interest in East Tennessee, 256, 257;
personally urges on Congress the construction of railroad
in East Tennessee, 257, 258;
letter to Buell, 258, 259;
telegrams and letters to Buell and Halleck, 262-264, 268, 269;
places Halleck in command of Department of the Mississippi, 271;
calls councils of war, 288, 289;
General War Order No. 1, 290;
Special War Order No. 1, 291;
letter to McClellan about plan of campaign, 291;
interview with Stanton, 293, 294;
interview with McClellan, 295;
President's General War Orders No. 2 and No. 3, 295;
receives news of fight between _Monitor_ and _Merrimac_, 296;
relieves McClellan from command of all troops except
Army of the Potomac, 298;
orders McDowell to protect Washington, 299;
letter to McClellan, 299, 300;
letter to McClellan, 303, 304;
visit to General Scott, 306;
assigns General Pope to command of Army of Virginia, 306;
orders Burnside and Halleck to reinforce McClellan, 307;
letter to governors of free States, 307, 308;
accepts 300,000 new troops, 308;
letters to McClellan, 308;
visit to Harrison's Landing, 308;
appoints Halleck general-in-chief, 309;
his dispassionate calmness in considering McClellan's conduct, 311;
asks McClellan to use his influence with Pope's officers, 313;
places McClellan in command of defenses of Washington, 313;
orders reinforcements to McClellan, 316;
telegram to McClellan, 316;
visit to Antietam, 316, 317;
directions and letter to McClellan, 317-319;
removes him from command, 319;
letter to Bancroft, 321;
reference to slavery in message to Congress, December 3, 1861, 321, 322;
offers Delaware compensated abolishment, 322, 323;
special message of March 6, 1862, proposing joint
resolution favoring gradual abolishment, 323, 324;
letter to McDougall, 324;
interview with delegations from border slave States, 324, 325;
signs bill for compensated emancipation in District of Columbia, 326;
letter to Chase about Hunter's order of emancipation, 327;
proclamation revoking Hunter's order, 327, 328;
second interview with border State delegations in Congress, 329-331;
conversation with Carpenter about emancipation, 331, 332;
reads draft of first emancipation proclamation to cabinet, 331, 332;
tells Seward and Welles of his purpose to issue emancipation
proclamation, 332;
letter to Reverdy Johnson, 334;
letter to Cuthbert Bullitt, 334, 335;
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