Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 172, 198, 235, 236; and Pacific Railway 238; provisions, 239; angry debate on, 240; passed, 240; resulting campaign, 241. Kearny, Colonel S. W., campaign in New Mexico, 154. Kendall, Amos, 58, 62. Kennedy, John P., 53. Kenner, Duncan F., Confederate agent to Europe, 323. Kent, Chancellor, against universal suffrage, 14, 51. Kentucky, 13; and Clay, 15, 21, 22; and R. M. Johnson, 22; population, 28, 32; and Jackson, 37, 40, 63, 70; Germans in, 91; "slavery a blessing," 119, 121; live stock to South, 141; Presbyterians in, 143; and slavery, 161; for Scott, 182; and Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 238, 246; secession of, prevented, 275; occupied by Federals, 293; against emancipation, 301; Republican party in 1862, 302; held by Federals, 313. Know-Nothing party, 242; defeated in Virginia and Georgia, 243; in 1856, 243, 261, 264. Labor unions, beginning, 209. Laborers, conditions poor, 209. Larkin, Thomas O., seizure of California, 154. Lawyers, support capitalists, 50, 51; in South, allied with planters, 139. Lecompton Constitution, of Kansas, 249. Lee, Robert E., 214, 259; made general, 276; drills Virginia troops, 281; expected success, 282; home seized, 283; sent to West Virginia, 286; loses West Virginia, 296; in chief command, 296; Peninsula command, 297; loses at Mechanicsville, 297; wins at Gaines's Mills, 297; pursues McClellan, 297; loses at Malvern Hill, 297, 298; second Bull Run, 300; into Maryland, 300, 301; Antietam, 302; retires into Virginia, 302; wins at Fredericksburg, 303; wins at Chancellorsville, 305; second invasion of North, 305; Gettysburg, 306; retreat to Virginia, 307; uncompromising, 309; urges conscription, 311, 312; checks Grant, 318; Grant outwits, 318; facing Grant at Petersburg, 323; refuses dictatorship, 324; army in want, 325; odds against, 326; retreat to west, 326; surrender, 327. Legare, Hugh S., Secretary of State, 126. Lewis, William B., 58, 62, 64. Lexington, Kentucky, 34; Mechanics' Library, 35, 63. _Liberator_, abolition weekly, 162. Liberty party, nominates Van Buren, 173.