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 Maryland, 101-103; and the national capital, 108; see also Annapolis, Baltimore, Frederick

Maryland Historical Society, 11, 26, 44

Mason, George, 204

Massachusetts Bay, Puritan landing at, 249

Massacre Island, 332

Maubila, 328

Maury, D. H., defends Mobile, 374

Maury, M. F., 181

Maybrick, Mrs., 362

Maynard, Horace, 467-469

Maynard, Washburn, 468

Mayo, Capt. Isaac, 70

Mayo, Major, 156

McClellan, General, xxix, 188, 216

McClung, Capt. P., 469

McCrady, Gen. E., quoted, 254, 273

McCulloh, H. E., 227

McDuffie, Governor, xxi, xxii

McGillivray, 340

McIntosh, Gen. Lachlan, 296, 318

McKinley, President, 320

McLaw, 471

McMahon, Hon. John V. L., 44

McNutt, Governor, 440

Meigs, M. C., quoted, 283

Meldrim, Hon. P. W., quoted, 298

Memoirs, Moultrie's, 266

Memphis, 335

Menefee, Mrs. E., 531

Menendez, 559-567, 572

Menendez, Don Pedro, 568

Mercie's statue of Lee, 178

Mercury, the Charleston, xxvii

Merrimac, the, 187

Mexico, 146, 331, 346; St. Denis visits, 335; war with, 398, 504, 549; gold mines of, 415

"Middle Plantation," 190

Middleton, Arthur, 270

Mignot, Louis R., 275

Milledge, Governor, 311

Miller, Wm. K., xxviii

Milliken's Bend, 442

Minden, the, 37

Minge, James, 191

Mississippi, territorial government of, organized, 437; see also Vicksburg

Mississippi Bubble, Law's, 336

Mississippi River, 329; French and the, 334; De Soto and the, 413, 414; and the treaty of 1763, 422; and the great West, 426

Moale, John, 6-8, 11

Mobile, xxx, 417, 434; Peter J. Hamilton on, 327-378; historic background, 327-332; early settlements, 332-338; character of early, 339, 340; the English drive out the French, 342-346; the Spanish era, 347-352; becomes American, 352-354; in the War of 1812, 354-356; American development, 356-364; in the Civil War, 364-375; in recent times, 375-378

Mobile & Ohio R. R., 361

Mohawks, 478

Mon Louis Island, 341

Monacans, 102

Monahoacs, 102

Monnokasi, 77

Monocacy, 76; battle at, 141

Monockessy, 77

Monroe, President, 165, 180, 320, 492, 516; at William and Mary College, 207; at Louisville, 531; orders troops into Florida, 577

Montezuma, 306

Montgomery, xix, 553; George Petrie on, 379-410; origin of, 380-384; the early settlement