Language of the Northern press, on the right to coerce a State, [253-256];
language of Northern speeches, on resistance to an attempt to coerce a State, [254].
Laurel Hill, West Virginia, the conflict at, [338].
Lay, Colonel, reminiscences of the battle of Manassas, [381], [382].
Lee, Robert E., resigns in the United States Army, [308];
rank, [308];
appointment in the Confederate Army, [309];
appointed commander-in-chief of the military forces of Virginia, [328];
commands the Army of Virginia, [340];
remarks, [340];
goes to western Virginia, [434];
his movements, [434];
the bad season, [434];
decides to attack the encampment of the enemy, [434];
the instructions, [435];
refrains from the attack, [435];
cause, [435];
moves to the support of Wise and Floyd, [436];
the enemy withdraws, [436];
Lee returns to Richmond, [436];
sent to South Carolina, [437].
Leesburg, movement of the enemy to cross the Potomac near, [437].
Letcher, Governor, reply to Mr. Lincoln's call for troops, [412].
"Let the Union slide," origin of the expression, [56].
Lexington, Missouri, the battle at, [430];
surrender of the enemy, [431].
Liberty, misuse of the word by abolitionists, [34].
Lincoln, President, his language relative to coercion, [256];
approves the plan of Fox to reënforce Sumter, [272];
issues his proclamation introducing the farce of combinations, [297];
no power to declare war, [298];
section 4, Article IV, of the Constitution, [298];
no justification for the invasion of a State, [298];
a palpable violation of the Constitution, [298];
his effort to justify himself before the world for attacking us, [322];
expresses his approbation at the burning of Harper's Ferry, [329];
his explanation of his policy, [329];
letter relative to the passage of troops through Baltimore, [332];
reply to the letter of the Governor of Kentucky, [388];
calls on the Governors of States for troops, [412];
their answers, [412].