=Lincoln=, Abraham, elected President, 276;
sketch of, 281;
administration of, 281-321;
issues Emancipation Proclamation, 302;
reelected, 320;
assassination of, 321;
burial of, 321.
=Lincoln=, General, campaigns of in the north, 174-175;
campaigns of in the south, 185-187.
=Livingston=, Edward, negotiates purchase of Louisiana, 215.
=Livingston=, Robert R., on Declaration Committee, 165.
=Locke=, John, draws up the Grand Model, 125.
=Logan=, John A., death of, 356.
=London= Company, organization of, 47;
grants to, 47;
settlement of Jamestown, 48;
new charter of, 62;
third patent, 65;
charter cancelled, 69.
=Long= Island, battle of, 166.
=Longstreet=, James, death of, 367.
=Lookout= Mountain, storming of, 305.
=Loudoun=, Earl of, commands Colonial army, 142.
=Louisburg=, captures of, 92, 143.
=Louisiana=, purchase of, 215;
Territory of, 216;
admission of, 224.
=Lovelace=, governor of New York, 100.
=Lundy's= Lane, battle of, 235.
=Lyon=, Nathaniel, at Booneville, 290;
killed at Wilson's Creek, 290.
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=Madison=, James, elected President, 220;
administration of, 221-227.
=Mafia= Society, in New Orleans, 368.
=Magellan=, Ferdinand, voyage of around the world, 28.
=Maine=, the Province of, 85;
admission of, 246.
=Malietoa=, king of Samoa, 363.
=Malvern= Hill, battle of, 299.
=Manhattan= Island, purchase of, 94.
=Marion=, Francis, raids of, in South Carolina, 188.
=Marshall=, John, envoy to France, 211;
Chief-justice of the United States, 216;
presides at trial of Aaron Burr, 217.
=Maryland=, history of, 122-125.
=Mason=, James M., Confederate ambassador to England, 291.
=Mason=, John, in Pequod war, 107;
grant to, 113.
=Massachusetts=, colonization of, 47-52;
history of, 76-93.
=Massachusetts= Bay Colony, 78.
=Massacre=, the Boston, 154;
the Cherry Valley, 181;
the Indian, 68;
the New Orleans, 367;
the Wyoming, 180.
=Massasoit=, visits Plymouth, 76.
=Mather=, Cotton, favors prosecution of witches, 89, 91.
=May=, Cornelius, explorations of, 55;
leader in Dutch settlement, 94.
=Mayflower=, voyage of the, 50.
=McClellan=, George B., campaigns of, in West Virginia, 288;
commands Army of the Potomac, 290;
Peninsular campaign of, 299;
at Antietam, 301;
death of, 356.
=McDonough=, Commodore, at battle of Plattsburg, 237.
=McDowell=, Irwin, at Bull Run, 289;
death of, 356.
=McHenry=, Fort, bombardment of, 238.
=McKinley= Bill, adoption of the, 364.
=Meade=, George G., in command of Army of the Potomac, 308;
at Gettysburg, 308;
in the Wilderness, 316;
flees from Richmond, 319;
surrender of, 319;
death of, 356.
=Meigs=, Colonel, attacks Sag Harbor, 171;
rewarded by Congress, 172.
=Meigs=, Fort, built, 228;
siege of, 228.
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