Chapter 16

CONCLUDING NOTES. Party Changes caused by the Slavery Issue--Notable Men in Congress during the War--Sketches of prominent Men in the Senate and House --Scenes and Incidents--Butler and Bingham--Cox and Butler--Judge Kelley and Van Wyck--Lovejoy and Wickliffe--Washburn and Donnelly --Oakes Ames--Abolitionism in Washington early in the War--Life at the Capital--The new Dispensation and its Problems.

INDEX

POLITICAL RECOLLECTIONS.