elected President of Confederate States of America, 179;
  telegram to Governor Letcher, 197;
  proclamation offering letters of marque to privateers, 205;
  camp of instruction at Harper’s Ferry, 209;
  proclamation of outlawry, 350;
  message on emancipation proclamation, 350, 351;
  appoints Hood to succeed Johnston, 407;
  visits Hood, and unites commands of Beauregard and Hood, 409;
  interview with Jaquess and Gilmore, 462;
  interviews with F.P.  Blair, Sr., 479-481;
  gives Blair a letter to show Lincoln, 481;
  appoints peace commission, 482;
  instructions to peace commissioners, 482;
  reports Hampton Roads conference to rebel Congress, 485;
  speech at public meeting, 485, 486;
  Confederate Congress shows hostility to, 500, 501;
  reappoints J.E.  Johnston to resist Sherman, 501;
  recommendations concerning slaves in rebel army, 501;
  sanctions Lee’s letter to Grant, 503;
  conference with Lee, 504;
  flight from Richmond, 515;
  proclamation from Danville, 519, 520;
  retreat to Greensboro, North Carolina, 520;
  interview with Johnston and Beauregard, 520;
  continues southward, 520;
  dictates proposition of armistice presented by Johnston to Sherman, 521;
  requires report from Breckinridge about Johnston-Sherman agreement, 523;
  instructions to Johnston, 524;
  attempt to reach E. Kirby Smith, 525, 526;
  effort to gain Florida coast, 526;
  capture, imprisonment, and release of, 526

=Davis, Mrs. Jefferson=, captured with her husband, 526

=Dawson, John=, defeated for Illinois legislature, 1832, 34;
  elected in 1834, 43

=Dayton, William L.=, United States senator minister to France,
  nominated for Vice-President, 104;
  vote for, in Chicago convention, 149

=Delano, Columbus=, member of Congress, Secretary of the Interior,
  in Baltimore convention, 447

=Delaware=, State of, secession feeling in, 201;
  rejects compensated abolishment, 322, 323

=Democratic Party=, party of slavery extension, 102;
  nominates Buchanan and Breckinridge in 1856, 104;
  disturbed by Buchanan’s attitude on slavery, 116;
  pro-slavery demands of, 140, 141;
  national conventions of, 1860, 142-144;
  candidates in 1860, 152, 153;
  opposition to emancipation measures and conscription law, 354, 355;
  adopts McClellan for presidential candidate, 355;
  interest in Vallandigham, 358;
  attitude on slavery, 437, 438, 472, 473;
  convention postponed, 463;
  national convention, 1864, 466-468

=Dennison, William=, governor of Ohio, Postmaster-General,
  permanent chairman of Republican national convention, 1864, 446;
  succeeds Blair as Postmaster-General, 489, 490

=Dickinson, Daniel S.=, United States senator, candidate
  for vice-presidential nomination, 1864, 448, 449