ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53; report of, 57; Secretary Seward's letter to, on Trent affair, 338; to Lord Wharncliffe, 460. ADAMS, GREEN, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49. ADAMS, JAMES II., Commissioner to Washington, 2; corres- pondence with President Buchanan, 29-32; vote on se- cession ordinance, 398.
ADAMS, WIRT, Commissioner from Mississippi to Louisiana, 11; received by Convention, 3.
ADDRESS, of South Carolina Convention to Slaveholding States, 12; of loyal Governors in favor of Emancipa- tion, 233; of disloyal Governors, 429, 430. ADJUSTMENT PROPOSITIONS IN THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS-In HOUSE: by Messrs. Thayer, John Cochrane, Haskin, Mallory, Stevenson. English, Kilgore, Holman, Nib lack, McClernand, Noell, Hindman, Larrabee, Ander- Bon of Missouri, Smith of Virginia, Sickles, Dunn, Adrain, Morris of Pennsylvania, Stewart of Maryland, Leake, Jenkins, Cox, Hutchins, Sherman, Etheridge, Davis of Indiana, Florence, Fenton, Kellogg of Illinois, and Vallandigham, 53-57; report of Committee of Thir- ty-three and votes upon, 57-62; on Constitutional Con- vention, 62-64; on Mr. Kellogg's, 63; on Mr. Clem- ens's, 63. In SENATE: Mr. Pugh's, 63; Mr. Doolittle's, 64; Mr. Bingham's, 64; Mr. Grimes's, 64; Mr. Powell's amendment to Mr. Crittenden's proposition, 65; Mr. Clark's, 66; reconsideration and rejection of, 66; final defeat of the Crittenden proposition, 66; remarks of Senators Johnson and Latham thereon, 66, 67. The PEACE CONFERENCE, members, officers, proceedings, and proposition of, and votes on, 68, 69. Senate Committee of Thirteen, and votes therein, 70-72; propositions of Senators Joseph Lane and Andrew Johnson, Repre- sentatives Barrett, Pryor, Colfax, Vallandigham, and Morris of Illinois, and Border-State meeting, 73; of New York Representatives, Alex. H. H. Stuart, Na- tional Intelligencer, Albany Evening Journal, and Jo- seph W. Taylor, 74; New York Sun, Baltimore Ex- change, "A Distinguished Carolinian," and a corres- pondent of the National Intelligencer, 75; Senator Hun- ter, 86-88; and President Buchanan, 50. ADJUSTMENT, Mr. Lincoln's reported opinion on, 67. ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 105-194, 555-610. ADBAIN, GARNETT B., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48; proposition of adjustment, 54; resolutions on unconstitutional State laws, and approving Major Anderson's course, 75, 76. Advertiser, Mobile, comments on Floyd's transfer of United States arms South, in 1859-'60, 35. AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, propositions respecting, 52-72; treaty for the suppression of, 150; modification of, 151; bill to carry out the, 151; bill of rebel Congress con- cerning, 151; veto of President Davis, 151; inter- cepted Confederate" despatch upon, 151, 152. AGNEW, DANIEL, Justice Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, decision on enrollment act, 274; on "legal tenders,"
AIKEN, WARREN, Speaker of Georgia Rebel House of Repre- sentatives, 329; Representative in Second Congress, 402.
ALABAMA, Vote for President in 1860, 1; Members of Thirty. Sixth Congress, 48, 49; Deputies in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; Members of First Congress, 401; Second, 402; secession movement in Convention and Legislature, 4; ratified Confederate Constitution, 4; Inter-State Commissioners, 11; makes a loan to the Provisional Government, 12; seizures and surrenders, 40
27; commissioners sent from, to treat with United States Government, 34; purchase of Government arms by, in 1860, 35; resolutions of Legislature, on military employment of slaves, 282; on peace, 456, 621; soldiers in the army, 399; reconstruction meeting in Huntsville, Albany Evening Journal, adjustment proposition of, 74. ALDRICH, CRYUS, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122.
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM C., Member of Peace Conference, 67. ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, opening of port of, to trade, 149. ALIENS, President's proclamation relative to, 272; legisla tion respecting, 115.
ALLEGED FOREIGN ENLISTMENTS, 343–345. ALLEGIANCE, OATH OF, bill requiring from lawyers, 602; new rule of the Senate respecting, note, 603. ALLEN, CHARLES, Member of Peace Conference, 67. ALLEN, HENRY W., Rebel Governor of Louisiana on recon- struction, 331; despatch on colored soldiers, note, 428. ALLEN, JAMES C., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140. ALLEN, WILLIAM, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; resolutions on the objects of the war, 285, 287. ALLEN. WILLIAM J., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 123; Thirty-Eighth, 140. ALLEY, JOHN B., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140. ALLISON, JOSEPH, Judge, opinion on Legal Tender Act, 455. ALLISON, WILLIAM B., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140.
ALRICKS, HAMILTON, proposed resolution at Democratic National Convention, 418. ALVORD, HENRY E., Lieutenant, captured Moseby's military papers, 119. AMERICA, Central and South, monarchical intrigues in, 343. American, Baltimore, on arrests, 153; statement in, respect- ing Church Difficulties, 531-533. AMERICAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS, resolution of, in 1864, on Slavery and the State of the Country, 507. AMES, JAMES T., purchase of Government arms in 1860, 35. AMES, OAKES, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, AMES, SAMUEL, Member of Peace Conference, 67. AMNESTY, President's argument upon, 146; proclamations of, 147, 148; accompanying circular of Attorney Gen- eral, 148. ANCONA, SYDENHAM E., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; resolution on en- rollment, 270.
ANDERSON, CLIFFORD, Representative in Second Rebel Con. gress, 402.
ANDERSON, FULTON, Commissioner from Mississippi to Vir ginia, 11; received by Virginia, 6. ANDERSON, JOSIAH M., Member of Peace Conference, 68. ANDERSON, J. PATTON, Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; resigned, 400; vote on secession ordinance, 399. ANDERSON, LUCIEN, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140. ANDERSON, ROBERT, Major, Floyd's instructions to, 31; cor- respondence before firing upon Sumter, 113, 114; re- port of, 114; resolution approving course of, 76. ANDERSON, S. J. P., Rev. Dr., court-martial of, 537, 538. ANDERSON, THOMAS L., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49.
ANDERSON, WILLIAM C., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49.
ANDREW, JOHN A., Governor of Massachusetts, signer of Al- 1 toona Address, 233.
ANTHONY, D. R., Lieut. Col., order on fugitive slaves, 251. 625
ANTHONY, HENRY B., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; Thirty Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; proposition to repeal proposed constitutional amendment of 1861, 258. ANTI-SLAVERY AMENDMENT, passage of, 257, 258, 590; votes of State Legislatures on ratifying, 595-600. APPEAL, for recognition to Earl Russell by Rebel Commis- sioners, extract from, 27; Russell's letter to Lyons re- specting, 27; President Lincoln's appeal to Border-State Representatives, and their replies, 213-220. APPLETON, NATHAN, on Disunion Conspiracy, 390. APPLETON, WILLIAM, Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122; resigned, 123.
ARGUELLES CASE, proceedings in Congress respecting, 354, 355; letter of the Captain General of Cuba, 355. ARKANSAS, Vote for President in 1860, 1; Members of Thirty- Sixth Congress, 48, 49; Deputies in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400, and Members of First, 401, of Second, 402; secession movement in convention and Legisla- ture, 4; seizures and surrenders in, 23; vote on seces- sion ordinance and proceedings of secession convention, 399; admission into the Confederacy, 400; claimants for seats at First Session Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140, 141, and Mr. Trumbull's report in Senate, and action thereon, 320, 321; Free State government in, 321; vote on abolishing slavery in, 332; President Lincoln's let- ters respecting election in, 322; soldiers in the army, 393; Congressional action on claimants for seats, Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress, and on recognizing the Free State government, 556–588.
ARMS OF UNITED STATES, transfer South in 1859-'60, 34; pur- chase by Alabama and Virginia in 1860, 35; purchase by Governor of Virginia prior to secession, 36; sale to States, 36; Jefferson Davis's bill to authorize such sale, 36; discussion and vote in the Senate, 36, 37; Mobilé Advertiser's comment on Floyd's transfers, 35; Burch's resolution relative to California's quota of, 41; General Heintzelman's order relative to sale, note, 418. ARMSTRONG, JAMES D., Rev., facts concerning, 542, 543. ARMY, REBEL, strength of, 117, 121, 399. ARMY VOTE, at Presidential Election of 1864, 623. ARNOLD, ISAAC N., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; resolution on forgery of official documents, 194; bill for emancipation of slaves in the insurrectionary districts, 229, 230; bill to prohibit slavery in the Territories, 254; proposition to amend the Constitution, 258.
ARNOLD, SAMUEL G., Member of Peace Conference, 67; Sen- ator in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 123. ARRESTS OF CITIZENS, 152-154; President Lincoln's and Secretary Stanton's orders respecting, 154; of Vallan- digham, 162: Mr. Pendleton's resolution in House de- nouncing, 182; proceedings respecting sundry, 179- 181; resolutions, votes, and legislation respecting, 183- 185; General Augur's order respecting military, 187; Mr. Saulsbury's amendment respecting, 236, 237; fur- ther facts and votes, 559-562; reports of Secretary Stanton and Judge Holt, 559, 560.
ARRINGTON, A. H., Representative in First Rebel Congress, 402.
ARTHUR, BENJAMIN F., Clerk of South Carolina Secession Convention, 399.
ARTICLE OF WAR, new, 237, 238.
ASDOTU, ALEXANDER, Brigadier General, orders respecting the election in Kentucky, 313.
ASHE, THOMAS S., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 402; elected Senator to Third Rebel Congress, 611. ASHLEY, JAMES M., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 19; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; reports and propositions relative to reconstruction, 319, 576, 577.
ASHMORE, JOHN D., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; withdrew, 2.
ATKINS, JOHN D. C., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400; Representative in First Congress, 402; Second, 402.
Atlanta (Georgia) Intelligencer on reconstruction with the Northwestern States, note, 303. ATTORNEY GENERAL, circular respecting amnesty, 148, 149; opinions respecting the President's powers, 51, 52; habeas corpus, 158-161; execution of fugitive slave law, 235; pay of colored chaplains, 279, 280; citizen- ship, 378-384; pay of colored soldiers, 384, 385. AUGUR, C. C., Major General, order respecting military ar- rests, 187.
AVERELL, WILLIAM W., Acting Adjutant General, order to prohibit slaves leaving the city of Washington, 245. AVERY, WILLIAM T., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49.
AVERY, WILLIAM W., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400.
AYER, LEWIS MALONE, Jr., Representative in First Rebel Congress, 400; Second, 402; vote on secession ordi- Dance, 398,
BABBITT, ELIJAH, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122. BACKUS, FRANKLIN T., Member of Peace Conference, 68. BAIL, bill for, of persons arrested, 183; bill to allow in cer- tain cases, 562.
BAILEY, GOLDSMITH F., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; death, 123.
BAILY, JOSEPH, Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140.
BAKER, EDWARD D., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; death, 123; colloquy with Sen- ator Hunter, January 11, 1861, 88.
BAKER, JAMES M., Senator in First Rebel Congress, 401; Second, 402; vote on secession ordinance, 399. BAKER, STEPHEN, Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122.
BALDWIN, AUGUSTUS C., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140. BALDWIN, JOHN B., vote on secession ordinance in Virginia Convention, note, 7; Representative in First Rebel Con- gress, 402; Second, 402.
BALDWIN, JOHN D., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140; resolution denouncing negotiation with the rebel leaders, 298, 299.
BALDWIN, ROGER S., Member of Peace Conference, 67; prop- osition for Constitutional Convention, 69. BALTIMORE, special election in 1861, 9; arrest of Police Marshal and Commissioners by General Banks, and proceedings concerning, 152, 179; Emancipation Reso lutions of the City Union Convention, 226: Fair, Presi- dent Lincoln's remarks at, 280, 281; Minutes of Police Commissioners in April, 1861, and Report in Councils on the expenditure of $500,000 appropriation, same period, 333-396; Union National Convention in, 403; Church questions in, 524-533.
Baltimore American on arrests, 153; on Church Difficulties, 531.
Baltimore Evening Transcript, suppression of, 192. Baltimore Exchange, adjustment proposition of, 75. BANISHMENT, proclamation by Jefferson Davis, 121. BANKING SYSTEM, proceedings on establishing, 362-365. BANK NOTES, small, President Lincoln's veto of bill for, 359; proposed issue of, 363.
BANKS, A. P., connected with rebel commissioners, 108. BANKS, NATHANIEL P., Major General, instructions to Lieut.
Col. Ruger for arrest of Maryland Legislature, 153; arrest of Police Commissioners, Marshal Kane, and others, in Baltimore, and reasons therefor, 152. BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONS, at Brooklyn, in 1861, 474; West New Jersey, in 1861, 1862, and 1864, 475, 476; New Jersey, in 1864, 476; Philadelphia, in 1862 and 1864, 476, 477; Pennsylvania in 1862 and 1863, 477; Ohio, in 1862, 478; New York, in 1862, 478; American Baptist Missionary Union, 478. IN INSURRECTIONARY STATES: of Alabama, 513; Georgia, 513, 514, 515; Southern Bap tist Convention, 514; South Carolina, 514, 515; orders of President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton relative to the occupancy of the churches of, 521, 522. BARKSDALE, ETHELBERT, Representative in First Rebel Con- gress, 402; Second, 402; proposition on Peace, 615. BARKSDALE, WILLIAM, Representative in Thirty Sixth Con- gress, 49; sent telegram South, 37; withdrew, 3. BARNWELL, ROBERT W., Commissioner to Washington, 2; correspondence with President Buchanan, 29-3.; Dep- uty in Rebel Provisional Congress, 2, 11, 400; Senator in First Congress, 401; Second, 402; vote on secession, 398; resolution on Independence, 614.
BARR, THOMAS J., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; adjustment proposition, 74. BARR, MARTIN W., arrest of, 153. BARRETT, J. R, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; adjustment proposition, 73; member of Border States Committee, 73. BARRINGER, DAVID M., Member of Peace Conference, 68. BARROW, WASHINGTON, Commissioner of Tennessee in leagu- ing her with the "Confederate" States, 5. BARRY, G., Capt., purchase of Government arms in 1860, 35. BARRY, WILLIAM S., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400.
BARTOW, FRANCIS S., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con- gress, 11, 400.
BATES, DANIEL M., Member of Peace Conference, 67. BATES, EDWARD, Attorney General, 108; circular respecting amnesty, 148, 149; opinion on habeas corpus, 158-161; letter on execution of fugitive slave law, note, 235; opin- ions on pay of colored chaplains, 279, 280; citizenship, 878-384; pay of colored soldiers, 384, 385; retirement of, 108; letters of Dr. McPheeters to, and reply of 533, 536.
BATES, JAMES P., Member of bogus legislative council of Kentucky, 8.
BATSON, FELIX I., Representative in First Rebel Congress,
401; second, 402; votos in Secession Convention of Ar- | BLAIR, MONTGOMERY, Postmaster General, 108; report on the kansas, 399.
BATTELLE, ROBBINS, Member of Peace Conference, 67. BATTLE, JUDGE, North Carolina, view on habeas corpus, 120. BAXTER, ELISHA, claimant of seat as Senator from Arkansas, Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140.
BAXTER, H. HENRY, Member of Peace Conference, 67. BAXTER, PORTUS, Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140. BAYARD, JAMES A., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, and resignation, 140; resolution on the arrest of the Baltimore Po- lice Commissioners, 179; proposition on enrollment, 262.
BEALL, JOHN Y., court-martial and sentence of, for violating the rules of war, 551, 552; action of Senate of Virginia, note, 552.
BEAMAN, FERNANDO C., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140.
BEAUFORT, (S. C.,) port of, opened to trade, 149. BEAUREGARD, G. T., General, correspondence of, with Major Anderson, before bombarding Fort Sumter, 113, 114. Bee, San Francisco, on a Pacific Republic, 42. BELL, CASPER W., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400; Representative in First Congress, 402. BELL, II. P., Representative in Second Rebel Congress, 402. BELL, JOHN, vote for President in 1860, 1. BELL, JOSHUA F., Member of Peace Conference, 68. BELMONT, AUGUST, remarks opening Democratic National Convention, 417. BENJAMIN, JUDAH P., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; telegram South, 37; withdrew, 4; Attorney Gene- ral, and Secretary of War in Rebel Provisional Gov- ernment, 12, 400; Secretary of War, and Secretary of State in Permanent Government, 401; intercepted des- patch to Lamar, 151, 152; order of arrest of Judge Pat- terson and Colonel Pickens, of East Tennessee, 187; order on bridge burning, 187; to Commissioner Mason on Peace, 455.
BENNET, H. P., Delegate from Colorado Thirty-Eighth Congress, declaration of, note, 590.
BENNING, HENRY L., Commissioner from Georgia to Vir- ginia, 11; received by Convention, 6. BENTON, THOMAS II., on the Disunion Conspiracy, 390. BERNARD, General of Engineers in the service of the United States, a citizen of France, allusion of Attorney General Bates, 378.
BERRETT, JAMES G., arrest and release of, 153. BERRY, N. S., Governor of New Hampshire, and signer of the Altoona Address, 233.
BIDDLE, CHARLES J., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122; McClellan's letter to, favoring Geo. W. Woodward's election as Governor of Pennsylvania, 386. BIGLER, WILLIAM, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Member of Committee of Thirteen, 70; proposition of adjustment, 71, 72; temporary Chairman of Democratic National Convention, and remarks, 417. BILLUPS, JOHN, Speaker of Georgia Rebel House of Repre- sentatives, 329.
BINGHAM, JOHN A., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; proposition of adjustment, 55; bill to collect duties on imports, 78; substitute for emancipation bill, 201.
BINGHAM, KINSLEY S., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; death, 123; proposition re- specting amendment of the Constitution, 64. BINNEY, HORACE, views on suspension of writ of habeas cor- pus, 161.
BLACK, JEREMIAH S., Attorney General, and Secretary of State, 28; opinion upon the powers of the President, BLAINE, JAMES G., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140; resolution for an amendment of the Con- stitution, 259.
BLAIR, AUSTIN, Governor of Michigan, and signer of Al- ⚫ toona Address, 233. BLAIR, FRANCIS P., Sr., agency in bringing about the Hamp- ton Roads Conference on Peace, 566. BLAIR, FRANCIS P., Jr., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; unseated, 141; amendment to the emancipation bill, 199, 200; on se- lect committee on compensated emancipation, 213; letter of General Halleck to, note, 248; Senate resolu- tion supposed to refer to his case, 375; report of House Committee of Elections in case of, and proceedings upon, 375.
BLAIR, JACOB B., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 141; substitute for the en- rollment bill, 267; resolutions on the war, 293.
exclusion of newspapers, 188-191; resignation, 108. BLAIR, SAMUEL S., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122.
BLAKE, HARRISON G., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; resolution on the prosecution of the war, 292.
BLANFORD, MARK H., Representative in Second Rebel Con- gress, 402.
BLISS, GEORGE, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140. BLIZARD, A., one of the Tennessee protesters, 438-441. BLOCKADE, President's proclamations of, 149; proclamations raising, of certain ports, 194; closing others, €05. BLOW, HENRY T., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140. BocOCK, THOMAS S., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; address to people of Virginia, 40; Member of Rebel "Provisional" Congress, 400; Speaker of First Rebel Congress, 401; Second, 402.
BOGAN, WEST, of Arkansas, court-martial and sentence of, for murder of his master, 550, 551.
BONDS OF THE UNITED STATES, proposed State taxation of, 359, 360.
BONHAM, MILLEDGE L., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; withdrew, 2; Commissioner to Mississippi, 11; statement respecting forts in Charleston harbor, 30; Representative in First Rebel Congress, 400; Gov- ernor of South Carolina, 402.
BONZANO, M. F., reports on credentials as Representative from Louisiana, 581-586; former melter and refiner at U. S. Mint, funds in possession at date of secession of Louisiana, 589.
BOOTH, JOHN WILKES, assassin of President LINCOLN, 610. BORDER SLAVE STATE REPRESENTATIVES, interviews of Presi- dent Lincoln with, 210, 211, 213-220. BORDER STATE EMBASSIES, Charleston Mercury on, 3. BORDER STATES MEETING, and adjustment proposition of, 73. BOTELER, ALEXANDER R., Representative in Thirty-Sixth
Congress, 49; motion for adjustment committee of thirty-three, 52; hopeful despatch of, 39; remarks on reconstruction, 329; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 401; Representative in First Congress, 402. BOUDINOT, ELIAS C., Delegate from the Cherokee Nation at second session of First Rebel Congress, 402; in Second, 402; Secretary of Secession Convention in Arkansas, 399.
BOULDIN, WOOD, motion in Virginia Convention, 7; vote on secession ordinance, note, 7.
BOULIGNY, JOHN E., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; refusal to withdraw, 4.
BOUTWELL, GEORGE S., Member of Peace Conference, 67; Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140; re- marks on issue of emancipation proclamation, 232; res olutions on reconstruction, 328.
BOWDEN, LEMUEL J., Senator in Thirty-Eighth Congress, and death, 140.
BOWEN, JAMES, Brigadier General, reports on the loyal of New Orleans Churches, 543-545.
BOYCE, WILLIAM W., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; withdrew, 2; appointed on Committee of Thirty-three and declined, 53; Deputy in Rebel Pro- visional Congress, 2, 11, 400; Representative in First Congress, 402; Second, 402; statement respecting forts in Charleston harbor, 30; vote on secession ordi- nance, 398; letters on Peace, 431-433, 457.
BOYD, SEMPRONIUS H., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140.
BOYLE, JEREMIAH T., Brigadier General, order on impress- ments, 315.
BOYLE, LLEWELLYN, request for special session of Legisla ture of Maryland, 8.
BRABSON, ROBERT B., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49. BRADFORD, ALEXANDER W., Member of Peace Conference, 68; Governor of Maryland, election affairs of, 309-311; correspondence of, with the stewards of Central, Chats- worth, and Biddle street Methodist Episcopal Churches, 526-531.
BRADLEY, BENJAMIN F., Representative in Second Rebel Con- gress, 402.
BRAGG, BRAXTON, reported offered, and declined, Rebel Se- cretaryship of War, 402.
BRAGG, THOMAS, Senator in Thirty Sixth Congress, 48. BRANCH, A. M., Representative in Second Rebel Congress, 402. BRANCH, LAWRENCE O'B., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; on select committee of investigation, 80; resolution on keeping troops in the District of Colum- bia, 81; reports on disposition of the navy and resigna- tions therein, on militia bill, Buchanan's correspond- ence with rebel commissioners, and secession, 84, 85. BRANDEGEE, AUGUSTUS, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140.
BRAYMAN, MASON, Brigadier General, orders of, at Natchez, 541.
BRAYTON, WILLIAM D., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48.
BRECKINRIDGE, JOHN C., vote for President in 1860, 1; Vico President, Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Senator in Thirty- Seventh, 122; expulsion, 123; escape, 153; proposition to withdraw troops from rebellious States, 290; candi- date for Rebel Congress, and views on reconstruction, 329; Rebel Secretary of War, 619. BRECKINRIDGE, ROBERT J., Sr., temporary chairman of Balti- more Union Convention, and remarks, 403-405; paper submitted in and adopted by Presbyterian General As- sembly of 1862, 462, 463.
BRECKENRIDGE, ROBERT, J., Jr., Representative in First Rebel Congress, 401.
BRESHWOOD, CAPTAIN, surrender of his vessel to rebels, 28. BREWER, T. N., arrest of, 153.
BRIDGE-BURNERS IN EAST TENNESSEE, Benjamin's order for hanging, 187.
BRIDGERS, JOHN L., Commissioner from North Carolina to Rebel Provisional Congress, 12.
BRIDGERS, ROBERT R, Representative in First Rebel Con- gress, 402; Second, 402.
BRIDGES, GEORGE W., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122.
BRIGGS, GEORGE, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; adjustment proposition, 74.
BRIGHT, JESSE D., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, and expulsion, 123.
BRISTOW, FRANCIS S., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; Member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53. BROCKENBROUGH, JOHN W., Member of Peace Conference, 68; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400. BRONSON, GREENE C., Member of Peace Conference, 67. BROOKE, JOHN B., request for special session of Legislature of Maryland, 9. BROOKE, WALTER, Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; views on reconstruction, 329; see MEM., 401. Brooklyn Eagle, presented by grand jury and excluded from the mails, 188-192.
BROOKS, JAMES, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140; letter of George N. Sanders to, 3.0. BROOMALL, JOHN M., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140; substitute for enrollment bill, 266, and res- olution concerning, 270; substitute for Mr. Colfax's resolution to expel Alexander Long, 387. BROWN, ALBERT GALLATIN, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Con- gres, 48; telegram south, 37; withdrew, 5; resolution for the protection of slavery in the Territories, 90; captain in rebel service, 401; Senator in First Rebel Congress, 401; Second, 402; on repealing substitute law, 121; opinion on Independence, 616.
BROWN, B. GRATZ, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 140; on Indian enlistments, 264; substitute for reconstruction bill, 318.
BROWN, FOUNTAIN, Rev., of Arkansas, court-martial and sentence for selling his freed slaves, 519, 550. BROWN, GEORGE WILLIAM, Police Commissioner and Mayor of Baltimore, arrest of, and reasons for, 152; Minutes of the Board, 393, 394. BROWN, JAMES S., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140; resolutions on reconstruction, 319, 320; on enrollment, 564.
BROWN, JOHN YOUNG, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49.
BROWN, JOSEPH E., Governor of Georgia, 3; proclamation on northern indebtedness, 3; call for negroes, 282. BROWN, WILLIAM G., vote on secession ordinance, note, 7; Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; Thir- ty-Eighth, 140; resolutions on the War, 293. BROWNE, GEORGE H., Member of Peace Conference, 67; Rep- resentative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122. BROWNE, WILLIAM M., Rebel Assistant Secretary of State, 12. BROWNING, ORVILLE H, Senator in Thirty-Seventh Congress,
122; superseded, 123; amendments to bill for military employment of colored persons, 275.
BROWNSVILLE, port opened, 149. BRUCE, ELY M., Member of bogus Legislative Council of Kentucky, 8; Representative in First Rebel Congress, 401; Second, 402.
BRUCE, H. W., Member of bogus Legislative Council of Kentucky, 8; Representative in First Rebel Congress, 401; Second, 402.
BRUCE, JAMES C., Commissioner of Virginia in making mili- tary league, 8; vote on secession ordinance, note, 7. BRUNE, JOHN C., arrest of, 152.
BRYAN, T. S., Assistant Secretary of Russellville (Ky.) Con- gress, 8.
BUCHANAN, JAMES, changes in Cabinet of, 28; letter to the South Carolina Commissioners, 29, 32-34; report of special committee on, 85; declines to receive Commis- sioner from Alabama, 34; last annual message, 49; the power to coerce a State discussed, 49; explanatory
amendment to the Constitution recommended, 50; message of January 8, alluded to, 80; public credit during his administration, 365, 366; proposed censure of, and proceedings in the Senate, 387.
BUCK, JOHN M., letters of, respecting church troubles in Baltimore, 524-530. BUCKALEW, CHARLES R., Senator in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140; amendment to civil bill respecting testimony of colored persons, 243; amendment to national cur- rency bill, 365; proposition to repeal law authorizing enlistments in insurrectionary States, note, 563. BUCKNER, AYLETT H., Member of Peace Conference, 68. BUELL, DON CARLOS, Brig. Gen., letter to J. R. Underwood, offering to return fugitive slaves, 250. BUFFINTON, JAMES, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122.
BURCH, JOHN C., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; resolution relative to California's quota of arms, 41; Member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53; report, 58; proposition for Constitutional Convention, 62; for a Pacific republic, 41.
BUREAU OF FREEDMEN'S AFFAIRS, bill to establish, vote upon in House, 259, 260; in Senate, amendments of Mr. Saulsbury, 260; Mr. Willey, 260; Mr. Wilson, 260; post ponement of bill to December 20th, 1864, 260; final votes, 594, 595.
BURKE, MARTIN, Col., refusal to obey writ of Judge Gar rison, 152.
BURLINGAME, ANSON, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48.
BURNETT HENRY C., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; expulsion, 123; Chairman of Russellville (Ky.) Congress, 8; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con gress, 400; Senator in First Congress, 401; Second, 402. BURNETT, THEODORE L., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con- gress, 400; Representative in First Rebel Congress, 401; Second, 402.
BURNHAM, ALFRED A., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 123.
BURNS RESCUE CASE, resolution concerning, and Col. T. W. Higginson, 244. BURNSIDE, AMBROSE E., Brig. Gen., proclamation of, to the people of North Carolina, 249, 250; order No. 38, 162; designation of Fort Warren for confinement of Mr. Vallandigham, 162.
BURNSIDE, I. P., Member of bogus Legislative Council of Kentucky, 8. BURTON, WILLIAM, Governor, of Delaware, reply to Presi dent's call for troops, 114.
BUTLER, BENJAMIN F., Maj. Gen., letter of Governor Hicks to, reply of, and Governor Ilicks's protest to, 9; to Gen- eral Scott, 244; affair with Brig Gen. Phelps, 252; ex- tract from Davis's proclamation of outlawry, note, 253; orders of, respecting churches in New Orleans, 542. BUTLER, PIERCE, arrest of, 153.
BUTLER, WILLIAM O., Member of Peace Conference, 68. BUTLER, WILLIAM T., resignation of, as policeman in Balti- more, 394.
BUTTERFIELD, MARTIN, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48.
CABINET, of Mr. Buchanan, 28; Mr. Lincoln, 108, 610; Mr. Johnson, 610; Jeff. Davis, 400, 401, 619. CADWALADER, GEORGE, General, refusal to obey a writ in the Merrynian case, 154; remarks of Chief Justice Taney, CADWALADER, JOHN, Judge United States, decision on enroll- ment act, 273.
CALHOUN, A. P., Commissioner from South Carolina to Ala- bama, 11; received by Convention, 4. CALHOUN, JOHN C., bill relative to security of the mails, 191; allusion to, by Ex-Gov. Francis Thomas, 390. CALIFORNIA, vote for President in 1660, 1; in 1864, 623; not represented in Peace Conference, 69; Members of Thirty- Sixth Congress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 141; secession attempt in, 41; Union resolutions of the Assembly, 41.
CALL for negroes, of Governor Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, 282; of General Magruder, 283; of Governor Allen of Louisiana, 428.
CALLS for troops, the President's, 114, 115, 270, 604. CALLAHAN, 8. B., Delegate from Creek and Seminole Na tion in Second Rebel Congress, 402.
CALVERT, CHARLES B., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; views on compensated emancipation, 213-217; peace resolution, 295.
CAMERON, SIMON, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Secretary of War, and resignation of, 108; order of ar- rest of the members of the Maryland Legislature, 153; letters to General Butler, 245; instructions to General Sherman, 247, 248, extract from report and modifica tion by the President, 219; letter to General McClel-
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