er to Horace Greeley, 335-337;
interview with Chicago clergymen, 337-339;
issues preliminary emancipation proclamation, 339-341;
annual message of December 1, 1862, 341, 342;
issues final emancipation proclamation, January 1, 1863, 342-346;
letter to A.G. Hodges, 346, 347;
letters about arming negroes, 350;
speech about Fort Pillow massacre, 351, 352;
interview with Frederick Douglass, 352;
letter to Governor Seymour, 356;
action in case of Vallandigham, 358, 359;
suspends privilege of writ of habeas corpus, 360;
attitude toward Knights of the Golden Circle, 361;
appoints Burnside to command Army of the Potomac, 363;
telegram to Burnside, and letter to Halleck about Burnside, 365;
letter to Burnside, 366;
relieves Burnside and appoints Hooker to succeed him, 366;
letter to Hooker, 366-368;
criticism on Hooker's plan of campaign, 368;
continued belief in Hooker, 370;
instructions to Hooker, 370, 371;
telegrams to Hooker, 371;
appoints Meade to command Army of the Potomac, 372;
urges Meade to active pursuit of Lee, 375;
letter to Meade, 375, 376;
Gettysburg address, 376, 377;
letter to Grant, 384, 385;
orders Rosecrans to advance, 385, 386;
note to Halleck, 388;
telegram to Rosecrans, 388;
orders reinforcements to Rosecrans, 388;
signs bill making Grant lieutenant-general, 393;
address on presenting his commission, 393, 394;
letter to Grant, 396;
under fire, 403;
letter to Sherman, 412, 413;
appoints military governors for Tennessee, Louisiana,
Arkansas, and North Carolina, 419;
his theory of "reconstruction," 419;
message to Congress, July 4, 1861, 419;
letter to Cuthbert Bullitt, 420, 421;
circular letter to military governors, 421, 422;
letter to Governor Shepley, 422;
letter to General Banks, 423;
references to reconstruction in message to Congress,
December 8, 1863, 424;
amnesty proclamation, December 8, 1863, 424;
letter to General Banks, 424, 425;
letters to General Steele, 427, 428;
letters to Johnson, 428, 429;
letter to Drake and others, 430-432;
revokes Fremont's proclamation freeing slaves, 432;
letter to General Schofield, 433;
directs Stanton to issue order regulating raising
of colored troops, 434, 435;
letter to H.W. Hoffman, 435, 436;
Democrats and Fremont Republicans criticize
his action on slavery, 437, 438;
relations with his cabinet, 438, 439;
attitude toward Chas