s, 178, 179;
"corner-stone" theory, 179;
government of, fires on Fort Sumter, 189;
joined by North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas, 200;
strength of, 204;
war measures of, 207;
capital removed to Richmond, 207;
strength of, in the West, 263;
outcry of, against emancipation proclamation and arming of
negroes, 350, 351;
efficiency of armies of, in 1863, 370;
proclamation calling on people to resist Sherman's march, 411, 412;
nearly in state of collapse, 481;
doomed from the hour of Lincoln's reelection, 499;
depreciation of its currency, 499, 500;
conscription laws of, 500;
Confederate Congress makes Lee general-in-chief, 500;
number of soldiers in final struggle, 507;
flight of, from Richmond, 515;
collapse of the rebellion, 524-527;
number of troops surrendered, 527

=Congress of the United States=, passes act organizing
territory of Illinois, 19;
fixes number of stars and stripes in the flag, 19;
admits as States Illinois, Alabama, Maine, and Missouri, 19;
nullification debate in, 38;
Lincoln's service in, 75-90;
Missouri Compromise, 94-96;
Democratic majorities chosen in, in 1856, 108;
agitation over Kansas in, 113;
Senator Brown's resolutions, 141;
official count of electoral votes, 160;
appoints compromise committees, 167;
Buchanan's annual message to, December, 1860, 176, 177;
convened in special session by President Lincoln, 192;
Lincoln's message to, May 26, 1862, 195;
legalizes Lincoln's war measures, 206;
meeting and measures of special session of
Thirty-seventh Congress, 217-220;
Southern unionists in, 217;
Lincoln's message to, July 4, 1861, 218-220;
action on slavery, 223;
special session adjourns, 223;
House passes resolution of thanks to Captain Wilkes, 246;
friendly to McClellan, 250;
Lincoln's message of December 3, 1861, 257, 321, 322;
interview of border State delegations with Lincoln, 257, 258, 324, 325;
Lincoln's special message, March 6, 1862, 323, 324;
passes joint resolution favoring compensated emancipation, 325;
passes bill for compensated emancipation in District of
Columbia, 325, 336;
House bill to aid emancipation in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, 326;
slavery measures of 1862, 329;
President's second interview with border slave State
delegations, 329-331;
President's annual message, December 1, 1862, 341, 342;
passes national