=Garnett, Robert S.=, Confederate brigadier-general,
  killed at Carrick’s Ford, 225

=Gentry, Allen=, makes flatboat trip with Lincoln, 16

=Gentry, James=, enters land at Gentryville, 9;
  sends Lincoln to New Orleans, 16

=Gettysburg=, Pennsylvania, battle of, July 1-3, 1863, 372-375;
  address of Mr. Lincoln at, 376, 377

=Giddings, Joshua R.=, member of Congress approves
  Lincoln’s bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia, 87;
  amendment to Chicago platform, 148, 149

=Gillmore, Quincy A.=, brevet major-general United States army,
  siege of Fort Pulaski, 278

=Gilmer, John A.=, member of Congress, tendered cabinet appointment, 164

=Gilmore, J.R.=, visits Jefferson Davis with Jaquess, 462

=Gist, William H.=, governor of South Carolina, inaugurates secession, 175

=Goldsborough, L.M.=, rear-admiral United States navy,
  commands fleet in Roanoke Island expedition, 277, 278

=Gordon, John B.=, Confederate lieutenant-general,
  United States senator, in assault of Fort Stedman, 504, 505;
  in defense of Petersburg, 509

=Graham, Mentor=, makes Lincoln election clerk, 23, 24;
  advises Lincoln to study grammar, 25;
  aids Lincoln to study surveying, 40

=Grant, Ulysses S.=, eighteenth President of the United States,
  general, and general-in-chief United States army, early life, 264;
  letter offering services to War Department, 264, 265;
  commissioned by Governor Yates, 265;
  reconnaissance toward Columbus, 265;
  urges movement on Fort Henry, 265, 266;
  capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, 266-268;
  ordered forward to Savannah, 271;
  Pittsburg Landing, 272-274;
  asks to be relieved, 275;
  co-operates with adjutant-general of the army in arming negroes, 350;
  repulses rebels at Iuka and Corinth, 380;
  Vicksburg campaign, 380-383;
  ordered to Chattanooga, 389;
  battle of Chattanooga, 390, 391;
  pursuit of Bragg, 391, 392;
  speech on accepting commission of lieutenant-general, 394;
  visits Army of the Potomac and starts west, 394;
  placed in command of all the armies, 394;
  conference with Sherman, 395;
  plan of campaign, 395, 397;
  returns to Culpepper, 395;
  fear of presidential interference, 395, 396;
  letter to Lincoln, 396;
  strength and position of his army, 396, 397;
  instructions to Meade, 397;
  battle of the Wilderness, 398;
  Spottsylvania Court House, 398, 399;
  report to Washington, 399;
  Cold Harbor, 399;
  letter to Washington, 399, 400;
  siege of Petersburg, 400-402;
  sends Wright to Washington, 403;
  withholds consent to Sherman’s plan, 410;
  gives his consent, 411;
  orders to Sherman, 413;
  adopts Sherman’s plan, 414;
  attempt to nominate him for President, 1864, 442, 443;