t Springfield, Illinois, 52

=Trent Brothers=, buy store of Lincoln and Berry, 36

=Trent=, the, British mail-steamer, overhauled
by the _San Jacinto_, 246

=Trumbull, Lyman=, member of Congress, United States senator,
at Springfield, Illinois, 52;
elected to United States Senate, 1855, 100

=Turnham, David=, lends Lincoln "Revised Statutes of Indiana," 14

=Usher, John P.=, Secretary of the Treasury, resigns from cabinet, 492

=Vallandigham, Clement L.=, member of Congress,
interview with John Brown, 134;
arrest and banishment of, 358;
head of Knights of Golden Circle, etc., 360, 361;
at Democratic national convention, 467, 468

=Van Bergen=, sues Lincoln for debt, 36, 41

=Vandalia=, Illinois, removal of State capital from,
to Springfield, 45, 52

=Van Dorn, Earl=, Confederate major-general, defeat at Pea Ridge, 271

=Varuna=, the, sunk in expedition against New Orleans, 285

=Vicksburg=, Mississippi, fortifications of, 287;
surrender of, July 4, 1863, 376, 383;
situation of 381;
operations against, 381-383

=Victoria=, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,
proclamation of neutrality, 211;
kindly feelings toward United States, 247

=Vienna Station=, ambush at, 214

=Virginia=, State of, passes ordinance of secession, 194;
in the Confederacy, 204;
ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 475

=Wade, Benjamin F.=, United States senator,
signs Wade-Davis manifesto, 456

=Walker, Leroy Pope=, Confederate Secretary of War
and brigadier-general, speech at Montgomery, 197

=Walker, Robert J.=, United States senator Secretary
of the Treasury, appointed governor of Kansas, 114;
letter to Buchanan 114, 115;
resigns, 117

=Warren, Gouverneur K.=, brevet major-general United
States army, attacked by Lee, 507

=Washburne, Elihu B.=, member of Congress,
minister to France, meets Lincoln at railway station in Washington, 174

=Washington City=, cutoff from the North, 194-197;
communication restored, 197;
fortifications of, 208, 209;
threatened by Early, 403;
grand review of Union army in, 527-529

=Washington, George=, first President of the United States,
rank of lieutenant-general, 393;
size of his armies compared with Lee's, 524;
his place in United States history, 555

=Weitzel, Godfrey=, brevet major-general United States army,
receives surrender of Richmond, 510;
sets about work of relief, 516

=Welles, Gideon=, Secretary of the Nav