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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



letter of President Lincoln to the Mayor of Baltimore, 

 716 ; letter of the Secretary of State to the Governor of 

 Maryland, 717; interview between commissioners from 

 Baltimore and the President, 717; the blockade procla- 

 mation, 717; seizure of telegraphic despatches, 718; 

 proclamation ordering blockade of Florida, and sus- 

 ' pension of habeas corpus writ, 718 ; instructions by the 

 Secretary of the Treasury to collectors of the customs, 

 718; mails discontinued, 71S; extra session of Congress, 

 719 ; its action, 719 ; finances, 719 ; army, 719 ; navy, 

 719; net passed to approve and justify the acts of the 

 President, 719; its constitutionality, 719; military ar- 

 rangements, 719, 720; retirement of Gen. Scott, 720; 

 promotion of Gen. McClellan, 720 ; correspondence, 720 ; 

 order of Gen. McClellan on taking command of the 

 army, 721 ; biographical notices of numerous army offi- 

 cers, 721-726. 



Vermont, its boundaries, 726; statistics, 727; response to 

 the call for troops, 727 ; action of the Legislature, 727 ; 

 Personal Liberty Bill, 727; war loan, 727; first regi- 

 ment, 727 ; other troops, 723 ; vote of the State, 728. 



VICAT, Louis JOSEPH, birth, 72S; discoveries, 723 ; pursuits, 



728 ; honors, 728. 



VIELE, E. L., biographical notice of, 726. 



Vienna, its situation, 728 ; skirmish at, 728. 



Virginia, movement of her Legislature for a Peace Confer- 

 ence, 178 ; the resolutions, 178 ; boundaries, 729 ; popu- 

 lation, 729 ; vote, 729 ; public sentiment, 729 ; Union 

 meetings, 729 ; resolutions of New York, how received, 



729 ; action of the Legislature, 730 ; address of members 

 of Congress, 730; the State Convention, 730; it assem- 

 bles, 731 ; organization, 731 ; proceedings, 731 ; on Lin- 

 coln's inaugural, 732 ; debates, 732, 733 ; communication 

 from Governor Pickens, 784; response to the call for 

 troops, 734 , ordinance to repeal the ratification of the 

 United States Constitution, 735 ; proclamation, 735 ; 

 exports of grain prohibited, 736; warlike aspect, 736' 

 joins the Southern Confederacy, 786; convention with, 

 737; proceedings in Western Virginia, 737; mustering 

 troops, 738; military movements, 733; bridges ordered 

 to be burned, 738; debate on the payment of State in- 

 terest, 739 ; vote on the secession ordinance, 739 ; paper 

 money, 740 ; military strength of Virginia, 740 ; condi- 

 tion of affairs in the State, 741 ; list of battles and skir- 

 mishes, 741 ; counties of Accomac and Northampton, 

 742; proclamation of General Dix, 742; prices of mer- 

 chandise, 742; passes ordinance of secession, 138; how 

 received in the Confederate States, 138. 



Virginia, Western, its attachment to the Union, 742 ; 

 boundaries, 743 ; a Convention called, 743 ; its proceed- 

 ings, 743 ; Declaration of Independence, 743 ; speech of 

 the new Governor, 74-3; address of Governor Letcher 

 to the people, 743; McClellan's proclamation, 744; 

 population, 744 ; Attorney-General Bates on the situa- 

 tion of Western Virginia as a State, 745 ; McClellan's 

 proclamation to the Union men, 745; to his troops, 746 

 details of his campaign, 746, 747 ; despatches, 747. 



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E, BENJAMIN F., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 

 106 ; totally unable to understand precisely what it is of 

 which they complain, 171 ; -when has a Republican Sen- 

 ator proposed to violate a right of the South? 171; on 

 the bill to discontinue postal service in seceded States, 218. 

 WALKER, L. P., Secretary at War, orders General Beaure- 

 gard to demand the surrender of Fort Sumter, 132 ; 



further correspondence, 132 ; remarks on attack on 

 Sumter, 133 : " No man could tell where this war 

 would end," 133; letter to Governor Magoffin, 13?. 



WARD, JAMES H., birth, 748; education, 748; writings, 748; 

 service, 749. 



Warren, Fort, used as a prison, 362. 



Warsaw, Mo., burning of, 495. 



Washington, its situation, 749; circumstances of its selec- 

 tion for the seat of Government, 749 ; rumors of an at- 

 tack on President Lincoln, 750; investigation, 750 ; as- 

 sembling of troops at, 750; inquiries by Congress of tho 

 reason, 750; reply of President Buchanan, 750; do. of 

 Secretary Holt, 751 ; inauguration ceremonies, 751 ; ex- 

 citement on April 15th, 752 ; movement of troops, 752, 

 753 ; small arms and ordnance issued at tho arsenal, 753. 



Wlieeliny, Va., its situation, 754; capital of Western Vir- 

 ginia, 754. 



WHITTEMOP.E, THOMAS, birth, 754 ; pursuits, 754 ; writings, 754. 



WICKLIFPE, CHAS. A., member of Congress, 226; on tke 

 confiscation bill, 247. 



WIQFALL, Louis T., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; 

 we intend to leave this Union then bring us back, 

 168; the people of the South cannot save the Union, 

 171 ; on non-intervention, 181 ; comes with a flag of 

 truce to Fort Sumter, 663. 



WILLET, WAITMAN T., member of the Senate, 225; on tho 

 object of the war, 242. 



Williamsport, Va., its situation, 754; skirmish near, 755. 



WILLIAMS, TIIOMAS S., birth, 754 ; education, 754 ; pursuits, 

 754. 



WILSON, HENRY, member of the Senate, 228 ; on the acts of 

 President Lincoln, 228-283. 



Wilson's Creek, Mo., its situation, 755 ; details of the battlo 

 at, 755. 



WILSON, WILLIAM, stationed with his regiment on Santa 

 Eosa Island, 578 ; attacked by Confederates, October 

 8, 1861, 674. 



WINANS, Eoss, his arrest, 860. 



Winchester, its situation, 755 ; occupied by troops, 755. 



WINDER, J. II., letter on seizing certain Federal prisoners 

 for hostages for the safety of Confederate privateers- 

 men, 151. 



WINTIIKOP, THEODORE, his birth, 756 ; education, 756 ; 

 death, 756. 



Wisconsin, its boundaries, 756; population, 756; banks, 

 756 ; bank riot, 756 ; vote for Lincoln, 756 ; session of 

 the Legislature, 756 , its action, 757 ; the war bill, 757; 

 acts passed, 757 ; troops furnished, 757. 



WISE, GEN. H. A., retreats from Charleston, Va., 103. 



Wuclientliche Union office sacked by a mob, 6S7. 



WOOD, BENJAMIN, member of Congress, 226 ; offers a reso^ 

 lution in the House, 244. 



WOOD, FEUNANDO, proclamation of, 531. 



Wool and Flax Fabrics, the disentegration, 757 ; how done, 

 757 ; uses, 757. 



WOOL, JOHN ELLIS, biographical notice of, 722. 



WEIGHT, HORATIO G., biographical notice of, 724 



TANCET, WM. L., appointed Commissioner to Europe, 160. 

 YCLEE, DAVID L., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; 

 withdraws, 193 ; remarks on, 193. 



ZAGOXTI, Major CHARLES, re-capture Springfield, Mo., 



659. 

 ZWIRNEE, ERNST F., his birth, 758; education, 758 ; labors 



In architecture, 75S. 



