Pickens, Governor of S. Carolina,
  i. 120, 185, 186 and note[1]
Pickett Papers quoted, i. 243;
  ii. 155;
  cited, i. 261 note; ii. 69 note[5]
Poland:  France, Russia, Great Britain and the Polish question,
  ii. 129, 163, 164
Pollard, The Lost Cause,
  quoted on attitude of England on the cotton question, ii. 5-6
Potter, Thomas Bayley, ii. 164, 224, and note[3]
Prescott, i. 37 note
Press, British,
  the attitude of, in the American Civil War.
  See under Names of Newspapers, Reviews, etc.
Prim, Spanish General, commanding expedition to Mexico, i. 259
Prince Consort, The, i. 76, 213, 224-5;
  influence of, on Palmerston’s foreign policy, 224;
  policy of conciliation to United States, 228;
  Adams, C. F., quoted on, 225, 228
Privateering, i. 83 et seq., 153 et seq. passim
  Russian convention with U.S. on, i. 171 note[1]
  Southern Privateering, i. 86, 89, 153, 156, 164, 165, 167, 171
    note[1], 186. 
    Proclamation on, see under Davis. 
    British attitude to, i. 86, 89-92, 95, 158, 160, 161, 163, 166;
      Parliamentary discussion on, 94, 95, 157;
      closing of British ports to, 170 and note[2]
    French attitude to, i. 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 165
    Northern attitude to, i. 83, 89, 90, 92, 111, 163;
      Seward’s motive against in Declaration of Paris negotiation,
        162, 164, 169;
      Northern accusations against Britain on, 91
  United States policy on, i. 141, 156.
    See Privateering Bill, infra
  See also under Declaration of Paris negotiation
Privateering Bill, The, ii. 122 et seq.;
  purpose of, 122-3, 125, 137;
  discussion in Senate on, 123-4;
  passed as an administrative measure, 124, 137;
  influence of, on Russell’s policy, 137;
  British view of American intentions, 137-8;
  historical view, 141;
  Seward’s use of, 121 note[2]
Prussia and Schleswig-Holstein, ii. 203-4
Punch, cartoons of, cited: 
  on Trent affair, i. 217-8, 237;
  on Stone Boat Blockade, 255;
  suggesting intervention by France, ii. 75 note[1];
  on Roebuck, 170 note[1];
  on Lincoln’s re-election, 239 and note[1]
  Poem in, on the death of Lincoln, ii. 259
Putnam, G.H., Memories of My Youth, cited, i. 178 note[3]
Putnam, G.P., Memoirs, cited, ii. 163 note[2]

Quarterly Review, The, i. 47;
  views on the Southern secession, 47;
  on the lesson from the failure of Democracy in America, 47;
    ii. 279, 286, 301;
  attitude in the conflict, 199, 301;
  on British sympathy for the South, 301