urges that parts of States be not exempted
in final emancipation proclamation, 343;
submits form of closing paragraph, 344;
presidential aspirations of, 439-441;
letter to Lincoln, 440, 441;
resigns from cabinet, 457;
effect of his resignation on the political situation, 464;
looked upon by radicals as their representative in the cabinet, 487;
hostility to Montgomery Blair, 488;
made chief justice, 490, 491;
note of thanks to Lincoln, 491;
opinion of Lincoln, 491;
administers oath of office to Lincoln at second inauguration, 496;
administers oath of office to President Johnson, 545
=Chattanooga=, Tennessee, battle of, November 23-25, 1863, 389-392
=Chickamauga=, Tennessee, battle of, September 18-20, 1863, 386, 387
=Clary’s Grove=, Illinois, settlement of, 24
=Clay, Clement C., 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