland)

Covington, Ky. - Skirmishes

Covington, Tenn. - Growth - Skirmishes

Craftsmen - Laws - Taxation - Wages

Credit

Creek Indians - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Crimes against - Relocation - Slaves

Creek Nation

Creek War, 1813-1814

Creek War, 1836

Creosote

Crete - Insurrection of 1866-1868

Cricket

Crime and criminals See also: Arson Assault and battery Blacks - Crime Ethnic groups - Crimes Free blacks - Crime Outlaws Robbery and theft Slaves - Crime - Economic aspects

Crime and race

Crime prevention

Crimean War, 1853-1856

Crimes against civilians Use: Civilians - Crimes against

Criminal Court (Memphis, Tenn.) Use: Memphis (Tenn.) Criminal Court

Criminal justice - Administration

Criminal liability

Criminal science

Crinolines

Crittenden Compromise (1860)

Crittenden County, Ark. - Finance - Politics and government - Sheriffs

Crockett County, Tenn.

Crocketts Bluff, Ark. - Skirmishes

Crook-Averell Raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

Crop diversification

Crop rotation

Cross dressing

Cross Keys, Va., Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Cross Lanes, Va.

Crosswalks

Cuba - Annexation to the United States See also: Cuban question - Description - Foreign relations - Insurrection, 1848-1851 - Insurrection, 1868-1878 - Strategic aspects

Cuba. Navy

Cuban question

Culpepper, Va. - Skirmishes

Culpepper County, Va. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Culpepper Courthouse, Va., Action, 1863

Cults

Cumberland Gap, Tenn. - Skirmishes - Surrender, 1863

Cumberland Gap, Tenn., Recon. to, 1862

Cumberland Presbyterian Church - General Assembly

Cumberland River (Tenn.) - Description - Navigation

Cumberland River (Tenn.), Recon. to (January 1863)

Curfew

Curlews

Currency See also: Bank notes Money Money, paper - Laws

Currency question

Current events

Customs administration

Customs-houses

Cutworms

Cyclones

Cynthiana, Ky., Action, 1864

D

Daguerreotype

Dakota Indians - Wars, 1862-1865

Dallas, Ga., Combat, 1864 - Casualties

Dallas, Ga., Combats, 1864

Dallas, Ga., Operation, 1864

Dalton, Ga., Demonstration (February )1864

Dalton, Ga., Retreat from, 1864

Dams

Dance halls

Dance parties

Dancing - Competition - Study and teaching

Dandies

Danville, Va., Expedition to, 1864 - Casualties

Dardanelle, Ark. - Skirmishes

Daredevils

David's Ferry, La., Engagement, 1864

Davidson County, Tenn. - Clerks - Politics and government

Davis Bridge, Tenn., Engagement, 1862

Dead Buffalo Lake, N.D., Action, 1863

Deaf - Institutional care - Services for the

Death - Religious aspects

Deaths

Debates and debating

Debating clubs (Black)

Debt - Exemption - Laws - Lawsuits

Decatur, Ala. - Capture, 1864

Decatur, Ga. - Capture

Dechard Station, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Decoration Day

Deeds

Deer

Deer Creek, Miss., Raid, 1863

Deer hunting

Default payment

Deism

Delaware - Legislature

Delivery services - Fees

Democracy

Democratic Party See also: Conservative Party (1866-1869) National Democratic Party (1860) - Constitution - Convention - National Convention - Platform

Democratic Peace Convention

Democratic State Rights Party

Dengue fever

Denmark, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Dentists - Laws

Dentures

Deportations

Deposite Bill, 1836

Depression (economic)

Des Arc, Ark. - Description

Deserters

Deserters, Confederate - Amnesty - Execution - Pardon

Deserters, Union - Deaths - Execution

DeSoto County, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Social life and customs - Skirmishes

Despotism

Detectives

Detectives (military) - Misconduct

Diamonds

Digestion

Dinner parties

Dioramas

Direct trade

Disabled veterans - Assistance - Education

Disabled veterans, Confederate - Assistance - Education

Disaster relief

Disasters

Discrimination - Law

Discrimination in employment

Diseases - Immunization - Treatment

Disinfection and disinfectants

Dissection - Memphis, Tenn.

Dissenters - Southern States

Distilling

Distilling, illicit

Distribution of goods Use: Transportation of goods

Ditch Bayou, Ark., Engagement, 1864

Diving

Diving bells

Divorce - Law

Dog attacks

Dog fighting

Dog shows

Dogs - Laws - Lawsuits - Military use - Mistreatment - Price - Taxation - Theft - Training

Domestic lawsuits

Domestic violence Use: Family violence

Dominican Republic - Acquisition by the United States - Description - Revolution, 1863

Donaldsonville, La., Engagement, 1863

Dorr Rebellion, 1842

Dover, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Dover, Tenn., Battle, 1863 Use: Fort Donelson (Tenn.), Action, 1863

Dowsing

Draft Use: Conscription

Draft resisters Use: Conscription - Resistance

Draft Riot, New York (City), 1863

Drainage

Drama

Dranesville, Va., Engagement, 1861

Draymen - Fees - Laws - Licenses

Dreams

Dred Scott Decision (1857)

Dredging

Dresden, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Dress-making - Study and teaching

Drewry's Bluff, Va., Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Dreyse Needle Gun

Drinking (alcoholic beverages) - Deaths

Drinking (alcoholic beverages) and accidents

Drinking (alcoholic beverages) and crime

Drinking fountains

Droop Mountain, W. Va., Engagement, 1863

Drought

Drowning

Drug abuse - Death

Drugs - Contamination - Laws - Overdose - Price - Theft

Drugstores - Law

Drums

Drunkenness - Laws

Druids (U.A.O.D.)

Dry docks

Dry goods - Price

Duck Hill, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Duck River (Tenn.) - Navigation

Dueling - Laws

Dug Gap, Ga., Combat, 1864 - Casualties

Durhamville, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Dust control

Dutch Gap, Va., Action, 1864

Dutch-Americans

Duty

Duvall's Bluff, Ark. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Dwarfs

Dyersburg, Tenn. - Skirmishes

E

Eagle Dance

Eagles

Early's Raid and Operations Against the B&O Railroad (June-August 1864)

Earthquakes

East Tennessee - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Military campaigns - Politics and government - Secession Use: Separatist movements - East Tennessee - Strategic aspects - Union occupation

East Tennessee Campaign (August-October 1863)

Easter

Easter eggs

Eastport, Miss., Action, 1864

Eccentrics and eccentricities

Eclectic medicine

Economic conditions Use: (name of city, state, country) - Economic conditions

Economic development

Economic policies

Economics

Eddyville, Ky. - Skirmishes

Editorial cartoons

Editorial conventions

Education - Finance - Methodology

Education, compulsory

Edward's Depot, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Egypt - Antiquities - Description and travel

Eight-hour movement

El Rey, Mexico, Battle, 1847

Elder abuse

Election districts

Election laws

Election officials - Appointment

Elections - Aldermen - Attorney General - Congressmen - Congressmen (CSA) - Constables - Corrupt practices - Cost - Courts Use: Elections - Judges - Governor - Judges - Legislators - Mayor - President - Confederate States of America - Sheriff - Trustee - U.S. President - Vice-President

Elections (military) Use: Military elections

Electoral College (United States)

Electric lighting

Electricity

Electrobiology

Electro-magnetism

Elephant hunting

Elephants

Eleusinus

Elizabeth City, Va. - Union occupation

Elkhorn Tavern, Ark., Battle, 1862 Use: Pea Ridge, Ark., Battles, 1862

Elm trees

Elmwood Cemetery - Finance

Elocution

Elopement

Eltham's Landing, Va., Engagement, 1862

Emancipation Proclamation - Celebration - Foreign opinion - Public opinion

Embargo

Ember Days

Embezzlement

Embroidery

Emery mines

Emigration and immigration - Laws

Eminent domain

Employee rights

Employee theft

Employees - Dismissal

Employer-employee relations

Employment

Employment agencies

End of the world Use: Millenialism

Endothermic gas generators

Engineering schools

Engineers

Engineers (military) Use: Military engineers

English language - Dialects - Grammar - Orthography and spelling - Study and teaching - Usage

English tourists

English-Americans Use: Anglo-Americans

Engravings

Enlightenment

Enterprise, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Enterprise, Miss., Raid, 1864

Entertainment - Taxation

Entrepreneurs

Epidemics

Episcopal Church - Convention - Doctrine

Episcopal Church, South

Equality

Erie Canal

Erosion

Erostratus

Erysipelas

Essays

Etching (acid)

Ether (anesthetic)

Etheridge County, Tenn.

Ethics

Ethnic groups - Crimes

Ethnic relations

Etiquette

Etna, Mount (Italy) - Eruption

Europe - Culture - Description and travel - Economic conditions - Politics and government - Revolutions, 1848-1849

Evangelical Lutheran Church

Evangelicalism

Evidence (law)

Evolution

Ex Parte Milligan (1866)

Exceptionalism

Exchange brokers

Excise tax

Excursions

Executive departments

Executive power

Exhumation

Exiles

Expeditions

Expedition to, and Capture of, New Orleans (April-May 1862)

Explosions

Export-import trade - Fees - Laws

Express companies - Contracts

Expulsions Use: Deportations

Expunging resolutions, 1834-1837

Extortion

Extradition

Eyes - Diseases - Surgery

F

Fads

Fair Oaks, Va., Battle, 1862 Use: Seven Pines, Va., Battle, 1862

Fair trade

Fair-trade pricing

Fairgrounds

Fairs Use: Church Fairs Festivals Tournaments

False imprisonment

Families

Family violence

Famine

Fandango (dance)

Fans (machinery)

Farcy (disease)

Farm equipment Use: Agricultural machinery

Farmers

Farmington, Miss. - Capture - Skirmishes

Farmington, Miss., Engagement, 1862

Farmington, Mo. - Capture

Farms

Faro (game)

Fashion

Fast days

Fasts and feasts

Fate

Fayette County, Tenn. - Boundary - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Politics and government

Fayetteville, Ark. - Destruction

Fayetteville, Ark., Action, 1863

Feast of Tabernacles

Federal aid to railroads

Federal economic assistance

Federal and state relations See also: State rights

Federal Penetration up the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers (February-June 1862)

Federalism

Federalist Party

Female impersonators

Feminism

Fences

Fencing

Fenians

Ferries

Ferryboats - Accidents

Fertilizer industry

Fertilizers

Festivals

Feuds

Fiction

Filibusters See also: Soldiers of fortune

Finance, personal

Fire alarms

Fire engines - Accidents

Fire extinguishers

Fire horses

Fire hydrants

Fire prevention - Laws

Fire stations

Fire wardens

Firearms - Accidents - Confiscation - Laws - Patents - Safety

Firearms (military) - Confiscation

Firearms and women

Firefighters - Accidents - Awards - Chief - Deaths - History - Misconduct - Salaries - Uniforms

Fireplaces

Fires See also: Arson

Fireworks - Accidents - Laws

Fish

Fish kills

Fish markets

Fisher's Hill, Va., Battle, 1864

Fishing

Fishing Creek, Ky. Battle, 1862 Use: Mill Springs, Ky., Battle, 1862

Fishing rights

Fissures

Flag-bearers, Confederate

Flags - Capture - Desecration - Etiquette - Laws - Symbolism

Flags (regimental)

Flags, Confederate - Design

Flatboats - Accidents

Flax

Fleas

Flies

Flood control See also: Levees

Floods - Economic aspects

Florence, Ala. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Recapture, 1862 - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Florence, Ala., Engagement, 1864

Florence, Ala., Raid, 1863

Florence, Tenn., Raid, 1862

Florida - Description - Discovery and exploration - Spanish - Legislature - Military campaigns - Statehood

Florida, Confederate Armies of

Florists

Flour - Export-import trade - Price

Flour mills

Flower shows - Drying

Flowers - Symbolism

Fog

Folk music

Folk remedies

Folk tales

Folklore

Food - Export - Inspection - Lawsuits - Prices

Food crops - Price

Food laws

Food markets - Laws

Food poisoning

Food safety - Laws

Food supply

Foot-races

Footwear

Forage plants

Foraging (military)

Foreign aid

Foreign currency

Foreign exchange rates

Foreign investment

Foreign languages - Study and teaching

Foreign-born residents - Conscription - Crimes Use: Ethnic groups - Crimes - Laws - Medical care - Suffrage

Foreign-born soldiers

Forensics

Forests and forestry

Forgery

Forked Deer River (Tenn.) - Navigation

Forms of address

Forrest's Defense of Mississippi (June-August 1864)

Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee (December 1862-January 1863)

Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee and Kentucky (March-April 1864)

Fort Anderson (North Carolina) - Capture, 1865

Fort Barrancas (Florida) - Seizure, 1861

Fort Bisland, La., Engagement, 1863

Fort Blakely (Alabama) - Capture, 1865

Fort Darling, Va., Battle, 1864

Fort Detroit (Mich.) - Surrender, 1812

Fort Donelson (Tennessee) - Surrender

Fort Donelson (Tennessee), Action, 1863

Fort Donelson (Tennessee), Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Fort Fisher (North Carolina), Capture, 1865 January 23, 1865, 2:1 (WB)

Fort Gaines (Alabama) - Surrender

Fort Hatteras (North Carolina), Capture

Fort Henry (Tennessee) - Capture

Fort Henry (Tennessee), Battle, 1862

Fort Jackson (Louisiana) - Surrender

Fort Jackson (Louisiana), Bombardment, 1862

Fort Jackson, La., Mutiny, 1863

Fort Loudon, Tenn., Assault, 1863

Fort Philip Kearney, Massacre, 1866

Fort Pickering, Tenn. - Charter - Description - Growth

Fort Pickering Neighborhood (Memphis)

Fort Pillow (Tennessee) - Bombardment - Evacuation - Surrender, 1862

Fort Pillow (Tennessee), Battle, 1864 - Casualties

Fort Pillow (Tennessee), Expedition to, May 1862

Fort Pillow (Tennessee), Massacre, 1864

Fort Powell (Alabama) - Bombardment, 1864

Fort Pulaski (Georgia) - Seizure - Surrender, 1862

Fort St. Phillip (Louisiana) - Bombardment, 1862

Fort Sanders (Tennessee), Assault, 1863

Fort Sumter (S.C.) - Bombardment, 1863 - Siege, 1861

Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.), Assault, 1863

Fort Texas, Tex. - Siege, 1846

Fort Wagner (Charleston, S.C.) - Surrender

Fort Wagner (Charleston, S.C.), Assault, 1863

Fortification Bill, 1836

Fortifications

Fortune

Fortune-telling

Fossils

Foundries

Fountains

Fourth of July

Fox hunting

France - Colonies - Culture - Description - February Revolution, 1848 - Foreign relations - History - Politics and government - Reign of Terror, 1793-1794 - Relations - Revolution, 1789-1799 - Revolution, 1848 - Second Empire, 1852-1870 - Third Republic

France. Navy

Franchise laws Use: Suffrage

Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871

Frankfort, Mo. - Skirmishes

Franklin, Tenn., Battle, 1863 - Casualties

Franklin, Tenn., Battle, 1864

Franklin-Nashville Campaign (September-December 1864)

Franklin (State)

Franklin County, Tenn. - Union occupation

Fraternization

Fratricide

Fraud See also: Swindlers

Frederick, Md. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Fredericksburg, Va. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Union occupation

Fredericksburg, Va., Affair, 1862

Fredericksburg, Va., Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Fredericksburg Campaign (November-December 1862) - Casualties

Fredericktown, Mo., Battle, 1861

Free banking

Free blacks See also: Blacks - Assistance - Colonization - Compensation - Conscription - Convention - Crime - Crimes against - Education - Employment See also: Black agricultural workers - Impressment - Laws See also: Race laws - Medical care - Social conditions - Social life and customs - Suffrage - Suicide

Free labor movement

Free love movement

Free schools

Free Soil Party - Convention

Free thinkers

Free trade

Freebooters

Freedmen's Bureau (location) - Budget

Freedmen's courts

Freedmen's schools See also: Black schools

Freedom of debate (legislative bodies)

Freedom of information

Freedom of religion

Freedom of speech

Freedom of the press

Freemasons

Freemasons, Black Use: Black Freemasons

Freight and freightage - Laws - Lawsuits

French Broad River (N.C.)

French language - Study and teaching

French Spoliation Bill

French-Americans

Frescos

Friar's Point, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Friar's Point, Miss., Naval engagement, 1863

Friendship

Frogs

Front Royal, Va., Action, 1862

Frontier and pioneer life

Frozen foods

Fruit

Fruit markets

Fuel conservation

Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

Fugitive slaves - Deaths - Laws

Fugitives

Fulton, Tenn.

Fulton County (Ga.) Superior Court

Fund-raising

Funeral rites and customs - Cost

Furniture - Repairing

Furniture industry

Furniture stores

Future

G

Gag rules Use: Freedom of debate (legislative bodies)

Gaines Landing, Ark. - Skirmishes

Gaines Mill, Va., Action, 1864

Gainesville, Ark., Scout, 1864

Gainesville, Fla. - Capture

Galena, Mexico - Skirmishes

Gales

Gallatin, Tenn., Action, 1862

Gallaway, Tenn. - Description

Gallows

Galvanism

Galveston, Tex. - Description - Surrender, 1862

Galveston, Tex., Battle, 1863

Gambling - Laws

Game laws

Game meat - Export

Gangs

Gardens

Garrisons

Gas-lighting - Accidents - Price - Safety - Taxation

Generals - Misconduct

Generals, Confederate - Deaths

Generals, Union

Generosity

Genocide

Geography - Study and teaching

Geology

Georgia - Boundary - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Economic conditions - Finance - General Assembly - Governors - History - Legislators - Military campaigns - Politics and government - Provost Marshal

Georgia. Commissary General

Georgia, Confederate Armies of

Georgia and Florida, Confederate District of

German language

German newspapers

German-Americans - Political activity

Germantown, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Skirmishes

Germantown, Tenn., Scout, 1863

Germany - Revolution - Unification

Gettysburg, Pa., Battle, 1863 - Casualties

Gettysburg Campaign (June-July 1863) - Casualties

Geysers

Ghost stories

Ghosts

Giants

Gift associations

Girls - Education

Glaciers

Glass etching

Glass industry

Glascow, Mo. - Skirmishes

Glassware

Glazed wadding (manufacture)

Goats

God

Gold - Laws - Price

Gold coins

Gold Hoax

Gold mines and mining - Economic aspects

Gold Panic - 1869

Gold standard

Goliad Massacre, 1836

Goober peas

Goodman's Station, Miss., Raid, 1863

Goodrich's Landing, La. - Skirmishes

Gordonsville, Va. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Gossip

Government assistance

Government contracts

Government employees - Appointment - Misconduct - Relocation - Salaries

Government liability

Government ownership

Government property - Sales - Theft

Government reorganization

Government, claims against

Government, resistance to

Governors See also: (State) - Governors

Grain - Export - Harvesting - Laws - Price

Grain crops

Grain markets

Grain Movement

Grain trade

Grand Gulf, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Grand Gulf, Miss., Affair, 1862

Grand Gulf, Miss., Bombardment, 1863

Grand Gulf, Miss., Engagement, 1863 - Casualties

Grand Gulf, Miss., Raid, 1863

Grand Junction, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Economic conditions - Skirmishes

Grand Junction, Tenn., Affair, 1863

Grand juries - Desegregation

Granite

Grant's Canal (Vicksburg, Miss.)

Grant's Operations Against Vicksburg (March-July 1863) - Casualties

Grant's Overland Campaign (May-June 1864)

Grapes - Cultivation

Grasses

Grasshoppers

Grave digging

Grave-robbing

Great Britain - Colonies - Commerce - Mississippi River - Economic conditions - Finance - Foreign policy - Foreign relations - History - Politics and government - Relations - Southern States - Territorial expansion

Great Britain. Parliament - Reform

Great Lakes (North America) - Strategic aspects

Greece - Foreign relations - Politics and government - Revolution, 1843

Greed

Greek fire

Grenada, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Evacuation

Grenada County, Miss.

Greenville, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Greenville, Miss., Raid, 1863

Greenville, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Greenwood, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Greenwood, Miss., Operation, 1863

Grenada, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Evacuation

Grenada, Miss., Action, 1863

Grenada, Miss., Raid, 1862

Grenada, Miss., Raid, 1863

Grierson's Mississippi Raid (December, 1864-January, 1865)

Grierson's Raid (April-May 1863)

Grierson's Raid in Georgia (April-May 1865)

Grist mills

Grocers

Guadalupe River - Navigation

Guano

Guerilla warfare Use: Partisans

Gulf Coast - Civil War, 1861-1865

Gulf of Mexico - Strategic aspects

Gunboats

Gunboats, Confederate

Gunboats, Union - Capture

Guncotton

Gunpowder - Laws

Gunsmiths

Guntersville, Ala. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Guntown, Miss., Battle, 1864

Guntown, Miss., Raid, 1863

Gymnasiums

Gymnastics

Gypsies

Gypsum

H

Habeas corpus

Hack drivers Use: Taxicabs

Hail

Hair - Coloring

Hair dye

Hairstyling

Haiti - Annexation to the United States - Politics and government

Halloween

Hampton Roads Peace Conference, 1865

Hampton Roads, Va., Action, 1862

Hand looms

Handicapped - Discrimination

Hankinson's Ferry, Miss., Scout to, 1864

Hannukah

Hanover Courthouse, Va., Battle, May 1862

Hanseatic League

Happy Hollow Neighborhood (Memphis)

Happy Valley Neighborhood (Memphis)

Hardeman County, Tenn. - Finance - Politics and government

Hardeman County (Tenn.) Court

Hardinsburg, Ky., Raid, 1864

Hardware stores

Hardwoods

Hardy County, W. Va., Operation, 1864

Hardy County, W. Va., Raids, 1864

Harper's Ferry, Va. - Description

Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Battle, 1862

Harper's Ferry, W. Va., Raid on, 1862

Harwood Church, Va. - Skirmishes

Hatchie River (Tenn.) - Navigation

Hats (mens)

Hatteras Inlet Batteries, N.C., Engagement, 1861

Hatters

Haunted houses

Havana, Cuba - Description

Haynes Bluff, Miss., Action, 1863

Haywood County, Tenn. - Politics and government

Hazlehurst, Miss., Raid, 1863

Headache remedies

Hedgerows

Helena, Ark. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Politics and government - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Helena, Ark., Attack, 1863 - Casualties

Helena, Ark., Expedition from, 1862

Helena, Ark., Raid, 1862

Hell

Hell's Half-Acre Neighborhood (Memphis)

Hemp

Heraldry

Herbal medicines

Hernando, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Growth - Skirmishes

Hernando, Miss., Raid, 1862

Hernando, Miss., Raid, 1863

Hernando, Miss., Scout, 1864

Hernia - Surgery

Heroes

Hickman, Ky. - Capture - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Hickman, Ky., Occupation of, 1863

Hickman, Ky., Raid, 1863

Hickory Plains, Ark.

Hickory Wythe Springs (Shelby County, Tenn.)

High schools

Hilton Head, S.C., Naval engagement, 1864

Hinds County, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Hiring halls Use: Employment agencies

Historic houses

Historical societies

History - Religious aspects

Hoarding

Hoaxes

Hog cholera

Hog Point, Mississippi River, La, Attacks, 1863

Hogs Use: Swine

Hoists

Holidays

Holly Springs, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Economic conditions - Evacuation - Politics and government - Skirmishes - Surrender, 1862 - Union occupation

Holly Springs, Miss., Action, 1862

Holly Springs, Miss., Expedition to, June 1862

Holly Springs, Miss., Raid, 1863

Holly Springs (Miss.) Circuit Court

Home guards

Home health care

Home industry

Home rule

Homeless - Assistance

Homeopathy

Homestead law

Homesteading

Homilies

Honduras - Foreign relations

Honesty

Honey

Hoover's Gap, Tenn., Actions, 1863 - Casualties

Hopefield, Ark. - Destruction - Mayors

Hopefield, Ark., Raid, 1863

Horn Lake, Miss. - Skirmishes

Hornersville, Mo., Raid, 1862

Horse breeding

Horse fairs

Horse racing - Accidents - History - Regulations

Horse shows

Horse stealing

Horseback riding - Laws

Horses - Deaths - Diseases - Impressment - Insurance - Military use - Mistreatment - Sales - Training - Treatment

Horses (hairless)

Horseshoe Bend, Ala., Battle of, 1814

Horseshoes (charms)

Horticulture

Hospitality

Hospitals - Administration - Donations - Fees - Finance - Fund-raising - Indigent care - Personal narratives

Hospitals, military Use: Military hospitals

Hot air balloons

Hot Springs, Ark. - Description

Hot weather - Deaths

Hotels - Boycott - Rates

Household employees - Theft

Houses - Demolition - Historic Use: Historic houses - Impressment - Removal - Ventilation

Housewares

Housing

Housing industry

Houston County, Tenn.

Howard's Row Neighborhood (Memphis)

Hudsonville, Miss. - Skirmishes

Human behavior

Human hair color

Human magnetism

Human remains

Human remains (archaeology)

Humboldt, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description

Humor

Hungarian-Americans

Hungary - Uprising of 1848-1849

Hunger

Hunting - Laws

Hunting accidents - Deaths

Hunting dogs

Huntsville, Ala. - Capture - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Union occupation

Hurricane Creek, Miss. - Skirmishes

Hurricanes

Husband abuse

Husband and wife

Husbands

Hydro-carbonic air gas

Hydropathy

Hypnotism

I

Icarian movement

Ice - Price

Ice cream

Ice cream parlors

Ice skating

Icebergs

Idaho - Governors

Identity fraud

Idleness

Illinois - Constitution - Governors - Politics and government

Illiteracy

Illuminations

Immigrant labor - Wages

Immigrants - Political activity

Immigration Use: Emigration and immigration

Immorality

Immunization Use: Diseases - Immunization

Impeachment

Imperialism

Impressment

Incest

Income

Indemnity

Indemnity bill (Tennessee)

Indentured servitude

Independence movements

Independent Republican Party - National convention

Independent treasury

India - History

Indian businessmen

Indian captivities

Indian Creek, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Indian mounds

Indian Nations

Indian reservations

Indian Summer (autumn weather)

Indian Territory

Indian treaties

Indian wars - Atrocities - Cost

Indiana - Governors - Military campaigns - Politics and government

Indianapolis, Ind. - Description

Indians of North America - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Crimes against - Discrimination - Origin - Relations - Slaves - Treaties - Treatment

Indicator (hotel call device)

Individualism

Industrial accidents

Industrial development

Industrial mechanization

Industry - Relocation

Infanticide

Infants - Deaths

Infirmaries

Inflation

Influenza

Infrastructure

Ingram's Mills, Miss., Engagement, 1863

Inheritance - Laws - Lawsuits

Injunctions - Laws

Inquests - Law

Insane - Commitment and detention Use: Mentally ill – Institutional care

Insanity defense Use: Insanity (law)

Insanity (law)

Insects

Inspections

Insurance - Claims - Executives - Rates - Taxation

Insurance, life Use: Life insurance

Insurance companies - Claims - Discrimination - Executives - Laws - Lawsuits - Rates - Taxation

Insurance fraud

Intellectualism

Intercity relations

Interest rates - Computations - Laws - Lawsuits

International relations

Internationalism

Interracial marriage - Laws

Interracial social issues

Interstate commerce

Interstate relations See also: Sectionalism

Intimidation

Invalid homes

Inventions and inventors

Investment

Iowa - Legislators - Misconduct - Politics and government - Statehood

Ireland - British occupation - Culture - Description and travel - English Conquest - History - Politics and government - Rising of 1848 - Uprising

Irish Bend and Fort Bisland, La., Battle, 1863

Irish Confederation

Irish moss - Uses

Irish nationalism

Irish question

Irish-Americans - Discrimination

Iron industry and trade

Iron-ore

Iron oxide

Iron rails

Ironclad Ships (CSA)

Ironclad Ships (U.S.)

Ironton, Mo. - Skirmishes

Irrigation

Island No. 10, Mississippi River - Union Occupation

Island No. 10, Mississippi River, Action, 1862

Island No. 10, Mississippi River, Raid, 1863

Island No. 10, Mississippi River, Raid, 1864

Island No. 60, Mississippi River - Skirmishes

Island No. 62, Mississippi River, Raid on, 1864

Island No. 76, Mississippi River - Skirmishes

Israel

Isthmuses - Panama

Italian-Americans

Italy - Description - Foreign relations - History - Politics and government - Revolution of 1848 - Unification - War of Independence, 1859-1861

Iuka, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Skirmishes

Iuka, Miss., Action, 1863

Iuka, Miss., Battle, 1862

Iuka and Corinth Operations (September-October 1862) - Casualties

J

Jacinto, Miss. - Skirmishes

Jackson's Romney Campaign, (January 1 - February 20, 1862)

Jackson's Valley Campaign (March-June 1862) - Casualties

Jackson, La. - Skirmishes

Jackson, Miss. - Capture, 1863 - Capture, 1864 - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Destruction - Evacuation - Mayors - Skirmishes - Surrender, 1863 - Union occupation

Jackson, Miss., Battle, 1863 - Casualties

Jackson, Miss., Engagement, 1864

Jackson, Miss., Siege, 1863

Jackson, Tenn. - Capture - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Economic conditions - Finance - Growth - Mayors - Politics and government - Skirmishes - Surrender - Union occupation

Jackson, Tenn., Raid, 1864

Jackson County, Miss. - Sheriffs

Jacksonport, Ark. - Capture

Jacksonville, Fla. - Union occupation

Jails

Jalapa, Mexico - Evacuation - Surrender

Jamaica - Insurrection, 1865

Japan - Foreign relations

Japanese

Jaunting cars

Jayhawking Use: Pillage

Jealousy

Jefferson City, Mo. - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Jerusalem, Palestine - Foreign aid

Jesuits

Jewelry stores

Jewish cemeteries

Jews - Civil rights - Persecution

Johnson Clubs

Joint Operations Against New Madrid, Island No. 10, and Memphis (February-June 1862)

Jones County, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Jonesboro, Tenn., Action, 1863

Journalism

Journalists See also:War correspondents

Journeymen

Jousting Use: Tournaments

Judaism - Customs and practices

Judges - Appointment - Impeachment - Misconduct - Qualifications - Salaries - Violence against

Judicial powers

Juggling

Juleps

Juries

Jurors - Qualifications - Pay

Jury duty

Justices of the peace

Juvenile delinquency

Juvenile detention centers

K

Kansas - Military campaigns - Politics and government - Statehood

Kansas Territory - Emigration Use: Emigration and immigration - Kansas Territory - Politics and government

Kaolin

Katydids

Kelly's Ford, Va., Engagement, 1863

Kennesaw Mountain, Ga., Operation, 1864 - Casualties

Keno (game)

Kentuckians

Kentucky - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Constitution - Description - Finance - Governors - Legislature - Military campaigns - Politics and government - Strategic aspects - Travel - Treasurers

Kentucky, Confederate Armies of

Kentucky State Guard

Kentucky Union Convention

Kernstown, Va., Battle, 1862

Kickapoo Indians

Kidnapping

Kidneys - Disease

Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid (March 1864)

Kite-flying

Kings and rulers

Kingston, Tenn. - Capture - Skirmishes

Kinston, N.C., Expedition, 1864

Kitchen utensils

Knifesmiths

Know Nothing Party - National Convention

Knoxville, Tenn. - Capture - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Evacuation - Finance - Growth - Politics and government - Skirmishes - Social life and customs - Union occupation

Knoxville, Tenn., Assault, 1863

Knoxville Campaign (November-December 1863)

Knoxville Convention, 1864

Kolb's Farm, Ga., Combat, 1864 - Casualties

Kossuth hats

Ku Klux Klan

L

La Vergne, Tenn., Recon. from, 1863

La Vergne, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Labor - Mistreatment - Political activity - Safety - Wages

Labor brokers Use: Employment agencies

Labor camps

Labor contracts

Labor disputes

Labor laws

Labor Reform Party

Laboratory (Memphis) Use: Memphis Laboratory

Lacrosse Use: Stickball

LaFayette, Ga., Action, 1864

Lafayette, Ga., Recon. to, 1863

Lafayette, Ga., Scout, 1864

Lafayette, Tenn. - Destruction

LaGrange, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Economic conditions - Politics and government - Skirmishes - Union occupation

LaGrange, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Lake Providence, La. - Skirmishes

Lake Superior - Description

Lakes - Eruptions

Lamp oil - Laws

Lamps

Lancaster, Ky. - Skirmishes

Lancaster, Pa. - Description

Land claims

Land grants

Land grants, Spanish

Land grants, Union

Land reclamation Use: Reclamation of land

Land reform

Landlords and tenants - Laws

Landmines

Landscape sketches

Landslides

Lapan Indians

Lapis lazuli

Larkin's Landing, Ala., Raid, 1864

Larkinsville, Ala., Affair, 1864

Latimer's Mills, Ga., Combat, 1864

Lauderdale County, Tenn. - Politics and government

Laughing Gas Use: Nitrous oxide

Laundries

Laurel Hill, W. Va. - Skirmishes

Law (religion)

Law enforcement

Law schools

Lawrence, Kans. - Destruction

Lawrence, Kans., Raid, 1863

Laws

Lawsuits

Lawyers - Ethics - Misconduct - Oaths - Qualifications

Lay-Osborne Flotilla

Lead mines and mining

Lead poisoning

Leather industry

Lebanon, Tenn. - Description - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Lebanon, Tenn., Action, 1862

Lectures

Leesburg, Va. - Union occupation, 1862

Leesburg, Va., Battle, 1861 Use: Ball's Bluff, Va., Battle, 1861

Legal advertising - Laws

Legal reform

Legal notices

Legislative power

Lemonade

Lent

Leprosy

Letheon Use: Anesthesia

Levees - Repair - Vandalism

Lexington, Ky. - Description - Civil War, 1861-1865

Lexington, Mo. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Lexington, Mo., Action, 1864

Lexington, Mo., Battle, 1861

Liability (law)

Liberal Party

Liberalism

Liberia

Libertarianism

Liberty

Liberty, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Liberty Mills, Va. - Skirmishes

Librarians

Libraries - Donations

Licenses - Fees - Theaters Use: Theaters - Taxation

Lien laws

Life

Life insurance - Lawsuits

Lightning - Deaths

Limestone

Linden, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Lions

Liquor industry - Fraud - Laws - Taxation

Liquor laws

Literacy

Literacy tests (election law)

Literary societies

Literature - New England - Southern States

Lithographs

Littering

Little Rock, Ark. - Capture - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Economic conditions - Mayors - Politics and government - Union occupation

Little Rock, Ark., Battle, 1863

Livery stables Use: Stables

Livestock - Deaths - Diseases - Laws - Theft

Livestock ranches

Lobelia

Local news

Local transit - Laws

Lockets (memorial)

Lockridge's Mill, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Locomotives - Accidents - Brakes

Locusts

Loitering

Longstreet's Knoxville Campaign (November-December 1863)

Longstreet's Tidewater Operations (March-April 1863)

Longevity

Lookout Mountain, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Lookout Mountain, Tenn., Battle, 1863 - Casualties

Lookout Valley, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Looms

Looting Use: Pillage

Lost Mountain, Ga. - Skirmishes

Lost Mountain, Ga., Action, 1864

Lost Mountain, Ga., Combats, 1864

Lotteries

Loudon County, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Loudon County, Va. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Loudon, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Louisiana - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Constitution - Economic conditions - Finance - Governors - History - Legislature - Military campaigns - Politics and government - Supreme Court - Union occupation

Louisiana, Confederate Armies of

Louisville, Ky. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Economic conditions - Union occupation

Louisville (Ky.) Board of Trade

Louisville (Ky.) Common Council

Love

Lower Brandon, Va., Raid, 1864

Loyal Leagues Use: Union League of America

Loyalty

Loyalty oaths Use: Oath of allegiance

Lumber - Price

Lumber mills

Lunar eclipse

Lungs - Diseases

Lutheran Church

Luxury goods

Lynchburg Campaign (May-June 1864)

Lynching

Lynxes

Lyons, France - Description

M

Machine guns

Mackerels (slang) Use: Juvenile delinquency

Macon, Ga. - Economic conditions - Finance

Macon, Ga., Raid, 1864

Macon, Miss. - Description

Madison County, Ala. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Union occupation

Madison County, Tenn. - Politics and government

Madison County (Tenn.) Commission

Madisonville, La., Expedition to, 1864

Magazines

Magazines (Masonic)

Magic lantern shows

Magicians

Magna Carta

Magnetic batteries

Magnetic healing

Mailboxes

Maine - Boundary

Malaria - Prevention

Male impersonators

Malvern Hill, Va. - Skirmishes

Malvern Hill, Va., Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Mammoth Cave (Ky.) - Art - Exploration

Mammoths

Manassas Campaign (July 1861) Use: Bull Run (1st) Campaign (July 1861)

Manhood

Manifest Destiny

Mansfield, La., Battle, 1864

Maori

Maple trees (silver)

Maps

Marbeleized glass

Marble

Mardi Gras (festival)

Marietta, Ga. - Union occupation

Marietta, Ga., Combat, 1864

Marietta, Ga., Operation, 1864 - Casualties

Marion, Ark. - Skirmishes

Marion, Miss. - Charter

Marine hospitals

Market houses

Markets See also: Food markets - Laws

Marl

Marriage - Fees - Fraud - Legal aspects - Religious aspects

Marriage ceremonies

Marriage customs

Marriage licenses

Marshall County, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Marshals

Martial law - History - Legal aspects

Martinsburg, W. Va., Occupation, 1861

Maryland - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Constitution - Military campaigns - Politics and government

Maryland Campaign (September 1862) - Casualties

Masculinity

Mason's Depot, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Masquerade balls

Massachusetts - Legislature - Relations

Mastodons

Matamoras, Mexico - Description

Matamoros, Mexico, Battle of, 1846

Materialism

Mathematics

Matricide

May Day

Mayfield, Ky. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Confederate Occupation - Skirmishes

Mayfield, Ky. Raid, 1864

Maysville, Ky., Raid, 1863

McClellan's Operations in Northern Virginia (October-December 1861)

McDowell, Va., Battle, 1862

McLemore's Cove, Ga. - Skirmishes

McLemoresville, Tenn.

McMinnville, Tenn. - Skirmishes

McMinnville, Tenn., Expedition to, 1863

McNairy County, Tenn. - Sheriffs

Measles

Meat - Contamination - Inspection - Marketing - Price - Rationing

Meat packing

Mechanics Use: Craftsmen

Mechanicsburg, Miss. - Skirmishes - Civil War, 1861-1865

Mechanicsville, Va., Battle, 1862

Mechanization

Medelin, Mexico - Skirmishes

Medical clairvoyant

Medical colleges - Faculty - Students

Medical fraud

Medical oddities

Medical supplies - Donations

Medicine - History

Medicine shows

Medicine, botanic

Meir, Texas, Battle, 1843

Memorial Day

Memory

Memphis, Tenn. - Aldermen - Misconduct - Salaries - Annexation - Boundary - Charter - City almoner - City attorneys - City comptrollers - City Council Use: Memphis (Tenn.) Board of Aldermen - City engineers - City inspectors - City marshals - City ordinances - City printers - City recorders - City registers - City surveyors - City treasurers - Civil War, 1861-1865 See also: Memphis, Tenn. - Union Occupation - Committee on Accounts - Comptrollers - Consolidation - Coroners - Culture - Description - Economic conditions - Evacuation - Expansion - Finance - Growth - Health officers - History - Mayors - Misconduct - Salary - Medical purveyor - Merger - Neighborhoods See also: name of neighborhood - Opinion of - Politics and government - Provost Marshal - Social conditions - Social life and customs - Strategic aspects - Street commissioners - Superintendents of schools - Surrender, 1862 - Tax collectors - Treasurers - Union occupation - Wharfmasters

Memphis, Tenn., Attack, 1864 - Casualties

Memphis, Tenn., Battle, 1862

Memphis, Tenn., Expedition from, 1864

Memphis (Tenn.) Bankruptcy Court

Memphis (Tenn.) Board of Aldermen

Memphis (Tenn.) Board of Health

Memphis (Tenn.) Board of Inspectors

Memphis (Tenn.) Board of Relief

Memphis (Tenn.) Board of School Visitors

Memphis (Tenn.) Board of Tobacco Trade

Memphis (Tenn.) Board of Trade

Memphis (Tenn.) Board of Underwriters

Memphis (Tenn.) Chamber of Commerce Use: Chamber of Commerce - Memphis, Tenn.

Memphis (Tenn.) Chancery Court

Memphis (Tenn.) City Dispensary

Memphis (Tenn.) Civil Commission

Memphis (Tenn.) Common Council

Memphis (Tenn.) Common Law and Chancery Court Note: split into two courts in 1865-1866

Memphis (Tenn.) Common Law Court

Memphis (Tenn.) Criminal Court

Memphis (Tenn.) Magistrates Court

Memphis (Tenn.) Mayor's Court

Memphis (Tenn.) Medical Examining Board

Memphis (Tenn.) Military Board

Memphis (Tenn.) Municipal Court

Memphis Navy Yard

Memphis (Tenn.) Police Court

Memphis (Tenn.) Recorders Court - Fines

Memphis (Tenn.) Safety Committee

Memphis (Tenn.) Vigilance Committee

Memphis (Tenn.) Water-Works Commission

Memphis (Tenn.) Wharf and Landing Committee

Memphis City Jail Use: Jails - Memphis

Men - Clothing and dress - Conduct of life

Menageries

Meningitis

Mentally ill - Institutional care

Mercenaries

Mercenaries, Union

Merchant ships

Meridian, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Union occupation

Meridian and Yazoo River Expeditions (February 1864)

Mesmerism

Messenger's Ferry, Miss., Affair, 1864

Metal-work

Meteorites

Meteorology

Meteors

Methodist Episcopal Church - Re-unification - Separation

Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conference

Methodist Episcopal Church, North

Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Metric system

Metropolitan Police Use: Police - Administration

Metropolitan Police Bill, 1866 (Tennessee)

Mexican-Texas War, 1841-1843

Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Appropriations - Armistice - Art - Atrocities - Campaigns - Casualties - Causes - Cherokee Indians - Correspondence - Cost - Diplomacy - Foreign opinion - Legal aspects - Naval campaigns - Naval engagements - Peace - Personal narratives - Political aspects - Public opinion - Scouting expeditions - Skirmishes - Soldiers

Mexican-Americans - Suffrage

Mexico - American occupation, 1847-1848 - Annexation to the United States - Boundary - Description - European intervention, 1861-1867 - Finance - Foreign relations - Occupation - Partition - Politics and government - Relations - Social life and customs - Treaties - War of the Reform, 1858-1860

Mexico. Army

Mexico. President

Mexico, Mo. - Skirmishes

Mexico City, Mexico - Capture - Occupation - Politics and government - Surrender

Michigan - Boundary - Constitution - Legislature - Statehood

Middle Tennessee - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Military campaigns - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Middle Tennessee Campaign (June 1863) - Casualties

Middle Tennessee Operations (February-April 1863) - Casualties

Middle Tennessee Raid (September 16 - October 10, 1864)

Middleburg, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Midshipmen - Misconduct

Mid-South - Economic conditions

Midwestern Confederacy Use: Separatist movements - Midwestern States

Midwestern States - Economic conditions - Strategic aspects

Migration

Milan, Tenn. - Description

Militarism

Military academies

Military and politics

Military and the press

Military art and science

Military awards and honors

Military cadets

Military camps - Recreation

Military camps, Union

Military cemeteries

Military Commission on Memphis Riots, 1866

Military courts - Legal aspects

Military departments

Military dependents - Assistance - Suicide

Military discipline

Military districts

Military Division of the Mississippi

Military drills

Military elections

Military engineers

Military executions

Military funerals

Military government

Military history - Parody

Military hospitals - Administration - Chaplains - Deaths - Donations - Food supply - Fund-raising - Merger - Patients - Staff - Supplies - Volunteers

Military insignia

Military intelligence

Military law

Military officers - Qualifications

Military parades

Military prisons

Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 Use: Reconstruction Act of 1867

Military resources

Military schools

Military service - Pay, allowances - Recruiting, enlistment

Military supplies - Defects - Donations - Fraud - Impressment - Sabotage - Shortages - Storage - Transportation

Military uniforms - Laws

Militias - Deaths - Conscription - Correspondence - Donations - Laws - Medical care - Misconduct - Mutiny - Officers - Appointment - Organization - Pay, allowances - Recruiting, enlistment - Suicide

Militias, Black Use: Black militias

Milk - Safety

Mill Creek, Tenn., Affair, 1863

Mill Creek Gap, Ga., Combat, 1864 - Casualties

Mill Springs, Ky., Engagement, 1862 - Casualties

Millenialism

Millerite movement

Milliken's Bend, La. - Description

Milliken's Bend, La., Battle, 1863

Milliners

Mime

Mine Run, Va. - Skirmishes

Mineral Point, Mo., Action, 1864

Mineral springs

Mines (Military explosives)

Mines and mineral resources

Minnesota - Description - Legislature

Minnesota Territory

Mining companies

Minorities

Minstrel shows

Minute Men

Miracles

Mirages

Miscegenation Use: Interracial marriage

Missing children

Missing dogs

Missing in action

Missing persons

Missing soldiers

Missionaries

Missionary Ridge, Tenn., Battle, 1863 - Casualties

Mississippi - Antiquities - Attorney General - Auditor - Boundary - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Commissioners - Constitution - Bill of Rights - Description - Economic conditions - Expansion - Finance - Governors - History - Messages - Laws - Legislators - Misconduct - Legislature - Military campaigns - Partition - Politics and government - Secretary of State - State Geologists - Supreme Court - Tax collectors - Travel - Treasurers - Union occupation

Mississippi Board of Levees

Mississippi City, Ala. - Description

Mississippi Constitutional Convention

Mississippi Court of Equity

Mississippi Military Board

Mississippi, Confederate Armies of - Casualties - Official records

Mississippi, North Use: North Mississippi

Mississippi, Union Military Division of the

Mississippi River - Art - Description and travel - Discovery and exploration - Military campaigns - Naval engagements - Navigation - Pilots Use: Pilots (steamboats) - Mississippi River - Strategic aspects - Traffic

Mississippi River Valley - Antiquities - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Military campaigns

Mississippi Row Neighborhood (Memphis)

Mississippian culture

Missouri - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Governors - Legislature - Military campaigns - Politics and government - Statehood - Supreme Court - Union occupation

Missouri, Confederate Armies of

Missouri Compromise (1850)

Missouri River - Navigation - Traffic

Missouri State Guard

Mistaken identity

Mnemonics

Mobile, Ala. - Aldermen - Annexation - Mississippi - Capture - City Council - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Evacuation - Mayors - Skirmishes - Strategic aspects

Mobile, Ala., Defense of, 1865

Mobile, Ala., Occupation, April 1865

Mobile, Ala., Operation, 1864

Mobile Campaign (March-April 1865)

Mobs

Mock battles

Mockingbirds

Modern languages - Study and teaching

Molasses - Price

Molino del Rey, Mexico, Battle, 1847

Monarchy

Monetary policy

Money - Laws - Transfer - Value

Money and culture

Money markets

Money supply

Money, Confederate Use: Confederate money

Money, paper Use: Paper money

Monopolies

Monroe County, Ark., Raids, 1864

Monroe County (Ark.) Circuit Court

Monroe Doctrine

Monroe Station, Mo. - Skirmishes

Monterey, Mexico - Capture - Description - Occupation - Surrender

Monterey, Mexico, Battle, 1846 - Casualties - Memorials

Montgomery, Ala. - Capture, 1865 - Description

Monticello (Va.)

Monticello, Ky., Affair, 1863 - Casualties

Monuments

Moonshine Use: Distilling, illicit

Moral education

Moral philosophy

Morale, Confederate

Morale, Union

Morality

Morality tales

Morgan County, Ala. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Morgan's Raid in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio (July 1863)

Morgan's Raid into Kentucky (June-September 1864)

Morganza, La., Action, 1863

Morganza, La., Expedition from, 1864

Mormons - Migration

Morning Sun, Miss. - Skirmishes

Morning Sun, Miss., Raid, 1862

Morphine - Overdose

Morris Island, S.C., Battle, 1863

Morris Island, S. C., Operation, 1863

Morse Code

Mortgages - Laws

Morton, Miss. - Description - Skirmishes

Moscow, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Moscow, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Mosquitos

Motivational stories

Mounds

Mount Elba, Ark., Action, 1864

Mt. Hood (Wa.)

Mt. Pinson, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Mount Vernon (Va.)

Mud

Mulattoes - Laws

Mulberry, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Mulberry trees

Mule trading

Mules - Diseases - Military use - Mistreatment - Price - Theft

Munfordville, Ky., Battle, 1862

Municipal bonds Use: Bonds

Municipal buildings Use: Public buildings

Municipal improvement

Municipal services

Munitions, confiscation

Munitions industry Use: Weapons industry

Munitions, confiscation

Murals

Murder

Murfreesboro, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Skirmishes

Murfreesboro, Tenn., Battle, 1862

Murfreesboro, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Museums

Music - Composition - Reviews - Study and teaching

Music halls - Laws

Music schools

Music stores

Musicians

Muskets

Mutiny

N

Names - Origin

Napoleon, Ark. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description

Nashoba, Tenn.

Nashoba County, Tenn.

Nashville, Tenn. - Aldermen - City ordinances - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - District Attorney - Economic conditions - Expansion - Finance - Growth - History - Mayors - Politics and government - Skirmishes - Social life and customs - Surrender, 1862 - Union occupation

Nashville, Tenn., Battle, 1864

Nashville (Tenn.) Board of Aldermen

Nashville (Tenn.) Board of Education

Nashville (Tenn.) Board of Trade

Natchez, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Finance - Growth - Mayors - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Natchez, Miss., Siege, 1862

Natchez Indians

National banks - Suspension

National cemeteries

National Conservative Convention (Philadelphia)

National Currency Act, 1864

National Democratic Party (1860)

National songs

Nationalism

Nationalization

Nationalization of railroads

Native American Party

Nativism

Natural history

Natural resources

Naturalization - Laws

Nauvoo, Ill. - Description

Navaho Indians

Naval engagements

Naval prize money

Navy-yards and naval stations

Nebraska - Statehood

Negro Balls Use: Slaves - Entertainment

Neptune (Planet) - Moons

Neshoba County, Tenn.

Nestorians

Netherlands - Wars of Independence, 1556-1648

Neutrality

Nevada - Statehood

New Albany, Miss. - Skirmishes

New Bern, N.C. - Skirmishes

New Bern, N.C., Battle, 1862

New Bern, N.C., Expedition from, 1864

New Concord, Ky. - Skirmishes

New England - Politics and government

New Harbor Bill, 1836

New Haven, Ky. - Skirmishes

New Hope Church, Ga., Combat, 1864 - Casualties

New Hope Church, Ga., Operation, 1864 - Casualties

New Jerusalem Church Use: Swedenborgian Church

New Kent Courthouse, Va., Raid, 1864

New Madrid, Mo. - Civil War, 1861-1865

New Madrid, Mo., Engagement, 1862

New Madrid Fault

New Market, Va., Engagement, 1864

New Mexico - Annexation to the United States - Boundary - Description - Military Campaigns Use: Sibley's New Mexico Campaign (February-March 1862) - Occupation - Politics and government - Statehood - Uprising, 1847

New Orleans, La. - Boundary - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Consolidation - Description - Economic conditions - Finance - Growth - Mayors - Politics and government - Social life and customs - Surrender, 1862 - Union occupation

New Orleans, La., Battle, 1815 - Memorials

New Orleans, La, Battle, 1862

New Orleans (La.) Board of Health

New Year

New Year's Day

New York (City) - Description - Economic conditions - Finance - Legislature - Social life and customs

New York (State) - Attorney general - Governors - Politics and government

New York World's Fair (1853)

New Zealand - History, 1843-1870

Newport News, Va., Naval skirmish, 1861

Newport, Ky., Raid, 1862

News stores

Newsboys Use: Newspapers - Carriers

Newspapers - Advertising - Carriers - Censorship - Cessation - Circulation - Competition - Cooperation - Correspondence - Delivery - Destruction - Distribution - Errata - Ethics - Expansion - Fees - History - Laws - Lawsuits - Merger - Price - Relocation - Sources - Staff - Subscription rates - Suspension - Taxation - Theft - Vandalism - Violence against

Newspapers, Union

Newspapers and history

Newspapers and politics

Newspapers and religion

Newspapers and war

Newton Station, Miss., Raid, 1863

Nicaragua - Filibuster War, 1855-1860 - Foreign relations

Nicholson Pavement

Nickajack Gap, Ga. - Skirmishes

Night schools

Night time

Nile River

Nitro-glycerine

Nitrous oxide

Noise

Non-violence

Nonconnah Creek (Tenn.)

Noonday Creek, Ga., Action, 1864

Norfolk, Va. - Capture - Evacuation - Union occupation

Norfolk, Va., Action, 1862

Normal schools Use: Teachers colleges

Norse runes

North Alabama - Description - Military campaigns - Skirmishes

North Carolina - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Colonial period - Constitution - Finance - Governors - History - Legislators - Military campaigns - Politics and government

North Memphis Neighborhood (Memphis)

North Mississippi - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Economic conditions - Union occupation

North Pole - Exploration Use: Arctic - Explorations

Northern States See also: Sectionalism - United States - Culture - Politics and government - Social conditions

Northern Virginia Campaign (August 1862) - Casualties

Northern-born residents

Northwest Territories (United States)

Northwestern Colony (Arkansas)

Northwestern Conspiracy, 1864

Norwegian-Americans

Notaries

Nova Scotia - Annexation to the United States

Novels

Novels, English

Nuisances

Nullification (states)

Numerology

Nuns

Nurseries

Nurses and nursing - Misconduct

Nutrition

O

Oak bark extract

Oak Hill, Mo., Battle, 1861 Use: Wilson's Creek, Mo., Battle, 1861

Oath of allegiance

Obesity

Obion (Tenn.) Circuit Court

Obituaries

Obscenity

Obstetrics

Occupational education

Ocean currents

Ocean Pond, Fla., Battle, 1864 Use: Olustee, Fla., Battle, 1864

Oddities

Offensive in Eastern Kentucky (January 1862) - Casualties

Ohio - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Constitution - Description - Governors - Legislature - Military campaigns - Politics and government - Supreme Court

Ohio River - Navigation - Traffic

Oil refineries

Oil stones

Oklahoma Territory

Okra

Okolona, Ark. - Skirmishes

Okolona, Miss., Engagement, 1864

Okra

Old River Lake, Ark., Engagement, 1864

Olive Branch, Miss. - Skirmishes

Olustee, Fla., Battle, 1864 - Casualties

Olympic Games

Omaha Indians

Ombudsmen

Omnibus plan

Oneida (NY) Community

Opera

Opera houses

Opera troupes

Operations Against Baton Rouge (July-August 1862)

Operations Against Baton Rouge (July-August 1862) - Casualties

Operations Against Fort Pulaski, April 1862

Operations Against Galveston (December 1862-January 1863)

Operations Against New Madrid, Island No. 10, and Memphis (February-June 1862)

Operations Against Plymouth (April-May 1864)

Operations Against the Defenses of Charleston (April-September 1863)

Operations Against the Sioux in North Dakota (July 1863)

Operations Against Vicksburg (December 1862-January 1863)

Operations Against Vicksburg (December 1862-January 1863) - Casualties

Operations at the Ohio and Mississippi River Confluence (November 1861)

Operations at the Ohio and Mississippi River Confluence (November 1861) - Casualties

Operations in Charleston Harbor (April 1861)

Operations in Eastern Kentucky (September-December 1861)

Operations in Mobile Bay (August 1864)

Operations in North Alabama (January 1864)

Operations in Northern Mississippi (October 1863)

Operations in West Louisiana (April 1863)

Operations in Western Virginia (June-December 1861)

Operations of the Gulf Blockading Squadron (October 1861)

Operations on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad (November 1863)

Operations on the White River (June 1862)

Operations to Blockade the Texas Coast (September 1863)

Operations to Control Indian Territory (June-September 1863)

Operations to Control Missouri (June-October 1861)

Opium - Medicinal uses

Ophthalmoscope

Opposition Party Use: Constitutional Union Party

Opticians

Orange Springs, Fla., Raid, 1864

Orange trees

Oration

Oratorios

Orchestras

Oregon - Politics and government

Oregon Question

Oregon Territory - Boundary - Canada Use: Oregon Question - Description - Governors

Organs (musical instrument)

Organized crime

Orphanages - Donations

Orphans - Assistance - Education

Osage Indians

Osceola, Ark. - Skirmishes

Osceola, Mo., Raid, 1862

Ouachita River - Navigation

Outdoor advertising - Laws

Outlaws See also: Crime and criminals

Outlaws (American) - Mexico

Overland journeys to the Pacific

Owls

Oxford, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Politics and government - Union occupation

Oysters - Price

P

Pacific railroads - Finance - Military use - Route

Paddy's Hen and Chickens (islands)

Paducah, Ky. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes - Union Occupation

Paducah, Ky., Action, 1864

Paedobaptists

Paintings - Exhibitions

Paints

Palate, artificial

Palatka, Fla., Affair, 1864

Palestine - Colonization

Palm Sunday

Palo Alto, Tex., Battle of, 1846

Pamphlets

Panama

Panithiopticonica

Panola County, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Skirmishes

Panola County, Miss., Raid, 1862

Panola County, Miss., Raid, 1863

Panola County (Miss.) Circuit Court

Panoramas

Panthers

Pantomines

Papacy

Paper - Price - Shortages

Paper money - Errors - Laws

Paper-mills

Papermaking

Parades See also: Military parades

Paraguayan War, 1865-1870

Pardons See also: Amnesty - History

Parenthood

Paris, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Evacuation - Skirmishes

Parker's Cross Roads, Tenn., Engagement, 1862

Parks

Parrott guns

Partisans - Execution - Laws

Partisans, Union - Execution

Partisanship

Passover

Passports

Patent medicines - Advertising - Laws - Safety

Patents

Patricide

Patriotic music

Patriotism

Patronage

Patterson, Mo., Scout, 1864

Pavements (iron)

Pawnshops

Pea Ridge, Ark., Battles, 1862 - Indians

Pea Ridge Campaign (March 7-8, 1862)

Peace Conference (Niagara Falls, Canada)

Peace Congress (1861)

Peace Convention (New York), 1863

Peace Democrats Use: Copperhead Movement

Peace League

Peace movements

Peace Proclamation, 1866

Peace warrants

Peaches, dried

Pearl River, Miss., Action, 1864

Peddlers and peddling

Pedespeed

Pedestrians

Pegram's Kentucky Raid (March-April, 1863)

Pelicans

Peninsula Campaign (March-July 1862) - Casualties

Penmanship

Pennsylvania - Constitution - Governors - Legislature - Military campaigns - Politics and government - Supreme Court

Pensacola, Fla. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description

Pensions

Pentecost

People

Perfumes

Perjury

Perryville, Ark. - Skirmishes

Perryville, Ky., Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Pests and pest control

Petersburg, Va. - Capture - Civil War, 1861-1865

Petersburg, Va., 2nd Battle, 1864

Petersburg, Va., Assaults, 1864

Petersburg, Va., Engagement, 1864

Petersburg, Va., Siege (June 1864-April 1865)

Petersburg (Va.) Board of Mayor and Aldermen

Petit Jean River (Ark.) - Navigation

Petitions

Petroleum - Taxation

Petroleum gas - Safety

Petroleum oil

Petroleum vapor stoves Use: Stoves, petroleum

Pets

Pews and pew rights

Pharmacists

Philadelphia Tenn., Action, 1863

Phillips County, Ark. - Sheriffs - Skirmishes

Philosophy

Phonetic spelling

Phonography

Photography

Phrenology

Physically handicapped - Institutional care

Physically-handicapped children

Physicians - Advertising - Education - Fees - Laws - Malpractice - Qualifications - Regulation

Physicians (military) - Misconduct

Physicians, women Use: Women physicians

Physiology

Piano players

Piano-makers

Pianos - Study and teaching - Tuning

Pickpockets

Picnics

Piedmont, Va., Engagement, 1864

Pigeon hunting

Pigeons

Piketon, Ky. - Skirmishes

Pikeville, Ark. - Description

Pilgrims

Pillage

Pilot Knob, Mo. - Description

Pilot Knob, Mo., Engagement, 1864

Pilots (steamboats)

Pinch District Neighborhood (Memphis)

Pine Bluff, Ark. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Skirmishes

Pine Bluff, Ark., Expedition from, 1864

Pine Mountain, Ga. - Skirmishes

Piracy

Pistols

Pit Cave (Ky.)

Plagiarism

Planetariums

Planets

Plank roads Use: Roads

Plantations

Planters Use: Farmers

Playing cards

Pleasant Grove, Utah - Skirmishes

Pleasant Hill, La., Engagement, 1864

Plowing

Plum Point, Tenn., Engagement, 1862

Plumbing

Plymouth, N.C., Siege, 1864

Pneumonia

Pocahontas, Ark. - Capture

Pocahontas, Ark., Expedition to, 1863

Pocahontas, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Pocahontas, Tenn., Expedition from, 1863

Poems

Poetry

Poets

Pogroms

Point Lookout, Md., Naval action, June 29, 1861

Poisons and poisoning - Law

Poland - Foreign relations - History - Partition - Politics and government - Revolution of 1846 - Revolution, 1863-1864

Polearms

Police - Administration - Assaults against Use: Police - Violence against - Chiefs - Commissioners - Corruption See also: Corruption - Deaths - Desegregation - Discipline - Misconduct See also: Police - Corruption - Mounted patrols - Promotions - Race relations - Regulation - Salaries - Uniforms - Violence against - Weapons

Police courts - Memphis, Tenn. Use: Memphis (Tenn.) Police Court

Police impersonation

Police murders

Police patrols

Police shootings Use: Police violence

Police stations - Expenses - Relocation

Police violence

Polish-Americans

Political advertising

Political ballads and songs

Political clubs

Political contributions

Political corruption Use: Corruption

Political ethics

Political movements

Political pamphlets

Political parties - Conventions - History

Political philosophy

Political prisoners

Political prisoners, women

Political rallies

Political rights

Political rights, loss of

Political satire

Political slang

Political symbols

Political violence

Politics and government Use: as subheading under location, i.e. Memphis, Tenn. - Politics and government

Politics and religion Use: Religion and politics

Poll tax

Pollen

Polygamy - Laws

Pompeii (Italy) - Description

Ponchatoula, La. - Skirmishes

Ponchatoula, La., Capture, 1863

Ponchatoula, La., Expedition to, 1863

Ponchatoula, La., Raid, 1863

Pontotoc, Miss., Raid, 1862

Pool (game)

Poor - Assistance - Burial - Deaths - Housing - Laws - Medical care

Poor children

Poor women - Assistance

Poorhouses

Poppies

Population

Populist movements

Pork - Health issues - Laws - Price - Safety

Pork trade

Pornography

Port Gibson, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Port Gibson, Miss., Battle, 1863 - Casualties

Port Hudson Campaigns, (August 1862 - July 1863)

Port Hudson, La. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes - Surrender

Port Hudson, La., Assault, 1863

Port Hudson, La., Raid, 1863

Port Hudson, La., Siege, 1863

Port Republic, Va., Engagement, 1862

Port Royal, S.C. - Union occupation

Port Royal, S.C., Battle, 1861

Port Walthall Junction, Va., Actions, 1864

Port wines

Portents

Porter repeating rifles

Portraits

Ports - Administration - Fees - Laws - Paving - Taxation

Portsmouth, Va. - Union occupation

Posses

Possums

Post-traumatic stress disorder ("shell fever")

Postage stamps

Postage stamps, Confederate

Postal service - Fees - Home delivery - Laws - Rates - Theft

Postal workers - Misconduct - Salaries

Postmasters

Potatoes

Potosi, Mo. - Skirmishes

Pottersville, Ala., Raid, 1864

Poultry

Powder Springs, Ga., Combats, 1864

Powell's Valley, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Prairie County, Miss.

Prairie Grove Campaign (November 1862)

Prairie Grove, Ark., Battle, 1862

Pranks

Prayer

Pre-Adamitism Use: Pre-historic peoples

Pre-historic peoples

Prejudices

Prentiss, Miss., Raid, 1862

Prentiss County, Miss.

Presbyterian Church - Consolidation - General Assembly - Separation - Re-unification

Presbyterian Church. Board of Foreign Missions

Presbyterian Church (Old School)

Prescriptions

Presidential campaign (date)

Presidents - United States Use: United States. President

Presidents Island (Memphis)

Press conventions

Price's Missouri Expedition (September-October 1864)

Prices - Laws

Primitive Baptists

Princeton, Ark. - Skirmishes

Printers

Printing industry

Printing presses

Printers ink - Shortage

Prison camps Use: Military prisons

Prison chaplains

Prison guards

Prison industries

Prison violence

Prisoner of war camps Use: Military prisons

Prisoners - Deaths - Escape - Labor See also: Chain-gangs Prison industries - Rehabilitation - Religious activities - Suicide - Transportation - Treatment

Prisoners of war - Correspondence - Escape - Exchange - Execution - Parole - Treatment

Prisoners of war, Confederate - Accidents - Assistance - Correspondence - Deaths - Escape - Exchange - Execution - Medical care - Missing - Parole - Recreation - Treatment

Prisoners of war, Union - Deaths - Disease - Escape - Execution - Medical Care - Parole - Relocation - Treatment

Prisons

Privacy, right of

Privateers

Privateers, Confederate

Prizes

Problem children

Productivity

Profanity

Profiteering

Progressivism

Promenade (Memphis)

Propaganda

Propaganda, Confederate

Propaganda, Union

Property - Confiscation Use: Confiscation of Property

Property rights

Prophecies

Propulsion

Prostitution

Protest movements

Protestant Reformation

Protests and demonstrations

Provisional governments

Proverbs

Provost-Marshals Use: (name of city, state) - Provost Marshal

Prussia - Foreign relations - Politics and government

Psychiatric hospitals

Psychological medicine

Psychology

Public bathing

Public baths

Public buildings - Cost - Relocation - Renovation

Public debt - Laws

Public documents

Public health - Laws

Public lands - Price

Public meetings

Public officials - Appointment - Misconduct - Qualifications - Resignation - Salaries - Term limits - Violence against

Public opinion

Public prosecutors - Appointment

Public records

Public safety

Public schools - Administration - Attendance - Charter - Closing - Commencement - Corporal punishment - Desegregation - Discipline - Enrollment - Examinations - Finance - Music instruction - Schedule - Segregation - Students - Testing - Tuition - Vandalism

Public service

Public speaking

Public utilities - Fees

Public welfare

Public works

Publishing industry

Puebla, Mexico - Assault, 1847 - Description - Occupation - Siege

Pulaski, Tenn. - Description - Evacuation - Skirmishes

Pulmonary disease

Pumps

Punishment

Purim (Feast of Esther)

Puritans

Pygmies

Q

Quadruplets

Quakers

Quarantine laws

Quarantines - Laws

Quarries

Quartermasters

Quebec - Annexation to the United States

Quinine

R

Rabies - Treatment

Raccoon Branch, Ala.

Raccoon Ford, Va. - Skirmishes

Raccoon Mountain, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Race

Race discrimination

Race laws

Race relations

Race riots

Racehorses - Accidents

Racetracks

Racial violence

Racially-mixed children

Racing stables

Racism

Radical Republicans Use: Republican Party

Radicalism

Raffles

Railroad accidents

Railroad conventions

Railroad crossings - Accidents

Railroad equipment - Defective

Railroad jubilees

Railroad rails

Railroad robbery Use: Train robberies

Railroad stations

Railroad tunnels

Railroad workers

Railroad yards

Railroads - Accidents Use: Railroad accidents - Amenities - Competition - Construction - Cost - Desegregation - Economic aspects - Employees - Misconduct - Executives - Extension - Fares - Federal aid - Fees - Finance - Freight Use: Freight and freightage - Hijacking - History - Investment - Mail service - Merger - Military use - Passengers - Passenger cars - Passenger traffic - Regulation - Repairs - Robberies Use: Train robberies - Route - Sabotage - Safety - Schedules - Security - Segregation - Stations Use: Railroad stations - Strategic aspects - Taxation - Theft - Ticket agents - Vandalism

Rain and rainfall

Raleigh, Tenn. - History

Raleigh (Tenn.) Circuit Court

Raleigh Springs (Tenn.) - Description

Rames, Mexico - Skirmishes

Ramie

Randolph, Tenn. - Destruction, 1862

Rankin County, Miss. - Sheriffs

Rape

Rappahannock River (Va.)

Rappahannock Station, Va., Engagement, 1863

Rates of exchange

Rationing

Rats

Raymond, Miss., Raid, 1863

Reading

Real estate - Assessment - Laws - Lawsuits - Price

Real estate brokers

Real estate development

Real estate investment

Rebellion Losses Bill (1849)

Receiving stolen goods

Receptions

Reclamation of land

Reconstruction

Reconstruction Act of 1864

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Red River (Ark.) - Traffic

Red River (La.) - Skirmishes

Red River Campaign (March-April 1864)

Red River Rebellion (Canada)

Redheads

Redistribution of land Use: Land reform

Referendum

Reform Judaism

Reform movements

Reform schools

Reformation Use: Protestant Reformation

Refrigeration

Refugees

Refuse disposal

Regattas

Register of Bankruptcies

Relief associations

Religion

Religion and politics

Religion and science

Religion and war

Religion in schools

Religious art

Religious communes

Religious doctrine

Religious hoaxes

Religious instruction

Religious journals

Religious movements

Religious orders

Religious persecution

Religious plays

Religious societies and clubs

Rent - Laws

Rent strikes

Republic of Allegania

Reparations

Representative government

Reprisals

Reprisals, Confederate

Reprisals, Union

Republican Party - Convention - Fund-raising - National Convention - Platform

Republicanism

Republics

Repudiation

Resaca, Ga., Battle, 1864 - Casualties

Resaca, Ga., Combat, 1864 - Casualties

Resaca, Ga., Demonstration, 1864 - Casualties

Rescues

Resorts

Restaurants - Desegregation - Prices - Renovation

Resuscitation

Retail trade - Advertising - Closing - Competition - Expansion - Hours of operation Use: Store Hours - Laws - Relocation

Retribution

Revivals

Revolutionaries

Revolutions

Rheumatism - Causes

Rhode Island - Constitution - Politics and government

Rice

Rich Mountain, W. Va., Engagement, 1861

Richmond, Va. - Capture - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Evacuation - Politics and government - Siege, 1862 - Social life and customs - Strategic aspects - Surrender, 1865

Richmond, Va., Raid, 1862

Richmond, Va., Raid, 1864

Richmond-Petersburg Campaign (June-December 1864)

Rienzi, Miss., Expedition from, 1863

Rifles

Right of way

Ringgold, Ga. - Destruction - Skirmishes

Ringgold, Ga., Action, 1863

Rio Grande - Navigation

Rio Grande Valley - Exploration

Riots See also:Race riots

Ripley, Miss. - Description - Skirmishes

Ripley, Miss., Raid, 1862

Ripley, Tenn., Raid, 1862

Ripley, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Ritualism (Episcopal Church)

River Bluffs (Memphis) Use: Memphis River Bluffs

River stages

Rivers - Commerce - Navigation - Traffic

Roads (note: use for country roads) See also:Streets - Cost - Economic aspects - History - Maintenance - Military use - Sabotage - Taxation - Transcontinental

Roanoke Island, N.C., Battle, 1862

Roanoke Island, Va. - Capture

Roanoke Island, Va., Battle, 1862

Roanoke Island, Va. - Capture

Robbery and theft

Rocks - Therapeutic use

Rocky Ford, Miss. - Skirmishes

Rocky Gap, W. Va., Engagement, 1863

Rocky Mount, N.C., Expedition to, 1863

Rocky Mountains - Exploration

Rodman gun

Rodney, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes

Rodney, Miss., Incident, 1863

Rogersville, Tenn., Action, 1863

Romance

Romania

Romantic poetry

Rome, Ga. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Rome, Ga., Action, 1864

Rome Cross Roads, Ga., Action, 1864

Romney, W. Va., Action, 1861

Rome, Italy

Roorback hoax, 1844

Rope climbing

Rope-making

Rosales, Mexico, Battle, 1848 - Casualties

Roseville, Ark. - Skirmishes

Rosh ha-Shanah

Rotten Row Neighborhood (Memphis)

Rowdiness

Rowing races

Rule of law

Rumors

Runaway children

Runaway slaves Use: Fugitive slaves

Runaway wives

Runaway women

Running and Drumming Use: Advertising

Rural life

Rural-urban migration

Russia - Foreign relations - Politics and government

Russia. Navy

Russians

Rutherford County, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865

S

Sabbath schools Use: Sunday schools

Sabine Pass, Tex., Battle, 1863

Sabine Pass, Tex., Expedition to, 1863

Sabotage

Sacramento, Ky., Battle, 1861

Sacramento, Mexico, Battle, 1847

Sacramento River (Calif.)

Sacred music - Study and teaching

Saddlers

Safes

Sailing ships - Accidents

Sailors - Impressment - Medical care - Misconduct - Pay, allowances

St. Andrew's Day

St. Charles, Ark., Engagement, 1862

St. Charles, Mo. - Evacuation

St. David’s Day

St. Francis River (Ark.) - Navigation

St. Francis Sunken Lands (Ark.)

St. George's Day

St. John's Day

St. Joseph Day

St. Louis, Mo. - Description - Expansion - Mayors - Politics and government - Provost marshal

St. Louis (Mo.) Board of Health

St. Louis (Mo.) Criminal Court

St. Mary, Mo. - Capture

St. Patrick's Day

St. Thomas Day

St. Valentine's Day

Salads

Salem, Miss., Action, 1863

Salem, Va., Descent, 1863

Salesmen

Saleswomen

Saline River (Ark.) - Skirmishes

Saline River (Ark.), Engagement, 1864

Salisbury, N.C., Engagement, April 1865

Salmon

Salt - Theft

Salt works - Sabotage

Saltillo, Mexico - Description - Skirmishes

Saltpeter

Salvage

Salvage (ships)

Salyersville, Ky. - Skirmishes

San Jacinto, Tex., Battle, 1836

Sand

Sandbars

Sand and gravel mines and mining

Sandstone

Sandwich Islands - Annexation to the United States

Sanitation - Laws

Santa Claus

Santa Fe, New Mexico - Capture - Occupation

Santa Fe Expedition

Santa Rosa Island, Fla., Action, 1861

Sappers, Union

Saracens

Saratoga, N.Y. - Description

Sardis, Miss. - Description - Growth

Satartia, Miss. - Skirmishes

Satire

Saulsbury, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Savannah, Ga. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Evacuation

Savings

Savings and loan associations

Sawmills

Saxonville, Mo. - Skirmishes

Scandals

Scandanavians

Scavengers

Scenic beauty

Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein War, 1848-1850

Schleswig-Holstein War, 1864

Scholarships

School buildings

Schools See also: Public schools - Desegregation - Discipline - Finance - Fund-raising - Graduation - Physical education - Segregation

Schooners - Capture

Science

Scorched earth policy Use: Pillage

Scotland - History

Scotland Neighborhood (Memphis)

Scottish Rite (Masonic Order)

Scottish-Americans

Scottsboro, Ala. - Description

Scouts (army)

Scrofula

Sculptors

Sea Island

Sea Moss Farine

Sea serpents

Search and rescue operations

Search and seizure

Search warrants (law)

Searcy, Ark. - Civil War, 1861-1866

Searcy, Ark., Expedition to, 1862

Searcy Landing, Ark. - Skirmishes

Seasons

Secession - Convention - Economic aspects - Justification - Legal aspects

Secession Party

Secessionists

Second Adventists

Secret doors

Secret Service - United States Use: United States. Secret Service

Secret sessions Use: Closed meetings

Secret societies

Sectionalism

Sedan (France), Battle of, 1870

Sedimentation

Sedition

Seduction

Segregation

Self-sufficiency, economic

Selma, Ala. - Capture, 1865 - Civil War, 1861-1865

Seminole Indians - Slaves

Seminole War, 2nd, 1834-1842

Senatobia, Miss., Raid, 1863

Senators - Misconduct

Senators (CSA)

Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

Separation of powers

Separatist movements

Sequatchie Valley, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Sequestration Act (CSA)

Serenading

Sermons

Settlements

Seven Days Battles, Va., 1862 - Casualties

Seven Pines, Va., Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Seventh-Day Adventists

Sewage disposal

Sewing machines

Sex crimes

Sex discrimination

Sexual harassment

Sharecropping

Sharpshooters, Confederate

Sharpshooters, Union

Sheep

Shelbina, Mo., Attack, 1864

Shelby's Missouri Raid, 1863

Shelby County, Tenn. - Assessors - Attorney General - Boundary - Clerks - Coroners - County inspectors - Finance - History - Partition - Politics and government - Rangers - Registrars - Sheriffs - Deputies - Skirmishes - Surveyors - Tax Collectors - Trustees - Union occupation

Shelby County, Tenn., Raids, 1862

Shelby County (Tenn.) Board of Health

Shelby County (Tenn.) Circuit Court

Shelby County (Tenn.) Commission

Shelby County (Tenn.) Court - Clerks

Shelby County (Tenn.) Courthouse Use: Courthouses - Shelby County, Tenn.

Shelby County (Tenn.) Probate Court

Shelby County Jail

Shelby County Poorhouse

Shelby Depot, Tenn.

Shelbyville, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Shelbyville, Tenn., Action, 1863

Shelbyville, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Shell fever Use: Post-traumatic stress disorder

Shenandoah Valley (Va.) - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Military campaigns

Shepherdstown, W. Va., Action, 1863

Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign (August-December 1864)

Sheriffs See also: (name of county) - Sheriffs

Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864

Shiloh, Tenn., Battle, 1862 - Casualties

Ship fever

Ship Island, Miss. - Union occupation

Shipbuilding

Shipping companies

Shipwrecks

Shipyards

Shoe polish

Shoemakers - Taxation

Shooting contests

Shooting galleries

Shopping

Short stories

Shortages - Coal - Fuel

Shorthand

Shrove Tuesday

Siamese twins

Siberian Bloodhounds

Sibley's New Mexico Campaign (February-March 1862)

Sicily

Sideshows

Sidewalks - Laws

Sierra Madre Republic

Sightseeing

Sign language

Sign painting

Sikh War, 1845-1846

Silica

Silk - Cultivation

Silk cotton

Silk plant

Silk production

Silkworms

Silver

Silver mines and mining

Silverware

Simpson County, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Singers

Singing - Study and teaching

Single persons

Sinkholes

Sioux Indians

Skating rinks

Slander and libel

Slang (criminal)

Slang (English language)

Slaughter-houses - Regulation

Slave labor

Slave labor (military)

Slave ships

Slave trade - Laws - Lawsuits

Slaveholders - Compensation

Slavery - Border States - Economic aspects - Extension to the territories - History - Justification - Legal status - Political aspects Use: Slavery - United States - Religious aspects

Slaves - Agitation - Alcohol use - Compensation Use: Blacks - Reparations - Confiscation - Conscription - Crime - Crimes against - Customs - Deaths - Diet - Education - Emancipation - Employment - Entertainment - Impressment - Insurrection - Kidnapping - Laws - Lawsuits - Marriage - Medical care - Price - Recreation - Religion - Suicide - Taxation - Treatment - Violence against

Slingshots

Slums

Smallpox - Immunization

Smear campaigns

Smokeless tobacco

Smokey Row Neighborhood (Memphis)

Smoking

Smuggling

Snag-boats

Snakes

Snowball fights

Snowstorms

Snuff Use: Smokeless tobacco

Snyder’s Bluff, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Snyder's Bluff, Miss., Attack, 1864

Snyder’s Bluff, Miss., Engagement, 1863

Snyder's Mill, Miss., Engagement, 1863 Use: Snyder’s Bluff, Miss., Engagement, 1863

Soap-making

Social classes

Social commentary

Social conflict

Social events

Social groups

Social issues

Social life and customs

Social reform

Social services

Socialism

Societies and clubs See also: Women - Societies and clubs

Soda fountains

Solar eclipse

Solar flares

Soldiers Note: Between 1860-1865 use Soldiers, Confederate or Soldiers, Union.

Soldiers - Alcohol use - Crime - Deaths - Desertion Use: Deserters - Health - Hygiene - Medical care - Misconduct - Mutiny - Pay, allowances - Pensions - Personal narratives - Rations - Recruiting - Superstitions - Suffrage - Violence against

Soldiers aid societies

Soldiers homes - Donations

Soldiers of fortune

Soldiers, Confederate - Accidents - Alcohol use - Commendations - Correspondence - Deaths - Entertainment - Furloughs - Health - Medical care - Misconduct - Missing - Morale - Mutiny - Parole - Pay, allowances - Pensions - Personal narratives - Rations - Recreation - Recruiting, enlistment - Re-enlistment - Religious activities - Training - Uniforms - Violence against

Soldiers, Union - Assistance - Commendations - Correspondence - Deaths - Health - Medical care - Misconduct - Morale - Mutiny - Newspapers - Pay, allowances - Political activity - Rations - Recruiting, enlistment - Re-enlistment - Religious activities - Suffrage - Suicide - Training - Treatment - Violence against

Somerset, Ky., Battle, 1863

Somerville, Tenn. - Aldermen - Description - Economic conditions - Finance - Mayors - Politics and government - Skirmishes

Somerville (Tenn.) Circuit Court

Songs

Sorghum

Soup kitchens

South Carolina - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Constitution - Economic conditions - Governors - Legislature - Military campaigns - Politics and government

South Carolina, Confederate Armies of

South Memphis, Tenn. - Boundary - Charter - City ordinances - Consolidation - Finance - Mayors - Merger - Politics and government

South Memphis (Tenn.) Board of Aldermen

South Memphis Neighborhood (Memphis)

South Mountain, Md., Battles, 1862

Southern Rights Union Party

Southern States See also: Confederate States of America - Culture - Economic conditions - Finance - Military campaigns - Opinions of - Politics and government - Relations - Sovereignty - Subjugation - Union occupation

Southerners

Southwestern Confederacy

Spain - Politics and government - Revolutionary period, 1868-1875

Sparta, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Speculation - Cotton - Land

Speeches

Spicheren, Germany, Battle of, 1870

Spiders

Spies

Spies, Confederate - Execution

Spies, Union

Spiritual healing

Spiritualism

Spittoons

Spleen - Physiology

Sports

Sports records

Spotsylvania Court House, Va., Battles, 1864 - Casualties

Spring

Spring Hill, Tenn., Battle, 1863 Use: Thompson's Station, Tenn., Battle, 1863

Spring Place, Ga. - Skirmishes

Springfield, Mo. - Union occupation

Springfield, Mo., Battle, 1861

Squatters

Squatter sovereignty

Squirrels

Stables - Laws

Stagecoach lines - Accidents - Fares

Stamp tax

Standardbred horse

Standing army

Starkville, Miss. - Description

State and local relations

State rights

State Rights Party

State Rights Secession Party

Statehood

States (U.S.) - Boundary

Statesmen

Statues

Statutes of limitation

Stature, tall (soldiers)

Staunton River Bridge, Va., Action, 1864

Staunton, Va., Operation, 1864

Stay laws Use: Debt - Laws

Steaks

Steam engines - Accidents - Safety

Steam power

Steam-power plants

Steam printing press

Steamboat lines - Competition - Finance - Ticket agents

Steamboat races

Steamboatmen - Impressment - Medical care

Steamboats See also: name of individual steamboats - Accidents - Captains - Wages, Salaries, etc. - Crew - Wages - Description - Destruction - Expenses - Fares - Finance - History - Impressment - Inspection - Laws - Lawsuits - Lights - Passengers - Receipts - Sabotage - Safety - Taxation - Theft - Vandalism

Steamboats (iron)

Steam-boilers

Steamship lines

Steamships - Accidents - Races

Steele's Bayou Expedition (March 1863)

Stenographers

Stereopticon

Stickball

Stock exchange

Stocks - Railroad - Taxation

Stolen property

Stone carving

Stone Mountain, Ga.

Stonecutters

Stoneman's Georgia Raid, 1864

Stoneman's Raid, Va. (August 1863)

Stoneman's Raid, March-April 1865

Stoneman's Switch, Va. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Stones River, Tenn., Battle, 1862-1863 - Casualties

Stones River Campaign (December 1862-January 1863) - Casualties

Stony Creek Station, Va., Action, 1864

Storage facilities (military)

Store hours - Laws

Stories and storytelling

Stove pipes - Laws

Stoves

Stoves, petroleum - Accidents

Straits of Magellan - Navigation

Strasburg, Va. - Skirmishes

Strasburg, Va., Affair, 1864

Strategy (military)

Strategy (military), Confederate

Strategy (military), Union

Storage facilities (military)

Strawberries

Strawberry Plains, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Strawberry Plains, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Straws

Street addresses

Street cleaning

Street entertainers

Street lights

Street musicians Use: Street entertainers

Street names

Street signs

Streetcars - Accidents - Cost - Employees - Fares - Finance - Schedule - Segregation

Streets - Construction - Maintenance and repair - Paving

Streight's Raid (April 1863)

Strikes - Engineers - Mechanics - Railroad workers - Steamboats - Telegraphers

Students - Deaths

Stuffed animals

Stunts

Sub-Treasury Debate Use: Independent treasury - United States

Submarine mines

Submarines

Suburbs

Subways

Suez Canal

Suffolk, Va. - Skirmishes

Suffolk, Va., Raid, 1864

Suffolk, Va., Siege, 1863

Suffrage See also: Blacks - Suffrage Women - Suffrage - Lawsuits

Sugar - Price

Sugar cane

Sugar Creek, Ga.

Sugar industry

Suicide - Children

Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)

Summer houses

Summer schools

Summerville, Ga., Raid, 1864

Sunday laws

Sunday schools

Sundays

Sundials

Sunflower, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Sunflower River, Miss., Raids, 1862

Sunsets

Sunshine Church, Ga., Combat, 1864

Sunspots

Sunstroke See also: Hot weather - Deaths - Causes

Superstitions

Surety bonds

Surgeons (military)

Surgery

Surplus revenue

Surveying

Suspension bridges

Swallow Bluff, Tenn. - Skirmishes, 1863

Swallows

Swamp lands

Swamps

Swearing - Laws

Sweatshops

Swedenborgian Church

Swedish-Americans

Sweet potatoes

Sweetwater, Tenn. - Evacuation - Skirmishes

Swimming - Teaching

Swindlers

Swine - Laws - Slaughter

Swiss cemeteries

Swiss-Americans

Switzerland - Emigration and immigration - Sonderbund, 1845-1847

Swords

Synagogues

Syracuse, Mo. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Syracuse Convention

Syrup refineries

T

Tableaux

Tabusco, Mexico - Bombardment

Tailors

Tall tales

Talladega, Ala., Occupation of, 1865

Tallahatchie County, Miss.

Tallahatchie River (Miss.) - Navigation

Tallapoosa, Ala. - Destruction

Tampa, Fla., Expedition to, 1864

Tampico, Mexico - Capture - Description - Occupation

Tampico, Mexico, Battle, 1846

Tanners - Laws

Tarantulas

Tariff

Tax evasion - Laws

Tax incentives

Tax penalties

Tax stamps

Taxation - Business - Exemptions - Income - Laws - Lawsuits - Property - Sales

Taxicabs - Fares - Law - Taxation

Taylor's Operations in West Louisiana (June-September 1863)

Taylor's Ridge, Ga. - Skirmishes

Tazewell, Tenn. - Skirmishes

Tea - Taxation

Teachers - Appointment - Awards and honors - Convention - Dismissal of - Education - Misconduct - Qualifications - Salaries - Violence against

Teachers colleges

Teche County, La. - Skirmishes

Telegraph - Expansion - Lawsuits - Rates - Vandalism

Telegraph cables

Telegraph companies - Competition

Telegraphing - Study and teaching

Telescopes

Telford's Station, Tenn., Action, 1863

Temperance movement

Temperance Party

Ten hour movement

Ten pin alleys

Ten Regiment Bill

Tennessee - Adjutant General - Attorney General - Boundary - Capital - Chancellor - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Commissioner of Immigration - Comptroller of the Treasury - Constitution - Description and travel - Economic conditions - Finance - General Assembly - Committees - Rules and Practice - Governors - Impeachment - Inauguration - Reports - History - Inspector General - Legislators - Misconduct - Resignation - Legislature Use: Tennessee - General Assembly - Lieutenant Governors - Military campaigns - Partition - Poems - Politics and government - Secretary of State - Social life and customs - Statehood - Supreme Court - Tax collectors - Treasurer Use: Comptroller of the Treasury - Union occupation

Tennessee, Confederate Armies of - Officers

Tennessee, Union armies of

Tennessee River - Description and travel - Military campaigns - Navigation - Traffic

Tennessee River, Operation, 1862

Tennessee School Fund Use: Public schools - Finance - Tennessee

Tennessee State Guard

Tennessee State Penitentiary

Tennessee Valley - Civil War, 1861-1865

Tetanus (lockjaw)

Term limits Use: Public officials - Term limits

Texas - Annexation to the U.S. - Boundary - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Constitution - Description - Economic conditions - Finance - Growth - Governors - Military campaigns - Partition - Politics and government - Relations - Republic, 1836-1846 - Revolution, 1835-1836 - Statehood - Territorial expansion - Union occupation

Texas, Confederate Armies of

Texas Rangers

Texas (Republic) - Constitution - Description and travel - Economic conditions - Foreign relations - Politics and government

Texas (Republic). Army

Texas (Republic). Declaration of Independence

Texas (Republic). Navy

Texas (Republic). President

Texas. Archives

Textbooks

Textile mills

Textiles

Thames (Ont.), Battle, 1813

Thanksgiving Day

Theater - Accidents - Censorship - Laws - Moral aspects

Theater buildings - Construction - Law - Lawsuits - Licenses - Renovation

Theater reviews

Theology

Thermometers

Thessalonica (Greece)

Thibodeauxville, La., Capture of, 1863

Thomasites

Thompson’s Station, Tenn., Battle, 1863 - Casualties

Three Millions Bill

Thunderstorms

Ticket agents - Convention - Licenses

Tightrope walking

Timber

Time - Systems and standards

Tippah County, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Tippecanoe (Ind.), Battle, 1811

Tipton County, Tenn. - Boundary - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Finance - Politics and government - Sheriffs

Tipton County (Tenn.) Circuit Court

Tipton County (Tenn.) Court

Tiptonville, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Tishomingo County, Miss. - Boundary

Tishomingo Creek, Miss., Battle, 1864 Use: Brice's Crossroads, Miss., Battle, 1864

Titles of honor and nobility

Titles of respect

Tobacco - Inspection - Lawsuits - Physiological effects - Price - Prizes - Taxation - Theft - Use - Use by women

Tobasco, Mexico - Bombardment

Toilets

Toland's Raid (May 1863)

Toll roads

Tombigbee River (Miss.) - Traffic

Topographical surveys

Tornadoes

Torpedoes

Tories Use: American loyalists

Tory Party - History

Tournaments

Towboats - Accidents

Toy stores

Toys - Safety

Trade unions - Bricklayers - Craftsmen - Draymen - Firefighters - Plasterers - Political activity - Printers - Segregation - Shoemakers - Tinners

Traffic

Traffic accidents - Deaths

Traffic congestion

Traffic laws

Traffic safety

Traffic violations

Trail of Tears

Train robberies

Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable

Transatlantic voyages

Transcontinental railroads Use: Pacific railroads

Trans-Mississippi, Confederate Department and Army of the

Transportation - Economic aspects

Transportation, military

Transportation of goods

Travel restrictions

Travelling salesmen

Treason - Legal aspects

Treasure-troves

Treasury notes

Treaties

Treaty of Washington (1846)

Tree of Heaven (ailanthus altissima)

Trees - Diseases and pests - Pruning

Trent Affair, Nov. 8, 1861

Trenton, Tenn. - Description

Trezevant, Tenn. - Union occupation

Trials

Trichinosis

Tricycles

Trinity River (Tex.) - Navigation

Triplets

Triton (Moon)

Troop movements

Trousdale County, Tenn.

Truck farming

Truth (virtue)

Tuberculosis - Treatment

Tugboats - Accidents

Tullahoma, Ala. - Description

Tullahoma Campaign (June 1863) Use: Middle Tennessee Campaign (June 1863)

Tunnel Hill, Ga. - Skirmishes

Tunnels - Collapse

Tupelo, Miss. - Casualties - Civil War, 1861-1865

Tupelo, Miss., Engagement, 1864

Turkey - Foreign relations

Turkey buzzards

Turnips

Turnpikes

Tuscumbia, Ala. - Description - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Tuxpan, Mexico - Capture

Twins

Two Million Bill

Typesetting - Errors

Typhoid fever

Tyranny

U

Umbrellas

Unconditional Union Party

Underground Railroad

Undertakers and undertaking Use: Burial industry

Unemployment

Uniforms (military) Use: Military uniforms

Union City, Tenn. - Capture - Destruction, 1862 - Skirmishes - Surrender

Union City, Tenn., Action, 1864

Union City, Tenn., Raid, 1863

Union Democrats

Union League of America

Union Party

Union Reform Party

Unionists - Reparations - Violence against

Unitarian Church

United States - Assessors - Boundary - Capital - Relocation - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Aerial operations - Armistice - Blockades - Casualties - Causes - Correspondence - Destruction and pillage - Dutch-Americans - Diplomacy - Espionage - European intervention - Foreign opinion - German-Americans - History - Indians - Irish-Americans - Italian-Americans - Jews - Legal aspects - Medical care - Missing persons - Moral and ethical aspects - Naval engagements - Peace - Personal narratives - Poetry - Polish-Americans - Psychological effects - Public opinion - Religious aspects - Social aspects - Songs and music - Sources - Territories - Women - Claims against - Commissioners - Consuls - Culture - Defenses - Description and travel - Economic conditions - Economic policy - Expenditures - Finance - Foreign opinion - Foreign relations - Partition - Politics and government - Revenue - Reunification - Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 - Claims - Tax collectors - Territorial expansion - Travel - Treaties - War of 1812 - Casualties - War with Mexico, 1846-1848 Use: Mexican War, 1846-1848

United States. Ambassadors

United States. Army - Black troops - Officers - Casualties - Lieutenant General - Medical Corps - Oath of enlistment - Officers - Appointment - Pay, allowances - Resignation - Selection - Pay, allowances - Quartermasters - Recruiting, enlistment

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

United States. Attorney General

United States. Board of Indian Commissioners

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Use: Freedmen's Bureau

United States. Bureau of the Census

United States. Commissary-General of Prisoners

United States. Congress - Chaplains - Committees - Delegations

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Reconstruction

United States. Congress. House of Representatives - Committees - Speaker

United States. Congress. House Select Committee on the Memphis Riots. 1866

United States. Congress. Senate

United States. Constitution - Amendments - History

United States. Constitution. 10th Amendment

United States. Constitution. 13th Amendment

United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment

United States. Constitution. 15th Amendment

United States. Customs Service

United States. Declaration of Independence

United States. Department of Agriculture

United States. Department of State

United States. Department of the Interior

United States. Department of the Treasury

United States. Department of War

United States. Internal Revenue Service

United States. Marine Corps

United States. Navy - Appropriations - Expenditures - Officers - Promotion

United States. Patent Office

United States. Postal Service

United States. President - Impeachment - Inauguration - Reports - State of the Union

United States. Secretary of State

United States. Secretary of the Navy

United States. Secretary of the Treasury

United States. Secretary of War

United States. Secret Service

United States. Supreme Court

United States. Vice-President

United States Bankruptcy Court (Memphis)

United States Commissioner's Court

United States Courts

United States District Court (Northern District, Miss.)

United States Marshals - Violence against

United States Military Academy (West Point)

United States Mint

United States Naval Academy

United States Naval Expedition to Japan, 1852-1854.

United States Post Office

Universal suffrage Use: Blacks - Suffrage Suffrage Women - Suffrage

Universalist Church

Unmarried mothers

Upper class

Upperville, Va. - Skirmishes

Upperville, Va., Engagement, 1863

Urbanization

Utica Convention (NY)

Utility companies

Utah - Statehood

Utah Territory

Utopian societies

V

Vacation homes

Vaccines Use: Diseases - Immunization

Vagrancy - Laws

Valverde, N.M., Engagement, 1862

Vandalism

Vaudeville

Vaughan Station, Miss. - Skirmishes

Velocipedes - Accidents - Taxation

Venezuela - Politics and government

Ventriloquists

Veracruz, Mexico - Bombardment - Capture - Description - Occupation - Surrender

Veracruz, Mexico, Battle, 1847 - Casualties

Verbal telegraph

Veterans - Assistance - Benefits - Civil rights - Education - Medical care - Mexican War - Revolutionary War

Veterans, Confederate - Assistance - Benefits - Civil rights - Crimes against - Employment - Re-union

Veterans, Union - Benefits - Crime - Recruiting, enlistment - Re-enlistment

Veterinarians

Veto

Vicksburg, Miss. - Bombardment - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Description - Evacuation - Growth - Mayors - Provost marshal - Siege - Strategic aspects - Surrender, 1863 - Union occupation

Vidalia, La. - Skirmishes

Vigilantes

Violence See also: Political violence

Violin - Study and teaching

Virginia - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Constitution - Description - Finance - General Assembly - Governors - Military campaigns - Politics and government - Relations - Social life and customs - Union occupation

Virginia, Confederate Armies of

Virginia and Kentucky resolutions 1798/1799

Virginia County, Tenn.

Virtues

Virtues (Christian)

Vivandieres

Vivisection

Voice

Volcanoes

Voodoo

Voter intimidation Use: Elections - Corrupt practices

Voter registration

Voters - Qualifications See also: Suffrage - United States

Voting

Voting machines

Voting rights Use: Suffrage

W

Wagers

Wages and salaries

Wagons

Walking

Walking races

Wallachia

War - Casualties - Justification

War and society

War correspondents

War crimes

War industry

War memorials

War poetry

War relief

War songs

War souvenirs

War stories

War trophies

War (conduct)

War (cost)

War (law)

Ware Bottom Church, Va., Action, 1864

Warehouses

Warren County, Miss. - Union occupation

Warrenton, Miss., Raids, 1863

Warrenton, Va. - Skirmishes

Warships - Construction

Warships, Confederate - Confiscation

Warships, Union - Auction - Sabotage

Washerwomen - Misconduct

Washing machines

Washington's Birthday

Washington, D. C. - Description - Politics and government - Social life and customs - Strategic aspects

Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)

Washington Territory

Washita River Expedition (August-September 1863)

Watauga River, Tenn., Action, 1864

Watch-makers

Watchmen - Corruption

Water

Water filters

Water pipes

Water pollution

Water power

Water pumps

Water supply

Water Valley, Miss. - Description - Growth

Water Valley, Miss., Raid, 1863

Waterford, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Watermelons

Waterproof, La. - Skirmishes

Waterproof, La., Expedition to, 1864

Waterspouts

Waterways

Wauhatchie, Tenn., Engagement, 1863

Weakly County, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Politics and government

Wealth - Religious aspects

Weapons - Captured - Laws

Weapons (military)

Weapons industry - Accidents

Weather

Weather and crime

Weather forecasting

Weather lore

Weddings Use: Marriage ceremonies

Weights and measures - Laws

Wells - Safety

Welsh-Americans

West Memphis, Ark. - Skirmishes

West Point, Ga. - Capture

West Point, Ga., Action, 1865

West Point, Miss. - Skirmishes

West Point, Miss., Action, 1864

West Point Military Academy Use: United States Military Academy (West Point)

West Tennessee - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Economic conditions - Military campaigns - Opinion of - Union occupation

Western Kentucky - Economic conditions

West Virginia - Military campaigns - Statehood

Western Reserve (Ohio)

Western States - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Exploration

Westmoreland County, Va., Expedition to, 1864

Westmoreland, Va., Raid, 1864

Whaling

Wharfmaster - Memphis, Tenn. Use: Memphis, Tenn. - Wharfmasters

Wharfboats - Accidents - Lawsuits

Wharfs Use: Ports

Wheat Wheeler's Raid (September-October 1863)

Whetstones

Whig Party - Convention - National Convention

Whiskey - Price - Taxation

Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794

White County, Ark. - Economic conditions

White River (Ark.) - Description and Travel - Military campaigns - Navigation

White River (Ark.), Operation, 1864

White's Station, Tenn. - Skirmishes

White's Station, Tenn., Raid, 1862

White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Battle, 1863 Use: Rocky Gap, W. Va., Battle, 1863

White supremacy

Whitewash

Whitewater, Mo. - Skirmishes

Whitney's Lane, Ark., Battle, 1862 Use: Searcy Landing, Ark., Skirmish, 1862

Wholesale trade

Whooping cough

Widows - Assistance

Wife abuse Wild animals

Wild men

Wildcats

Wilderness, Va., Battle, 1864 - Casualties

Wildfires

Wildlife

Williamsburg, Va. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Williamsburg, Va. - Skirmishes

Williamsburg, Va., Battle, 1862

Wills - Laws - Lawsuits

Wills Valley, Ala., Raid, 1863

Wilmot Proviso, 1846

Wilson's Creek, Mo., Battle, 1861

Wilson's Raid in Alabama and Georgia (April 1865)

Winchester, Tenn. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Winchester, Va. - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes - Union occupation

Winchester, Va., Action, May 1862

Winchester, Va., 2nd Battle, 1863

Winchester, Va., Battle, 1864

Windows - Safety Windstorms

Wine and wine making - Price

Wine gardens

Winter - Military campaigns

Wisconsin - Governors - Statehood

Witnesses (law)

Wolf River (Tenn.) - Navigation

Wolf River Canal

Wolves

Women - Abuse of Use: Wife abuse Women - Violence against - Alcohol use - Civil rights - Clothing and dress - Conventions - Crimes against - Discrimination - Economic conditions - Education - Employment Use: Women workers - Health - Laws - Legal status - Medical care - Political activity - Shelters - Societies and clubs - Suffrage - Travel - Violence against

Women and war

Women authors Use: Women writers

Women clergy

Women criminals

Women drivers

Women in the theater

Women musicians

Women physicians

Women poets

Women printers

Women prisoners

Women prisoners of war

Women sculptors

Women soldiers

Women soldiers, Union

Women spies, Union

Women surgeons

Women workers

Women writers

Women, treatment of

Women's colleges - Faculty

Women's Dress Reform Movement

Women's Loyal League

Women's schools

Wood - Preservation - Price

Wood borers

Wood-cutters

Wood's Station, Ga., Skirmish, 1864 Use: Woodstock Mills, Ga. - Skirmishes

Woodstock Mills, Ga. - Skirmishes

Wool

Wool industry

Work ethic

Workhouses

Working class - Education - Housing

Working Men's Party (Va.)

Workmen's compensation

Writers - Wages

Wyatt's, Miss. - Skirmishes

Wyerman's Mills, Va. - Skirmishes

Wytheville, Va., Actions, 1863

Wytheville, Va., Action, 1864

Y

Yalobusha County, Miss. - Description

Yazoo City, Miss. - Capture, 1864 - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Skirmishes - Union occupation Yazoo City, Miss., Action, 1864

Yazoo City, Miss., Raid, 1863

Yazoo County, Miss. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Yazoo County, Miss., Expedition to, 1864

Yazoo Pass Expedition (February 3 – April 10, 1863)

Yazoo River (Miss.) - Description - Traffic - Naval Skirmishes - Skirmishes - Traffic

Yazoo River (Miss.) Expedition (December 1862)

Yazoo River (Miss.) Expedition, 1864

Yazoo River (Miss.), Naval Skirmishes, 1862

Yazoo Valley, Miss., Raid, 1864

Yellow Bayou (La.), Engagement, 1864

Yellow fever - Symptoms - Treatment

Yom Kippur

Yorktown, Va. - Civil War, 1861-1865

Yorktown, Va., Siege, 1862

Young Americanism

Young men

Youth - Alcohol use - Clubs

Youth and firearms

Youth choirs

Youth concerts

Yucatan (State), Mexico

Z

Zinc mines and mining

Zodiacal light

Zoning

Zoos

Zouaves