Government or break the rules of the military establishment for their own benefit, were swept off their feet and out of sight. If they ever reappeared, it was as critics and enemies of the giant who was striving for his people at a time when every day was a year and every act a foundation-stone in the nation's history. He was always great when others were little. Disaster and opposition but roused the mightier measures of his power, and when others were defeated and depressed, he was puissant, supreme. Standing in the narrow gorge of the War Office, he heroically stemmed the headlong stream of tremendous events, successfully directed the burning wheels of national wrath and fixed the destiny of freedom in the New World. Full of the spirit of power, he ever bore with him the conscience of his fight, and one day will, Like some tall cliff that rears its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway meets the storm, be the most majestic figure of the century. The Republic is his monument; the Rebellion is his biography. CHAPTER LXXI. STORM-SWEPT. It was snowing and blustering on the day Stanton was bornDecember 19, 1814; blowing and drifting on the evening of his marriage-December 31, 1836; sleeting and gusty on the day his wife Mary was buried-March, 1844; dangerously tempestuous during his ocean trip to California in 1858; snowing and drifting when he was summoned from Pittsburg to a place in Buchanan's cabinet in December, 1860; blowing a gale when he was selected to be secretary of war in Lincoln's cabinet in January, 1862; snow-squalling and boisterous when, just a week later, he took the cabinet minister's oath of office; cyclonic the night he steamed down the Chesapcake to capture Norfolk and sink the Merrimac in May, 1862; rainy and stormy when President Grant selected him to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in December, 1869; witheringly cold and windy when (December 20) he arose from the sick-bed to go to the White House to thank Grant in person for the honor thus conferred upon him; sleeting and storming on the night of his death (December 24, 1869) and cold, foggy, drizzling, and gloomy on the day of his burial-December 27, 1869. Every hour of his public service-Prosecuting-Attorney of Harrison County, Ohio; Public Prosecutor of Steubenville; Government Attorney in the enormous California land frauds; AttorneyGeneral in Buchanan's cabinet; Secretary of War under Lincoln and Secretary of War under Johnson-was a contest with the enemies of his country and of society. He was racked by asthma from childhood; denounced and assailed incessantly during his entire career as Secretary of War; crowded out of office after a stormy but patriotic struggle in which he prevented President Johnson from seizing the army, shackling Congress, and renewing the war; and, then, worn out, poor, and broken-hearted, laid down to die. After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. Alexandria, 149, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 349, 402. Allegheny, Arsenal, 84. Allegheny, County, 53. Amendment (Trumbull) of Consti- Ames, E. R., 229, 371, 372. Anderson, Robert, 85, 86, 87, 92, Andrew, John A., 135, 136, 137, 405. Andrews House, 39, 79. Andrews, John, 359. Annapolis, 234. Antietam, 191, 192, 232. Appomattox, 263, 379. Aquia Creek, 173, 174. Arkansas, 232, 316, 354. Army, Confederate (see Confed- Army, Corps Sixth, 388. Army of Northern Virginia, 273. 158, 171, 172, 176, 179, 193, 194, Army of the Tennessee, 395. Army of the West, 142. Arnold, Samuel, 286, 287. Arsenal, Allegheny, 84. Arsenal, Indianapolis, 251. Ashley, J. M., 187, 190, 312, 313, 339, 403, 404. Ashtabula, 313, 399, 412, 421. Aspinwall, W. H., 180, 193. Asthma, 27, 31, 45, 73, 324, 395, 400, 419, 426. Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph Co., 216. Atlantic, Department of the, 331. Bates, Edward, 119, 177, 271. Speed, Jas., 287, 303. Stanbery, Henry, 316, 317, 340. Stanton, E. M., 19, 82, 87, 88, 93, 98, 112, 385, 426. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 121, 180. Antietam, 192, 232. Beatty, Mrs. Hetty, 23. Beauregard, P. T., 110, 395. Beecher, H. W., 212, 274, 371. Belknap, W. W., 409. Belle Isle, 233. Bennett, James Gordon, 108, 109. Bingham, J. A., 286, 340. Black, J. S., 60, 67, 70, 82, 83, 89, Blackhorse Squadron, 280. Blair, F. P., 149, 257, 298, 367. Blair, Montgomery, 117, 119, 123, 178, 212, 255, 303, 320, 367, 392. Blake, J. B., 344. Bodine, W. B., 349. Booth, J. Wilkes, 264, 276, 277, 278, 285, 286. Boston, 188, 294, 324. Bowie, Miss, 408. Boyce, W. M., 103. Boyle, J. T., 204. Brady, J. T., 215, 242. Bragg, Braxton, 232. Brisbane (Brisbin), John S., 309. Breckinridge, John C., 80, 263, 267. Brooklyn, The, 93, 99, 131. Brough, Gov. John, 244, 356, 367. Brown, John, 102. Brown, Mrs. Warner, 22. Brown, Samuel M., 217. Brown, Wm., 45. Buchanan, Jas., 19, 20, 60, 67, 73, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, Buchanan, The Rev. Joseph, 23, 39, Buchanan, Wm. Stanton, 38, 39, 51, Buchanan's Defense, 108. Buckner, S. B., 130. Buell, M. V. B., 222. Bull Run, Battle of, 109, 366. Burlington, 254, 279, 282. Burnside, A. E., 147, 152, 173, 194, Butler, Benjamin F., 20, 89, 139, Butler, Colonel, 363, 364. Butler, "General, in New Orleans," Butler. Mayor, 163. Carroll Prison, 294, 370. Cartter, D. K., 280, 335, 409. Chandler, A. B., 217, 219, 222. 412. Charleston, 68, 82, 83, 84, 86, 91, 127, 141, 154, 155, 169, 172, 177, Chattahoochie Bridge, 227. Chattanooga, 21, 203, 204, 205, 227, Chesapeake Bay, 154, 158, 426. Catholic, 51. Episcopal, 66, 103, 373. Cincinnati, 43, 51, 62, 79, 162, 163, City Point, 231, 257, 258, 261, 262. Civil Rights Bill, 307. Cleveland, 48, 60, 79, 147, 206, 218, Clingman, T. L., 83. Cochrane, John, 115, 392. Colburn, A. V., 193. Cole, Chas. D., 144. Cole, Nathan, 144. Colfax, Schuyler, 336, 405, 406, 409. Columbus, Nebraska, 34. Grant, U. S., 342, 386. Halleck, H. W., 173, 180, 194, 201, Lincoln, Abraham, 138, 171, 270. McClellan, G. B., 124, 126, 195. Commissioners for the Relief of Commissioners Peace, 257, 258. Commissioners, Secession, 85, 86, Dawes, 89. House Committee on Post On Conduct of the War, 119, On Loyalty of Federal Employ- On Military Affairs, 103. Comstock, C. B., 220. 64, 67, 73, 82, 89, 91, 92, 100, 101, Connecticut, 286, 341. Constitution, Washington, 103. Baltimore, Presidential, 36, 346, Cleveland, 309. New York Democratic, 394, 395. Secession, 101. |