removes Fremont, his reasons, [350], [351];
sees military importance of Cumberland Gap, [351];
urges construction of a railroad there, [352];
urges Buell on, [352];
annoyed by Buell's refusal to move, [353];
death of his son, [355];
discusses plan to capture New Orleans, [358];
suddenly obliged to consider foreign affairs, [368];
his corrections on Seward's instructions to Adams, [373], [375];
his statement of foreign relations in message of December, 1861, [377], [378];