Lancaster (Ohio), Sherman at, [8]
Lebanon (Missouri), General Curtis at, [122]
Lebanon Springs, Jackson at, [209]
Lee, Fitzhugh, Stuart and, [229]
Lee, General R. E., [94], [182], [186], [195], [379]; at San Antonio, [8-9], [10]; military career, [9]; decision for South, [10-11], [18-19]; resignation from U. S. Army, [11]; commands Virginia forces, [19]; Kanawha campaign, [31], [33]; military adviser at Richmond [36]; prevision, [44], [147]; as a leader, [75-76]; age, [95]; McClellan against, [159], [215]; maneuvering in Virginia, [161]; made Commander-in-Chief, [183], [219], [332], [381]; in 1862-63, [193] et seq.; and Jackson, [194]; plans Valley campaign, [203]; appointed to command in eastern Virginia and North Carolina, [219]; plan against McClellan, [222-23]; Seven Days, [223]; McClellan foils, [226]; sends Jackson against Pope, [228]; entrains Longstreet for Gordonsville, [229]; as strategist, [230-31]; divides army, [231]; Second Bull Run, [237-243]; and Longstreet, [239-40], [252], [253-54], [295]; invasion of Maryland, [243-45]; again divides army, [245]; at Antietam, [245-46]; at Culpeper, [248]; Fredericksburg, [249]; Burnside tries to surprise, [251]; Hooker against, [253], [254], [287]; quoted, [255-56]; Chancellorsville, [253], [258]; defeat at Gettysburg, [278]; no part in Chattanooga strategy, [281]; plans counter-attack in Pennsylvania, [287-88], [291], [292]; Brandy Station, [288]; position before Gettysburg, [291], [293]; Gettysburg, [293] et seq.; retreat, [305]; attempt to bring on Third Manassas, [306]; on importance of Wilmington, [324]; at Orange Court House, [336]; Wilderness, [341], [344]; Spotsylvania, [342-44]; illness, [348]; prepares for Cold Harbor, [349]; at Cold Harbor, [350-52]; losses, [353]; siege, [354]; losses, [354]; Petersburg, [356], [383-84]; insoluble problem, [381]; leaves Petersburg, [386]; Sailor's Creek, [387-88]; asks terms of Grant, [388]; surrenders, [388-89]; terms of surrender, [390-91]; farewell to army, [393]
Lexington (Kentucky) Grant inspects, [328]; Morgan's raid, [357]
Lexington (Missouri), Price takes, [29], [120]
Lick Creek, Grant's forces at, [149], [150]
Lincoln, Abraham, Inaugural, [11]; declares blockade, [16]; and Lee, [18]; calls for Missouri's quota of volunteers, [25]; general call for volunteers, [33]; and civil control, [33], [182], [207], [228], [288], [329]; on evaders of service, [58-59]; reëlection, [77], [364], [370], [379]; and Grant, [133], [327]; as war statesman, [168] et seq.; birth, [168]; education, [168-69]; appearance, [169]; personal characteristics, [169-70]; appointments, [170-71]; quoted, [175], [176]; and Vallandigham, [176]; Emancipation, [178]; foreign policy, [178-79]; Cabinet, [179-80]; as Commander-in-Chief, [180], [185]; and McClellan, [184-85], [188], [221]; stories, [189-90]; letter to a bereaved mother, [190-91]; Second Inaugural quoted, [191-92]; military orders, [195-96]; halts McDowell, [199-200]; and Hooker, [252], [289-90]; and Stanton, [330]; cipher letter to Grant, [332], [360]; and Sherman, [362], [374], [376-77]; meets Union leaders, [384], [385]; assassination, [393]; approves terms of surrender, [394]; bibliography, [399]