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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



his birth, 280; education, 280; public offices held, 280; 



candidate for the Presidency, 280; vote of the people, 



280; speeches in Congress, see CONGRESS; speech at 



Wheeling, 280 ; address to the Illinois Legislature, 280 ; 



sickness, 280; letter to the Chairman of the Democratic 



Committee, 280 ; death, 281. 

 Dranesville, Va., its situation, 2S1 ; skirmish at, 281 ; details, 



282. 

 DUELL, E. HOLLAND, member of Congress, 166 ; the present 



is no time for compromise, 214. 

 DUPONT, Commodore S. F., commands the naval expedition 



to Port Koyal, 289 ; biographical notice of, 726. 

 DFETKA, Colonal, at the battle of Great Bethel, 844. 



EAELT, Colonel, at Bull Run, 85. I 



Earthquakes and Eruptions of Volcanoes ; earthquake at 

 Mendoza, South America, 282 ; city totally destroyed, 

 282 ; earthquake at Edd, Africa, 282 ; eruption of Vesu- 

 vius, 282; earthquake on the island of Penang, 283; 

 earthquakes in the United States, 286. 



EGLINTON, Earl of, his birth, 284; education, 284; offices, 

 284 ; fond of sports of the turf, 284 ; revives the tourna- 

 ment, 284. 



Ems, JOHN "W., his birth, 284; education, 234; offices in 

 North Carolina, 234; elected Governor, 284 ; orders the 

 forts to be seized, 284. 



Letter of, to President Buchanan, 537, 538; answer of, 

 to President Lincoln's call, 538, 589 ; proclamation of, 

 539 ; message of, 539. 



XLLSWOBTII, EPHRAIM E., his birth, 284; education, 284; 

 organizes the Chicago Zouave corps, 284 ; raises a regi- 

 ment of volunteers in New York, 284; cause of his 

 death, 285. 



ELZEY, Colonel, at Bull Bun, 85. 



EMMONS, PEOFESSOE EBENEZEB, Taconic System, 670. 



Epidemics, the principal that prevailed in 1861, 285 ; chol- 

 era, 285; typhus fever, 285; yellow fever, 285; small- 

 pox, 285; sanitary reform, 285; steppe murrian, 286; 

 remedy for small-pox, 286. 



Ericsson's Eatttry. (See Navy.) 



EVANS, JOHN, his birth, 287 ; education, 287 discovers fossil 

 remains, 287; labors as a geologist, 287. 



Evening News, St. Louis, suppressed by General Fremont, 

 410. 



Expeditions, Military and Naval, their number, 287, the 

 Hatteras Expedition, 287; the expedition to Port Boyal, 

 South Carolina, 289; the expedition to Ship Island and 

 New Orleans, 290; the Burnside expedition to North 

 Carolina, 292 ; the mortar fleet under Com. Porter, 292; 

 the Mississippi Biver expedition, 293. 



Fairfax Court-House, its situation, 294; Bkinnish at, 294; 

 details, 294. 



Fast Days, frequent, 294; proclamation of President Bu- 

 chanan, 294; resolution of the Confederate Congress, 

 294 ; proclamation of President Davis, 294 ; proclama- 

 tion of President Lincoln, 295 ; second proclamation of 

 President Davis, 295. 



FATTLKNEB, CHAS. J., his arrest, 360. 



FESSENDEN, W. P., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166 ; 

 on the naval appropriation bill, 183; on the bill to dis- 

 continue postal service in seceded States, 219 ; on the 

 object of the war, 241. 



Finances of the Confederate States, coin and bank circula- 

 tion in, 309; payment of Northern debts forbidden, 310; 



Treasury notes authorized, 310 ; action of the banks, 810 ; 

 convention of bank officers, 810 ; resolutions, 310; second 

 session, 310; resolutions, 310; action of the Confederate 

 Congress, 311 ; payments of interest on Southern secu- 

 rities, how to be made, 311 ; cotton and produce loans, 

 811 ; form of subscription, 811 ; issues of paper by the 

 Government, 311 ; failures in 1861, 313. 



Finances of the United States, change in the policy of tho 

 Government, 295 ; resources and payments of the Fed- 

 eral Government from its origin to 1861, 295; effect of 

 the war upon the finances, 296; loan of June, 1861, 296 ; 

 Issue of Treasury notes in December, 1860, 296 ; bids for 

 loan, 296; loan authorized in February, 1861, 296 ; revi- 

 sion of the tariff, 296 ; bids for the loan, 296 ; taken, 297 ; 

 resources of the Treasury, 297; recommendations of 

 bank committees, 297 ; struggles of the Government for 

 money, 297 ; war loans of the States, 297 ; 60 day loan 

 of the Government, 297 ; demands of the Secretary upon 

 Congress, 297; action of Congress, 298; action of the 

 banks of New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, 298; re- 

 port of the Secretary of the Treasury in December, 

 299; his circular to assistant treasurers relative to de- 

 mand notes, 299 ; order of Gen. Scott to the army, 299 ; 

 estimates of revenue and expenditure for 1862, 299 ; debt 

 at the close of 1860-61, 300; amounts afterwards author- 

 ized, 300 ; taxation, 301 ; table of States, population, debt, 

 valuation of property and tax, 301 ; inequality of the tax, 

 801 ; table of population and assessed value of real and per- 

 sonal property in the United States, 802 ; table of the true 

 value of do. per census of 1860, 302 ; the change from 

 gold to paper money, 803 ; amount of metals in the 

 country, 303 ; rate of money and bills of exchange in 

 New York for 1861, 303; specie movement, 304; re- 

 ceipts, exports, and coinage of California gold, 304 ; bars 

 of California gold, 804; value of each bar, 305; bullion 

 deposits at the assay office in New York, 305; operations 

 of the office, 305 ; operations of the mint in Philadel- 

 phia, 806; coinage, 806; shipments of specie from Eng- 

 land, 806 ; coinage of stock sales during 1861, 807 ; State 

 war loans, 307 ; loan of Indiana, 307 ; loan of New Jer- 

 sey, 80S ; loan of Massachusetts, 308 ; loan of Connecticut, 

 808; loan of Maine, 808; loan of Illinois, 808; loan of 

 Michigan, 308 ; loan of Iowa, 808 ; failure to negotiate, 

 808; reason, 808; loan of Ohio, 308; loan of New York, 

 808 ; loan of Pennsylvania, 308 ; contributions of cities 

 and towns, 309 ; failures in the United States in 1861, 

 312; revenue*and expenditure in 1861, 313. 



FITZPATBICK, BENJAMIN, Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 

 166; withdraws from the Senate, 197; his remarks, 197. 



Florida, her Senators retire from Congress, 193; their 

 speeches on the occasion, 193-195. 



Its boundaries, 314; lighthouses, 814; population, 

 314; government 314; State convention, 814; when 

 convened, 814 ; Ordinance of Secession, 314; vote on its 

 passage, 314; address of the South Carolina Commis- 

 sioner to the Convention, 314 ; acts of the Convention, 

 814 ; treason defined, 314 ; seizure of forts in the State, 

 814 ; troops furnished to the Confederate Government, 

 814 



FLOYD, Jonx B., furnishes arms to the Southern States, 

 123, 124 ; resigns as Secretary of "War, 701 ; indictment 

 by a Grand Jury at "Washington, 701 ; action of the 

 court, 701. 



FOLSOM, SAMPSON, Choctaw delegate to tho Confederate 

 Congress, 873. 



FOOTE, ANDREW H., commands the Fleet of Federal gun- 

 boats on the Mississippi Biver, 293 ; biographical notice 

 of, 726. 



Forts and Arsenals in seceded States, their seizure, 815; 

 Fort Caswell, its cost, 815; condition, 815 ; Fort John- 



