tation of Lincoln with;
offers to resign;
urged in vain by Lincoln to attack;
"campaign in mud";
enters Petersburg;
at Appomattox.
Meigs, General Montgomery C.,
at Lincoln's council of war in January, 1862, see vol. i.
Memminger, C.G.,
in Confederate cabinet, see vol. i.
Mercer, Captain, Samuel,
superseded by Porter under Lincoln's orders, see vol. i.
Mercier, M. Henri,
letter of Greeley to, see vol. ii.
Merryman, John,
arrested in Maryland, see vol. i.;
attempt of Taney to liberate.
Mexican war,
denounced by Whigs, see vol. i.;
character of.
Mexico,
driven into war, see vol. i.;
abolishes slavery.
Michigan,
Republican losses in election of 1862, see vol. ii.
Miles, Colonel Dixon S.,
at Harper's Ferry, see vol. ii.
Miller, Mrs. Nancy,
bargains with Lincoln to make a pair of trousers, see vol. i.
Mississippi,
not ready to secede, see vol. i.;
secedes;
sends commissioner to persuade North Carolina.
Missouri,
refuses to furnish Lincoln with troops, see vol. i.;
Unionist and Southern elements in;
civil war in;
refuses to secede;
Fremont's career in;
saved from South by General Curtis;
refuses compensated emancipation, see vol. ii.;
factional quarrels in;
declares for Fremont against Lincoln;
delegates from, in Republican Convention.
Missouri Compromise,
its sacred character, see vol. i.;
its extension demanded in 1850;
questioned by South;
repealed.
Morgan, Edwin D.,
urged by Lincoln to put emancipation plank in Republican platform,
see vol. ii.
Morton, Governor Oliver P.,
harassed by Copperheads, see vol. ii.;
tries to alarm Lincoln.
Mudd, Samuel,
accomplice of Booth, tried and condemned, see vol. ii.
Naglee, General Henry M.,
favors McClellan's plan of campaign, see vol. i.
Napoleon I.,
Lincoln contrasted with, see vol. ii.
Napoleon III.,
agrees with Earl Russell to recognize belligerency of South, see vol. i.;
offers mediation, see vol. ii.;
his course suggested by Greeley.
Negroes,
equality of, Lincoln's feeling toward, see vol. i.
Nesmith, James W.,
in Senate in 1861, see vol. i.
New England,
speeches of Lincoln in, see vol. i.
New Jersey,
carried by Democrats in 1862, see vol. ii.
New Mexico,
plan of South to occupy as slave territory, see vol. i.;
urged by Taylor to ask for admission as a State;
organized as a Territory.
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