INDEX

=Able, Mrs.=, sister of Mary Owens, 55, 60

=Adams, Charles Francis=, member of Congress, United States minister

to England, sent to England, 211

=Alabama=, State of, admitted as State, 1819, 19

=Alabama=, the, Confederate cruiser, sunk by the _Kearsarge_, 525

=Albemarle=, the, Confederate ironclad, destruction of,

October 27, 1864, 525

=Albert=, Prince Consort, drafts note to Lord Russell about _Trent_

affair, 247

=Alexander II=, Czar of Russia, emancipates Russian serfs, 101

=Alexandria=, Virginia, occupation of, 214

=American Party=, principles of, 101, 102;

nominates Millard Fillmore for President, 1856, 102

=Anderson, Robert=, brevet major-general United States army,

transfers his command to Fort Sumter, 177, 178;

reports condition of Fort Sumter, 182;

notified of coming relief, 188;

defense and surrender of Fort Sumter, 189, 190;

telegram about Frémont's proclamation, 240;

sends Sherman to Nashville, 254;

turns over command to Sherman, 254;

raises flag over Fort Sumter, 531

=Antietam=, Maryland, battle of, September 17, 1862, 31

=Arkansas=, State of, joins Confederacy, 200, 204;

military governor appointed for, 419;

reconstruction in, 426, 427;

slavery abolished in, 427;

slavery in, throttled by public opinion, 473;

ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 475

=Armies of the United States=,

enlistment in, since beginning of the war, 353, 354;

numbers under Grant's command, March, 1865, 507;

reduction of, to peace footing, 527;

grand review of, 527-529

=Armstrong, Jack=, wrestles with Lincoln, 25

=Arnold, Samuel=, in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 534;

imprisoned, 544

=Atlanta=, Georgia, siege of, July 22 to September 1, 1864, 407

=Atzerodt, George=, in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 534;

assigned to murder Andrew Johnson, 535;

deposits arms in tavern at Surrattsville, 536;

execution of, 544

=Bailey, Theodorus=, rear-admiral United States navy,

in expedition against New Orleans, 284

=Bailhache, William H.=, prints Lincoln's first inaugural, 168

=Baker, Edward D.=, member of Congress, United States senator,

brevet major-general United States Volunteers, at Springfield,

Illinois, 52;

nominated for Congress, 73;

in Mexican War, 75

=Ball's Bluff=, Virginia, battle of, October, 21, 1861, 262

=Baltimore=, Maryland, Massachusetts Sixth mobbed in, 193;

occupied by General Butler, 199;

threatened by Early, 403;

funeral honors to Lincoln in, 546

=Bancroft, George=, Secretary of the Navy, historian,

minister to Prussia, letter to Lincoln, 321

=Banks, Nathaniel P.=, Speaker of the House of Representatives,

major-general United States Volunteers, in Army of Virginia, 310;

forces under, for defense of Washington, 317;

operations against Port Hudson, 382;

captures Port Hudson, 383, 384;

reply to Lincoln, 425;

causes election of State officers in Louisiana, 425, 426;

opinion of new Louisiana constitution, 426

=Barton, William=, governor of Delaware,

reply to Lincoln's call for volunteers, 193

=Bates, Edward=, member of Congress, Attorney-General,

candidate for presidential nomination, 1860, 144;

vote for, in Chicago convention, 149;

tendered cabinet appointment, 163;

appointed Attorney-General, 182;

signs cabinet protest, 311;

rewrites cabinet protest, 312;

resigns from cabinet, 491

=Beauregard, G.T.=, Confederate general, reduces Fort Sumter, 188-190;

in command at Manassas Junction, 215;

understanding with Johnston, 216;

battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, 226-229;

council with Johnston and Hardee, 267;

succeeds to command at Pittsburg Landing, 273;

losses at Pittsburg Landing, 274;

evacuates Corinth, 275;

united with Hood, 409;

orders Hood to assume offensive, 410;

interview with Davis and Johnston, 520

=Bell, John=, member of Congress, Secretary of War,

United States senator, nominated for President, 1860, 143;

vote for, 160

=Benjamin, Judah P.=, United States senator,

Confederate Secretary of State, suggestions about instructions

to peace commissioners, 482;

last instructions to Slidell, 501, 502

=Berry, William F.=, partner of Lincoln in a store, 35;

death of, 36

=Big Bethel=, Virginia, disaster at, 214

=Blackburn's Ford=, Virginia, engagement at, July 18, 1861, 226

=Black Hawk=, chief of the Sac Indians,

crosses Mississippi into Illinois, 32

=Black, Jeremiah S.=, Attorney-General, Secretary of State,

war of pamphlets with Douglas, 134

=Blair, Francis P.=, Sr., quarrel with Frémont, 236, 487;

asks permission to go South, 478;

interviews with Jefferson Davis, 479-482;

his Mexican project, 479

=Blair, Francis P.=, Jr., member of Congress major-general

United States Volunteers quarrel with Frémont, 236, 487, 488

=Blair, Montgomery=, Postmaster-General,

appointed Postmaster-General, 182;

quarrel with Frémont, 236, 487, 488;

at cabinet meeting, July 22, 1862, 331, 332;

objects to time for issuing emancipation proclamation, 340;

resolution in Republican platform aimed at, 446, 487;

relations with members of the cabinet, 488;

remarks after Early's raid, 488;

retires from cabinet, 489;

works for Lincoln's reëlection, 489, 490;

wishes to be chief justice, 490;

declines foreign mission, 490

=Bogue, Captain Vincent=, navigates Sangamon River in

steamer _Talisman_, 27, 28

=Boonville=, Missouri, battle of, June 17, 1861, 214

=Booth, John Wilkes=, personal description of, 534, 535;

scheme to abduct Lincoln, 535;

creates disturbance at Lincoln's second inauguration, 535;

assigns parts in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 535, 536;

final preparations, 536, 537;

shoots the President, 538;

wounds Major Rathbone 538;

escape of, 539;

flight and capture of, 542, 543;

death of, 543;

account at Montreal Bank, 544

=Bragg, Braxton=, Confederate general,

forces Buell back to Louisville, 275, 276;

threatens Louisville, 379;

battle of Perryville, 379;

battle of Murfreesboro, 380;

retreat to Chattanooga, 385;

Chattanooga and Chickamauga, 386-392;

retreats to Dalton, 392;

superseded by Johnston, 395;

his invasion delays reconstruction in Tennessee, 428

=Breckinridge, John C.=, Vice-President, Confederate major-general,

and Secretary of War, nominated for Vice-President, 1856, 104;

desires Douglas's reëlection to United States Senate, 126;

nominated for President, 1860, 143;

vote for, 160;

joins the rebellion, 217;

required by Davis to report on Johnston-Sherman agreement, 523

=Breckinridge, Robert J.=, D.D., LL.D.,

temporary chairman Republican national convention, 1864, 446

=Brown, Albert G.=, member of Congress, United States senator,

questions Douglas, 129;

demands congressional slave code, 141

=Brown, John=, raid at Harper's Ferry, trial and execution of, 134

=Brown, Joseph E.=, governor of Georgia, United States senator,

refuses to obey orders from Richmond, 481

=Browning, Orville H.=, United States senator, Secretary of the Interior

under President Johnson, at Springfield, Illinois, 52;

speech in Chicago convention, 151

=Browning, Mrs. O.H.=, Lincoln's letter to, 58, 59

=Bryant, William Cullen=, presides over Cooper Institute meeting, 138

=Buchanan, Franklin=, captain United States navy, admiral Confederate

navy, resigns from Washington navy-yard and joins the Confederacy, 196

=Buchanan, James=, fifteenth President of the United States,

nominated for President, 1856, 104;

elected President, 105, 108;

announces pro-slavery policy, 114;

appoints Walker governor of Kansas, 114;

reply to Walker's letter, 115;

special message recommending Lecompton Constitution, 115;

permits Scott to be called to Washington, 172;

non-action regarding secession, 176, 177;

reconstruction of his cabinet, 178;

rides with Lincoln in inauguration procession, 180;

non-coercion doctrine of, 210;

signs resolution for constitutional amendment, 476

=Buckner, Simon B.=, Confederate lieutenant-general,

stationed at Bowling Green, 254;

force of, 263;

surrenders Fort Donelson, 267, 268

=Buell, Don Carlos=, major-general United States Volunteers,

succeeds Sherman in Kentucky, 255;

driven back to Louisville, 1862, 258;

instructions about East Tennessee, 258, 259;

reluctance to move into East Tennessee, 260;

reluctance to coöperate with Halleck, 263, 264, 269;

ordered forward to Savannah, 271;

arrives at Pittsburg Landing, 273;

retreats to Louisville, 275, 276;

battle of Perryville, 379;

relieved from command, 380

=Bull Run=, Virginia, battle of, July 21, 1861, 226-229;

second battle of, August 30, 1862, 310, 311

=Burnside, Ambrose E.=, major-general United States Volunteers,

holds Knoxville 1863, 258;

commands force in Roanoke Island expedition, 277, 278;

ordered to reinforce McClellan, 307;

orders arrest of Vallandigham, 358;

appointed to command Army of the Potomac, 363;

previous services, 363, 364;

battle of Fredericksburg, 364, 365;

relieved from command, 366;

ordered to reinforce Rosecrans, 388;

besieged at Knoxville, 391;

repulses Longstreet, 391

=Butler, Benjamin F.=, major-general United States Volunteers,

member of Congress, occupies Baltimore, 199;

orders concerning slaves, 220-222;

instructions to, about slaves, 223;

commands land

force in Farragut's expedition against New Orleans, 283;

in command at New Orleans, 285;

report about negro soldiers, 348, 349;

proclaimed an outlaw by Jefferson Davis, 350;

seizes City Point, 401;

receives votes for Vice-President at Baltimore convention, 448

=Butler, William=, relates incident about Lincoln, 53

=Butterfield, Justin=, appointed Commissioner of General Land Office, 92;

defended by Lincoln from political attack, 92

=Cadwalader, George=, major-general United States Volunteers,

action in Merryman case, 199, 200

=Cairo=, Illinois, military importance of, 209, 210

=Calhoun, John=, appoints Lincoln deputy surveyor, 39, 40;

at Springfield, Illinois, 52

=Cameron, Simon=, United States senator, Secretary of War,

candidate for presidential nomination, 1860, 144;

vote for, in Chicago convention, 149;

tendered cabinet appointment, 163, 164;

appointed Secretary of War, 182;

brings letters of Anderson to Lincoln, 182;

visits Frémont, 242;

interview with Sherman, 255;

appointed minister to Russia, 289;

reference to slavery in report to Congress, 320;

moves renomination of Lincoln and Hamlin by acclamation, 447

=Campbell, John A.=, justice United States Supreme Court; Confederate

commissioner; intermediary of Confederate commissioners, 183;

at Hampton Roads conference, 482-485;

interviews with Lincoln, 519

=Canby, E.R.S.=, brevet major-general United States army,

receives surrender of Taylor, 525;

receives surrender of E. Kirby Smith, 526, 527

=Carpenter, Frank B.=, conversation with Lincoln about

emancipation proclamation, 331, 332

=Carpenter, W.=, defeated for Illinois legislature 1832, 34;

elected in 1834, 43

=Carrick's Ford=, Virginia, battle of, July 13, 1861, 225

=Cartter, David K.=, announces change of vote to Lincoln

in Chicago convention, 151

=Cartwright, Peter=, elected to Illinois legislature in 1832, 34

=Chancellorsville=, Virginia, battle of, May 1-4, 1863, 369

=Charleston=, South Carolina, capture of, February 18, 1865, 415;

burning of, 416

=Chase, Salmon P.=, United States senator, Secretary of the Treasury,

chief justice United States Supreme Court,

candidate for presidential nomination, 1860, 144;

vote for, in Chicago convention, 149;

summoned to Springfield, 163;

appointed Secretary of the Treasury, 182;

questions McClellan at council of war, 289;

signs cabinet protest, 311;

favors emancipation by military commanders, 332;

urges that parts of States be not exempted

in final emancipation proclamation, 343;

submits form of closing paragraph, 344;

presidential aspirations of, 439-441;

letter to Lincoln, 440, 441;

resigns from cabinet, 457;

effect of his resignation on the political situation, 464;

looked upon by radicals as their representative in the cabinet, 487;

hostility to Montgomery Blair, 488;

made chief justice, 490, 491;

note of thanks to Lincoln, 491;

opinion of Lincoln, 491;

administers oath of office to Lincoln at second inauguration, 496;

administers oath of office to President Johnson, 545

=Chattanooga=, Tennessee, battle of, November 23-25, 1863, 389-392

=Chickamauga=, Tennessee, battle of, September 18-20, 1863, 386, 387

=Clary's Grove=, Illinois, settlement of, 24

=Clay, Clement C., Jr.=, United States senator,

Confederate agent in Canada, correspondence with Horace Greeley, 459

=Clay, Henry=, nominated for President, 28

=Clements, Andrew J.=, member of Congress, elected to Congress, 419

=Cleveland=, Ohio, funeral honors to Lincoln in, 547

=Cochrane, John=, member of Congress, brigadier-general United States

Volunteers, nominated for Vice-President, 1864, 442

=Cold Harbor=, Virginia, battle of, June 1-12, 1864, 399

=Colfax, Schuyler=, member of Congress, Vice-President,

letter to, from Lincoln, 132, 133

=Collamer, Jacob=, member of Congress, Postmaster-General,

United States senator, vote for, in Chicago convention, 149

=Columbia=, South Carolina, capture and burning of, 415, 416

=Columbus=, Kentucky, evacuation of, 269

=Confederate States of America=, formed by seceding States, 178, 179;

"corner-stone" theory, 179;

government of, fires on Fort Sumter, 189;

joined by North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas, 200;

strength of, 204;

war measures of, 207;

capital removed to Richmond, 207;

strength of, in the West, 263;

outcry of, against emancipation proclamation and arming of

negroes, 350, 351;

efficiency of armies of, in 1863, 370;

proclamation calling on people to resist Sherman's march, 411, 412;

nearly in state of collapse, 481;

doomed from the hour of Lincoln's reëlection, 499;

depreciation of its currency, 499, 500;

conscription laws of, 500;

Confederate Congress makes Lee general-in-chief, 500;

number of soldiers in final struggle, 507;

flight of, from Richmond, 515;

collapse of the rebellion, 524-527;

number of troops surrendered, 527

=Congress of the United States=, passes act organizing

territory of Illinois, 19;

fixes number of stars and stripes in the flag, 19;

admits as States Illinois, Alabama, Maine, and Missouri, 19;

nullification debate in, 38;

Lincoln's service in, 75-90;

Missouri Compromise, 94-96;

Democratic majorities chosen in, in 1856, 108;

agitation over Kansas in, 113;

Senator Brown's resolutions, 141;

official count of electoral votes, 160;

appoints compromise committees, 167;

Buchanan's annual message to, December, 1860, 176, 177;

convened in special session by President Lincoln, 192;

Lincoln's message to, May 26, 1862, 195;

legalizes Lincoln's war measures, 206;

meeting and measures of special session of

Thirty-seventh Congress, 217-220;

Southern unionists in, 217;

Lincoln's message to, July 4, 1861, 218-220;

action on slavery, 223;

special session adjourns, 223;

House passes resolution of thanks to Captain Wilkes, 246;

friendly to McClellan, 250;

Lincoln's message of December 3, 1861, 257, 321, 322;

interview of border State delegations with Lincoln, 257, 258, 324, 325;

Lincoln's special message, March 6, 1862, 323, 324;

passes joint resolution favoring compensated emancipation, 325;

passes bill for compensated emancipation in District of

Columbia, 325, 336;

House bill to aid emancipation in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,

Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, 326;

slavery measures of 1862, 329;

President's second interview with border slave State

delegations, 329-331;

President's annual message, December 1, 1862, 341, 342;

passes national conscription law, 354, 355;

act authorizing the President to suspend writ of habeas corpus, 359, 360;

confers rank of lieutenant-general on Grant, 393;

admits representatives and senators from States with

provisional governments, 419;

President's annual message, December 8, 1863, 424;

reverses former action about seating members from "ten-per-cent

States," 424;

bills to aid compensated abolishment in Missouri, 432;

opposition to Lincoln in, 454;

action on bill of Henry Winter Davis, 454;

repeals fugitive-slave law, 457;

confirms Fessenden's nomination, 458;

Lincoln's message of December 5, 1864, 470-472;

joint resolution proposing constitutional amendment to prohibit

slavery throughout United States, 471-476;

the two constitutional amendments submitted to the States during

Lincoln's term, 475, 476;

Senate confirms Chase's nomination as chief justice, 491

=Congress=, the, Union sailing frigate, burned by _Merrimac_, 280

=Constitutional Union Party=, candidates in 1860, 153

=Conventions=: first national convention of Whig party, 28;

President Jackson gives impetus to system of, 52;

Illinois State convention nominates Lincoln for Congress 74, 75;

convention of "Know-Nothing" party, 1856, 102;

Bloomington convention, May, 1856, 103;

first national convention of Republican party, June 17, 1856, 103;

Democratic national convention, June 2, 1856, 104;

Democratic national convention, Charleston, April 23, 1860, 142;

it adjourns to reassemble at Baltimore, June 18, 1860, 143;

Constitutional Union Convention, Baltimore, May 9, 1860, 143;

Republican national convention, Chicago, May 16, 1860, 144, 147-151;

Decatur, Illinois, State convention, 154;

Cleveland convention, May 31, 1864, 441, 442;

meeting in New York to nominate Grant, 442, 443;

New Hampshire State convention, January 6, 1864, 443;

Republican national convention, June 7, 1864, 446-449;

Democratic national convention, 1864, postponed, 463;

Democratic national convention meets, 466-468;

resolution of Baltimore convention hostile to Montgomery Blair, 487

=Cook, B.C.=, member of Congress, nominates Lincoln

in Baltimore convention, 447;

seeks to learn Lincoln's wishes about Vice-Presidency, 448

=Cooper, Samuel=, Confederate adjutant-general,

joins the Confederacy, 208

=Corbett, Boston=, sergeant United States army, shoots Booth, 543

=Corinth=, Mississippi, captured by Halleck, 275

=Couch, Darius N.=, major-general United States Volunteers,

militia force under, in Pennsylvania, 372

=Cox, Samuel=, assists Booth and Herold, 542

=Crawford, Andrew=, teacher of President Lincoln, 12

=Crittenden, John J.=, Attorney-General, United States senator,

advocates reëlection of Douglas to United States Senate, 126;

in Thirty-seventh Congress, 217;

presents resolution, 223

=Cumberland=, the, Union frigate, sunk by _Merrimac_, 280

=Curtis, Samuel R.=, member of Congress, major-general

United States Volunteers, sends order of removal to Frémont, 242, 243;

campaign in Missouri, 269;

victory at Pea Ridge, 271

=Cushing, William B.=, commander United States navy,

destruction of the _Albemarle_, 525

=Dahlgren, John A.=, rear-admiral United States navy,

at gathering of officials to discuss fight between _Monitor_

and _Merrimac_, 296

=Davis, Henry Winter=, member of Congress, bill prescribing

method of reconstruction, 454;

signs Wade-Davis manifesto, 456

=Davis, Jefferson=, Secretary of War, United States senator,

Confederate President, orders that

"rebellion must be crushed" in Kansas, 113;

Senate resolutions of, 141;

signs address commending Charleston disruption, 143;

statement in Senate, 143;

elected President of Confederate States of America, 179;

telegram to Governor Letcher, 197;

proclamation offering letters of marque to privateers, 205;

camp of instruction at Harper's Ferry, 209;

proclamation of outlawry, 350;

message on emancipation proclamation, 350, 351;

appoints Hood to succeed Johnston, 407;

visits Hood, and unites commands of Beauregard and Hood, 409;

interview with Jaquess and Gilmore, 462;

interviews with F.P. Blair, Sr., 479-481;

gives Blair a letter to show Lincoln, 481;

appoints peace commission, 482;

instructions to peace commissioners, 482;

reports Hampton Roads conference to rebel Congress, 485;

speech at public meeting, 485, 486;

Confederate Congress shows hostility to, 500, 501;

reappoints J.E. Johnston to resist Sherman, 501;

recommendations concerning slaves in rebel army, 501;

sanctions Lee's letter to Grant, 503;

conference with Lee, 504;

flight from Richmond, 515;

proclamation from Danville, 519, 520;

retreat to Greensboro, North Carolina, 520;

interview with Johnston and Beauregard, 520;

continues southward, 520;

dictates proposition of armistice presented by Johnston to Sherman, 521;

requires report from Breckinridge about Johnston-Sherman agreement, 523;

instructions to Johnston, 524;

attempt to reach E. Kirby Smith, 525, 526;

effort to gain Florida coast, 526;

capture, imprisonment, and release of, 526

=Davis, Mrs. Jefferson=, captured with her husband, 526

=Dawson, John=, defeated for Illinois legislature, 1832, 34;

elected in 1834, 43

=Dayton, William L.=, United States senator minister to France,

nominated for Vice-President, 104;

vote for, in Chicago convention, 149

=Delano, Columbus=, member of Congress, Secretary of the Interior,

in Baltimore convention, 447

=Delaware=, State of, secession feeling in, 201;

rejects compensated abolishment, 322, 323

=Democratic Party=, party of slavery extension, 102;

nominates Buchanan and Breckinridge in 1856, 104;

disturbed by Buchanan's attitude on slavery, 116;

pro-slavery demands of, 140, 141;

national conventions of, 1860, 142-144;

candidates in 1860, 152, 153;

opposition to emancipation measures and conscription law, 354, 355;

adopts McClellan for presidential candidate, 355;

interest in Vallandigham, 358;

attitude on slavery, 437, 438, 472, 473;

convention postponed, 463;

national convention, 1864, 466-468

=Dennison, William=, governor of Ohio, Postmaster-General,

permanent chairman of Republican national convention, 1864, 446;

succeeds Blair as Postmaster-General, 489, 490

=Dickinson, Daniel S.=, United States senator, candidate

for vice-presidential nomination, 1864, 448, 449

=Doherty, E.P.=, lieutenant United States army,

captures Booth and Herold, 543

=Donelson, Andrew J.=, nominated for Vice-President, 102

=Dorsey, Azel W.=, teacher of President Lincoln, 12

=Douglas, Stephen A.=, member of Congress, United States senator,

at Springfield, Illinois, 52;

challenges young Whigs of Springfield to debate, 62;

elected to United States Senate, 75;

champions repeal of Missouri Compromise, 95;

speech at Illinois State fair, 96;

at Peoria, 96;

agreement with Lincoln, 99;

on Dred Scott case, 109, 110;

denounces Lecompton Constitution, 116, 117;

hostility of Buchanan administration toward, 117;

Lincoln-Douglas joint debate, 121-125;

speeches in the South, 128, 129;

answer to Senator Brown, 129;

references to Lincoln, 130;

Ohio speeches, 133;

"Harper's Magazine" essay, 134;

fight over nomination of, for President, 1860, 142-144;

nominated for President, 143;

speeches during campaign of 1860, 156;

vote for, 160

=Douglass, Frederick=, conversation with Lincoln, 352

=Draft=, Congress passes national conscription law, 354;

opposition of Governor Seymour to, 355-357;

riots in New York, 356, 357;

dissatisfaction in other places, 357;

opposition of Vallandigham to, 358

=Dred Scott= case, decision of Supreme Court in, 108, 109;

protest of North against, 109;

Senator Douglas on, 109, 110

=Dresser, Rev. Charles=, marries Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, 68, 69

=Du-Pont, Samuel F.=, rear-admiral United States navy,

commands fleet in Port Royal expedition, 245

=Durant, Thomas J.=, mentioned in letter of Lincoln's, 334, 335

=Early, Jubal A.=, Confederate lieutenant-general,

threatens Washington, 403;

inflicts damage on Blair's estate, 488

=Eckert, Thomas T.=, brevet brigadier-general United States Volunteers,

sent to meet peace commissioners at Hampton Roads, 482;

refuses to allow peace commissioners to proceed, 483

=Edwards, Cyrus=, desires commissionership of General Land Office, 92

=Edwards, Ninian W.=, one of "Long Nine," 63

=Edwards, Mrs. Ninian W.=, sister of Mrs. Lincoln, 63

=Ellsworth, E.E.=, colonel United States Volunteers, assassination of, 214

=Emancipation=, Lincoln-Stone protest, 47;

Lincoln's bill for, in District of Columbia, 86, 87;

Missouri Compromise, 94, 95;

Frémont's proclamation of, 236-238;

discussed in President's message of December 3, 1861, 321, 322;

Lincoln offers Delaware compensated abolishment, 322, 323;

special message of March 6, 1862, 323, 324;

Congress passes bill for, in District of Columbia, 325, 326;

bill to aid it in border slave States, 326;

Hunter's order of, 327;

measures in Congress relating to, 328, 329;

Lincoln's second interview with delegations from border slave

States, 329-331;

Lincoln's conversation with Carpenter about, 331, 332;

first draft of emancipation proclamation read to cabinet, 331, 332;

President's interview with Chicago clergymen, 337-339;

Lincoln issues preliminary emancipation proclamation, 339-341;

annual message of December 1, 1862, 341, 342;

President issues final emancipation proclamation, 342-346;

President's views on, 346, 347;

arming of negro soldiers, 348, 350;

Lincoln's letters to Banks about emancipation in Louisiana, 423-425;

slavery abolished in Louisiana, 426;

slavery abolished in Arkansas, 427;

slavery abolished in Tennessee, 429;

slavery abolished in Missouri, 432-434;

Maryland refuses offer of compensated abolishment, 434;

slavery abolished in Maryland, 435, 436;

Republican national platform favors Constitutional

amendment abolishing slavery, 446;

Constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery in United States, 471-476;

two Constitutional amendments affecting slavery offered during

Lincoln's term, 475,476;

Lincoln's draft of joint resolution offering the South $400,000,000, 493;

Jefferson Davis recommends employment of negroes in army,

with emancipation to follow, 501.

See _Slavery_

=England=, public opinion in, favorable to the South, 211;

excitement in, over _Trent_ affair, 246;

joint expedition to Mexico, 451;

"neutrality" of, 525

=Ericsson=, John, inventor of the _Monitor_, 279

=Evarts=, William M., Secretary of State, United States senator,

nominates Seward for President, 149;

moves to make Lincoln's nomination unanimous, 151

=Everett=, Edward, member of Congress, minister to England,

Secretary of State, United States senator,

candidate for Vice-President, 1860, 153

=Ewell=, Richard S., Confederate lieutenant-general,

in retreat to Appomattox, 511;

statement about burning of Richmond, 516

=Ewing=, Thomas, Secretary of the Interior defended by Lincoln

against political attack, 92

=Fair Oaks=, Virginia, battle of, 302

=Farragut=, David G., admiral United States navy,

captures New Orleans and ascends the Mississippi, 282-287;

ascends Mississippi a second time, 287;

mentioned 328, 329, 381;

operations against Port Hudson, 382;

Mobile Bay, 468, 525

=Farrand=, Ebenezer, captain Confederate navy, surrender of, 525

=Fessenden=, William P., United States senator,

Secretary of the Treasury, becomes Secretary of the Treasury, 458;

agrees with President against making proffers of peace to Davis, 463;

resigns from cabinet, 491, 492

=Field=, David Dudley, escorts Lincoln to platform at Cooper Institute, 138

=Fillmore=, Millard, thirteenth President of the United States,

nominated by Know-Nothing party for President, 1856, 102

=Five Forks=, Virginia, battle of, April 1, 1865, 507-509

=Floyd=, John B., Secretary of War, Confederate brigadier-general,

escapes from Fort Donelson, 268

=Foote=, Andrew H., rear-admiral United States navy,

capture of Island No. 10, 274;

proceeds to Fort Pillow, 274

=Forrest=, Nathan B., Confederate lieutenant-general,

with Hood's army, 410;

defeat of, 525

=Fort Donelson=, Tennessee, capture of, 266-268

=Fort Fisher=, North Carolina, capture of, 414, 481, 525

=Fort Harrison=, Virginia, capture of, 560

=Fort Henry=, Tennessee, capture of, 266

=Fort Jackson=, Louisiana, capture of, 282-285

=Fort McAllister=, Georgia, stormed by Sherman, 412

=Fort Pillow=, Tennessee, evacuation of, 286;

massacre of negro troops at, 351

=Fort Pulaski=, Georgia, capture of, 278

=Fort Randolph=, Tennessee, evacuation of, 286

=Fort Stedman=, Virginia, assault of, 505, 506

=Fort St. Philip=, Louisiana, capture of, 282-285

=Fort Sumter=, South Carolina, occupied by Anderson, 177, 178;

attempt to reinforce 178;

cabinet consultations about, 182-184;

defense and capture of, 189, 190

=Fortress Monroe=, Virginia, importance of, 209

=Fox=, Gustavus V., Assistant Secretary of the Navy,

ordered to aid Sumter, 184;

sends the President additional news about fight between _Monitor_

and _Merrimac_, 296, 297

=France=, public opinion in, favorable to the South, 211;

joint expedition to Mexico, 451;

"neutrality" of, 525

=Franklin=, Benjamin, on American forests and the spirit

of independence they fostered, 17

=Franklin=, Tennessee, battle of, November 30, 1864, 410

=Franklin=, W.B., brevet major-general United States army,

advises movement on Manassas, 289

=Fredericksburg=, Virginia, battle of, December 13, 1862, 364

=Frémont=, John C., United States senator,

major-general United States army, nominated for President, 1856, 103;

made major-general, 233;

opportunities and limitations of, 233-235;

criticism of, 235;

quarrel with Blair family, 236, 487;

proclamation freeing slaves, 236, 237, 432;

refuses to revoke proclamation, 238;

removed from command of Western Department, 241-243;

commands Mountain Department, 299;

ordered to form junction with McDowell and Shields, 306;

in Army of Virginia, 310;

nominated for President, 1864, 442;

withdraws from the contest, 442

=Fusion=, attempts at, in campaign of 1860, 157, 158

=Gamble, Hamilton R.=, provisional governor of Missouri,

calls State convention together, 433;

death of, 434

=Garnett, Robert S.=, Confederate brigadier-general,

killed at Carrick's Ford, 225

=Gentry, Allen=, makes flatboat trip with Lincoln, 16

=Gentry, James=, enters land at Gentryville, 9;

sends Lincoln to New Orleans, 16

=Gettysburg=, Pennsylvania, battle of, July 1-3, 1863, 372-375;

address of Mr. Lincoln at, 376, 377

=Giddings, Joshua R.=, member of Congress approves

Lincoln's bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia, 87;

amendment to Chicago platform, 148, 149

=Gillmore, Quincy A.=, brevet major-general United States army,

siege of Fort Pulaski, 278

=Gilmer, John A.=, member of Congress, tendered cabinet appointment, 164

=Gilmore, J.R.=, visits Jefferson Davis with Jaquess, 462

=Gist, William H.=, governor of South Carolina, inaugurates secession, 175

=Goldsborough, L.M.=, rear-admiral United States navy,

commands fleet in Roanoke Island expedition, 277, 278

=Gordon, John B.=, Confederate lieutenant-general,

United States senator, in assault of Fort Stedman, 504, 505;

in defense of Petersburg, 509

=Graham, Mentor=, makes Lincoln election clerk, 23, 24;

advises Lincoln to study grammar, 25;

aids Lincoln to study surveying, 40

=Grant, Ulysses S.=, eighteenth President of the United States,

general, and general-in-chief United States army, early life, 264;

letter offering services to War Department, 264, 265;

commissioned by Governor Yates, 265;

reconnaissance toward Columbus, 265;

urges movement on Fort Henry, 265, 266;

capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, 266-268;

ordered forward to Savannah, 271;

Pittsburg Landing, 272-274;

asks to be relieved, 275;

co-operates with adjutant-general of the army in arming negroes, 350;

repulses rebels at Iuka and Corinth, 380;

Vicksburg campaign, 380-383;

ordered to Chattanooga, 389;

battle of Chattanooga, 390, 391;

pursuit of Bragg, 391, 392;

speech on accepting commission of lieutenant-general, 394;

visits Army of the Potomac and starts west, 394;

placed in command of all the armies, 394;

conference with Sherman, 395;

plan of campaign, 395, 397;

returns to Culpepper, 395;

fear of presidential interference, 395, 396;

letter to Lincoln, 396;

strength and position of his army, 396, 397;

instructions to Meade, 397;

battle of the Wilderness, 398;

Spottsylvania Court House, 398, 399;

report to Washington, 399;

Cold Harbor, 399;

letter to Washington, 399, 400;

siege of Petersburg, 400-402;

sends Wright to Washington, 403;

withholds consent to Sherman's plan, 410;

gives his consent, 411;

orders to Sherman, 413;

adopts Sherman's plan, 414;

attempt to nominate him for President, 1864, 442, 443;

depressing influence on political situation of his heavy fighting, 463;

admits peace commissioners to his headquarters, 483;

despatch to Stanton, 484;

pushing forward, 502;

telegraphs Lee's letter to Washington, 503;

reply to Lee, 504;

orders to General Parke, 505;

issues orders for the final movement of the war, 506;

number of men under his command in final struggle, 507;

his plan, 507;

battle of Five Forks, 507-509;

orders Sheridan to get on Lee's line of retreat, 509, 510;

sends Humphreys to Sheridan's assistance, 509;

telegram to Lincoln, 509;

pursuit of Lee, 510-513;

sends Sheridan's despatch to Lincoln, 511;

correspondence with Lee, 512, 513;

receives Lee's surrender, 513-515;

forbids salute in honor of Lee's surrender, 515;

visit to Lee, 515;

goes to Washington, 515;

learns terms of agreement between Sherman and Johnson, 523;

ordered to Sherman's headquarters, 523;

gives Sherman opportunity to modify his report, 523, 524;

at Lincoln's last cabinet meeting, 531;

invited by Mrs. Lincoln to Ford's Theater, 536

=Grant, Mrs. U.S.=, invited by Mrs. Lincoln to Ford's Theater, 536

=Greeley, Horace=, hears Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech, 138;

"open letter" to Lincoln, 335;

Niagara Falls conference, 458-461;

effect of his mission on political situation, 464

=Halleck, Henry Wager=, major-general and general-in-chief

United States army, succeeds Frémont, 260;

reluctance to coöperate with Buell, 263, 264;

answers to Lincoln, 263, 264;

instructions to Grant, 264;

orders Grant to take Fort Henry, 266;

sends reinforcements to Grant, 267;

asks for command in the West, 269;

plans expedition under Pope, 270;

message to Buell, 270;

telegrams to McClellan, 270;

appeal to McClellan, 271;

commands Department of the Mississippi, 271;

orders Pope to join him, 274;

march on Corinth, 275;

capture of Corinth, 275;

sends Buell to East Tennessee, 275;

ordered to reinforce McClellan, 307;

general-in-chief, 309;

visit to McClellan, 309;

orders Army of Potomac back to Acquia Creek, 309;

letter to McClellan, 309, 310;

orders McClellan to support Pope, 311;

telegram to McClellan, 317;

mentioned, 328, 329;

asks to be relieved, 365;

quarrel with Hooker, 372;

urges Meade to active pursuit of Lee, 375;

plans for Western campaign, 379;

urges Buell to move into East Tennessee, 380;

orders Rosecrans to advance, 385, 386;

at council to consider news of Chattanooga, 388;

President's chief of staff, 394;

conduct during Early's raid, 403;

note to War Department about Blair, 488;

orders to Meade, 523

=Hamlin, Hannibal=, United States senator, Vice-President,

nominated for Vice-President, 151;

Cameron moves his renomination, 447;

candidate for vice-presidential nomination in 1864, 448, 449

=Hanks, John=, tells of Lincoln's frontier labors, 15;

flatboat voyage with Lincoln, 22, 23;

at Decatur convention, 154

=Hanks, Joseph=, teaches Thomas Lincoln carpenter's trade, 5

=Hanks, Nancy=. See _Lincoln, Nancy Hanks_

=Hardee, William J.=, lieutenant-colonel United States army, Confederate

lieutenant-general, council with Johnston and Beauregard, 267;

evacuates Savannah and Charleston, 415;

joins Johnston, 416

=Hardin, John J.=, member of Congress, colonel United States Volunteers,

at Springfield, Illinois, 52;

elected to Congress, 73;

killed in Mexican War, 75

=Harper's Ferry=, Virginia, John Brown raid at, 134;

burning of armory, 209;

captured by Lee, September 15, 1862, 315

=Harris, Miss Clara W.=, attends Ford's Theater with Mrs. Lincoln, 536;

assists Mrs. Lincoln, 539

=Harrison, George M.=, Lincoln's messmate in Black Hawk War, 33

=Hartford=, the, Union cruiser, Farragut's flag-ship, 284, 285

=Hatteras Inlet=, North Carolina, capture of forts at, August 29, 1861, 245

=Hay, John=, assistant private secretary to Lincoln,

brevet colonel and assistant adjutant-general United States Volunteers,

ambassador to England, Secretary of State, accompanies

Mr. Lincoln to Washington, 168;

shows Lincoln letter of inquiry about Vice-Presidency, 448;

mission to Canada, 460;

at Lincoln's death-bed, 540

=Hazel, Caleb=, teacher of President Lincoln, 6

=Herndon, A.G.=, defeated for Illinois legislature, 1832, 34

=Herndon, "Jim" and "Row,"= sell Lincoln and Berry their store, 35

=Herndon, William H.=, Lincoln's law partner, 158;

assumes Lincoln's law business during campaign, 158

=Herold, David E.=, in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 534;

chosen to assist Booth, 536;

deposits arms in tavern at Surrattsville, 536;

accompanies Booth in his flight, 542, 543;

capture of, 543;

execution of, 544

=Hicks, Thomas H.=, governor of Maryland, United States senator,

reply to Lincoln's call for volunteers, 193;

speech at mass-meeting, 193;

protest against landing of troops at Annapolis, 198;

calls meeting of Maryland legislature, 198

=Holcomb, James P.=, Confederate agent in Canada,

correspondence with Horace Greeley, 459

=Holt, Joseph=, Postmaster-General, Secretary of War,

judge-advocate general United States army, calls Scott to

Washington, 172;

report on Knights of the Golden Circle, 361;

favored by Swett for Vice-President, 448;

declines attorney-generalship, 491

=Hood, John B.=, Confederate general, succeeds Johnston, 407;

evacuates Atlanta, 407, 468;

truce with Sherman, 408;

placed under command of Beauregard, 409;

moves to Tuscumbia, 410;

Franklin and Nashville, 410;

his movements delay reconstruction in Tennessee, 429

=Hooker, Joseph=, brevet major-general United States army,

succeeds Burnside in command of Army of the Potomac, 366;

submits plan of campaign to Lincoln, 368;

battle of Chancellorsville, 369, 370;

criticism of, 370;

foresees Lee's northward campaign, 370;

proposes quick march to capture Richmond, 371;

follows Lee, 372;

asks to be relieved, 372;

ordered to reinforce Rosecrans, 388;

reaches Chattanooga, 389;

in battle of Chattanooga, 390-391

=Hume, John F.=, moves that Lincoln's nomination be made unanimous, 447

=Humphreys, Andrew A.=, brevet major-general United States army,

in recapture of Fort Stedman, 505, 506;

ordered to assist Sheridan, 509

=Hunt, Randall=, tendered cabinet appointment, 164

=Hunter, David=, brevet major-general, United States army,

asked to assist Frémont, 235, 236;

ordered to relieve Frémont, 243;

order of emancipation, 327;

experiment with negro soldiers, 348;

declared an outlaw by Confederate War Department, 350

=Hunter, R.M.T.=, United States senator, Confederate Secretary of State,

appointed peace commissioner, 482;

at Hampton Roads conference, 482-485

=Iles, Elijah=, captain Illinois Volunteers, commands company in

Black Hawk War, 33

=Illinois=, State of, organized as Territory, 1809, 19;

admitted as State, 1818, 19;

legislative schemes of internal improvement, 44, 45;

capital removed to Springfield, 45;

political struggles over slavery, 45, 46;

Lincoln-Douglas senatorial campaign in, 118-125;

ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 474, 475

=Island No. 10=, Tennessee, fortifications at, 269, 270;

surrender of, 274

=Jackson, Andrew=, seventh President of the United States,

gives impetus to system of party caucuses and conventions, 52

=Jackson, Claiborne F.=, governor of Missouri,

attempts to force Missouri secession, 202-204;

flight to Springfield, Missouri, 234

=Jackson, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall")=, Confederate lieutenant-general,

Shenandoah valley campaign, 305, 306;

mentioned, 328;

killed at Chancellorsville, 369

=Jaquess, James F.=, D.D., colonel United States Volunteers,

visits to the South, 461, 462;

interview with Jefferson Davis, 462

=Jewett, William Cornell=, letter to Greeley, 458

=Johnson, Andrew=, seventeenth President of the United States,

in thirty-seventh Congress, 217;

telegram about East Tennessee, 259;

retains seat in Senate, 419;

appointed military governor of Tennessee, 420;

begins work of reconstruction, 428;

nominated for Vice-President, 448, 449;

popular and electoral votes for, 470;

disapproves Sherman's agreement with Johnston, 523;

proclamation of amnesty, 526;

plot to murder, 535;

rejoicing of radicals on his accession to the Presidency, 545;

takes oath of office, 545

=Johnson, Herschel V.=, candidate for Vice-President, 1860, 152

=Johnston, Albert Sidney=, Confederate general,

council with Hardee and Beauregard, 267;

killed at Pittsburg Landing, 273

=Johnston, Joseph E.=, quartermaster-general United States army,

Confederate general, member of Congress, joins Confederacy, 196, 208;

understanding with Beauregard, 215, 216;

joins Beauregard at Bull Run, 228;

opinion of battle of Bull Run, 228;

retrograde movement, 297;

defeats McClellan at Fair Oaks, 302;

succeeds Bragg, 395;

strength of, in spring of 1864, 405;

superseded by Hood, 407;

again placed in command, 416, 501;

interview with Davis, 520;

begins negotiations with Sherman, 520;

meetings with Sherman, 521, 522;

agreement between them, 522;

agreement disapproved at Washington, 523;

surrender of, 524

=Johnston, Sarah Bush=, marries Thomas Lincoln, 10;

improves the condition of his household, 10;

tells of Lincoln's studious habits, 13

=Jones, Thomas=, assists Booth and Herold, 542, 543

=Judd, Norman B.=, minister to Prussia, member of Congress,

nominates Lincoln for President, 1860, 149;

member of Lincoln's suite, 173

=Kansas=, State of, slavery struggle in, 113-115;

Lecompton Bill defeated in Congress, 117

=Kearsarge=, the, Union cruiser, battle with the _Alabama_, 525

=Kelly, Benjamin F.=, brevet major-general United States Volunteers,

dash upon Philippi, 225

=Kentucky=, State of, action concerning secession, 201, 204;

legislature asks Anderson for help, 254;

public opinion in, regarding slavery, 473

=Kilpatrick, Judson=, brevet major-general United States army,

minister to Chili, with Sherman on march to the sea, 411

=Kirkpatrick=, defeated for Illinois legislature 1832, 34

=Knights of Golden Circle=, extensive organization of, 360, 361;

plans and failures of, 360-362;

projected revolution in Northwestern States, 466

=Know-Nothing Party=, principles of, 101, 102;

nominates Millard Fillmore for President, 1856, 102

=Lamon, Ward H.=, accompanies Lincoln on night journey to Washington, 174

=Lane, Joseph=, brevet major-general United States army, governor,

United States senator candidate for Vice-President in 1860, 153;

attempt to arm negroes, 348

=Leavitt, Humphrey H.=, member of Congress,

judge United States Circuit Court,

denies motion for habeas corpus for Vallandigham, 358

=Lecompton Constitution=, adopted in Kansas, 115;

defeated in Congress, 117

=Lee, Robert E.=, colonel United States army,

Confederate general, captures John Brown, 134;

enters service of Confederacy, 196, 197, 208;

concentrates troops at Manassas Junction, 215;

sends troops into West Virginia, 224;

attacks McClellan near Richmond, 302;

campaign into Maryland, 314;

captures Harper's Ferry, 315;

battle of Antietam, 315;

retreats across the Potomac, 316;

battle of Chancellorsville, 369;

resolves on invasion of the North, 370;

crosses the Potomac, 371, 372;

battle of Gettysburg, 372-374;

retreats across the Potomac, 375, 377;

strength and position of his army, 397;

battle of the Wilderness, 398;

Spottsylvania Court House, 398, 399;

Cold Harbor, 399;

defense of Petersburg, 400-402;

sends Early up the Shenandoah valley, 403;

despatch about rations for his army, 481;

made general-in-chief, 500;

assumes command of all the Confederate armies, 502;

attempt to negotiate with Grant, 502, 503;

conference with Davis, 504;

attempt to break through Grant's lines, 504-506;

number of men under his command in final struggle, 507;

takes command in person, 507;

attacks Warren, 507;

battle of Five Forks, 507-509;

makes preparations to evacuate Petersburg and Richmond, 509;

begins retreat, 510;

surrender of Richmond, 510;

reaches Amelia Court House, 510;

starts toward Lynchburg, 511;

reply to generals advising him to surrender, 512;

correspondence with Grant, 512, 513;

surrender of, 513-515;

size of army surrendered by, 524

=Letcher, John=, member of Congress, governor of Virginia,

orders seizure of government property, 194

=Lincoln, Abraham=, sixteenth President of the United States,

born February 12, 1800, 3, 6;

goes to A B C schools, 6;

early schooling in Indiana, 10-13;

home studies and youthful habits, 13-19;

manages ferry-boat, 15;

flatboat trip to New Orleans, 15, 16;

employed in Gentryville store, 16;

no hunter, 17;

kills wild turkey, 17, 18;

emigrates to Illinois, March 1, 1830, 20;

leaves his father's cabin, 21;

engaged by Denton Offutt, 21;

builds flatboat and takes it to New Orleans, 22, 23;

incident at Rutledge's Mill, 22;

returns to New Salem, 23;

election clerk, 23, 24;

clerk in Offutt's store, 24;

wrestles with Jack Armstrong, 25;

candidate for legislature, 1832, 29;

address "To the Voters of Sangamon County," 29, 30;

volunteers for Black Hawk War, 32;

elected captain of volunteer company, 32;

mustered out and reënlists as private, 32, 33;

finally mustered out, 33;

returns to New Salem, 33;

defeated for legislature, 33;

enters into partnership with Berry, 35;

sells out to the Trent brothers, 36;

fails, but promises to pay his debts, 36;

surveying instruments sold for debt, 36;

"Honest old Abe," 37;

appointed postmaster of New Salem, 37;

made deputy surveyor, 39, 40;

candidate for legislature, 1834, 41, 42;

elected to legislature, 43;

begins study of law, 44;

admitted to practice, 44;

removes to Springfield and forms law partnership with J.T. Stuart, 44;

reëlected to legislature, 44;

services in legislature, 44-48;

manages removal of State capital to Springfield, 45;

Lincoln-Stone protest, 47;

vote for, for Speaker of Illinois House, 48;

his methods in law practice, 49;

notes for law lecture, 49-51;

his growing influence, 52;

guest of William Butler, 53;

intimacy with Joshua F. Speed, 53;

engaged to Anne Rutledge, 54;

her death, 54;

his grief, 55;

courtship of Mary Owens, 55-60;

member of "Long Nine," 61, 62;

debate with Douglas and others, 1839, 62, 63;

meets and becomes engaged to Mary Todd, 63;

engagement broken, 64;

his deep melancholy, 64;

letter to Stuart, 64;

visit to Kentucky, 64;

letters to Speed, 64, 65;

"Lost Townships" letters, 66;

challenged by Shields, 66;

prescribes terms of the duel, 67;

duel prevented, 68;

letter to Speed, 68;

marriage to Mary Todd, November 4, 1842, 68, 69;

children of, 69;

partnership with Stuart dissolved, 69, 70;

law partnership with S.T. Logan, 70;

declines reëlection to legislature, 70;

letter to Speed, 71;

letter to Martin Morris, 71-73;

letter to Speed, 73;

presidential elector, 1844, 73;

letters to B.F. James, 74;

elected to Congress, 1846, 75;

service and speeches in Congress, 76-90;

votes for Wilmot Proviso, 79;

presidential elector in 1840 and 1844, 80;

favors General Taylor for President, 80-83;

letters about Taylor's nomination, 80-82;

letters to Herndon, 81-83;

speeches for Taylor, 83;

bill to prohibit slavery in District of Columbia, 86;

letters recommending office-seekers, 87-89;

letter to W.H. Herndon, 90, 91;

letter to Speed, 91, 92;

letter to Duff Green, 92;

applies for commissionership of General Land Office, 92;

defends Butterfield against political attack, 92;

refuses governorship of Oregon, 93;

indignation at repeal of Missouri Compromise, 94, 95;

advocates reëlection of Richard Yates to Congress, 96;

speech at Illinois State Fair, 96;

debate with Douglas at Peoria, 96-99;

agreement with Douglas, 99;

candidate for United States Senate before Illinois legislature, 1855, 99;

withdraws in favor of Trumbull, 100;

letter to Robertson, 100, 101;

speech at Bloomington convention, 1856, 103;

vote for, for Vice-President, 1856, 104;

presidential elector, 1856, 105;

speeches in campaign of 1856, 105;

speech at Republican banquet in Chicago, 106, 107;

speech on Dred Scott case, 110-112;

nominated for senator, 118, 119;

"House divided against itself" speech, 119, 120, 127, 128;

Lincoln-Douglas joint debate, 121-125;

defeated for United States Senate, 125;

analysis of causes which led to his defeat, 126, 127;

letters to H. Asbury and A.G. Henry, 127;

letter to A.L. Pierce and others, 130, 131;

speech in Chicago, 131, 132;

letter to M.W. Delahay, 132;

letter to Colfax, 132, 133;

letter to S. Galloway, 133;

Ohio speeches, 133, 134;

criticism of John Brown raid, 134, 135;

speeches in Kansas, 136, 137;

Cooper Institute speech, 137-140;

speeches in New England, 140;

letter to T.J. Pickett, 145;

candidate for presidential nomination, 1860, 145;

letters to N.B. Judd, 145, 146;

nominated for President, 1860, 149-151;

speech at Decatur convention, 153, 154;

daily routine during campaign, 158, 159;

letters during campaign, 159;

elected President, 160;

his cabinet program, 161-163;

letter to Seward offering cabinet appointment, 163;

offers Bates and Cameron cabinet appointments, 163;

summons Chase to Springfield, 163;

withdraws offer to Cameron, 163;

editorial in Springfield "Journal," 164;

offers cabinet appointments to Gilmer, Hunt, and Scott, 164;

letters to W.S. Speer and G.D. Prentiss, 164, 165;

correspondence with Alexander H. Stephens, 165, 166;

letter to Gilmer, 166;

letter to Washburne, 166, 167;

writes his inaugural, 167, 168;

journey to Washington, 168-174;

farewell address at Springfield, 169;

speeches on journey to Washington, 169-171;

consultation with Judd, 173;

night journey to Washington, 173, 174;

visits of ceremony, 179, 180;

first inauguration of, 180-182;

inaugural address, 180-182;

calls council to consider question of Sumter, 182, 183;

signs order for relief of Sumter, 184;

answer to Seward's memorandum of April 1, 1861, 187;

instructions to Seward, 1865, 187;

notice to Governor Pickens, 188;

issues call for 75,000 volunteers, 192;

assumes responsibility for war measures, 195;

opinion against dispersing Maryland legislature, 198, 199;

authorizes Scott to suspend writ of habeas corpus, 199;

action in Merryman case, 200;

institutes blockade, 205;

calls for three years' volunteers, 206;

appoints Charles Francis Adams minister to England, 211;

modifies Seward's despatch of May 21, 212;

his immense duties, 212, 213;

calls council of war, 215;

message to Congress, July 4, 1861, 218-220;

postpones decision about slaves, 222, 223;

receives news of defeat at Bull Run, 229;

letter to Hunter, 235;

letter to Frémont, 237, 238;

letter to Browning, 238-240;

sends Cameron to visit Frémont, 242;

letter to General Curtis about Frémont, 242, 243;

draft of despatch about Trent affair, 247, 248;

welcomes McClellan to Washington, 250;

orders retirement of General Scott, 253;

memorandum to McClellan, 253;

his grasp of military problems, 255, 256;

memorandum after battle of Bull Run, 256;

interest in East Tennessee, 256, 257;

personally urges on Congress the construction of railroad

in East Tennessee, 257, 258;

letter to Buell, 258, 259;

telegrams and letters to Buell and Halleck, 262-264, 268, 269;

places Halleck in command of Department of the Mississippi, 271;

calls councils of war, 288, 289;

General War Order No. 1, 290;

Special War Order No. 1, 291;

letter to McClellan about plan of campaign, 291;

interview with Stanton, 293, 294;

interview with McClellan, 295;

President's General War Orders No. 2 and No. 3, 295;

receives news of fight between _Monitor_ and _Merrimac_, 296;

relieves McClellan from command of all troops except

Army of the Potomac, 298;

orders McDowell to protect Washington, 299;

letter to McClellan, 299, 300;

letter to McClellan, 303, 304;

visit to General Scott, 306;

assigns General Pope to command of Army of Virginia, 306;

orders Burnside and Halleck to reinforce McClellan, 307;

letter to governors of free States, 307, 308;

accepts 300,000 new troops, 308;

letters to McClellan, 308;

visit to Harrison's Landing, 308;

appoints Halleck general-in-chief, 309;

his dispassionate calmness in considering McClellan's conduct, 311;

asks McClellan to use his influence with Pope's officers, 313;

places McClellan in command of defenses of Washington, 313;

orders reinforcements to McClellan, 316;

telegram to McClellan, 316;

visit to Antietam, 316, 317;

directions and letter to McClellan, 317-319;

removes him from command, 319;

letter to Bancroft, 321;

reference to slavery in message to Congress, December 3, 1861, 321, 322;

offers Delaware compensated abolishment, 322, 323;

special message of March 6, 1862, proposing joint

resolution favoring gradual abolishment, 323, 324;

letter to McDougall, 324;

interview with delegations from border slave States, 324, 325;

signs bill for compensated emancipation in District of Columbia, 326;

letter to Chase about Hunter's order of emancipation, 327;

proclamation revoking Hunter's order, 327, 328;

second interview with border State delegations in Congress, 329-331;

conversation with Carpenter about emancipation, 331, 332;

reads draft of first emancipation proclamation to cabinet, 331, 332;

tells Seward and Welles of his purpose to issue emancipation

proclamation, 332;

letter to Reverdy Johnson, 334;

letter to Cuthbert Bullitt, 334, 335;

letter to Horace Greeley, 335-337;

interview with Chicago clergymen, 337-339;

issues preliminary emancipation proclamation, 339-341;

annual message of December 1, 1862, 341, 342;

issues final emancipation proclamation, January 1, 1863, 342-346;

letter to A.G. Hodges, 346, 347;

letters about arming negroes, 350;

speech about Fort Pillow massacre, 351, 352;

interview with Frederick Douglass, 352;

letter to Governor Seymour, 356;

action in case of Vallandigham, 358, 359;

suspends privilege of writ of habeas corpus, 360;

attitude toward Knights of the Golden Circle, 361;

appoints Burnside to command Army of the Potomac, 363;

telegram to Burnside, and letter to Halleck about Burnside, 365;

letter to Burnside, 366;

relieves Burnside and appoints Hooker to succeed him, 366;

letter to Hooker, 366-368;

criticism on Hooker's plan of campaign, 368;

continued belief in Hooker, 370;

instructions to Hooker, 370, 371;

telegrams to Hooker, 371;

appoints Meade to command Army of the Potomac, 372;

urges Meade to active pursuit of Lee, 375;

letter to Meade, 375, 376;

Gettysburg address, 376, 377;

letter to Grant, 384, 385;

orders Rosecrans to advance, 385, 386;

note to Halleck, 388;

telegram to Rosecrans, 388;

orders reinforcements to Rosecrans, 388;

signs bill making Grant lieutenant-general, 393;

address on presenting his commission, 393, 394;

letter to Grant, 396;

under fire, 403;

letter to Sherman, 412, 413;

appoints military governors for Tennessee, Louisiana,

Arkansas, and North Carolina, 419;

his theory of "reconstruction," 419;

message to Congress, July 4, 1861, 419;

letter to Cuthbert Bullitt, 420, 421;

circular letter to military governors, 421, 422;

letter to Governor Shepley, 422;

letter to General Banks, 423;

references to reconstruction in message to Congress,

December 8, 1863, 424;

amnesty proclamation, December 8, 1863, 424;

letter to General Banks, 424, 425;

letters to General Steele, 427, 428;

letters to Johnson, 428, 429;

letter to Drake and others, 430-432;

revokes Frémont's proclamation freeing slaves, 432;

letter to General Schofield, 433;

directs Stanton to issue order regulating raising

of colored troops, 434, 435;

letter to H.W. Hoffman, 435, 436;

Democrats and Frémont Republicans criticize

his action on slavery, 437, 438;

relations with his cabinet, 438, 439;

attitude toward Chase, 439-441, 444;

letter to Chase, 441;

letter to F.A. Conkling and others, 443;

sentiment in favor of his reëlection, 443, 444;

letter to Washburne about second term, 444;

letters to General Schurz, 444, 445;

instructions to office-holders, 445;

speeches during campaign, 445;

renominated for President, 447, 448;

refuses to intimate his preference for Vice-President, 448, 449;

indorsement on Nicolay's letter, 448, 449;

reply to committee of notification, 450;

letter accepting nomination, 450, 451;

his attitude toward the French in Mexico, 451, 452;

opposition to, in Congress, 454;

on Davis's reconstruction bill, 454-456;

proclamation of July 8, 1864, 456;

accepts Chase's resignation, 457;

nominates David Tod to succeed him, 457;

substitutes name of W.P. Fessenden, 457, 458;

correspondence with Greeley, 458-460;

criticized because of Niagara conference, 460, 461;

draft of letter to C.D. Robinson, 461;

indorsement on Jaquess's application to go South, 462;

answer to Raymond's proposition, 463;

interview with John T. Mills, 464, 465;

memorandum, August 23, 1864, 466;

speech on morning after election, 469, 470;

popular and electoral votes for, 470;

summing up of results of the election, 470;

suggests key-note of Morgan's opening speech before Baltimore

convention, 471;

message to Congress, December 6, 1864, 471, 472, 476-478;

answer to serenade, 474, 475;

opinion on ratification of Thirteenth Amendment, 475;

two constitutional amendments offered to the

people during his administration, 476;

gives Blair permission to go South, 478;

letter to Blair in reply to Jefferson Davis, 481;

sends Major Eckert to meet peace commissioners, 482;

instructions to Seward, 483;

instructions to Grant, 483;

goes to Fortress Monroe, 484;

conference with peace commissioners, 484, 485;

pressure upon him to dismiss Montgomery Blair, 487, 489;

personal regard for the Blairs, 488;

letter to Stanton, 488;

lecture to cabinet, 489;

requests resignation of Blair, 489;

nominates Chase for chief justice, 490, 491;

opinion of Chase, 490, 491;

offers attorney-generalship to Holt and Speed, 491;

offers cabinet appointment to Governor Morgan, 492;

appoints Hugh McCulloch Secretary of the Treasury, 492;

indorsements on Usher's resignation, 492;

his plans for the future, 492, 493;

submits to cabinet draft of joint resolution offering

the South $400,000,000, 493;

his second inauguration, 493-496;

the second inaugural, 494-496;

letter to Weed, 497;

his literary rank, 497;

last public address, 498;

despatch to Grant, March 3, 1865, 503, 504;

at City Point, 506;

telegraphs Grant, "Let the thing be pressed," 511;

visit to Richmond, 517, 518;

interviews with John A. Campbell, 519;

gives permission for meeting of Virginia legislature, 519;

regret of army for, 529;

return to Washington, 530;

last cabinet meeting, 531, 532;

14th of April, 532, 533, 536-540;

danger from assassination, 533, 534;

interest in the theater, 536;

attends Ford's Theater, 536, 537;

death of, 538-540;

his death prevents organized rejoicing at downfall of rebellion, 544;

mourning for, 544-548;

feeling of radicals at death of, 545;

funeral ceremonies of, in Washington, 545, 546;

funeral journey to Springfield, Illinois, 546, 547;

burial at Springfield, 547, 548;

his character and career, 549-555;

his place in history, 555

=Lincoln, Abraham=, grandfather of the President,

emigrates from Virginia to Kentucky, 3, 4;

killed by Indians, 4

=Lincoln, Edward Baker=, son of President Lincoln, birth of, 69;

death of, 69

=Lincoln, Isaac=, settles on Holston River, 5

=Lincoln, Josiah=, uncle of the President,

goes to fort for assistance against Indians, 4

=Lincoln, Mary=, aunt of the President, 4

=Lincoln, Mary Todd=, wife of the President, engagement to Lincoln, 63, 64;

writes "Lost Townships" letters, 66;

marriage to Lincoln, November 4, 1842, 68, 69;

children of, 69;

death of, 69;

accompanies Mr. Lincoln to Washington, 168;

drive with her husband, April 14, 1865, 532;

invites friends to attend Ford's Theater, 536;

attends theater with her husband, 538;

at Lincoln's death-bed, 539

=Lincoln, Mordecai=, uncle of the President

defends homestead against Indians, 4;

inherits his father's lands, 4

=Lincoln, Nancy=, aunt of the President, 4

=Lincoln, Nancy Hanks=, mother of the President,

marries Thomas Lincoln, June 12, 1806, 5;

teaches her husband to sign his name, 5;

birth of daughter, 5;

birth of Abraham, son of, 6;

death of, 9

=Lincoln, Robert Todd=, son of the President,

Secretary of War, minister to England, birth of, 69;

public services, 69;

accompanies Mr. Lincoln to Washington, 168;

on Grant's staff, 517;

with his father April 14, 1865, 532;

at Lincoln's death-bed, 540

=Lincoln, Samuel=, ancestor of the President, emigrates to America, 3

=Lincoln, Sarah=, sister of the President, born, 5;

goes to school, 6

=Lincoln, Sarah Bush Johnston=. See _Johnston, Sarah Bush_

=Lincoln, Thomas=, father of the President, 3;

narrowly escapes capture by Indians, 4;

learns carpenter's trade, 5;

marries Nancy Hanks, June 12, 1806, 5;

daughter of, born, 5;

removes to Rock Spring Farm, 5, 6;

Abraham, son of, born, 6;

buys farm on Knob Creek, 6;

emigrates to Indiana, 7, 8;

death of his wife, 9;

marries Sally Bush Johnston, 10;

emigrates to Illinois, 20

=Lincoln, Thomas=, son of President Lincoln, birth of, 69;

death of, 69;

accompanies Mr. Lincoln to Washington, 168

=Lincoln, William Wallace=, son of President Lincoln, birth of, 69;

death of, 69, 293;

accompanies Mr. Lincoln to Washington, 168

=Lloyd, John M.=, keeps tavern at Surrattsville, Maryland, 536

=Logan, Stephen T.=, at Springfield, Illinois, 52;

law partnership with Lincoln, 70;

defeated for Congress, 91

="Long Nine,"= a power in Illinois legislature, 61

=Longstreet, James=, Confederate lieutenant-general,

besieges Burnside at Knoxville, 391;

retreats toward Virginia, 391;

reports conversation with Ord, 503;

in final defense of Richmond, 509

=Louisiana=, State of, military governor appointed for, 419;

election for members of Congress, 422;

contest over slavery clause in new constitution, 422, 423;

election of State officers in, 425, 426;

adopts new constitution abolishing slavery, 426;

slavery in, throttled by public opinion, 473;

ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 475

=Lovejoy, Elijah P.=, murder of, 46

=Lovell, Mansfield=, Confederate major-general,

evacuates New Orleans, 285;

sends men and guns to Vicksburg, 286

=Lyon, Nathaniel=, brigadier-general United States Volunteers,

service in Missouri, 202-204;

killed at Wilson's Creek, 234, 235

=Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell=, baron, afterward earl,

British minister at Washington,

instructed to demand apology for _Trent_ affair, 246

=McClellan, George B.=, major-general, general-in-chief,

United States army, orders concerning slaves, 221;

commissioned by Governor Dennison, 224;

his previous career, 224;

quick promotion of, 224;

successes in western Virginia, 224, 225;

ordered to Washington, 229;

his ambition, 249-251;

organizes Army of the Potomac, 250, 251;

his hallucinations, 251, 252;

quarrel with General Scott, 251, 252;

expresses contempt for the President, 252;

answer to President's inquiry, 253;

illness of, 253;

instructions to Buell, 258-260;

unwilling to promote Halleck, 270;

attends council of war, 289;

explains plan of campaign to Stanton, 290;

letter to Stanton, 292;

revokes Hooker's authority to cross lower Potomac, 294;

council of his officers votes in favor of water route, 295;

at gathering of officials to discuss news of fight

between _Monitor_ and _Merrimac_, 296;

occupies abandoned rebel position, 297;

calls council of corps commanders, 298;

relieved from command of all troops save Army of the Potomac, 298;

arrives at Fortress Monroe, 299;

siege of Yorktown, 301;

his incapacity and hallucination, 302-304;

retreat to James River, 302;

letter to Stanton, 303;

protests against withdrawal of Army of the Potomac, 309;

reaches Alexandria, 311;

suggests leaving Pope to his fate, 311;

telegram to Pope's officers, 313;

in command of defenses of Washington, 313;

follows Lee into Maryland, 314;

learns Lee's plans, 315;

battle of Antietam, 315;

forces under his command, 317, 318;

removed from command, 319;

mentioned, 328, 329;

adopted by Democrats for presidential candidate, 355, 438;

nominated for President, 467;

letter of acceptance, 468;

electoral votes for, 470;

resigns from the army, 470

=McClernand, John A.=, member of Congress,

major-general United States Volunteers at Springfield, Illinois, 52

=McCulloch, Ben=, Confederate brigadier-general, defeat at Pea Ridge, 271

=McCulloch, Hugh=, Secretary of the Treasury,

enters Lincoln's cabinet, 492

=McDougall, James A.=, member of Congress,

United States senator, at Springfield, Illinois, 52

=McDowell, Irvin=, brevet major-general United States army,

fears junction of Johnston and Beauregard, 216;

advances against Beauregard, 226;

battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, 226-229;

advises movement on Manassas, 289;

ordered by Lincoln to protect Washington, 299, 305;

ordered to form junction with Shields and Frémont, 306;

in Army of Virginia, 310

=McLean, John=, justice United States Supreme Court,

vote for, in Chicago convention, 149

=McNamar, John=, engaged to Anne Rutledge, 54

=Magoffin, Beriah=, governor of Kentucky,

efforts in behalf of secession, 201

=Magruder, John B.=, brevet lieutenant-colonel United States army,

Confederate major-general, joins the Confederacy, 196;

opposes McClellan with inferior numbers, 301

=Maine=, State of, admitted as State, 1820, 19

=Mallory, S.R.=, United States senator,

Confederate Secretary of the Navy,

writes proposition of armistice dictated

by Davis and signed by Johnston, 521

=Malvern Hill=, Virginia, battle of, July 1, 1862, 302

=Marcy, R.B.=, brevet major-general United States army,

McClellan's chief of staff, 294

=Marshall, Charles=, Confederate colonel,

present at Lee's surrender, 513

=Maryland=, State of, secession feeling in, 193;

arrest and dispersion of its legislature, 199;

refuses offer of compensated abolishment, 434;

emancipation party in, 434;

abolishes slavery, 435, 436;

slavery in, throttled by public opinion, 473;

ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 474

=Mason, James M.=, United States senator,

Confederate commissioner to Europe, interview with John Brown, 134;

goes to Baltimore, 197;

capture of, 246-249

=Matthews, J.=, burns Booth's letter, 537

=Maximilian (Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph)=,

Archduke of Austria and Emperor of Mexico,

established by Napoleon III in Mexico, 451

=Maynard, Horace=, member of Congress,

minister to Turkey, telegram about East Tennessee, 259;

elected to Congress, 419

=Meade, George G.=, major-general United States army,

succeeds Hooker in command of Army of the Potomac, 372;

battle of Gettysburg, 372-374;

pursuit of Lee, 375, 377;

offers to give up command of Army of the Potomac, 394;

continued in command, 395;

reports surrender of Richmond, 510;

ordered to pursue Lee, 510;

pursuit of Lee, 511;

ordered to disregard Sherman's truce, 523

=Meigs, Montgomery C.=, brevet major-general

and quartermaster-general United States army,

at gathering of officials to discuss news of

battle between _Monitor_ and _Merrimac_, 296

=Memphis=, Tennessee, river battle at, 286

=Merrimac=, the, Confederate ironclad,

battle with _Monitor_, 278-282

=Merryman, John=, arrest of, 199

=Minnesota=, the, Union steam frigate,

in fight between _Monitor_ and _Merrimac_, 280

=Missouri=, State of, admitted as State, 1821, 19;

action concerning secession, 201-204;

provisional State government established, 418;

struggle over slavery, 430-434;

adopts ordinance of emancipation, 434;

resolution in Assembly favoring Lincoln's renomination, 444;

votes for Grant in Baltimore convention, 447;

slavery in, throttled by public opinion, 473

=Missouri Compromise=, repeal of, 94, 95

=Mobile Bay=, Alabama, battle of, August 5, 1864, 468, 525

=Monitor=, the, Union ironclad, battle with _Merrimac_, 279-282

=Montgomery=, Alabama, capital of Confederacy removed from,

to Richmond, 207

=Moore, Thomas O.=, governor of Louisiana,

arms free colored men, 348, 349

=Morgan, Edwin D.=, governor of New York,

United States senator, opens Republican national convention, 1864, 446;

declines cabinet appointment, 492

=Morris, Achilles=, elected to Illinois legislature in 1832, 34

=Morrison, James L.D.=, desires commissionership

of General Land Office, 92

=Mudd, Samuel=, assists Booth and Herold, 542;

imprisoned, 544

=Mulligan, James A.=, brevet brigadier-general

United States Volunteers, captured by Price, 241

=Murfreesboro=, Tennessee, battle of,

December 31, 1862, to January 3, 1863, 380

=Napoleon III=, colonial ambitions of, 211;

establishes Maximilian in Mexico, 451

=Nashville=, Tennessee, battle of, December 15, 16, 1864, 410

=Neale, T.M.=, commands troops in Black Hawk War, 31, 32;

defeated for Illinois legislature, 1832, 34

=Negro soldiers=, experiments with, early in the war, 348;

governor of Louisiana arms free blacks, 348, 349;

reference to, in emancipation proclamation, 349, 350;

Lincoln's interest in, 350;

attitude of Confederates toward, 350, 351;

massacre of, at Fort Pillow, 351;

President's conversation with Frederick Douglass

about retaliation, 352;

Stanton's order regulating raising of, 435;

Republican national platform claims protection of laws of war for, 446;

take part in second inauguration of Lincoln, 493, 494;

Jefferson Davis's recommendation concerning slaves in rebel army, 501;

assist in restoring order in Richmond, 517;

in Lincoln's funeral procession, 546.

See _Slavery_ and _Emancipation_

=Nelson, William=, lieutenant-commander United States navy,

major-general United States Volunteers, occupies Nashville, 270

=New Orleans=, Louisiana, capture of, 283-285;

Confederate negro regiment in, 348, 349;

Union sentiment in, 420

=New Salem=, Illinois, town of, 22-26

=New York City=, draft riots in, 356, 357;

funeral honors to Lincoln in, 546, 547

=Nicolay, John G.=, Lincoln's private secretary, 158;

accompanies Mr. Lincoln to Washington, 168;

in attendance at Baltimore convention, 448, 449;

letter to Hay, 448

=North Carolina=, State of, joins Confederacy, 200, 204;

military governor appointed for, 419

=Offutt, Denton=, engages Lincoln to take flatboat to New Orleans, 21;

disappears from New Salem, 35

=O'Laughlin, Michael=, in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 534;

imprisoned, 544

=Ord, Edward O.C.=, brevet major-general United States army,

conversation with Longstreet, 503

=Owens, Mary S.=, Lincoln's attentions to, correspondence with

and proposal of marriage to, 55-60

=Palfrey, F.W.=, Confederate brigadier-general,

statement about strength of Army of the Potomac, 315

=Parke, John G.=, brevet major-general United States army,

in recapture of Fort Stedman, 505, 506;

in assault at Petersburg 509

=Patterson, Robert=, major-general Pennsylvania militia,

turns troops toward Harper's Ferry, 209;

part in campaign against Manassas, 216;

orders concerning slaves, 220, 221;

failure at Harper's Ferry, 228

=Paulding, Hiram=, rear-admiral United States navy,

burns Norfolk navy-yard, 278

=Pea Ridge=, Arkansas, battle of, 271

=Pemberton, John C.=, Confederate lieutenant-general,

surrenders Vicksburg, 383

=Pendleton, George H.=, member of Congress minister to Prussia,

nominated for Vice-President, 467

=Pendleton, William N.=, Confederate brigadier-general,

advises Lee to surrender 512

=Perryville=, Kentucky, battle of, October 8, 1862, 379

=Peter, Z.=, defeated for Illinois legislature, 1832, 34

=Petersburg=, Virginia, operations against, 400-402, 507-510;

evacuation of, April 2, 1865, 510

=Phelps, John S.=, member of Congress, appointed military

governor of Arkansas, 420

=Phelps, J.W.=, brigadier-general United States Volunteers,

mentioned in letter of Lincoln, 334;

declared an outlaw by Confederate War Department, 350

=Philippi=, West Virginia, battle of, June 3, 1861, 214, 225

=Phillips, Wendell=, letter to Cleveland convention, 442

=Pickens, Francis W.=, member of Congress, minister to Russia,

governor of South Carolina, fires on _Star of the West_, 178

=Pickett, George E.=, Confederate major-general, in battle of Five

Forks, 507, 508

=Pierce, Franklin=, fourteenth President of the United States,

recognizes bogus laws in Kansas, 113;

appoints governors for Kansas, 113, 114

=Pillow, Gideon J.=, Confederate major-general,

stationed at Columbus, 254;

escapes from Fort Donelson, 268

=Pinkerton, Allen=, detective work of, 173

=Pittsburg Landing=, Tennessee, battle of,

April 6, 7, 1862, 272-274

=Polk, James K.=, eleventh President of the United States,

sends treaty of peace with Mexico to Senate, 79

=Pomeroy, Samuel C.=, United States senator, secret circular of, 440

=Pope, John=, brevet major-general United States army,

sent to New Madrid, 270;

capture of Island No. 10, 274;

proceeds to Fort Pillow, 274;

joins Halleck, 274;

assigned to command Army of Virginia, 306;

assumes command of Army of Virginia 310;

second battle of Bull Run, 310, 311;

despatch announcing his defeat, 312;

relieved from command of Army of the Potomac, 314

=Porter, David D.=, admiral United States navy,

commands mortar flotilla in expedition with Farragut, 282-287;

in second expedition to Vicksburg, 287;

in operations about Vicksburg, 382, 383;

visits Richmond with Lincoln, 517, 518

=Porterfield, G.A.=, Confederate colonel, routed at Philippi, 225

=Port Hudson=, Louisiana, siege and surrender of, 383, 384

=Port Royal=, South Carolina, expedition against, 245, 246

=Powell, Lewis=, _alias_ Lewis Payne, in conspiracy

to assassinate Lincoln, 534;

assigned to murder Seward, 535;

attack upon Seward, 540, 541;

escape and capture of, 541, 542;

execution of, 544

=Price, Sterling=, Confederate major-general retreat

to Springfield, Missouri, 234;

captures Mulligan, 241;

retreats toward Arkansas, 269;

defeat at Pea Ridge, 271

=Pritchard, Benjamin D.=, brevet brigadier-general

United States Volunteers, captures Jefferson Davis, 526

=Quinton, R.=, defeated for Illinois legislature 1832, 34

=Rathbone, Henry R.=, brevet colonel United States army,

attends Ford's Theater with Mrs. Lincoln and Miss Harris, 536;

wounded by Booth, 538, 539

=Raymond, Henry J.=, member of Congress letter to Lincoln, 462, 463;

visits Washington, 463

=Reconstruction=, in West Virginia and Missouri, 418, 419;

Lincoln's theory of, 419;

in Louisiana, 420-426;

in Arkansas, 426, 427;

in Tennessee, 428, 429;

opposition in Congress to Lincoln's action concerning, 454;

Henry Winter Davis's bill prescribing method of, 454;

Lincoln's proclamation of, July 8, 1864, 456;

Wade-Davis manifesto, 456, 457

=Republican Party=, formation of, 102, 103;

nominates Frémont and Dayton, 1856, 103, 104;

national convention of, 1860, 144-151;

candidates in 1860, 152;

campaign of, 1860, 153-160;

Frémont faction denounces Lincoln's attitude on slavery, 438;

the Chase faction, 439-441;

national convention of, 1864, 446-449;

gloomy prospects of, 462-466: success in elections of, 1864, 469, 470

=Retaliation,= rebel threats of, 350, 351;

cabinet action on Fort Pillow massacre, 352;

conversation between Lincoln and Frederick Douglass about, 352

=Reynolds,= John, governor of Illinois, issues call

for volunteers for Black Hawk War, 31, 32

=Richmond,= Virginia, becomes capital of Confederate States, 207;

panic in, at rumors of evacuation, 481;

high prices in, 481;

excitement created by Blair's visits, 481, 482;

alarm at Grant's advance, 500;

surrender of, April 3, 1865, 510;

burning of, 515, 516

=Rich Mountain,= Virginia, battle of, July 11, 1861, 225

=Riney, Zachariah,= teacher of President Lincoln, 6

=Roanoke,= the, Union steam frigate, in fight

between _Monitor_ and _Merrimac_, 280

=Robinson, E.,= defeated for Illinois legislature, 1832, 34

=Rodgers, John,= rear-admiral United States navy,

takes part in Port Royal expedition, 245, 246

=Romine, Gideon,= merchant at Gentryville, 9

=Rosecrans, William S.,= brevet major-general United States army,

success at Rich Mountain, 225;

succeeds Buell in Kentucky, 380;

battle of Murfreesboro, 380;

Iuka and Corinth, 380;

drives Bragg to Chattanooga, 385;

Chattanooga and Chickamauga, 386-388;

relieved from command, 388, 389;

dilatory movements delay reconstruction in Tennessee, 428

=Russell, Lord John,= British minister for foreign affairs,

interview with Charles Francis Adams, 211

=Rutledge, Anne,= engagement to Lincoln, 54;

death of, 54

=Savannah,= Georgia, occupied by Sherman, December 21, 1864, 412

=Schofield, J.M.,= brevet major-general, general-in-chief,

United States army, ordered to join Sherman, 414;

joins Sherman 417

=Schurz, Carl,= major-general United States Volunteers,

United States senator,

Secretary of the Interior, asks permission to take part

in presidential campaign, 444

=Scott Dred,= case of, 108, 109

=Scott, Robert E.,= tendered cabinet appointment 164

=Scott, Winfield,= lieutenant-general United States army,

warning to Lincoln about plot in Baltimore, 172;

charged with safety of Washington, 172;

attempt to reinforce Anderson, 178;

advises evacuation of Sumter, 183;

orders Washington prepared for a siege, 194;

report to President Lincoln, 194, 195;

offers Lee command of seventy-five regiments, 196;

orders Lyon to St. Louis, 202;

loyalty of, 208;

occupies Cairo, Illinois, 210;

military problem before, 210;

plan of campaign 215, 216, 231, 232;

refuses to credit news of defeat at Bull Run, 228, 229;

welcomes McClellan to Washington, 250;

quarrel with McClellan, 251, 252;

retirement of, 251-253;

rank as lieutenant-general, 393;

attends Lincoln's funeral in New York, 547

=Seaton, William W.,= mayor of Washington approves

Lincoln's bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia, 87

=Secession,= South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi Alabama,

Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas join the movement, 175, 176;

action of central cabal, 177;

sentiment in Maryland, 193, 194;

Virginia passes ordinance of, 194;

Tennessee, North Carolina, and Arkansas join the movement, 200;

sentiment in Delaware, 201;

in Kentucky, 201;

in Missouri, 201-204;

numerical strength of, 204. See _Confederate States of America_

=Seddon, James A.,= member of Congress, Confederate

Secretary of War, resignation of, 501

=Sedgwick, John,= major-general United States Volunteers,

crosses Rappahannock and takes Fredericksburg, 368, 369

=Seven Days' Battles,= 302, 306, 307

=Seward, Augustus H.,= brevet colonel United States army,

stabbed by Powell, _alias_ Payne, 541

=Seward, Frederick W.,= Assistant Secretary of State,

visits Lincoln in Philadelphia, 172;

wounded by Powell, _alias_, Payne, 540, 541

=Seward, William H.,= United States senator, Secretary of State,

desires reëlection of Douglas to United States Senate, 125;

candidate for presidential nomination, 1860, 144;

votes for, in Chicago convention, 149-151;

accepts cabinet appointment, 163;

transmits offers of cabinet appointments, 164;

suggestions to Lincoln about journey to Washington, 168;

warning to Lincoln about plot in Baltimore, 172, 173;

meets Lincoln at railway station in Washington, 174;

appointed Secretary of State, 182;

reply to Confederate commissioners, 183;

reply to Judge Campbell, 183;

memorandum of April 1, 1861, 184-187;

opinion of Lincoln, 187;

despatch of May 21, 211;

friendship for Lord Lyons, 247;

despatch in _Trent_ affair, 249;

at gathering of officials to discuss news of _Monitor_

and _Merrimac_, 296;

goes to New York with President's letter, 307;

Lincoln tells him of coming emancipation proclamation, 332;

suggests postponement of emancipation proclamation, 332;

attitude toward the French in Mexico, 451, 452;

agrees with President against making proffers of peace to Davis, 463;

proclaims ratification of Thirteenth Amendment, 475;

goes to Hampton Roads, 483;

relations with Montgomery Blair, 488;

plot to murder, 535;

attacked by Powell, _alias_ Payne, 540, 541

=Seymour, Horatio=, governor of New York, opposition to the draft, 355-357;

correspondence with Lincoln, 356;

notifies McClellan of his nomination, 468

=Shepley, G.F.=, brigadier-general United States Volunteers,

military governor of Louisiana, orders election

for members of Congress, 422;

orders registration of loyal voters, 422, 423

=Sheridan, Philip H.=, lieutenant-general, general-in-chief,

United States army, operations in Shenandoah valley, 403, 404;

succeeds McClellan, 470;

in Shenandoah valley, 502;

reaches City Point, 506;

advance to Five Forks, 507;

reports situation to Grant, 507;

battle of Five Forks, 508;

ordered to get on Lee's line of retreat, 509, 510;

despatch to Grant, 511;

captures Appomattox Station, 512;

despatch to Grant, 512

=Sherman, John=, member of Congress, Secretary of the Treasury,

United States senator,

candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives, 141

=Sherman, William Tecumseh=, lieutenant-general,

general-in-chief United States army, sent to Nashville, 254;

succeeds Anderson, 254;

interview with Cameron, 255;

asks to be relieved, 255;

in operations about Vicksburg, 381, 382;

reaches Chattanooga, 389;

in battle of Chattanooga, 390, 391;

conference with Grant, 395;

master in the West, 395;

Meridian campaign, 405, 406;

concentrates troops at Chattanooga, 406;

march on Atlanta, 408, 468;

truce with Hood, 408;

divides his army, 409;

march to the sea, 410-412;

telegram to President Lincoln, 412;

proposes to march through the Carolinas, 414;

from Savannah to Goldsboro, 414-417;

visit to Grant, 417;

march northward, 502;

visit to Lincoln and Grant, 506;

admiration for Grant and respect for Lee, 520;

enters Raleigh, 521;

receives communication from Johnston, 521;

meetings with Johnston, 521, 522;

agreement between them, 522;

agreement disapproved at Washington, 523;

report to Grant, 523, 524;

receives Johnston's surrender, 524;

effect of his march through the South, 524;

sent against E. Kirby Smith, 526;

soldiers of, in grand review, 528

=Shields, James=, United States senator, brigadier-general

United States Volunteers, at Springfield, Illinois, 52;

auditor of Illinois, 65;

challenges Lincoln to a duel, 66-68;

ordered to form junction with McDowell and Frémont, 306

=Short, James=, buys Lincoln's surveying instruments

and restores them to him, 36

=Simpson, M.=, Bishop of the Methodist Church,

oration at Lincoln's funeral, 548

=Slavery=, agitation in Illinois, 45, 46;

Lincoln-Stone protest, 47;

Lincoln's bill to abolish, in District of Columbia, 85-87;

repeal of Missouri Compromise, 94, 95;

Peoria debate of Lincoln and Douglas, 96-98;

Lincoln's Chicago banquet speech, 106, 107;

Dred Scott case, 108-112;

pro-slavery reaction, 113;

slavery agitation in Kansas, 113-117;

Lincoln's "House divided against itself" speech, 119, 120, 127, 128;

Lincoln-Douglas joint debate, 121-125;

John Brown raid, 134, 135;

Lincoln's speeches in Kansas and the East, 136-140;

pro-slavery demands of Democratic leaders, 141, 142;

attitude of political parties upon, in 1860, 152, 153;

"corner-stone" theory of the Confederate States, 179;

dream of the conspirators, 197, 204;

dread of slave insurrections in the South, 220, 221;

action of Union commanders about, 220-223;

Frémont's proclamation, 236-238;

Lincoln to Browning about Frémont's proclamation, 238-240;

President's interview with border State delegations, 257, 258, 324, 325;

references to, in Cameron's report, 320;

in Lincoln's message of December 3, 1861, 321, 322;

Delaware offered compensated abolishment, 322, 323;

Lincoln's special message to Congress, March 6, 1862, 323, 324;

President's letter to McDougall, 324;

Congress passes bill for compensated emancipation

in District of Columbia, 325, 326;

bill in Congress to aid emancipation in Delaware, Maryland,

Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, 326;

Lincoln revokes Hunter's order, 327, 328;

measures relating to, in Congress, 1862, 329;

President's second interview with border State delegations, 329-331;

Lincoln reads first draft of emancipation proclamation to

cabinet, 331, 332;

President's interview with Chicago clergymen, 337-339;

President issues preliminary emancipation proclamation, 339-341;

annual message of December 1, 1862, on, 341, 342;

President issues final emancipation proclamation, 342-346;

President's views on, 346, 347;

arming of negro soldiers, 348-350;

instructions from War Department about slaves, 349;

contest over slavery clause in new Louisiana constitution, 423;

slavery abolished in Louisiana, 426;

abolished in Arkansas, 427;

abolished in Tennessee, 429;

abolished in Missouri, 434;

abolished in Maryland, 435, 436;

attitude of Democratic party on, 437, 438;

Republican national platform favors constitutional

amendment abolishing, 446;

fugitive-slave law repealed, 457;

constitutional amendment prohibiting, in United States, 471-476;

public opinion on, in certain States, 473;

two constitutional amendments offered during Lincoln's term, 475, 476;

Lincoln's draft of joint resolution offering South $400,000,000, 493;

decline in value of slave property in the South, 501;

effect on Lincoln's character, 551.

See _Emancipation_ and _Negro soldiers_

=Slidell, John=, minister to Mexico, United States senator,

Confederate commissioner to Europe, capture of, 246-249;

last instructions from Confederate Secretary of State to, 501, 502

=Smith, Caleb B.=, member of Congress, Secretary of the Interior,

judge United States District Court,

appointed Secretary of the Interior, 182;

signs cabinet protest, 311, 312

=Smith, E. Kirby=, Confederate general,

commands forces west of the Mississippi, 525;

surrender of, 526, 527

=Smith, Melancton=, rear-admiral United States navy,

at gathering of officials to discuss fight between _Monitor_

and _Merrimac_, 296

=Smith, William F.=, brevet major-general United States army,

service at Chattanooga 389

=Spain=, joint expedition to Mexico, 451

=Spangler, Edward=, imprisoned for complicity in Booth's plot, 544

=Speed, James=, Attorney-General, appointed Attorney-General, 491

=Speed, Joshua F.=, intimacy with Lincoln, 53;

Lincoln's letters to, 64, 65, 68;

marriage, 65

=Spottsylvania=, Virginia, battle of, May 8-19, 1864, 398, 399

=Springfield=, Illinois, its ambition, 26;

first newspaper, 26;

becomes capital of Illinois, 45, 52;

in 1837-39, 53;

revival of business in, 61;

society in, 62;

Lincoln's speech of farewell at, 169;

funeral honors to Lincoln in, 547, 548

=Stanley, Edward=, member of Congress, appointed military

governor of North Carolina, 420

=Stanton, Edwin M.=, Attorney-General, Secretary of War,

succeeds Cameron as Secretary of War, 289;

his efficiency, 289, 290;

interview with the President, 293, 294;

at gathering of officials to discuss news of _Monitor_

and _Merrimac_, 296;

conveys President's reply to McClellan's plan of campaign, 298;

indignation at McClellan, 311;

draws up and signs memorandum of protest against continuing

McClellan in command, 311;

instruction about slaves, 349;

faith in Hooker, 370;

anxiety for Lincoln during Early's raid, 403;

order regulating raising of colored troops, 435;

orders suppression of two New York newspapers and arrest

of their editors, 453, 454;

agrees with President against making proffers of peace to Davis, 463;

sends Halleck's letter to President, 488;

shows Lincoln Grant's despatch transmitting Lee's overtures, 503;

disapproves Sherman's agreement with Johnston, 523;

at Lincoln's death-bed, 540

=Star of the West=, merchant vessel, unsuccessful attempt

to reinforce Fort Sumter, 178

=Steele, Frederick=, brevet major-general United States army,

marches from Helena to Little Rock, Arkansas, 427;

assists reconstruction in Arkansas, 427

=Stephens, Alexander H.=; member of Congress,

Confederate Vice-President, correspondence with Lincoln, 165, 166;

elected Vice-President Confederate States of America, 179;

"corner-stone" theory, 179;

signs military league, 197;

appointed peace commissioner, 482;

at Hampton Roads conference, 482-485

=Stevens, Thaddeus=, member of Congress, criticism of joint

resolution offering compensated emancipation, 325

=St. Lawrence=, the, in fight between _Monitor_

and _Merrimac_, 280

=Stone, Charles P.=, brigadier-general United States Volunteers,

report about danger to Lincoln in Baltimore, 172, 173

=Stone, Dan=, member of Illinois legislature,

protest with Lincoln against resolutions on slavery, 47

=Stone, Dr. Robert K.=, at Lincoln's death-bed, 539, 540

=Stringham, Silas H.=, rear-admiral United States navy,

commands Hatteras expedition, 245

=Stuart, John T.=, major Illinois Volunteers, member of Congress,

reënlists as private in Black Hawk War, 33;

elected to Illinois legislature in 1832, 34;

reëlected in 1834, 43;

encourages Lincoln to study law, 44;

at Springfield, Illinois, 52;

elected to Congress, 69, 70

=Surratt, John H.=, in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 534;

deposits arms in tavern at Surrattsville, 536;

escape to Canada, subsequent capture and trial, 544

=Surratt, Mrs. Mary E.=, in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 534;

visits tavern at Surrattsville, 536;

fate of, 541, 542, 544

=Swaney=, teacher of President Lincoln, 12

=Swett, Leonard=, favors Holt for Vice-President, 448

=Taney, Roger B.=, chief justice of the Supreme Court

of the United States, opinion in Dred Scott case, 109;

action in Merryman case, 199, 200;

death of, 490

=Taylor, E.D.=, elected to Illinois legislature in 1832, 34

=Taylor, Richard=, Confederate lieutenant-general,

surrenders to Canby, 525, 527

=Taylor, Zachary=, twelfth President of the United States,

nominated for President, 80, 81;

elected President, 87

=Tennessee=, the, Confederate ram, in battle of Mobile Bay, 525

=Tennessee=, State of, joins Confederacy, 200, 204;

military governor appointed for, 419;

secession usurpation in, 420;

delay of reconstruction in, 428;

organization of State government and abolishment of slavery, 429;

public opinion in, regarding slavery, 473;

ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 475

=Terry, Alfred H.=, brevet major-general United States army,

communicates with Sherman, 416

=Texas=, State of, ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 475

=Thatcher, Henry K.=, rear-admiral United States navy,

receives surrender of Farrand, 525

=Thirteenth Amendment=, joint resolution proposing, 471-475;

ratification of, 475

=Thomas, George H.=, major-general United States army,

ordered to oppose Zollicoffer, 254;

victory over Zollicoffer, 265;

at battle of Chickamauga, 387;

succeeds Rosecrans at Chattanooga, 389;

in battle of Chattanooga, 390, 391;

sent by Sherman to defend Tennessee, 409;

Franklin and Nashville, 410;

threatens Confederate communications from Tennessee, 502

=Thompson, Jacob=, member of Congress, Secretary of the Interior,

agent of Confederate government in Canada, 361;

his visionary plans, 361, 362;

account at Montreal Bank, 544

=Thompson, Samuel=, colonel Illinois Volunteers,

commands regiment in Black Hawk War, 32

=Tod, David=, minister to Brazil, governor of Ohio,

declines nomination for Secretary of the Treasury, 457

=Todd, Mary=, see _Lincoln, Mary Todd_

=Totten, Joseph G.=, brevet major-general United States army,

at gathering of officials to discuss news of fight of _Monitor_

and _Merrimac_, 296

=Treat, Samuel H.=, United States district judge,

at Springfield, Illinois, 52

=Trent Brothers=, buy store of Lincoln and Berry, 36

=Trent=, the, British mail-steamer, overhauled

by the _San Jacinto_, 246

=Trumbull, Lyman=, member of Congress, United States senator,

at Springfield, Illinois, 52;

elected to United States Senate, 1855, 100

=Turnham, David=, lends Lincoln "Revised Statutes of Indiana," 14

=Usher, John P.=, Secretary of the Treasury, resigns from cabinet, 492

=Vallandigham, Clement L.=, member of Congress,

interview with John Brown, 134;

arrest and banishment of, 358;

head of Knights of Golden Circle, etc., 360, 361;

at Democratic national convention, 467, 468

=Van Bergen=, sues Lincoln for debt, 36, 41

=Vandalia=, Illinois, removal of State capital from,

to Springfield, 45, 52

=Van Dorn, Earl=, Confederate major-general, defeat at Pea Ridge, 271

=Varuna=, the, sunk in expedition against New Orleans, 285

=Vicksburg=, Mississippi, fortifications of, 287;

surrender of, July 4, 1863, 376, 383;

situation of 381;

operations against, 381-383

=Victoria=, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,

proclamation of neutrality, 211;

kindly feelings toward United States, 247

=Vienna Station=, ambush at, 214

=Virginia=, State of, passes ordinance of secession, 194;

in the Confederacy, 204;

ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 475

=Wade, Benjamin F.=, United States senator,

signs Wade-Davis manifesto, 456

=Walker, Leroy Pope=, Confederate Secretary of War

and brigadier-general, speech at Montgomery, 197

=Walker, Robert J.=, United States senator Secretary

of the Treasury, appointed governor of Kansas, 114;

letter to Buchanan 114, 115;

resigns, 117

=Warren, Gouverneur K.=, brevet major-general United

States army, attacked by Lee, 507

=Washburne, Elihu B.=, member of Congress,

minister to France, meets Lincoln at railway station in Washington, 174

=Washington City=, cutoff from the North, 194-197;

communication restored, 197;

fortifications of, 208, 209;

threatened by Early, 403;

grand review of Union army in, 527-529

=Washington, George=, first President of the United States,

rank of lieutenant-general, 393;

size of his armies compared with Lee's, 524;

his place in United States history, 555

=Weitzel, Godfrey=, brevet major-general United States army,

receives surrender of Richmond, 510;

sets about work of relief, 516

=Welles, Gideon=, Secretary of the Navy,

appointed Secretary of the Navy, 182;

approves course of Captain Wilkes, 246;

at gathering of officials to discuss news of fight

between _Monitor_ and _Merrimac_, 296;

refuses to sign cabinet protest, 311, 312;

Lincoln tells him of coming emancipation proclamation, 332

=West Virginia=, State of, formation of, 200, 201;

true to the Union, 204;

effect on, of McClellan's campaign, 225;

admission to the Union, 418;

slavery in throttled by public opinion, 473

=Whig Party=, first national convention of, 28;

nominates Henry Clay, 28;

convention of 1860, 143, 144

=White, Albert S.=, member of Congress, United States senator,

judge of District Court of Indiana,

reports bill to aid emancipation in Delaware,

Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, 326

=Whitesides, Samuel=, general Illinois Volunteers,

reënlists as private in Black Hawk War, 33

=Wide Awakes=, origin and campaign work of, 155, 156

=Wilderness=, Virginia, battle of, May 5, 6, 1864, 398

=Wilkes, Charles=, rear-admiral United States navy,

capture of the _Trent_, 246-249

=Wilmington=, North Carolina, occupation of, February 22, 1865, 525

=Wilson, James H.=, brevet major-general United States army,

cavalry raid, and defeat of Forrest, 524, 525

=Wilson's Creek=, Missouri, battle of, August 10, 1861, 235

=Wise, Henry A.=, minister to Brazil;

governor of Virginia, Confederate brigadier-general desires

Douglas's reëlection to United States Senate, 126;

interview with John Brown, 134

=Worden, John L.=, rear-admiral United States navy,

commands the _Monitor_, 282

=Wright, Horatio G.=, brevet major-general United States army,

sent to Washington 403;

in recapture of Fort Stedman, 505, 506;

in assault at Petersburg, 508, 509

=Yates, Richard=, member of Congress, governor of Illinois,

United States senator Lincoln advocates his reëlection, 96;

commissions Grant, 265;

appoints J.F. Jaquess colonel of volunteer regiment, 461

=Yorktown=, Virginia, siege of, April 5 to May 3, 1862, 301

=Zollicoffer, Felix K.=, member of Congress,

Confederate brigadier-general, in eastern Kentucky, 254;

defeated by Thomas, 265

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