Abenakis, 201; war with, 212
Abercrombie, General, 257

· Abolition, 772, 801
Aborigines, 7-10

Acadie, French, 35

Acadiens, 35; expatriation, 243-248
Academy, West Point, 585; officers, 728
Adams, John, 283, 298, 308, 324, 511;
Vice President, 527; President,
547-554; death, 657
Adams, Charles Francis, 770, 827, 976
John Quincy, 615; President,
655-660; death, 768
Adams, Samuel, 284, 296, 307
Ahasistari, 198, 200

Alabama claims, 975-77

Ball's Bluff disaster, 840
Bancroft, George, 56, 278, 737, 987
Bank of North America, 500

United States, 532, 642, 663
Banks, Gen. N. P., 880, 923, 934
Barre, Colonel, 287
Bartram, 279
Beaumarchais, 412
Beauregard, P. G. T., 818, 859, 861, 945
Beecher, Dr. Lyman, 988
Belmont, battle of, 844
Benevolent operations, 800, 981
Bennington, battle, 431

Benton, Thomas H., 698, 777
Berkeley, Sir William, 102, 103, 104-108,
798

Bible Society formed, 612
Big Bethel, 829

Bills of credit, 442

Bladensburg, battle, 625

Blair, Rev. James, 110

Blair, Frank P., 825, 970

Blockade, 828; raised, 965

Blue Lick, battle, 510

Board of Trade, 154

Bonaparte's decrees affecting Ameri-
can commerce, 563, 573, 583
Louis, N., 967

Boone, Daniel, 463, 510

Booth, J. W., 962, 963

Boston, 77, 95; Port Bill, 304; evacua-

ted, 355

Bouquet, General, 271

Boyston, Dr., 194

Braddock, General, 235-240

Bradford, William, 66, 71, 73
Bradstreet, Simon, 75

Colonel, 258

Brandywine. battle, 420
Brant, Indian chief, 430
Bragg, Captain, 727; Gen. 900, 903, 928;
defeat, 931, £32

Breckenridge, J. C., 805 825, 838, 953
Brewster, William, 64, 65
Brock, General, 587

Brown, General Jacob, 617, 618
Bryant, William Cullen, 988

Buchanan, James, 693, 736, 754; Presi-
dent, 792, 810

Buckner, Gen., 838, 852

Buell, Gen., 846, 859, 899,900.
Buena Vista, battle, 716-728
Buford, N. B., Gen., 845
Buffalo burned, 608

Bull Run, battle, 831-833; 2d battle.
890-892

Bunker Hill, battle, 328

Burgoyne, General, 327, 413; surrend-

ers, 437

Burke, Edmund, 293, 410, 429

Burr, Aaron, 554, 559-561

Burroughs, George, 192

448, 453, 460, 463, 468, 498, 508
Clouds, battle above, 931

Cobb, Howell, 826

Ca'vin, John, 278

Camden, battle, 474

Canada, invasion of, 590, 618
Capitol The, burned, 626

Carleton, Sir Guy, 340, 359, 388, 511
Canonicus, 71, 79, 86

Carolina, 30, 141

Caroline affair, 681

Caron, Father le, 196

Carroll, John, bishop, 525
Cartier, James, 18-21

Carver, John, 63, 67
Cass, Lewis, 587, 769
Catawbas, 152

Catholic Church, 525

Census, 555, 575, 794, 977, 982
Centennial, 977-78

Cerro Gordo, battle, 750
Chambersburg burned, 948
Champlain, Samuel, 35, 36
Chapultepec taken, 762

Chancellor's Battle, 909, 911
Charities, 799

Charters. colonial, 46, 51, 91, 133, 142,
157, 168

Charleston, 144, 150; taken, 469, 965
Chase, Saimon P., 817
Chattanooga, 929, 932
Chauncey, Captain, 590

Cherokees, 152; war with, 266, 656;
removal of, 662

Chesapeake, affair of, 566: capture

of, 601

Coddington, William, 81
Coercion, 808, 810, 817
Coke, Thomas, bishop, 524
Cold Harbor, battle, 884
Coligny, 29, 34

Colleges, 91, 110, 186, 224, 250, 279, 294
Colonization Society, 645
Columbia burned, 961
Columbus, Christopher, 2-6
Common sense, 366
Common schools, 91, 276
Commerce, increase of, 561
Commissioners, British, 449

of peace, 511-615
of customs, 302, 616

Company, London, 46, 98

Plymouth, 58, 75
Dutch E. India, 114

Compromises, constitutional, 521

Missouri, 648, 651

of Texas, 1832, 667
of 1850, 779

Concord and Lexington, battle, 314

Congress, Stamp Act, 291

old Continental, 307
the second
323

Provincial, Mass., 313

Connecticut colony, 81: emigration
to, 88, 168

Constitution, federal, 521; amend-

ments to, 969, 970; powers of in
the territories, 774, 775
Constitution, Confederate, 815, 973;
Conscription, Confederate, 879; debt,
908

Constitutions, colonial, 56, 67, 88;
contrast, of States, 797-801
Convention, Democratic, 895, 805
Disunion, 781
Republican, 796

Conway. Cabal, 444
Cook, Col. Edw., 542

Cooper, Sir Ashley, 142

Cooper, J. Fennimore, 988
Corinth evacuated, 867

Cortez, 12

Vice Pres., 559

Davenport, Rev. John, 88

Davis, Jefferson, 718, 722; senator, 777,
815, 824, 839; special message, 847;
inaugurated, 868, 926, 940; flight,
959: capture, 961, 967
Davis, Capt. J. E., 866
Deane, Silas, 412

Dearborn, Gen. Henry, 590, 607
Decatur, Stephen, 558, 641
Declaration of rights, 291, 309

Independence, Mech-
lenburg, 322

Declaration of Independence by Con-

gress, 368

of war opposed, 584

Decrees affecting American com-
merce, 563, 568, 573

Delaware, Lord, 53

Delawares, Christian, massacre of, 509
D'Estaing, Count, 45%, 453, 462
De Joinville, Prince, 888
Deposits, removal of, 668
De Vries, 116, 118-120
Deseret, 781

Dictatorship, Washington, 396, 424
Dieskau, 249, 250

Dinwiddie, Gov., 227, 229, 251

Dissenters, 141, 144, 148, 313

Disunion convention, 775, 781
Donop, Count, 380, 426

Doniphan's Expedition, 741
Dorr, Thomas W., 692
Dover destroyed, 209
Doubleday, Gen., 820, 915

Douglas, S. A., 805

Drake, Sir Francis, 41, 43
Dreuilettes, Father, 201

Drummond, William, 107, 108, 142

Dudley, Thomas, 75, 76

Joseph, 177, 180, 184

Duché, Rev. Jacob, 308

Dunbar, Colonel, 236, 241

Dunmore, Lord, 320, 352

Dupont, Commodore, 841, 924, 925

Dustin, Hannah, 212

Duties imposed, 295

Dwight, Timothy, 987

Early, General, 916, 946, 949, 957

Ecclesiastical organizations, 523-526
Edwards, Jonathan, 223, 988
Eliot, John, 93

Elizabeth, Queen, 60

Eliet's rams, 866

Ellsworth, Colonel, 826

Embargo, under Washington, 540

Jefferson, 568
Madison, 583

Emigration, 801, 983: West, to the, 984
Endicott, John, 75, 84

English enterprise, 37; pluck, 484
language, 989

Enterprise, American, 533
Episcopal church, 523

Era in human progress, 529
Erskine's negotiations, 571
Eutaw Springs, battle, 497
Evarts, Wm. M., 976
Ewell, Gen., 913, 916, 960
Exploring Expedition, 684

Fair Oaks, battle of, 881
Farragut, Admiral, 862, 950
Federal Union, 324
Federalist, the, 522

Federalist and anti-Federalist, 587

Ferguson, Colonel, 479
Field, Cyrus W., 968
Fillmore Millard, 778, 792
Financial disorders, 642, 652, 809
Fish, Hamilton, 971
Fitch, John, 643

993

Five Forks, battle of, 958
Fletcher, Benjamin, 137, 185, 287
Florida, 12, 22; purchased, 648; a

State, 692

Foote's resolutions, debate, 663
Foote, Admiral, A. H., 849, 857; death,
866

Fort Donelson, 851
Frontenac, 227
Niagara, 227

Du Quesne, 232, 260
Necessity, 233
Edward, 248
Henry, 849

Hindman taken, 905

Fort Pillow Massacre, 934

Fort William Henry, 253

France, relations with, 547-552

Franklin, Benjamin, 139, 235, 251, 279,

293, 323, 378, 412, 511, 521

Franklin, Sir John, 783

Fredericksburg, Battle of, 897
Free Masonry, 658

Fremont, John C., 783, 735, 744, 745,
792, 836, 880

French Pastors' Address, 926
Freneau, Philip, 540
Frolic, the, taken, 596
Frontenac, 209

Fugitive slave law, 779, 807
Fulton, Robert, 643

Gage, General, 237, 297, 305, 312, 328, 333
Gallatin, Albert, 542, 599, 615

Garnet, General, 830

Gaspé, revenue vessel, 300

Gates, Horatio. 241; sketch, 360, 389,

434; in the South, 473

Georgia, 156-166, 446; subdued, 483;
Indian lands in, 656, 662

Genet's mission, 539, 540
Germantown, battle, 424

Germans in the colonies, 152, 136, 159,
217

Gerry, Elbridge, 520, 548
Gettysburg, battle, 914-920
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 38

Gilmore, Q. A., General, 924, 942

Gist, Christopher, 226, 231
Glover, Colonel, 376, 377
Goffe, 167, 173

Gold discovered, 767
Gorges, Sir Ferdinand, 89
Gosnold, Bartholomew, 57
Gourges, Dominic de, 34
Graffenried de, 152
Grand Model, the, 142
Grant, Colonel, 259, 268

Dr., 687

U. S., General, 838, 844, 850, 859,
861, 904; Lieutenant-General, 934,
964; President, 971, 974

Grasse, Count de, 498, 502, 505, 508
Greeley, Horace, 978, 979

Green Mountain Boys, 319

Greene, Nathaniel, General, 336, 358,

421, 447; in the south, 482, 491, 494

Gridley, Colonel, 218, 328

Grierson, Colonel, 924

President, 677

Irving, Washington, 988

Isabella, Queen, 3, 5

Island No. 10, 857

Jack, Captain, 236

President, 661-672

Rev. Thomas, 83, 85

Horse-shoe, battle, 610'

Houston, Samuel, 688, 689

Howard, O. O., General, 916, 939
Howe, Admiral, the, 369, 424, 452, 454
Sir William, 262, 327, 369, 378,
381, 413, 420, 422, 423, 448
Robert, General, 456

Hudson, Henry, 112-114

Huguenots in the south, 29-34;
Canada, 35, 145

Hull, Isaac, Captain, 595

William, General, 586, 587

Hunter, General, 947, 948

Jackson, C. F., 825, 834

T. J. (Stonewall), 874, 880;

death, 910

James I., 45, 46, 61, 63, 97
II. 177, 208.

Jamestown, 47; burned, 107

Jasper, Sergeant, 362

Java, the, taken, 596

Jay, John, 309, 511; Chief Justice, 531;
Mission, 543

Jefferson, Thomas, 323, 367, 523; Sec.
of State, 531, 537; V. P., 546; Pres
ident, 555-570; death, 657

Jesuits, 35, 197, 202, 212

Jogues, Father, 200

Johnson, Andrew, 808: President, 903;
amnesty, 965; impeached, 969
Sir William, 255, 248, 334

Impressment, British, 564, 583, 588, 683
Incidents, 103, 108, 120, 158, 334, 377, 595,
611

Indented servants, 104, 110, 408
Independence, question of, 364, 368
Indians, divisions of, 9; see names of
tribes.

Lecompton Convention, 793
Ledyard, the traveler, 8

Colonel, 503

Lee, Arthur, 412

Lee, Charles, General, 258, 333, 351, 386,
390; treason, 448; death, 452
Henry, General, 446, 462, 493, 552,
586

Richard Henry, 285, 307. 309, 367
Robert E., General, 887, 882, 890,
893-896, 910, 914-920, 943, 946,
957; surrenders, 960; death, 972

Leisler, Jacob, 182-185
Leon, Juan Ponce de, 12
Levant and Cyane captured, 640
Lexington and Concord, battle, 314
Libraries, 987

Lincoln, Benjamin, General, 313, 435,
456, 459, 462, 467, 501, 569
Abraham, 804, 805, 806, 814:
inaugural, 816, 818; the call,
821; plan of campaign, 868;
retains McDowell, 874, 876;
emancipation, 901-906; 2nd
inauguration, 956; death,

962

Longfellow, H. W., 988

Massasoit, 70, 71, 176
Matamoras occupied, 704
Material Progress, 799
Mather, Cotton, 189-194
Increase, 188

May, Colonel, 702, 723
Mahew, Thomas, 94

995

Meade, Geo. S., General, 911, 914-920,
958, 968

Mechlenburg declaration, 322
Megapolensis, Domine, 122, 200
Meigs, Colonel, 407, 600

Merimac and Monitor duel, 868-871
McClellan, G. B., 824, 830, 839, 876, 890,
893; removed, 896, 949,; candidate,

956
McClernand, General. 849, 905, 921
McCook, Colonel. 846, 861, 903
McCrea, Jenny, 429
McCulloch, Major, 715, 894, 856
McDowell, General, 827, 832
McHenry, Fort, defended, 627
McPherson, General, 939
Melendez, Pedro, 32, 33
Mercer, General Hugh, 371, 398
Fort, defended, 426

Mesilla Valley purchased, 786
Methodist Episcopal Church, 162, 524,
800

Mifflin, Thomas, 321, 370, 517; Gov., 542
Miantonomoh, 85, 86

Mill Spring, battle of, 846
Minuits, Peter, 115, 123

Mitchell, O. M., General, 862, 899
Mississippi, 25, 203

Lopez, General, 782

Loss on Union side, 964

Louisburg taken, 220; again, 257

Loudon, Lord, 252, 255

Madison, James, 522: Sec. of State,
566: President, 571, 579, 583, 598,
615, 624, 629, 639, 643.

Macedonian taken, 596
Macdonough, Commodore, 622
Magruder, General, 875, 885, 888
Magazine, first American, 140
Magaw, Colonel, 384
Malvern Hill battle. 886

Manifesto of the British government,
614

Manufactures, colonial, restrictions
on, 148, 168, 282

Manufactures, domestic, 533, 655, 658,
769.907

Mansfield, General, 895

Marcy, William L., 738, 752, 753
Marion, General Francis, 472, 495
Marquette, James, 203, 204

Marshall, John, 548, 550, 663; death

Spanish, 149

Missionary Societies formed, 592

Missouri Compromise, 648-651

Mobile, taken, 450

Mobilian tribes, 9

Mohawks, or Huron-Iroquois, 9, 117,

119, 199, 208, 334, 414

Mohegans, 84, 118, 121

Monongahela, battle, 237

first settlers on, 541

Molino del Rey, battle, 760
Monmouth, battle, 450

Monroe, James, 394, 547, 565; Sec. of
State, 607; President, 644-654

Monroe doctrine, 652

Monterey captured, 706

Montcalm, 253, 254, 258; death, 265
Montgomery, Richard, 339, 342
Mouts. Sieur de. 35

Morality, laws enjoining, 56, 135, 275
Moravians, 161, 164, 509
Morgan, Daniel, 336, 342, 420, 434, 489
J. H., raid, 924
Mormons, 779-781
Morris, Gouverneur, 540
Robert, 500
Morse, Samuel F. B., 968
Moultrie, Fort, 361
Muhlenburg, Colonel, 404
Rev. H. M., 140
Murfreesboro, battle, 903-904

Narragansets, 169, 174
Nashville, 465; occupied, 853
Natchez, 217, 218
National Bank, 532

debts assumed, 532
Bank, 642
flag, 409