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Boyce, W. W., speech of in favor of secession, 1.47.

Boydton Plank Road, battle of, 3.361.

Bradford, Major, W. F., murder of after the capture of Fort Pillow, 3.246.

Bragg, Gen., his invasion of Kentucky, 2.506; his proclamation, 2.507; junction of with Kirby Smith at Frankfort, 2.507; retreat of into East Tennessee, 2.511; defeated by Rosecrans at Murfreesboroa, 2.551; compelled by Rosecrans to abandon Middle Tennessee, 3.123; at Chattanooga, 3.124; at Lafayette, 3.132; attacks and defeats Rosecrans near the Chickamauga, 3.135-3.140; incompetency of, 3.142; driven from Lookout Mountain, Missionaries' Ridge, and Ringgold, 3.165-3.169.

Brandenburg, the guerrilla Morgan at, 3.93.

Brandy Station, Buford's dash on Stuart near, 3.100.

Brashear City, Gen. Weitzer's expedition against, 2.530: Gen. Banks's forces concentrated at, 2.599; capture of by Confederates, 3.220.

Breckinridge, John C., nomination of for the Presidency, 1.28; flight of from Kentucky, 2.77; treachery of, 1.374.

Bridgeport, Hooker crosses the Tennessee at, 3.151.

Bridges, railway, destruction of, in Maryland, 1.417.

bright, John, champion of the Republic in England, 2.159.

Bristow Station, battle of, 3.105.

Brown, Col. H., takes command at Fort Pickens, 1.369.

Brownlow, Rev. W. G., imprisoned at Knoxville, 2.38; permitted to leave the Confederacy, 2.39; house of visited by the author, in 1866, 3.284.

Brownsville, Texas, capture of by Gen. Banks, 3.223.

Bruinburg, Grant crosses the Mississippi at, 2.603.

Buchanan, Commodore, McKean, death of, at the battle of the Bayou Teche, 2.597.

Buchanan, President, James, conspirators in the cabinet of, 1.43; his message of Dec. 30, 1860, 1.64; his indecision, 1. 73, 283; distrusted by the Southern conspirators, 1.143; painful position of, 1.146; changes in his cabinet, 1.146; his message of Jan. 8, 1861, 1.218; disruption of his cabinet, 2.527.

Buckner, Gen. Simon B., left in command of Fort Donelson by Floyd and Pillow, 2.219; terms of surrender offered to by Grant, 2.220.

Buell, Gen., Don Carlos, in command of the Department of the Ohio, 2.179; operations of, in Kentucky, 2.190-2.195; leaves Nashville to join Grant at Savannah, 2.264; at the battle of Shiloh, 2.280; his movements against Bragg in Kentucky, 2.508; relieved by Rosecrans, 2.511, 523.

Buford, Gen., his dash on Stuart at Brandy Station, 3.100.

Bull's Gap, Gen. Gillem defeated at by Breckinridge, 3.287.

Bull's Run, details of the battle of, 1.584-1.608; flight of the National army from, 1.608, and the retreat, 1.606; results, 1.608; losses at (note), 1.608; effect of the defeat at, 2.17; why the Confederates did not follow up their success at, 2.22; second battle of, 2.460.

Burning of the Gosport Navy-Yard, 1.396.

Burnside, Gen. A. E., at Bull Run, 1.595; his operations on the North Carolina coast, 2.166-2.175, 305-312; at the battle of Antietam, 2.480; his Fredericksbarg campaign, 2.485-2.494; his movements checked by President Lincoln, 2.495; superseded by Hooker, 2.497; movements under, in the Department of the Ohio, 3.127; called to co-operate with Rosecrans against Bragg, 3.128; movements of, about Knoxville, 3.155; his defense of Knoxville againt Longstreet, 3.171-3.175.

Business relations between merchants of Northern and Southern States, 1.114.

Butler, Gen., Benj. F., his expedition to Maryland, 1.434; saves the frigate Constitution, 1.436; at Annapolis Junction, 1.439; his occupation of Baltimore, 1.446; proclamation issued by, 1.447; recalled from Baltimore, 1.448; put in charge of military affairs at Fortress Monroe, 1.498; operations directed by, 1.500-1.514; his expedition against the Hatteras forts, 2.106; commissioned to raise a volunteer force in New England, 2.108; troops raised by in New England, 2.323; put in command of the New Orleans expedition, 2.324; expeditions sent out by from New Orleans, 2.530; superseded by Gen. Banks, 2.530; his plan for surprising Richmond, 3.287; co-operative movements of against Petersburg and Richmond, 3.317-3.324; his Fort Fisher expedition, 3.476-3.481.

Butte à la Rose, capture of, 2.600.


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Cabinet, President Lincoln's, 1.295.

Cairo, Union camps formed at, 1.472; designs of Gen, Pillow against, 2.71.

Calhoun, John C., declaration of (note), 1.41.

Camden, Ark., capture of by Gen. Steele, 3.270.

Campbell, Judge J. A., his letter to Seward in relation to Fort Sumter, 1.304.

Campbellville Station, Tenn., battle at, 3.156.

Camp Dick Robinson, established in Kentucky by Wm. Nelson, 2.73.

Camp Hamilton, Col. Duryee and Gen. Pierce at, 1.502.

Camp Joe Holt, formed in Kentucky by Rousseau, 2.72.

Camp Wild Cat, battle at, 2.89.

Canal across the peninsula at Vicksburg, 2.584.

Canal, flanking, at the siege of Island No.10, 2.243.

Canby, Col. E. R. S., operations of, in New Mexico, 2.184-2.188; assigned to the Military Division of West Mississippi, 3.269.

Cane River, battle at, 3.265.

Cape Fear River, British blockade runners in, 3.315: capture of Forts on, 3.489.

Cape Girardeau, Marmaduke's attempt on, 3.213.

Capitol at Washington, proposition to blow up with gunpowder, 1.523.

Carnifex Ferry, battle of, 2.95.

Carrick's Ford, battle of, 1.535.

Carthage, Mo., battle near, 2.43.

Casey, Gen., Silas, at Seven Pines, 2.408.

Cass, Gen., Lewis, letter of Gen. Wool to, 1.76; his resignation as Secretary of State, 1.77; the re-enforcement of Charleston forts urged by, 1.127; how he regarded the secession of South Carolina, 1.141.

Castle Pinckney, description of, 1.117.

Catawba River, railway bridge over destroyed by Major Moderwell, 3.505.

Cedar Creek, battle of, 3.369.

Cedar Mountain, battle of, 2.449.

Cemetery at Chattanooga, visit of the author to in 1866, 3.178.

Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, battles at, 3.69, 71.

Centreville, McDowell's advance on, 1.587.

Chambersburg, incursion of Stuart to, 2.484; Jenkins and Ewell at, 3.53; burnt by Confederates under McCausland, 3.349.

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