Volume II Part 69 (1/2)

MAURY, Captain W. L., commands the cruiser Georgia, 263.

_McAllister, Fort_, taken by Sherman's force, 572.

MCCLELLAN, General GEORGE B., cautions the authorities at Was.h.i.+ngton against their emanc.i.p.ation measures, 9; a.s.signed to the chief command of army of the United States, 18; presents an argument to President Lincoln against an advance by Centreville and Mana.s.sas, but in favor of a movement down the Chesapeake Bay into the Rappahannock River, 82; his reconnaissance, 82; its results stated by him in a letter, 82; the latter movement approved, 82; reason for ordering his transports to Was.h.i.+ngton, 83; concentrates at Fortress Monroe, 83, 84; advances up the Peninsula, 85; repulsed in several a.s.saults at Yorktown, commences a siege by regular approaches, 85; letter to Secretary Stanton on the strength of our forces, 85; reports the strength of his own force, 86; his views at Yorktown, 89; testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, 89; report on the affair between Hanc.o.c.k and Early at Williamsburg, 94; statement of General Early, 94; testimony at the court-martial of McDowell, 105; his position regarded as critical, 135; reasons, 135; his failure apparently antic.i.p.ated by the United States Government, 135; reenforcements to, cut off, 135; position behind Powhite Creek, 136; retreats from Frazier's Farm to Malvern Hill, 147; its situation, 147; his position, 147; his letter on the manner of conducting the war, 314; part of his forces leave Westover, 320; report of his strength at Sharpsburg, 342; moves his army southward from Sharpsburg, 351; approaches Fredericksburg, 351; removed from command, 351.

MCCOWN, Brigadier-General J. P., as signed to command of Island No.

10, 52.

MCCULLOCH, General BEN, killed in the battle of Pea Ridge, 50.

MCLAWS, General, ordered to seize Maryland Heights, 330; embarra.s.sed by the presence of the enemy, 333; marches to Sharpsburg, 333.

MCRAE, Colonel, succeeds to the command after General Early retires wounded at Williamsburg, 96; report of subsequent events, 96.

MEADE, General GEORGE G., succeeds General Hooker, 443; his position at Gettysburg, 443; continues to strengthen his line, 444; his opinion that an attack on Lee would have resulted disastrously, 445; his testimony, 447; moves a force to Madison Court-House, 504; a feint to engage the attention of Lee, 504; other plans for the surprise and capture of Richmond, 504.

_Medicines_, proposal by our commissioner to purchase medicines of the United States authorities, to be used exclusively for the relief of the Union prisoners, 602; no reply ever received, 602.

_Memphis_, advance of the enemy's fleet toward, 77; encounters our fleet and has one ram disabled, 77; our fleet retires, 77; occupation of the town by the enemy no longer disputed, 77.

MERRYMAN, JOHN, seized in his bed by an armed force of the United States Government, 463; writ of _habeas corpus_ granted, 463; disobeyed, 463; decision of Chief-Justice Taney, 463.

_Military commissions_, two trials before, filled the country with horror, 496; specification in the first, 496; for the a.s.sa.s.sination of the President, 496; the sentence, 496; insertion of the name of the President of the Confederate States among those of the conspirators, an exhibition of the malignancy of the Government of the United States, 496; the case of Mrs. Surratt awakened much sympathy, 497; efforts to obtain a respite, 497; the trial of Major Wirz, 497; proclamation of President Johnson against the President of the Confederate States, 497; the condemnation of Wirz, 498; efforts to prevail upon him to implicate the President of the Confederate States in the great mortality of Northern soldiers as prisoners, 498; declaration of Mr. Louis Schade, of Was.h.i.+ngton, 498; letter of Captain C. B. Winder, 499; do. of Rev. F. E. Boyle, 499; order of General Burnside in Ohio, 501; comments of C. L. Vallandigham on the order, 501, 502; his arrest, trial, and sentence to imprisonment in Boston Harbor, 502; letter of Governor Seymour on the military usurpation, 502; similar proceedings in Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Hamps.h.i.+re, and Vermont, 502, 503.

_Military power_, its attempt to administer civil affairs, 290; a subversion of fundamental principles, 290.

_Mine Run_, unsuccessful movement of General Meade, 449; his loss, 450.

_Mississippi, west of_, active operations in the beginning of 1862, 49.

_Mississippi River_ surrendered by the loss of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, 425.

_Missouri_, proposal of President Lincoln to make an irrepealable compact with, 180; forbidden by the Const.i.tution, 180; its words, 180; a proposal to the State to surrender its sovereignty, 180; most conciliatory propositions of the Governor rejected by the Government of the United States, 473; he calls fifty thousand State militia into active service for the purpose of repelling invasion and for the protection of the lives, liberty, and property of the citizens, 473; his words, 473; order from Was.h.i.+ngton to the commanding General, 474; this order a pretext for domestic violence, 474; terms of the Const.i.tution on which the Government of the United States may interfere in a State, 474; the bravery of the Governor, 474; charged by the Government of the United States with purposes of treason, 474, 475; words of the military commander, 475; troops of United States Government poured into the State, 475; proceedings of the State Convention, 475; violations of const.i.tutional principles committed, 475; final proceedings, 476.

_Mexico_, our treatment of private property in the war with, 8.

_Mobile Harbor_, its defenses, 205; torpedoes also used, 205; combat with Admiral Farragut's fleet, 206; quite creditable to the Confederacy, 206; bombardment of the forts, 207; torpedoes, 209.

_Money in the Confederate Treasury_, transferred to the financial agent of the Government by Secretary Reagan, 695.

MONROE, JOHN T., the Mayor of New Or leans, 231; reply to the demands of Commodore Farragut, 231.

_Monstrous crime, A_, fearlessly charged as committed by the Government of the United States against Const.i.tutional liberty in the subversion and subjugation of the State governments, 453.

MORGAN, General, attacks a brigade of the enemy at Hartsville, 384; the brigade surrenders, 384; defeats the efforts of the enemy in the Shenandoah Valley, 527.

MORRIS, Captain C. M., commands the cruiser Florida, 261; enters the harbor of Bahia, 262; s.h.i.+p seized by the enemy, 262.

MOTT, Colonel CHRISTOPHER, killed at Williamsburg, 99; a brave soldier in the war with Mexico, 99.