=Meade, George G.=, major-general United States army,
  succeeds Hooker in command of Army of the Potomac, 372;
  battle of Gettysburg, 372-374;
  pursuit of Lee, 375, 377;
  offers to give up command of Army of the Potomac, 394;
  continued in command, 395;
  reports surrender of Richmond, 510;
  ordered to pursue Lee, 510;
  pursuit of Lee, 511;
  ordered to disregard Sherman’s truce, 523

=Meigs, Montgomery C.=, brevet major-general
  and quartermaster-general United States army,
  at gathering of officials to discuss news of
  battle between Monitor and Merrimac, 296

=Memphis=, Tennessee, river battle at, 286

=Merrimac=, the, Confederate ironclad,
  battle with Monitor, 278-282

=Merryman, John=, arrest of, 199

=Minnesota=, the, Union steam frigate,
  in fight between Monitor and Merrimac, 280

=Missouri=, State of, admitted as State, 1821, 19;
  action concerning secession, 201-204;
  provisional State government established, 418;
  struggle over slavery, 430-434;
  adopts ordinance of emancipation, 434;
  resolution in Assembly favoring Lincoln’s renomination, 444;
  votes for Grant in Baltimore convention, 447;
  slavery in, throttled by public opinion, 473

=Missouri Compromise=, repeal of, 94, 95

=Mobile Bay=, Alabama, battle of, August 5, 1864, 468, 525

=Monitor=, the, Union ironclad, battle with Merrimac, 279-282

=Montgomery=, Alabama, capital of Confederacy removed from,
  to Richmond, 207

=Moore, Thomas O.=, governor of Louisiana,
  arms free colored men, 348, 349

=Morgan, Edwin D.=, governor of New York,
  United States senator, opens Republican national convention, 1864, 446;
  declines cabinet appointment, 492

=Morris, Achilles=, elected to Illinois legislature in 1832, 34

=Morrison, James L.D.=, desires commissionership
  of General Land Office, 92

=Mudd, Samuel=, assists Booth and Herold, 542;
  imprisoned, 544

=Mulligan, James A.=, brevet brigadier-general
  United States Volunteers, captured by Price, 241

=Murfreesboro=, Tennessee, battle of,
  December 31, 1862, to January 3, 1863, 380

=Napoleon III=, colonial ambitions of, 211;
  establishes Maximilian in Mexico, 451

=Nashville=, Tennessee, battle of, December 15, 16, 1864, 410

=Neale, T.M.=, commands troops in Black Hawk War, 31, 32;
  defeated for Illinois legislature, 1832, 34

=Negro soldiers=, experiments with, early in the war, 348;
  governor of Louisiana arms free blacks, 348, 349;
  reference to, in emancipation proclamation, 349, 350;
  Lincoln’s interest in, 350;
  attitude of Confederates toward, 350, 351;
  massacre of, at Fort Pillow, 351;