Pierce, Franklin, President, his character, [25].

Plans of the enemy, their development, [468].

Pledge given by Federal authorities to Confederate Commissioners and Government for the evacuation of Sumter and unchanged condition of Pickens, [269].

Plighted faith, the last vestige of, disappeared, [274].

Point of honor, the, raised by Secretary Seward, [273].

Political parties, the changes occurring in, [35];
their names and signification, [35].

Polk, Major-General Leonidas, enters Kentucky and occupies Hickman and Columbus, [391];
his dispatch to the President and the answer, [392];
answer to Kentucky Committee, [394];
letter to the Governor of Kentucky, [396];
his proposition, [397];
repulses the assailants at Belmont, [404];
his report of the conflict, [405].

Popular sovereignty party of 1860, its principles, [51].

Powder, our supply in 1861, [472];
first efforts to obtain, [473];
mills in existence, [472];
progress of development, [474];
amount of powder annually required, [474];
how supplied, [474], [475];
Government mills, [475].

Powell, Senator, offers a resolution in the United States Senate relative to the state of affairs in 1860, [61];
action on the resolution, [68].