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on Lincoln's order to McDowell to pursue Jackson;
on crisis in congressional elections of 1862;
on admission of West Virginia;
on Vallandigham case.
Blair, F.P., Jr.,
tries to keep Lee in Union army, see vol. i.;
leads Unionist party in Missouri;
in House in 1861;
confers with Davis, see vol. ii.
Blair, Montgomery,
in Lincoln's cabinet, see vol. i.;
wishes to relieve Sumter;
at council of war;
favors McClellan's plan of war;
visits Missouri to investigate Fremont;
arrested by Fremont;
warns Lincoln that emancipation proclamation will lose fall elections,
see vol. ii.;
hated by radicals;
his dismissal urged;
upheld by Lincoln;
resigns at Lincoln's request;
wishes chief-justiceship.
Blenker, General Louis,
favors McClellan's plan of campaign, see vol. i.;
sent to strengthen Fremont, see vol. ii.
Booth, John Wilkes,
murders Lincoln, see vol. ii.;
his character;
his end.
Border States,
necessity of retaining in Union, see vol. i.;
dealings of Lincoln with, in 1861;
their neutrality policy explained in annual message;
both pro-slavery and Unionist, see vol. ii.;
desire to conciliate controls Lincoln's policy;
with their slave property guaranteed by North;
oppose bill freeing slaves used in war;
oppose other anti-slavery bills;
irritated by congressional policy;
urged by Lincoln to agree to emancipation;
refuse to approve;
Lincoln's policy toward, denounced by Abolitionists;
their support in 1862 saves Lincoln.
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