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Fremont, Gen. J. C., 26; appointed to command of Mountain Department, 113; ordered to intercept Jackson, 136; his march across the mountains, 136-7; fails to head off Jackson, 137; fight with Ewell at Cross-Keys, 136; recalled from pursuit of Jackson. 140; refuses a command under Gen. Pope. 172; his proclamation modified by order of the President, 239; nominated for President at Cleveland, 658; withdraws from Presidential canvass, 670.

French Emperor proffers his services as mediator between the North and South, 484.

French, Gen. (Rebel), commands a division at Antietam, 207; at Fredericksburg, 345; is repelled from Allatoona by Gen. Corse, 639.

front Royal, Va., fight at, 133-4.

G.

Gaines's Mill, Va., battle of, 154 to 158; map of the field, 156; Porter's defeat, 157; losses sustained, 157-8; McClellan's dispatches, 158.

Gainesville, battle of, 181; retreat from, 183-7.

Gallatin, Tenn., Union defeat at, 213.

Galveston, Magruder's foray, and our losses at, 322; 323; 325; naval encounters at, 323 to 327.

Gano, Gent., surprises a Union outpost, 555.

Gardner, Gen., his defense and surrender of Port Hudson, 318; 331 to 337.

Garfield, Gen. James A., drives Marshall from Kentucky, 42; at battle of Mill Spring, 42; 43; 44; at Chickamauga, 422.

Garland, Brig.-Gen., his brigade cut up at South Mountain, and himself killed, 596.

Garnett, Brig.-Gen., killed at Gettysburg, 389.

Garrard, Gen., cooperates at Mobile, 723.

Geary, Gen. John W., his charge at Cedar Mountain, 177; triumphs at Wauhatchie, 435.

Georgia, British-Confederate cruiser, captured by the Niagara, 646.

Germantown, Va., skirmish at, 188.

Gettysburg, 367; battle and map of, 378; Gens. Hancock and Sickles arrive at, 379; preparing for the decisive charge at, 383; second battle and map of, 384; the Rebel grand charge at, 385.

Getty's division at the battles of the Wilderness, 568 to 571.

Gholson, Gen., of Miss., killed at Egypt, 696.

Gibbon, Brig.-Gen., at South Mountain. 198; wounded at Vicksburg, 347; at Chancellorsville. 362; at Gettysburg, 380 to 387; at the Wilderness, 567 to 571; at Cold Harbor, 581.

Giddings, Hon. J. R., on the Slave-Trade. 237.

Gilbert, Gen., in battle of Perryville, 220.

Gillem, Gen., captures 300 prisoners from Duke at Kingsport, Tenn., 688; captures 200 men and 8 guns from Vaughan at Wytheville, Va., 688.

Gillmore, Gen. Quincy A., routs Pegram near Somerset, 427; his plan for bombarding Fort Pulaski adopted, 456; 457; fall of Fort Pulaski due to, 458; succeeds Gen. Hunter in command of the Department of the South, 473; condition of his army and plan of operations, 473-4; establishes the marsh battery, which opens on Charleston, 478-9; captures Fort Wagner, 481; stops blockade-running at Charleston, 482; occupies Jacksonville unresisted, 528; 630.

Gist, Gen., at Chickamauga, 417; killed at Franklin, Tenn., 683.

Gladding, Brig.-Gen., killed at Shiloh, 70.

Glendale, Va., battle of, 161 to 163; extracts from various reports of, 162-3; Sam. Wilkeson's account of retreat from, 164.

Golding's farm, fight at, 160.

Goldsboroa, N. C., Schofield enters, 716; Sherman arrives, 708.

Goldsborough, Com. L. M., with Burnside's expedition, 73; relieved from command, 76; 121.

Gooding, Col. O. P., encounters a Rebel force near Red river, 589.

Gooding, Gen., taken prisoner, 220.

Gordon, Gen. J. B., mortally wounded near Richmond, 574.

Gordon, Gen. G. H., extract from his report of attack on Banks's rear-guard at Winchester, 135; commands a brigade at Antietam, 206.

Gordonsville, Va., 17:3; Jackson at, 176.

Gorman, Gen. W. A., at South Mountain, 198.

Govan, Gen., at Chickamauga, 417; captured, with most of his brigade, at Jonesboroa, Ga., 636.

Gove, Col., Mass., killed at Gaines's Mill, 157.

Graham, Major, his train recaptured at Philadelphia, Tenn., 431.

Granbury, Brig.-Gen., killed at Franklin, 683.

Grand Ecore, La., Rebels beaten near, 545.

Grand Gulf, Miss., burned by Gen. Williams, 101; attack on, 302.

Granger, Gen. Gordon, at Chickamauga, 421; captures Fort Morgan, 653; in attack on Mobile, 721.

Grant, Gen. U. S., captures Fort Henry, 45-6; invests and captures Fort Donelson, 47 to 51; moves his army to Pittsburg Landing, 58-9; arrives on the battle-field, 63; his remarks on the line of retreat, 65; 66; 68; his report of losses at Pittsburg Landing, 70; in command of the district of West Tennessee-informs Rosecrans of the movements of a large Rebel force, 222; orders Rosecrans to attack luka, and sends him reenforcements, 223; he reenforces Corinth so as to resist the besieging army under Van Dorn, 230; his attempts to flank the Mississippi, 295; he crosses the Big Black, 309; changes his point of attack on Vicksburg, 300; directs a naval attack on the batteries of Grand Gulf, 302; crosses his army near Port Gibson, 303; his attack, 304; his captures and loss, 304; changes his base of supplies, 304; wins the battle of Champion Hills. 307; his captures and losses, 308-9; fall of Haines's Bluff and Yazoo City, 310; his grand assault on Vicksburg a failure — he begins a regular siege — negotiations for surrender, captures and losses, &c., 310 to 316; selected for chief command in Tennessee, 432; is reenforced by Sherman at Chattanooga, 437; drives Bragg from Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga Valley, and Mission Ridge, 438 to 445; his official report, 442; losses on both sides, 446; is appointed Lieut.-General-his advance on Richmond, 562; his qualifications and ideas, 563-4; lie crosses the Rapidan, 567; fights Lee at the Wilderness, 567 to 570; advances to the North Anna river, 577; his flank movement to Cold Harbor, 579; his grand assault at Cold Harbor, 5S1; he crosses the James river, 583; end of his campaign of 1864 and losses, 597; remarks on the results of the campaign, 598; letter to Butler regarding the capture of Wilmington, 712; before Petersburg, 729; 730; compels Lee to surrender, 743-4; visits Sherman at Raleigh, 753; issues general order congratulating the troops on the end of the Rebellion, 758.

great Run, Va., Sigel fights Rebels at, 179.

Greathouse, Brig.-Gen. Lucien, killed near Atlanta, 631.

Greeley, Horace, writes to the President on Slavery in the War, 251; at Niagara Falls, 664-5.

Green river, Ky., railroad communication reopened to, 270.

Green, Col., wounded at Fort Wagner, 477.

Green, Gen., wounded at Wauhatchie, 435.

Green, Gen. Tom, killed on Red river, 548.

Gregg, Gen., taken prisoner at Farmville, 743.

Gregg, Gen. (Union), attacked, and 500 men captured from him near Jefferson, Va., 395.

Gregg, Brig.-Gen. (Rebel), wounded at Antietam, 210; at Gettysburg, 389.

Grenada, Miss., cavalry raids to, 615.

Grierson, Col. B. H. (since Gen.), raids from Lagrange to Baton Rouge, 301; raids toward Mobile, 695.

Griffin, Gen., at Gaines's Mill, 156; at Malvern Hill, 165; captures 1,500 Rebels at Five Forks, 733.

Griffith, Sergeant, 22d Iowa, captures 13 prisoners. 312.

Grimes, Senator James W., of Iowa, his bill for the education of colored children, 266.

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