INDEX OF CUM! 



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LYON, NATHANIEL, birth, 43-1 ; education, 434 ; service in 

 the army, 434; command in Missouri, 434; military 

 movement*, 405; Killed at Wilson's Creek, 435; his 

 will, 486. 



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MAcDocOAL. JOSKPH A., member of the Senate from Cali- 

 fornia, '.'.'lo ; on the expulsion of certain Senators, 285. 



Maine, its boundaries, 436 ; agricultural statistics, 486 ; 

 banks, 436; State debt, 486; miles of railroads, 436; 

 action of the Legislature, 436 ; proclamation of the 

 Governor, 437 ; war loan, 437 ; pay to volunteers, 487 ; 

 troops raised for the United States service, 437; results 

 of the geological survey, 407. 



MALLOIIT. S. II.. Senator in Thirty -sixth Congress, 166; re- 

 murks on withdrawing from the Senate, 195. 



Manassas Junction, its situation, 43S; its military im- 

 portance, 43S; fortifications, 433; cause of the inac- 

 tivity of the Confederate army, 433. 



MASGU.M, WILLIE P., birth, 483; education, 43S; public 

 life. 435. 



MASK, DUDLEY, appointed commissioner to Europe, 160; 

 sent to Europe from South Carolina as commercial com- 

 missioner, 656. 



MANSFIELD, JOSEPH K. T , biographical notice of, 733. 



Marine Hospitals in Seceded States. Their seizure, 820; 

 hospital at New Orleans seized, 820; letter of Collector 

 Hatch, 320 ; answer of Secretary Dix, 820 ; his letter, 

 320. 



Marque, Letters of, proclamation granting, 187; form of, 

 1ST : instructions to privateers, 135. 



Martial Law, defined, 433; questions arising under it, 

 439; proclaimed at Baltimore by General Butler, 489; 

 proclamation, 439 ; General Banks proclaims martial 

 law at Baltimore, 440 ; appoints a provost-marshal, 

 440 ; action of the Police Commissioners, 440 ; instruc- 

 tions to Marshal Kenly, 440 ; Fremont proclaims mar- 

 tial law in St Louis, 441 ; appoints a provost-marshal, 

 441 ; Jefferson Davis proclaims martial law in East 

 Tennessee, 441 ; provost-marshal appointed, 441 ; his 

 orders, 441. 



Declared by Fremont in St Louis, 491 ; do. by Gen- 

 eral Halleck, 496. 



Martinaburg,its situation, 442; skirmish at, 442; details, 

 44-2. 



Maryland sends commissioners to Washington and to 

 Montgomery, 141 ; reply of President Davis to, 141 ; ar- 

 rest of members of the Legislature of, 360. 



Its boundaries, 442; population, 442; influences act- 

 ing upon the people, 442 ; reply of the Governor to the 

 Commissioners from Mississippi, 442; efforts of op- 

 posite parties, 443 ; address of the Governor to the 

 people, 443 ; the action proposed, 444 ; State Conven- 

 tion, 444; its action, 444; proclamation of the Gov- 

 ernor, April 13, 444 ; call of the Legislature, 445 : mes- 

 sage of the Governor, 445; action of the Legislature, 

 446 ; report of the Commissioners to wait on Presi- 

 dent Lincoln, 446; reply of the Governor relative to 

 burning: bridges, 446; Legislature adjourns, 447; de- 

 structio.i of railroad and canal property, 447 ; elections, 

 447; anc.thcr session of the Legislature, 447: its action, 

 44S : views of President Lincoln on the arrests in Mary- 

 land, 418; final message of the Governor, 44S; pro- 

 tests against the invasion of Maryland by Virginia 

 troops. 449. 



MASON, JOHN M.. Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; 

 the remedy is at home in the State councils, 170; re- 

 sponse to Senator Seward's remarks, ISO, 1S1 ; remarks 

 on the President's Message with the resolutions of Vir- 



ginia, 179; on the naval appropriation bill, 182; on tb 

 views di" Calln'iiii, !-:; <>a th>- i ... to dLvontinue pottal 

 service in seceded States, 219; on theJVace Conference 

 propositions, 221; &eUuru on thu steamer Tri-ut, 60S; 

 surrendered to the ISriti.th ollicers, CDS. 



Massac/iimttU, boundaries, 449 ; population, 449; dintribu- 

 tion of manufactures, 449; railroads, 449 ; taxable prop- 

 . politics, 450 ; election, 400 ; John Brown 

 meetim:, 45"; milit:irf orders, 451; military move- 

 ments, 451 ; arms bought in Europe, 451 ; troops in the 

 field, 452; action of t). : anti- 



shivery meeting, 452 ; compromise meeting in Faneull 

 Hall, 453; war loans, 453; election, 453; receipts and 

 expenditures, 454. 



'ions or instructions of Legislature of, to iU 

 commissioners to Peace Conference, 564. 



Matthias Point, its situation, 454; naval attack on, 454. 



MI i ALL. G. A., biographical notice of, 725. 



MCC'LELLAX, Gen. GEORGE B., details of his campaign in 

 Western Virginia, 746; promoted to Commander-in- 

 chief, 720; notice of, 721. 



McCLEF.XAND. Jons A., member of Congress, 166; on the 

 right of secession, 20S ; on the conduct of the war, 233, 

 239; offers a resolution to prosecute the war, 244; in- 

 structions relative to an exchange of prisoners, 5S3 ; 

 biographical notice of, 723. 



MCDONALD, EMMETT, the case ot, 356. 



MCDOWELL, IRWIN, biographical notice of, 724. 



MI-KAY, DONALD, letter respecting American navy.504. 



M'.-KEXZIE, Wn. L., birth, 454; activity in Canada, 454; 

 retires to the United States, 455. 



McKiNSTEY, J., appointed provost-marshal at St Louis, 441. 



MCLEAN, JOHN, birth, 455; education, 455; public offices, 

 455 ; opinions, 455. 



MEAGHF.R, T. F., biographical notice of, 726. 



MEMMINGER. C. G., instructions to collectors of revenue in 

 the Confederate States, 131 ; instructions to planters 

 relative to the cotton loon, 142 ; reply to the planters 

 who ask relief, 145. 



MEEP.ICK, Judge Wjf. M., the case of, 356. 



MERRYSIAN, JOHN, proceedings In the case of, 354. 



Metals, Lake Superior Copper Mines, 455; statistics of its 

 production, 456 ; Keweenaw district, 456 ; Portage Lake 

 district, 456; Ontonagon district, 456; copper in the 

 puddling furnace, 456 ; malleable iron, 457 ; copper in 

 Canada, 457 ; zinc, 457 ; iron and anthracite of Penn- 

 sylvania, 453; pig iron in Scotland, 453 ; heats of melted 

 cast iron and some alloys, 453; improvement iu iron 

 and steel, 459; gold in Nova Scotia, 459; researches on 

 the platinum metals, 460; dimorphism of arsenic, anti- 

 mony, &c., 460 ; lead in some silver coins, 461 ; alloys 

 of aluminium, 461 ; new alloy, 461. 



Meteoric Iron, masses, 461 ; analysis, 462. 



Mexico, boundary, 462 ; States. 462 ; area, 462 ; population, 

 462; races, 462; trade, 462; production of silver, 402; 

 political condition, 463 ; government, 463 ; list of con- 

 stitutions adopted, 464; excesses, 464; disorders, 464; 

 proceedings of President Juarez, 4C5 ; Mexican foreign 

 debt, 465; taxes, 465; foreign interference, 465; doc- 

 trine of the American Government, 465; its present 

 doctrine, 466 ; Immediate causes of the complaints on 

 the part of the three nations, 466; Convention between 

 France and Spain, 466: speech of the Spanish Queen, 

 467 ; plan of operations of the allied powers, 467 ; mili- 

 tary and naval forces. 468 ; arrival at Vera Cruz, 46S ; 

 proclamation to the people, 46S ; do. of the Mexican 

 General, 469. 



Michigan, its boundaries, 469; population, 469; valuation 

 of property, 469 ; Personal Liberty Laws, 469 ; message 

 of the Governor to the Legislature, 469; acts of the 



