473;
  two constitutional amendments offered during Lincoln’s term, 475, 476;
  Lincoln’s draft of joint resolution offering South $400,000,000, 493;
  decline in value of slave property in the South, 501;
  effect on Lincoln’s character, 551. 
  See Emancipation and Negro soldiers

=Slidell, John=, minister to Mexico, United States senator,
  Confederate commissioner to Europe, capture of, 246-249;
  last instructions from Confederate Secretary of State to, 501, 502

=Smith, Caleb B.=, member of Congress, Secretary of the Interior,
  judge United States District Court,
  appointed Secretary of the Interior, 182;
  signs cabinet protest, 311, 312

=Smith, E. Kirby=, Confederate general,
  commands forces west of the Mississippi, 525;
  surrender of, 526, 527

=Smith, Melancton=, rear-admiral United States navy,
  at gathering of officials to discuss fight between Monitor
  and Merrimac, 296

=Smith, William F.=, brevet major-general United States army,
  service at Chattanooga 389

=Spain=, joint expedition to Mexico, 451

=Spangler, Edward=, imprisoned for complicity in Booth’s plot, 544

=Speed, James=, Attorney-General, appointed Attorney-General, 491

=Speed, Joshua F.=, intimacy with Lincoln, 53;
  Lincoln’s letters to, 64, 65, 68;
  marriage, 65

=Spottsylvania=, Virginia, battle of, May 8-19, 1864, 398, 399

=Springfield=, Illinois, its ambition, 26;
  first newspaper, 26;
  becomes capital of Illinois, 45, 52;
  in 1837-39, 53;
  revival of business in, 61;
  society in, 62;
  Lincoln’s speech of farewell at, 169;
  funeral honors to Lincoln in, 547, 548

=Stanley, Edward=, member of Congress, appointed military
  governor of North Carolina, 420

=Stanton, Edwin M.=, Attorney-General, Secretary of War,
  succeeds Cameron as Secretary of War, 289;
  his efficiency, 289, 290;
  interview with the President, 293, 294;
  at gathering of officials to discuss news of Monitor
  and Merrimac, 296;
  conveys President’s reply to McClellan’s plan of campaign, 298;
  indignation at McClellan, 311;
  draws up and signs memorandum of protest against continuing
  McClellan in command, 311;
  instruction about slaves, 349;
  faith in Hooker, 370;
  anxiety for Lincoln during Early’s raid, 403;
  order regulating raising of colored troops, 435;
  orders suppression of two New York newspapers and arrest
  of their editors, 453, 454;
  agrees with President against making proffers of peace to Davis, 463;
  sends Halleck’s letter to President, 488;
  shows Lincoln Grant’s despatch transmitting Lee’s overtures, 503;
  disapproves Sherman’s agreement with Johnston, 523;
  at Lincoln’s death-bed, 540