Meredith, George, on closing of Civil
War, 438.
Merrimac, reconstruction as iron-clad,
111; Hampton Roads, Monitor fight,
112-117; effect on McClellan, still
feared, 116; further career, 117.
Metals, scarcity in South, 369. See also
Iron.

Mexico, French in, 270.

Mill, J. S., on slavery, 261; and Emanci-
pation Proclamation, 272.
Mill Spring, battle, 98 n.

Milledgeville, Ga., Sherman's occupa-
tion, 403-405.

Minnesota, and Merrimac, 112.

Missionary Ridge, battle, 298, 299.
Mississippi, secession, 5. See also Vicks-
burg.

Mississippi River, importance, 118, 247-
249; reopened, 258.

Missouri, and secession, 25; Frémont's
command, 50-56. See also Border
States.

Missouri Compromise, attempt to re-
new and extend, 3.

Mobile, Ala., closed to blockade-runners,
336.

449

272; and Mexico, 270; and construc-
tion of Confederate vessels, 285; and
Slidell, 286.

Nashville, Tenn., and Fort Donelson,
87, 91; evacuated, 92. See also
Nashville campaign.

Nashville, Fort Sumter expedition, 12 n.
Nashville campaign, adequacy of

Thomas's force, 398-400; Hood in-
vades Tennessee, Schofield's retreat,
Franklin, 398, 409; Thomas's delay,
Grant's attitude, 410, 411; battle of
Nashville, ruin of Hood's army, 411.
Nassau, Bahamas, and blockade-running,
379.

National banks, authorized, 204.
Navy, Confederate, Merrimac, 111–117;
British-built cruisers, 262-268, 279;
Laird rams, 279-284; Napoleon and
construction, 285.

Navy, Federal, Western river operations,
86, 87, 124; at outbreak, 110; and
armor-plating, 111; construction of
Monitor, 111, 117; Hampton Roads,
Merrimac-Monitor fight, 112-116;
New Orleans campaign, 118-124;
Mobile Bay, 336. See also Blockade.

Moltke, Graf von, on preparedness, 33.
Mommsen, Theodor, on Cæsar, 438.
Money. See Paper money; Specie
payments.

Monitor, construction, 111; Merrimac
fight, 114-116; founders, 117 n.;
repulsed at Drewry's Bluff, 127 n.
Montgomery, Ala., convention, 5.
Morgan, Fort, surrender, 336.
Morse, J. T., on unpreparedness, 30;
on "contrabands," 49.
Morton, O. P., on unpreparedness, 30;
and Confederate invasion of Kentucky,
176; as war governor, 178, 361; and
Buell, 179; and Democratic legis-
lators, 201.

Motley, J. L., on recognition of Con-
federate belligerency, 64; on Grant,
303.

Moultrie, Fort, abandoned, 7.
Mud march, Burnside's, 186.
Munitions of war, supply in South, 377.
Murfreesborough, battle, 199, 200.

recommendation, 84; and Lincoln,
324; Confederate enlistment, 417.
Nelson, William, Shiloh, 103, 105, 106.
Netherlands, neutrality proclamation,
64 n.

Neutrality, British and other proclama-
tions, 64; character of British, 260.
New Hope Church, battle, 317.
New Mexico, and slavery, 4.
New Orleans, La., importance, 118;
Federal plan against, 118, 119;
bombardment of forts, 119; passage
of forts, 120-123; surrender, 123;
effect, 123, 124; effect abroad, 124.
New York City, Union League Club,
205; draft riots, 287-291.

New York Herald, attack on British
attitude, 69.

New York Seventh Regiment, arrival
in Washington, 23.

New York Tribune, on hard times, 342.
See also Greeley, Horace.
Nicolay, J. G., on regret at civil war,
29; on Cameron; 84; on political
conditions (1864), 334, 335.

Napoleon III, neutrality proclamation,

64 n.; and joint intervention, 69,
124, 271; offer of mediation, 201,

30; second uprising, 48; despondency
(1862), and Lincoln's leadership, 155;
consternation over Lee's invasion.
(1862), 167; and Fredericksburg,

Prices, in South, 386, 414.
Privateering, authorized by Confederacy,
and piracy, 20.

Prussia, neutrality proclamation, 64 n.
Pryor, R. A., and secession of Virginia,
24.

Public debt. See Bonds; Paper money.
Punch, on British sentiment (1861), 65.
Putnam, Sarah A., on scarcity of paper,
369.

Railroads, control of Federal, 148; and
food scarcity in South, 369; deteriora-
tion and inadequacy of Southern, 370-
374, 414; destroyed by Sherman, 405.
Rawlins, J. A., as Grant's mentor, 255-
257, 325.

Raymond, H. J., in political campaign
(1864), 334.

Read, T. B., "Sheridan's Ride," 339.
Reagan, J. H., as Postmaster-General,
395.

Religion, in North, 329; in South, 391.
Republican party, and compromise, 4.
See also Congress, Elections.
Repudiation, Confederate, 385.
Reynolds, J. F., Gaines's Mill, 137;
and removal of McClellan, 181; and
succession to McClellan, 183; and
succession to Burnside, 209; Chan-
cellorsville, 219; and succession to
Hooker, 224, 233; Gettysburg, killed,
233.

Rhodes, D. P., acknowledgment to, v.
Richmond, Va., Confederate capital, 25;

martial law (1862), 95; hospitals,
389. See also Peninsular; Petersburg
and Richmond.

Richmond Enquirer, on Davis, 127.
Richmond Examiner, on scarcity of
paper, 368.

Rifles, Federal failure to use breech-
loading, 355; Southern, 377.
Roanoke Island, capture, 110.
Ropes, J. C., on Bull Run, 45; on Fort
Donelson,

91; on succession to

McClellan, 183.
Rosecrans, W. S., displaces Buell, 179;
Stone's River, 199, 200; inaction,
292; manœuvres Bragg out of Ten-
nessee, 293; Chickamauga, 293-295;
at Chattanooga, 295. 296; relieved,
296.

Russell, Earl, on recognition of Con-

federate belligerency, 65; and Trent
affair, 74; and Alabama, 263, 266;
and intervention, 268-271; and Glad-
stone's indiscreet speech, 270; stops

451

the Alexandra, 279; and Laird rams,
279-284; and Mason, 285, 286.
Russell, Lord John. See Russell, Earl.
Russell, W. H., on unanimity of South,
belief in Southern success, 28; on
Federal army, 36; on British attitude,
67; on Trent affair, 81.

Russia, Northern sympathy, 285.

St. Philip, Fort, bombardment, 118, 120;
passage, 120-122; surrender, 123.
Salt, scarcity at South, 367.
Sanitary fairs, 357.

Saturday Review, attitude, 67; apology
for slavery, 276.

Savage's Station, battle, 143.
Savannah, capture, Sherman's message,
403, 409.

Scarcity, at South, 366-370.
Schofield, J. M., commands army of the
Ohio, 314; sent to Thomas, 399;
retreat, Franklin, 409, 412; and
succession to Thomas, 410; joins
Sherman in North Carolina, 427.
Schurz, Carl, on Lincoln's influence,
155; on election of 1862, 176; on
conditions after Fredericksburg, 187;
on army under Hooker, 210, 211; on
Howard, 213; at Chancellorsville,
216; on Meade at Gettysburg, 234.
Scott, T. A., as Assistant Secretary of
War, 84 n.; on public apathy, 329.
Scott, Winfield, and Fort Sumter, 10;
and isolation of Washington, 21; on
effect of blockade, 32; and Bull Run,
37, 42; and habeas corpus, 48;
retires, 61.

to

Secession, attitude of Charleston, 1; of
South Carolina, 2; of other Cotton
States, 5; of Border States, 20, 24-
26; regret for the Union, 29. See also
Border States; Compromise.
Seddon, J. A., on barter, 385.
Sedgwick, John, and succession
Burnside, 209; Chancellorsville cam-
paign, 211.
Seven Days. See Peninsular campaign.
Seven Pines, battle, 131, 132.
Seward, W. H., and compromise, 4;
Fort Sumter negotiations, proposed
foreign policy, 8; and relief of Sumter,
10; and Sumter expedition, 13; and
Bull Run, 43, 44; McClellan's dis-
courtesy, 63; and recognition of
Confederate belligerency, 64; and
Trent affair, 72, 78-82; and Mackay,
72 n.; and appointment of Stanton,
86; and Merrimac, 113; and Emanci-

ginia, 25; on railroad difficulties,
373; Hampton Roads Conference,
417-419.

Stevens, Hazard, on terrain of Wilder-
ness, 306 n.

Stevens, Thaddeus, and legal tenders,
146; and compensated emancipation,
153; and administration, 204.
Stone, Henry, on Shiloh, 106.
Stone's River, battle, 199; value, 200.
Story, Joseph, on habeas corpus, 48.
Stowe, H. B., on bereavements, 342;
on business revival, 347.

Sumner, Charles, on Frémont's emanci-
pation order, 52; on British attitude,
67; and Trent affair, 71, 81; and
legal tenders, 146; and emancipation,
153, 156; on new call for troops (1862),
156; and Cabinet crisis, 189, 190;
dejected, 201, 346; on Copperhead
danger, 201; on army and finances
(1863), 206.

Sumner, E. V., Fair Oaks, 132; Gaines's
Mill, 138; Fredericksburg, 184.
Sumter, Fort, Federal occupation, 7;
and Border-State problem, 7, 10;
Seward's negotiations, 8; question of
relief, 9-11; evacuation demanded,
bombardment and surrender, relief
expedition, 12-16; bombardment un-
necessary, 15; results, 16; uprising
of North, 17.

Taney, R. B., on habeas corpus, 48.
Tariff, as cause of Civil War, 46; war-
time increases, 47, 149, 300; and
British sentiment, 65.
Taxation, first Federal measures, 47;
measures of 1862, 148; of 1864, 300;
Confederate, 384, 387.
Tea, scarcity at South, 367.
Telegraph, control, 148.
Tennessee, secession, 25. See also Bor-
der States; Chattanooga; Chicka-
mauga; Donelson; Murfreesborough;
Nashville campaign; Shiloh.
Tennessee, Confederate ram, 336.
Tennyson, Lord, Northern sympathy,
278.

Territories, status, 1; right of slavery
in, 2; attempted compromise on
slavery (1860-61), 3-5; abolition of
slavery, 149.

Texas, secession, 5.

Thanksgiving proclamation (1864), 329.
Thayer, W. R., acknowledgment to, v.
Thirteenth Amendment, passage, 412.
Thomas, G. H., Mill Spring, 98 n.;

453

character, 200; Chickamauga, “Rock,"
294; commands Army of the Cum-
berland, 296; Chattanooga, 298, 299;
recognition, 302; in Atlanta campaign,
and Sherman, 317; Sherman's divi-

sion of forces with, 398-400; Nash-
ville campaign, 409-412.

Thomas, Lorenzo, and Frémont, 53, 54.
Thucydides, on elements of crisis, 2.
Ticknor, George, on uprising of North,
17.

Tithe, in South, 386-389.

Tod, David, and Confederate invasion of
Kentucky, 177; as war governor, 361.
Trade. See Business; Commerce.
Transportation. See Railroads.
Trent affair, seizure of Confederate com-
missioners, Federal rejoicing, 70;
Lincoln's lost opportunity, 71-73;
British excitement and demand, 73,
74;
war preparations, 74; British
recognition of right of seizure, 75-
77; Adams's attitude, 77; presenta-
tion of ultimatum, 78, 79; Seward's
draft of answer, 79-81; Cabinet con-
sideration, 81; release of commis-
sioners, popular support of release,
82; effect of incident, 83.

Trollope, Anthony, Northern sympathy,
278.

Trumbull, Lyman, and McClellan's in-
activity, 60; and Cabinet crisis, 190;
and arbitrary arrests, 349.

spokesman, 351; arrest, 355 n.
Vermont, State election (1864), 338.
Vicksburg campaign, and Lee's invasion,
225; importance, 247-249; problems,
first efforts, 249; final plans, running
of the batteries, 251; passage of the
river, 252; attaining the rear, 252-
254; siege, 254, 257; Grant's conduct,
255-257; surrender, 257, 258; Grant's
credit, public interest, 258; decisive-
ness, 259; effect abroad, 279.
Victoria, Queen, and Trent affair, 74;
and Northern reverses, 278.
Virginia, importance, 7; and Fort
Sumter, 10; secession, 20, 24; joins
Confederacy, 24. See also Appo-