Hampton, Wade, carries off cattle from Coggin's Point, 559; accused by Sherman of having fired Columbia, 712.
Hancock, Gen. Winfield Scott, biographical sketch of, 520; organization of the second army corps under, 475; famous charge of his corps near Spottsylvania Court-House, 520.
Hardee, Gen. William J., biographical sketch of, 152; escape of, from Savannah, 684. Harkins, Col., his surrender of Union City to For- rest, 563.
Harper's Ferry, John Brown's raid at, 33; armory at, seized by Virginia militia, 74; railroad bridge at, burnt by Johnston's troops, 108; command assumed at, by Gen. Sigel, 278; Col. Miles in command at, 877; abandonment of, recommend- ed by McClellan, 878; investment of, by Gen. Jackson, 878; surrender of, to Confederate forces, 879; recapture of, 384; retreat of Sigel to, from Martinsburg, 551.
Harris, Gov., reply of, to Pres. Lincoln's call for troops, 73; Louisville and Nashville road closed by, 161.
Harris, Richard, inaugurated provisional rebel governor of Kentucky, 403.
Harrisburg, public property removed from, on the approach of the rebels, 454.
Harrison, Col. M. La Rue, repulses Cabell at Fay- etteville, 606
Harrisonburg, dispatches of Fremont from, 275, 276.
Harrison's Landing, Army of the Potomac at, 292; Pope's movements intended to facilitate McClel lan's retirement from, 824; delay of McClellan in leaving, 326; excuses of Gen. McClellan for not leaving, 336.
Hartford Convention, resolutions adopted by the, 21.
Hartsuff, Gen., wounded at Antietam, 881. Hartsville, Mo., movements of Marmaduke and Porter against, 605.
Harney, Gen., superseded by Gen. Lyon, 105. Hatch, George, Mayor of Cincinnati, proclamation of, 404.
Hatcher's Run, battle of, 692.
Hayes, Gen. Alexander, death of, 511.
Hayne, of South Corolina, nullification advocated by, 23; declares the principles of State sover- eignty established, 25.
Hazen, Gen., takes Lookout Mountain, 496; takes Fort McAllister, 653.
Head-quarters, scene at Grant's, 516.
Heckman, Gen., made prisoner in Butler's attempt on Fort Darling, 531.
Helena, Ark., repulse of Price and Marmaduke at, by Gen. Prentiss, 606.
Helper, John Rowan, effect of the publication of his book, 34.
Henry, Alexander, call to arms addressed by, to the citizens of Philadelphia, 457. Hicks, Col., repulses Forrest at Paducah, 564. Hicks, Gov., extract from his address to the people of Maryland, 80; suggests Lord Lyons as "ine- diator," 80.
Hilton Head, operations of Gen. T. W. Sherman in the vicinity of, 343; schools for negroes es- tablished at, 844.
History of the Federal Constitution, 17. History of various attempts to resist the National Government, 18-30.
Hobson, Gen., entire force under, captured by Mor- gan, 730.
Holmes, Gen., retreat of, before Gen. Steele, in Ark., 606.
Hood, Gen. John B., biographical sketch of, 580; supersedes Gen. Johnston, 580; letters of, in re- lation to the removal of the inhabitants of At- lanta, 593; Sherman's letter to, 594; operations of, against Sherman's communications, 631; retires before Sherman into Northern Alabama, 632; army of re-enforced by Forrest, 633; repulsed at Franklin, 634; advances on Nashville, 634; operations of, against Nashville, 635-640; driven over the Tennessee by Gen. Thomas, 610; end of his career, 641.
Hooker, Gen. Joseph, biographical sketch of, 443; at the battle of Antietam, 880; wounded at An- tietam, 381; at the battle of Fredericksburg, 893; Burnside superseded by, in command of the Army of the Potomac, 898; his short cam- paign against Richmond, 442-450; confident order of, 445; remarks on his Richmond cam- paign, 450; superseded by Gen. Meade, 453; farewell address of, 455; at Lookout Mountain, 500; relieved by Gen. Slocum, 586,
Hotels in New York, attempts of Confederates to burn, 743.
Houston, Gov., adverse to the secession movement in Texas, 41.
Howard, Gen. Oliver Otis, biographical sketch of, 596; at the battle of Antietam, 831; appointed to command the Army of the Tennessee, 586. Howitzer, description of the, 227.
Hunter, Gen., wounded at Bull Run, 101; super- sedes Fremont in Missouri, 160; retreat of, from Springfield, followed by Price, 178; transferred to the Kansas department, 179; placed in com- mand of the Department of the South, 344; su- perseded by Gen. Mitchel, 847; supersedes Sigel at Cedar Creek, 550; defeats Gen. Jones near Staunton, 550; advances to Lynchburg, 550; pre- cipitate retreat of, into Western Virginia, 551; superseded by Gen Sheridan, 553.
Huntsville, Ala., capture of, by Mitchel's forces,
Illinois, important contributions from, of officers and men, 169.
Imboden, Gen., worsted at Williamsport, 464; capture of Charlestown by, 467.
Impending Crisis," effect of the publication of Helper's, 34.
Inaugural address of Mr. Lincoln, 60; effect of, on the South, 61; second, 745. Income tax, 350.
Indian lund, stocks of, abstracted by Godard Bailey, 52.
Indianola steamer, capture of, 421.
Indians, lands owned by, in Georgia, Alabama, &c., 22; titles of, to lands in Georgia, extinguished by treaty in 1825, 23.
Inflation of prices, enormous in the Confederate States, 119.
Ingraham, Capt., his attack on the blockading fleet off Charleston, 502.
Interest, large actual, paid by Government, 853. Interest-bearing debt of the United States, 353. "Interior lines," held by the Confederate armies, 139.
Intrigue among officers of Burnside's army, 896. Iron-clads built for the navy, 189; attack with, on the Charleston forts, 502.
Island No. Ten, operations against, 802-804; sur- render of, to Commodore Foote, 305. Italy, Napoleon in, 185.
Iuka, occupation of, by Gen. Price, 409.
Jackson, Gen. Thomas Jonathan, biographical | sketch of, 265; movement of, towards Hancock, Md., 186; operations of, in the valley of the Shenandoah, 265–270, 272–279; letter of Gen. J. E. Johnston to, 272; pursuit of, by Gens. McDow- ell and Fremont, 274; movement of, towards Thoroughfare Gap, 825: escape of, from Pope, 829, 330; after the capture of Harper's Ferry, recrosses the Potomac, 380; operations of, against Hooker, 446; death of, 446.
Jackson, Gov., reply of, to Pres. Lincoln's call for troops, 73-104; flight of, from Jefferson City, 105; opposed to United States troops passing through Missouri, 116.
Jackson, President, measures taken by, for the coercion of South Carolina, 25.
Jackson, capture of, by Gen. Grant, 428. Jacksonville, occupation of, by Federal troops,
843; evacuation of, by order of Gen. Hunter, 344; occupation of, by Gen. Seymour, 616. James Island, disastrous operations on, under Gen. Benham, 347; abandonment of, 847. James River, crossing of, by Grant's army, 598. James River Canal, property destroyed on, by Col. Dahlgren, 472.
Jaques, Col. James F., visit of, to Davis at Rich- mond, 669.
Jefferson, Thomas, Federal Constitution not satis- factory to, 18; action of, in support of State rights, 19; language of, in relation to "nullifica- tion," 20.
Jefferson City, occupation of, by Gen. Lyon, 105. Jenkins, Gen., death of, 513.
Johnson, Andrew. of Tennessee, biographical sketch of, 750; resolution moved by, in the Senate, 124; appointed military governor of Tennessee, 178; nomination of, for the Vice-Presidency, 663; address of, on taking the oath of office as President, 750; proclamations of, in relation to reconstruction, 751, 752.
Johnson, Reverdy, opinion of, as to the power of the President to suspend the habeas corpus,
Johnson's Island, plot to release rebel officers con- fined on, 743.
Johnston, Col. Samuel, notice of, to Virginia mili- tia, 1292.
Johnston, Gen. A. S., concentration of Confederate
forces under, at Corinth, 306; death of, at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, 309. Johnston, Gen. Joseph Eccleston, biographical sketch of, 93; at Winchester, 98; junction of, with Beauregard, 100, letter of, to Gen. T. J. Jackson, 272; defent of, by Grant, at Jackson, 426; force under the command of, May, 1864, 569; superseded by Gen. Hood, 580; reinstated in command of the forces opposed to Sherman, 712; concentrates at Raleigh, 713; details of his surrender to Gen. Sherman, 734–786.
Jonesboro, battle of, 589.
Jordan, Edward, opinion of, in relation to the gold bill, 673.
Judges of United States Courts, treason defined by, 132.
Kansas, efforts to make a Slave State of, 29. Kautz, Gen., cavalry raid of, from Suffolk, towards Petersburg, 530; cavalry expedition of, against the Richmond and Danville Railroad, 581. Kautz and Wilson, expedition of, against the Weldon and Danville Railroads, 544.
Kearny, Gen. Philip, biographical sketch of, 284; death of, 835.
Kearsarge, corvette, details of her fight with the Alabama, 623-627.
Kelley, Gen, march of to Philippi, 110; rebel troops driven out of Romney by, 185. Kelly's Ford, battle of, 468.
Kenesaw Mountain, description of, 574–576; battle of, 577.
Kenly, Col., surprised at Front Royal, 269. Kennedy, Capt. Robert C., executed for complicity in the plot to burn New York, 744 Kentucky, neutral policy of, 45; Union sentiment in, 87; military operations in, 160-179; neutral- ity policy attempted in, 161; Union majority in the legislature of, 162; action of the legislature of, in favor of expelling Confederate troops, 164; course of, decided by the Confederate occupa tion, 164; State and National forces in, placed under command of Gen. R. Anderson, 165; sta- tions and numbers of Confederate troops in, 166; large number of Federal troops in, 171; opera- tions of Bragg and Kirby Smith in, against Buell, 899-408; Morgan's raid in, 780.
Keokuk, iron-clad, injured in the attack on Fort Sumter, 503.
Kilpatrick, Gen. Judson, biographical sketch of 710; raid of, from Stevensburg to Richmond, 472; operations of nis cavalry on the march to Savannah, 681, 682; surprise of, by Wade Hamp- ton, 718.
Kingston, Sherman's forces at, 572
Kinston, operations against, 701; occupation of 702.
Kirke, Mr., visit of, to Davis at Richmond, 669. "Knights of the Golden Circle," institution of the order of, 31.
Knoxville, capture of, by Burnside, 484; his de- fence of, 495; Longstreet retreats from, on the approach of Sherman, 501,
Knoxville Whig, suspension of the, 129.
Lafayette, Ga., Confederate forces concentrated at,
Lake Providence, attempt to cat a canal to, from the Mississippi, 421.
Lane, Gen., remarks of, on the disorganization of the Army of the Potomac, 141. Lancaster, Mr., carries off Capt. Semmes and others in the Deerhound, 626. Lander, Gen., death of, 186.
Lands in Georgia, Indian titles to, extinguished by treaty, 1825, 23.
Laurel Hill, West Virginia, battle of, 111; capture of rebel camp at, 112.
Laurel Hill, near Kichmond, attack upon, by Gen. Birney, 559.
Law of blockade, 190-192.
Lawrence, atrocities of Quantrell at, 607.
Lee, Gen, Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 put down by, 19.
Lee, Gen. Fitzhugh, repulsed by colored troops at Wilson's Wharf, 632.
Lee, Gen. Robert Edmund, biographical sketch of 86; commissioned general in the Confederate service, 118; on the Peninsular campaign, 294; invasion of Maryland by, 377; troops concen- trated by, at Harper's Ferry, 877; his invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, 451-460; retreat of, after the battle of Gettysburg, 464; appointed to command all the rebel armies, 712; corre- spondence of, with Gen. Grant, in relation to the terms of surrender, 726-725; surrender of Legislature of Kentucky, Union majority in, 162; action of, in favor of expelling Confederate troops, 164; loans and the calling out of volun- teers authorized by, 165. Legislatures, Northern, assistance tendered by, to the Federal Government, 58.
Legs, want of, with McClellan's army, 385 Letcher, Gov., reply of, to President Lincoln's call for troops, 78; efforts of, to induce Western Vir ginia to join in secession, 89.
Letters of marque, &c., offered by Jefferson Davis,
Lexington, Ky., occupation of, by General Kirby | Smith, 401.
Lexington, Mo., advance of the Confederates to,
152; description of, 156; garrison of, re-enforced by Col. Mulligan, 156; siege and surrender of, 157; Gen. Price's report in relation to, 158; Fremont's dispatch in relation to the surrender of, 158.
Lieutenant-general, office of, revived by Con- gress, 478.
Lincoln, Abraham, biographical sketch of, 747; great public interest in the views of, 58; journey to Washington and threatened assassination of, 59; inauguration of, 59; inaugural address of, 60 message of, to the Thirty-seventh Congress, 121; extract of a letter from, to Fremont, 155; first general war order of, 215; letter of, to Mc- Clellan, urging energetic action, 242; reply of, to various dispatches of McClellan, 284; proposi- tion of, to Border States in relation to emancipa- tion, 357; letter of, to Horace Greeley, 858; emancipation proclamations of, 356, 359, 361; letter of, to McClellan, urging more energetic ac- tion, 886; reply of McClellan to, 887; letter of, to Gen. Grant after the fall of Vicksburg, 434; proclamation of, calling out militia, 453; an- nouncement of, after the battle of Gettysburg, 463; telegram of, to Gen. Meade, after the pas- sage of the Rappahannock, 469; order of, for the draft of April, 1864, 478 correspondence of, with Gen. Grant, after his appointment to the lieuten- a-generalship, 477; proclamation of, ordering the draft of September, 1864, 546; his reconstruc- tion plan. 659; vote for, in 1864, 668; instructions of, to Mr.Seward, for his conference with Stephens and others, 744; interview of, with rebel com- missioners at Fortress Monroe, 745; inaugural address of, 745; assassination of, 747; obsequies of, 749.
Little Osage crossing, defeat of Price's forces at, 610.
Little Rock, occupation of, by Gen. Steele, 606; retreat of Gen. Steele to, from Camden, 604. Loan, produce, in the Confederate States, 120. Loans authorized by Congress, 127. Longstreet, Gen. James, biographical sketch of, 487; address of, to his soldiers, before Richmond, 281; at the battle of Chickamauga, 488; opera- tions of against Burnside, at Knoxville, 498; compelled by Sherman to raise the siege of Knoxville, 501.
Lookout Mountain, description of, 492; taken by Gen. Hazen, 496.
Lost Mountain, description of, 575; battle of, 575. Louisiana, secession movements in, 40; popular secession vote in, 41.
Louisiana Convention, secession ordinance passed by, 40; action of, with regard to the navigation of the Mississippi, 41.
Louisiana, Western, lost to Union arms, by the fall of Brashear City, 438.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, important effect of the closing of, 161.
Lovell, Gen. M., defence of New Orleans intrusted to, 363.
Lynchburg, arrival of Hunter before, 550; his rapid retreat from, 581.
Lyon, Gen., surrender of Gen. Frost to, at Camp Jackson, 104; early operations of, in Missouri, 105; why not re-enforced by Fremont, 147; operations of, in Missouri, 148; death of, at the battle of Wilson's Creek, 149.
Lyons, Lord, suggested by Gov. Hicks as "medi- ator," 80.
McCauley, Commander, destruction of national property by, at Gosport Navy Yard, 74; super- seded by Commodore Paulding, 74. McCausland, Gen., fires Chambersburg, 558,
McClellan, Gen. George B., biographical sketch of, 229; appointed to the command of the Fourth Military Department, 110; operations of in Western Virginia, 110-113; called to take com- mand of the Army of the Potomac, 140; reforins commenced by, 141; precautionary measures of 145; general order of, in relation to Sabbath observance, 145; improvement brought about by, in the Army of the Potomac, 210; order issued by, in relation to depredations by soldiers, 211; succeeds Gen. Scott in command of the armies of the United States, 214; inaction of the Army of the Potomac under, 215; operations of the Army of the Potomac under, 228-245; com- mand of restricted to the Department of the Potomac, 233; address of, to the Army of the Potomac, 238; orders of, to Adjutant-General Thomas, 239; at Fortress Monroe, 241; letter of President Lincoln to, urging energetic action, 242; dispatches of, in relation to the capture of Yorktown, 251; dispatch of, in relation to the battle of Williamsburg, 254; opportunity lost by, after the battle of Seven Pines, 263; dispatch of, 263; address of, to the army, 261; corrected dispatches of, 264, 265; re-enforcements demand- ed by, 273; operations of, against Richmond, 279-295; dispatch of, in relation to McDowell's corps, 281; dispatch of, in relation to Jackson's movements, 252; various dispatches of, 283; reply of President Lincoln to, 284; address of, to the Army of the Potomac, after the seven days' battles, 291; extraordinary answer of, to Pope's request for rations, 883; excuses of, for not leaving Harrison's Landing, 336; arrival of the army of, at Fortress Monroe, 337; language of, addressed to Mr. Lincoln, in relation to the policy of the government, 355; troops gradually detached from the command of, 876; placed in command of the troops in and around Washing- ton, 377; dispatch of, to Halleck, in relation to Harper's Ferry, &c., 878; recaptures Harper's Ferry, 834; ordered by Mr. Lincoln to cross the Potomac, 385; dilatory policy of, 384; corre- spondence of, with Halleck, with regard to army movements, 885; letter of the President to, urging more energetic action, 386; reply of, to the President's letter, 887; advance of, by way of Leesburg, 390; superseded by Gen. Burnside, 890; merits and demerits of, 891; nomination of, for the Cresidency, 665; his letter of accept- ance, 667; vote for, 668.
Macon, surrender of, by Howell Cobb, to Gen. Wilson, 738
McCook, Gen., escape of, from a superior force at Newman, 585.
McCulloch, Gen. Ben., biographical sketch of, 298; killed at the battle of Pea Ridge, 301.
McDowell, Gen. Irwin, biographical sketch of, 90; force under, at and near Alexandria, June, 1861, 96; advance of, towards Manassas, 98; corps of, retained for the defence of Washington, 241; corps of, sent to the support of Gen. Banks, 260. McDowell, Va., battle of, 272.
McIntosh, Creek chief, assassination of, 23. McKinstry, Major J., appointed provost-marshal in St. Lonis, 11; suppresses the War Bulletin and the Missourian, 152.
McNeil, Gen John, rebel prisoners shot by, 605; repulses Marmaduke's attack on Cape Girardeau, 606; supersedes Gen. Blunt, 608. McPherson, Gen. James B., biographical sketch of, 583; defeats Gen. Gregg near Raymond, 425; operations of from Vicksburg. 597; force under the command of, May, 1861, 568; death of, 584. Magoffin, Gov, reply of, to Pres. Lin oln's call for troops, 73; protests against the occupation of Hickman and Columbus by Confederate troops,
Magruder, Gen. John Bankhead, biographical sketch of, 93.
Mails in the Confederate States in charge of John H. Reagan, 87.
Malvern Hill, battle of, 290; attack on the Con- federate position at, by Hooker and Sedgwick, 337.
Manassas, Gen. Beauregard at, 97; advance of Gen. McDowell's force towards, 98; description of the Confederate works at, 231; sudden aban- donment of, by the Confederate force, 234. Manassas, the steam ram, blockading fleet below New Orleans attacked by, 209.
Mann, Mr., Confederate commissioner to Europe, 216.
Mansfield, battle of, 600.
Mansfield, Gen. J. K. F., blographical sketch of 90; force under, in Washington, June, 1861, 96, mortally wounded at Antietam, 381.
Mantua, Napoleon at, 186.
Manufactures, how called into being in the North, 120; commenced in the South, 120.
. Marcy, Mr., proposition of, to European powers, in relation to privateering, 115; language of, in re- lation to privateering, 191.
Marianna, capture of, by Gen. Asboth, 615. Marietta, occupation of, by Gen. Sherman, 577. Marines, assault of, on Fort Fisher, 697.
Marion, defeat of Breckinridge at, by Gillem and Burbridge, 782.
Marmaduke, Gen., operations of, against Spring- field, 605; defeat of, by Gen. Steele, 606; repulse of, at Cape Girardeau, by McNeil, 606; defeated by Gen. A. J. Smith near Lake Village, 608. Marshall, Humphrey, with four regiments, driven out of Kentucky by Col. Garfield, 172. Marshall House, Alexandria, death of Col. Ells- worth at, 90.
Martial law declared in St. Louis by Gen. Fre- mont, 151.
Martinsburg, Sigel driven from, to Harper's Ferry, 551.
Marye's Hill, carried by Sedgwick's troops, 448. Maryland, position of, in relation to secession, 45; preamble and resolution passed by the legisla- ture of, 46; position of, at the outbreak of the rebellion, 80; action of the legislature of, 82; invasion of, by Gen. Lee, 877; raid of Gen. Stuart into, 886; second invasion of, 451; loyalty of the people of, 454; invasion of, by a rebel force under Early, 551-553.
Maryland Heights occupied by McClellan after the battle of Antietam, 884,
Mason and Slidell, seizure of, by Captain Wilkes,
222; restoration of, to the British flag, 223; action of Congress with regard to the arrest of, 854.
Massachusetts Sixth Regiment attacked by rioters in Baltimore. 77.
Massachusetts Eighth Regiment, departure of, for Washington, 78; machinists in the ranks of, 79. Massacre at Fort Pillow, report of the Congress- ional committee on. 565.
Matamoras, extensive contraband trade of, 598. Mathias Point, Va., death of Capt Ward at, 93. Meade, Gen. George G., biographical sketch of, 456; at the battle of Antietam, 880; succeeds Hooker in cominand of the Army of the Poto- inac, 455; dispatch of, after the battle of Gettys- burg, 463; retreat of, from the Rapidan, before Lee, 467; advance of, towards the line of the Rappahannock, 468; dispatches of, after crossing the Rappahannock, 469; advance of, over the Rapidan, 470; retreat of, to Brandy Station, 470; illness of, 471; dispatches of, after the bat- tles for the Weldon Railroad, 558. Meadow's Bluff, Union stores destroyed at, 551. Meagher, General, wounded at the battle of Antie- tam, 881.
Mechanicsville, battle of, 538.
Memminger, C. G., circular of, addressed to Con- federate State officers, 119.
Memorandum of agreement between Gens. Sher- man and Johnston, 736.
Memphis, naval engagement near, 817. Meridian, expedition of Sherman to, 562. Merrimac, exploits of off Fortress Monroe, 245– 250; blown up by the rebels, 256, 257. Merritt, Gen., destruction effected by, in Loudon and Fauquier counties, Va., 655,
Message of Pres. Buchanan of Dec., 1860, 50; of Jan., 1861, 52,
Message of Pres. Davis, to the first Confederate Congress, extracts from, 88; to the Richmond Congress, 115.
Message of Pres. Lincoln to the Thirty-seventh Congress, 121.
Mexico, relations with the Government of, 221. Miles, Colonel, in command at Harper's Ferry, 877; surrenders Harper's Ferry, 879. Militia, call of Pres. Lincoln for 75,000, 78; response of the Northern States to the call for, 76; called out for the defence of Pennsylvania, &c., 458. Militia, Virginia, armory at Harper's Ferry seized by, 74; notice of Col. Samuel Johnson to, 129. Millen, cruelties practised by the Confederate Government on the prisoners at, 741.
Mill Spring, camp of Gen. Zollicoffer at, 171; de- feat and death of Zollicoffer at the battle of, 172. Milroy, Gen. R. H., Confederate camp in the Al- leghany Mountains attacked by, 185; camp cap- tured by, at Huntersville, 186: rapid march of to the support of Banks, 279; driven out of Winchester by Ewell, 452.
Mine at Petersburg, construction of the, 546; ex- plosion of, 547; the assault after the explosion, 548, becomes a slaughter-pen, 549. Mine Run, Gen. Lee's army at, 470.
Mine sprung by the enemy at Petersburg, 554. Ministers, American, circular addressed to, by
Secretary Black, 216; circular addressed to, by Secretary Seward, 217.
Minnesota frigate, fights o., with the Merrimac, 247-249.
Mississippi, secession movements in, 37; ordinance of secession of, 88.
Mississippi River, Louisiana convention in favor of free navigation of, 41; navigation of, declared free by the Confederate Congress, 48; forts on, below New Orleans, 863; opened by the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, 443.
Missouri, early operations of Gen. Lyon in, 104- 106; Hamilton R. Gamble appointed provisional governor of, 116; action of the Confederate Con- gress in relation to, 116; operations of Gen. Fremont in, 147-160; situation of affairs in, after the death of Gen. Lyon, 150; martial law pro- claimed in, by Gen. Fremont, 153; important measures adopted in, by Gen. Halleck, 179; affairs in, under the management of Gen. Hal- leck, 295-802; military operations in, 604; in- vaded by Gen. Price, 608.
Missouri Compromise, history of the, 22; repeal of the, 28.
Missouri State convention, action o., 116 Mitchel, Gen. Ormsby McKnight,__bfograpnical sketch of, 312; Bowling Green, Ky., occupied by, 175; operations of, in Tennessee and Ala- bama, 812; supersedes Gen. Hunter in command of the Department of the South, 347. Mob at Baltimore attack the Massachusetts Sixth Regiment. 77.
St. Louis attack troops, 105. Mobile, siege of, 610-615; description of the de- fences of, 610; capture of the ram Tennessee in the harbor of, 618; surrender of the forts of, 614; military operations against, 704–706; evacuation of, 706.
Meigs, Lieut. John R., retaliation ordered by Mobs, influence of, on the Northern press, 183,
Sheridan for the murder of, 648.
Money, paper, effect of the excessive issue of in
the Confederate States, 120; large issue of, au- thorized by the Federal Government, 348, 850. Monitor, arrival of the, off Fortress Monroe, 248; fight of, with the Merrimac, 248.
Monocacy River, defeat of Gen. Wallace at the,
Monroe, John F., Mayor of New Orleans, surren- ders the city to Commodore Farragut, 366. Montauk, iron-clad, attack of, on Fort McAllister, 501.
Montgomery, proceedings of the Confederate Con- gress at, 83, 86; occupation of, by Gen. Wilson, 789.
Montgomery Convention, delegates to the, 47; constitution adopted by the, 47.
Morehead, ex-Governor, arrest of, 161.
Morgan, Gen. George W., capture of Cumberland Gap by, 409.
Morgan, Gen. John H., biographical sketch of, 781; activity of guerrillas under, in Kentucky, 399; raid of, in Ohio, note, 781; his raid in Kentucky, 730; surprised and killed, 781.
Morris, Gen., operations of, in Western Virginia,
Morris, Gen. W. H., death of, before Spottsylvania Court-House, 517.
Morris Island, operations against, 504. Mortar, description of the, 227.
Mosby, supply train captured by, at Berryville, 643; murders Union cavalrymen, 644; surren- der of, 728.
Mound City, steamer, explosion of the boiler of the, at St. Charles, Ark., 318.
Mulligan, Col., his defence of Lexington, Mo., 157; surrender of, 157.
Mumfordsville, fight near, between Indianians
and Texas Rangers 169; capture of, by Gen. Bragg, 401; reoccupation of, by Gen. Buell, 404.
Murfreesboro', battle of, 413-417; fortified by Rose- crans, 480; attack on, by Forrest and Bates, 635. Murphy, Col, driven out of Iuka.
Musket, old smooth-bore superseded by the rifle, 224.
Napoleon in Italy, 185; at Austerlitz, and at Man- tua, 186; at Bautzen, 187. Nashville, surrender of, to Gens. Buell and Nelson, 178; Gen. Thomas sent to direct operations at, 630 Hood advances on, 634; field order issued at, by Gen. Thomas, 636; Hood driven back from, 640.
Nashville, steamer, cruise of the, 194. Nashville and Louisville Railroad, important effect of the closing of the, 161.
Natchez, surrender of, to a Union force, 868. National Freedmen's Relief Association, 344. Navigation laws, action of the Confederate Con- gress in relation to, 49.
Navy, Federal, condition of, in 1861, 122; condi- tion of, at the outbreak of the rebellion, 186; ves- sels purchased for, 188; list of vessels built for,
Navy Yard at Gosport, destruction of national property at 74.
at Pensacola burned, 208. Negroes, Chief-Justice Taney on the rights of, 29; schools for, established at Hilton Head, 844; gal- lantry of, in the assault on Fort Wagner, 506. Negro soldiers put on an equal footing with white,
Neutrality, extract from an address to the people of Kentucky, advocating, 161. policy of the British government, 218; Seward on, 218.
Newbern, description of, 838; Burnside's opera- tions against, 839; occupation of, 840; Gen. Fos- ter appointed military governor of, 840; Gen. Pickett's demonstration against, 620.
New England, hostility to the National Govern- ment in, in 1807-15, 20; State rights doctrine in, 21.
New Madrid, occupation of, by Gen. Pillow, 152; evacuation of, by the Confederates, 303. New Orleans, expedition of Gen. Butler against, 363-867; destruction of cotton and tobacco at, 865; surrender of, to Commodore Farragut, 866; occupation of, by Gen. Butler, 8367; mayor and common council of, arnested, 867. Newspapers in the South compelled to support the Confederate Government, 129. Northern disloyal, suppressed, 188. New York, memorials from, laid before Congress, 55; response of, to the President's call for troops, 78; draft riot in, 466; rebel plot to burn,
New York Fire Zouaves at Alexandria, 90. Legislature, aid offered by, to the Fed- eral Government, 58.
Seventh Regiment, departure of, for Washington, 78.
Nicaragua, Walker's expedition into, 29.
Noleman, Capt., defeat of a party of Confederates by, in Missouri, 153.
Nominations, Republican, of 1864, 663; Demo- cratic, 665, 666.
Norfolk, destruction of national vessels and prop- erty at, 14; evacuation of, by the rebels, 256; occupation of, by Gen. Wool, 257.
North Anna River, crossed by Grant's army, 527; recrossed, 528.
North Carolina, progress of secession in 44; se- cession ordinance of, 45; Confederate constitu- tion adopted by, 45; Burnside's operations on the coast of 206; operations of Burnside in, 338-842; Hon. Edward Stanly appointed mili- tary governor of, 842; military operations in, 619-623, 699-702; Sherman's operations in, 718- 716. Northwest, address of Gen. Bragg to the people of the, 401. Nullification, Jefferson's doctrine of. 20. in Georgia and Alabama in 1825, 22; in South Carolina in 1882, 24; Presi- dent Jackson's opinion of, 25.
Opelika, raid of Gen. Rousseau to, 580. Orange Court-House, Lee's army at, 465. Orders, special field, of Sherman, for the march to Savannah, 680 after the surrender of Savannah, 685; after the occupation of Goldsboro', 716; re- organizing his army, 733.
Ordinance of secession of Alabama, 39; of Arkan- sas, 43; of Florida, 39; of Georgia, 40; of Loui- siana, 40; of Mississippi, 88; of North Carolina; 45; of South Carolina, 35; of Texas, 41; of Vir- ginia, 42.
Ordnance boat, explosion of, at City Point, 554.
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