Taylor, Fort, its location, 675; armament, 675.
TAYLOR, Lieutenant-Colonel, bears a letter from Jefferson
Davis to President Lincoln, 150.
Telegraph, Electric, progress in 1861, 675; communication
with San Francisco, 675; on the lower Amoor, 675; con.
nection between Europe and America through Russia,
675; by the Atlantic Ocean, 676; smaller enterprises,
676.

Telegraphic Despatches, their seizure a violation of the
Constitution, 230.

Tennessee, instructions of Legislature to commissioners
to Peace Conference, 565.

Its boundaries, 676; population, 676; sessions of its
Legislature, 676; members, when elected, 676; vote for
President, 677; extra session of the Legislature called,
677; evils complained of, 677; conservative sentiment,
677; New York resolutions, how received, 677; election
of delegates to a State Convention, 677; vote on the
Convention, 678; answer of the Governor to the Presi-
dent's proclamation, 678; address of citizens, 678; Legis-
lature convenes, 678; message to, 678; Commissioner
from the Confederate States, 679; letters from citizens,
679; military league made with the Confederate States,
679; articles, 679; declaration of Independence, 680;
ordinance to adopt the Provisional Constitution, 680; a
military force organized, 681; fundamental law of the
State, 681; payment of debts to Northern citizens pro-
hibited, 682; progress of military affairs, 682; Union
Convention in East Tennessee, 683; acts of the Legisla-
ture, 683; efforts to procure arms, 683; message of the
Governor, 684; call for men, 684; second call, 685;
burning of bridges in East Tennessee, 685.

Message of the Governor on extortions, 144.
Tennessee, East, martial law in, 153, 441.
Territories, their division as proposed by the Crittenden
amendments to the Constitution, 174; organized in 1861,
685; Dakotah, its size, 685; boundaries, 685; Colorado,
its size, 686; boundaries, 686; Nevada, its size, 686;
boundaries, 686.

Texas, boundaries, 686; government, 686; population,
686; secession sentiment of the people, 686; Governor
refuses to call a session of the Legislature, 687; his
views, 687; call for a convention, how made, 687; action
of the Governor, 687; Legislature convened, 688; reso-
lutions relative to a State Convention, 688; vote of the
State for members of the Convention, 688; ordinance of
secession, 688; vote of the people upon it, 689; vote at
the Presidential election, 689; difficulty between the
Governor and the State Convention, 689; action of the
Convention, 690; condition of affairs, 690; war loan,
690; United States forces in Texas, 690; surrender of
Twiggs, 690; seizure of public property, 690; surrender
of Major Sibley, 691; surrender of Colonel Reeve, 691;
address of ex-Governor Houston to the people, 692; his
letter to the people in favor of the Confederate Govern-
ment, 692; intercourse with Northern people prohibited,
692; state of affairs at the close of the year, 693; troops
in the field, 693; crops, 693.

THOMAS, Col. F. J., killed at Bull Run, 84.
THOMAS, FRANCIS, member of Congress, 210; on the right
of the Government to use the forts for other purposes
than the defence of the States, 210.

THOMAS, GEORGE H., biographical notice of, 724.
THOMAS, PHILIP, resigns as Secretary of Treasury, 704.
THOMPSON, JACOB, resigns as Secretary of the Interior, 704.
TOMPKINS, Lieut., commands the cavalry in the skirmish at
Fairfax Court-House, 294.

TOOMBS, ROBERT, Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; the
Union is dissolved, 176; men are arming to defend the
separation, 176,

TOUCEY, ISAAC, resolution of censure as Secretary of the
Navy passed the House of Representatives, 216.
TOWNSEND, Col., at the battle of Great Bethel, 344.
Treason, Secretary Seward's letter defining, 358.
Trent, steamer, how employed, 693; passengers, 693; board-
ed by officers from the San Jacinto, 693; the English
report, 698; an officer's report, 694; protest of Mason
and Slidell, 604; details, 695.

TRUMBULL, LYMAN, Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166;
on slavery in Arizona, 190 reply to Senator Davis, 192;
on the condition of affairs, 223; on the acts of President
Lincoln, 233; on the object of the war, 241.

TUCKER, GEORGE, birth, 695; education, 695; public offices,
695; writings, 695.

TWIGGS, Gen., surrenders the ordnance depot at San Anto-
nio, Texas, 819, also 690; dismissed from the army by
order of the President, 819.

Tybee Island, its situation, 695; reconnoissance of, 695;
occupied, 695.

TYLER, JOHN, member of Confederate Congress, 165; de-
spatch to, relative to the attack on Sumter, 187; address
of at opening of Peace Conference, 568, 564.

U

United States, population, 696; election of President, 696;
principle represented, 696; officers of the Government
in 1860, 697; opinion of the Attorney-General on the
right of a State to secede, 697; do. on collection of duties
in a seceded State, €97; right of the Government over
public property, 697; right of the Government to mako
war upon a State, 698; affairs in the Southern States,
699; speech of Stephens on the prosperity of the Union,
699; President Buchanan's message, 699; attitude of
South Carolina, 699; resignation of Secretary Cobb, 700;
resignation of Secretary Cass, 700; reason, 700; state of
public sentiment at this time, 700; affairs in South
Carolina, 701; resignation of Secretary Floyd, 701; rea-
son, 701; correspondence, 701; arrival of Commissioners
from South Carolina at Washington, 701; object, 701;
letter to the President, 702; his reply, 702; manner of
their reception, 702; President's views on the move-
ment of Major Anderson, 703; reply of the commis-
sioners, 703; rejected by the President, 708; President's
message of Jan. 8th, 703; principles governing his con-
duct, 703; resignation of Secretary Thompson, 704;
correspondence relative thereto, 704; resignation of
Secretary Thomas, 704; reasons, 704; John A. Dix ap-
pointed to the Treasury, 704; views of the Government
at this time, 705; decision respecting Fort Sumter, 705;
commissioner Hayne, of South Carolina, arrives at Wash-
ington, 705; the proposition to him, 705; letters of Sen-
ators to the President, 705; reply of Secretary Holt, 705;
a final reply to demand for Fort Sumter, 706; Virginia
peace resolutions, 707; mission of ex-President Tyler,
707; action of the President, 708; arinistice charged on
President Buchanan, 708; sentiments of the people, 709;
close of Mr. Buchanan's term of office, 709; inauguration
of Mr. Lincoln, 709; the change which had taken place
since November, 709; the policy of the President de-
clared, 710; commissioners from South Carolina arrive
at Washington, 710; letter to Secretary Seward, 710; his
reply, 711; commissioners' response, 712; military move-
ments in New York, 718; preparation of transports, 713;
sail from the port, 714; excitement, 714; affairs at
Charleston, 714; Virginia commissioners visit the Presi-
dent to inquire as to his policy, 714; his answer, 715;
capture of Sumter, 715; proclamation of President Lin-
coln, 715; call for troops by the Secretary of War, 715;
answers of the Governors of the respective States, 716;

letter of President Lincoln to the Mayor of Baltimore,
716; letter of the Secretary of State to the Governor of
Maryland, 717; interview between commissioners from
Baltimore and the President, 717; the blockade procla-
mation, 717; seizure of telegraphic despatches, 718;
proclamation ordering blockade of Florida, and sus-
pension of habeas corpus writ, 718; instructions by the
Secretary of the Treasury to collectors of the customs,
718; mails discontinued, 718; extra session of Congress,
719; its action, 719; finances, 719; army, 719; navy,
719; act passed to approve and justify the acts of the
President, 719; its constitutionality, 719; military ar-
rangements, 719, 720; retirement of Gen. Scott, 720;
promotion of Gen. McClellan, 720; correspondence, 720;
order of Gen. McClellan on taking command of the
army, 721; biographical notices of numerous army offi-
cers, 721-726.

Vermont, its boundaries, 726; statistics, 727; response to
the call for troops, 727; action of the Legislature, 727;
Personal Liberty Bill, 727; war loan, 727; first regi-
ment, 727; other troops, 728; vote of the State, 728.
VICAT, LOUIS JOSEPH, birth, 728; discoveries, 728; pursuits,
728; honors, 728.

VIELE, E. L., biographical notice of, 726.
Vienna, its situation, 728; skirmish at, 728.
Virginia, movement of her Legislature for a Peace Confer-
ence, 178; the resolutions, 178; boundaries, 729; popu-
lation, 729; vote, 729; public sentiment, 729; Union
meetings, 729; resolutions of New York, how received,
729; action of the Legislature, 780; address of members
of Congress, 780; the State Convention, 730; it assem-
bles, 781; organization, 781; proceedings, 781; on Lin-
coln's inaugural, 732; debates, 782, 733; communication
from Governor Pickens, 784; response to the call for
troops, 784; ordinance to repeal the ratification of the
United States Constitution, 735; proclamation, 735;
exports of grain prohibited, 786; warlike aspect, 786;
joins the Southern Confederacy, 786; convention with,
737; proceedings in Western Virginia, 787; mustering
troops, 788; military movements, 788; bridges ordered
to be burned, 738; debate on the payment of State in-
terest, 739; vote on the secession ordinance, 789; paper
money, 740; military strength of Virginia, 740; condi-
tion of affairs in the State, 741; list of battles and skir-
mishes, 741: counties of Accomac and Northampton,
742; proclamation of General Dix, 742; prices of mer-
chandise, 742; passes ordinance of secession, 188; how
received in the Confederate States, 188.

Virginia, Western, its attachment to the Union, 742;
boundaries, 743; a Convention called, 743; its proceed-
ings, 743; Declaration of Independence, 743; speech of
the new Governor, 743; address of Governor Letcher
to the people, 743; McClellan's proclamation, 744;
population, 744; Attorney-General Bates on the situa-
tion of Western Virginia as a State, 745; McClellan's
proclamation to the Union men, 745; to his troops, 746;
details of his campaign, 746, 747; despatches, 747.

W

WADE, BENJAMIN F., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress,
166; totally unable to understand precisely what it is of
which they complain, 171; when has a Republican Sen-
ator proposed to violate a right of the South? 171; on
the bill to discontinue postal service in seceded States, 218.
WALKER, L. P., Secretary at War, orders General Beaure-

gard to demand the surrender of Fort Sumter, 132;

further correspondence, 132; remarks on attack on
Sumter, 133; "No man could tell where this war
would end," 133; letter to Governor Magoffin, 183.
WARD, JAMES H., birth, 748; education, 748; writings, 743;
service, 749.

Warren, Fort, used as a prison, 362.
Warsaw, Mo., burning of, 495.

Washington, its situation, 749; circumstances of its selee-
tion for the seat of Government, 749; rumors of an at-
tack on President Lincoln, 750; investigation, 750; as-
sembling of troops at, 750; inquiries by Congress of the
reason, 750; reply of President Buchanan, 750; do. of
Secretary Holt, 751; inauguration ceremonies, 751; ex-
citement on April 15th, 752; movement of troops, 752,
753; small arms and ordnance issued at the arsenal, 758.
Wheeling, Va., its situation, 754; capital of Western Vir
ginia, 754.

WHITTEMORE, THOMAS, birth,754; pursuits, 754; writings, 754.
WICKLIFFE, CHAS. A., member of Congress, 226; on the
confiscation bill, 247.

WIGFALL, LOUIS T., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166;

we intend to leave this Union-then bring us back,
168; the people of the South cannot save the Union,
171; on non-intervention, 181; comes with a flag of
truce to Fort Sumter, 668.

WILLEY, WAITMAN T., member of the Senate, 225; on the
object of the war, 242.

Williamsport, Va., its situation, 754; skirmish near, 755.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS S., birth, 754; education, 754; pursuits,
754.

WILSON, HENRY, member of the Senate, 228; on the sets of
President Lincoln, 228-283.

Wilson's Creek, Mo., its situation, 755; details of the battle
at, 755.

WILSON, WILLIAM, stationed with his regiment on Santa
Rosa Island, 578; attacked by Confederates, October
8, 1861, 574.

WINANS, ROSS, his arrest, 360.

Winchester, its situation, 755; occupied by troops, 755.
WINDER, J. II., letter on seizing certain Federal prisoners
for hostages for the safety of Confederate privateers-
men, 151.

WINTHROP, THEODORE, his birth, 756; education, 755;
death, 756.

Wisconsin, its boundaries, 756; population, 756; banks,
756; bank riot, 756; vote for Lincoln, 756; session of
the Legislature, 756, its action, 757; the war bill, 757;
acts passed, 757; troops furnished, 757.
WISE, GEN. H. A., retreats from Charleston, Va., 103.
Wochentliche Union office sacked by a mob, 687.
WOOD, BENJAMIN, member of Congress, 226; offera a reso
lution in the House, 244.

WOOD, FERNANDO, proclamation of, 581.

Wool and Flax Fabrics, the disentegration, 757; how done,
757; uses, 757.

WooL, JOHN ELLIS, biographical notice of, 722.
WRIGHT, HORATIO G., biographical notice of, 724