R

Raleigh Progress, [93].
Ramsdell, C. W., The Confederate Government and the Railroads, cited, [108] (note).
Randolph, G. W., Secretary of War, [79] (note).
Refugees, [110]-[111].
Rhett, R. B., leader of secession movement of 1850-1851, [4]; candidate for President of Confederate States, [24]; disappointment, [25], [26]; on state army, [72]-[73]; retires, [87], [88]-[89]; on arming the negroes, [184].
Rhodes, J. F., History of the United States, cited, [6] (note).
Richmond (Va.), capital of Confederacy, [34]-[35]; martial law in, [41]-[42], [85]; evacuated, [199].
Richmond Enquirer, government organ, [62], [82]-[83], [94], [95].
Richmond Examiner, opposition newspaper, [43], [62], [64]-[65], [80].
Richmond Sentinel, government organ, [94], [95], [161].
Richmond Whig, [80].
Rives, W. C., [155].
Roanoke Island, [36], [40], [63].
Roebuck, J. A., [136]-[137].
Rost, Confederate commissioner to Europe, [46].

S

Secession movement, [1] et seq.; of 1850-51, [3]-[4].
Secrecy of Administration, [59], [60], [65], [66].
Seddon, J. A., Secretary of War, [79], [112], [113], [147]; resigns, [163], [180].
Selma (Ala.), foundry at, [105].
Seven Pines (Va.), [59].
Seward, W. H., at Hampton Roads conference, [181].
Sherman, General W. T., Georgia campaign, [126], [127]-[129], [150].
Slaves, [53], [167]: not directly taxed, [91], [125]; relation of Government to, [99]-[102]; "Fifteen Slave" Law, [102]-[103]; arming of, [183] et seq.; see also Emancipation.
Slave-trade, African, prohibited, [11] (note), [99]-[100].
Slidell, John, capture of, [46]; Confederate commissioner at Paris, [54]; and Napoleon, [130] et seq.; conference at Paris, [198].
Smith, G. W., [79] (note).
Smith, William, Governor of Virginia, [161], [186]-[187].
South, division in, [28] et seq.; life in, [99] et seq.
South Carolina, convention (1860), [2]-[4]; secedes, [4]; community of aristocratic class, [28]-[29]; question of state sovereignty in, [72]; political life in, [73]-[75]; anti-Davis, [88]; situation in 1864, [150]-[152]; passes State Conscription Act, [151].
Southern Advertiser, [117].
State sovereignty, [8], [12], [39], [56], [65]-[66], [71] et seq., [116]-[118], [169].
Stephens, A. H., leads opposition to secession, [7]; on state sovereignty, [8]; Vice-President in provisional Government, [11]; a conservative, [27]; elected Vice-President at first regular election, [34]; as central figure in South, [172]-[174]; on question of peace, [175]-[178]; commissioner at Hampton Roads conference, [180], [181].
Stephens, Linton, [76].
Substitutes, Hiring, [92], [103].
Sumter, Fort, [6]; attack on, [14]-[23].

T

Taxation, see Finance.
Tennessee, [14], [74].
Texas, secedes, [7]; secession issue in, [9]; proposes regiment for home defense, [38]; last gunshots of war, [202]; see also Trans-Mississippi.
Thompson, Jacob, [29], [127].
To Our Constituents, [2]-[3].
Toombs, Robert, gives information about Fort Pulaski, [6]; a secessionist, [7]; Secretary of State, [14], [27], [69]; and Sumter, [14]-[15]; candidate for President, [24]; leaves Cabinet, [34].
Trans-Mississippi, [74], [112], [113], [114].
Transportation, [107]-[108].
Tredegar Iron Works, [105].
Trenholm, G. A., [157].

V

Vance, Z. B., Governor of North Carolina, on military arrangements, [76]-[77]; seeks to regulate prices, [78]; proclamation to urge order, [93]-[94]; urges political changes, [154]; reëlection, [170]-[171]; policy, [171]-[172].
Van Dorn, General Earl, [44], [59].
Vicksburg (Miss.), [89]-[90], [96], [112]-[113].
Virginia, and secession, [11]-[14]; calls Peace Convention, [13]; political life in, [74]-[75], [161], [186]-[187]; see also Richmond.
Voruz, shipbuilder of Nantes, [140].

W

Walker, L. P., [34], [79] (note).
Walker, R. J., [29].
Wheeler, Joseph, [118].
Winder, J. H., [41].
Women, position in Confederacy, [104]-[105], [110]-[111].
Worth, Jonathan, [93], [169].