oute, the, 338
Pilot Knob, Mo., military movements at, 51; S. at, 51; Col. Carlin commanding, 51
Pittsburg, Pa., S. ordered to purchase arms at, 48; S. at, 345
Pittsburg, Fort, Wayne, & Chicago Rail-road, riots on the, 499, 500
Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., C. F. Smith ordered to, 361
Platte County, Mo., reported expulsion of Union families from, 93; troubles in, 105
Plumb, Preston B., U. S. Senator, aids in establishing artillery and cavalry school at Fort Riley, 427
Plummer, Col. J. B., action at Fredericktown, Mo., Oct. 21, 1861, 52, 53
Political education, necessity of, 355, 356
Political surgery, 365
Politicians, responsibility for the war, 229; as generals, 355
Politics, their evil influence in the Civil War, 517
Pope, Maj.-Gen. John, method of clearing Missouri of rebels, 358, 359; the case of Fitz-John Porter and, 461, 462
Popular government, education the foundation of, 533
Porter, Adm. David D., trip by Grant and S. to visit, 294, 295; i