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Chapter 11: Kentucky.
The Alleghany or Appalachian mountain chain, a hundred miles broad and a thousand miles long, extending from New York to Alabama, naturally separated the country into two principal military divisions: that of the East, comprising the Atlantic Coast and the Atlantic States; that of the West, comprising the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and the whole immense territory of the Mississippi Valley.
In the East, the line of hostility quickly established itself along the Potomac River, with Washington as its strategical centre; this grew partly out of the paramount necessity of defending the capital, but also largely from the fact that the line from the sea to the mountains was not more than a hundred miles long, and could therefore be occupied and observed without delay.
In the West the distance from the mountains to the Mississippi River was nearly ten times as great.
This alone would have retarded the definition of the military frontier; but the chie
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Index. (search)
Index.
A.
Abercrombie, Colonel, 166
Alabama, attitude of with regard to secession, 2, 8; secession of, 14
Alexandria, Va., 102; fortified, 167
Alleghany Mountains, 126; 137
Anderson, Major, Robert, 22; transfers his forces to Fort Summer, 28 et seq.; his letter to Governor Pickens, 35; his reply to President Lincoln's letter, 58; his reply to Confederate authorities, 61, 131, 135
Annapolis, 100, 102 et seq.; route by, to the capital, 106 et seq.
Arkansas, 80, 121
Arlington Heights, Va., occupied by Union forces, 110; fortified, 169
Ashby's Gap, 168
B.
Baker, Edward D., 76
Ball's Bluff, engagement at, 210
Baltimore, 83; attack on the Massachusetts soldiers in, 85 et seq., 98; authorities burn R. R. bridges, 89
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 141
Bates, Attorney-General, 122
Banks, General N. P., 208
Barrancas, Fort, 88
Beauregard, General G. T., 56; directs operations against Fort Sumter, 57, 59; placed in command at Manassas, 1