[81] Grant, _Memoirs_, ii. 459. This differs from the statement of N. and H. x. 216, that "amid the wildest enthusiasm, the President again reviewed the victorious regiments of Grant, marching through Petersburg in pursuit of Lee." Either picture is good; perhaps that of the silent, deserted city is not the less effective. [82] Between March 29 and the date of surrender, 19,132 Confederates had been captured, a fate to which it was shrewdly suspected that many were not averse. [83] May 11, 1865. [84] Hon. George W. Julian says: "I spent most of the afternoon in a political caucus, held for the purpose of considering the necessity for a new cabinet and a line of policy less conciliatory than that of Mr. Lincoln; and while everybody was shocked at his murder, the feeling was nearly universal that the accession of Johnson to the presidency would prove a godsend to the country." _Polit. Recoll._ 255. INDEX [**Transcriber's Note: The index covers volume I and volume II of the work. For every term, the individual entries are arranged in order of appearance in the two volumes. Index entries are therefore marked with "see vol. i.", and "see vol. ii." accordingly. References that have no mark refer to the same volume as the last entry with a mark.] Abolitionists, denounced by Illinois legislature, see vol. i.; disapprove emancipation with compensation; wish to induce Lincoln to join them; unpopular at North; difference of Lincoln from; refuse to support Lincoln in 1860; urge peaceful secession in 1861; denounce Lincoln for not making war an anti-slavery crusade, see vol. ii.; demand a proclamation of emancipation; unwisdom of their course; unappeased, even after emancipation proclamation; their small numbers; their attitude toward Lincoln. Adams, Charles Francis, letter of Seward to, on impossibility of war, see vol. i.; appointed minister to England; instructions; complains to England of privateers, see vol. ii.; complains of the Alabama. Adams, Charles F., Jr., enters Richmond with negro cavalry regiment, see vol. ii. Adams, John Quincy, in Congress with Lincoln, see vol. i. Alabama, not ready to secede, but opposed to coercion, see vol. i.; wishes Southern convention; secedes. Alabama, Confederate privateer, see vol. ii.; sunk by Kearsarge. Albert, Prince, revises Palmerston's dispatch on Trent affair, see vol. i. Anderson, Robert, signs Lincoln's certificate of discharge in Black Hawk war, see vol. i.; commands at Fort Moultrie in 1860; moves forces to Sumter; asks instructions in vain; appeals to Lincoln; refuses to surrender Sumter. Andrew, Governor John A., prepares Massachusetts militia, see vol. i.; asks United States for muskets; sends on troops. Anthony, Henry B., in Senate in 1861, see vol. i. Antietam, battle of, see vol. ii.