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401; second, 402; votes 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, II. 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,
BAYLOR, J. R., Representative in Second Rebel Congress,

262.

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BEALL, JOHN Y., court-martial and sentence of, for violating
the rules of war, 551, 652; 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, M. 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, JOIN, 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.

50.

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.
LAI, JACOB B., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gess, 122; Thirty-Eighth 141; substitute for the on-
roliment bill, 267; resolutions on the wa 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, 232.

BLANFORD, MARK H., Representative in Second Rebel Con.
gress, 402.

140.

BLISS, GEORGE, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress,
BLIZARD, A., one of the Tennessee protesters, 438-441.
BLOCKADE, President's proclamations of, 149; proclamations
raising, of certain ports, 194; closing others, 605.
BLOW, HENRY T., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress,
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.

140.

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, 40 re-
marks on issue of emancipation proclamation, 2323 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, 63; 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; Vice
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, 403-105; 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, 330.
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-Sevéuth 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 As-istant Secretary of State, 12.
BROWNING, ORVILLE II, Senator in Thirty-Seventh Congress,

122; superseded, 123; amendments to bill for military
employment of colored persons, 275.

BROWNSVILLE, port opened, 149.

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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.
Sanlsbury, 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. 88, 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 Ilicks
to, reply of, and Governor Hicks's protest to,9; to Gen-
eral Scott, 244; affair with Brig Gen. Phelps, 252; ex-
tract from Davis's proclamation of outlawiy, note, 283;
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.

C

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
Merryman case, 154; remarks of Chief Justice Taney,
CADWALADER, JOHN, Judge United States, decision on enroll-
ment act, 273.

155.

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, 300.
CALIFORNIA, vote for President in 1660, 1; in 1861, 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, S. B., Delegate from Creek and Seminole Na-
tion in Second Rebel Congress, 402.

CALVERT, CHARLES B., Representative in Thirty-Seventh
Congress, 122; views ou compensated emancipation,
213-217; peace resolution, 205.

CAMERON, SIMON, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 4:
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

lan on the Maryland election, 309; President's Mes- |
sage on the House resolution of censure of, 333, 334;
remarks November 13, 1861, on colored troops, 416.
CAMPBELL, JAMES, opinion, as Postmaster General, on exclud-
ing newspapers from the mails, 189.
CAMPBELL, JAMES H., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Member of Committee
of Thirty-three, 53; resolution recommending confis
cation of slaves, &c., of rebels, 287.
CAMPBELL, JOHN A., letters to Secretary Seward, 110, 111;
to Jefferson Davis, 111; reply of Thurlow Weed to,
111, 112; at Hampton Roads Conference, 567; inter-
cepted letter, note, 571.

CAMPBELL, J. A. P., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress,
400.

CAMPBELL, J. MASON, Senator's Mason's desire to see, 393.
CAMPBELL WILLIAM B., one of the Tennessee protesters, 438-
441

CANBY, E. R. S., General, President's order through, for C.
L. Vallandigham's deportation, 162; order on colored
soldiers, note, 427, 428.

CANNON, WILLIAM, Member of Peace Conference, 68; Gov-
ernor of Delaware, proclamation of, 312.
CAPERTON, ALLEN T., vote on secession ordinance in Vir-
ginia Convention, note, 7; Senator in First Rebel Con-
gress, 401; Second, 402.

CAREY, JOHN, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49.
CARLILE, JOHN S., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-

gress, 122; Senator in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 123;
Thirty-Eighth, 140; offer of Peace Conference proposi-
tion in Virginia Convention, and vote, 7; vote on se-
cession ordinance, note, 7; substitute for indemnity
bill, 185; on compensated emancipation, 213-217; res-
olution on the prosecution of the war, 290; resolutions
on the relations of the rebellious States to the Gov-
ernment, 326.

CARROLL, JAMES, of Maryland, Disunion letter of, 9.
CARTER, JAMES T. P., one of the Tennessee protesters, 438-
441.

CARTER, LUTHER C., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48.

CARUTHERS, ROBERT L., Member of Peace Conference, 68;
Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400.

CASE, CHARLES, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,

49.

CASEY, SAMUEL L., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 123: on Select Committee on compensated eman-
cipation, and views on, 213, 217, 218.

CASS, GEORGE W., vote for Vice President in Democratic
National Convention, 420.

CASS, LEWIS, Secretary of State, and resigned, 28.
CATHOLIC CHURCH, facts respecting, 502, 503; Bishop Wood's,
Archbishop Kenrick's, and Archbishop Purcell's papers,
502, 503. IN INSURRECTIONARY STATES: Position of Bishop
Lynch, 516; articles from N. O. Standard, 516, 517;
the Pope's reply to the Rebel Commissioners, 517.
CHAMBERLAIN, JACOB P., Representative in Thirty-Seventh
Congress, 123.

CHAMBERLAIN, LEVI, Member of Peace Conference. 67.
CHAMBERS, EZEKIEL F., proposed member of Board of Pub-

lic Safety in Maryland, 9; vote on emancipation in
Maryland, 227.
CHAMBERS, HENRY C., Representative in First Rebel Con-
gress, 402.

CHAMBLISS, JOHN R., vote on Secession Ordinance in Vir-

ginia Convention, note, 7; Representative in First Re-
bel Congress, 401.

CHANDLER, LUCIUS II, claimant for seat as Representative
in Thirty-Eighth Congress, and refused, 141.
CHANDLER, THEOPHILUS P., Member of Peace Conference,
67.

CHANDLER, ZACHARIAH, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress,

4S: Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; amend-
ment to enrollment bill, 264.

CHANLER, JOHN W., Representative in Thirty-Eighth
Congress, 140; proposition to repeal all conscription
laws, 564.

CHAPLAIN, ALEXANDER, resolutions in the Legislature of
Maryland, 398.

Charlotte Bulletin, Clingman's telegram to, 41.
CHASE, SALMON P., Member of Peace Conference, 68; Sec-
retary of the Treasury, and resignation, 108; letter on
"Legal Tenders," 358, 359; National Currency bill,
note, 365; redemption of Treasury loans and notes,
note, 367; Chief Justice, 610.
CHEROKEE NATION, Delegate from, in First and Second
Rebel Congress, 402.

CHESNUT, JAMES, Jr., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48;

resigned, 2; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 2,
11, 400; Aide to Beauregard, 113; votes on Secession
Ordinance, 398.

CHILTON, WILLIAM P., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con-
gress, 11,400; Representative in First Rebel Congress,
401; Second, 402.

CHITTENDEN, LUCIUS E., Member of Peace Conference, 67
CHRISMAN, JAMES S., Member of bogus Legislative Council
of Kentucky, 8; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con-
gress, 400; Representative in First Rebel Congress,
401; Second, 402.
CHRISTIAN RELIGION, proposed Constitutional Amendment
respecting, 259, 593.
CHURCHES IN THE INSURRECTIONARY STATES, Action of the,
508-521, 548; orders respecting the occupancy of, 521-
523; reconstruction of, 543-546; condition of the, in New
Orleans, 543-544; loyalty of East Tennessee, 545, 546.
CHURCH, THE, AND THE REBELLION, 461-548, 603; the Military
and the Churches, 521-543; Reconstruction of Churches,
543.
Cincinnati Gazette, upon a Northwestern Confederacy in-
trigue in 1860, 42.

CITIZENS, arrest of, 152-154, 559-562-sce "Arrests."
CITIZENSHIP, Attorney General Bates's opinion on, 378-384;
Secretary Marcy's, through J. A. Thomas, Assistant
Secretary of State, note, 382.

CLAPP, J. W., Representative in First Rebel Congress, 401.
CLARK, AMBROSE W., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140.
CLARK, DANIEL, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thir-
ty-Seventh, 121; Thirty-Eighth, 140; amendment to
the Crittenden proposition of adjustment, 65; vote
upon, reconsideration, and final vote, 66; bill to ratify
the emancipation proclamation, 229; resolution on
prosecuting the war, 291.
CLARK, HORACE F., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48; adjustment proposition, 74.
CLARK, JOHN B., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; expulsion, 123; Senator in
First Rebel Congress, 401, superseded, 402; Represent-
ative in Second, 402; remarks in favor of repealing
the substitute bill, 121.

CLARK, WILLIAM W., Representative in First Rebel Con-
gress, 401.

CLARKE, FREEMAN, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140.

CLAY, BRUTUS J., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress,
140.

CLAY, CLEMENT C., Jr., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
48; withdrew, 4; intermediary between Colonel
Hayne and President Buchanan, 42; correspondence
with President Buchanan, 34; Senator in First Re-
bel Congress, 401; Niagara Falls correspondence, 301,
302.

CLAY, HENRY, prophecy of, 390.

CLAY, JAMES B., Member of Peace Conference, 68; arrest of,

153.

CLAYTON, A. M., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11,
400.

CLAYTON, PHILIP, Rebel Assistant Secretary of Treasury, 12.
CLEGGETT, THOMAS, arrest of, 153.
CLEMENS, JEREMIAH, statement respecting the bombard-
ment of Sumter, 112.

CLEMENS, SHERRARD, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48; adjustment proposition of, 63; vote on Se-
cession Ordinance in Virginia convention, note, 7.
CLEMENTS, ANDREW J., Representative in Thirty-Seventh
Congress, 122; on Select Committee on compensated
emancipation, 213; views on. 217, 218; resolution re-
specting the insurrectionary States, 324.

CLERKE, JUSTICE, adverse opinion on indemnity act, 186,
187.

CLEVELAND, CHAUNCEY F., Member of Peace Conference, 67.
CLINGMAN, THOMAS L., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress,

48; re-elected, 5; telegram to the Charlotte Bulletin,
41; on Peace Conference proposition, 70; resolution on
slave protection in the Territories, 90; proposition to
withdraw troops from the rebellious States, 290.
Clipper, Baltimore, on loyalty of Baltimore, 8.
CLOPTON, DAVID, Representative in First Rebel Congress,
401; Second, 402.
CLUSKEY, MICHAEL W., Representative in Second Rebel Con-
gress, 402.

COALTER, JOIN D., Member of Peace Conference, 68.
COASTWISE SLAVE TRADE, repeal of laws regulating, 243, 244.
COBB, AMASA, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress,
141.

COBB, GEORGE T., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 122,

COBB, HOWELL, resignation as Secretary of the Treasury, 38;
Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, and President
thereof, 12, 400; pronounces secession a "fixed and
irrevocable fact," &c., 12; major general in rebel ser-
vice, 400.

COBB, THOMAS R. R., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress,
11, 400; on reconstruction, 329; death of, 400.
COBB, WILLIAMSON R. W., Representative in Thirty-Sixth
Congress, 49; withdrew, 3; elected to Second Rebel
Congress, 402; inquiry on his loyalty, 400; expulsion,
note, 402; death, 611.

COBURN, STEPHEN, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
note, 48; Member of Peace Conference, 67.
COCHRANE, CLARK B., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48.
COCHRANE, JOHN, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
48; adjustment propositions, 53, 74; views on imposts
bill, 79; on select investigating committee, 80; reports
on President Buchanan's correspondence with rebel
commissioners, and on secession, 85; president of Cleve-
land Convention, 411; candidate for Vice President,
412; acceptance of, 414; address to his regiment, 414-
416; withdrawal of, 427.

COERCION, RIGHT OF, Buchanan's opinion, 49; votes upon,
77, 230.

COFFEY, GEORGE A., United States District Attorney, request
to Marshal Millward to seize West Chester Jeffersonian
newspaper office, 441, 442.

COFFEY, TITIAN J., acting Attorney General, circular on
amnesty, 148, 149.

COFFROTH, ALEXANDER H., Representative in Thirty-Eighth
Congress, 140; resolution on emancipation proclama-
tion, 290.

COIN, Rebel tax on, 372, 613, 619.

COLE, CORNELIUS, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress,

140.

COLFAX, SCHUYLER, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, and
Speaker of the House, 140; adjustment proposition,
73; resolutions for amending the fugitive slave law,
236, and to expel Alexander Long, 387; vote for Vice
President in Union National Convention, 407.
COLLAMER, JACOB, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48;
Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; amendment
to resolution to prohibit slavery in the Territories, 90;
resolution to reduce the period of service of drafted
men to one year, &c., 263; amendment to enrollment
bill, 264; amendment to joint resolution to equalize
the pay of soldiers, 277; amendments to legal tender
bill, 358; relative to vote of Electoral College, 578.
COLLIER, CHARLES F., Representative in First Rebel Con-
gress, 402.

COLONIZATION, President Lincoln's views on, 213; interview
with colored persons iu August, 1862, 374, 375; the Isle
à Veche experiment, note, 212; votes on, 199–201.
COLOR, bill to remove disqualification of, in carrying United
States mails, 239, 240, 593.

COLORADO TERRITORY, bill for temporary government, 89,
90; enabling act for, 255.

COLORED MEN AS CITIZENS, Opinion of Attorney General

Bates, 378-384; letter of Assistant Secretary of State
J. A. Thomas, note, 382.

COLORED MEN AS VOTERS, in Montana Territory, 240; in
Washington city, 241.

COLORED PERSONS AS WITNESSES, votes respecting, 242, 243,
442.

COLORED PERSONS, CONFEDERATE use of, 281-283, 611.
COLORED PERSONS, disqualification of, in carrying the mails,
bill to remove, 239, 240, 593; letter of Gideon Granger,
note, 239; disqualification to testify, proceedings to re-
move, 240, 242, 243, 442, and Judge Underwood's opin-
ion upon, 442, 443; all able-bodied males of suitable
age to be enrolled, 274; to be liable to the draft, 274;
opinion of Attorney General Bates on citizenship of,
378-384.

COLORED PERSONS, exclusion from the cars, proceedings
respecting, 241, 242, 593; Mr. Sumner's resolution on,
242; Mr. Willey's report upon, 242; Mr. Sumner's mo-
tions to forbid, 242, 593, 594.

COLORED PERSONS LEAVING DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, resolution
of House respecting the order requiring passes for, 594.
COLORED SCHOOLS, legislation respecting, 244.
COLORED SOLDIERS, to have same pay, &c., except bounty, as
white men-bounty of, not to exceed $100, to be fixed
by the President, 116, 272; the several laws concerning,
274; mother, wife, and children of, to be free, 274; pro-
ceedings in Congress respecting, 274-276; respecting
pay of, 276-279; opinions of Attorney General Bates
respecting pay of, 279, 280, 384, 385; Secretary Stan-
ton's order to Governor Andrew respecting enlistment
of, 279, and his reply respecting compensation to loyal
masters for enlisted slaves, 565; President Lincoln's
order for the protection of, 280; rules of war (extract)
concerning, 280; allusion to, in speech of President Lin-
coln at the Baltimore fair, 280, 281; proposed prohibi-
tion of pay to, 283, 284; rebel facts concerning, 281–
283; correspondence between Generals Grant and Lee
concerning, 444, 445; Rebel legislation upon, 611; action
of Virginia legislature, note, 612; General Lee's letter,
note, 611.

COLORED SOLDIERS' FAMILIES, bill for securing freedom of,
564, 565; Major General Palmer's order respecting,
note, 564.

COLVIN, A. J., Letter of Lucius Robinson to, 413.
COLYER, A. S., Representative in Second Rebel Congress, 402.

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COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE, proclamations forbidding, with
insurrectionary States, 149, 150.
COMMISSIONERS, INTER-STATE, names of, 11; rebel to Eng
land, appeal of, to Earl Russell, 27; reply of the Pope
to, 517; of Confederate States, correspondence with
President Buchanan and Secretary Holt, 29-34; with
Secretary Seward, 108-110.

COMMITTEE OF THIRTEEN, in Senate, votes in, 70–72.
COMMITTEE OF THIRTY-THREE, in House, 52; members, 53;
propositions submitted, 53–55; report, 57, 58; minority
reports, 57, 58; votes on propositions, 58-62.
COMMUTATION, OR $300 CLAUSE, votes on, 261; repealed, 263-
270; report on, note, 263.

COMPROMISE, Mr. Lincoln's opinion upon, 67.
CONFEDERATE CLERGY, ADDRESS OF, TO CHRISTIANS THROUGH-
OUT THE WORLD, 517-521.

276.

CONFEDERATE LEGISLATION-See Rebel Legislation.
CONFERENCE, 41-see Peace Conference.
CONFISCATION, act of 1861, 195, 196; act of 1862, and for
other purposes, 196, 197; joint resolution giving con-
struction to last, 197; President's message thereon,
197, 198; other proceedings respecting, 198-203: votes
on repealing the joint resolution, 202, 205, 200, 562, 563;
judicial action under. 206, 207; military confiscation
suspended by the President, note, 207; President's
proclamation under, 208; proceeedings respecting, 275,
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, action of various Conferences,
480-482.
CONGREGATIONAL WELSH ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA, ac-
tion of, 481.
CONGRESS, of United States, meeting, and members of Thirty
Sixth, second session, 48, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 121, 122;
Thirty-Eighth, 140, 111, 559, 588; of Rebel Provisional,
and members of, 11, 400; First Congress, 401, 402; Se-
cond, 402.
CONKLING, FREDERICK A., Representative in Thirty-Seventh
Congress, 122.

CONKLING, JAMES C., President Lincoln's letter to, 235,
236.

CONKLING, ROSCOE, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; amendment to Confie-
cation bill, 198; to Mr. Eliot's joint resolution, 257;
joint resolution on compensated emancipation, 209,
210.
CONNECTICUT, Vote for President, in 1860, 1; in 1864, 623;
Members of Peace Conference, 67; Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140.
CONNESS, JOHN, Senator in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140.
CONRAD, CHARLES M., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress,
11, 400; Representative in First Rebel Congress, 401;
Second, 402.

CONROW, A. H., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400;
Representative in First Congress, 401; Second, 402.
CONSCRIPTION-see Enrollment.
CONSCRIPTION, REDEL, acts of, 118, 119; judicial decisions
upon, 120; proclamations and order upon, 118, 119;
order for enrolling persons between 17 and 50, 427; of
negroes, 428.
CONSPIRACIES, bill to punish, and protest of nine Senators,
376, 377; Douglas's proposition respecting, 71; Rebel
law, 614.
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, 91-97; index to, 100-
103; explanatory amendment proposed by President
Buchanan, 50; adoption of proposition to amend, 59,
60; Mr. Seward's proposition, 71; votes on proposition
to amend, 59, 60, 62-65; proceedings to amend, 255-
259; proposition of Mr. Henderson, 255; Mr. Sumber,
255; Mr. Powell, 155, 256; Mr. Trumbull, 256 Mr.
Garrett Davis, 256; Mr. Saulsbury's proposition, 257;
final vote on amendment in Senate, 257; Mr. Wheeler's
proposition, 257; final vote in the House, 258; res lu-
tions of Mr. Isaac N Arnold, 258; Mr. Windʊm, 258;
Mr. Stevens, 258: Mr. Henry B. Anthony's joint resolu
tion to repeal the joint resolution of March 2, 1861, 258;
resolutions of convention at Allegheny City, Pennsyl-
vania, proposing amendment to, 258, 259; Mr. Cravens's
resolutions respecting amendment of, 259; Mr. Blaine's
proposition to amend, 259; other propositions, and
action, 591-593.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT for the extinction of slavery,
257,258, 590; other propositions, 255-259, 572, 573, 591-
593-see" Adjustment" and "Constitution."
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, votes on, 62, 64; in Peace
Conference, 69, 70; propositions for, 294, 435.
CONSTITUTION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATTS, 98-100; index
to, 100-103; A. H. Stephens's comment upon, 103, 104;
ratification of, 4, 5.
CONTRABANDS, order of Major General Wool respecting, 248;
his order for employment of, and wages, 248; general
instructions concerning, 244, 245, 247, 248; order of
President Lincolu on in the District of Columbia, 248;
extract from report of Secretary Cameron, 249; in-
structions of Secretary Stanton to Goueral Saxton,

251, 252; orders of General Tuttle at Natchez, 253;
Mr. Grinnell's resolutions respecting General Tuttle's
orders, 253.
CONVENTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, conflicting views of fugi-
tive slave law in, 18; vote on secession ordinance, 398,
399; address of, and papers in, 12-20.
CONVENTION OF THE STATES, resolutions in Rebel Congress
contemplating, 617.

CONVENTIONS, POLITICAL, at Baltimore, 403-407; at Cleve-
land, 410-413; at Chicago, 417-423.
CONWAY, MARTIN F., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; resolutions
on prosecution of the war, 230, 292.
COOK, BURTON C., Member of Peace Conference, 68.
COOK, WILLIAM H., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress,
400; Representative in First Congress, 401.
COOPER, HENRY, one of the Tennessee protesters, 438-441.
COOPER, S., Rebel Adjutant and Inspector General, 119.
COOPER, THOMAS B., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 122; death, 123.

COPELAND, R. MORRIS, report of arrests by, 153.
CORNING, ERASTUS, Member of Peace Conference, 67; Rep-
resentative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; resolu
tion relative to taxation, 359; correspondence with the
President on Vallandigham's arrest, 163.
CORRESPONDENCE, between President Buchanan and Rebel
Commissioners, 29-31; between President Lincoln and
New York Democrats on Vallandigham's case, 163-167;
same with Ohio Democrats, 167-175; of President Lin-
coln and Governor Bradford, 309, 310; President Lin-
coln and Fernando Wood, 296, 297; the Niagara Falls,
301-303; the Hampton Roads, 566-572; between Pres-
ident Lincoln and General Grant, 425.

OF Jeff. Davis and Governor Vance, 306, 307; of Alexan-
der H. Stephens and Gideon Welles, note, 307.
OF Secretary Seward on Foreign Affairs, 339-355; with
Mr. Parker on Peace Petition, 456; with Mr. Adams
on the Wharncliffe offer of money to rebel prisoners,
460.
CORWIN, THOMAS, Representative in Thirty Sixth Congress,
49; chairman of Adjustment Committee of Thirty-
three, 33; report, 57; votes upon, 58-62; Minister to
Mexico, granted leave of absence, 350.

COSTE, CAPTAIN, surrender of his vessel to rebels, 27.
COTTMAN, THOMAS, claimant of seat as Representative from

Louisiana, First Session Thirty-Eighth Congress, 141.
COTTON, Rebel regulation of destruction of, 117.
COURTS-MARTIAL, of Rev. Dr. Anderson for disloyalty, 537,
538; of Robert Taylor of Tennessee, for the murder of
his slave, 548, 549; of Rev. Fountain Brown of Ar-
kansas, for selling his freed slaves, 549, 550; of West
Bogan of Arkansas, for the murder of his master, 550,
551; of John J. Glover of Arkansas, for the murder of
a slavemaster, 551; of John Y. Beall of Virginia, and
of Robert C. Kennedy, for violating the laws of war,
551-553.

COVODE, JOHN, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
48; Thirty-Seventh, 122.
COWAN, EDGAR, Senator in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122;

in Thirty-Eighth, 140; amendment on pay of soldiers,
276; proposition relative to military commissions, 563.
Cox, SAMUEL S., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; adjust-
ment proposition, 55; resolution respecting arrests.
181; amendment to bill for recognition of Hayti and
Liberia, 239; amendment to Montana bill, 254, 255;
motion to insert the word "white" in the enrollment
bill, 261; amendment to bill relating to unemployed
generals, 285; resolution defining the word “assassins,'
291, 292; peace resolutions, 295, 574, 575; resolution on
the Arguelles case, 355; relative to a colony of blacks,
note, 212; proviso to Nebraska ena ling act, 377; pro-
posed increase of the pay of soldiers, 271; at Demo-
cratic National Convention, 420.

Cox, WALTER S., Letter respecting secession, 9.
CRAIG, JAMES, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
49.
CRAIGE, BURTON, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,

49; telegram sent South, 37; remarks upon Peace
Conference proposition, 70; resolution on recognition,
89; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400.
CRAVENS, JAMES A., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-

gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; resolutions respecting
amending the Constitution, 259.

CRAWFORD, MARTIN J., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; telegram South, 37; withdrew, 3; Deputy
in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; resolution re-
specting slavery, 76; rebel commissioner to Washing-
ton, 108; colonel of cavalry, 400.
CREOLES, rebel proposed military employment of, 282; rea-
son given for declining, 252.

CRESWELL, JOHN A., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140: successor of Senator Hicks. 559.
CRISFIELD, JOHN W., Member of Peace Conference, 68;

Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; me-
moranda of interview between the President and Bor-
der-State Representatives, March 10, 1862, 210, 211;
views on compensated emancipation, 213–217.
CRITTENDEN, JOHN J., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
48; member of the Committee of Thirteen, 70; Bor-
der State Committee, 73; telegram stating that his
adjustment was lost in the Senate by refusal of South-
ern Senators to vote, 39; hopeful despatch of, 39; va-
rious votes on his proposition, 61-67, (also see Adjust-
ment;) remarks of Senators Jobuson and Latham re-
specting defeat of, 66, 67; telegram respecting same, 38;
alleged authorship of the measure, 75; vote of thanks
to, of Virginia Convention, 6; proposition in Senate
Committee of Thirteen, 70; amendment respecting fu-
gitive slave law, 70.

CRITTENDEN, JOHN J., Representative in Thirty-Seventh
Congress, 122; resolution respecting the cause and the
objects of the war, 286; at Border-State interview with
the President, 211; views ou compensated emancipa-
tion, 213-217.

CROCKETT, JOHN W., Member of bogus Legislative Coun-
cil of Kentucky, 8; Representative in First Rebel Con-
gress, 401; peace proposition, 303.

CROSBY & NICHOLS, President Lincoln's letter to, 336.
CROWNINSHIELD, FRANCIS B., Member of Peace Conference,
67.
CRUICKSHANK, MARCUS H., Representative in Second Rebel
Congress, 402.

CRUMP, WILLIAM W., Rebel Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, 619.
CULLOM, ALVIN, Member of Peace Conference, 68.
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIANS, in East Tennessee, action of,
546; action of the General Assembly of the Church,
473, 474.

CURRIN, DAVID M., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress,
400; Representative in First Congress, and death, 402
CURRY, JABEZ L. M., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Cou-
gress, 49; telegram South, 37; withdrew, 4; Deputy in
Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; Representative in
First Congress, 401.

CURTIN, ANDREW G., Governor of Pennsylvania, signer of
Altoona Address, 233.

CURTIS. SAMUEL R., Major General, orders and letters of in
the McPheeters case, 533, 534, 535, 537.

CURTIS, SAMUEL R., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; resigned, 123; Member
of Committee of Thirty-three, 53; Member of Peace
Conference, 68.
CUSHING, CALEB, Opinion as Attorney General on news-
paper exclusion from the mails, 189, 190

CUTLER, R. KING, elected Free State Senator from Louisi-
ana, 430; vote in Louisiana Convention on abolishing
slavery, 332; report and action upon credentials of,
579.

CUTLER, WILLIAM P., Representative in Thirty-Seventh
Congress, 122.

D

DAILY, SAMUEL G., Delegate from Nebraska, declaration of,
note, 590.
Daily News, New York, presented by grand jury and ex
cluded from the mails, 188; report thereon, 188–192.
DAKOTAH, bill to organize, 89.
DANEKER, DAVID, refusal to haul down the American flag,
and resignation of, 394.
DARDEN, STEPHEN II., Representative in Second Rebel Con-
gress, 402.

DARGAN, EDWARD S., Representative in First Rebel Congress,
401; remarks on creoles, 282.
DARGAN, J. A., in South Carolina Convention, 17, 20; vote
on secession ordinance, 398.
DASHIELL, JOHN H., statements of respecting church orders
in Baltimore, 525, 532; arrest and discharge of, 525.
DAVIDSON, ANDREW J., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con
gress, 400: Representative in First Congress, 402.
DAVIDSON, THOMAS G., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; withdrew, 4.
DAVIS, DAVID, United States Judge, decision on enrollment
act, 273.
DAVIS, GARRETT, Senator in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 123;

Thirty-Eighth, 140: views on compensated emancipa
tion, 213-217; motion to amend the new Article of
War, 238; resolution re-pecting Col. T. W. Higginson
and the Anthony Burns affair, 244; proposition to
amend the Constitution, 256; proposition to divide
New England, 259; amendment to bill to employ col
ored persons in the public service, 275; amendment to
bill to suppress insurrection, 275; amendment to the
engineer bill, 276; substitute for and amendments to
joint resolution to equalize pay of soldiers, 277; âmend-
ment to the arty appropriation bill, 278; amendment
to internal revenue bill, that no money raised by it

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