elected President of Confederate States, [205];

defies North, [205], [206];

hopes to entrap Seward into debate with commissioners, [238];

urged by South to do something, [241], [242];

prefers to make North aggressor, [242];

tries to win over Kentucky, [266], [268];

offers to issue "letters of marque and reprisal," [282];

when secretary of war, sent McClellan to Europe, [303];

sends troops to seize East Tennessee, [353];

wishes to free Kentucky, ii. 154;