international: Alabama claims award in files of, 166, extradition, 148, extraterritorial jurisdiction, 160, jurisdiction of cases re, 79, 85, naval forces on Great Lakes, 56, negotiations, 139, slave trade, 176, State Dept. reports on, 145, unperfected, 2; international by country: Great Britain, 24, 44, 56, 176, Netherlands, 2, Russia, 2; list, 160; preserved by State Dept., 1, 2, 137; published, 3. See also Conventions, Proclama- tions
Trenchard, Stephen D., 450, 453 Trent affair, diplomatic corresp. re, 140
Trenton, N. J., 106
Trescot, William H., 137
Trespass, Ohio court cases, 108 Trigg, Connally F., 111, 112 Tripoli, extraterritorial jurisdiction, 160
Troops, claim re use of property,
44; inquiry into sanitary conditions, 587; transportation: 66, across Panama, 142, investigated, 64. See also Soldiers Trowbridge, Rowland, 66, 67 Troy, Ala., 365
Trumbull, Lyman, 25, 32, 34, 37, 38
Trusses, 310, 312 Tucker, Beverly, 393 Tucker, John, 35, 246 Tucker Act, 127, 129, 596 Tucson, Ariz. Ter., 118 Tugboats, naval, 28
Tyler, John, 32 Tyler, U. S. S., 195 Typhoid fever, 307 Typography, 561
Ullmann, Daniel, 257 Umpqua, U. S. S., 485 Underwood, John C., 113, 199 Unfinished Business, House Standing Committee on, 61
Uniforms, 291; Navy, 442 Union, plan to preserve the, 52 Union Bank Note Co., 214 Union Fire Co., Lancaster, Pa., 36 Union Gas-Light Co., 23, 500 Union Indian Agency, Okla., 547 Union League Club, New York City, 24
Union Pacific Railroad, 513, 514 Unionists, Southern: admission to House, 45, claims, 59, 594-596, conduct, 128, escape from South, 21-22, purchase abandoned lands, 207, Southern trade permitted, 233; Tex., 22; Va. : 22, ask territorial govt., 31. See also Confederate States
United Confederate Veterans, badge, 255
United Kingdom, 433. See also Great Britain
United States, guarantees States a re- publican form of govt., 68; lawsuits, 85; maps, 519, 525; nautical charts, 229; petitions re disturbed condition of, 36. See also Citizens, Great Seal of the United States
United States agents, claims commis- sions, 164, 166, 167, 168, 173
Tunis, extraterritorial jurisdiction, United States and Mexican Claims 160
Turkey, Confederate vessels use
ports, 141; extraterritorial juris- diction, 160; salaried consuls ap- pointed to, 159
Turner, Levi C., 249, 327, 336, 337, 387, 496 Turner, Thomas, 496 Turner-Baker papers, 336, 337 Tuscaloosa, Ala., 365 Tuscaloosa, C. S. S., 164 Tuttle, E. B., 255
Tyler, Daniel, 334
Commission, 175
United States Arbitrator, Alabama claims arbitration, 164 United States-British claims. See
Alabama claims, British and Ameri- can claims
United States-Canadian border, smug- gling, 185; U. S. controls traffic on, 147; violations of by Confederates, 142 United States Christian Commission, 590-592; papers re, 254
United States Colored Troops, 243,
384; appointments of officers, 262; burial registers, 296; hospital records, 311; records, 404, 405; recruiting, 263-264; register of deaths, 311
United States counsel, claims com- missions, 164, 166, 167, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174
United States Government, alien claims presented to, 162; alliance with Confederate States urged, 19; general records, 1, 132; House committee's on economy in, 46; leasing of office space, 57; money due to, 46, 58; officials: commis- sions, 146, Confederate officials' corresp., 381, connived at Con- federate seizures, 231, defaulted, 201, delivered up foreigners ex- tradited, 148, disabilities imposed on former, 38, letters to, 144, 395, protection from "local vin- dictiveness," 53, take foreigners in South prisoners, 162; operates Southern railroads, 72; propa- ganda in European countries, 141. See also Expenditures, Federal employees, and names of agencies
United States Mail and Post Office Assistant, 30
United States-Mexican border, U. S. agent to watch Confederate activi- ties on, 142
United States notes, 390; destroyed,
224. See also Treasury notes United States Official Register, 137, 499
United States Penitentiary for the District of Columbia, 573 United States Sanitary Commission, 291, 587-589; hospitals, 361 United States Sharpshooters, 384,
Unlawful imprisonment, Court of Claims cases, 129 Upson County, Ga., oaths of alle- giance administered in, 156 Upton, Charles H., 40, 46 Urban, D., 209
Usher, John P., 501, 502, 504, 566, 573
Usury, Supreme Court cases, 81 124 Utah County, Utah Ter., Utah Indian Superintendency, 545 Utah Indians, treaty, 24 Utah Territory, 119, 122; admission to Union of Deseret, 30-31; conven- tion, 30; courts, 124; Governor: 48, message to legislature, 30; records re, 149; relief for Salt Lake City, 59; Supt. of Indian Affairs, 48; sur- veyor general, 526; township plats, 526; troop supply, 297 Utica, N. Y., 107
Vance, Philo, Confederates raided, 167
Vancouver Arsenal, Wash. Ter., 283
Vancouver Barracks, 410
Vandalia, Ill., 98
Vandalism, investigation, 337
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 35, 47, 64 Vandever, William, 45, 65 Van Dorn, Earl, 255 Van Dyke, Benjamin G., 450 Van Horn, Burt, 66
Van Rensselaer, Henry, 354 Van Trump, Philadelph, 16 Van Valkenburgh, Robert B., Van Wyck, Charles H., 14, 65 Varina, U. S. revenue cutter, 223 Varner's Battalion of Infantry, U. S., 384
Vegetables, 580, 588
Venezuela, 159
Veniremen, 87
Vera Cruz, Mexico, 143, 144 Vergennes, Vt., arsenal, 284 Vermillion, Dak. Ter., 120 Vermont, volunteer regiments, 405 Vermont, U. S. S., 489, 495 Verree, John P., 45
Vessels, admeasurement of tonnage, 44; American merchants change to "neutral bottoms," 163; amounts of losses, 163; arrival and depar- ture records, 143, 162, 185, 219, 239; British: captured, 141, watched, 139; building, 220; carry munitions to Confederacy, 144; certificate of inspection, 225; certificates of value, 165; charter, 294; claims: 21, 28, 167, cases, 128, docu- ments supporting, 164, 165, losses, 163, 170, of foreigners, 162, of passengers, 165, of Unionists, 594; clearance, 187, 218, 219, 239; Coast Survey, 225, 228, 229; Confederate depredations, 140, 148, 157, 163; engaged on west- ern rivers, 295; foreign, 189; give bonds to Confederates, 163; inspection of, 220, 225; investi- gation re, 64; Light-House Board, 232; list, 291; military use, 223; operated by Quartermaster Dept., 293; passage of destitute U. S. sea- men, 199; protected by revenue cutters, 222; Quartermaster Dept., 288, 291; records, 160, 162, 189- 190, 220; regulations, 22; safety, 223; searched, 176; seized: 154, 234, by France, 173, suspected of blockade running, 139, 159; sold to British, 163; Special Agents on, 234; statistics, 190; steam-power experimentation, 56; taxes, 60, 220; titles, 218, 232; transfer to British registry, 22; valuation, 170, 171, 172; War De- partment use of, 34; wrecked on foreign shores, 144. See also Armored vessels, Carrying trade, Confederate Navy, Enrollments, Ironclads, Licenses, "Light- vessels," Merchant fleet, Naval vessels, Prize vessels, Ships,
Steamers, Transports Veteran Reserve Corps, 243, 384, 405; admission, 307; applications for, 344; appointments in, 262; continuation of, 54; records, 404; returns, 259; transfers from, 260; transfers to, 343
Veteran Reserve Corps Branch, War Department, 344
Veterans, bounties to, 54, 55; civil service appointments for, 27; compensation for wartime infla- tion, 77-78; disabled: employment for, 70, increased pensions to, 49, 55, 77, pensions, 49, 50, 78, pensions to deaf, 50, pension to naval, 70; enumerated in 1890 census, 553; headstones for graves, 43; lands for, 58, 78; pension reg- ulations, 50; pensions to: 49, 78, all Civil War, 50, dependents, 50, manual laborers, 49, militia, 50, prisoners of war, 49, 50; southern, abandoned land for, 30; Vicksburg Encampment, 43; welfare legisla- tion, 78. See also Confederate vet- erans, Widows, Widows and de- pendents
Veterans Administration, records re artificial limbs, 312 Veterinary surgeons, 338 Vibbard, Chauncy, 66 Vice-consulates, U. S., Vice President, 18; official papers of, 135-136 Vickers, George, 37 Vicksburg, Miss., 235, 236, 299, 372, 416; Army officers' liquor speculation at, 69; battle, 256; Civil War semicentennial and vet- erans' encampment, 43; Confed- erate defenses, 464; convalescent camp, 552; freedmen's disbursing office, 266; freedmen's hospital, 357; marine hospital, 410; occupa- tion of, 54; siege, 226; surrender, 399, 410; Treasury Dept. Special Agent at, 373
Vicksburg National Military Park, 256; Civil War veterans' reunion, 55
Victoria, Tex., Vidal, M., 430
Viele, Egbert L., 222 Vigilantes, competition with Mont. Territorial courts, 121 Vincent, Thomas M., 261, 357 592 Vinton, Samuel F., Virginia, 231, 486; Army posts in, 406; campaigns in, 275; citizens imprisoned at Camp Chase, 254; constitutionality of partitioning, 80; counties annexed to W. Va., 53; direct tax, 208; Direct Tax Commission, 210; Eastern Shore mapped, 226; Federal courts, 79, 87; First Military District, 411; forts inspected, 269; freedmen's affairs in, 48; Freedmen's Bu- reau: operations, 366, records, 378-379; Governors: corresp. re John Brown, 31, letters to, 157; gradual emancipation suggested in, 65; in Dept. of Va., 413; incorpo- rates Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 583; lands redeemed, 208; letters of citizens, 550; "loyal govern- ment": at Alexandria, 113, 156, recognized by U. S., 156; loyalty investigation, 13-14; maps, 256, 272, 564, 565; men employed in, 270; military claims re W. Va., 35; military govt. of, 411; mili- tary land warrants, 520; military railroads, 317; oaths adminis- tered in, 254; pictorial records, 381; postal service, 431; post- war fiscal problems, 413; pro- poses Peace Convention, 32; pro- visional govt., 412; rebellion in W. Va., 35; reconstruction prob- lems in, 76; representation in Congress, 17, 40; Special Agency, 235, 239; tax sales, 207; Union- ists ask territorial govt., 31; volunteer regiments, 405; west- ern section protests secession, 158. See also Alexandria, Ar- lington, Army of the Potomac, Norfolk, Potomac River, Wash- ington, West Virginia
Virginia, C. S. S., 454, 555. See also Merrimac
Virginia City, Mont. Ter., 121 Virginia State Library, court rec- ords, 114
Virginia University Library, Chesa- 584 peake and Ohio Canal records, Virginians, information about prom- inent, 114; oaths of allegiance, 336
Vixen, Coast Survey steamer, 226, 228
Volunteer Infantry, 17th Iowa, 407 Volunteer Recruiting Branch, War Department, 345-346
Volunteer Recruiting Service, 261 Volunteer regiments, histories, 260; muster rolls, 257; records, 384, 404-405. See also under name of unit
Volunteer Service Division, War Department, 260
Volunteer troops, company histories, 279; N. Mex., 410; Oreg. Ter., 408; recruiting, 246 Volunteers, accounts, 193, 194; called up, 1, 158, 242; cavalry, 26; claims, 385; clothing, 292; deaths among, 255; enlistment, 339; equipment, 292; histories, 382; medals of honor for, 55; medical examinations, 347; medi- cal records, 384; Navy, 443, 458; Negro, 391; New York County, 552; officers: commissions, 383, discharges, 260, Freedmen's Bu- reau agents, 367, Navy, 56, pen- sion rates for, 78, register pub- lished, 252, retired list, 27, 55; ordnance issued to, 283; pensions, 50, 551; quotas, 341; records re, 261; recruiting, 345; retired list, 50, 55; returns, 259; service rec- ords, 383-384; stations, 406. See also United States Volunteers and names of units and States Voorhees, Daniel W., 16, 68 Voter registration, records, 413; Southern, 411, 414
Voting rights, District of Columbia, 23; Negro: constitutional amend- ments re, 4, in South, 411, post- war Southern laws, 4, to freedmen, 36; reestablished by pardon, 155
Wabash, U. S. S., 453 Waddell, Alfred M., 16
Wade, Benjamin F., 10, 30, 32
Wadsworth, William H., Wages, 482; navy yards, 472 Wagon roads, 502; construction, 31; land grants, 517, 521; maps, 526; records, 512; routes, 533 Wagon trains, 292
Wagons, 288, 297, 310; claims re Govt. contracts for, 128; investi- gation re, 64
Wainwright, Richard, 446
Waite, Morrison R.,
Wallabout Bay, N. Y.,
Wallace, Alexander S.,
Wallace, John W., 65, 80, 83, 84, 544, 545
Wallace, Lewis, 257, 329
Wallach, Richard, 502
Walls, Josiah T., 46
Walter, Thomas U.,
Walterboro, S. C., 73 Wappich, Maximilian, 269 War, Joint Select Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the, 9-12, 30, 245
War claims, 163, 195, 394; adjudi- cation by War Dept., 244; British- U. S. claims, 164, 167; jurisdic- tion of Court of Claims, 125; of foreigners in South, 162. See also Alabama claims, Claims, Property, Revolutionary claims War Claims, House Standing Com- mittee on, 42, 59, 163 War Claims Commission, 385 War Debts of the Loyal States,
House Select Committee on the, 71
War Department, 26, 145, 238, 398;
and records of Commission for State Prisoners, 154; captured property to Treasury Dept., 233; charters transport vessels, 34; claims: investigation of fraudu- lent, 195, records, 162, 174; commission on burning of the Ruth, 224; control of Western Gunboat Flotilla, 195; direction of Indian affairs, 529; fiscal agents, 194; House Appropriation
Committee papers re, 43; investi- gations: freedmen, 390, ordnance, 387; letters, 511, 514; military commissions, 384-394; misman- agement, 47; orders, 257-258; organization, 243, 399, 405; places soldiers in U. S. Penitenti- ary, 573; postwar responsibilities, 244; public buildings supt. trans- ferred from, 30; receipts to Treas- ury, 190; records: House Prisoner of War Committee, 75, regimental, 403, Territories, 149; reports re: N. C. disloyal organizations, 38, prisoners of war statistics, 75; resignations of Southerners, 242; secret service fund, 337. See also Army and names of offices of the Department
War Department, House Standing Committee on Expenditures in, 46-47
War Department Library, 382 War Department Telegraph Office,
operations, 248-249
War of 1812, pensioners of, 49
War of the Rebellion. See Official Records of the Union and Confed- erate Armies
War Records Office, 252; records, 379-384
Ward, George R. (Mrs.), 23 Ward, Hamilton, 74, 77
Ward, Samuel, 142, 143 Wardens, appointment, 421 Warder, J. M., 581
Warehouses, investigation re New York City, 64
Warfield, Henry M., 154 Warmoth, Henry C., 237 Warner, Samuel L., Warranty deeds, land, 203 Warren, George F., 334 Warrington Navy Yard, Fla., 33 Wasatch County, Utah Ter., 124 Washburn, Cadwallader C., 62 Washburn, Henry D., 73, 76
Washburn, William B., 14, 70
Washburne, Elihu B., 13, 43, 64, 68, 72
Washington, George, 132 Washington, Ark., 373
Washington, D. C., 211, 225, 228,
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