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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,
170; his first measures,
170,
171; his plan for the
battle of Bull Run,
176 et seq.; composition of his army,
176, note
Beckham, Lieut.,
194
Bee, General,
185
Bell, adherents of,
8
Benham, Captain,
152
Beverly,
142,
146,
151
Black, Secretary,
26,
38
Blackburn's Ford,
176, note; engagement at,
178
Blair, Francis P.,
109
Blair, Frank P., Jr.,
116 et seq.,
122
Blair, Montgomery,
122
Blair's Home Guards,
118
Blenker, General L,
174
Boonville, battle of,
123
Border Slave States,
80
Breckinridge, John C., Southern electoral votes cast for,
4,
8
Breckinridge party, character of,
8
Brown, John,
158 
