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;
avoids either timidity or defiance, 379, 380;