=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

=Cook, B.C.=, member of Congress, nominates Lincoln
  in Baltimore convention, 447;
  seeks to learn Lincoln’s wishes about Vice-Presidency, 448

=Cooper, Samuel=, Confederate adjutant-general, joins the Confederacy, 208

=Corbett, Boston=, sergeant United States army, shoots Booth, 543

=Corinth=, Mississippi, captured by Halleck, 275

=Couch, Darius N.=, major-general United States Volunteers,
  militia force under, in Pennsylvania, 372

=Cox, Samuel=, assists Booth and Herold, 542

=Crawford, Andrew=, teacher of President Lincoln, 12

=Crittenden, John J.=, Attorney-General, United States senator,
  advocates reelection of Douglas to United States Senate, 126;
  in Thirty-seventh Congress, 217;
  presents resolution, 223

=Cumberland=, the, Union frigate, sunk by Merrimac, 280

=Curtis, Samuel R.=, member of Congress, major-general
  United States Volunteers, sends order of removal to Fremont, 242, 243;
  campaign in Missouri, 269;
  victory at Pea Ridge, 271

=Cushing, William B.=, commander United States navy,
  destruction of the Albemarle, 525

=Dahlgren, John A.=, rear-admiral United States navy,
  at gathering of officials to discuss fight between Monitor
  and Merrimac, 296

=Davis, Henry Winter=, member of Congress, bill prescribing
  method of reconstruction, 454;
  signs Wade-Davis manifesto, 456

=Davis, Jefferson=, Secretary of War, United States senator,
  Confederate President, orders that
  “rebellion must be crushed” in Kansas, 113;
  Senate resolutions of, 141;
  signs address commending Charleston disruption, 143;
  statement in Senate, 143;