McClellan, 297;
loses at Malvern Hill, 297, 298;
second Bull Run, 300;
into Maryland, 300, 301;
Antietam, 302;
retires into Virginia, 302;
wins at Fredericksburg, 303;
wins at Chancellorsville, 305;
second invasion of North, 305;
Gettysburg, 306;
retreat to Virginia, 307;
uncompromising, 309;
urges conscription, 311, 312;
checks Grant, 318;
Grant outwits, 318;
facing Grant at Petersburg, 323;
refuses dictatorship, 324;
army in want, 325;
odds against, 326;
retreat to west, 326;
surrender, 327.

Legare, Hugh S., Secretary of State, 126.

Lewis, William B., 58, 62, 64.

Lexington, Kentucky, 34;
Mechanics' Library, 35, 63.

_Liberator_, abolition weekly, 162.

Liberty party, nominates Van Buren, 173.

Lincoln, Abraham, 32, 36;
in Republican party, 241, 242;
against Douglas, 255;
debate with Douglas, 256;
"house-divided-against-itself," 256;
Presidential timber, 257;
Chicago Convention of 1860, 261;
nominated for President, 263;
character, 263, 265;
election of, and South, 268;
conciliatory, 269;
inaugural, 272;
yields to radicals, 273;
saves Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, 275;
calls for volunteers, 282;
war to preserve Union, 289;
Douglas supports, 289;
calls for more men, 290, 320;
and finance, 292;
dark hours, 300;
promises emancipation, 302;
arbitrary arrests, 304;
opposition to, 304, 316;
hope in Grant, 317;
nominated for President by National Unionists, 320;
asked to withdraw, 321;
appoints day of thanksgiving, 321;
strongly supported, 322, 324.

Literature, flower of American culture, 226.

Live stock, exported by West, 29;
to cotton belt, 141.

Liverpool, capital of, invested in United States, 100, 205.

Livingston, Edward, Secretary of State, 65;
Minister to France, 78;
for Bank, 78;
and French claims, 85.

Loco-focos, 108.

London, capital loaned to West, 91;
in United States, 100, 205.

Longfellow, Henry W., 226.

Longstreet, A. B., 227.

Longstreet, General James, 299, 301;
sent to Bragg, 307.

Lopez, Narcisco, 198.

Louisiana, 8;
in cotton belt, 12, 86;
"slavery a blessing," 119;
secession of, 271.

Lovejoy, Elijah P., anti-slavery leader, 164;
murdered, 166.

Lowell, James Russell, 227.

Lowndes, William, 5.

Macon, Nathaniel, in Senate, 16.

McClellan, George B., at Cincinnati, 283;
drilling army, 293;
Peninsula campaign, 29