=Butler, Benjamin F.=, major-general United States Volunteers,
  member of Congress, occupies Baltimore, 199;
  orders concerning slaves, 220-222;
  instructions to, about slaves, 223;
  commands land
  force in Farragut’s expedition against New Orleans, 283;
  in command at New Orleans, 285;
  report about negro soldiers, 348, 349;
  proclaimed an outlaw by Jefferson Davis, 350;
  seizes City Point, 401;
  receives votes for Vice-President at Baltimore convention, 448

=Butler, William=, relates incident about Lincoln, 53

=Butterfield, Justin=, appointed Commissioner of General Land Office, 92;
  defended by Lincoln from political attack, 92

=Cadwalader, George=, major-general United States Volunteers,
  action in Merryman case, 199, 200

=Cairo=, Illinois, military importance of, 209, 210

=Calhoun, John=, appoints Lincoln deputy surveyor, 39, 40;
  at Springfield, Illinois, 52

=Cameron, Simon=, United States senator, Secretary of War,
  candidate for presidential nomination, 1860, 144;
  vote for, in Chicago convention, 149;
  tendered cabinet appointment, 163, 164;
  appointed Secretary of War, 182;
  brings letters of Anderson to Lincoln, 182;
  visits Fremont, 242;
  interview with Sherman, 255;
  appointed minister to Russia, 289;
  reference to slavery in report to Congress, 320;
  moves renomination of Lincoln and Hamlin by acclamation, 447

=Campbell, John A.=, justice United States Supreme Court; Confederate
  commissioner; intermediary of Confederate commissioners, 183;
  at Hampton Roads conference, 482-485;
  interviews with Lincoln, 519

=Canby, E.R.S.=, brevet major-general United States army,
  receives surrender of Taylor, 525;
  receives surrender of E. Kirby Smith, 526, 527

=Carpenter, Frank B.=, conversation with Lincoln about
  emancipation proclamation, 331, 332

=Carpenter, W.=, defeated for Illinois legislature 1832, 34;
  elected in 1834, 43

=Carrick’s Ford=, Virginia, battle of, July 13, 1861, 225

=Cartter, David K.=, announces change of vote to Lincoln
  in Chicago convention, 151

=Cartwright, Peter=, elected to Illinois legislature in 1832, 34

=Chancellorsville=, Virginia, battle of, May 1-4, 1863, 369

=Charleston=, South Carolina, capture of, February 18, 1865, 415;
  burning of, 416

=Chase, Salmon P.=, United States senator, Secretary of the Treasury,
  chief justice United States Supreme Court,
  candidate for presidential nomination, 1860, 144;
  vote for, in Chicago convention, 149;
  summoned to Springfield, 163;
  appointed Secretary of the Treasury, 182;
  questions McClellan at council of war, 289;
  signs cabinet protest, 311;
  favors emancipation by military commanders,