89; swiftness of, VI., 21 seq.; effort of, to reach Wilmington, N. C., VI., 39; profits of, VI., 106, 107; pay of officers anti crew on, VI., 107; commanded by Confederate naval officers, VI., 108; first effective step against, VI., 115; number of captured, VI., 122; of Charleston, S. C., VI., 238; channel marks of, VI., 255; chases of, VI., 294; last of the, VI., 291.
Bloodiest day of the Civil War,
II., 63.
Bloody angle.
Spotsylvania, Va.: II., 247, 260; Federal victory at, May 12, 1864, III., 57; Confederate entrenchments near, III., 57, 62, 66, 68; V., 27.
Bloody Lane,
Antietam, Md., II., 69, 72.
Bloomery Gap., Va.,
I., 356.
Bloomfield, Va.,
II., 326.
Blounts Farm, Ala.,
II., 332.
Blountsville, Ala.,
VII., 145.
Blountsville, Tenn.,
II., 344.
Blue adopted by the Federals
Viii., 95.
Blue and the gray,
F. M. Finch, IX., 138, 273.
Blue Coats are over the border,
A. E. Blackmar, IX., 343.
Blue Mills, Mo.,
I., 350,
, II., 64; fortifications, Port Hudson, La., II., 210; siege-gun mounted, Port Hudson, La., II., 211; Eighth Cav., II., 330; possessions, April, 1864, III., 16; prisoners, III., 26, 27, 286; breastworks, III., 41; dead of Ewell's corps, III., 61; lead, III., 63; photographs, III., 169-171; army on the verge of starvation, unsuccessful in obtaining supplies, III., 305, 309, 313; want versus Union abundance, applied to horses, IV., 107; cause, heavy blow to, by Gen. J. F. B. Stuart's death, May 12, 1864, IV., 109; damage caused by, IV., 118, 119; raids in the West, IV., 141 seq.; partisan bands, definition and usefulness of, IV., 168; partisan ranger, a famous character, regarded as a mythical figure by Union army officers and men, IV., 168, 170, 171, 172, 177; partisan ranger, practical illustration of the work of, IV., 169; partisan ranger, best known to the Union troops and most anxiously sought for; his exploits; raid (Morgan's) through Ohio and it effects upon the North, IV., 174; g