N Napoleon III, offers mediation, 54, 77; intrigues with Confederacy, 130 et seq.; Italian policy, 134, 143; purpose exposed, 142; influence in Mexican policy of the South, 178. New Orleans, loss of, 42, 74. New York Herald, 175. Niter and Mining Bureau supplies powder for South, 106. North Carolina, resolutions concerning Congress of seceding States, 9-10; against secession, 12; secedes, 14; state rights, 12, 39; political life in, 74; protests tithes, 92; disorder in, 93-94; anti-Davis tendencies in, 94; peace illusion in, 169-170; see also Vance. North Carolina Standard, 93. P Palmerston, Lord, British Prime Minister, Mason interviews, 198. Peace, 93, 120, 121-122, 126-127, 169-170, 175-182, 202. Peace Convention, 13. "Peace Society," 121-122. Peninsular campaign, 42, 59. Perryville, Battle of, 53. Petersburg (Va.), 107-108. Pierce, Bishop, quoted, 109. Pike, General Albert, 84. Pollard, E. A., 62, 66, 69, 87; The First Year of the War, 62-64. Porcher, F. A., 185. Prentiss, S. S., 29. Press, Freedom of, 59. Preston, General J. S., 151. Preston, General William, 140, 144. Price-fixing, see Finance. Profiteering, 78-79, 95, 108-109, 161-162. Pryor, R. A., 13, 17-18 (note). Pulaski, Fort, seized, 6. Q Quitman, J. A., 29. R Raleigh Progress, 93. Ramsdell, C. W., The Confederate Government and the Railroads, cited, 108 (note). Randolph, G. W., Secretary of War, 79 (note). Refugees, 110-111. Rhett, R. B., leader of secession movement of 1850-1851, 4; candidate for President of Confederate States, 24; disappointment, 25, 26; on state army, 72-73; retires, 87, 88-89; on arming the negroes, 184. Rhodes, J. F., History of the United States, cited, 6 (note). Richmond (Va.), capital of Confederacy, 34-35; martial law in, 41-42, 85; evacuated, 199. Richmond Enquirer, government organ, 62, 82-83, 94, 95. Richmond Examiner, opposition newspaper, 43, 62, 64-65, 80. Richmond Sentinel, government organ, 94, 95, 161. Richmond Whig, 80. Rives, W. C., 155. Roanoke Island, 36, 40, 63. Roebuck, J. A., 136-137. Rost, Confederate commissioner to Europe, 46.