B
Baldwin, of Virginia, tells of martial law, [84].
Barksdale, Ethelbert, of Mississippi, [82], [84]-[85], [192].
Beauregard, General P. G. T., and the surrender of Fort Sumter, [15]-[24]; in Georgia, [148], [149].
Benjamin, J. P., signs To Our Constituents, [3]; Attorney-General, [27]; Secretary of War, [34], [79] (note); Secretary of State, [34], [40]; complaints against, [40], [63]-[64]; life and character, [69]-[71]; denounces Napoleon, [144]; on extraconstitutional power, [185]; attacked by Congress, [195]; accepts policy of emancipation, [197].
Blair, F. P., plan of reconciliation, [179]-[180].
Blockade, [51], [56], [77], [105].
Bocock, T. S., Speaker of House, [156].
Bonds, see Finance.
Boyce, of South Carolina, argument for peace, [175].
Bragg, General Braxton, plan to invade Kentucky, [44]; attitude toward press, [59]; Davis's confidence in, [69]; army conditions under, [96]; resigns command, [113]-[114].
Breckinridge, General J. C., Secretary of War, [79] (note).
Brown, J. E., Governor of Georgia, on secession, [5], [6]-[7]; on conscription, [65]-[66], [75]-[76]; opponent of Administration, [145]-[149]; motives, [174] (note).
Bull Run, Battle of, see Manassas.
Bullock, Captain James, [135]-[136].
Butler, A. P., of South Carolina, [4].
C
Cabinet, [14]-[15], [27], [34], [40], [69].
Campbell, J. A., Confederate commissioner at Hampton Roads, [180].
Canada, Confederate agents in, [126]-[127].
Chancellorsville, [89].
Charleston, [15] et seq., [97].
Charleston Courier, [18], [21]-[22], [61]-[62], [94], [95], [97].
Charleston Mercury, describes siege of Sumter, [20]; opposes Administration, [33], [39], [43], [61]-[62], [95], [151], [152], [154]; on conscription, [64]; on Seddon's appointment, [79]; on Impressment Act, [80]; on Tax Act, [81]; on suspension of habeas corpus, [82]-[83], [85]-[86]; issue of conduct of war, [89], [90]; account of President's visit to Charleston, [97]; on peace, [175], [180]; doubts upper South, [196]; on negro soldiers, [196].
Chattanooga, [113].
Chestnut, James, [18] (note).
Chevalier, Michel, [138].
Chickamauga campaign, [96], [113].
Clay, C. C., [127].
Cobb, Howell, [146], [154]-[155].
Cold Harbor, [126].
Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, [152]-[153].
"Confederate Societies," [95].
Confederate States, provisional government organized, [10]-[11]; status of belligerent accorded by England, [35]; clash with state authority, [38]-[40]; archives threatened, [42]; period of elation, [43]-[44]; foreign affairs, [46] et seq.; [130] et seq.; secrecy of government, [59], [60], [65], [66]; divided into separate units, [74]; impotence of government, [160]; anti-war factions in, [165]-[167]; war ended, [202]; see also Davis, South.
Congress, Confederate, [9]-[11].
Congress, U. S., House committee of thirty-three, [2], [13].
Conscription, adopted, [37]-[38]; constitutionality attacked, [39]; Pollard's criticism of enforcement, [64]; correspondence of Davis and Brown on, [65]-[66]; Rhett's opinion of, [73]; opposition to, [75]-[77]; exemptions, [102], [123]-[124]; hiring of substitutes, [103]; failure of State and Confederate governments to coöperate, [116], [151]; age limits, [122]-[123].
Constitution, Confederate, [10]-[11].
Corinth, [53].
Cotton, to solve financial problem, [45]-[46]; necessary to English, [46]; effect of blockade, [51]-[57]; powerless to coerce England, [56].
D
Danville, Confederate capital, [200].
Davis, Jefferson, signs To Our Constituents, [3]; elected President in provisional Government, [11]; as President, [15], [24] et seq.; from Mississippi, [29]; born in Kentucky, [30]; early life, [31]-[32]; personal characteristics, [32]; military activities, [33]; criticism of, [33]-[34], [43], [61]-[65], [89]-[90], [159]-[160], [175]; President at first regular election, [34]; inauguration, [35]-[36]; message to Congress (1862), [36]; proposes conscription, [37]; vetoes Texas Regiment Bill, [38]; clash with state authority, [38]-[40]; use of martial law, [40]-[42]; at height of powers, [43]; shortcomings, [67]-[69]; relations with Lee, [68]; Cabinet, [69]; personal loyalty, [70]; statecraft, [71]; endorses "Confederate Societies," [95]; journeys during Administration, [96]-[97]; message to Congress (1863), [114]; message to Congress (1864), [119]-[120]; in Georgia, [144], [148]-[149]; forced to reorganize army, [163]-[164]; confident of Confederate success, [182], [196]-[197]; signs compromise bill, [198]; Address to the People of the Confederate States, [200]-[201]; resolute to continue struggle, [201]; capture at Irwinsville, Ga., [201].
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, quoted, [67]-[68], [163].
Davis, Reuben, quoted, [67].
Deserters, [110], [120], [162], [166].
Desperadoes, [111], [166]-[167].
Donelson, Fort, [36], [40], [58].
Donoughmore, Lord, Mason interviews, [199].
Draft, see Conscription.
E
Egypt enters cotton competition, [56]-[57].
Elmore, of Alabama, addresses South Carolina convention, [3].
Emancipation, [184], [197], [198]; Proclamation, [53], [77].
England, attitude toward Confederacy, [35], [46]-[47], [54], [56], [198]-[199]; mission to, [46]; effort to coerce, [51]-[52]; Mason in, [52]-[53]; cotton famine in, [53]; bitterness against, [77], [137]-[138]; "Southern party," [135], [136]; shipbuilding investigations, [135]-[136]; decides France's attitude, [142].
Erlanger, Émile, [54]-[56], [131], [133].
Exemptions, [102], [123]-[124].
F
Finance, [45], [48]; specie seized, [49]; "fifteen million loan," [49]; war tax, [49]-[50]; loans, [50]; note issues, [50]; "hundred million loan," [51]; "Erlanger bonds," [54]-[56]; price fixing, [78]; [79], [80], [90]-[91], [95]; Impressment Act, [80]; tax in kind, [80]-[81], [91], [92], [125]; licensing of occupations, [81], [91]; income tax, [81], [91]; property tax, [81]; Funding Act, [81] (note), [125]; financial breakdown, [157]-[158].
Florida, [7], [74].
Florida, The, Confederate cruiser, [139].
Floyd, J. B., U. S. Secretary of War, resignation, [5], [6].
Food situation, [77], [108]-[109], [160]-[161].
Foote, H. S., [29], [84], [178], [179]-[180].
Forey, General, dispatched to Mexico, [132].
France, see Napoleon.
France, Mexico, and the Confederate Slates, [138].