s, 254;
escapes from Fort Donelson, 268

=Pinkerton, Allen=, detective work of, 173

=Pittsburg Landing=, Tennessee, battle of,
April 6, 7, 1862, 272-274

=Polk, James K.=, eleventh President of the United States,
sends treaty of peace with Mexico to Senate, 79

=Pomeroy, Samuel C.=, United States senator, secret circular of, 440

=Pope, John=, brevet major-general United States army,
sent to New Madrid, 270;
capture of Island No. 10, 274;
proceeds to Fort Pillow, 274;
joins Halleck, 274;
assigned to command Army of Virginia, 306;
assumes command of Army of Virginia 310;
second battle of Bull Run, 310, 311;
despatch announcing his defeat, 312;
relieved from command of Army of the Potomac, 314

=Porter, David D.=, admiral United States navy,
commands mortar flotilla in expedition with Farragut, 282-287;
in second expedition to Vicksburg, 287;
in operations about Vicksburg, 382, 383;
visits Richmond with Lincoln, 517, 518

=Porterfield, G.A.=, Confederate colonel, routed at Philippi, 225

=Port Hudson=, Louisiana, siege and surrender of, 383, 384

=Port Royal=, South Carolina, expedition against, 245, 246

=Powell, Lewis=, _alias_ Lewis Payne, in conspiracy
to assassinate Lincoln, 534;
assigned to murder Seward, 535;
attack upon Seward, 540, 541;
escape and capture of, 541, 542;
execution of, 544

=Price, Sterling=, Confederate major-general retreat
to Springfield, Missouri, 234;
captures Mulligan, 241;
retreats toward Arkansas, 269;
defeat at Pea Ridge, 271

=Pritchard, Benjamin D.=, brevet brigadier-general
United States Volunteers, captures Jefferson Davis, 526

=Quinton, R.=, defeated for Illinois legislature 1832, 34

=Rathbone, Henry R.=, brevet colonel United States army,
attends Ford's Theater with Mrs. Lincoln and Miss Harris, 536;
wounded by Booth, 538, 539

=Raymond, Henry J.=, member of Congress letter to Lincoln, 462, 463;
visits Washington, 463

=Reconstruction=, in West Virginia and Missouri, 418, 419;
Lincoln's theory of, 419;
in Louisiana, 420-426;
in Arkansas, 426, 427;
in Tennessee, 428, 429;
opposition in Congress to Lincoln's action concerning, 454;
Henry Winter Davis's bill prescribing method of, 454;
Lincoln's proclamation of, July 8, 1864, 456;
Wade-Davis manifesto, 456, 457

=Republican Party=, formation of, 102, 103;
nominates Fremont and Dayton, 1856, 103, 104;
national conventio