soldiers laid down their arms and went home, all hostilities against
the power of the United States Government ceased, 718; the result of
the contest, 718; a simple process of restoration, 718; rejected by
the United States Government, 718; a forced union, 719; the amnesty
proclamation of President Johnson, 719; the oath required to be
taken, 719; large classes of citizens excluded, 720; its
stipulations, 720; the reason for them, 720; the Government of the
United States proceeds to establish State organizations based on the
principle of its own sovereignty, 720; terms of the next
proclamation, 720; the argument it contained examined, 721; the four
propositions, 721; a provisional Governor appointed for each
Confederate State,723; his duties, 723; to secure a convention to
alter the State Constitution according to the views of the Government
of the United States, 723; instructions to the military authorities,
724; the first movement in Virginia, 724; the so-called Governor,
Francis H. Pierpont, brought from Alexandria and established at
Richmond, 724; new Legislature elected, 726; acts passed, 726; the
amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the
existence of slavery, 726; interference of the military officers of
the United States Government with the administration of civil
affairs, 726; a case under the Civil Rights Bill, 726; a storm
brewing between the President and Congress, relative to affairs of
Confederate States, 726; the plan of the President left the negroes
to the care of the States, Congress desired them to be American
citizens and voters, 726; Congress refused to admit Senators and
Representatives elect from the Confederate States to arrest the
operation of the President's plan and hold these States in abeyance,
727; proceedings of Congress, 727; a Committee of Fifteen appointed,
727; the Freedmen's Bureau Act, 727; the Civil Rights Act, 727; the
fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, 723; the
adoption of this amendment by a State Legislature required before its
Senators and Representatives could take seats in Congress, 729; the
question really involved in this amendment, 729; to force from the
State citizenship and the ballot for the negroes, 729; rejected by
Virginia, 729; a new system of measures now adopted by Congress, 730;
the fiction upon which they were based, 730; Confederate States
divided into five military districts, 730; the States held as
conquered territory. 730; possessing no rights unless granted by the
will of the conqueror, 730; terms upon which they could become
members of the Union, 731; supplement to this act requiring
registration of voters, etc., 731; two distinct governments in each
State, one military, the other civil, 732; the military commanders,
732; a second supplement, 732; words of President Johnson on vetoing
the bill, 732; Major-General Schofield assumes command in Richmond,
733; a board of army officers appointed to designate officers for the
registration of voters, 733; interference of the military with civil
and social affairs, 733; military officers appointed over
sub-districts, 734; military regulations adopted, 734; the vote
taken, 734; the so-called Convention assembles, 734; Bill of Bights
adopted, 734; amendments, 735; test-oath of Congress adopted, 735; so
stringent that in some counties men could not be found capable of
filling the offices, 735; words of General Schofield, 735; utter
subjugation of the people of Virginia manifest, 736; President Grant
authorized to submit the stringent amendments to a vote of the people
of the State, by Congress, 736; all the amendments to the United
States Constitution passed by the so-called Legislature, 736; the
Senators and Representatives allowed to take seats in Congress, 737.
The same series of measures applied in the same order to each
Confederate State, 738; in North Carolina the military commander
issues an order declaring all slaves to be free, 738; other orders,
738; Constitutional Convention, 738; secession ordinance declared
void, 738; payment of the war debt prohibited, 738; Governor elected
and inaugurated, 739; the military commander orders the stay of all
proceedings for the collection of debts, 739; proceedings under the
measures of Congress, 739; so-called Constitutional Convention and
election, 739; the Governor surrenders his office because he has not
power strong enough to keep it, 739; his protest, 740; Constitutional
amendments adopted, 740; Senators and Representatives take seats in
Congress, 740.
Proceedings in South Carolina, 740; provost-marshals and military
courts detailed for duty all over the State 741; the officers knew
only martial law, 741; interference of the military commander with
the judges of the State courts, 741; the arrest of Judge A. P,
Aldrich, 741; a criminal rescued from the sentence of the law by
military force, 741; the Judge refuses to hold his court, 742; the
State divided into ten military districts, 743; a post-commander
appointed to each, 743; all local officers appointed by the
commanders, 743; military orders issued, 743; details of
registration,743; qualifications of jurors such as to include newly
emancipated slaves, 744; in conflict with the jury law of the State,
744; proceedings of Judge Aldrich, 744; is suspended from office,
744; opens his court, states the circumstances, and declares it
adjourned so long as justice was stifled, 744; a similar instance in
the colonial history of South Carolina, 744; proceedings under the
acts of Congress, and the results, 745.
In Georgia, the Governor, on the cessation of hostilities, called a
session of the Legislature, 745; the commanding General declares the
proclamation null and void, 745; message to the Governor from the
President of the United States, 746; charged with committing a fresh
crime by his act, 746; proceedings under the provisional Governor,
746; these set aside by the military commander of Congress, 747; an
unsuccessful effort to test the constitutionality of the acts of
Congress, 747; the Governor took part in the effort, 747; called to
an account by the military commander as violating an order of the
latter, 747; the matter of jurors, 747; Judge Reese prohibited from
holding court, 747; proceedings under the acts of Congress, 747;
conflict of the Treasurer and Governor with the military commander,
747; both removed from office by the latter and others appointed,
748; the so-called Convention requests the commanding General to
require the courts to enforce certain of its regulations, 748; one of
the Judges of the Supreme Court refuses, and is removed, 748; other
proceedings completed, and the State declared to be restored to the
Union, 748; it appeared some of the measures were defective as to
giving the ballot to the negro, 748; members of the Legislature
expelled, 748; the State held in abeyance by Congress, 748.
In Florida, the proceedings commenced and completed under President
Johnson's proclamation, 748, 749; all set aside by the military
commander under the acts of Congress, 749; a so-called Constitutional
Convention assembles, 749; a disgraceful quarrel and split ensue,
749; the majority form a Constitution, 749; the minority, with some
members of the majority, form another, 749; the commanding General
puts his sub-commander in the chair, and the latter Constitution is
adopted, 749; all requisite measures adopted, 749; the State restored
to the Union, 750.
In Alabama, the proceedings under President Johnson's proclamation
were completed, and State officers elected, 750; the commanding
General suspends the Protestant Episcopal bishop and his clergy from
their functions, and forbids to preach or perform divine service,
750; the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution
rejected by an overwhelming majority, 751; proceedings commenced
under the acts of Congress, 751; military orders issued, 751; all
civil officers whatever, who were ex-officers of the Confederacy,
removed and disqualified from registration, 751; municipal officers
removed, 751; police administration suspended in Mobile, 751;
registration completed, 751; Congress declares the condition upon
which North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and
Louisiana shall be admitted to the Union, 752; amendments to the
United States Constitution adopted, 752; conduct of affairs
transferred to the civil authorities, 752.
In Mississippi, the Governor calls an extra session of the
Legislature, 752; set aside by a proclamation of President Johnson,
752; the system of measures under President Johnson's plan completed,
752; the military commander assumes command, under the acts of
Congress, 752; the question of the constitutionality of the acts
brought before the United States Supreme Court, 752; the opinion of
Chief-Justice Chase, 753; boards of registration organized, 753;
disqualifications of voters most sweeping, 753; object to throw the
entire political power into the hands of the negroes, 753; vast
number of military orders issued, 755; public local officers removed,
and others appointed in their places, 753; the Constitution rejected
by a large majority, 754; the Chief-Justice resigns, 764; his
reasons, 754; the Governor removed, and another appointed by the
military commander, 754; the former refuses to retire, 764; a squad
of soldiers sent to dispossess him, 754; ejected from his house by a
file of soldiers, 754; cause of the rejection of the Constitution,
755; Congress authorizes the President of the United States to submit
the Constitution to another election by the people, 756; sweeping
disqualifications of voters ordered, 755; Constitution ratified, 755;
the constitutional amendments adopted, 755; the State permitted to be
represented in Congress, 755.
Louisiana continues under the government set up by General Banks,
756; the military commander under the acts of Congress assumes
command, 756; the existing government declared to be only provisional
and subject to be abolished, modified, controlled, or superseded,756;
officers removed, 756; registration ordered, 756; the military
commander fears he shall be obliged to remove Governor Wells, 756;
correspondence with General Grant, 756; the Governor removed and
another appointed, 756; twenty-two members of the City Councils of
New Orleans removed, 757; Sheriff, City Treasurer, Surveyor, justice
of peace removed, 757; declared to be "impediments to reconstruction,"
757; newly elected officers not allowed to be installed without
permission of the commanding General, 757; the Governor and
Lieutenant-Governor by military order, now removed, those newly elected
set up by the military commander, 757; all requisitions complied with,
757.
Texas and Arkansas passed through the same military process as their
sister Confederate States, 757.
Usurpations of the military commanders, 758; regarded their authority
as comprehensive as the usurpations of Congress, 758; declaration of
United States Attorney-General, 758; instances related, 758, 759; the
disastrous consequences that followed, 759; increase of the debts of
these States, 760; in Arkansas two so-called Republican Governors of
the State with their troops about to fight for the Executive office,
761; in Louisiana a body of troops enter the Legislature in session
and take out five members, 761; in Mississippi a bloody conflict
between whites and blacks, 761; a committee of Congress sent to
Arkansas to "inquire if the State had a government republican in
form," 761; a committee of Congress sent to New Orleans to
investigate the state of affairs, 761; a like committee sent to
Mississippi, 761; where were the unalienable rights of men and the
sovereignty of the people with their safeguards? 762; when the cause
was lost, what cause was it? 763.
_Conference_ of Generals A. S. Johnston and Beauregard after the loss
of Forts Henry and Donelson, 36; conclusions, 36.
_Confiscation Act of the United States Congress_, provisions of one
of its most indicative sections, 6; a forfeiture of all claim to
persons held to service, 6; conceded that Congress had no power over
slavery, 6; one of the reserved powers of the States, 7; a
reservation equally in time of war and in peace, 7; forfeiture for
treason does not touch the case, 7; a conviction by trial must
precede forfeiture, 7; the forfeiture can be only during life, 7:
final freedom to slaves can not be thus obtained, 7; other
limitations, 7; due process of law not an act of Congress, 7; words
of Thaddeus Stevens, 8; who pleads the Constitution against our
action? 8; the object of, 164; adjudication, sale, etc, required for
confiscation by national law, 164; compared with the act of Congress,
164; sections of the act of August 6, 1861, 165; do. of the act of
July 17, 1862, 166; amount of property subject to the provisions of
the act, 167; number of persons liable to be affected by it, 167;
another feature of the confiscation act, 168; equally flagrant and
criminal, 168; trial by jury excluded and forfeiture of property made
absolute, 168; heavy fines imposed and the property sold in fee, 168;
treated as traitors and enemies, 169; first object to be secured by
confiscation was emancipation, 169.
_Conflict, the last armed, of the war_, like the first, a Confederate
victory, 698.
_Congress, Provisional_, its third session, 3; removal of departments
of the Government to Richmond authorized, 3; cause of removal stated
in the President's message, 3; first efforts of the enemy to be
directed against Virginia, 8; acts at its third session, 6;
proceedings relative to the removal of General A. S. Johnston, 38.
_Congress, The United States_, conceded that it had no power over
slavery, 6; a power reserved to the States, 7; this reservation
continued in time of war as in peace, 7; the attempt to exercise a
power of confiscation was a mere usurpation, 7; forfeiture for
treason does not reach the case, 7; words of the Constitution, 7; no
forfeiture with conviction, and only during life, 7; article of first
amendment to the Constitution, 7; "due process of law" not an act of
Congress, 7; who pleads the Constitution against our action? 8; in
1862, declares that the struggle is for existence, and the Government
may resort to any measure that self-defense would justify, 159; the
self-defense of the Government, how authorized by the Constitution,
159; slavery declared to be the cause of all the troubles, 159;
inaugural of President Lincoln, 160; commences to legislate for the
abolition of slavery. 160; asserts that it had the power to interfere
with the institution, 160; the plea of necessity, the source of the
power, 161; usurpations embraced in its system of legislation, 161;
the powers granted in the Constitution, 162; to make foreign war,
162; confiscation, 162; international law on the capture of private
property, 163; its conditions compared with the act of Congress, 164;
another alarming usurpation of, 170; the argument advanced for its
support, 170; the theory on which it was based, 170; another step in
the usurpations for the destruction of slavery, 172; emancipation in
the District of Columbia, 172; prohibits that which the Constitution
commands--a most flagrant usurpation, 175.
_Constitutional liberty_, vindicated by the triumph of the
Confederate States, 14; the wound to the principles of, committed by
the Government of the United States, 279; the crashing blow to the
hopes that mankind had begun to repose in this latest effort for
self-government, 279; sought to palliate the offense by asserting a
fiction that its immense fleets and armies were only a police
authority to put down insurrection, 280.
_Constitution, The_, every restraint of, broken through by the
Government of the United States, 2; this was declared by the United
States Government to be for the preservation of, 6; the course
attempted to be pursued by it under this pretext of preserving the
Constitution, 6; violations of, under the confiscation act of
Congress relative to private property, 7; violations of, in the
treatment of seized and imprisoned citizens, 14; its provisions
afforded no protection to the citizens, 15; the United States
Government transformed in to a military despotism, 15; what cause for
such acts, 15; answer to the question, 15; powers of, not changed by
circumstances, 161; or by peace or war, 161; do. of the United
States, who were really destroying? 170; theory that it was suspended
by actual hostilities, 170; these gave to Congress sovereign power,
170; new relations of citizens and subject to extraordinary
penalties, 170; power of Congress thus unlimited, 170.
_Constitution of the United States_, a fatal subversion of, 293.
_Constitutions, Paper_, of what value are they? 622.
_Constitution of Tennessee_, was it amended by the consent of the
people of Tennessee, the only sovereigns known under our
institutions, or by consent of the Government of the United States,
the usurping sovereign? 457.
_Contest, The_, is not over; it has only entered on a new and
enlarged arena, 294.
CONYNGHAM, Captain GUSTAVUS, commands a cruiser fitted out in France
by United States Government, 275; appointed by filling up a blank
commission from John Hancock, 275; captured and ignominiously
confined, 276; retaliatory measures of United States Congress, 276.
COOK, Colonel, stands, with Twenty-seventh North Carolina regiment,
boldly in line at Sharpsburg without a cartridge, 336.
COOPER, Adjutant-General SAMUEL, testimony relative to General
Winder's humane treatment of prisoners of war, 598.
_Corinth_, our force concentrated at, before the battle of Shiloh,
55; its position, 71; a strategic point of importance, 72; Hallock
advances against it, 72; his precautions, 72; report of Sherman, 72;
intrenched approaches, 73; further report of Sherman, 73; its
position and importance, 387; attempt to capture it by Generals Van
Dorn and Price, 389; battle mainly fought by Price's division, 389;
delay in the attack, 389; course of the battle, 390; fresh troops
arrive to the enemy, 390; our army retires to Chewalla, 390; losses,
390.
_Cotton_, measures of the United States Government to obtain our
cotton, 343; the necessity for it, 344; words of the British
Secretary of State, 344; efforts of foreign governments to obtain
increased exportation, 344; letter of Minister Adams, 344; letter of
Mr. Seward, 344; military expeditions fitted out by the United States
Government to obtain it, 345; act of the United States Congress to
"provide for the collection of duties, and for other purposes," 345;
sections of the act, 346; the President authorized by proclamation to
forbid all commercial intercourse with any of our States, 346;
forfeiture of all goods _in transitu_, and the vessel, 346;
authorized then to reopen the trade for cotton and tobacco by
licenses to the most suitable persons for the end in view, 347; no
grant of power in the Constitution to Congress to pass such an act,
or to the President to approve, in violation of his oath, 347; a
power reserved to the States to regulate commercial intercourse
between their citizens, 347; the case of Carpenter, who refused to
obtain the required permit, 128; decision of Chief-Justice Taney,
348; a civil war or any other war does not enlarge the powers of the
Federal Government over the states or people beyond what the compact
has given to it, 348; issue of the President's proclamation, 349;
military expeditions fitted out to occupy our ports where cotton and
other valuable products were usually shipped, 349; collectors
appointed and licenses granted, 349; special agents appointed to
receive and collect all abandoned or captured property, 349; views of
General Grant on the operation of this system, 350; our country
divided into thirteen districts from Wheeling to Natchez, 350; a
vigorous traffic, 350.
_Crime of the Government of Great Britain_, in the eyes of the
Government of the United States, was the recognition of the
Confederate States as a belligerent, 272; letter of Secretary Seward,
277; the unparalleled virtue of a Queen's proclamation, 277; the
effect of one more, 277; a Mexican _pronunciamiento_ 277;
irrationality of United States Government, 278.
_Crimes and horrors_, how easy for the Northern people, by a simple
obedience to the provisions of the Constitution, to have avoided the
commission of all these! 181.
CRITTENDEN, General GEORGE B., statement of battle of Fishing Creek,
19; takes command, 19; position of his force, 19; advances to attack
General Thomas, 20; destitution of his men, 21; unsuccessful attack,
21; movements afterward, 21, 22.
_Cruisers_, Confederate: the Sumter, her career, 247; no secrecy in
building the Alabama, 350; she sails from Liverpool as a
merchant-ship, 250; her name, 250; description of her, 251; changed
to a man-of-war, 251; her armament, 252; her fight with the Hatteras,
253; capture of an Aspinwall steamer, 253; her cruise, 254; arrival
at Cherbourg, 255; the Kearsarge, her size and strength, 356;
description of the fight of the Alabama with the Kearsarge, 256, 257;
comparison of the vessels, 258; the United States Government absurdly
demands from the English Government the rescued sailors, 256; reply
of Lord John Russell, 256; the Georgia, 262; her career, 262; the
Shenandoah, 263; her career, 262; the Nashville, 263; her cruise,
363; the Tallahassee, 364; the Chickamauga, 364; the cruiser Florida,
original name Oreto, 250; difficulty at Nassau; 259; arrives at Green
Kay, 259; changed to a cruiser, 259; sickness and loss of crew, 259;
arrives at Havana, 260; arrives at Mobile, 260; repaired and
equipped, 260; runs the blockade, 261; her cruise, 261; seized in the
port of Bahia, 262; taken to Hampton Roads, 262; sunk by artifice,
263; demand of Brazil, 262; letter of Mr. Seward, 263; the
circumstances of their construction, 270; Minister Adams's claim for
damages, 270; reply of Earl Russell, 270; answer of Mr. Seward to the
declaration, 271; response of Earl Russell, 271; the proceedings of
the Confederate Government relating to, justified by international
law, 274; and by its own antecedent acts, 274; fitting out cruisers
in France during the Revolutionary War, 274; action of Dr. Franklin
and Silas Deane, 275; cruise of Captain Wickes, 275; do. captain
Conyngham, 275; retaliatory action of U. S. Congress, 276.
_Cumberland Gap_, its position and strength, 427; commanded by
Brigadier-General Frazier, 427; his force, 427: position of General
Rosecrans,427; General Burnside advances from Kentucky, 427; General
Buckner retires, 427; Frazier, seeing the futility of resistance,
surrenders, 427; note in explanation, 427; further movements of the
enemy, 428.
CUSTER, General, marches on a raid, 504; his object, 504; coöperation
of General Kilpatrick and Colonel Dahlgren, 504; after a feeble
demonstration on some parked artillery, retreats, burning bridges
where there was no one to pursue, 507.
DAHLGREN, Colonel JOHN, starts with General Kilpatrick, 505; proceeds
to Hanover Junction, thence to the canal West of Richmond, 505;
pillages, destroys dwellings, out-buildings, mills, canal-boats,
grain and cattle, 505; encounters a body of armory men, citizens and
clerks of Richmond, and is routed, 506; retreats, 506; attacked by
the Home Guard of King's and Queen's Counties and is killed and his
force put to flight, 506; papers found on his body, showing his
purposes, 506; his burial, 507; a denial that his conduct was
authorized, 507.
_Damages for personal injuries_, obtained from the offender by the
State government, 452; claimed by the United States Government
against our cruisers, 283; transfer of ships to foreign owners, 284;
increase in the foreign commerce of the country, 284; decline in
American tonnage, 284; in articles of export, 284; increase in rates
of insurance, 284.
_Danville_, arrival of the President and Cabinet, 676; routine work
of the departments resumed, 676; proclamation of the President, 676,
677.
DAVIS, Brigadier-General J. R., movements of his brigade at the
Wilderness struggle, 519.
DAVIS, Senator GARRETT, remarks on the confiscation act of the United
States Congress, 167.
DAVIS, JEFFERSON, message at the third session of the Provisional
Congress, 3; the schooner, treatment of her crew by the United States
Government, 11; letter to President Lincoln relative to the crew of
the Savannah, 11; instructions relative to retaliatory measures, 11;
answer to members of Congress that requested the removal of General
A. S. Johnston, 88; letter to General A. S. Johnston on state of
affairs, 41; reply to A. S. Johnston's letter, 47; orders Bragg to
command In Mississippi, 74; detained by Beauregard, 74; command
transferred to him by Beauregard, 74; statement of the case, 75;
letter to General J. E. Johnston on the announcement of his intention
to evacuate the Peninsula and Norfolk, 92; sends General Randolph,
Secretary of War, and Mr. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, to arrange
for the removal of stores and machinery from Norfolk, 92;
conversation with General J. E. Johnston relative to his plans before
Richmond, 101; letter to General J. E. Johnston, 103; goes to meet
him, and finds the whole army had fallen back across the
Chickahominy, 103; the explanation given, 103; remarks relative to
the situation, 103; dissatisfaction with military affairs around
Richmond, 120; conversation with Lee, 120; had no doubts that
Johnston was fully in accord in the purpose to defend Richmond until
recently, 120; his remark to his volunteer aide, 120; plan of
Johnston, 120; goes to the expected battle-field, 121; proceedings,
122; in danger of going into the enemy's camp, 128; meets General G.
W. Smith, 129; announces the assignment of Lee to the command, 129;
conversations with Lee, 131; plan for the future, 131; conversation
with Lee relative to the movements of McClellan, 132; do. with regard
to that of Jackson, 132; offensive-defensive policy inaugurated, 132;
his address on the defeat of McClellan's army, 311; letter to General
Lee on the action of the military authorities of the United States
changing the character of the war into a campaign of indiscriminate
robbery and murder, 315, 316; letter to General Lee in Maryland, 333;
letter to Governor Pettus to get every man into the field, 400; sent
a dispatch to General Bragg for aid for Vicksburg, 411; reply, 412;
response, 412; importance of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, 422; anxiety
of the Administration to hold them, 422; visits Hood's headquarters,
565; his views, 565; conference at Augusta with Beauregard and
others, 566; reply to Hood's change of programme, 569; letter to
President Lincoln, relative to prisoners captured in our privateers,
583; order relative to General Pope, 588; issues retaliatory orders
relative to Generals Hunter and Phelps, 590; efforts to seek an
adjustment of difficulties relative to the exchange of prisoners
through the authorities at Washington, 591; appoints Vice-President
Stephens as a commissioner, 591; letter of instructions, 591; letter
to President Lincoln, 593; the result, 595; conference with General
Lee on the state of affairs, 648; the programme adopted, 648;
receives a telegram from General Lee, advising the evacuation of
Richmond, 661; unprepared state of transportation, 661; receives
notice of General Lee's withdrawal, 667; arrangements, 667; starts
for Danville, 686; arrival, and resumption of routine labors, 676;
issues a proclamation, 676, 677; proposes a conference with General
J.E. Johnston, in North Carolina, 678; his letter, 678; they meet at
Greensboro, 679; state of affairs, 679; object of the conference,
680; proceedings at the conference, 680; conference between Johnston
and Sherman assented to, 681; the route of retreat, 681; supplies
placed on the route, 682; letter of General St. John, 682; do. of
Major Claiborne, 682; proceeds to Charlotte with his Cabinet, 683;
news of the assassination of President Lincoln, 683; remarks, 633;
obtains an increased cavalry force, 684; correspondence between
Generals Johnston and Sherman, 684; Sherman's interview with
President Lincoln, 684; result of the conference with Sherman, 685;
memorandum of agreement, 686; the agreement, a military convention,
687; approved, 687; letter to General Johnston, 688; the basis of
agreement rejected by the United States Government, 689; instruction
to General Johnston, 689; disobeyed, 689; proceeds from Charlotte,
690; statements of General Johnston, 690; explanation, 691; Johnston
surrenders to Sherman, 692; difference in the condition of his army
from Lee's, 692; the former's line of retreat open, and supplies on
it, 692; importance of continued resistance, 693; statement of
General Taylor, 694; the Executive should have been advised, 694;
further movements of the President, 694; his companions, 694; first
information of Johnston's surrender, 695; a small escort selected,
695; Secretary Reagan transfers the money in the Confederate Treasury
to the financial agent who had incurred liabilities, 695; Johnston
could not have been successfully pursued by Sherman, 696;
considerations, 696; thus foiled the enemy's purpose of subjugation,
696; purpose of the President, 697; forces in the trans-Mississippi
Department, 697; General E. K. Smith's address to his soldiers, 697:
the other forces of the Confederacy, 698; surrenders east of the
Mississippi, 698; the lost armed conflict of the war, 698; surrender
of General E. K. Smith, 698; the total number of prisoners paroled at
the close of the war, 699; the Shenandoah the last to float the
Confederate flag, 700; further movements of the President, 700; turns
aside to find his family; 700; apprehensions of on attack of
marauders, 701; preparations to leave, 701; awaiting nightfall, 701;
approach of the enemy, 701; surprise and capture, 701; some of the
escort escape, 702; pillage and annoyances, 703; taken to Macon, 703;
proceed to Port Royal, 704; transferred in a steamer and taken to
Hampton Roads, 704; imprisoned in Fortress Monroe, 704.
_Delegation from the prisoners_ sent from Andersonville to plead
their cause before the authorities at Washington, 602; President
Lincoln refuses to see them, 602; the answer that the interests of
the Government of the United States required that they should return
to prison and remain there, 602; letter from the wife of the chairman
of the delegation, 603; letter from a prisoner, 603.
"_Delightful excitement_," exclamation of Jackson in the hottest of the
battle at Port Republic, 115.
_De Russy, Fort_, token possession of, by the enemy, 542.
_Destruction of our institutions_, the powers of a common government,
created for the common and equal protection to the interests of all,
were to be arrayed for, 182.
_Distinction in its nature and objects_ between the Government of the
States and the State governments, 454, 455.
_District of Columbia_, act of Congress of United States to
emancipate slaves in, 172; right of private property guaranteed in,
by the Constitution, 173; its words, 173; conditions on which such
property might be taken under the Constitution, 173.
_Disunion, bloodshed, and war_, the consummation verbally of the
original antislavery purposes attended with, 188.
DIXON, Lieutenant, as an engineer examines and reports on the sites
and condition of Forts Henry and Donelson, 24.
_Donaldsonville_, a battery elected at, which interrupts river
navigation by the enemy, 420.
_Donelson, Fort_, reason for the selection of the site, 24; its
position, 24; report relative to the fort, 24; details of the fort
and its situation, 28; officers in command, 29; strength of force,
29; the attack, 29; fire of a gunboat, 29; boat disabled, 29; attack
of the ironclads--all their advantages overcome by our heavy guns,
30; scatter destruction through fleet, 30; it retires to Cairo for
repairs, 30; their loss, 31; effect of their fire on our batteries,
31; reënforcements to the enemy, 31; plan of the Confederate
generals, 31; condition of things, 31; vacillation of our commanders,
32; the first success and subsequent loss, 32; consultation of the
commands, 33; condition of the troops, 33; the command transferred to
General Buckner, 33; Generals Pillow and Floyd retire, 34; part of
General Floyd's force left behind, 34; advantages gained by the
enemy, 34; surrender, 34; effects, 36.
_ Donelson and Henry_, the consequences of their loss, 36; change of
plans, 39.
_Drury's Bluff_, a defensive position on the James River, 102;
enemy's fleet open fire on the fort, 102; injuries to the fleet, 102;
report of Lieutenant Jeffers, 102; its position and works, 511;
General Beauregard in command, 511; the battle with Butler's force,
512-514.
"_Due diligence_"; on this foundation was based the claim for damages
by the United States Government at the Geneva Conference, 278.
"_Due process of law_" assumed by the United States Government to
mean an act of Congress, 7.
DUNCAN, General, had command of the coast defenses at New Orleans,
212; his report of the passage of the forts below New Orleans by the
enemy's fleet, 215; do. on their skillful and gallant defense, 216;
address to the garrisons, 217.
_Duration of the Government of the United States_, to have declared
it perpetual would have destroyed the sovereignty of the people,
which possesses the inherent right to alter or abolish their
Government when it ceases to answer the ends for which it was
instituted, 45.
EARLY, General JUBAL E., remarks on the line of defense constructed
by General Magruder at Warwick River, 86; resists the enemy at
Yorktown, 89; report of his conflict before Williamsburg with a force
under General Hancock, 95; further statements, 96; badly wounded and
obliged to retire, 96; engaged at the battle of Cedar Run, 817;
commands Ewell's division at Sharpsburg, 336; resists the attacks of
the enemy on Fredericksburg, 362; regains his former position, 363;
with a force drives Hunter out of the Valley, and advances to the
Potomac and crosses, 529; sends a force to strike the railroads from
Baltimore to Harrisburg, 529; puts to flight a body of troops under
Wallace, 529; approaches Fort Stevens, near Washington, 530; too
strong to assault, 530; recrosses the Potomac, 530; attacks the enemy
at Kernstown, 531; moves to Martinsburg, 531; appearance of Sheridan
with a large force, 533; Early attacks his force near Winchester,
533, 534; retires to Newton, 535; escapes annihilation by the
incapacity of his enemy, 536; withdraws up the Valley, 536;
subsequently moves down the Valley again, 536; the destruction caused
by Sheridan's orders, 536; Early reaches Fisher's Hill, 536; attacks
the enemy at Cedar Creek, 537; his plan, 537; the battle, 538; his
success and subsequent disaster, 540; his losses, 541; subsequently
confronts Sheridan's force north of Cedar Creek, 541; other attacks,
541.
_Edith, The_, a cruiser, name changed to Chickamauga, 265; runs the
blockade under a full moon, 265; her cruise, 265.
_Election, The_, in 1861, officers of the Provisional Government
chosen for the permanent Government, 17.
_Elections in Maryland_, interfered with by an armed force of the
United States Government, 464, 465.
_Elkhorn, or Pea Ridge, battle of_, 50; its object, 51; losses, 51.
ELLIOTT, Colonel STEPHEN, Jr., refused to be relieved at Fort Sumter,
204; salutes his flag on evacuation, 204.
_Elon, Mount_, General Butler defeats a detachment of Sherman's force
sent to tear up the railroad at Florence, 635.
_Emancipation_, efforts of United States Congress to effect
emancipation of slaves by confiscation, 7; violation of the
Constitution, 7; efforts to effect by pillage and deportation, 8; by
President Lincolns order to military; commanders, 9; by Generals
Fremont and T. W. Sherman, 10; the first object to be secured by the
confiscation act, 169; the coöperation of the United States,
recommended by President Lincoln, 179; his reasons, 179; to be
consummated under the war-power, 179; as artful scheme to awaken
controversy in the Southern states, 179; measure approved by
Congress, 180; the terms proposed, 180, expressly forbidden by the
Constitution, 180; order of General Hunter countermanded as too soon,
181; the President claims the right to issue such a one, 181; the
proposition of emancipation with compensation, 183; its failure in
Congress, 184; the preliminary proclamation, 187; its terms, 186; the
necessity for it examined, 187.
_Enemies and traitors_, the twofold relation in which the United
States Government sought to place us, 169; its practical operation,
169.
_Englishmen_ cheer the Virginia in Hampton Roads, 201.
_Events, Review of_, that brought such unmerited censure on General
A. S. Johnston, 48.
_Evidence, Fabrication of_, attempted by some of the authorities of
of Washington in order to compass the death of the President of the
Con federate States, 498, 499; the investigation and report before
the United States Congress, 500.
EWELL, General, engaged at the battle of Cedar Run, 317; unites with
General Jackson for operations in the Shenandoah Valley, 106;
conflict with Fremont near Harrisonburg, 113; serving as a gunner,
116; repulses the enemy at Bristoe Station, 323; commands the Second
Corps of Lee's army, 437; storms Winchester, and captures or puts
Milroy's army to flight, 439; enters Maryland, 439; encamps near
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 440; occupies the left at Gettysburg, 443.
_Facts on record_, such as will make our posterity blush, 167.
FARRAGUT, Commodore, commands the enemy's fleet at New Orleans, 214;
its strength and numbers, 214; report of his passage of the forts,
216; sends a detachment to hoist the United States flag on New
Orleans Custom-House, 231.
FARRAND, Commander, commands at Drury's Bluff, 102.
_Fayetteville, North Carolina_, Sherman's army approaches, 632;
brutality of his forces, 632, 633; description of Sherman's march by
his historian, 633; "the pleasurable excitements of the march," 634.
FERGUSON, General, drives off the enemy that seek to get to the
Yazoo, 395.
"_Fire up the Northern heart_," what was signified by the expression,
386.
_Fisher, Fort_, a movement by a force from Grant's army with the
fleet to attack below Wilmington, 645; an attempt to destroy it by
the explosion of a powder-ship, 645; its failure, 645; subsequently a
renewed attempt, 645; the attack, 645; surrender of the fort, 646.
_Fishing Creek_, the battle of. 19; statement of General Crittenden,
19; the battle a necessity, 21; the case considered, 22; causes of
the ill success, 22; retreat of our force, 23; the question of
crossing to the light bank of the Cumberland considered, 23.
_Five Forks_, a strong position on Lee's line assaulted and carried
by the enemy, 655.
_Five thousand million dollars_, amount of property subject to be
acted on by the provisions of the confiscation act of the United
States Congress, 167.
FIZER, Lieutenant-Colonel, his bold expedient to resist the crossing
of the enemy at Fredericksburg. 353.
_Flag, The Confederate_, the Shenandoah the last to float it, 700.
_Flagrant violation of the Constitution, Another_, the discharge of a
fugitive under the confiscation act, 176; words of the act, 176.
FLANDERS, Messrs., citizens of New York, 482; incarcerated by the
Government of the United States in Fort Lafayette, 482; required to
take an oath of allegiance before the Government permitted their case
to be investigated, 482; the oath, 483; their refusal, 483; their
reasons, 483.
_Fleet of the enemy_, prepared for moving down the Mississippi River,
75; its progress, 76.
FLOYD. General, commands at Fort Donelson, 29; retires from Fort
Donelson, 34; correspondence relative to his conduct at Donelson, 40,
41.
_Forces, The United States_, number of men brought into the field by
the Government of the United States during the war, 706.
_Foreign powers_, our States falsely represented in every court of
Europe, 2; adopt a position of neutrality, 12.
_Foreign relations_, recognized by leading European Governments as a
belligerent, 368; principles upon which the States were originally
constituted and upon which the Union was farmed explained, 368;
commissioners early sent abroad by us, 368; previous communications
of the Government of the United States assuming the attitude of a
sovereign over the Confederate States, and threatening Europe if it
acknowledged it as having an independent existence, 369; error of
European nations, 369; answer of foreign Governments in consequence,
369; re fuse to side with either party, 369; the consequence--a
prolongation of hostilities, 370; other matters in which less than
justice was rendered to us by "neutral" Europe, and undue advantage
given to the aggressors, 370; both parties prohibited from bringing
prizes into their ports, 370; the value of the weapon thus wrested
from our grasp, 371; their policy in reference to the blockade was so
shaped as to cause the greatest injury to the Confederacy, 371;
declaration of principles of the Paris Congress, 372; proposals that
the Confederacy should accede to it, 372; acceded to, with the
exception of privateering, 873; reasons for the exception, 373; the
passiveness of "neutral" Europe relative to its declaration, 373; the
pretension of blockading thousands of miles, 373; other blockades,
373; facts shown, 374; the mediation proposed by France to Great
Britain and Russia, 376; dispatch of the French Minister, 376; reply
of Great Britain, 378; reply of Russia, 378; communication to the
French Minister at Washington by his Government, 378; the initiative
of all measures left by foreign powers to the governments of France
and Great Britain, 379.
FORREST, Colonel N. B., at Fort Donelson, 34; interview with Major
Brown, 34; his expedition from North Mississippi to Paducah,
Kentucky, 550; ordered to strike the railroad from Nashville to
Chattanooga, 566; his movements with General Hood's army, 574; sent
to Murfreesboro, 577.
_Forty-two regiments and two batteries_ sent by the Government of the
United States into the State of New York to maintain the subjugation
of its sovereign people, 490.
_France_, her proposed mediation between the belligerents, 376.
FRANKLIN, General, his division disembarked before the evacuation of
York town, 90; his force reembarks after the evacuation of Yorktown,
97; lands near West Point and threatens the flank of our line of
march, 98.
FRAZIER, Brigadier-General I. W., commands at Cumberland Gap, 427;
approach and strength of the enemy, 427; seeing the inutility of
resistance, surrenders on demand of General Burnside, 427; a note in
explanation by the author, 427.
_Frazier's Farm_, the battle at, one of the most remarkable of the
war, 146; strength of forces, and losses, 147.
_Fredericksburg_, its situation, 352; the enemy attempt to lay
bridges and cross the Rappahannock, 352; repulsed, 352; our troops
withdrawn and bridges laid, 352; attack and repulse of Burnside's
army, 354, 355; withdraws at night, 356; losses, 356; strength of
opposing forces, 356.
_Free consent of the governed_, the only source of all "just powers"
of government, 452.
FREMONT, General JOHN Cl, issues a proclamation confiscating real and
personal property in Missouri, 10; repulsed at Strasburg with ease,
111; follows and attacks General Ashby, 112.
_Fugitives_, their forfeiture ordered, 2; military commanders
forbidden to interfere in their restoration, 2.
_Galveston_, summoned to surrender, 232; the reply, 232; the state of
affairs, 233; subsequent approach of the enemy, and occupation of the
city, 233; arrival of General Magruder, 233; gathers a force to
attack the enemy, 233; protects his steamboats with cotton-bales,
234; attacks the fleet, 234; captures the Harriet Lane, 234; demands
a surrender of the enemy's fleet, 234; it escapes under cover of a
flag of truce, 235.
GARDNER, Major-General, in command at Port Hudson, 395; yields Port
Hudson to General Banks after the capitulation of Vicksburg, 420; his
gallant defense, 421.
GARFIELD, JAMES A., commands in north eastern Kentucky, 18.
_Geneva Conference_, adjustment proposed by Great Britain, 283;
results in the Geneva Conference, 283; the ground of its action, 283.
_Georgia_, the campaign of 1864; General J. E. Johnston ordered to
the command of the Army of Tennessee at Dalton, 547; total effective
strength of the army, 547; positions of the enemy, 547; an onward
movement demanded, 548; considerations relative thereto, 548; do.
presented to General Johnston, 548, 549; his approval of an
aggressive movement, 548; his proposition, 549; prompt measures taken
to enable him to carry out his proposition, 549; no movement at
tempted, 550; Sherman advances against him, 550; official returns of
the strength of the army, 550; efforts of the Government to
strengthen Johnston, 551; his position, 551; hopes of the country,
551; he withdraws from Dalton and falls back to Resaca, 552; the
position, 552; falls back from Resaca to Adairsville, 552; his
reasons, 552; a further retreat to Cassville, 553; a coming battle
announced, 553; it did not take place, 553; another retreat beyond
Etowah, 553; the position in rear of Cassville held by Generals Polk
and Hood, 553; the next stand at Alatoona, 553; Marietta evacuated,
553; the state of the country between Dallas and Marietta, 553;
engagements at New Hope Church, 554; the next stand made by General
Johnston between Acworth and Marietta, 554; character of the country,
554; death of Lieutenant General Polk, 554; brisk fighting for some
days, 555: the pressure on General G. W. Smith, 555; falling back to
the Chattahoochee, 555; losses of mills, foundries, and military
stores in these retreats, 555; position of the enemy, 555; questions
upon which there has been a decided conflict of opinion, 556; the
extreme popular disappointment, 556; the possible fall of the "Gate
City" produced intense anxiety, 556; the removal of General Johnston
demanded, 556; apprehensive of disasters that might result from it,
556; the clamors for his removal, 557; Johnston relieved and Hood
appointed, 557; letter of Hon. B. H. Hill, 557; Hood assumes command,
561; his effective strength, 562; resolved to attack the enemy, 562;
the movement fails, 562; attacks McPherson's corps, 562; various
successful expeditions, 562; Sherman moves to the south and southwest
of Atlanta, 562, 563; evacuation of Atlanta a necessity, 563; Hood
marches westerly, 563; Atlanta surrendered Sherman, 563; inhabitants
expelled by Sherman and robbed by his soldiers 564; the enemy
inactive, 564; Hood's report of the state of his army, 564; visit of
the President to his headquarters, 565; view of the situation, 565;
efforts to fill up the army, 565; action of the Governor of Georgia,
565; exemption of citizens from military service, 566; Hood moves
against the enemy's communications, 566; Forrest ordered to strike
the Nashville road, 566; improvement in the condition of Hood's army,
567; the plan of operations discussed, 567; opinion of General
Hardee, 568; proceeding: of Beauregard, 568; movements of Hood, 568;
withdraws toward Gadsden, 569; conference with Beauregard, 569;
decides to march into Tennessee, 569; telegram of General Beauregard,
569; change of programme, 569; reply, 569; Hood crosses the
Tennessee, 570; the movement ill advised, 570; Sherman's destructive
march, 570; moves from Atlanta, 571; harassed by Wheeler's cavalry,
571; Hardee at Savannah, 572; Sherman reaches Savannah, 572; Fort
McAllister taken, 572; preparations of the enemy to bombard Savannah,
572; Hardee evacuates, 573. (See HOOD, General J. B.)
_Gettysburg_, the enemy met in from Gettysburg and driven through the
town, 440; instructions given not to bring on a general engagement,
440; statement of General Pendleton, chief of artillery, 441;
preparations for general engagement delayed, 442; the position at
Gettysburg, 442; main purpose of the movement across the Potomac,
442; Lee decides to renew the attack, 443; the position of our line,
443; the conflict of the second day, 443; Lee determines to continue
the assault, 443; general plan unchanged, 443; the continued
conflict, 444; its results, 444; army retires, 444; prisoners and
loss, 444; strength of forces, 446; the wisdom of the strategy
justified the result, 447; the battle was unfortunate, 447;
considerations, 447; most eventful struggle of the war, 448.
GLASELL, Com. W. T., attacks the New Ironsides frigate with
torpedoes, 208.
_Gloucester Point_, its position, 83; McClellan urges an attack in
rear, 85; a detachment could have turned it, 90.
GORDON, General JOHN B., selected to command the sortie against Fort
Steadman, in Grant's lines before Petersburg, 649; its result, 649;
his letter furnishing details, 650-654.
_Government permanent, The_, its inauguration welcomed, 1.
_Government of the United States_, rejected adjustment by
negotiation, and chose to attempt subjugation, 5; the course how
pursued, 5; recognized the separate existence of the Confederate
States by an interdictive embargo and blockade of all their commerce
with United States, 5; manner in which the war was conducted, 5; not
a government resting on the consent of the governed, 6; tendency of
its actions directly to the emancipation of slaves, 9; caution of
General McClellan, 9; instructions to General T. W. Sherman, in South
Carolina, to receive all persons, whether slaves or not, 10; other
orders, 10; willing to accede to the terms of the Treaty of Paris,
12; its offer declined by foreign powers, 13; the terms upon which
the offer was made, 13; its object, in 1862, to assail us with every
instrument of destruction that could be devised, 158; all its efforts
directed to our subjugation or extermination, 159; the aid of
Congress called in, 159; did acts which it was expressly made in the
Constitution its duty to prevent, 176; words of the Constitution,
177; what all its acts consisted in, 178; has no natural rights, 181;
insincerity of her complaints to Great Britain for the construction
of our ships, 249; statement of Mr. Laird, 249; employed its
war-vessels to catch blockade-runners instead of capturing our light
cruisers on the ocean, 266; action of its State Department, 266;
appeals to Great Britain to prevent the so-called pirates from
violating international law, 267; a mortifying exhibition of
deception and unmanliness, 267; reclamation sought for, 267; what
international law recognizes, 267; effort of the United States
Government to contract in England for the construction of iron-plated
vessels, 268; other proceedings, 268; statement of Lord Russell, 268;
United States Government profited most by unjustifiable war
practices, 268; upon its interference, a State government immediately
ceases to be republican, 310; its acts of reconstruction entirely
unconstitutional, revolutionary, subversive of the Constitution, and
destructive of the Union, 310; what is it? 453; an organization of a
few years' duration, 453; it might cease to exist, and the States and
people continue prosperous, peaceful, and happy, 453; it sprang from
certain circumstances in the course of human affairs, 453; has no
warrant or authority but the ratification of the sovereign States,
453; unlike the governments of the States instituted for the
protection of the unalienable rights of man, it has only its
enumerated objects, 453; it keeps no records of property, and
guarantees no possession of an estate, 453; marriage it can neither
confirm nor annul, 453; partakes of the nature of an incorporation,
453; right of the people to alter or abolish it, 453; its duration,
454; objects, 454; distinct in its nature and objects from the State
governments, 454; its true character and intentions toward us
exposed, 580; aspirations for dominion and sovereignty, 581; the term
"loyal," its signification, 581; meaning of President Lincoln's
words, 581; hope of mankind in constitutional freedom be for ever
lost, 582; the foundation of the war, 582; the issue for which we
fought, 582; why we were called rebels, 582.
GRANT, General U. S., starts from Cairo with a force to attack Fort
Henry, 26; strength of his force, 26; his movements, 26; moves to
invest Fort Donelson, 29; strength of his force, 29; takes command at
Pittsburg Landing, 52; condition of his army after the battle of
Shiloh, 70; masses a heavy force along the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad, 391; moves south and camps near Water Valley, 391; country
teeming with forage, 391; his object, 391; moves down the Mississippi
to Young's Point, 393; retreat to Memphis compelled by Van Dorn's
destruction of supplies at Holly Springs, 393; attempt to pass to the
rear of Fort Pemberton, 394; do. to enter the Yazoo above Haines's
Bluff, 395; Grant's army, 395; attempts to cut a canal, 396;
unsuccessful, 396; another at attempt to cut one near Milliken's
Bend, 596; lands below Vicksburg, 398; advances into Mississippi to
strike either Jackson or Vicksburg, 399; his expectation of an attack
in his rear by General Johnston, 423; preparations to resist it, 423;
statement of an officer of his army, 424; arrives at Chattanooga and
assumes command, 434; his description of the situation, 434; his
first movement, 435; other operations, 436; his plan of campaign
revealed, 510; to connect with the army of Butler on the south side
of the James, 510; appointed lieutenant-general, 515; assumes command
of armies of United States, 515; his reënforcements, 515; position of
Lee's and Grant's forces, 515; movements open to the choice of
General Grant, 516; the movement which was made, 516; Grant
encountered in the Wilderness, 516; movements of Grant to cross the
Rapidan, 516; his contest in the Wilderness, 517-520; moves to
Spottsylvania Court-House, 520; the battle there, 520, 521; heavily
reënforced, 522; his blunder at Hanover Junction, 523; crosses the
Pamunkey, 524; moves to Cold Harbor, 524; attempts to pierce or drive
back Lee's forces, 524; fearful carnage of his soldiers, 524; his
soldiers sullenly and silently decline to renew the assault, 524; his
force before he crossed the Rapidan, 525; his losses from the
Wilderness to Cold Harbor, 525; statement of Swinton, 525; crosses
the James and concentrates at Petersburg, 525, 526; makes a campaign
of a month and sacrifices a hecatomb of men, 526; his instructions to
General Butler relative to the exchange of prisoners, 599; replies to
General Lee's letters, 599, 600; dispatch to General Butler, 600;
seeks a new base on the James River, 637; advances to Petersburg,
637; the purpose of his campaign, 646; two plans open for him in the
attack on Petersburg, 646; the campaign of 1865, 647. (See
_Petersburg_.)
_Great Britain_, her treatment of private property in wars with us, 8.
_Greece_, recognition of her independence by the United States
Government in the war with Turkey, 276.
GREEN, Brigadier-General MARTIN, attacks the enemy landing below
Vicksburg, 398; one of the best soldiers ii the Confederate service,
416; died a Vicksburg, 417.
GREGG, Brigadier-General, attacked by a large body of the enemy near
Vicksburg, 404.
_Gregg, Battery_, makes an obstinate defense with a small force, 655.
GRIERSON, Colonel, his raid through Mississippi, 399.
GRIFFITH, Brigadier-General RICHARD, killed near Savage Station, 141.
_Gunboats_, efforts to construct, on the Tennessee River, 25; the
fleet prepared by the United States Government, 25; of the enemy
disabled and defeated at Fort Donelson, 30; the terror inspired by
them in the early period of the war, 240; successful contests with
them by river-boats impaired the estimate put upon them, 240; the
appearance of the Indianola, 240; fight with the Webb and Queen of
the West, 241; captured, 241; the ram Arkansas, 242; fight in the
Yazoo, 242; on the Mississippi, 242.
_Haines's Bluff_, attempt of General Sherman to reduce our work at,
and gain the rear of Vicksburg, 392; unsuccessful, 393.
HALLECK, Major-General H. W., assumes command of the enemy's forces
at Shiloh, 71; advances on Corinth, 71; assigned to command by enemy
in the West, 18; his threatening position, 18.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, statement regarding war between the States, 5.
HAMPTON, General WADE, attacks Kilpatrick at night, and routs his
force, 503; letter relative to burning cotton, 628; successes against
the enemy at and near Fayetteville, North Carolina, 635; endeavors to
obtain his cavalry, 689; finds it surrendered with Johnston's army,
689.
HANCOCK, General, commands an assault at Williamsburg, 94; chivalric
remark respecting the Fifth North Carolina and Twenty-fourth Virginia
Regiments, 96.
_Hanover Junction_, the peril of Grant's army near, 523.
HARDEE, General W. G., commands a corps at the battle of Shiloh, 55;
holds Savannah, 571; conflict with the enemy at Bentonville, North
Carolina, 636.
HARRIS, Governor ISHAM G., on the skill of General Hood in his
campaign, 580.
HARVIE, LEWIS E., efforts to increase the capacity of the Danville
Railroad after the loss of the Weldon, 673.
_Hatteras Inlet_, its position and strength, 77; attacked by military
and naval expedition of the enemy, 77; it capitulates, 77.
HAYES, General, his regiment sadly cut up, 116; explanation, 116.
_Hecatomb of men_ sacrificed by General Grant to reach a position to
which McClellan had already demonstrated there was an easy and
inexpensive route, 526.
_Henry, Fort_, its position, 24; report relative to, 24; its
condition, 24; strength of our force at, 26; attacked by the enemy,
26; defended by seventy-five men while our main body retire to Fort
Donelson, 26; cannonade of the ironclads, 26; response of the fort,
27; damage to the enemy's fleet, 27; our losses, 28; surrender of the
fort, 28.
HETH, General, stubborn resistance made by his division, 518.
HIGGINS, Colonel, in command at the forts below New Orleans, 211; his
skill and gallantry in the defense, 218.
_Highwayman, The_, is he henceforth to be the lord of the highway?
183.
HILL, General A. P., advances upon Mechanicsville, 134; forces the
enemy to take refuge on the left bank of Beaver Dam, 134; reaches New
Cold Harbor, 136; becomes hotly engaged, 137; continues the pursuit
to Frazier's Farm, 142; his gallant bearing at Frazier's Farm, 146;
engaged with his division at the battle of Beaver Run, 319; reaches
Sharpsburg and reënforces General Jones in the battle there, 337;
commands the rear-guard as the army retires from Sharpsburg, 342;
drives the enemy into the Potomac, 342; his report, 342; commands the
Third Corps of Lee's army, 437; occupies the line in front of
Fredericksburg, 438; leaves for the Valley, 439; crosses the Potomac,
440; occupies the center at Gettysburg, 443; penetrates an interval
of Grant's force at Petersburg and inflicts great loss, 639; killed
in action, 655.
HILL, Hon. BENJAMIN H., his letter relative to interviews with
General Johnston and President Davis, 557-561.
HILL, General D. H., his services at Seven Pines, 125; forms on the
extreme left of the line, 137; drives the enemy in confusion toward
the Chickahominy, 138; gallantly engages the enemy at Malvern Hill,
168; crosses the Potomac and encamps near Frederick, 330; crosses
South Mountain and moves toward Boonesboro, 330; his position at the
battle of Sharpsburg, 335; stationed near Fredericksburg, 351.
HOKE, General, moves against the enemy attacking Fort Fisher, 646;
retires with his small force, 646.
HOLLINS, Commander, aids with gunboats to repulse Major-General Pope
at New Madrid, 76; commands our squadron at New Orleans, 211;
commands the river fleet at New Orleans, 222.
_Holly Springs_, an immense depot of supplies accumulated by General
Grant for his march on Vicksburg, 391; surprised and captured by
General Van Dorn, 391; supplies destroyed, 391.
HOLMES, General, his movement, 142; a mistake, 142; ordered by
General Lee, 142; remains under fire of enemy's gunboats, 143;
incorrect statements made, 143; their correction, 148; the fire upon
his position, 143; withdraws, 144; importance of his position
developed too late, 144; his character, 144.
HOOD, General J. B., at Sharpsburg battle, 335; account of the
contest on the left at Sharpsburg, 339; appointed to command the Army
of Tennessee, 557; arrives at Gadsden, 573; condition of his army,
573; decides to cross the Tennessee and move against Thomas, 573; an
unfortunate delay, 573; his movements, 574; position of the enemy,
574; pursues him to Franklin, 576; position at Franklin, 576;
considerations, 576; line of battle formed, 576; the battle, 576;
moves toward Franklin, 577; position of the enemy, 577; enemy
reënforced, 578; Hood's line retreats in confusion, 578; retires
pressed by the enemy, 578; crosses the Tennessee, 579; losses, 579;
relieved, 579; moves his forces from the west to aid in the defense
of North Carolina, 630.
HOOKER, Major-General JOSEPH, succeeds General Burnside in the
command of the Federal army, 357; resumes active operations, 357; a
feint before Fredericksburg, 358; a considerable force crosses the
fords of the Rapidan, 357; converged near Chancellorsville, 357;
attacked and repulsed by Lee, 359, 360; recrosses the Rappahannock,
364; arrival near Chattanooga, 435; his movements, 435; scales the
western slope of Lookout Mountain, 436; position of his army at
Fredericksburg in the spring of 1863, 437; retires from
Fredericksburg along the Potomac toward Washington, 439; crosses the
Potomac, 440; this menaces Lee's communications, 440.
_Hornesboro_, left flank of the enemy under Sherman repulsed by
General Wheeler, 635.
_Houses searched_ for arms by an armed force of the United States
Government in Baltimore, 464.
HUGER, General, delays the evacuation of Norfolk, 99; halted at
Petersburg, 100; moves to the north side of the James River and joins
General Johnston, 100; his movements affected by the rain, 125;
statement of General Rodes, 126; his line of march, 127; the
impediments, 127; expected by Longstreet, 127; ordered to pursue the
enemy, 141; his route, 142; his progress, how delayed, 144;
encounters a battery of rifled guns, 144; it is driven off, 145;
probable effect of his non-arrival in time, 146; gallant attack at
Malvern Hill, 148; placed at the Norfolk Navy-Yard for its
protection, 202; ordered to evacuate by General Johnston, 202; order
delayed by Secretary of War, 202; the fruits of Huger's system and
energy, 202, 203.
HUGER, Lieutenant THOMAS B., commands the McRae at New Orleans, 221.
HUNTER, Major-General, issues an order declaring the slaves in his
department for ever free, 181; countermanded as too soon, 181.
HUNTER, R. M. T., appointed to confer with Mr. Lincoln, 617.
"_I have no lawful right to do so_," words of President Lincoln
relative to his interference with slavery, 160.
IMBODEN, General, makes a demonstration toward Romney, 438; joins
Breckinridge in the upper Valley, 527.
_Indianola, The_, a gunboat on the Mississippi, 240; her size and
force, 240; captured by our river-boats, 241.
_Insane extravagances_, an apology for presenting such, to readers
under a constitutional Government of limited powers, 171.
_Intention, The_, to violate our constitutional right shown, 174.
_Interference with "the just powers" of a State_ causes a subversion
and subjugation of them, 460.
_International law_, every restraint of, broken through by the
Government of the United States, 2; violations of, by the Government
of the United States in the pillage and deportation of private
property, 8.
_Ironclads_, the first conflict between, 201.
_Island No. 10_, its situation, 76; its bombardment, 76; a portion of
our force retires and the remainder surrender, 76.
_Issue, the sole_, involved in the conflict of the United States
Government with the Confederate States, 293; an illustration, 293;
the question still lives, 294; the strife not over until the tyrant's
plea is bound in chains strong as adamant, 294; for which we fought,
582; the rights and sovereignty of the people, 582.
_Iuka_, a force of the enemy encountered by General Little, 387; a
bloody contest, 387; enemy driven back with a loss of nine guns, 387;
Grant arrives too late, 387.
Jackson, General T. J., rapid movements in the Shenandoah Valley,
106; attacks Port Royal, 106; arrives at Strasburg, 111; repulses
Fremont, 111; marches up the Valley. 111; reaches Harrisonburg and
turns toward Port Republic, 111; reaches Port Republic, 112; battle
with General Shields near Port Republic, 114; description of him by
General Taylor, 115; material results of this campaign in the Valley,
117; motives which influenced Jackson, 118; his object effected, 118;
recruits his forces, 118; reattacks the enemy, 118; drives him across
the Potomac, 119; plan to bring his force from the Valley to
Richmond, 131; the design masked, 131; instructions to Jackson, 131;
before reënforced, he routs the enemy and then follows Lee's
instructions, 132; directions to, under the order of battle by Lee,
133; ordered to pursue the enemy, 141; his route, 142; probable
effect of his non-arrival in time, 146; arrives on the battle-field,
147; forms his line, 147; his remark on the retreating foe, 150;
ordered with his division to Gordonsville to resist the advance of
General Pope, 312; fights the enemy at Cedar Run, 317; reënforcements
sent to, 320; his movement round the right of General Pope, 322;
attacks left flank of the enemy, 324; battle ensued, 324; enemy
retires, 324; subsequent battle of Manassas, 324; defeat of the
enemy, 326, 327; advances to intercept the retreat, 327; battle at Ox
Hill, 327; enemy escapes, 327; moves to attack Harper's Ferry, 330;
reduces Harper's Ferry, 332; extent of the surrender, 333; position
at Sharpsburg battle, 335; directed to advance toward Fredericksburg,
351; position of his corps at Fredericksburg, 354; turns the enemy's
right at Chancellorsville, 360; wounded by mistake in the darkness,
360.
_Jackson, Mississippi_, held by General J. E. Johnston, 425;
assaulted by Sherman, 425; Johnston withdraws across Pearl River, 425.
JENKINS, General, advances toward Winchester, 438; penetrates to
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 439.
JOHNSTON, General A. S., confronted by new commanders, 18; his
position altered by the loss of Forts Henry and Donelson, 36; his
preparations for retreat, 37; his successful retreat, 37; the enemy
unaware, 37; reaches Nashville, 38; public excitement, 38;
proceedings in Congress, 38; his removal asked, 38; answer of the
President, 38; Johnston's letter to the Secretary of War, 38; his
plans and further movements, 39; movements after the fall of
Donelson, 39; letter from the Secretary of War, 40; do. from the
President, 41; his reply relative to affairs, 42-47; review of the
events that brought such censure upon him, 48; his object to
concentrate at Corinth and fight the enemy in detail, 54; Grant first
and Buell afterward, 54; forces sent to him, 54; Bragg's account of
Johnston's efforts, 34; orders of battle at Shiloh, 55; the march,
55; its progress, 56; exclamation, "This is not war," 56; delay and
its cause, 56; his purpose, 57; his telegram to the President, 57;
the answer, 57; importance of an early attack, 57; conference with
generals, 60; progress of the battle, 58, 59; death of Johnston, 66;
circumstances, 66; case of Turenne, 68; incident at Buena Vista, 68.
JOHNSON, ANDREW. Lincoln, President, appoints Andrew Johnson military
Governor of Tennessee, 285; his object, 285.
JOHNSON, Colonel BRADLEY T., harasses the rear of General Judson
Kilpatrick, 505.
JOHNSTON, General JOSEPH E., ordered to the Peninsula of Virginia,
84; directed to proceed and examine the condition of affairs, 86;
recommends the abandonment of the Peninsula, 86; the recommendation
discussed, 87; anticipates that McClellan will soon advance and
attack Centreville, 87; his plan of operation in the Peninsula, 87;
writes to Commander Tatnall to proceed with the Virginia to York
River, 90; announces his intention to evacuate Yorktown, 92; policy
before Richmond, 101; remark that he expected to give up Richmond,
120; his plan for attacking McClellan, 120; unexpected firing, 122;
assigned to the Southern Department, 402; reply to General
Pemberton's request for cavalry, 402; orders to General Johnston,
403; telegram to the Secretary of War, 404; stops at Jackson and
corresponds with Pemberton, 405; dispatch to General Pemberton, 405;
reply, 406; further dispatches, 408; telegrams to the President and
Secretary of War, 412; communication to Pemberton, 413; entertained
quite different views from General Pemberton, 422; efforts to supply
the army of the former, 423; his message to General Pemberton, 423;
reply to the suggestion of relieving Port Hudson, 423; another
report, 423; falls back to Jackson after the surrender, 424;
appearance of the enemy, 424; extract from his report, 424; movements
of Sherman, 424; withdraws from Jackson, 426; directed to assume the
command of the Army of Tennessee, 547; total effective of the army,
547; position of the enemy's forces, 547; an onward movement
demanded, 548; considerations presented to General Johnston, 548; his
approval of an aggressive movement, 548; his proposition, 549; his
subsequent movements, 550-557; clamors for his removal, 557;
relieved, and Hood appointed, 557; put in command of the troops in
North Carolina, 631; relieves General Beauregard, 631; instructions
from General Lee, 632; Johnston's force, 632; his movements, 632; his
purposes, 634; takes position at Smithfield. 635; failure to
concentrate against the enemy's left wing, 636; moves to Raleigh,
637; conference with the President, 679-681; correspondence with
General Sherman, 684; the idea of a universal surrender, 699.
JOINVILLE, Prince de, describes the effect produced by the refusal of
President Lincoln to send McDowell's corps to reënforce General
McClellan, 90; extract from his letter, 90.
JONES, Lieutenant Catesby Ap R., commands the Virginia in the combat
with the Monitor, 200; signals the Monitor to renew the combat
without success, 201.
JONES, General J. K., at Sharpsburg battle, 335.
JONES, General SAMUEL, commanded in southwest Virginia, 426.
JONES, General W. E., encounters Hunter in the Valley, and is killed,
529.
_Just powers_ of government, only those which are derived from the
free and unconstrained consent of the governed, 2252; object and end
for which they are derived, 452.
KEARNEY, Major-General, left dead on the field, 327.
_Kelly's Ford_, attack and surprise of the enemy at, 449.
KENNON, Lieutenant BEVERLY, sinks the Varuna at New Orleans, 221; his
report, 221.
KENT, Chancellor, on the rights of belligerents, 271.
_Kentucky_, the first step taken for the subjugation of the State
government and the people consisted in an interference, by an armed
force, of the Government of the United States with the voters at the
State election, 468; object to secure the rejection of as many votes
as possible antagonistic to the emancipation measures of the
Government of the United States, 468; none allowed to be candidates
but its friends, 468; martial law declared by General Burnside,
commander of the Department of Ohio, 468; orders regulating the
election issued by military commanders in the State, 469; armed
soldiers stationed at the polls, 469; the result, 469; statement of
the Governor,469; its meaning, 470; negroes enrolled as soldiers by
the United States Government, 470; verbal arrangement effected at
Washington by the Governor, 470; his complaint of its offensive
violations, 470; arrest of peaceful citizens by soldiers of the
United States Government, 470; outrages described by the Governor,
470; declaration of martial law throughout the State by President
Lincoln, and the suspension of the writ of _habeas corpus_, 471; a
large number of eminent citizens arrested by the military force of
the Government of the United States, 471; judges, merchants, and
young women banished from the State without a trial or hearing, 471;
at a State election for Judge of the High Court of Appeals, the
commanding General of the United States Government orders that the
name of the Chief-Justice shall not be allowed to appear on the
poll-books as a candidate, 472; the duties of the Governor relating
to elections, 472; twenty thousand slaves enlisted in the armies of
the Government of the United States, 472; United States Congress
passes an act declaring that the wives and children of these soldiers
shall be free, 473; everything swept away by the emancipation
proclamation, 473.
_Kernstown_, the enemy at, attacked by Early, 531; routs him, 531.
KERSHAW, General, moves his division toward Amelia Court-House, 662.
KILPATRICK, General, marches to make a dash on Richmond, 505;
harassed in his rear by Colonel Bradley T. Johnson and sixty
Marylanders, 505; reaches the defenses of Richmond, 505; an
engagement, 505; retreats and is attacked at night by General Wade
Hampton, 505; enemy fled on a gallop, 505.
KINGSBURY, Lieutenant, remark relative to the battle of Buena Vista,
68.
_Kinslon, North Carolina_, a body of Sherman's force attacked and
routed by General Bragg, 635.
LAIRD, Mr., senior, applied to, to build vessels for the Northern
Government, 248; his statement in the British House of Commons, 248;
extracts from, letters, 248; statement of the condition of the
Alabama when she sailed, 249; presents records of the Custom-House on
exports to Northern States, 249.
LAMB, Colonel, seriously wounded in the defense of Fort Fisher, 646.
_Language of the Governor of Maryland_, on the interference by the
United States Government with the State elections, 465, 466.
_Last fragments of the Constitution_ to be thrown aside to secure our
subjugation, 170.
_Law, International_, on the capture and confiscation of private
property in war, 163.
LAWTON, General A. R., ordered to unite with Jackson in the Valley,
133; at Sharpsburg battle, 335; quartermaster of the Confederate
army, 647.
LEE, General Robert E., assumes command of the Carolinas and Florida,
80; his plans for coast defense, 80; the system he organized, 80; its
success, 81; takes command of the army around Richmond, 130;
commences the construction of earthworks, 130; plans for the future,
131; answer to the President, 132; his order of battle in the attack
on General McClellan, 134; advances against General Pope, 312; battle
of Cedar Run, 317; its success, 320; enemy falls back, 320; moves up
the Rappahannock, 321; skirmishes along the fords, 321; Jackson
crosses the river, but falls back owing to a storm, 321; Longstreet
ordered to his support, 322; position of Jackson, 322; position of
the enemy, 322; forces ordered from Richmond, 322; plan of operations
now determined on, 322; movement of Jackson round the right of Pope's
army, 322; Manassas Junction depot captured at night, 323; Ewell
repulses the enemy at Bristoe Station and joins Jackson, 323;
position of General Pope, 323; Taliaferro halts at the Manassas
battle-field, 324; joined by Hill and Ewell, 324; attack of Jackson
on enemy's left flank, 324; enemy retire, 324; battle of Manassas,
324; retreat of the enemy, 326; night puts an end to the pursuit,
327; enemy retreats to Washington, 327; strength of forces, 328;
losses, 328; marches toward Leesburg, 328; decided to cross the
Potomac, 329; reasons for the decision, 329; the plan, 330; movements
of the divisions, 330; slow advance of the enemy, 331; order of
General Lee found by the enemy, 331; facts relative to the lost
order, 331; action at Boonsboro Gap, 332; retires to Sharpsburg, 382;
Harper's Ferry reduced by General Jackson, 332; forces concentrated
at Sharpsburg, 333; letter from the President, 333; address to the
people of Maryland by General Lee, 333; concentrates at Sharpsburg,
334; fights the battle at Sharpsburg, 335, 336; strength of Lee's
army, 338; position of his forces on the next day, 338; withdraws his
army south of the Potomac, 338; moves to Martinsburg and then to the
vicinity of Bunker Hill, 338; the contest on the left, 389; strength
of armies and losses, 342; advances to Fredericksburg, 351; takes a
position to resist an advance of the enemy after crossing the river,
352; advance of Burnside to lay bridges, 352; repelled with great
slaughter, 352, 353; Lee's forces in order and position, 354; the
attack by Burnside's army, 354, 355; its repulse, 355; withdrawn in
the night, 356; a period of inactivity ensues, 357; distribution of
his army, 357; some unimportant engagements, 357; movements of the
enemy indicate the resumption of active operations, 357; our
dispositions made with a view to resist a direct advance, 357; leaves
sufficient to hold the lines and moves the rest of his force toward
Chancellorsville, 358; his successful attack upon Hooker, 359, 360;
in full possession of the field, 361; enemy's successful attack
before Fredericksburg, 362; threatens our communications, 362;
reënforcements sent to Salem Church, 362; enemy repulsed and broke,
363; attack renewed on Hooker, 364; enemy recrosses the river and
retires from Fredericksburg, 364; reorganizes his forces in the
spring of 1863, 437; decides by a bold movement to attempt to
transfer hostilities to the north side of the Potomac, 437; movement
of his forces, 438; further movements, 439, 440; concentrates at
Gettysburg, 440; decides to renew the attack of the first day, 443;
the conflict, 443; determines to continue the conflict, 443; retires
toward the Potomac, 444; crosses, 445; strength of his army at
Gettysburg, 446; do. of Meade, 446; losses, 446; his report, 446;
testimony of General Meade, 447; moves to attack the flank of the
enemy, 449; result, 449; affair at Kelly Ford, 449; puts his troops
in motion soon as Grant's movement was known, 517; his troops
encountered near Old Wilderness tavern, 517; the engagement, 517;
further movements, 518; the line of battle, 518; the struggle, 518;
the adversary completely foiled, 518; the attack renewed, 519; Lee
comes on the field, 519; the assault checked, 519; attack on the
left, 519; the foe surprised and routed, 519; Longstreet wounded by
mistake, 520; on the next day an attack on the right and left flank,
520; Grant makes a rapid flank movement to Spottsylvania Court-House,
520; Lee's movement in advance, 520; on the next day the armies swung
round on their advance and confronted each other in line of battle,
521; a proud scene for Mississippians, 521; the contest of the day,
521; capture of General E. Johnson and most of his division, 522;
divines Grant's objective point and frustrates him, 528; the peril of
Grant's army, 528; reënforcements to Lee, 524; Grant's movements to
Cold Harbor, 524; fruitless efforts of Grant to drive back Lee's
forces, 6524; fearful carnage of the enemy, 524; his force on the
Rapidan with which to meet Grant, 525; his letter to General Halleck
relative to the execution of William B. Mumford, 590; letters to
General Grant relative to the exchange of prisoners, 599, 600;
crosses the James at Drury's Bluff, 637; occupies the intrenchments
at Petersburg, 638; his defense of, 640; conference with the
President on the state of affairs, 648; the programme adopted, 648;
presents the idea of a sortie, 649; adopted, 649; its failure, 650;
his letter to the President stating final movements, 660.
LEE, General G. W. C., moves his division from Chapin's Bluff to
retreat from Richmond, 662; his promotion, 664.
LEE, General W. H. F., watches the fords of the Rappahannock with his
cavalry, 352; repulses a cavalry expedition near Ream's Station, 639.
_Legislature of a State_, some of its members seized and confined in
a distant prison, 2.
_Liberty_, its fundamental principles denied by the action of the
Government of the United States in Tennessee, 456; the people the
source of all power, 460.
_Life, personal liberty, and property_, their protection to be could
only in the State governments, 451.
LINCOLN, President, his message, 6; recommends the colonization of
the negroes at some places in a climate congenial to them, 6; refuses
the repeated requests of General McClellan for McDowell's corps, 91;
writes to McClellan, 91; do. on the strength of his forces, 91;
relative to request for Parrott guns, 92; words of his inaugural
relative to the institution of slavery, 160; the principle thus
announced, 160; message to Congress saying, "It is startling to think
that Congress can free a slave within a State," 169; how the deed
should be attempted, 169; a deceptive use of language, 170; message
to Congress approving the act to emancipate slaves in the District of
Columbia, 172; extract, 172; previous action of Congress, 172; a
series of usurpations by, 178; recommends the adoption of a
resolution that the United States ought to coöperate with any State
which might adopt the gradual abolition of slavery, 179; his reasons
for the measure, 179; objections, 179; his proclamation declaring the
emancipation proclamation of General Hunter void, 181; extract, 181;
his subsequent remarks, 181; remarks to border States Representatives,
183; charges of remissness of his abolition supporters, 185; demands
of Chicago Christians of, 186; answer of Mr. Lincoln, 186; declaration
of his intentions in the proclamation of April 15, 1861, 189; his
declaration under oath, 189; his declarations to the Cabinets of Great
Britain and France, 190; object of such declarations, 190; his boast of
the effect of his emancipation proclamation, 192; the facts presented,
192; his proclamation for making a Union State out of a fragment of a
Confederate State, 297; his reliance on the "war power" declared,
298; declines to prevent the interference with the elections in
Maryland by an armed force of the United States Government, 465;
announcement of his terms of peace, 612; meets our commissioners at
Hampton Roads, 618; results, 619; statement in his message to
Congress on December 6, 1864, 620; the words of his inauguration
oath, 620; words of the Constitution, 621; his words, 621; the
Constitution the supreme law, 621; his oath, 621.
LITTLE, General HENRY, services at the battle of Pea Ridge, 51;
attacks Rosecrans near Iuka, 387; a bloody contest, 387; he is
killed, 387; remarks, 387.
LONG, General A. L., description of our coast defenses, 79.
LONGSTREET, General JAMES, report on battle at Seven Pines, 124;
ordered to attack, 127; explains the delay, 127; made the attack
successfully by aid of Hill, 127; ordered to make a diversion in
favor of Hill, 137; the feint converted into an attack, 137;
continues the pursuit to Frazier's Farm, 145; manner in which he led
his reserve to the rescue at Frazier's Farm, 146; joins Jackson at
Manassas, 324; crosses South Mountain and moves toward Boonsboro,
330; his position at Sharpsburg, 335; occupies the left at
Fredericksburg, 353; recalled from the James River to Chancellorsville,
363; commands the left wing at Chickamauga, 432; besieges Burnside in
Knoxville, 436; moves to Virginia and joins Lee, 436; commands the First
Corps of Lee's army in the spring of 1863, 437; movement to draw Hooker
farther from his base, 439; crosses the Potomac, 440; occupies the right
at Gettysburg, 443; drives the enemy back at the Wilderness struggle, 519;
severely wounded by mistake, 519; further movements, 519.
LORD CHIEF BARON of the Exchequer, his charge in England in the case
of our ship the Alexandra, 272; the rights of belligerents, 272, 273.
LORING, General, joins General Bowen near Grand Gulf, 402.
_Louisiana_ proceedings of General Butler after the occupation of New
Orleans, 287; martial law declared and a military Governor appointed,
287; atrocities committed upon the citizens, 287, 288; Order No. 28,
289; cold-blooded execution of William B. Mumford, 289; local courts
set up, 290; military power attempts to administer civil affairs,
290; order of President Lincoln creating a State court, 290; words of
the Constitution, 292; the court a mere instrument of martial law,
292; asserted his right to do so on the ground of necessity, 292; the
doctrine of necessity considered, 293-295; election of members of
Congress on proclamation of the military Governor, 296; what the law
required, 296; its violation sustained by Congress, 296; proclamation
of President Lincoln to make a State out of a fragment of a State,
297; a so-called election for State officers and members of a State
Constitutional Convention held, 301; so-called State Convention, 302;
attempts to amend the State Constitution, 302; Louisiana not a
republican State, 302; not instituted by the consent of the governed,
302; attempt by the United States Government to enforce a fiction,
302; subversion of the State government, 458; registration of voters
required by the United States Government, 458; the oath, 458;
punishment of perjury threatened, 458; proclamation entering an
election of State officers, 458; further conditions, 458; effect of
these proceedings, 459; effect of these proceedings was to establish
a number of persons pledged to support the United States Government
as voters and State government, 459; this work could be done only by
the sovereign people, 459.
_Louisiana_, an iron-clad, her capacity, 219; destroyed, 219; her
incomplete condition at the defense of New Orleans, 220.