Meade and Grant quoted, 404;
L's personal regard for, 404;
appointed general of Union armies, 405;
L.'s letter about plan of campaign, 405-406;
urging action, 406-407;
L. defends, 407;
recalled from Peninsula; succeeded by Pope, 410;
reinstated, 411-412;
own account, 413;
Antietam victory, 414;
inaction after Antietam criticized, 414;
quoted on L's visit to army, 414-415;
correspondence with L., 416;
replaced by Burnside, 417;
L's opinion, 417-418, 457-458;
bad news from the Peninsula, 425;
fails to reach Richmond, 454;
removal from Army of the Potomac, 487;
L's presidential competitor, 539;
defeated for presidency, 547

McCormick, R.C., quoted, 215, 252

McCormick reaper case, in 1857, 173-176

McCulloch, Hugh,
quoted, 332;
secretary of the treasury, 294;
at L's death-bed, 591-593

McCullough, John Edward, summoned to meet L., 469-470

McDonald, Senator, 138

McHenry, Henry, quoted, 46

McNeill, James, (McNamar), Anne Rutledge's suitor, 49-50

Macon County, Ill., Lincoln family settle in, 21

Manassas defeat, 410-411

Markland, Mr., quoted, 321-322

Mason, Senator, 100

Mason and Slidell affair, 340-344

Massachusetts, first to put regiment in the field in Civil War, 314

Meade, George G.,
mentioned, 499, 501;
opinion of McClellan, 404;
succeeds Hooker, 498;
criticized for Lee's escape, 503-504;
asks to be relieved, 504;
answers criticism, 504;
does not press resignation, 505;
L.'s opinion modified, 506-507

Meigs, Montgomery C., 334;
at L's death-bed, 591

"Merrimac,"
frightens New Yorkers, 338;
Hampton Roads defeat, 345;
engagement with "Monitor," 390-391

Messages and proclamations,
inaugural message, loss feared, 283;
colloquialisms in, 471-473

Messages and proclamations, quotations,
inaugural address, 287-291;
volunteers called for, 313-314;
blockade of southern ports, 317-318;
Key West, Tortugas, and Santa Rosa, concerning authority, 318;
Virginia convention, response to, 319-320;
to congress, July 4, 1861, 322-325;
first annual message, 348-350;
President's general order, No. 1, Feb. 22, 1862, 383;
thanksgiving proclamation, April 10, 1862, 385-386;
emancipation, appeal to border states, 421-422;
final proclamation, 433-435, 438, 441-444;
second annual message, 440-441;
Thanksgiving, 1863, 508-510;
fourth annual message, 552;
inaugural address, second, 557-5