proposal to recruit Negroes, 199;
effect of Sherman's march on, 201;
attempts to join Johnstone, 201;
surrenders to Grant, 202;
his views on Fourteenth Amendment, 217

_Liberator, the_, founded by Garrison, 133;
Lincoln denounced by, 148

Lincoln, Abraham, joins Republican Party, 147;
his career and character, 148-149;
his contest with Douglas, 150;
debates with Douglas, 151;
chosen candidate for the Presidency, 153;
elected President, 155;
objects to Crittenden Compromise, 161;
South ignorant of character of, 163-164;
defines issue of Civil War, 167;
his Inaugural Address, 168-169;
his policy, 171-172;
sends supplies to Fort Sumter, 172;
calls for soldiers, 174;
returns Mason and Slidell, 183;
refuses to supersede McClellan, 185;
replaces McClellan by Pope, 187;
effect of his personality on Maryland, 188;
decides to issue Emancipation Proclamation, 189;
his reply to Greeley, 190;
defends proclamation as a military measure, 191;
on Grant, 196-197;
appoints Grant commander-in-chief, 197;
prepared to compensate Southern slave owners, 199;
re-elected, 199;
opposition of Radicals to, 200;
his policy of Reconstruction, 204;
on Negro Suffrage, 204;
last public speech, 207;
assassinated, 208;
his advantages lacked by Johnson, 210

"Little Giant, the," nickname of Stephen Douglas, 140

Longfellow on John Brown, 153

Long Island, Battle of, 27

Look-Out Mountain, Battle of, 198

Louisiana, a French colony, 9;
ceded to Spain, 10;
re-ceded to Napoleon, 68;
bought by U.S., 68;
Burr's plans regarding, 73-74;
secedes from the Union, 161;
Lincoln's plan for reconstruction of, 204;
Negro government of, makes fraudulent returns, 225

Lovejoy, killed, 135

Lowell, James Russell, expresses sentiments of Anti-War Whigs, 121;
his satire on Taylor's candidature, 124

_Lusitania_, the, sunk, 238

Lyon, Captain, commands Union forces in Missouri, 176

Macaulay on Calhoun's dispatch, 118

McClellan, General, sent to Crimea by Davis, 170;
clears West Virginia of Confederates, 181;
supersedes McDowell, 181;
trains army of the Potomac, 185;
his defects, 185;
lands on Yorktown peninsula, 186;
besieges Yorktown, 186;
beaten by Lee, 186;
retires to Harrison's Landing, 186;
superseded, 187;
reinstated, 189;
fights Lee at Antietam, 189;
Democratic candidate for the Presidency, 200;
defeat of, 200