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Labor, [100]-[102], [152]-[153].
Laird rams controversy, [135]-[136], [137].
Lee, General R. E., inspires army, [43]-[44]; to invade Maryland, [44]; and Davis, [68]-[69]; demand of full command for, [154], [156]; conspiracy to set up as dictator, [155]; made commanding general, [163]; opinion of peace project, [180]; as statesman, [187]-[190]; officers propose to continue fighting, [202]-[203]; address to army, [203].
Lee, Stephen, [18] (note).
Lincoln, Abraham, reëlection, [175], [178]; conference at Hampton Roads, [181].
Louisiana, [7], [42], [74], [112], [113], [114].
M
McClellan, General G. B., [42], [127].
Magrath, A. G., Governor of South Carolina, [152], [153]-[154], [196].
Manassas, Battle of, [33]; Second, [43], [59].
Mann, A. D., Confederate commissioner at Brussels, [46], [132]-[133], [142].
Martial law, see Habeas corpus. Maryland, plan of Confederate States to win, [44].
Mason, J. M., capture of, [46]; replaces Yancey as commissioner, [47]; in England, [52]-[53], [55], [198]-[199]; in Paris, [137]-[138], [198].
Memminger, C. G., Secretary of Treasury, attempts to establish foreign credit, [48]; resigns, [157]; see also Finance.
Mexico, [114]; Napoleon III and, [131], [132]-[133], [134], [138], [139]; Confederate negotiations with, [139]-[140], [144]; project condemned by French people, [143]; expedition suggested, [179].
Military policy, [33], [43]-[44].
Mississippi, represented in South Carolina convention, [3]; secedes, [7]; typical of new order in South, [29]-[31]; sense of Southern nationality, [31]; status of, [74], [114]-[115].
Mobile Bay, capture of, [129].
Montgomery (Ala.), general Congress of seceding States at, [9]-[11].
Montgomery Mail, [162].
Moultrie, Fort, [6], [20].
Munitions, [33], [48], [61], [65], [105]-[106].
N
Napoleon III, offers mediation, [54], [77]; intrigues with Confederacy, [130] et seq.; Italian policy, [134], [143]; purpose exposed, [142]; influence in Mexican policy of the South, [178].
New Orleans, loss of, [42], [74].
New York Herald, [175].
Niter and Mining Bureau supplies powder for South, [106].
North Carolina, resolutions concerning Congress of seceding States, [9]-[10]; against secession, [12]; secedes, [14]; state rights, [12], [39]; political life in, [74]; protests tithes, [92]; disorder in, [93]-[94]; anti-Davis tendencies in, [94]; peace illusion in, [169]-[170]; see also Vance.
North Carolina Standard, [93].
P
Palmerston, Lord, British Prime Minister, Mason interviews, [198].
Peace, [93], [120], [121]-[122], [126]-[127], [169]-[170], [175]-[182], [202].
Peace Convention, [13].
"Peace Society," [121]-[122].
Peninsular campaign, [42], [59].
Perryville, Battle of, [53].
Petersburg (Va.), [107]-[108].
Pierce, Bishop, quoted, [109].
Pike, General Albert, [84].
Pollard, E. A., [62], [66], [69], [87]; The First Year of the War, [62]-[64].
Porcher, F. A., [185].
Prentiss, S. S., [29].
Press, Freedom of, [59].
Preston, General J. S., [151].
Preston, General William, [140], [144].
Price-fixing, see Finance.
Profiteering, [78]-[79], [95], [108]-[109], [161]-[162].
Pryor, R. A., [13], [17]-[18] (note).
Pulaski, Fort, seized, [6].
Q
Quitman, J. A., [29].