Volume II Part 66 (1/2)

”_Fire up the Northern heart_,” what was signified by the expression, 386.

_Fisher, Fort_, a movement by a force from Grant's army with the fleet to attack below Wilmington, 645; an attempt to destroy it by the explosion of a powder-s.h.i.+p, 645; its failure, 645; subsequently a renewed attempt, 645; the attack, 645; surrender of the fort, 646.

_Fis.h.i.+ng Creek_, the battle of. 19; statement of General Crittenden, 19; the battle a necessity, 21; the case considered, 22; causes of the ill success, 22; retreat of our force, 23; the question of crossing to the light bank of the c.u.mberland considered, 23.

_Five Forks_, a strong position on Lee's line a.s.saulted and carried by the enemy, 655.

_Five thousand million dollars_, amount of property subject to be acted on by the provisions of the confiscation act of the United States Congress, 167.

FIZER, Lieutenant-Colonel, his bold expedient to resist the crossing of the enemy at Fredericksburg. 353.

_Flag, The Confederate_, the Shenandoah the last to float it, 700.

_Flagrant violation of the Const.i.tution, Another_, the discharge of a fugitive under the confiscation act, 176; words of the act, 176.

FLANDERS, Messrs., citizens of New York, 482; incarcerated by the Government of the United States in Fort Lafayette, 482; required to take an oath of allegiance before the Government permitted their case to be investigated, 482; the oath, 483; their refusal, 483; their reasons, 483.

_Fleet of the enemy_, prepared for moving down the Mississippi River, 75; its progress, 76.

FLOYD. General, commands at Fort Donelson, 29; retires from Fort Donelson, 34; correspondence relative to his conduct at Donelson, 40, 41.

_Forces, The United States_, number of men brought into the field by the Government of the United States during the war, 706.

_Foreign powers_, our States falsely represented in every court of Europe, 2; adopt a position of neutrality, 12.

_Foreign relations_, recognized by leading European Governments as a belligerent, 368; principles upon which the States were originally const.i.tuted and upon which the Union was farmed explained, 368; commissioners early sent abroad by us, 368; previous communications of the Government of the United States a.s.suming the att.i.tude of a sovereign over the Confederate States, and threatening Europe if it acknowledged it as having an independent existence, 369; error of European nations, 369; answer of foreign Governments in consequence, 369; re fuse to side with either party, 369; the consequence--a prolongation of hostilities, 370; other matters in which less than justice was rendered to us by ”neutral” Europe, and undue advantage given to the aggressors, 370; both parties prohibited from bringing prizes into their ports, 370; the value of the weapon thus wrested from our grasp, 371; their policy in reference to the blockade was so shaped as to cause the greatest injury to the Confederacy, 371; declaration of principles of the Paris Congress, 372; proposals that the Confederacy should accede to it, 372; acceded to, with the exception of privateering, 873; reasons for the exception, 373; the pa.s.siveness of ”neutral” Europe relative to its declaration, 373; the pretension of blockading thousands of miles, 373; other blockades, 373; facts shown, 374; the mediation proposed by France to Great Britain and Russia, 376; dispatch of the French Minister, 376; reply of Great Britain, 378; reply of Russia, 378; communication to the French Minister at Was.h.i.+ngton by his Government, 378; the initiative of all measures left by foreign powers to the governments of France and Great Britain, 379.

FORREST, Colonel N. B., at Fort Donelson, 34; interview with Major Brown, 34; his expedition from North Mississippi to Paducah, Kentucky, 550; ordered to strike the railroad from Nashville to Chattanooga, 566; his movements with General Hood's army, 574; sent to Murfreesboro, 577.

_Forty-two regiments and two batteries_ sent by the Government of the United States into the State of New York to maintain the subjugation of its sovereign people, 490.

_France_, her proposed mediation between the belligerents, 376.

FRANKLIN, General, his division disembarked before the evacuation of York town, 90; his force reembarks after the evacuation of Yorktown, 97; lands near West Point and threatens the flank of our line of march, 98.

FRAZIER, Brigadier-General I. W., commands at c.u.mberland Gap, 427; approach and strength of the enemy, 427; seeing the inutility of resistance, surrenders on demand of General Burnside, 427; a note in explanation by the author, 427.

_Frazier's Farm_, the battle at, one of the most remarkable of the war, 146; strength of forces, and losses, 147.

_Fredericksburg_, its situation, 352; the enemy attempt to lay bridges and cross the Rappahannock, 352; repulsed, 352; our troops withdrawn and bridges laid, 352; attack and repulse of Burnside's army, 354, 355; withdraws at night, 356; losses, 356; strength of opposing forces, 356.

_Free consent of the governed_, the only source of all ”just powers”

of government, 452.

FREMONT, General JOHN Cl, issues a proclamation confiscating real and personal property in Missouri, 10; repulsed at Strasburg with ease, 111; follows and attacks General Ashby, 112.

_Fugitives_, their forfeiture ordered, 2; military commanders forbidden to interfere in their restoration, 2.

_Galveston_, summoned to surrender, 232; the reply, 232; the state of affairs, 233; subsequent approach of the enemy, and occupation of the city, 233; arrival of General Magruder, 233; gathers a force to attack the enemy, 233; protects his steamboats with cotton-bales, 234; attacks the fleet, 234; captures the Harriet Lane, 234; demands a surrender of the enemy's fleet, 234; it escapes under cover of a flag of truce, 235.