learns Lee’s plans, 315;
  battle of Antietam, 315;
  forces under his command, 317, 318;
  removed from command, 319;
  mentioned, 328, 329;
  adopted by Democrats for presidential candidate, 355, 438;
  nominated for President, 467;
  letter of acceptance, 468;
  electoral votes for, 470;
  resigns from the army, 470

=McClernand, John A.=, member of Congress,
  major-general United States Volunteers at Springfield, Illinois, 52

=McCulloch, Ben=, Confederate brigadier-general, defeat at Pea Ridge, 271

=McCulloch, Hugh=, Secretary of the Treasury,
  enters Lincoln’s cabinet, 492

=McDougall, James A.=, member of Congress,
  United States senator, at Springfield, Illinois, 52

=McDowell, Irvin=, brevet major-general United States army,
  fears junction of Johnston and Beauregard, 216;
  advances against Beauregard, 226;
  battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, 226-229;
  advises movement on Manassas, 289;
  ordered by Lincoln to protect Washington, 299, 305;
  ordered to form junction with Shields and Fremont, 306;
  in Army of Virginia, 310

=McLean, John=, justice United States Supreme Court,
  vote for, in Chicago convention, 149

=McNamar, John=, engaged to Anne Rutledge, 54

=Magoffin, Beriah=, governor of Kentucky,
  efforts in behalf of secession, 201

=Magruder, John B.=, brevet lieutenant-colonel United States army,
  Confederate major-general, joins the Confederacy, 196;
  opposes McClellan with inferior numbers, 301

=Maine=, State of, admitted as State, 1820, 19

=Mallory, S.R.=, United States senator,
  Confederate Secretary of the Navy,
  writes proposition of armistice dictated
  by Davis and signed by Johnston, 521

=Malvern Hill=, Virginia, battle of, July 1, 1862, 302

=Marcy, R.B.=, brevet major-general United States army,
  McClellan’s chief of staff, 294

=Marshall, Charles=, Confederate colonel,
  present at Lee’s surrender, 513

=Maryland=, State of, secession feeling in, 193;
  arrest and dispersion of its legislature, 199;
  refuses offer of compensated abolishment, 434;
  emancipation party in, 434;
  abolishes slavery, 435, 436;
  slavery in, throttled by public opinion, 473;
  ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 474

=Mason, James M.=, United States senator,
  Confederate commissioner to Europe, interview with John Brown, 134;
  goes to Baltimore, 197;
  capture of, 246-249

=Matthews, J.=, burns Booth’s letter, 537

=Maximilian (Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph)=,
  Archduke of Austria and Emperor of Mexico,
  established by Napoleon III in Mexico, 451

=Maynard, Horace=, member of Congress,
  minister to Turkey, telegram about East Tennessee, 259;
  elected to Congress, 419