Columbia, S. C., burning of, 301-313; Sherman's and Hampton's accounts discredited, 301-308; feeling of Union army towards, 306-308; Sherman's orders on occupation, 307; verdict of mixed commission on, 308; mob responsibility, 308-313.
Columbia University, lecture by author at, 47.
Conciseness in history, 11, 14, 16, 20, 36.
Congress, control of Senate over Pierce and Buchanan, 213; power during Johnson's administration, 216; overshadows President, power of Speaker of House, 227; McKinley's control over, 234; contact with President, 237; and Hayes, 249, 256, 257, 261.
Conkling, Roscoe, contest with Hayes over New York Custom-house, 255.
Constitution. _See_ Federal Constitution.
Copyright, _The Nation_ and international, 282.
Cox, J. D., on Gardiner, 44, 323; essay on, 185-188; varied activities, 185; as general, 185; as governor, 185; and negro suffrage, 186; as cabinet officer, 186; and civil service reform, 186; in Congress, 186; and Spanish Mission, 186; private positions, 187; works, as military historian, 187; and Grant, 187; contributions to _The Nation_, 187; as reader, 187; character, 188; on Godkin, 295; on burning of Columbia, 303.
Cromwell, Oliver, Carlyle's biography, 144, 150; Gardiner's influence on fame, 150; Gardiner's estimate, 317-323; character, 319; character of army, 319, 320; foreign policy, 321; lack of constructive statesmanship, 321; as typical Englishman, 322; and Revolution of 1688, 322, 323.
Dana, C. A., as journalist, historical value of articles, 31, 90.
Darwin, C. R., biography, 59; truthfulness, 145.
Dates in historical work, importance of newspapers, 87.
Democratic party, and Cleveland's administration, 223, 226.
Desultory reading in training of historian, 64, 65, 199.
Devens, Charles, in Hayes's cabinet, 247.
Deyverdun, Georges, collaboration with Gibbon, 124.
Dicey, A. V., as contributor to _The Nation_, 282, 294.
Dictionaries, importance of quotations in, 55.
Eckermann, J. P., "Conversations with Goethe," 70-72.
Elections, 1852, Whig nominations, Scott's stumping tour, 86, 87; 1856, Kansas as issue, 88; 1876, controversy, and flexibility of Constitution, 203, 219, 245; 1896, bimetallism as issue, 228; attitude of Godkin, 286.
Elizabeth, Froude and Gardiner on, 149; and Anglo-Saxon development, 172.