[14]. Resigned January 17th, 1861, and succeeded by Hon. Lot M. Morrill.
[15]. Did not attend.
[16]. Resigned and succeeded January 2d, 1861, by Hon. Stephen Coburn.
[17]. From the “History of Abraham Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery,” by Hon. Isaac N. Arnold.
[18]. 1864, February 15—Repealed the above act, but provided for continuing organizations of partisan rangers acting as regular cavalry and so to continue; and authorizing the Secretary of War to provide for uniting all bands of partisan rangers with other organizations and bringing them under the general discipline of the provisional army.
[19]. See memorandum at end of list.
[20]. This incident was related to the writer by Col. A. K. McClure of Philadelphia, who was in Lancaster at the time.
[21]. Arnold’s “History of Abraham Lincoln.”
[22]. On the 23d of July, 1861, the Attorney-General, in answer to a letter from the United States Marshal of Kansas, inquiring whether he should assist in the execution of the fugitive slave law, wrote:
Attorney-General’s Office, July 23, 1861.