Rappahannock: 309, 311, 355, 358.
Rathbone, Major: 450-1.
Raymond: 414. And see 404.
Reconstruction: 326-8, 333-5, 398-401, 434-5, 448-50.
Red River: 388.
Republican Party: (1) Party of this name which followed Jefferson and of which leading members were afterwards Democrats, 30, 31; (2) New party formed in 1854 to resist extension of slavery in Territories, 111; runs Fremont for Presidency, 112; embarrassed by Dred Scott judgment, 112, 115; possibility of differences underlying its simple principles, 122; disposition among its leaders to support Douglas after Kansas scandal, 141-3; consistency of thought and action supplied to it by Lincoln, 122, 145-6; nomination and election of Lincoln, 160-2, 166-9; sections in the party during war, 267-71; increasing divergence between Lincoln and the leading men in the party, 321, 326-9, 401-2, 409-14, 430, 434-5, 450.
Reuben, First Chronicles of: 11-2.
Revolution, American: 20-2.
Revolution, French: 31.
Rhodes, Cecil: 335.
Rhodes, James Ford: 418, 459.
Richmond: 225-7, 242, 245, 275, 302, 392; siege
of Petersburg and
Richmond, see Lee or Grant; feeling in Richmond
towards end, 431-2;
Lincoln’s visit to it, 447.
Roberts, F. M. Earl: 364.
Robinson Crusoe: 10.
Rollin: 67.
Romilly, Samuel: 32.
Rosecrans, General: 342-3, 351, 359-60.
Russell, Lord John: 260, 263, 313.
Russia: 118, 211, 256.
Rutledge, Ann: 78.
St. Gaudens, Augustus: 330.
St. Louis: 116, 244.
Salisbury, Marquess of: 258, 259.
Sangamon: 64-5, 166.
Savannah: 398, 435.
Schofield, General: 397, 436-7.
Schools, Lincoln’s: 10.
Schurz, Carl: 235, 421.
Scott, Dred, and his case; 112-5, 144.
Scott, William: 421-2.
Scott, Winfield, General: 93, 100, 205, 208, 231, 246-9, 274-5, 388, 453.
Secession. See South and Confederacy.
Seward, William: opponent of compromise of 1850 and rising Republican leader, 101, 137, 152; against opposing Douglas, 141; speaks well of John Brown, 152; expected to be Republican candidate for Presidency, rejected partly for his unworthy associates, more for his supposed strong opinions, 161-8; supports Lincoln in election, 169; action during progress of Secession, 193-5, 204; on First Inaugural, 206; action during crisis of Fort Sumter, 208-10; vain attempt to master Lincoln and generous acceptance of defeat, 210-1, 250; his part in foreign policy, 262-5, 387; wise advice to postpone Emancipation, 320; retained by Lincoln in spite of intrigues against him, 328-30; administration of martial law, 376; his usefulness and great loyalty, 406; his judgment on McClellan, 426; attempt to assassinate him, 451; certifies ratification of 13th amendment, 336.