ield, Justin,
mentioned, 74;
appointed commissioner of land office, 106;
son of, desires appointment, 107

Byron, Lord,
L's fondness for his poetry, 132;
quoted, 350

Cabinet,
L's political rivals chosen, 256;
L's non-partisan ideas, 256, 259;
makeup discussed with Weed, 257-259;
with Riddle, 275;
Banks considered, 283;
final appointments and how decided, 293;
changes during administration, 294;
meetings enlivened by stories, 336;
L's relations with, 363;
misconceptions of rights and duties, 364;
unfriendly feeling between members, 365;
earliest meetings informal, 365-366;
attitude toward the war, 366-367;
personal dissensions, 367-370;
Seward's removal demanded, 368;
Chase and Seward resignations, 368-370;
Stanton the master-mind, 370-371;
Cameron's relations with L., 371-373;
Stanton succeeds Cameron, 372-373;
Senators advise reconstruction of, 373-374;
Stanton's relations with L., 374-379;
opposes L's reinstatement of McClellan, 412-413;
attitude toward emancipation, 432;
preliminary proclamation discussed, L's own account, 436-438;
second draft discussed, 437-439, 444;
disposal of freedmen discussed, 439-440;
Chase finally disposed of, 549-550;
Blair succeeded by Dennison, 551;
Bates resigns, 552;
ignored by L., 555;
last meeting attended by L., 580-581, 583-584

Calhoun, John C,
mentioned, 186;
appoints L. deputy surveyor, 47;
democratic debater, 89;
congressman, 100

California, L.'s desire to live in, 549

Cameron, Simon,
mentioned, 506;
congressman, 100;
presidential candidate, 231;
cabinet possibility, 275;
secretary of war, 293, 294, 298;
retirement from the cabinet, 371-373;
advocates arming the blacks, 447

Campbell, Major, rescues fugitive slaves, 248

Campbell, John A., Southern peace commissioner, 555

Canada, rebel agents in, 352-353

Capital and labor. _See_ Labor and capital

Carpenter, Francis B.,
mentioned, 469;
quoted, 234, 436-437, 464-465, 544, 573

Cartwright, Peter, 99

Cass, Lewis, mentioned, 100;
ridiculed by L., 102-104

Caton, John Dean,
first meeting with L., 60-61;
opinion of L. as lawyer, 141-142;
fugitive slave decision, 248;
advice on war policy, 255-256

Chancellorsville, battle of, 492-494, 496-497, 506

Chandler, Zack,
aids L. in Schofield matter, 456;
quoted, 498-499;
lack of military judgment, 505

Channing, William