, Jr.=, United States senator,
Confederate agent in Canada, correspondence with Horace Greeley, 459
=Clay, Henry=, nominated for President, 28
=Clements, Andrew J.=, member of Congress, elected to Congress, 419
=Cleveland=, Ohio, funeral honors to Lincoln in, 547
=Cochrane, John=, member of Congress, brigadier-general United States
Volunteers, nominated for Vice-President, 1864, 442
=Cold Harbor=, Virginia, battle of, June 1-12, 1864, 399
=Colfax, Schuyler=, member of Congress, Vice-President,
letter to, from Lincoln, 132, 133
=Collamer, Jacob=, member of Congress, Postmaster-General,
United States senator, vote for, in Chicago convention, 149
=Columbia=, South Carolina, capture and burning of, 415, 416
=Columbus=, Kentucky, evacuation of, 269
=Confederate States of America=, formed by seceding States, 178, 179;
"corner-stone" theory, 179;
government of, fires on Fort Sumter, 189;
joined by North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas, 200;
strength of, 204;
war measures of, 207;
capital removed to Richmond, 207;
strength of, in the West, 263;
outcry of, against emancipation proclamation and arming of
negroes, 350, 351;
efficiency of armies of, in 1863, 370;
proclamation calling on people to resist Sherman's march, 411, 412;
nearly in state of collapse, 481;
doomed from the hour of Lincoln's reelection, 499;
depreciation of its currency, 499, 500;
conscription laws of, 500;
Confederate Congress makes Lee general-in-chief, 500;
number of soldiers in final struggle, 507;
flight of, from Richmond, 515;
collapse of the rebellion, 524-527;
number of troops surrendered, 527
=Congress of the United States=, passes act organizing
territory of Illinois, 19;
fixes number of stars and stripes in the flag, 19;
admits as States Illinois, Alabama, Maine, and Missouri, 19;
nullification debate in, 38;
Lincoln's service in, 75-90;
Missouri Compromise, 94-96;
Democratic majorities chosen in, in 1856, 108;
agitation over Kansas in, 113;
Senator Brown's resolutions, 141;
official count of electoral votes, 160;
appoints compromise committees, 167;
Buchanan's annual message to, December, 1860, 176, 177;
convened in special session by President Lincoln, 192;
Lincoln's message to, May 26, 1862, 195;
legalizes Lincoln's war measures, 206;
meeting and measures of special session of
Thirty-seventh Congress, 217-220;
Southern unionists in, 217;
Lincoln's message to, July 4, 1861, 218-220;
action on slavery, 223;
special session adjourns, 223;
House passes resolution of thanks to Captain Wilkes, 246;
friendly to McClellan, 250;
Lincoln's message of December 3, 1861, 257, 321, 322;
interview of border State delegations with Lincoln, 257, 258, 324, 325;
Lincoln's special message, March 6, 1862, 323, 324;
passes joint resolution favoring compensated emancipation, 325;
passes bill for compensated emancipation in District of
Columbia, 325, 336;
House bill to aid emancipation in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, 326;
slavery measures of 1862, 329;
President's second interview with border slave State
delegations, 329-331;
President's annual message, December 1, 1862, 341, 342;
passes national conscription law, 354, 355;
act authorizing the President to suspend writ of habeas corpus, 359, 360;
confers rank of lieutenant-general on Grant, 393;
admits representatives and senators from States with
provisional governments, 419;
President's annual message, December 8, 1863, 424;
reverses former action about seating members from "ten-per-cent
States," 424;
bills to aid compensated abolishment in Missouri, 432;
opposition to Lincoln in, 454;
action on bill of Henry Winter Davis, 454;
repeals fugitive-slave law, 457;
confirms Fessenden's nomination, 458;
Lincoln's message of December 5, 1864, 470-472;
joint resolution proposing constitutional amendment to prohibit
slavery throughout United States, 471-476;
the two constitutional amendments submitted to the States during
Lincoln's term, 475, 476;
Senate confirms Chase's nomination as chief justice, 491
=Congress=, the, Union sailing frigate, burned by _Merrimac_, 280
=Constitutional Union Party=, candidates in 1860, 153
=Conventions=: first national convention of Whig party, 28;
President Jackson gives impetus to system of, 52;
Illinois State convention nominates Lincoln for Congress 74, 75;
convention of "Know-Nothing" party, 1856, 102;
Bloomington convention, May, 1856, 103;
first national convention of Republican party, June 17, 1856, 103;
Democratic national convention, June 2, 1856, 104;
Democratic national convention, Charleston, April 23, 1860, 142;
it adjourns to reassemble at Baltimore, June 18, 1860, 143;
Constitutional Union Convention, Baltimore, May 9, 1860, 143;
Republican national convention, Chicago, May 16, 1860, 144, 147-151;
Decatur, Illinois, State convention, 154;
Cleveland convention, May 31, 1864, 441, 442;
meeting in New York to nominate Grant, 442, 443;
New Hampshire State convention, January 6, 1864, 443;
Republican national convention, June 7, 1864, 446-449;
Democratic national convention, 1864, postponed, 463;
Democratic national convention meets, 466-468;
resolution of Baltimore convention hostile to Montgomery Blair, 487
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