conscription law, 354, 355;
act authorizing the President to suspend writ of habeas corpus, 359, 360;
confers rank of lieutenant-general on Grant, 393;
admits representatives and senators from States with
provisional governments, 419;
President's annual message, December 8, 1863, 424;
reverses former action about seating members from "ten-per-cent
States," 424;
bills to aid compensated abolishment in Missouri, 432;
opposition to Lincoln in, 454;
action on bill of Henry Winter Davis, 454;
repeals fugitive-slave law, 457;
confirms Fessenden's nomination, 458;
Lincoln's message of December 5, 1864, 470-472;
joint resolution proposing constitutional amendment to prohibit
slavery throughout United States, 471-476;
the two constitutional amendments submitted to the States during
Lincoln's term, 475, 476;
Senate confirms Chase's nomination as chief justice, 491

=Congress=, the, Union sailing frigate, burned by _Merrimac_, 280

=Constitutional Union Party=, candidates in 1860, 153

=Conventions=: first national convention of Whig party, 28;
President Jackson gives impetus to system of, 52;
Illinois State convention nominates Lincoln for Congress 74, 75;
convention of "Know-Nothing" party, 1856, 102;
Bloomington convention, May, 1856, 103;
first national convention of Republican party, June 17, 1856, 103;
Democratic national convention, June 2, 1856, 104;
Democratic national convention, Charleston, April 23, 1860, 142;
it adjourns to reassemble at Baltimore, June 18, 1860, 143;
Constitutional Union Convention, Baltimore, May 9, 1860, 143;
Republican national convention, Chicago, May 16, 1860, 144, 147-151;
Decatur, Illinois, State convention, 154;
Cleveland convention, May 31, 1864, 441, 442;
meeting in New York to nominate Grant, 442, 443;
New Hampshire State convention, January 6, 1864, 443;
Republican national convention, June 7, 1864, 446-449;
Democratic national convention, 1864, postponed, 463;
Democratic national convention meets, 466-468;
resolution of Baltimore convention hostile to Montgomery Blair, 487

=Cook, B.C.=, member of Congress, nominates Lincoln
in Baltimore convention, 447;
seeks to learn Lincoln's wishes about Vice-Presidency, 448

=Cooper, Samuel=, Confederate adjutant-general,
joins the Confederacy, 208

=Corbett, Boston=, sergeant United States army, shoots Booth, 543

=Corinth=, Mississippi, captured by Halleck