=Hooker, Joseph=, brevet major-general United States
army,
succeeds Burnside in command of Army of
the Potomac, 366;
submits plan of campaign to Lincoln, 368;
battle of Chancellorsville, 369, 370;
criticism of, 370;
foresees Lee’s northward campaign,
370;
proposes quick march to capture Richmond,
371;
follows Lee, 372;
asks to be relieved, 372;
ordered to reinforce Rosecrans, 388;
reaches Chattanooga, 389;
in battle of Chattanooga, 390-391
=Hume, John F.=, moves that Lincoln’s nomination be made unanimous, 447
=Humphreys, Andrew A.=, brevet major-general United
States army,
in recapture of Fort Stedman, 505, 506;
ordered to assist Sheridan, 509
=Hunt, Randall=, tendered cabinet appointment, 164
=Hunter, David=, brevet major-general, United States
army,
asked to assist Fremont, 235, 236;
ordered to relieve Fremont, 243;
order of emancipation, 327;
experiment with negro soldiers, 348;
declared an outlaw by Confederate War
Department, 350
=Hunter, R.M.T.=, United States senator, Confederate
Secretary of State,
appointed peace commissioner, 482;
at Hampton Roads conference, 482-485
=Iles, Elijah=, captain Illinois Volunteers, commands
company in
Black Hawk War, 33
=Illinois=, State of, organized as Territory, 1809,
19;
admitted as State, 1818, 19;
legislative schemes of internal improvement, 44, 45;
capital removed to Springfield, 45;
political struggles over slavery, 45,
46;
Lincoln-Douglas senatorial campaign in,
118-125;
ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 474, 475
=Island No. 10=, Tennessee, fortifications at, 269,
270;
surrender of, 274
=Jackson, Andrew=, seventh President of the United
States,
gives impetus to system of party caucuses
and conventions, 52
=Jackson, Claiborne F.=, governor of Missouri,
attempts to force Missouri secession,
202-204;
flight to Springfield, Missouri, 234
=Jackson, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall")=, Confederate
lieutenant-general,
Shenandoah valley campaign, 305, 306;
mentioned, 328;
killed at Chancellorsville, 369
=Jaquess, James F.=, D.D., colonel United States Volunteers,
visits to the South, 461, 462;
interview with Jefferson Davis, 462
=Jewett, William Cornell=, letter to Greeley, 458
=Johnson, Andrew=, seventeenth President of the United
States,
in thirty-seventh Congress, 217;
telegram about East Tennessee, 259;
retains seat in Senate, 419;
appointed military governor of Tennessee,
420;
begins work of reconstruction, 428;
nominated for Vice-President, 448, 449;
popular and electoral votes for, 470;
disapproves Sherman’s agreement
with Johnston, 523;
proclamation of amnesty, 526;
plot to murder, 535;
rejoicing of radicals on his accession
to the Presidency, 545;
takes oath of office, 545