=Phelps, J.W.=, brigadier-general United States Volunteers,
  mentioned in letter of Lincoln, 334;
  declared an outlaw by Confederate War Department, 350

=Philippi=, West Virginia, battle of, June 3, 1861, 214, 225

=Phillips, Wendell=, letter to Cleveland convention, 442

=Pickens, Francis W.=, member of Congress, minister to Russia,
  governor of South Carolina, fires on Star of the West, 178

=Pickett, George E.=, Confederate major-general, in battle of Five
  Forks, 507, 508

=Pierce, Franklin=, fourteenth President of the United States,
  recognizes bogus laws in Kansas, 113;
  appoints governors for Kansas, 113, 114

=Pillow, Gideon J.=, Confederate major-general,
  stationed at Columbus, 254;
  escapes from Fort Donelson, 268

=Pinkerton, Allen=, detective work of, 173

=Pittsburg Landing=, Tennessee, battle of,
  April 6, 7, 1862, 272-274

=Polk, James K.=, eleventh President of the United States,
  sends treaty of peace with Mexico to Senate, 79

=Pomeroy, Samuel C.=, United States senator, secret circular of, 440

=Pope, John=, brevet major-general United States army,
  sent to New Madrid, 270;
  capture of Island No. 10, 274;
  proceeds to Fort Pillow, 274;
  joins Halleck, 274;
  assigned to command Army of Virginia, 306;
  assumes command of Army of Virginia 310;
  second battle of Bull Run, 310, 311;
  despatch announcing his defeat, 312;
  relieved from command of Army of the Potomac, 314

=Porter, David D.=, admiral United States navy,
  commands mortar flotilla in expedition with Farragut, 282-287;
  in second expedition to Vicksburg, 287;
  in operations about Vicksburg, 382, 383;
  visits Richmond with Lincoln, 517, 518

=Porterfield, G.A.=, Confederate colonel, routed at Philippi, 225

=Port Hudson=, Louisiana, siege and surrender of, 383, 384

=Port Royal=, South Carolina, expedition against, 245, 246

=Powell, Lewis=, alias Lewis Payne, in conspiracy
  to assassinate Lincoln, 534;
  assigned to murder Seward, 535;
  attack upon Seward, 540, 541;
  escape and capture of, 541, 542;
  execution of, 544

=Price, Sterling=, Confederate major-general retreat
  to Springfield, Missouri, 234;
  captures Mulligan, 241;
  retreats toward Arkansas, 269;
  defeat at Pea Ridge, 271

=Pritchard, Benjamin D.=, brevet brigadier-general
  United States Volunteers, captures Jefferson Davis, 526

=Quinton, R.=, defeated for Illinois legislature 1832, 34

=Rathbone, Henry R.=, brevet colonel United States army,
  attends Ford’s Theater with Mrs. Lincoln and Miss Harris, 536;
  wounded by Booth, 538, 539

=Raymond, Henry J.=, member of Congress letter to Lincoln, 462, 463;
  visits Washington, 463