McClellan, George B., General:  practical help to Douglas, 134; successes in West Virginia, 243; put in command of Army of Potomac and later of all armies, 272; his strategic views at outset of war, 274-5, 276, 280; his career and character, 284-6; Lincoln’s problem about him, 286-7; procrastination and friction before he moved, 287-91; preliminaries to campaign in Peninsula, 291-3; relieved of command over Western armies, 293; campaign in Peninsula, 293-5, 298-302; his recall and failure to support Pope, 302-4; army of Potomac restored to him, 305; battle of Antietam and subsequent delays, 305-7; his final dismissal and its cause, 307-9; his political career, 300, 308, 374, 413-5, 416, 424; resigns from Army, 437; Seward’s judgment on him, 427.

McClernand, General:  350-2.

McLean, Justice:  114, 167.

Madison, James:  37.

Maine:  16, 40.

Malplaquet:  364.

Marcy:  49.

Marshall, John:  41.

Martial Law:  376-81. See also 265-7, 269-70, 313, 321, 335-6, 451.

Martineau, Harriet:  43.

Maryland:  197, 225, 240-2, 304-7, 333-4.

Mason:  263.

Massachusetts:  16, 19, 172-3, 239-40, 296, 409.

Mathematics:  67. And see Euclid.

Maximilian, Archduke and Emperor:  388.

Mayflower:  150.

Meade, George, General:  356-8, 391, 447.

Memphis:  226, 275, 349, 389.

Meridian:  227, 389.

Merrimac:  292-3.

Methodists:  150.

Mexico:  28, 90; war with, 91-3; later relations, 211, 256, 388-9, 404, 420.

Mexico, Gulf of:  27, 208.

Michigan:  38, 172.

Militia:  228, 246, 369.

Mill, John Stuart:  260.

Milligan, case of, in Supreme Court:  378.

Minnesota:  27.

Mississippi River:  7, 8, 13, 26, 56, 198, 226, 275, 281, 283, 348-55.

Mississippi State:  26, 175, 179, 199, 227. And see Meridian and
Vicksburg.

Missouri Compromise:  39-40; repealed, 109-12; question whether unconstitutional, 112-5.

Missouri River:  26.

Missouri State:  27, 39-40, 113, 197, 225, 229, 244-5, 269-70, 333-4, 400.

Mobile:  227, 388, 395, 412.

Moltke:  217.

Monroe Doctrine:  388.

Montana:  26.

Montgomery:  199-200, 225.

Mormons:  99, 130.

Motley, John Lathrop:  138, 237, 238, 417.

Napoleon I.:  26, 215.

Napoleon III.:  256, 313, 388.

Nashville:  339, 396.

National Bank:  42, 47, 65.

Nebraska:  110, 113.

Negotiations for peace, impossible demand for them:  402-5, 428, 431-4.

Negroes:  Lincoln on notion of equality as applied to them, 124; Stephens on great moral truth of their inferiority, 179; their good conduct during the war and their valour as soldiers, 330; Lincoln’s human sympathy with them, and the right attitude in face of the bar between the two races, 330-3; mistaken precipitancy in giving them the suffrage, 334-5, 430; the Confederacy ultimately enlists negroes, 431; negro bodyguard at Lincoln’s second Inauguration, 435; projects for colonisation of negroes, 42, 317, 331, 332. See also Slavery.