Carolina, South, secession of, i. 41, 43-44, 55; ii. 3-4;
  seizes Federal customs at Charleston, i. 52;
  requests Federal relinquishment of Fort Sumter, 117
“Caroline” affair, The, i. 109
Case, Walter M., James M. Mason—­Confederate Diplomat,
  cited and quoted, i. 261 note; ii. 161 and note[3]
Catacazy, C., and mediation by Russia, ii. 251 note[1]
Cecil, Lord Eustace, ii. 187, 189, 193
Cecil, Lord Robert, supports Gregory’s motion on blockade, i. 268;
  supports Roebuck’s motion, ii. 171, 175-6;
  on Committee of Southern Independence Association, 187, 193
Charleston, S.C.: 
  Sentiment to Great Britain in, i. 43, 44 note;
  seizure of customs house at, 52;
  British appeal on question of port dues at, 52, 244;
  “Stone Boat” blockade of harbour at, 253;
  evacuation of, ii. 248, 249
Charleston Mercury, “King Cotton” theory of, ii. 5
Chase, Secretary of Treasury, i. 115, 121; ii. 72, 283;
  quarrel with Seward, 72
Chase, W. H. (of Florida), quoted, ii. 4
Chattanooga, ii. 185
Cheever, Rev. Dr., ii. 224
Chenery, ii. 301
Chesney, Captain, cited, ii. 165
Chesson, F. W., ii. 224
Chicago Convention, the, i. 175
Chicago abolitionists, Lincoln and, ii. 49 note[3]
Chicamauga, Rosencrans defeated at, ii. 184
Chittenden, cited, ii. 130 note[2]
Christian IX, of Denmark, ii. 203
Clanricarde, Lord, ii. 168
Clarendon, Earl of, i. 199 note[3], 215;
  ii. 3, 51-8 passim, 63, 203 note[2];
  on Russell’s mediation project and Lewis’ Hereford speech, quoted, 57-8
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty:  Seward’s attack on British interpretation of, i. 113
Cobden, i. 77; quoted, on the Times, 222 note;
  opinion of Seward, 222 note;
  and Sumner, 222 note;
  on Palmerston’s action in Trent affair, 226 note[3];
  letter to Sumner read at American Cabinet meeting, 232
  Otherwise mentioned, i. 289; ii. 26, 67, 80, 95 and note[4], 166, 276
Collie, ii. 189
Collier, legal advice of, on Alabama, ii. 118-9
Columbia District, freeing of slaves in, ii. 83
Columbia, S.C., burning of, ii. 248, 249
Combe, George, Notes on the United States, etc., cited, i. 29
Confederate Commissioners to Europe, the: 
  Bunch’s characterization of, i. 63;
  unofficial interview with Russell, 85-6, 106, 158;
  protest against closing of British ports, 170 note[2];
  replaced by “Special Commissioners,” 203;
  attempt to make use of the Trent affair, 214;
  British attitude to, not modified by Trent affair, 235;
  policy of, with regard to recognition and the blockade,
    i. 264-5, 267, 273, 300;
  acquire a “confidential” document, 265 and note[2];
  hopes of, from Parliament, 265, 266, 272;
  instructions of the first Commissioners,