Putnam, George H., 558 Quaker City (U.S.S.), 158 Quantrill, William Clarke, 379, 460 Quartermaster Department: (C.S. Army) supply reports, accounts, receipts, and requisitions, 23, 27, 159, 168, 189, 222, 234, 276, 409, 452, 472, 498, 532, 567, 613, 637, 645, 769, 789, 859, 973, 1021, 1023, 1058; early requisitions for supplies, 732; supply shortages, 383, 1023; <strong>the</strong>ft <strong>from</strong> supply depots, 733; certificates <strong>of</strong> appraisal and seizure, 138, 176; (U.S. Army) quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, 41, 93, 178, 414, 580, 622, 888; <strong>of</strong>ficial correspondence, accounts, reports, requisitions, invoices, and receipts, 41, 162, 199, 591, 622, 666, 717, 963, 1034; fraud in, 622; depots in Mississippi, 591; movement and distribution <strong>of</strong> supplies during campaigns, 150, 204, 240, 351, 713; see also Commissary Department; Subsistence Department; Sutlers Quartermaster General: (U.S. Army) 622 Quartermaster General <strong>of</strong> New York, 580 Quincy, L. M., 366 Quincy, Samuel Miller, 748 Quincy -Wendell - Upham - Holmes families, 748 366 R. E. Lee (1934-35): source material, manuscript, and galley for, 328 R. Hoe & Company, 749 Radford, William, 750 "Raid by Morgan's Men on Frankfort, Kentucky," 405 Railroads: Baltimore and Ohio, 340; Mobile and Girard, 55; sabotage <strong>of</strong>, 566; defense <strong>of</strong>, 552, 590, 735; production <strong>of</strong> rails for sou<strong>the</strong>rn lines, 1006; construction and management <strong>of</strong> Federal military railroads, 67, 420, 1061; fees charged to Federal soldiers for transportation on, 67; see also Haupt, Herman Raleigh, N.C.: capture and occupation <strong>of</strong>, 43, 300; U.S. Christian Commission delegates at, 965; mentioned, 713 Ramsay, George D., 601 Ramseur, Stephen D., 681 Ramsey, Margaret Lawrence, 751 Randall, James Garfield and Ruth P., 752 Randolph, George Wy<strong>the</strong>, 409, 753 Randolph, William B., 754 Rankin, David, 43 Ransom, Robert, 755 Ransom, Thomas Greenfield, 326 Rapidan River, Va.: operations along, 335, 352-53, 377, 386, 391, 419, 500, 618, 711, 1021 Rappahannock (C.S.S.), 643, 802 Rappahannock Bridge, Va.:
operations at, 365 Rappahannock River, Va.: operations along, 335, 352-53, 386, 391, 419, 500, 618, 1009, 1021 Ratcliffe, Laura, 914 Rawlins, John Aaron: generalship <strong>of</strong>, 878 Read, John Meredith, 756 Read, Thomas Buchanan, 757 Reagan, John H., 189 "Real Life in <strong>the</strong> Civil War," 68 Reams' Station, Va., Battle <strong>of</strong>, 697 Reconnaissance balloons, 18, 359, 618; photographs <strong>of</strong>, 659 Reconnaissance expeditions: (C.S. Army) 567; (U.S. Army) 18, 99, 146, 155, 175, 436, 500, 552, 641, 666, 699, 717, 748, 846, 869, 903, 972, 1009, 1038; (U.S. Navy) 784 The Record <strong>of</strong> Fort Sumter (1862), 1034 Recruiting Service for U.S. Colored Volunteers, 257 Recruits and recruiting: (C.S. Army) 215, 281, 409, 454, 498, 540, 566, 769, 789, 856, 925; (U.S. Army) 20, 91, 106, 112, 152, 214, 257, 264, 281, 290, 323, 355, 405, 409, 423, 434, 500, 544, 592, 747, 790-91, 820, 825, 847, 884, 938, 979, 981, 1049, 1055; Lincoln's remarks on, 117; problems with, 91, 1000; advertisement for, 592; (U.S. Navy) physical examination <strong>of</strong>, 611; see also Enlistments; Reenlistments Red River: list <strong>of</strong> Confederate <strong>war</strong>ships on, 734 Red River Campaigns: (1863) ,, 42, 306, 565, 641, 892; (1864) 42, 326, 558, 641, 659, 682, 734, 894, 946 Red River Valley: military operations in, 97 Red Rover (U.S. Hospital Ship): photograph <strong>of</strong> vessel and medical staff, 725 "Red, White, and Blue," 265 Reed, Charles Wellington, 758 Reed, George J., 759 Reed family <strong>of</strong> Indiana and Kentucky, 759 Reem, Martin, 246 Reenlistments: (U.S. Army) 198, 605; orders concerning, 610 Reeves, Mark E., 323 Refugees: (Unionist) 465, 495, 565, 699, 796, 842 Register <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Commissioned and Warrant Officers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Navy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Confederate States (1863), 996; (1864), 535 Reichhelm, Ed<strong>war</strong>d Paul, 290, 760 Reid, Samuel Chester, 761 Reid, Whitelaw: papers <strong>of</strong>, 762; correspondence <strong>of</strong>, 91 Reid family, 762 Reinforcements: (C.S. Army) 789, 1021; (U.S. Army) 861, 913, 979, 1037, 1064 Reinhardt, William D., 248 Relief: for Confederate soldiers and families <strong>of</strong> soldiers, 161, 332; for families <strong>of</strong> Federal soldiers, 590 Relief Assurance Committee, 367
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