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.
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,seeNapoleon.France, Mexico, and the Confederate Slates,138.
Georgia,74; secession issue in,4-8; state sovereignty in,65-66,75-76; unrest in,94,158,172; invaded,127-129,145-150.Gettysburg, Battle of,88,89.Grant, General U. S., crosses Rapidan,126; at Cold Harbor,126.
Habeas corpusacts,41,59,82-86,116-118,119-120;122,197."Heroes of America,"120-121.Hindman, General T. C.,84.Holden, W. W., of North Carolina,93,170-171.Hood, General J. B.,129,147.Hooker, of Mississippi,3.Houston, Sam, Governor of Texas,8-9.Hunter, R. M. T., Secretary of State,34,69; in Senate,177; Confederate commissioner at Hampton Roads,180; opposes levy of negro troops,192.Huntsville (Ala.),118-119.
Impressment Act,80,90-91,159.Index, The,Confederate foreign organ,62(note).India begins to export cotton,56.Industries in the South,105-107.Ismail Pasha,56,57.
Johnson, H. V.,172.Johnston, A. S.,42-43.Johnston, General J. E.,69; succeeds Bragg in command,114; lower South demands removal of,128; superseded by Hood,129; appeals for restoration of,154,156; restored to command,164; surrenders,201.Johnston, Fort,17,20.
Kenesaw Mountain,127.Kenner, D. J., dispatched to Europe,197-198.Kentucky,63; plan of Confederacy to win,44.
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.
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 alsoFinance.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.
Napoleon III, offers mediation,54,77; intrigues with Confederacy,130et 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 alsoVance.North Carolina Standard,93.
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,seeFinance.Profiteering,78-79,95,108-109,161-162.Pryor, R. A.,13,17-18(note).Pulaski, Fort, seized,6.
Quitman, J. A.,29.
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.RichmondEnquirer,government organ,62,82-83,94,95.RichmondExaminer,opposition newspaper,43,62,64-65,80.RichmondSentinel,government organ,94,95,161.RichmondWhig,80.Rives, W. C.,155.Roanoke Island,36,40,63.Roebuck, J. A.,136-137.Rost, Confederate commissioner to Europe,46.
Secession movement,1et 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,183et seq.; see alsoEmancipation.Slave-trade, African, prohibited,11(note),99-100.Slidell, John, capture of,46; Confederate commissioner at Paris,54; and Napoleon,130et seq.;conference at Paris,198.Smith, G. W.,79(note).Smith, William, Governor of Virginia,161,186-187.South, division in,28et seq.;life in,99et 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,8,12,39,56,65-66,71et 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.