oln's renomination, 444;
votes for Grant in Baltimore convention, 447;
slavery in, throttled by public opinion, 473

=Missouri Compromise=, repeal of, 94, 95

=Mobile Bay=, Alabama, battle of, August 5, 1864, 468, 525

=Monitor=, the, Union ironclad, battle with _Merrimac_, 279-282

=Montgomery=, Alabama, capital of Confederacy removed from,
to Richmond, 207

=Moore, Thomas O.=, governor of Louisiana,
arms free colored men, 348, 349

=Morgan, Edwin D.=, governor of New York,
United States senator, opens Republican national convention, 1864, 446;
declines cabinet appointment, 492

=Morris, Achilles=, elected to Illinois legislature in 1832, 34

=Morrison, James L.D.=, desires commissionership
of General Land Office, 92

=Mudd, Samuel=, assists Booth and Herold, 542;
imprisoned, 544

=Mulligan, James A.=, brevet brigadier-general
United States Volunteers, captured by Price, 241

=Murfreesboro=, Tennessee, battle of,
December 31, 1862, to January 3, 1863, 380

=Napoleon III=, colonial ambitions of, 211;
establishes Maximilian in Mexico, 451

=Nashville=, Tennessee, battle of, December 15, 16, 1864, 410

=Neale, T.M.=, commands troops in Black Hawk War, 31, 32;
defeated for Illinois legislature, 1832, 34

=Negro soldiers=, experiments with, early in the war, 348;
governor of Louisiana arms free blacks, 348, 349;
reference to, in emancipation proclamation, 349, 350;
Lincoln's interest in, 350;
attitude of Confederates toward, 350, 351;
massacre of, at Fort Pillow, 351;
President's conversation with Frederick Douglass
about retaliation, 352;
Stanton's order regulating raising of, 435;
Republican national platform claims protection of laws of war for, 446;
take part in second inauguration of Lincoln, 493, 494;
Jefferson Davis's recommendation concerning slaves in rebel army, 501;
assist in restoring order in Richmond, 517;
in Lincoln's funeral procession, 546.
See _Slavery_ and _Emancipation_

=Nelson, William=, lieutenant-commander United States navy,
major-general United States Volunteers, occupies Nashville, 270

=New Orleans=, Louisiana, capture of, 283-285;
Confederate negro regiment in, 348, 349;
Union sentiment in, 420

=New Salem=, Illinois, town of, 22-26

=New York City=, draft riots in, 356, 357;
funeral honors to Lincoln in, 546, 547

=Nicolay, John G.=, Lincoln's private secretary, 158;
accompanies Mr. Lincoln to Wash